melissa~: i really like how there were roughly 15 minutes in the mid 500s AD where rome went from "it is so fucking joever" to "WE ARE SO BACK" before immediately returning to "it is so fucking joever"

i really like how there were roughly 15 minutes in the mid 500s AD where rome went from "it is so fucking joever" to "WE ARE SO BACK" before immediately returning to "it is so fucking joever"

BORN TO BYZANTIUM FALL OF ROME IS A FUCK 鬼神 Renovatio Imperii 'Em All 1989 i am justinian 410,757,864,530 DEAD GOTHS

followed by 15 seconds of "WE ARE SO BACK" under Heraclius, before the Arabs clarified that in fact it was still so fucking joever

Imagine beating the Persians and taking back Jerusalem, only for the Muslims to show up and send you packing. History's greatest "one fucking thing after another" moment.

getting a 3am burst of energy and inspiration to fix your life & using that to clean your room until 7am where you face the Consequences

Justinian. And then just out again.

I keep trying to reconquer the Western Roman Empire but my high population densities keep attracting plagues and alerting the Germans.

Byzantium is just a thousand years of “hey we are almost back to where we used to be” then 150 years of decline before saying it again.

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