rijwater

[rijwater]

Super excited for the next M&L game, ngl.

[rijwater]

Sometimes I feel like a small child in my mind, even though I am over thirty years old.

Original mosaic found in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.

[rijwater]

I did get this beauty in the mail - the music for this game is incredible.

[rijwater]

It is 1.30am on a random Thursday night. I have just played through the end of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, after hesitating a long time to finish it, due to Chadley-related grievances. There is one thing that races through my mind.

'This was so God damned dumb.'

[rijwater]

Finally started reading Return of the King, and it seems that, sadly, not even the Men of the great Minas Tirith know what a Hobbit is.

[rijwater]

Just read The Two Towers, and right now I am absolutely obsessed with the fact that l, when the company encounters the Riders of Rohan, Eomer is like:

"You're *who*? That's not real, that's a legend."

"Wait, the Lady of the Lake is real and not a fairytale?"

"What the fuck is a hobbit?"

And later when the Riders encounter Ents, everyone is like, "Trees can talk? What the FUCK?"

Look at that face in the picture. That is the face of a person that does not believe any of this fantasy shit. Absolute normal person energy, and I absolutely love this.

[rijwater]

Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime

[rijwater]

When Leon finds out that Krauser killed his new best frenemy.

[rijwater]

Resident Evil 4, but Leon Kennedy is a sore loser in the Shooting Gallery:

Luis: You are making this look easy!

Leon, trying his best to shoot everything perfectly in order to impress Luis, who he does not want to impress because he thinks he's an asshole, but Leon wants to just feel better about his own gunmanship: wdym, it IS easy

Ashley: Wow, way to go, Leon!

Leon, who just got a B rank because he does not know how to use the Punisher: I swear to god, one more word and I will hand you over to the Ganados myself

[rijwater]

Maarten de Vos, Rape of Europa, c. 1570-1575

This painting tells the story of the Phoenician princess Europa, whom Jupiter captured by disguising himself as a bull. It is shown as a triumphal journey, yet the Girls uncomfortable posture and the penetrating, direct posture of the bull tell us that it is actually an act of unusual brutality.

found at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao

[rijwater]

Telling my students all the crazy Jupiter stories is one of the best things of being a Classics teacher. A follower of Leonardo da Vinci, Leda and the Swan, c. 1515

[rijwater]

Hansburg

The town of Hansburg has had a storied history in its short span of life. Some sixty years before the present,  it was known as Kemmerling Castle, the vestige of a wealthy man who had bought up a lot of land in the area and used it to build up large orchards of apple trees. Around that time, sixty years ago, the lands of Nidoria and Esterlight had been struck by a nasty famine, and all the servants were starving.  The lord of the castle, Theodorus Kemmerling, happened to be a cruel man, as he had a large storage of food, refusing to share this with the people around him.

When society around the castle was at the brink of destruction, with the poor people steadily dying and the rich safe, the servants had had enough and - under the leadership of one of Lord Kemmerling's vassals,  a man named Hans - broke into the castle, murdered the king, and took over. They distributed the food to the people on the lands, and when news reached the main cities of Esterlight and Nidor about what happened,  the citizens in and around the castle even managed to stand their ground and managed to legitimize their actions - and the new rule around the castle.

Since that moment, what was named Kemmerling Castle would be called Hansburg - the castle being a Village in itself, every room housing families, with more houses being built around the structure. The former vassal, Hans, would rule peacefully for sixty years, profiting off the Apple orchards and sharing those profits with his subjects.

...that is, until a disgruntled wizard with a death wish had the crazy idea to revive his dead parents in the area.

I am writing up the ideas I have for my Dungeons and Dragons campaign in this blog - picture taken from a Dall-E mini prompt

[rijwater]

Here is a picture of two half-naked Romans making out.