#the ides of march

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

🗡️

(in case you need a knife in the next two days for reasons unrelated to political assassinations)

[magnetothemagnificent]

It's a beautiful day in the Senate and you are Brutus

[id in alt]

[drowning-in-webnovel-chapters]

[strawlessandbraless]

23 🗡️ in 2023

[offonaherosjourney]

Julius Caesar's last words (100% real, don't fact-check): Is that a knife in your toga or are you happy to see me??

[virgil-sanders-the-gay-emo]

Pls reblog if u vote :)

[cryptid-witch-of-the-moss]

hey sorry your boyfriend just got stabbed 23 times in the back. yeah it was because he declared himself dictator for life. yeah sorry.

[mu-esli]

Opening tumblr only a few days before the Ides of March

[gay-jewish-bucky]

me and the boys waiting for our worstie, julius, to show up to the senate house (✿◠‿◠)🔪

[tragicallyunaesthetic]

tumblr holidays:

the met gala

halloween (the month)

the ides of march

nov 5 (new!)

[superior-cereal]

it’s that time of the year again

[gallium-spoon]

Ides of March is like Tumblr Christmas

Everybody has their blogs decorated and their knives sharpened at least a few days ahead of time

Now everyone be good and don't tell Caesar or the ghost of Brutus won't bring you any presents

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Look, as much as I love celebrating Caesar’s death as the next Tumblrina, there’s an element to this that I think we need to address. About Caesar, about his assassination, about our reaction to it.

It didn’t work.

Killing Julius Caesar didn’t stop Rome from becoming an Empire. If anything it expedited the process. Because all the assassination did was turn Caesar into a martyr for his family and followers to turn into a standard to rally behind. The Republic fell, the Empire rose, and Caesar’s Assassination was the tipping point of it all.

In fact, there’s evidence Caesar had knowledge of the planned Assassination and went anyway, knowing what his death would turn him into. But why?

Fascists don’t get turned on by their followers when they die. They get turned on when they look weak.

By the time of his death, Caesar was sick. There’s evidence that he was incontinent and beginning to have mental problems. All in all, things that made him look weak.

I can’t say what would have happened in Brutus and the Senate had stayed their hand, but history would not have turned out the same way. Certainly, Caesar would not have been turned into a martyr with his assassination. If his followers had seen Caesar as he was, a shambling, dying, sick old man, would that have turned them on him? I can’t say.

The assassination of Julius Caesar isn’t a happy event, it’s a cautionary tale. I’m not saying this to ruin our Ides of March celebration, but I feel it needs to be said. Make Dictators look weak, and then stab them.

[theromaboo]

Guys, I've heard about this epic idea.

So basically, you throw a party during the night of March 14. It's a pi day party.

Then, the second the clock strikes midnight, the party suddenly becomes an Ides of March party. You have not told any of the guests about that.

Then you do Ides of March activities like stabbing and pileus hat wearing.

(EDIT: for added fun, tell all guests about the Ides of March thing, except for one. Then EVERYONE STABS THE UNKNOWING VICTIM THE SECOND IT TURNS MIDNIGHT)

[prokopetz]

I know what the term “roman cancel” means in fighting game jargon, but whenever I hear it the first thing that immediately pops into my head is like

[offonaherosjourney]

“average internet user posts about the Ides of March 3 times a year" factoid actually just statistical error. Average internet user posts about the Ides of March 0 times per year. Tumblr Georg, who has made of the day a national holiday & makes over 10,000 posts about it each March, is an outlier and should not have been counted