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The lovely chaps behind the FANTASTIC Interregnum fics loved my ✨PRACTICAL SPACE FASHION MARA✨ so much that they asked if we could get a companion piece to celebrate the completion of their latest work.
AND WHO THE F*CK AM I TO SAY NO??!
Rogue Squadron jacket Luke? Non-black wearing Luke? Blaster-wielding, badass Luke? Slightly-older, lines-across-his-forehead Luke? YES.
Oh, also, I updated Mara's face a bit as well, so it would match more with the lighting and shading I did for him.
#look at them!#they are so beautiful#and so practical#interregnum#go read it it's GOOD#I know it's been like a year since the last time I posted#but at this point it is what it is#I will make no excuses for myself#and keep painting these babies whenever I get some free time#mara jade#star wars#star wars eu#star wars legends#mara jade skywalker#Luke Skywalker#luke and his badass wife#luke skywalker art#luke x mara
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“If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e., is no longer leading but only dominant, exercising coercive force alone, this means precisely that the great masses have become detached from their traditional ideologies and no longer believe what they used to believe previously, etc. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere, vol. 1, Quaderni 1–5 (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1977), 311. English translation quoted from Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971), 276. In the Italian original, Gramsci says fenomeni morbosi, literally “morbid phenomena.”
#quotes#antonio gramsci#gramsci#the prison notebooks#interregnum#the old is dying#the new cannot be born
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Conflict over baptism in the 1640s and 1650s
I feel quite a sense of achievement to get my paper '“The Child’s Blood should lye at his door”: local divisions over baptismal rites during the English Civil War and the Interregnum' to press in Studies in Church History while undergoing cancer treatment. Yes, I am still research-active!
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By Jane von Mehren
11 January 2023
The highly civilized Etruscans had a huge impact on the city’s eventual geography, architecture, government, trade, and agriculture.
They created excellent schools to which rich Romans sent their sons, much as they would later send them to Greek institutes.
By the sixth century B.C., some of Rome’s most famous institutions, from the Forum to the Senate, were in existence but even the most reputable historians — including Fabius, Livy, and Plutarch — started their accounts of the empire in legend.
Legendary beginnings
The story of Rome’s founding begins in Alba Longa, the first “city” of Latium, a region in central western Italy, occupied by Latins.
The area had been inhabited since the Bronze Age by farming communities and was known to the ancient Greeks, which is perhaps why Aeneas, a Trojan prince, is said to have established it around 1150 B.C.
According to legend, in Alba Longa, two of Aeneas’s descendants, the brothers Amulius and Numitor, fought over who would rule.
Amulius triumphed, killing Numitor’s sons and exiling his daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a Vestal Virgin.
Through divine intervention, she gave birth to the twins Romulus and Remus.
Threatened by these potential claimants to his throne, Amulius beheaded Rhea Silvia and abandoned the babies in the river Tiber.
Miraculously, a she-wolf rescued and cared for the boys until a shepherd, Faustulus, adopted them, raising them on the Palatine Hill, located in modern-day Rome.
The legend goes on to say that the brothers established the city of Rome on the banks of the Tiber River, where it was narrow enough for crossing and the hills provided a good defensive position.
The land between the hills, however, was quite marshy and not all that fertile.
The twins soon quarreled about the city’s exact boundaries and Romulus killed Remus.
Romulus, along with the outlaws and criminals he recruited, invited neighboring tribe the Sabines, who had resisted intermarrying with the Romans, to a fête.
During the merriment, Romulus raised his cloak signaling his men to seize and abduct the young Sabine women.
As the origin story goes, being Roman wives suited the women and they stopped the Sabine men from battling the Romans when they came to recapture them.
In the end the Sabines remained in Rome as part of the new city.
Influences in the area
Archaeological evidence tells us that Rome’s actual origins were less dramatic.
The first Romans were Latin farmers and shepherds living in small village huts on the Esquiline and Palatine hills.
The Sabines, a tribe living to the north, divided soon after the city’s founding, and some of them came south and united with Rome’s people.
