#empire in the air

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[florsdelluna]

Golden hour ✨🧡🍂🧚 #jurdan

#it's been a while aaa #I've read tfota and now jurdan is my roman empire 😭😭 #the cruel prince #jurdan #my art #jude x cardan #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #the wicked king #the folk of the air #tfota #digital art #book fanart #the queen of nothing #holly black #prince cardan #jude #cardan #tfota fanart #fanart #bookblr #booklr #high king cardan #illustration

[texaschainsawmascara]

pls I’m crying what the fuck is this

hausofdecline on ig

#steve buscemi #boardwalk empire #nucky thompson #reservoir dogs #mr pink #fargo #ghost world #the wedding singer #the big lebowski #the king of staten island #con air #airheads #hotel transylvania #the sopranos #tony blundetto

[taxinealkaloids]

i love the tower princes. i love that there’s absolutely no way in hell that this friendship is even remotely good for either of them. love that they assuredly are making each other SO much worse with every second they spend together. 

#tlt #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #my art #anyway ever think about how the empire of the nine houses is pretty much singlehandedly being run by ianthe #and not only are the 2 people who are supposed to outrank her no help at all #they're actually actively detrimental to the empire's functioning as they are both deep in their depression spirals #and won't stop trying to start the apocalypse like they wanna start the apocalypse so BAD!! and ianthe doesn't even want to #be saving the world. girl wants to be villainous. she's stopping the apocalypse with an air of 'UGH i have to do EVERYTHING around here' #you really can't blame her for needing a chew toy. luckily kiriona is right there and she's basically a professional chew toy. #she's used to it. who knows what she'd even do with herself if no one was chomping on her. so it works out!! (not)

[beauregardlionett]

that moment when orym put the lens on his head and said it took up his whole face and laudna immediately called him a nerd was beau reaching across campaigns to finally get back at caleb for calling her a nerd when she got her dark vision goggles

#cr #critical role #c3e81 #cr spoilers #beaureblogs #orym of the air ashari #laudna #caleb widogast #beauregard lionett #empire kids #empire siblings

[duriens]

so we all agree that kirkwall is both horrifying and fascinating and i wish they'd delved more into its bloody history beyond the snippets we get from the codexes of the band of three. like hello?? three seekers of truth - among which a dalish mage - scurrying about the sewers and lower passages of the city, discovering that kirkwall was designed as some sort of magical symbol, has grooves in the sewers allowing the flood of blood downward for blood magic purposes, and last but not least realizing that its circle of magi had a much higher number of failed harrowings & episodes of blood magic hysteria than basically any other circle in existence??? you cant leave me hanging like that. why was the veil so thin there even before tevinter came? why were they weakening it further?? what was tevinter doing with all those disappeared slaves every year and the huge blood magic ritual involving thousands of slaves and the city itself being a magic symbol??? did the band ever find out if the Forbidden Ones are the same Forgotten Ones of dalish lore??? why was xebenkeck called 'forgotten one'??? hello????? what the fuck is up in kirkwall??????

#i think i need another game set in kirkwall but this time done RIGHT #ALSO what's up with the legions tevinter sent to kirkwall that completely vanished??? #i understand that it's likely a reference to the ninth roman legion that disappeared into thin air #since tevinter is modeled after the roman empire etc etc #but i also want to know WHERE THEY WENT #WHERE'D THEY END UP BIOWARE #why is kirkwall so damn dangerous in the first place #p #kirkwall #dragon age #dragon age 2 #tevinter #the band of three #dragon age meta

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

jude duarte of the motherfucking clay

#she's my roman empire #tfota #jurdan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the folk of the air #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #queen of nothing #tcp #twk #tqon #qon #holly black #judecardan #jurdannet #tfotadaily #tfota meme

[layla-carstairs]

does anyone else ever think about how in cohf Magnus refers to Jace, Clary, Izzy and Simon as Alec's friends and says that he just puts up with them for Alec. does anyone think about how later in qoaad at their wedding Magnus refers to them as "their closest friends"??? because I think about it a lot

