#THE EMPIRE JUST HAS HIM

[a-distant-echo]

Guys I'm so excited for Bad Batch season 3 it's not even funny.😁

But at the same time I'm so scared that something horrible will happen to our boys. All I want is for them to all live happily ever after as one big happy family. Is that too much to ask???😭😭😭😭

#star wars #the bad batch #the clone wars #tcw #tbbs3 #bad batch season 3 #I swear if we don't end the season with all of them happy and healthy I'm gonna riot #I can't take another ending like the ending to the clone wars #that emotionally destroyed me #tech #wrecker #crosshair #echo #hunter #omega #TECH IS ALIVE #THE EMPIRE JUST HAS HIM #THE REST OF THE BATCH WILL RESCUE HIM CROSSHAIR AND OMEGA FROM THE EMPIRE AND THEY'LL ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER #I'M MANIFESTING IT #I love them all too much to lose them😭

[kagoutiss]

pelican town, ‘72

#stardew valley #stardew valley spoilers #sdv #sdv spoilers #grandpa #mister qi #mr. qi #idk how dates work in stardew universe im just bullshittin #i love qi’s huge fucking eyebrows you dont notice them at first but theyre there #(gives our collective grandpa a ponytail) i think he had one. whatever #’why isnt mister qi blue’ my hc is he is blue from long-term iridium supplementation #and was originally just a regular person #but also it’s nice to see ur fav be like a normal human color #if u read tag essays tho consider this: #qi discovers secret to immortality (consuming iridium in a specific manner) #wants to share discovery with his farmer (player’s grandpa) and in that way. they will have all the time in the world to build #a perfect farming/business empire whose legacy will last forever and ever and theyll be 2gether forever #but it turns out. like a lot of normal people would. his farmer does not want to live forever #and obv he doesn’t #in an attempt to try not to ever lose the thing that means more to him than anything else in the world. qi inadvertantly ensures he will #because his farmer is dead. and he’s going to live forever #but. it’s kind of ok. because he has infinite money and was able to figure out how to talk to his dead bf #and now YOU help them fulfill their joint goal of making the farm’s legacy last forever #smile. heart #sobbing

[furiosophie]

just thinking about how luke was only ever really taught to wield the force as a weapon, but never how to put up barriers in his mind, just wondering, really, what happens to you when you touch the fabric of the universe but don't know how to wash it off your hands again, if sometimes being one with every living thing feels like you are disintegrating, fraying at the seams

#luke skywalker #star wars #this is brought to you by last weeks ahsoka episode #and the relentless cosmic horror luke brainrot it has caused me #i just keep thinking about luke sleepwalking into the world between worlds #like sometimes he just wakes up there like others wake up in their kitchen at 3 am #i am never not thinking about this tbh #this is my roman empire #like just #yoda told him do or do not and luke took that literally #he went and stared straight into the abyss

[inquisitor-apologist]

Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.

Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.

Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.

#I’ve said my piece goodnight #don’t play with me Mace Antis I have receipts for every last one of these #pretty much everyone agrees that he was the best duelist there was and he obviously won the fight #Anakin's choice wouldn't make thematic sense otherwise #also vader did not defeat palpatine in combat sorry he just grabbed him while he was distracted #it literally had to be a fair fight and Anakin had to be the one to choose to create the empire that's what the prequels are about #Star Wars databank calls him ‘revered’ shatterpoint tells us he was the youngest (real) member of the council #Boba Fett (tcw) and Prosset Dibs (comics) tried to kill him and he asked for amnesty and forgave them #literally just watch the Ryloth arc he spends most of his screentime saving his men #in tcw season seven he pleads with the battle droids to surrender hoping that no one else has to die #there's the part near the end of tcw where the council realizes that the clones were created by Dooku but Mace and the rest of the council #trust the clones so much they're willing to ignore it #the scene from Mace's POV in the rots novelization talks about how much he loves the republic and how he was blindsided by Anakin's betraya #because he trusted him!! we see in aotc that he has more faith in Anakin's abilities than Obi-wan #and he defeated the most powerful sith of all time single-handedly #BEST JEDI EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! #sw prequels #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #sw prequel trilogy #star wars prequel trilogy #sw rots #star wars rots #revenge of the sith #star wars revenge of the sith #galactic republic #pro mace windu #mace windu #pro jedi order #pro jedi

