What is your Roman Empire..?

[Rightful Heir]

Confused? Yeah, I was too for the longest time after seeing it on TikTok repeatedly.. and none of the comments gave any real insight as to wtf the trend was about. I more or less got the gist, but I wanted a more in-depth explanation so that I knew my guess wasn't wrong. Put simply, the trend operates on the premise that men think about the Roman Empire more often than women, so often, in fact, that the women in their lives are shocked by the frequency. What is your Roman Empire? Or, in other words, what is an obscure or niche topic that you think about way too much? The range of answers to this question is much broader and can be anything from inside jokes with friends to funny pop culture moments.

Me, personally, my Roman Empire is Gelert^∞. Gelert is a legendary wolfhound associated with the village of Beddgelert ^{(whose name means "Gelert's Grave")} in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. In the legend, Llywelyn the Great returns from hunting to find his baby missing, the cradle overturned, and Gelert with a blood-smeared mouth. Believing the dog had devoured the child, Llywelyn draws his sword and kills Gelert. After the dog's dying yelp, Llywelyn hears the cries of the baby, unharmed under the cradle, along with a dead wolf that had attacked the child and been killed by Gelert. Llywelyn is overcome with remorse and buries the dog with great ceremony, but can still hear its dying yelp. After that day, Llywelyn never smiles again. The story is a variation of the "Faithful Hound" folk-tale motif, which lives on as an urban legend.

𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙴𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎?

[Vlad Tepes]

The Montreal Screwjob -

An infamous unscripted professional wrestling incident that occurred on November 9, 1997, at the Survivor Series pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in Montreal. During the WWF Championship match between Shawn Michaels and champion Bret "the Hitman" Hart, WWF owner Vince McMahon and select WWF employees covertly manipulated the predetermined outcome of the match in favor of Michaels; the screwjob occurred without Hart's knowledge, causing him to lose the championship.

Full Wikipedia Page Here

[Rightful Heir]

The Montreal Screwjob -

An infamous unscripted professional wrestling incident that occurred on November 9, 1997, at the Survivor Series pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in Montreal. During the WWF Championship match between Shawn Michaels and champion Bret "the Hitman" Hart, WWF owner Vince McMahon and select WWF employees covertly manipulated the predetermined outcome of the match in favor of Michaels; the screwjob occurred without Hart's knowledge, causing him to lose the championship.

Full Wikipedia Page Here

@Vlad Tepes

@AlteredTundra Did you know about this..? O-O

[wheels]

wrestling and crime shows an country music. I have been a fan of one since I was four or five. the second one for 14 years or more. I have love country music but I listen to everything.

[Vlad Tepes]

@wheels Depends on the type of country for me. I mostly listen to guys like Whiskey Myers and Cody Jinks, or the old school stuff, especially Johnny Cash.

[wheels]

@wheels Depends on the type of country for me. I mostly listen to guys like Whiskey Myers and Cody Jinks, or the old school stuff, especially Johnny Cash.

@Vlad Tepes

I listen to a little bit of everything from old school to new school to 90s to today.

[Mole]

I enjoy finding bridges that build or link Taoism and Buddhism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

In simple and short examples, using ikebana to decorate iconography during Feast Days of the Church. Or, understanding the philosophy of wabi-sabi alongside the Greek term oraios — both honoring the beauty within the imperfect or fallen state of being. Or, merely Christ being the “Eternal Tao.”

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: I don’t believe every religion is a similar path, which ultimately leads the followers to the same place. More or less, this is what I believe here in regards to Buddhism. With Lao Tzu’s teachings, I have a more rosy-colored perspective, however.

In other words, finding the parallels is just a niche hobby, my Roman Empire, for enjoyment and cultural enrichment of my family’s traditions.

[wheels]

creative writing to release things I want to say or things I wish were different or just to write something where a character is like me and maybe one day publish a book so a little girl or little boy don't feel like they are odd ones out that no one understand them. When there is someone out there that understanding what they are going through

[AlteredTundra]

There's a few things, but one of my favorites is, in general, Johnny Yong Bosch.

His career and the trajectory he's had with his life story, too, is very facsinating to me.

Everyone knows he got his start on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as the second black ranger, Adam Park. We also know him as the voice of many anime characters for their various english dubs (Lelouch from Code Geass, Renton Thurston from Eureka 7, and Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach). A lesser known tidbit is his humble, but sadly not very successful musician career with his band Eyeshine and now more recently, Where Giants Fall. But what a lot of people don't know is he taught himself how to play the guitar, how to sing. He met the longtime drummer of his band, Eyeshine, while at church. They formed the band, got a small demo put-together, ended up getting a full band and released their first album. The band had a good amount of lineup changes, but ended up finding stability with Polo Yazaki as the main lead guitarist.

What not a lot of people know is Johnny actually sniped him from another band while they were touring . It's actually hilarious because Polo is the only other member of Where Giants Fall.