#they're so!!!!! #tmi gang is my Roman Empire im soooooo normal about them #I think I'm more insane about them now then I was at 15 🥴🥴 #the brain rot is getting worse with age #magnus bane #alec lightwood #jace herondale #jace lightwood #clary fairchild #isabelle lightwood #simon lovelace #simon lewis #city of heavenly fire #queen of air and darkness #malec #tmi #tda #the mortal instruments #the dark artifices #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #bella talks

[maybeitsjustmebut]

reading the jurdan scenes in the prisoner's throne has cured my depression and literally every other problem i have ever had

#jude duarte #the folk of the air #the prisoner's throne #cardan #jude x cardan #tfota #folk of the air #the cruel prince #god I love them #the prisoners throne #literally my roman empire

[starrynightsxo]

roman empire this... roman empire that... the real empire people should be talking about is elfhame's

#elfhame is on top #elfhame is my roman empire #roman empire #what is with yall #come on book girls #bookish #book #the cruel prince #books #booklr #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #cardan #jude #tfota #the folk of air #the folk of the air #elfhame #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #tfota series #tfota fandom #jurdan #no but literally #obsessed with the cruel prince #high king of elfhame #high queen jude #high queen of elfhame #im so glad ive read the cruel prince because its SUCH a good book and i love it sm this series has my heart i just cant deal

[annemarieyeretzian]

laudna looking at orym, wearing a giant lens over his face, and saying “nerd.”,,, caleb looking at beau, wearing goggles, and telling her "you look like a nerd.",,, time is a weird soup 🥹

#annemarie watches critical role #critical role #laudna #orym of the air ashari #orym #caleb widogast #caleb #beauregard lionett #beau lionett #beau #caleb and beau #beau and caleb #empire kids #empire sibs #bell's hells #the mighty nein #the eve of the red moon #c3e81

[thirddagger]

Watching the Legend of Zelda one-shot and first of all, flawless media, and second of all, I will always love the love between Liam O'Brien PCs and Marisha Ray PCs.

They can be doomed lovers, empire siblings, a world leader and her bodyguard, or Team Skydive, but Liam will always be Marisha's cheerleader and they're there for each other across decades and lifetimes. I just love it, I am reassured and comforted

#liam o'brien #marisha ray #vax'ildan #keyleth #vaxleth #caleb widowgast #beauregard lionett #empire siblings #orym of the air ashari #critical role #legend of zelda #team skydive

[pa-rou]

Correct.

#fwhip #empires fwhip #fwhip fanart #empires smp #esmp #parou sketches #u know when cats lay on their back and stretch their leggies in the air? #yeah

[saints-blade]

gobland’s finest engineer, tangotek!!

#tangotek #empires smp #hermitcraft #empires x hc #rui’s blade and pen #CROSSOVER OF THE CENTURY #CAN YOU HEAR ME SHRIEKING AND CRYING AND PUNCHING THE AIR AND

[v1tfrma]

Who doesn't love the boosh?

#actors #con air #steve buscemi #adam sandler #comedy film #comedy #thriller #boardwalk empire #fargo #resevoir dogs #pulp fiction #quentin tarantino #grown ups #the big lebowski #the sopranos #monsters inc #hotel transylvania #mr deeds #big daddy #airheads #spy kids 2 #ghost world #monster house #boss baby #sandra bullock #nicolas cage #scarlett johansson #jeff bridges #voice acting #tim roth

[r3nrit]

I made Joel designs for each season of the life series back in December for a project that I was going to do but I never had time to actually see it through and I now got to wait till limited life is over to actually start planning it again whoops !!! Thought I’d show the designs for the first 3 anyways mainly because maybe if I post them I’ll actually see the project through eventually PFFF IDK IDK WE WILL SEE ANYWAYS 3RD LIFE JOEL OKE BYEEEE

#art #fanart #illustration #trafficblr #trafficblr art #3rd life #3rd life smp #3rd life joel #3rd life smp joel #life series #smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans fanart #smallishbeans fanart #may or may not post notes for these designs… #kinda like how I did the notes for empires bdubs design #but idk !! up in the air rn let me know if you’d like my thought process though o/ #r3n does designs #r3nrit art