Troubled Angel In The Time Vortex

There is very little intrinsic institutional power in queenship. The power a consort, dowager, or queen mother has depends mostly on how much the reigning sovereign (usually a man) is willing to grant her. Needing a queen to serve as regent is exceptionally rare, and the regent is more often a male relative.

Queen regnant: woman who rules in her own right, not on behalf of someone else.

Regent: Someone who temporarily assumes the powers of the monarch on account of the monarch being too young or too incapacitated to govern.

Queen consort: Woman who is married to the monarch.

Dowager queen: Woman who was married to the monarch. The monarch is dead, and she is owed support as his widow.

taller, shorter, slimmer, more muscular, purple hair, tattoos everywhere, tattoos nowhere, 

every single shoe would fit you every single time you tried it on, every single article of clothing would fit your perfectly, all you have to do is transform slightly, you’d never run out of ‘your size’ again

~cosplay

~Halloween costumes

~acting

~cosplay

~stretching to reach stuff and shrinking to fit through spaces

~cosplay

~cosplay

“Don’t antagonize the fae.”

Fandom: Phineas and Ferb

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The assassination of Julius Cesar is maybe one of the MOST controversial moments in western history. A thousand years later, Dante Alegari (who was Italian) when writing the Divine Comedy, reserves the deepest foulest pit of hell for Brutus, Casius and Judas, condemning them to be Satan’s eternal chew toys. Shakespeare devotes an entire play to how Julius Cesar is a complicated figure neither saint nor monster, and to how the assassin’s motives ranged from virtuous to petty and spiteful. To this DAY scholars and historians still argue about the actions of the assassins, spilling oceans of ink.

And yet all of tumblr seems to accept three things as undisputed fact:

That Julius Caesar was a dictator (true) and tyrant (debatable).

That the assassins, and Brutus in particular where righteous in the stabbing of him (A statement that would spark riots in any classical history department in any western country)

That the stabbing turned out great for everyone involved who was NOT Caesar (super super not true- it sparked off riots that nearly destroyed the city of Rome, and a Civil War that killed tens of thousands and nearly destroyed the country of Rome).

Every March 15th, this site throws a party and stubbornly insists that an event, a real historical event that unleashed untold chaos and death on the world, was actually just really cool and funny you guys: Caesar was a bad guy and his assassins where super cool, and that’s that.

That being said, you are possibly the first person to think that deeply about Tumblr’s view of this holiday. You made some claims about how Tumblr users view the historic event, and maybe it’s just because we’re in different circles, but I don’t usually see much thought. No one really talks about what Caesar conquered or how Brutus and the senate handled the aftermath, and no one really picks sides.

It’s more “beware the ides,” Caesar should’ve listened to his wife and stayed home, he ran into my knife 23 times even though there were supposed to be 60, “et tu Bruté,” Pizza Pizza with dressing and a side of salad.

The closest I’ve seen it get to serious is “Hey, any current senators want to be hilarious?” Which, fair, in that regard we maybe should think more about what the aftermath was and what a coup like that today would mean.

But also that gets drowned out in puns, edits of classic art, Mean Girls gifs, eyes of Marge, and the occasional acknowledgement of it also being a bad day across fictional history with Mr. Crocker losing his happiness, Marty McFly’s dad dying in the bad timeline, and even more if you get into some if the less universal fandoms (seriously, a few years ago I did a post trying to list them all, and I feel like every year a new one gets added).

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.