#that's my roman empire right there!!

[mobius-m-mobius]

LOKI APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | for @dailyloki Day 7 : Creation with a color or free choice: Lokius in Season Two (insp)

[icantdothistodaybruh]

[izeia-rt]

[brother-emperors]

The great general remained, and then saw a wonderful vision clearly shown him by the very God of the universe himself. In it he seemed to see the divine Meletius, chief of the church of the Antiochenes, investing him with an imperial robe, and covering his head with an imperial crown. The morning after the night in which he had seen the vision he told it to one of his intimate friends, who pointed out that the dream was plain and had nothing obscure or ambiguous about it.

Theodoret Ecclesiastical History 5.6

wahoo! Theodosius! so a repeating phrase in the gospel of Luke is 'do not be afraid,' but specifically: I'm most immediately referencing the annunciation of the shepherds (Luke 2:10) because I used this illustration for the last panel since it. sort of. connects to Valens, Theodosius' predecessor, who went from commoner to king at the will of his older brother. HOWEVER. because of that transformation. I cannot escape the 'do not be afraid' just a chapter before (Luke 1:30) that Gabriel gives to Mary because ascension to the imperial throne is an ugly, violent, and violating transformation. and. well.

Gabriel’s Entrance and Biblical Violence in Luke’s Annunciation Narrative, Michael Pope

also in general. prophetic dreams and visions. horrifying. it never goes well for anyone.

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[gunsatthaphan]

"are you sure?"

[confession-session]

my roman empire is reading classic literature involving two male protagonists and yelling "GAYYYYYYYY" at the poor unsuspecting pages

[lazycranberrydoodles]

fun fact about me: for about a year (2019-2020) i did all of my digital art in mspaint with a laptop mouse and i got really good at it. i planned to do something nice but school said otherwise so i ended up using mspaint as god intended. i bring assorted mxtx doodles.

(^my scene wwx and goth lwj designs that i've been drawing for months but never posted)

[thatsrightice]

The story of these two men is my Roman Empire.

Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov were highly decorated Cosmonauts, both of which made firsts in the history of space flight.

Yuri Gagarin famously became the first man in space on April 12, 1961.

Vladimir Komarov piloted Voshkod 1 on October 12, 1964 on the first space mission to carry multiple crew members. He flew again aboard Soyuz 1 on April 23, 1967, becoming the first Russian man to make two spaceflights.

Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov were close.

The Soyuz 1 was described as being “a piece of shit” and a “devil ship” as issues plagued the spacecraft throughout development and failed testing. Yuri had done everything he could to get the launch postponed, including writing a ten-page memo detailing the 203 structural problems he had discovered during inspection of the Soyuz 1. Any person who had laid eyes on the memo would be fired or demoted.

Komarov knew of these issues, but refused to step down from the missions. In March of 1987 he met with Venyamin Russayev, a then-recently-demoted KGB agent who had been assigned to "mind" Yuri Gagarin.

He met with Russayev and said, "I'm not going to make it back from this flight." Russayev asked, “Why not refuse?” Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura. And he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears.

Yuri, nicknamed Yura by friends and family, showed up on the day of the launch “demanding to be put into a space suit,” "demanding this and this and this...", doing anything and everything he could to be the one on that spacecraft instead of Vladimir. Unfortunately, his attempts were be futile.

Soyuz 1 would launch on April 23, 1967 and faced serious issues throughout the flight. The parachutes failed to deploy during reentry and the spacecraft burned up while Vladimir screamed and cried and cursed out those responsible.

Yuri Gagarin was grounded from future space flights and denied permission to pilot military jets. This was devastating for the already deeply depressed man and everyone knew it. Even his favorite hairdresser said that “Yuri couldn't live without flying. It was his whole life. A man can't live without his trade. He can't survive.”

He eventually convinced them to let him fly, but on March 28, 1968, less than a year since Komarov’s accident, he was tragically killed during a routine-training flight aboard a MiG-15. The cause of the accident is unclear, though many speculate that the accident was an assassination on the cosmonaut as he had a falling out with several high-ranking officials following the death of his close friend.

Both Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov’s names are featured on the memorial for fallen US Astronauts and USSR Cosmonauts left on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew.

[ghcstao3]

short cat shifter!ghost post because it feels like a necessity every few days at this point

but it’s always a gamble as to how ghost will be found napping in his cat form—he does sleep in usual positions, curled up or laying on his side—but sometimes he’ll also sleep in odd ways, like on his back or stomach with his limbs sprawled out, hanging over a door with his legs dangling, or sitting in a loaf with his face to the ground in a way that’s honestly a bit concerning

and sometimes he just naps so well that the rest of the 141 always have to do a double take to make sure he’s still breathing (he is, and is now grumpy that he was woken up)

[thelongestwalk]

belizabeth brassica and citrina rocks, based on 'the painter's honeymoon' by frederic leighton

(a few months ago, the unmatched FanaticofBeads on twitter approached me with the comm.ission of a lifetime and now it's finally finished!)

[3thingsnothidden]

i will never get over how they chose to direct and shoot the shooting scene

the focus on buck and eddie before the shooting and then once eddie is shot??? buck being in utter shock unable to move. eddies blood on his face. eddie reaching for him as his eyes close. buck dragging him to safety and hauling him into the truck. eddie being more concerned for buck and his raspy “are you hurt”

how is the audience not supposed to come to the conclusion that this man just watched the love of his nearly die before his eyes

[fairdale]

just thought about gideon asking sophie for scones just to see her and then hiding them all under his bed only for her to find them and get mad at him... if only she knew he literally worshipped the ground she walked on... babe, he's whipped whipped. like, it's that bad. he doesn't know how else to flirt

[starwarjotta]

okay so after Tales of the Jedi we're getting Tales of the Empire and on a complete non-squitur, in TBB episode 3x10 Hemlock says the other operatives aren't ready yet, which means there're more clone assassins in the making my bet is still on clone x (or the current assassin clone or whatever you call him) being Tech, because him being Cody just wouldn't be the same, it wouldn't be as emotionally devastating for Omega and the Bad Batch as the clone being Tech would be and I saw a theory that maybe Cody is one of the other operatives whose brainwashing just isn't done yet instead so hear me out, hear me out after Tales of the Empire, we could get Tales of the Clones, right? and in Tales of the Clones we could get the story of what happened to Cody, that maybe Cody tried to escape the Empire in TBB 2x03, but he was caught and sent to Hemlock's sick assassin clone program, but the badass he is he's resisting the brainwashing and he maybe escapes??? MAYBE WE COULD GET THAT STORY OR SOMETHING??? WHERE HE ENDS UP ON TATOOINE LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO IN THE OG KENOBI SHOW SCRIPT???? I'D BE SO UP FOR IT OKAY???

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

bout time i posted the og bc in the immortal words of yahtzee croshaw shit's about to get FUCKY!

also i like him :)

[brother-emperors]

Plutarch, Antony (trans. Scott-Kilvert)

[rosieestories]

GUYS ‼️

i watched saltburn yesterday…

… HELLO???

i’ve never found jacob elordi leng but in this film he was just so babygirl like get in my bed right now???

weirdly enough as well i didn’t just enjoy it because of him, the film was SO FUCKING GOOD like… the plot? the plotWISTS? the acting? the confusion that it caused me, yet i understand every bit of it? FUCKING MASTERPIECE. i’m obsessed i’m never letting this movie go.