#the invisible empire

[ohmelinoe]

The Invisible Empire by Juha Arvid Helminen

[energeticwarrior]

Safe to say the best night of my life :,)

And thanks to @goldenhowell I realized I just met Dan on the anniversary of the Phil Video that (predicted dan) gave me my url that I so carefully chose seven years ago😭😭😭😭😭😭

[fantasykiri5]

On today’s episode of drawing my OC in gay little outfits, I listened to Copacabana 80,000,000 times

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

holding onto the idea of "invisible string" keeping the relationship alive when things got hard and confusing like...

The point of "invisible string" isn't necessarily that they're fated, it's that it's nice to pretend that was the case. They're a series of coincidences that made them the people they are that happened to land them in the same spot at the same time where they met and hit it off and the rest is history. Taken on their own they don't indicate some cosmic link drawing them together, but they're a series of thousands of minute choices throughout their lives that tell their individual stories and now they're joined for their story together.

So what happens when the choices you continue to make are hurting you? But, those choices once led to the greatest joy of your life (or so you thought), so surely that could once be your fate again. You hold on for dear life (until old habits die screaming, ahem). You make more choices to try to get back to when it was just so pretty to think that you were fated to be together.

(And that's how "invisible string" ends up on the set list for your world tour while you're desperately trying to keep that relationship alive because isn't it just so pretty to think that this could work out.)

[kryptidcreative]

Godzilla / Pinkzilla

my husband and I saw the new movie recently!

Good times. Drew this because I've never really drawn this king of monsters

[withlovebinnie]

Are we really even a fandom if we don't have an animatic? Well, doesn't matter, I made one!

Unfortunately, it is very sad...

[ftwkcomic]

The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog #2 page 12

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[passerine-parable]

Death to Empire // Death to those who would rewrite our histories // Death to those who would crush our free will and pierce our limbs with their golden teeth

Authority is an illusion. Hierarchies are doomed to collapse. Objectivity is the enemy.

We will win this turn.

Red WILL prevail

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This piece of writing utterly changed my life and continues to do so. https://suspended-annihilation.com/greyface

This art is the product of accumulated emotions amidst my continuing apprenticeship with its author.

(Apologies to my friends who are used to seeing the calmer side of me- I hope you find this sudden ferocity amusing)

[ducksbyday]

Hello tumblr people

I am here to grant you some fancy Stratos headcanons :D

I think it would be a cool concept if Joel's power is completely dependant on his followers. The more people offer him things and the more people sing/pray to him, the more powerful he is.

For the empire of Stratos to come into existence, Joel's followers had to build the fountain. Its the core of Joel's power and without it he's basically human. Once he fountain is build and working, Joel can raise it into the sky and start the Empire of Stratos. Start his godhood.

With this power, he can create floating islands and buildings out of seemingly nothing, but he needs the trust and love from his people to do so. They grant him that power, because Stratos is build for Joel's people. Without the people, Stratos has no purpose and neither does Joel's godhood. So no followers = no power.

When building Stratos, there is a specific order Joel needs to follow. First, the fountain needs to be raised in the sky to show his people that he is present and that he is worthy. When that is done, Joel gains his complete godhood and builds The Stratosphere.

The Stratosphere is a depiction and a "storage" of his power. The larger the stratosphere, the more power Joel has.

This also means that when Joel uses his power to create things, the stratosphere shrinks, and when his people celebrate their God, it grows.

After that he has somewhat more freedom with what to build, but most of the time he chooses to build Hermes shrine. Since hermes doesn't really have any followers yet, Joel always makes sure that he is the first one (we love supportive fathers).

When that his done, he can choose to build the Eye of Stratos -which allows him to communicate with other gods and gain power from shrines far away from Stratos-, shrines to other gods or other little things like farms and such (also his Palace, if he has enough power).

Also, if something happens to the fountain and it gets distroyed, Joel will lose his power and the entirety of Stratos will come crashing to the ground :D the same goes for if Joel loses all his followers.

So if you live underneath Upper Stratos- Well, you better start praying big lad 👍

[bothzangetsus]

@mondengel moving to a new post for ease, but you make a good point. I'd assumed that their desire for glory was the way a child was to please their parent (continuing the Father of All Quincies thing) (and I think for some it is? like as nodt), but it makes sense if they were simply unaware. In which case I can see the argument of them as having chauvinistic-to-the-max ideals much more easily.