[vinnianlovesdinosaurs]

#i love him #my man my man my man #my man <3 #hes so pretty #i need him carnally #tom glynn carney #hotd aegon #aegon ii targaryen #hotd cast #the loml #musician #singer #my darling #he's just so #blonde men #my roman empire #icon #he's so fine #he has a special place in my heart #dog owner #house of the dragon

[go-see-a-starwar]

The Chosen One has taken over the Empire State Building [x]

#a wild hayden has appeared #what is this? #he’s actually dressed nice? no hat?? #(maybe a lowkey Vader show announcement??) #(I have no basis for that I just want it) #eta: it’s apparently for an ESB screening but surely they didn’t get him off the farm for only that? #hayden christensen #empire state building #darth vader #Star Wars #video

[currentlyonstandbi]

#what if i just never emotionally recovered from this . wouldnt that be something #star wars #sw rots #revenge of the sith #rots novelization #anakin skywalker #darth vader #you know what. it's the fact that after everything that has happened anakin still chooses to stay with sidious #even after he knows all he's ever done is lie to him. is use him. is be yet another person on a list of people #who've only ever wanted him for his power #anakin HATES sidious by this point. he despises him. he wants him dead. and yet he stays #because he has no reason not to #he's destroyed everything and everyone who he's ever loved and has loved him in return #and as twisted as it is.. sidious is all he has left now. sidious and all of his anger and all of his terrible grief #so he stays . because he has no reason to leave #and it's not until rotj that anakin finds himself faced with a choice which isn't really a choice at all #because from the moment he realised luke would never join him in overthrowing sidious and ruling the empire #there was only ever one decision anakin could make #because in that moment he looked upon the last reminder of the love that existed once between him and padme and he found his reason #to finally break the cycle of violence #he couldn't kill luke because he loved him ! even among all the anger and pain and regret. anakin loved his son #and just as anakin's love drove him to the dark so too did it help guide him to the light #whatever. this novel destroyed me. gonna have 'this is how it feels to be anakin skywalker forever' on my mind for 3-5 business days

[koiisure]

What S2 Ep 32 William could have been.

#jrwi pd #jrwi prime defenders #just roll with it #prime defenders #jrwi #jrwi fanart #jrwi william #william wisp #the smoke form William that they mentioned will never leave my brain #ep 30-33 is my roman empire ok #i kinda lost motivation halfway into this drawing so its not like completely finished but like #its still presentable #i originally wanted to rig this drawing and like add silly creepy music #but thats tooo muchj work #he has that wolf in him ok

[joifee]

You cant show me that dress and exspect me not to draw it. I am obsessed.

#fwhip #empires smp #empires smp s2 #fwhip fanart #my art #joifeeart #come on look at it #i HAD to draw it #it suits him so well okay #he has the style #he is the moment #he is the prettiest princess #i am just so obsessed with this dress cant wait for the episode

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Brazilian Grand Prix - Podium - Fernando Alonso

#HE IS SO RADIANT ON THIS PODIUM I LOVUUUU HIMMMMMMMM #once all the pics get released on all the websites i think ill have mental breakdown pt 2 #my roman empire is hoping someone took a pic of him holding the hat in his mouth #real ones will know about my weird obsession with confetti....fufilled today #im so annoyed they cut away when he did his jumpy mario thing #he does it every single time they should know this!! #so thank you to aston's insta for the clips #not my best quality gifs which is annoying but uhhhh i am under duress from myself LMAO #i need to make a brazil 2023 moodboard just from my deranged liveblogs cause my god #see you in Vegas!!! what a way to end a triple header wow. it really made the suffering in cota and mexico worth it #now old man better keep up this performance istg #but like seriously i could wax poetic about his defneding and overtaking in this race #it was actually unbelievable the level of skill he has #to defend against the superior rb19 for like 30~ laps and then to be able to overtake it with his much slower car??? chills. #has anyone gifed his overtake bcs my god i fell down #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #2023 brazilian gp #we do a little bit of f1

