#terrorized

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. 

“Janet saw the blackness of death come rushing at her and realized that her mind was beginning to give in to the blackness, the way drowning victims are said to surrender finally to their own overwhelming darkness.”

from /r/vexillology Top comment: A flag I created for the Cimbri, a tribe of Germanic nomads from modern-day Denmark, who terrorized the Cisalpina region of the (then) Roman Republic from 113-101 BC, only being beaten after a truly brutal and devastating battle against Roman Consul Gaius Marius, during which their king, Boiorix, and almost all of the Cimbri themselves were killed. The survivors scattered across Western Europe, being assimilated into other tribes such as the Atauaci, Eburones, and Tungri. Many people in modern-day Himmerland, a region of Denmark's Jutland peninsula, claim to be descended from the Cimbri who remained in their homeland when the rest migrated Southwards. The actions of the Cimbri had an effect on many who witnessed them in battle, and their seemingly unstoppable march across Cisalpina inspired the term *"Terror Cimbricus" ("Cimbrian Terror")*, which became a common phrase among the citizens of Rome- used in times of crisis and during tribal invasions, even long after the Cimbri had ceased to be a threat. Allegedly, during what was to be the final battle between the Romans and the Cimbri, the women of the tribe killed any of the men who attempted to flee, then their children and themselves to avoid becoming Roman slaves.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) - 'Terrorized,' S18/EP1 (2016) Robert C. Kirk as Brian O'Malley