#i dont even like the romans

[i-bring-crack]

*48 hours after being introduced with a punic war hyperixation* There needs to be a Second Punic War Musical for god's sake WHERE IS HOLLYWOOD---

#idk man the romans #i dont even like the romans #imagine the freaking first song called 'enemy of Rome' and it goes through hannibal's youth in conquering the spanish peninsula #and the blood promise in baal's temple #then imagine some songs later scipio's song is 'protector of Rome' and some of the lyrics are almost the same as hannibals song but while #theres a lot of suspense and thrill in Hannibal's song with Scipius it is dread and caution awating for something impossible but not #surrendering #ohhhh a song about cannae will be hell on earth #'Monster at the Gates' for a song title about Hannibal arriving to the peninsula #'Monster of the Alps' also sounds good #'One last toast' as an ending song #okay got some worm juice out of my brain now i shall leave forever #punic wars #hannibal barca #scipio africanus

[theoldkyokodied]

Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')

#tomgreg #succession #dont even talk to me i started watching this show when i had nothing to do at work and now i watch it with averiel my good friend averiel #and we are going to watch s4 together and i feel physically ill from bein so excited #so ya thats what ive been up to... anyway. i love these idiots they desever nothing but the worst (affectionate) #im also a tomshiv lover btw. im the one who yells 'THIS IS HOW TOMSHIV CAN STILL WIN' while they are actively losing on screen #thats the kind of person i am #dont look at me (lying on the floor) #okay i was not going to say stuff in the tags and let the art speak for itself but i NEED to point out details in the wine Painting.. #i put a lot of work into that one. thinly veiled metaphors and symbolism yknow.. #greg is gripping the stem of the wine glass with his full fist. tom and greg are dressed in the same outfit (sock garters included) #greg look appalled but he is not doing anything about the spill. tom is fondly pouring greg more and more wine. he is doing him a favor #i colored the red wine the same way i would color blood :) oh and tom is not really touching greg #only holding the chair in place. greg is making himself look smaller than he is like usual #oh and @ the person who said that it's the inverse of the tom and nate scene i love the way you think. i did not think of that before #but god. yeah. i actually thought about the scene change from when roman uhh.. christens his office in s1. the one with the coffee machine #i always go insane at that cut. this is not exactly the same since it's more.. about emotions but yknow.. it can be.. the same...

[lessbians]

#i dont even rlly like taylor swift but omg.... #succession #conhead #conheads #conhead nation #connor roy #kendall roy #logan roy #shiv roy #roman roy #succession s4 #succession s4 spoilers #succession s1 #succession s2 #succession s3 #conheads idk how much more of this i can take #ferris bueller's day off #cameron frye #alan ruck

[so-very-small]

We've heard of gladiator giant

What about gladiator tiny

#g/t #giant tiny #im answering asks to warm up for writing but this one made me go into such a wiki spiral #i dont even think hes a gladiator hes a roman general. but like. gladiators r roman right #post commentary that shows i didnt receive a normal education

[aroaceleovaldez]

the way the cabin counselor system at chb works is so funny to me, especially the later into the series it gets. Annabeth is cabin counselor at 12 because she’s been there the longest, so her siblings who are literally all older than her have to listen to her. Piper challenges Drew to be cabin counselor only to immediately leave, making Drew the counselor again. Nyssa and Jake play hot potato with being counselor only to pawn it off onto their presumably second-youngest and newest sibling (Leo), who then also immediately dips. There can be multiple counselors at one time with no reason required other than “Eh, we felt like it.” Theoretically there is no upper limit to counselors per cabin. Everyone is cabin counselor. You are cabin counselor. What is happening.