[spicysucculentz]

my sincerest reaction to clone wars style thrawn

#spicy speaks #just the slightest possibility of seeing animated eli vanto has me losing my mind #where is he! #but also I don’t want Dave filoni to ruin him… #I want more animated thrawn content BUT written by timothy zahn of course #grand admiral thrawn #tales of the empire #thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #star wars the clone wars #the clone wars #star wars #star wars tcw #tcw #thrawn meme #spicys memes

[tarisilmarwen]

"Thrawn only joined the Empire to help the Chiss!"

Okay sure but have any of you bothered to self-examine why Thrawn chose to join the Empire instead of, say, the Republic, when that was still around? Or why he didn't chose to throw in with the Rebellion, put his tactical mind to use helping them overthrow the Empire quicker?

Could it be... perhaps... that maybe he values the Empire's military strength... more than he cares about the authoritarian tyranny with which it oppresses its own people?

Is it possible that he thinks the Empire's main problem is that it isn't effective enough, too much politicking getting in the way of sound strategy, but if he's around (and in charge) he can guide things so that those annoying little wrinkles (AKA the pockets of discontent and rebellion and fully justified anger at their rights and freedoms being trampled on) are all smoothed out and the overall Imperial machine is better, more in control of its assets, a stronger more unified bulwark against the outergalactic threat of the Grysk or the Vong or whatever.

Is it perhaps just a bit self-centered of him to only care about the Empire's ability to service his own goals and desires and be apathetic (at best) to the way it makes people suffer daily under its inherent systems? The Twi'leks and Wookies being constantly kidnapped and sold into slavery? The careless industrialization of arboreal worlds? The socialization and absorption of all private industry, forcing everyone to work through and with the Empire if they want to work at all? The systematic persecution of anyone remotely Force Sensitive? Is it not the mark of some kind of soul rot to be aware of all of that and go, "Yeah, but I don't care, they have the bigger guns, which is what I need."?

Maybe... just maybe... Thrawn has some Machiavellian tendencies and opinions and maybe this just might... make him not entirely a good person?

And maybe y'all should think about that before you come back and whine about his portrayal as a villain, as if all he has to do is explain to people that he did everything for a good reason and he gets an automatic narrative pardon for all of the shit he did while Grand Admiral that still needs to be addressed and answered for.

#yeah another thrawn rant has been brewing for a while #listen it's not that i don't want thrawn to have depths and pathos and dimensions to his character #what i'm saying is that NONE OF THAT MATTERS ONCE HE JOINED THE EMPIRE #because he sure as hell didn't work to subvert the empire at all even knowing the kinds of things they do #so no i'm sorry there is no clean 'i had good intentions' moment #where everyone just arbitrarily accepts his Sad Backstory and declares everything okay #him doing everything he did 'for his people' does not mean the people he DID hurt don't get to demand and expect justice #what annoys me is not that thrawn has complex motivations #it's that fandom seems to think the motivations cancel out the MEANS and METHODS #which is why in all their stories thrawn gets to just go home and have a happily ever after with eli vanto or whoever #that is not what is going to or what should happen in canon guys #not fandom tagging this if you see it it's your own dang fault for being out in the wilds of the untamed tumblr search #dunking on the blue bastard #star wars #star wars rebels

[theminecraftbee]

Normally, traitors aren’t frog-marched to the Emperors themselves, regardless of what rank of information they had. These aren’t normal circumstances, though, Techno bemoans to himself. For one, the man is refusing to speak anything but French and a tiny amount of broken Bayesh. For another, on being made, he immediately handed over about three folders of classified information then loudly waited for handcuffs to be put on him.