Rome remained relatively primitive until the 600s B.C., when the Etruscans, who controlled a series of city-states to the north, began taking control of the city.
Kingdom of Rome
While modern scholars discount some of the accounts of ancient Roman historians, they agree that during the first phase of its history — from approximately 753 to 509 B.C. — Rome was ruled by kings.
According to these writers, Romulus was the first, succeeded by Numa Pompilius, a Sabine, and in 616 B.C., by an Etruscan named L. Tarquinius Priscus.
Kings had almost absolute power, serving as administrative, judicial, military, and religious leaders. A senate acted as an advisory council.
The king chose its members, who became known as patricians, from the city’s leading families.
Unlike later monarchs, Roman kingship was not inherited.
After a king died, there was a period known as an interregnum, when the Senate chose a new ruler, who was then elected by the people of Rome.
The king-elect needed to obtain approval of the gods and the imperium, the power to command, before assuming his throne.
Etruscan influences
The Etruscans ruled a loose confederation of city- states that stretched from Bologna to the Bay of Naples.
It remains unclear where they originated, but they used a version of the Greek alphabet and some ancient sources describe them as coming from Asia Minor.
Around 650 B.C., they were already dominant in the region and took control of Rome, wanting its strategic position on the Tiber.
Under Etruscan kings, Rome grew from a series of villages into a proper city.
The Etruscans drained the marshes around the city, constructed underground sewers, laid out roads and bridges.
They established the cattle market, Forum Boarium, as well as Forum Romanum, the central market and meeting place that evolved into the heart of the empire.
Toward the end of this period of Etruscan influence, the first temple of Jupiter was built on the Capitoline Hill.
This temple, although rebuilt many times, became the symbol of Rome’s power.
Founding the Republic
The era of Roman kings ended in 509 B.C., when the Romans supposedly expelled the last Etruscan king, L. Tarquinius Superbus, in another mythicized event.
As recounted by historians, including Livy, the son of Tarquinius Superbus, Sextus, raped at knifepoint the noblewoman Lucretia, wife of the king’s great nephew.
Lucretia, feeling that her honor and virtue had been lost, committed suicide.
Her uncle Brutus swears to avenge her and commits to revolution and the expulsion of the monarchy.
To the Roman people, her story represents the tyrannical powers of the monarch on the state, and so the saga of Lucretia is cited as the event that spurred the Roman Republic into being.
In place of the monarchy, Romans established a republic, which lasted until 30 B.C.
Over the course of nearly five centuries, Rome became a dominant Western power, seizing territory throughout the Mediterranean, creating an enormous and efficient army, and learning how to administer its vast provinces.
NOTE:
The traditional date for the founding of Rome is 21 April 753 BC.
#Rome#Ancient Rome#Romulus#Remus#Alba Longa#Latium#Italy#Aeneas#Amulius#Numitor#Rhea Silvia#Vestal Virgin#Faustulus#Palatine Hill#Tiber River#Sabines#Etruscans#Numa Pompilius#L. Tarquinius Priscus#interregnum#imperium#Forum Boarium#Forum Romanum#Capitoline Hill#Temple of Jupiter#L. Tarquinius Superbus
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Me if making merry on Christmas was illegal:
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#victorian era#interregnum#loosely based on#lady cowper#lord palmerston#with a side of#lord melbourne#and the ghost of Lady Melbourne#this is the messy older couple I've always wanted to write
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Illustrations of the 2nd (and last) Lord Protector Richard Cromwell and Lord Deputy (eventually Lord Lieutenant) of Ireland Henry Cromwell. They were the surviving sons of the infamous Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. These illustrations were published in around 1820.
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Google Doodle ehrt Altina Schinasi zum 116. Geburtstag mit "Cat-Eye"-Glasrahmen.
