#messalla

[antoine-triplett]

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SQUAD 451

“None of the people we lost were idiots. They knew what they were doing. They followed you because they believed you really could kill Snow.”

#the hunger games #squad 451 #katniss everdeen #gale hawthorne #peeta mellark #finnick odair #boggs #jackson #cressida #pollux #castor #messalla #the leeg sisters #holmes #mitchell #graphics #jessies thg revival

[urthebees-knees]

bro im such a sucker for the film crew yes ik they had the littlest ammount of screen time and have virtually no background but whjsjsjs

a headcannon that’s been floating in my,, well,, head is that messalla totally pierces all of the crew’s ears. Cressida and Castor get small hoops, where Pollux gets studs. that info is very important, trust ❤️

#THG #the hunger games #cressida #castor and pollux #messalla #they are besties #no i have no proof but uh #✨ #trust #feel free to share your own hcs lol

[misiafterdark]

cuddle bugs

#dragon age #dragon age oc #lemon #let's see if this gets flagged #rennard fuchs #messalla

[engine-oil-or-strawberry-filling]

@artofmisi uploaded them yesterday, now’s my turn. 

Fuchs and Messalla have been living rent free in my brain for years now and I’d like to thank you for that.

#ockiss23 #ockissweek2023 #fuchs #messalla #how does one art

[mythandral]

i will never, ever be over the fact that the game wants me to believe this guy is 52

#ffxiv #vitus quo messalla #i know wrinkles are too much to ask for but come on #that's a 22 year old

[good--merits-accumulated]

it's all Greek Roman to me!

#alternatively: writing the fair folk au is just like. hm. this is getting way more queerplatonic than was intended. cool with it though #charlie and todd close friends is something that can be so so personal. etc. #this is all because i read julius caesar again and am thinking abt watching the 2017 rsc production #the staging of that is fucking insane btw. cassius/portia kneeling before brutus like yeah ok why don't you dig my heart out #it would feel less #also martin hutson cassius. martin hutson cassius. martin hutson cassius ‼️ #anyway. i do unconsciously often map neil as a brutus figure and todd as a kind of cassius. so there's things happening there #charlie as messalla is less fitting but narratively so so fucking enticing.... #like it's about devotion to a master that isn't yours. it's about deep and unchanging love and separation #and it's about FRIENDS that you KISS on the FOREHEAD. gmorning. #dead poets society #todd anderson #charlie dalton #dps #dps fandom #tristan writes

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Did you know that Messalla Corvinus got Antony's house? Which also may have previously belonged to a proscribed person. I understand that it would be hard for Messalla not to get a haunted house when the entire city is haunted; still, impressive.

Dio 53.27.5:

"When the house on the Palatine Mount which had formerly belonged to Antony but had later been given to Agrippa and Messalla was burned down, [Octavian] presented money to Messalla, but made Agrippa share his own house."

L. Richardson, Jr. (editor), A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:

"Caesetius Rufus: a handsome house near that of Fulvia, the wife of Mark Antony, who coveted it and procured the proscription of its owner to obtain it (Appian, BellCiv 4.29; Val. Max. 9.5.4). It may well be that the house of Fulvia in question was that of Antony on the Palatine. This was later given to Agrippa and Messalla Corvinus jointly and burned in 25 B.C. (Cass. Dio 53.27.5). Had it been enlarged by the addition of this second house, this joint ownership would be more understandable. However, see Vicus Caeseti".

#marcus valerius messalla corvinus #roman topography

[countesspetofi]

In honor of the stabbing season, I humbly share this picture of myself as Messala in a production of Julius Caesar about ten years ago. I also played Popilius Lena, the only Senator NOT involved in the stabby-stab, but there's no picture of me standing off to the side and looking like I'm about to blow chunks. You can just see the hilt of the massive broadsword I got to wear as Messala; it made my walk so freaking butch I got a bit of a crush on myself. Beware the eyes that march!