Phil is lounging in his throne; he’d never been one for propriety. This leaves Techno to be, uh, the actually serious one. The one adorned in uniform, sitting and glowering down. It’s lucky that the traitor isn’t a pigman, because Techno isn’t actually great at glowering, but humans are weird about pigman facial expressions so he should be fine?

The traitor stands before them and grins. In perfect Bayesh, he says: “Finally. It took way too long for you to catch me, bitch.”

Techno pauses. He stares. In Piglish, he barks to his guards: “Everyone out. It’s Leader business.”

They file out. They’ll be waiting outside. Phil straightens in his seat and reaches for his own sword.

Techno, laboriously, drags his hand across his face. He switches back to Bayesh. God, does he regret being fluent in multiple languages sometimes. “What are you doing here, Tommy.”

“Showing you your intelligence weak points, fucker. Do you know how easy it is to slip Bayesh spies in here? I was smooth. A smooth customer. I was hearing classified milkitary secrets—”

“You were caught within two hours,” Techno says.

“That’s—that’s just what you think, innit?” Tommy says. Phil laughs. He’s the real traitor here.

“Tommy. I don’t wanna have to cause an international incident, but I’ve had a really long day, so if you just tell me who hired you to run a spy op, and why you decided it was a good idea to run it yourself, instead of sending one of your experts…”

“No one,” Tommy says.

“Hey, don’t lie you little shit. Techno might not want to start an incident but I don’t care,” Phil says. He grins and holds up his sword. “You wanna wake up in a jail cell and reveal some secrets? We may all be Leaders but it won’t stop torture from hurting.”

“What the fuck, Phil,” Tommy says.

“No one’s torturing anyone. We’ll just bomb them later if we must,” Techno says.

“And I wasn’t lying. It’s—can I take the wig off by the way? It fucking itches.”

“I despise you.”

Tommy takes off the black wig, revealing his blonde hair. “Anyway, I don’t want to work with you guys either, so I figured I’d get your attention by like, acting like we’re enemies and stuff. Got hired for espionage enough back in the day to pick up that much.”

“Who the fuck wanted you as a spy?” Phil asks.

“Fuck you,” Tommy says and doesn’t elaborate.

“Please just tell us what you want,” Techno says. “Please. I can’t handle this much you at any given time.”

“This needs to be Leader to Leader,” Tommy says, and something heavy laces his words. The hairs on Techno’s arms stand up.

“You coulda asked,” he says, in one final desperate bid for normality.

“No, I couldn’t have,” Tommy says. “I think Chip’s dead.”

Techno doesn’t notice that he’s standing until he is.

“What?”

“Yeah,” Tommy says. “Yeah. And, uh, I fucking. Need your help to figure out what happened. Before we get blamed. And I know, politically, you’ve got no reason, but if we don’t figure out—”

Techno sits back down, heavy.

“I know you understand Piglish. Let me talk in my native language. Phil.”

“Yeah, mate?”

“Go get the stuff.”

Phil’s eyes darken. “Right. That. Well, I’ll be back.”

Tommy’s voice, for the first time since Techno met him as a newly-minted Leader, standing on a wooden bench and yelling about executions, is small.

“You believe me?” he says.

“Why else would you come here?” Techno asks. “Not like we like you.”

“Good, because I’m shit at infiltrations. Would have been embarrassing if you, like, didn’t know your enemy well enough to know that,” Tommy says. He’s saying something else underneath it. Techno is neither good enough at Bayesh or at Tommy to guess what.

“Let’s work out an excuse to make a treaty. And you tell me everything.”