[skyler-reads28]

Have a little pride stack before June wraps up 🌈🩷

[justinempire]

(Justin Empire) The Cities Of Invisible Signs

[grahnite]

I'd like to add some of my favorites and go to recommendations!

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror (this one is as fun as a book about WWI can be!)

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War (highly recommend the audiobook, the author reads it and listening to her try not to laugh while reading the old-timey insults is fab. was super important reading for my ability to understand modern American political divides)

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid Important note: you HAVE to read the footnotes on this one

Wasteland and Field of Blood are downer topics but I found them pretty fun as far as those topics go (without, imo, being disrespectful)

and these two are more fun:

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law I tend to recommend Mary Roach more generally for people new to nonfiction, because she's fun and easy to read, so if this topic doesn't speak to you, one of her other titles might

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

as a "beginner" dipping g his toes into nonfiction but as someone who otherwise enjoys pretty much any genre (and as such is open to anything, from educational to biographical), what would you recommend?

Oh, that's vast! You are forcing me to cast a wide net and give a thousand suggestions... I'm going to limit myself to 3 ideas per category so I don't go overboard.

Nature / environment: Carl Safina's Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; Paul Kingsnorth's Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays; Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss

Science / medicine: Holly Tucker's Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament (I mostly enjoyed the first part in which he rants about the current state of maths education and says maths deserves better) or Carl Sagan's Cosmos (if I write "or" between two book recs it only counts as one)

Language: I liked Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages so much that I won't even nominate anyone else in this category. ... But I'll make up for it by allowing myself additional titles in the next one:

Politics / society / culture: Jodi Kantor's She Said, Frederik & Bastian Obermayer's The Panama Papers, Caroline Criado-Pérez's Invisible Women, Patrick Keefe's Empire of Pain, Michael Meyer's The Last Days of Old Beijing, Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

History: I'm realising that everything that comes to mind is horribly bleak: Jack London's The People of the Abyss, Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time, Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl... I've read some fun historical nonfiction in French but right now the only thing I can think of in English that's not depressing is Matthew Goodman's The Sun and the Moon, the subtitle of which is: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York.

About literature: Wisława Szymborska's Nonrequired Reading, Alexandra Johnson's The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life, Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night.

(I was going to include a philosophy section but I realised I p much exclusively read philosophy in French or Spanish, and it's usually recent stuff that's not been translated... But if you've never read philosophy I recommend Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World, it's a novel about the history of philosophy so it straddles the line between fiction and nonfiction)

Biographies / memoirs: that's the majority of the nonfiction I read so it could be a whole post, but some I've really enjoyed are: Beryl Markham's West with the Night; Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals; Fatema Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass, Ryszard Kapuściński's Travels with Herodotus, Mary S. Lovell's The Sisters (about the six Mitford sisters; if you enjoy it I'd recommend reading their correspondence next—Charlotte Mosley's "The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters")

Miscellaneous: Emmanuel Carrère's The Adversary; Alexandra Horowitz's On Looking. Currently I'm reading Joan Druett's Island of the Lost because it's nice to relativise your own problems in life by reminding yourself that at least you're not stuck on a subantarctic island having to bludgeon sea lions and eat your own crewmates for survival.

[immaculatasknight]

The ugly genocidal reality

[bluehydrangeasss]

My roman empire is my future husband. I wonder what is he doing rn. Does he also think of me oftenly? Does he also feels like no one likes him? Is he dating someone? Is he younger or older than me, I hope he's the same age as me. Have I ever met him or talked to him, but idts any guy I have talked to till now is good enough or understands me to be my future husband. Btw is he also writing smth abt me rn? Is there any invisible string theory b/w us?

[yarnandink]

To all the fibre and textile crafters of centuries and millennia past, whose work has long since rotted away, all trace of their creations vanished, and their contribution to the growth and expression of their cultures erased and made invisible by the oblivion of decay, such that nowadays the inheritors of their craft and tradition are dismissed as hobbyists, and the skill and technical prowess required to create fibre or fabric is overlooked or dismissed outright.

raise a glass to the posts you love that end up deleted. to the fanart and fanfics you lose track of and can't locate. to the blogs you used to look through that ended up unexpectedly disappearing. to the things you didn't archive because you always assumed they'd be there.