i feel like i’m interrupting something..

absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

Its my bestie @cc-kote's bday today!! So i did a little codywan for him, as a treat (he also has a kick ass fanfic about them check it out)

Alexander The Great Refusing Water In The Desert

by Tom Lovell

doodling al'skander when i should be sleeping because i have not recovered from the effects of the persian boy

The First Emperor of China, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, and Ramses II in a heated game of mahjong, as mentioned in Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

Art by @/imedmiart on Twitter

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ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN (2023) — 1.01 Alexandria

Alexander and Hephaestion encountering Darius' family after the Battle of Issus.

Alexander: The Making of a God — Episode 3

I Am The Face Of Love’s

RAGE

“What if I become him and I don’t even know it?”

in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

AHSOKA 1.07 Dreams and Madness

Wolfwren week day 4: Howl of affection

She has 2 braincells doing their best

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Shin’s favorite past time is 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 Sabine on the ground.

jedi temple gardens 🌿✨