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sometimes you get mid way thru making apocalypse horror ocs and realize u've forgotten a key component: monsters

#ah. we've been bamboozled

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WHERE is my pompey biography

#not plutarch i need poetry that only someone obsessed with pompey can give me

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'curtain's closing on you / there's no place to take your role' oh my goddddddddd

#take the stage and do your show WOW okay. yeah. YES

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huh. okay. so if we just. put steal the show (shaun, jeff satur) on my pompey-sulla playlist. we unlock. we're unlocking. something for sure

#wow. okay. okkkkkay. (taking pompey's face in my hands) i Understand you #<< i said this last week about pompey when i was rewatching my favorite romantic drama/comedy #bc a friend pointed out that i was neglecting an important part of pompey's character in a narrative #we're understanding a new thing tho

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pretty sure this is moment ruan nanzhu Officially fell madly in love with lin quishi.

Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zixu, p. 69 (nice)

#Kaleidoscope of Death #ohhhhhhhhh my god

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all the world's a stage is mostly just a clown car situation of relationship drama and periodically the characters the actors are playing come out and add in more fuel to the raging fire

#jay's operating on a slightly different level of narrative tho. he's looking at everyone and back at ariel and going 'your friends suck.'

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I started working on all the world's a stage for real and have decided that ariel (who plays cassius) and cris (who plays antony) played coriolanus and aufidius in a previous year, and that jay (who plays caesar) was the claudius to cris' hamlet. somewhere in all of this, there's a weird production of romeo and juliet with lenny and irene going on.

#weird bc its inspired by that one acting group that does fun shit with shakespeare #ariel and irene dated back in their first year of university. which has nothing to do with anything here other than that it's funny #goth4goth dynamic. irene and lenny is goth4jock (lenny is on the basketball team)

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'kraken gm appears gutted by his decision to fire hackstol' I'm about to start swinging a chair

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ngl I think the kraken gm firing hackstol is stupid as hell like it's actually frustrating that losing or mediocre seasons is intolerable for gms now, it's fucking sports! in order for sports to be sports, there's a winner and a loser, much like how there is no infinite money, there is no situation where everyone finds a magic winning stride for maximum ticket sale profits!!! focus on creating a community that loves the team jesus fucking christ

#you should've stuck with hackstol for 5 yrs at least before firing him what the fuck is going on with sports now

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tbh i was trying out a little more personal posting with the desk posting stuff but honestly, not really my thing. I think I'll pivot it over to a place to discuss stuff I'm reading instead.

#snapshot some pics of studies etc. main art blog vibe is more chill so i might be more informal/candid there but eh. EH #life is an ongoing journey of discovery and i discovered i dont wanna keep doing it. so i wont

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the problem with being an artist online is that people will sometimes start to treat you like you're a thing to demand content from instead of a person, which is the main reason I don't want to have a 'personal identity' on an art blog, like I'm so disinterested in letting people feel too comfy about being even ruder than they are in my inbox on my history blog. I also singled out my history blog here, but I also keep getting anons demanding more musketeers are and it's pissing me off. you are not exempt from the I Dont Take Requests statement in my pinned. either give me a book about french architecture and room interiors from the relevant century or begone

thankfully. that is a very small drop of water in a very large ocean. like, if it was exceedingly annoying, I would not be rewatching the show. the agrippa/octavian people were so fucking rude that they're banned from my blog unless it's as a thank you piece for someone

#like i fully feel way more casual about interactions on my main art blog #or even on twitter! i reply to DMs on twitter semi regularly!! usually it's just other artists but the casual nature of twitter is like #yeah okay i'm cool with this. anons on tumblr assuming a demanding tone as a joke is Not Cool and I Dislike It Immensely #it only EVER happens on my history blog tho like what is in the water that brings that attitude out #it could also be that the fandom i draw most art for on my main art blog #is mostly inhabited by people in their 30s or have long established fandoms #like the jsamn fandom has been SO nice and i am having a very good time so far #but the three musketeers fandom keeps sending rude messages demanding more art from me. i usually delete it #my favorite tho is the tomb robbers one. i like it there #ANYWAY. i spent too much time navel gazing abt how i feel in two different spaces #but this is in fact why i originally split those two blogs up. i KNEW that history tumblr was going to annoy me

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also the other part of why I have a small roster of names on my art blogs that don't really sound like names and periodically change it up is that I intensely dislike demanding tones /over familiarity from total strangers and this is my way of establishing a measure of distance ahead of time (iasip voice) wildcard, bitches. yehaw

#it's very 'address me by my title' altho filipinos get a pass for it #i also hate it when people make assumptions that are categorically incorrect or get too comfy assuming a joking tone w stuff that's #really fucking weird to say around a total stranger

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updating the list of names I'll answer to on my other blog without providing any kind of context feels like tradition at this point

#i'll tell you guys tho bc it's not like. a big deal. literally it's just how i sign letters i send to a friend #we both go thru names like clothes through a washing machine but i sign off with jester more often than not now bc its fun #tbh i should take valens off and replace it with shades or sunglasses but valens is fun #me 🤝 valens: being way out of our depths #also it's following in tradition of all those old ancient rome forums where people picked a roman name lmao #i decided if i had to pick one i'd go for an emperor BUT i picked the one that everyone considers a fuck up so it balances out

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thankfully as a comics artist doing historical fiction and not academic reconstructions, I am afforded a space of bullshit, which I will embrace wholeheartedly because my personal threshold is a certain level of visual coherence but never at the expense of dramatic flair

#once i finish up note taking on the gladius im going to start creating the actual reference part of this (figures in motion) #and then. second punic war comics. we will Begin

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doing my own artistic reconstructions of the middle to late republic (and eventually, late empire) army and lemme tell you. if I ever have to draw chainmail ever again (I will) I'm going to scream (I am)

also I miss the era of forums. shout out to all these guys in a larp/reenactment forum from 2006 for posting close ups of their armor reconstructions from multiple angles to show how it all comes together, I owe you my fucking life

#TRAGIC that spaces like that don't exist anymore and also google is useless and youtube only goes so far because the search #function there sucks too #academics on twitter will act like snobs because the general public has a skewed image of what roman armor looks like #but doesn't actually make any effort to show people visually things would look like. they just want to complain that books #that are easily accessible to the public are wrong and it's so cringe that people have based their associations off of that #like i get the frustration but if you aren't going to try and rectify the situation yourself then shut the fuck up #the average person won't understand the specifics of chainmail patterns and it's actually deeply frustrating when visuals #ARENT provided except for the crustiest scan of a photo from a magazine like you are less than useless god fucking bless

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Iain M Banks: What is a weapon? What does it mean to use a weapon? Can a person be a weapon? Is there a difference between using a weapon and being a weapon? Is this difference meaningful? What kind of person would choose to be a weapon?

Also Iain M Banks: Here's a sapient starship with a scat fetish.

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the way my dash on my other blog posts about cicero is how I talk about caligula

#im not even exaggerating. am i proud of this. no. will i change my ways. no.