#pjo #percy jackson #chb #Camp Half-Blood #Technically so long as there is a co-counselor either counselor doesn’t even need to be actively attending camp #(ex: piper and drew since piper is off. wherever at any given time. and drew goes to school in brooklyn which implies shes not year-round) #which means technically a cabin could appoint someone who’s not even there as cabin counselor #cabins start trying to elect their roman siblings as counselors #hecate cabin names Alabaster as their counselor and force him to phone in to meetings against his will #I like to believe the Hephaestus cabin has declared everyone in their cabin is a counselor #and whenever someone needs to do a counselor job it's either nose goes or whoever's available #they rotate who goes to meetings #all decision making is finalized by Harley #they dont do lights out cause they dont have a singular person to call it. they just say goodnight and then proceed to work on projects

[delimeful]

Lime lime lime I’m obsessed with so many of your stories. But also what is everyone’s approximate ages in tktsaaiw ? I’m so thinking about it

i don't have specific set ages from them, but i've personally been envisioning them as in their twenties, and not all that far apart from each other. i do know that patton's the oldest (group dad), roman is the youngest, and logan has been in space the longest.

#logan and patton both prioritize doing what they can to protect roman (youngest and newest to their situation) #but really they all try to look after each other #inb4 i make an au where ampen virgil gets taken hostage by a gaggle of teenagers #tktsaaiw teoba au <- noise i make after i stub my toe real hard #im just making keysmashes at this point #asks #tktsaaiw #anonymous #if you have age theories and propositions of your own that's also fine #my policy is if i dont mention it directly in story you can believe whatever you'd like #whatever sparks joy even #that's why there's 30 different designs for the alien cast :) #queue

[cupioriot]

I dont think about bryce lawrence a lot but i have decided he would be a super senior

#“guess who😝” and then he gets kicked in the stomach #believe it or not i dont even hate him i just like putting the romans in situations #damien shut up challenge #bryce lawrence #riordanverse

[cabin10diaries]

you've heard about the hunters of artemis but. have you thought about the archers of apolllo

#archers of apollo #my au <3 #not even an au its just a sillly thing #bc if artemis and apollo reflect each other then. he should have an immortal group too #i knoww the hunters aare based on a thing from ancient greece relating to artemisa nd stuff but its a silly pjo thought<3 #they all are like siblings<3 #shel says shit #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #hunters of artemis #also hunters of diana and archers of. apolllo but romanized i guess #artemis pjo #apollo pjo #i dont think i shoulld tag the hunters for this but lluv them #my ll key is broken hellp

[marcusagrippa]

so i finally finished the october horse

#that was one of the books ever. it did make me more unwell about those guys which is. something. #(the way they're written DOES feel very much in love and vaguely homophobic at the same time i understand now) #colleen absolutely insisting octavian was a big sad earnest grey eyes long blonde hair twink but also an evil evil little snake in disguise #was pretty funny but i did disagree with some of the stuff relating to him #not that i am an authority on that in any way as i have not even been interested in rome for six months yet #overall it was ?? a book ?? i enjoyed it quite a lot tbh - dont know enough about the conspirators yet to commen #t on their characterisation but it did feel a little Off sometimes #and the caesar worship was. irritating. idk ithink it would have been better if she'd given him diarrhoea like dio did #but. fan overall i like d it quite alot it was fun. roman revolution time now boy (got it from the library today so excited) #guys tag #read ing #mor

[skitskatdacat63]

Looking at the Austrian crown: 🥰😁😊😚😍

Drawing the Austrian crown: 😟☹️😥😢😰

Please someone save me, why did I do this to myself, look at this thing

#catie: has never draw a crown in her life besides sketching and chibis #also catie: instantly decides to try to draw the most complicated one #im cursing you rudolph ii why did you have to be so tasteful #i still dont know tho if this is easier or harder than the holy roman empire crown #i think the general shape of the empire one is easier but the details are harder? idk honestly #and the crown im drawing is barely in any paintings UGHHHHH #even the professional painters looked at this and were like yeah nah im just putting that in the background #i don't wanna just give up and take it out of the painting bcs i think its cool #but idk if i can draw this 😭 its so complicated #its not even entirely historically accurate for seb to be wearing it #BIT I WANT HIM TOO SIB SOB SOB BCS IRS SO PRETTY #theres paintings of past emperors wearing the emperor crown so really i should be drawing that #but the austrian one is so much prettier 😭 #so basically this crown was used as a personal crown by one emperor until the empire collapsed and then it became the imperial crown #so like techinally yeah seb shouldnt be wearing it bcs its for austria not the empire #but like cmon...in this au hes the type to wear a crown casually bcs bling bling yknow #but i am constantly cursed by historical accuracy #IDK WHAT TO DRAWWWWWWW #bcs i already drew the other austrian imperial stuff so i want the crown to match but ughhhhhh #catie.rambling.txt