#smp earth #WELL THAT'S A TAG I HAVEN'T HAD TO USE IN A WHILE. #a bee fic #anyway have you ever had to excise a story hook that's appeared in your head? #anyway: in which business bay gets framed for murdering chip and unfortunately as much as tommy would like the notoriety #he can't afford to let a guy who could kill chip just run around. also no one believes him. #so he goes to the antarctic empire hoping to ruffle enough feathers to at least get them out of the way #and technoblade immediately goes 'oh god something that incredibly stupid WOULD happen to you. oh no.' #AND THEN THEY ARE FORCED TO WORK TOGETHER TO CATCH THE GODKILLER #for the record. i probably won't write this. #if you're in a certain server with me please ignore how much i've been going 'but i COULD write bedrock bros' recently i PROBABLY WONT #anyway. i thought maybe you all would like this. the worldbuilding is like. ADJACENT to empires earth? with a lot of months in-between #like it definitely has influences from when i was doing the empires earth stuff.

[chaosspear]

spinc

(special thanks to my bfgf @bbgatile for drawing the base body for the reference image so i could finally figure out this outfit design)

#istv #spiderverse #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #atsv #beesdraws #longclaw is his uncle ben. probably #he was bitten by specifically a radioactive moroccan flic flac spider aka the fastest spider in the world. #it also moves via cartwheels and if you can handle spiders you HAVE to see a video of this thing its so funny #in honor of that this sonic was into parkour and gymnastics before being bit #i haven't cemented his backstory yet cause honestly I've never had an au where sonic actually is staying in school before #most of the time i imagine he kinda fucks off as a kid either cause eggman empire problems lack of parents or just cause no one can #make him stay #but in this case.... well now he has a secret identity to kinda upkeep #still figuring out where and how tails would fit into this... #spidersonic

[ghoulishcavern]

i doodled empires s2 joel a lil. i think he is a falcon bc it fits his color pallet and he had floating islands so he needs SOME way to fly to them

#i am obsessed with him #prepare for me to never shut up abt him #empires smp fanart #empires smp #esmp #empires smp season 2 #esmp s2 #esmp season 2 #char art #empires fanart #empires joel #mcyt #mcyt art #mcyt fanart #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans fanart #i think he is the type to just stand with his hands on his hips all the time #that’s a very him pose #by him i mean this season empires joel #he has the lore #smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans fanart

[imagine-to-be-a-pike]

Leon didn"t know what was happening. Everyone around him was getting older. Just not him. Everyone around him was dying and changing. Just not him.

He was waiting for this. He was really looking forward to this. Maybe it will be calmer on the other side. Maybe on the other side the two people he was used to hating each other so much would call each other names. Maybe on the other side he could be again...idk a happy teenager in Camelot

But no. It didn't come. He didn't know why. He didn't age. He wasn't dying. He tried but to no avail. Years passed, a year, decades and then centuries. He was forced to get used to the changing world around him. He had to constantly work, earn money and learn new things. It was...too much. Sometimes he heard rumors that he wasn't the only one. Merlin. Merlin according to rumors, was alive . But Leon didn't know if he wanted to see him. And so centuries passed. Leon was tired. Really tired. Despite everything, he went to college and set up his own psychology practice. Helping people always gave him satisfaction. He tried the police or the army but ..it was too much for his nerves. Especially after all the wars he took part in.

Dr. Leon Kringen. That's what the sign on the door said.The door openen A tall man with probably a child. He frowned. Well, an old man can forget about an appointment. He glanced at the computer (what a funny invention). The older man forced the teenager to sit down with a sudden movement. Blue-eyed, blonde,a little furious and a little...scared teenager. It was sad to watch this interaction once again. Well, apparently centuries won't change some people

"Hello Mr. Pendragon"

#immortal Sir Leon #my roman empire #I mean merlin could simply go into depression in some mountains and leon was forced to acclimatize again and again #he didn't even know why he couldn't die #just let him die in peace #uther is an asshole in ever century #arthur is just a problematic teenager #leon has to watch a pure soul get fucking corrupted again #BUT AT LEAST HE CAN HIT UTHER #sir leon #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin bbc