#Anxiety!Roman

[reasonsforhope]

This is kind of a weird reason for hope, honestly, but it genuinely changed how I think about catastrophe.

Historical fact that you probably do not know:

At least 30-50% of the population of Pompeii survived.

Maybe even the majority of the people of Pompeii survived.

(The numbers 30-50% there are according Professor J. Theodore Peña, a professor of ancient Roman archeology who studies Pompeii, whom I took a class on Pompeii with in 2018. The numbers of "maybe even the majority" are from articles linked below.)

Yes, that Pompeii, the one where the entire city was swallowed by a volcanic eruption.

And no, I'm not kidding. x, x, x, x, x, x

So how this is possible, that anyone could survive, when the entire city was literally buried in volcanic ash? And the answer is that the eruption actually took place over the course of almost 24 hours, as the earthquakes and clouds of smoke emitting from Pompeii gradually got worse and worse, followed by the ejection of ash and giant stones that gradually escalated, until the fifth pyroclastic flow (aka giant wave of searing hot ash) hit the city.

So, people had a bit less than 24 hours to flee the city. And many of them did, whether by boat or cart or horse or foot. And many of them made it.

Pompeii is the iconic, ultimate example we have, culturally, for a natural disaster that causes complete annihilation.

But it never caused complete annihilation at all. Not of the people who lived there.

I think climate change, ultimately, is going to be like Pompeii. Yes, there will be natural disasters. Yes, it will keep getting worse for a while.

Yes, people will die, and yes, we do need to act fast, and we need to do all that we can to save every single living being that we can.

But unlike the people of Pompeii, we have the ability to fix most of the effects of climate change. We have the ability to cool the planet down from whatever temperature it ultimately hits. (Masterpost on this here.)

Natural disasters fucking suck. But as the true story of Pompeii exemplifies, they are often a lot more survivable than we think. And we have benefits and resources and technology and knowledge above all communication that the people of Pompeii never did - in fact, we're getting so good at building for and detecting and warning for natural disasters that the number of people dying from natural disasters has been plummeting, even as natural disasters are getting worse and worse (x).

We are going to survive climate change (x). We are going to fix as much of it as we can (x). And we are going to rebuild afterward.

Because as the many survivors of Pompeii show, that's what humans do.

[lycheeleeches]

I was going down memory lane and the urge to draw these freaks again, came. Not fully satisfied with how they look but I personally think it’s a massive improvement from how I used to draw them

It’s nice to see how much I’ve improved :D

[tagidearte]

My internship has started and I'm overloaded with doing historical illustration + writing a whole ass roman history of the region book for children, so... No time for finished stuff any time soon (except one I've already started and will probs post within the next few days). Take this quick messy shippy little concept.

If they ever got separate bodies, I know they would be touchy. Trying to get as close as they once were.

[tevnooo]

SUDDEN BURST OF INSPIRATION GO !!!!

(Plus a bunch of different versions of it )

[pattons-second-cookie-v2]

Your honor, Im sorry.

I wasn’t paying attention.

I was thinking about them again.

[logan-the-artist]

Virgil got TIRED of the pretty boy being so pretty.

[st7arlight]

i imagine they share the bathroom in the mindscape

[spideriot]

theres some kind of romantic subtext here that nobody understands lkke i do but i cant even explain it but theyre canon thomas told me so

[rilli-luci]

🎵"All together, Not expensive, bag your gifts at Spirit Christmas time."🎵

ANYGAY YEEES THE BOYS ARE BACK! Had to draw them cause it would be a crime not to. Thank you @thatsthat24 for Roman's little musical rendition of the Spirit Christmas decision.

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[sanders-sides-uncorrect-quotes]

Remus is standing next to Virgil and he's like "wow Anxy that's an amazing idea!" and starts bashing Roman's skull in with his morningstar

[julius-caeser]

[loganslowdown4]

It’s always shenanigans

When these 3 hang out together 😄

❤️🤍💜

[lycheeleeches]

draw Roman, Patton and Virgil dressed up as clowns

just a silly trio

[not-so-average-joseph]

Roman: What are you writing? Logan: The government wants to know what kind of weapons we have in the house. I'm letting them know it's private information. Virgil, looking over Logan's shoulder: This just says 'fuck around and find out' in calligraphy.

[incorrectsandersidesquotes]

THE PIERCED EARS??? THE FITTING HATS FOR EACH OF THEM??? THE FACIAL HAIR ON SOME OF THEM??? FANDERS we're eating good tonight!!!

[luvnotpercival]

ive been thinking about them all so much

[dark sides art here]