[catominor]

why are writers so allergic to gicinf their roman characters praenomina…

#one of my hobbies is looking for silly roman histfic in bookstores and everytime i skim one they never get the names right… #they always have two names but theyre both nomina or they have a nomen and cognomen but no praenomen… #you guys dont like gaius? marcus? aulus even? numerius even? 🥺

[firebreathingcatss-blog]

#Jey Uso #I just want to make it clear im not posting all these videos/banners etc etc because I think Jey is going to win #I would love it if he did #but I dont think they will pull the trigger #the reason im so happy about this though is because Jey has worked so hard #they have trusted him to carry this story when Roman went part time #seeing him advertised just makes ne proud #like that Fastlane poster I wasnt excited because oh no Roman that means Jey won. #im excited because you see these early PPV posters before a match is even announced with their draws #you always see seth and bianca and blah cody and askua on these early posters #and to see jey there to draw people to the product gives me hope for his career trajectory once the the bloodline is over #baby went from the preshow as soon as a year and a half ago #to main eventing two of the big 4 this year #you dont put Roman/Jey for Summerslam after Roman/Cena Roman/Lesner because Roman ran out out of opponent's #you do it because its a draw #people are invested #and they trust them BOTH to pull it off #just to remind you they also need to impress the people that just bought them and theyve entered negotiations for a new tv deal #and Roman is the face of the company so non wrestling business men are going to be paying close attention #so yes this is a very big deal #they are treating like a bigger deal then COC AND HIAC #So yes im proud #that hes even here

[faeymouse]

wait wait WAIT the guy who plays Ragnar isn’t the same actor that played Jax in Sons of Anarchy? They’re different people??????

Shaken to my core by this information. I was completely convinced that was the same man. what the

#babbles #vikings #sons of anarchy #i didn’t even question it i was like ‘oh yeah sons of anarchy guy’ you dont understand ive thought this for years #is this gonna be my roman empire? my berenstein bears? #they’re really completely unrelated people im

[brother-emperors]

I'm really curious about the process that goes on behind your art! Especially because you give so much importance to themes and it's like *chef's kiss*. It's always so well thought out and I find your references to all the snippets and readings really fascinating and very inspiring. How the heck do you organise your thoughts so well while reading ?

honestly organizing my thoughts. it takes. a while. to do it lmao

usually what happens is something like: I'll be reading a book on crassus, and the author refers to crassus as the leading domestic politician in rome while pompey was the leading military general. and this will set off bells in my head that go 'oh, roman household dynamics,' because the phrasing reminded me of a text describing the role of wives of roman politicians when their husbands were away (which I first came across in a text discussing octavia's role in her marriage with antony)

and while I'm doing all of this, I usually have a journal or sticky notes or literally any kind of scrap paper with me where I make short notes on what's interesting/what's connecting in my head/what would make an interesting subject to draw, no matter how unrelated it is, and then I'll look over everything once I've exhausted the train of thought like. man! this is borderline incomprehensible! let's make a comic about it.

then when I've done all that, I'll spend two or three days cutting down all the excess material and attempting to figure out the most direct way to convey what's going on in a scene so that someone unfamiliar with any of it might be able to follow along on vibes alone. sometimes it takes a week. sometimes I get stuck on something and I have to make a note to revisit it in a few months!