Google Doodle würdigt 116. Geburtstag von Altina Schinasi, der Erfinderin des “Cat-Eye”-Glasrahmens | Top-Nachrichten
Google feiert das Leben von Altina ‘Tina’ Schinasieine amerikanische Künstlerin, Designerin und Erfinderin, die vor allem für den Entwurf des weithin beliebten „Cat-Eye“-Brillengestells bekannt ist, mit einem Gekritzel am 4. August, dem Tag ihres 116. Geburtstags.
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#history#Twitterstorians#Britishhistory#OliverCromwell#CharlesI#CharlesII#Restoration#Commonwealth#PutneyDebates#Levellers#Quakers#Rump#Interregnum#LongParliament
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Their is always this moment in "Arthur returns" fics where the subject of how government has changed comes up and Merlin invariably goes "Oh yeah we have this thing called democracy now and it's really good haha" and each time I can't help but be taken back.
Cause look. I love Merlin but that boy is a hardcore, dyed in the wool Royalist if there ever was one. He believes in his King so much that he waited for more then a thousand years for the crisis bad enough that it would call Arthur back from Avalon to reclaim his throne, never doubting that he would return and he would fix everything when he did.
Merlin 100% believes in the institution of absolute monarchy as a result of Arthur. He would still be bitter about the Magna Carta in the year 2023 and have a dart board somewhere with a picture of Cromwell taped to it. He would be disgusted by the office of sovereign being reduced to figurehead celebrity and is convinced their hasn't been a proper sovereign since Anne Stuart. He calls the Hanovers "those posers from the continent". He likes the Windsors a little bit better but not much: George VI and Liz II won some points in his book for their services in World War 2, but he detests the advent of the modern "celebrity royal" for degrading the dignity of the crown to new lows.
Everything wrong with England and Britain, in his mind, is the fault of Parliament who he still sees as a bunch of unruly Barons and angry Roundheads squandering the nation's future to stay in power.
(If anything Arthur "I want what's best for my people always" Pendragon is the one much more into the idea of democracy and parliament, and would crush Merlin's hopes of simply dissolving to body by instead reforming it to make it more fair.)
#Merlin#Merlin BBC#arthur pendrgagon#merthur#their was 100% a moment during the interregnum where Merlin was holding his breath wondering 'is this it#'is it finally gonna happen'#and then the Cromwell died the Roundheads imploded and Chalres II came back#and was like fine as King#but Merlin still spent the next two decades storming around all grumpy cause he thought hed finally get to kiss arthurs stupid face again#and watch arthur behead cromwell
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p-a-p-a-g-i-r-l, papa’s girl, papa’s girl
They’re having a nice beach day. Weather is not so warm but the sun is still nice
#dishonored#corvo attano#emily kaldwin#art tag#i have a special tag for this#i wish caring fathers were real#here we go#I love these two#that TikTok song got to me. a shame we don’t have any mother&son relationships in dh#pre interregnum stuff probably
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Brelyna Maryon: Having a boyfriend is so awesome, like there’s just a guy in your house whose job it is to know where countries are and what exactly the Stormcrown Interregnum was.
Phoebus: 🥰
#brelyna maryon#oc: phoebus apollus#college of winterhold#stormcrown Interregnum#nerevar queue and star#incorrect quotes#incorrect elder scrolls#incorrect skyrim quotes#tes#the elder scrolls#skyrim#the elder scrolls v: skyrim#source: twitter
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I'm pleased with this recent review by John Reeks in the English Historical Review of my edited collection
Church and People in Interregnum Britain (London: University of London Press, 2021)
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Skylab: The First 40 Days
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Mr. Brown really came in like a wrecking ball by not only making Dors and Gladia bisexual but also by having the former equating Daneel to Sisyphus like holy shit
#isaac asimov#foundation series#Jeffery Owen Brown#the robots of the interregnum#does that mean... one must imagine daneel happy?#dors venabili#gladia delmarre#daneel olivaw
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I'm so proud of myself for writing 2 fifty-somethings having sex and then afterwards this man's on the floor wheezing and our heroine proceeds to break up with him by saying she's chill with him cheating with her but not his *disloyalty* to her brother.
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