There's a lot more about it, especially some of the real life troubles Johnny had post-power rangers and how, for a while, his entire life was in trash bags. sleeping on couches of friends.

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@AlteredTundra Did you know about this..? O-O

@LezBeHonest

Yes I do and I can also go on a tangent about how effed up that entire situation was and how easily it could've been avoided if certain things had happened that didn't.

[Shu]

what is an obscure or niche topic that you think about way too much?

I have way too many to even count so I will just pull from some that are “on hand”. (Aside from my deep study of East Asian histories, cultures, and religion because of both general fascination and my own personal relatability.)

1. I am a huge history nut so aside from the literal Roman Empire various kingdoms, states, and dynasties through history and events surrounding them.

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The Macedonian Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire, the more powerful of the Muslim dynasties through the Middle Ages (Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Sulayhids - Holla Sultana Arwa! - Seljuks, Ayyubids, Ottomans, etcetera.), the Holy Roman Empire, Capet France, William the Conquerors’ England, the kingdoms of Iberia during the Reconquista, the Teutonic Orders’ Baltic state… Uhm… Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān (The Triple Alliance/Aztec Empire)… It is a list, haha. So, yes, some notable periods in an “expanse” of history for one.

EDIT: Honestly this barely even scratches the surface.

2. How Ayben Ersoy and Mizgin are extremely underappreciated.

3. I have some very select genres and sub-genres of music that I am really into, including things like throat singing and percussive styles.

[Sugar and Spite]

- Anne Boleyn
- Princess Diana
- Syliva Plath
- Marina Abramović's 'Rhythm 0'.
- Marilyn Monroe's death.
- Hozier's appearance in The Wiggles.
- A lot more random stuff I'm forgetting and will most likely share later.

[wheels]

working on my walking I had to take a year break from it. Because I did not have the room. But now that I have the room again. I have work 410 laps so far this month and that is three days of no walking and the rest of the days, I have walked and most likely will work on it more later since it is one am

[Skwint]

Porphyrios.

A large whale that harassed and sank ships near Constantinople in the sixth century.

[Dark Cloud]

Instructions unclear trying to conquer East Side Romeo's 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣Bing Botta Boom Batta Bing.

(Seriously tho when Augustus was in power it was pretty cool ngl pretty goated even)

[Sugar and Spite]

- How if Caesar would have died just a little sooner, we'd still have the Library of Alexandria.
- The Sumerian tablets and the fact they're locked under the British Museum.
- Anastasia Nikolaevna.
- How most women I speak to know what 'the bag' is. (Or suitcase, necklace, etc).
- How Europe has gone through so much religious persecution, we'll never really know much about the original, true Native people of that land or the gods they worshipped.
- The 70 something year old veteran that handed me a twenty dollar tip in cash and said: "I fought for our freedom, not for our government to rob us."
- The person I would be if my biological father won custody of me and if I had grown up in Virginia.
- Where my first best friend, Jaydon is now. Her mother was a traveling nurse, and she was the new kid in first grade. We spent so many nights at each others houses and then one day she was just gone. Last I heard, she moved to New Mexico.
- The fact that the current depiction of Jesus that most worship is actually a portrait of Micahel Angelo's gay lover.
- Salem Witch Trials.
- The Tudors.
- Death. Mine, someone else's. Murders. Illnesses. Just death.

[Skwint]

- The fact that the current depiction of Jesus that most worship is actually a portrait of Micahel Angelo's gay lover.

@HaleyTheRandom

Say what?

[The Elvenqueen]

Cryptobiology. Not in an "I think it's all real" sense but more in the sense that as part of my fandom experience I REALLY enjoy thinking up a bunch of convoluted, pseudo-scientific reasons/explanations for why certain species in my favourite fandoms have certain physical traits or cultural practises.

I spend WAY too much time thinking about it but it's so much FUN and I refuse to stop

[Sugar and Spite]

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Say what?

@Skwint

Well no one truly knows what Jesus looked like, we can only guess. But anyway. The Catholic church commissioned Michael Angelo to paint Jesus, and the closest Michael had ever been to heaven was with his lover. So yeah. Jesus is a bottom.

[Rightful Heir]

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Well no one truly knows what Jesus looked like, we can only guess. But anyway. The Catholic church commissioned Michael Angelo to paint Jesus, and the closest Michael had ever been to heaven was with his lover. So yeah. Jesus is a bottom.

@HaleyTheRandom

When the church hates gays but really they worship them without knowing 💀

[Skwint]

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Well no one truly knows what Jesus looked like, we can only guess. But anyway. The Catholic church commissioned Michael Angelo to paint Jesus, and the closest Michael had ever been to heaven was with his lover. So yeah. Jesus is a bottom.

@HaleyTheRandom

That's fucking hilarious.