#to be absolutely clear: i read non fiction a lot in my spare time bc all of it is like poetry to me. it is Relaxing for me. anyway!! also: #sometimes i'll drag friends into it. movie nights or whatever. we'll get into hours long discussions talking about whatever and spitballing #themes and whatnot off of each other and that also unlocks interesting stuff to go with it. all my friends know things i dont know abt! #uhhh what else. i like writing fiction and drawing comics? also watching shows and reading comics?? and analyzing it is the fun part #in turn analyzing history and non fiction is a huge part of what makes it fun to adapt into comics #things dont even have to be related. get me in a co op game of borderlands 1 and i'll start talking about roman imperialism immediately #the shortest answer for this ask is ADHD probably #ask tag

[lenore-spirit-808]

JOHN WICK 4 SPOILER ALERT?

Just me talking like a weirdo about how much I loved The Marchese as a character how it made me felt during the movie and my personal thoughts, nothing interesting to talk about the movie itself, so yeah, keep scrolling if u were searching for that!

(sorry the caps im just too happy and excited because today was such a great day) btw long writting

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SO

Today I watched JW 4 because YES, MARCHESE AND MY PERSONAL WANT TO WATCH ANY MOVIE HE CASTED FOR THEN, ME, TO MAKE MEMES ON MY HEAD ABOUT HIM WITH ANOTHER CHARACTER HE STARED IM HYPERFIXATED TO DEATH ON (you know who.) (Tho he wasn't the only reason because Keanu is always a massive W and I liked the trailer too)

And when I tell you:

That this man artistically slayed on every fucking scene

He was just so iconic at some point

Almost completely feelling like he was that character but with another charisma and attitude on obviously another universe, but aware and still having the little vibe

Im being extremely serious, no jokes there.

Everytime he spoke I couldn't help but love him as a character and the nostalgia he could bring me from that other character was just magical (not only with him, but with other of his characters as well)

(Very weird example) Its like- when you listen to a vocaloid song that isn't from Miku but if you close your eyes and remember her, you get happy because she's your hyperfixation and what you are listening is technically really related to your hyperfixation and you get hyped because of it

I also watched the movie on the spanish dub because there wasn't any English function available at the theatre, sounds irrelevant, right? Well what if I told you. That the dub actor for the Marchese.. was THE SAME VOICE ACTOR WHO DUBBED THAT OTHER CHARACTER???

I know he is not even a bit of related with Stephen's king universe and he's just a character from another franchise, but I still will get hyped for this and my dramatically mysterious AU scenarios

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#john wick 4 #the marquis #john wick 4 spoilers #Marchese de Gramont #marchese #personal thoughts #my personal thoughts #btw I like his temper #some people (or just one) said he was like Roman godfrey but with bad French accent #I cant say anything about the accent because im not French and I watched it dubbed #BUT I DO CAN SAY THAT THE ROMAN GODFREY SHIT IS A LIE (Personal opinion dont mean to harass) #I mean- HE IS EVEN MORE LIKEABLE CHARISMATIC AND FUNNY THAN ROMAN #no joke #Tho im not saying this is his best character because we all know who that is but FOR ME he is a good massive W #marquis de gramont #bill skarsgard #bill skarsgård

[dreamlanddoll]

my biggest pet peeve with most hair/makeup tutorials aimed at feminine presenting people is that the tips for bigger nosed individuals are always "do you have a FAT DISGUSTING UGLY NOSE? Well don't worry! Here are some tips on how to hide that monstrosity so that you don't look like a man!" like is anyone else tired I'm so tired

#like... fully watched a video on what bangs i should get to suit my face #and the lady (even tho she was really sweet) fully suggested that if you have a big nose you shouldnt have bangs bc theyll draw attention #to it.. like thanks ig only girls with small noses are allowed to have bangs now bc god forbid women bring attention to their roman nose #idk man #and dont get me started on that era where everyone was contouring the shit out of their noses to look like literal anime characters #early tik tok was rancid for my self esteen