#julius caesar #the ides of march #marcus valerius messalla corvinus #popilius lena #roman empire #shakespeare #travesti

[cassiusapologist]

and bc no one can stop me from doing it, what’s life without a band AU!! brutus and cassius start off in a group under caesar’s label before breaking off and jumping into the punk scene

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#they're also married in this one #philippi is a sort of gang parking lot fight and antony ends up breaking cassius' arm in 3 places #totally destroying his ability to play ever again #brutus shows up for the last concert on a tour except he doesn't perform anything he goes on stage to call antony a motherfucker #and to go to hell and then he quits #messalla and the rest are here too btw. messalla is a groupie lmao. octavian will later go on to take over caesar's label #brutus and cassius make appearances in the crowds at various concerts antony and octavian play at bc its like. sort of a haunting #doodle tag

[hetairoi]

Valleius Paterculus, 2.69.6

There's something really funny about VP trying to follow the Princeps Preferred™  'Brutus - redeemable, Cassius - evil' line, but being confronted with enough evidence of Cassius showing mercy that he has to include it but only alongside the old 'yeah okay he was nice this once, but I promise he's actually REALLY AWFUL and he's just being DECEITFUL'.

#Hmm where did this come from? #The next page is 'Messalla a young man of brilliant parts' #another w for Corvinus #idk if it's just this translation but VP is a lot of fun to read #tagamemnon #ancient rome #gaius cassius longinus #I've had lotsa uni and will return to Making Thoughts after the weekend

[urthebees-knees]

hello reader of this post, are you starved for Castor and Pollux content?? me too!!!! if you’re interested in these two cuties I have a fic doing a little dive into their backstories <3 i love them so much and i am forever hoping they get a book (even tho i know they won’t,,) thanks <3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/52532515/chapters/132886663

#thg #castor and pollux #castor thg #pollux thg #and #cressida #ofc i can’t leave her out #messalla #hes there too <3 #my side character boys <3

[misiafterdark]

mess being very devoted to rennard. as it should be.

#messalla #rennard fuchs #dragon age oc

[catilinas]

love reading a letter and being like wait i know this guy! blorbo from my senate meeting! his family tree has previously tormented me!

#valerii messallae #<- pain and suffering. #beeps

[brother-emperors]

Messala Corvinus imperatorem suum Cassium praedicabat

or, like, your 20s are for living through a major turning point in history and crushing on your commander so hard that 2,000 years later your loyalty to him is an identifiable thing that will survive history and people will write about it, but god what tragedy and doom, what misfortune it must be to meet the person who'll make such an impression on you so early in your life and at the very end of his, you'll never forget your first-- (plays alt-j at full volume)

alternative memoirs: tales from the ‘other side’ of the civil war, kathryn welch

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#like. tragic kilig or something. kilig despite the setting. #i was going to post a snippet of a thing i had written with messala and cassius but the scene didn't match the page so maybe next time #gay crush clothes sharing does not. quite fit the tone of crushing on someone but realizing this is not a story with a happy ending #marcus valerius messalla corvinus #gaius cassius longinus #roman republic tag #komiks tag #drawing tag #long post

[ghoul-haunted]

the adventures of cassius minor aka what absolutely uncalled for unhinged shit will messalla say this time

#messalla's 'congrats on necromancing a kingdom' speech to octavian is technically part of this verse #cassius' son watching all these conversations unfold: i n t e r e s t i n g #anyway between this and the comic where brutus yells CAIUS I CAN SEE YOU while cassius flips him off from over tertulla's shoulder #i am. comics. again.

[good--merits-accumulated]

me sprinkling my current interests into whatever fic i'm writing: fuck yeah. this is going to be hilarious for all the legions of people who are into all of these specific things! (the legion is me)

#i didn't MEAN to start putting caesar conspirator references in the dps fair folk au i promise #but like. now we have charlie and todd calling each other cassius and messalla so. that's a thing #also neil as a brutus felt right considering he's the de facto leader of this little rebellion due to his charisma #but he's still politically inept and doesn’t always. make the most sound decisions #anyway. thoughts on charlie essentially abdicating the role of cassius to todd #AND THEN REFERENCING HOW CASSIUS DIES AT PHILIPPI AND MESSALLA LIVES. WHICH I'M SURE WILL HAVE NO IMPLICATIONS LATER ON ;) #also didn't consider how the cassius/messalla refs would reflect on charlie and todd's dynamic in-fic so that's just a thing that exists now #(pointing at charlie) YOU get some (un)requited queerplatonic yearning! #htoo rambles #htoo writes