#CLAUDIUS

[ghost--bot]

[thoodleoo]

he (emperor tiberius claudius caesar augustus germanicus) should have been at the club (writing etruscan histories)

[uncleclaudius]

Dinner on the Palatine, 12 October 54 AD.

[saucybokchoy]

🦇 some dream daddy inspired art of my lil shared vampire the masquerade coterie :) im the storyteller for this game set in new york and everyone is so silly.

do yall have a fav?? finnick fox (played by @spookebee) is mine tbh hes the face of the coterie lol

(lol also realized to late i spelled osbournes name wrong ignore that)

[cesareeborgia]

↳ family trees + Julio-Claudian dynasty (limited to the main figures)

requested by anonymous

[itsacruelsummerwithyou2]

so like, the obvious next shakespeare role for david tennant would be to play claudius, right? like we all want it, correct?

[wolframpant]

[pcholkachai]

misc commissions!

prototype viktor

claudius demonbane

[duxfemina]

A brief summary of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty

Octavian/Augustus - he has a reputation associated with peace but you will get a little ill once you look at all the collateral damage around him and that reputation ie. It's easy to institute a regime of peace when you've murdered everyone who might oppose you

Tiberius - when a chronic people pleaser finally get into a position of power and still no one thinks they're good enough and they finally reach burnout and fuck off to their vacation home indefinitely

Caligula - the first emperor in the long litany of reasons why people whose brain has not fully developed should NOT be given access to unlimited power. Little Boots is either insane or the absolute champion at taking the piss out of the elite and there isn't really a third option

Claudius - an icon for overcoming disability and bullying and knowing how to delegate administration appropriately. Also this man gave his wives a lot of mobility (for the time) so we stan in spite of the sources trying to smear him for that very thing. Also this man was SUCH a nerd and I wish they hadn't destroyed his history of the Civil Wars but that's the Augustan propaganda machine for ya even near kin isn't safe from censorship

Nero - take one traumatic childhood add a flare for the dramatic and then give them unlimited power before their brain is fully developed and now it's like Caligula but with more pizzazz. Nero is literally what happens when that obnoxious rich kid who's into theater gets absolutely unlimited money and power and nothing to curtail his flare for a spectacle.

[ifwebefriends]

So I went on a YouTube binge yesterday watching people talk about classic literature and I remembered Hamlet which I read for school like 5 or 6 years ago and I kinda didn’t get it but the internet (especially tumblr) seem to go buckwild for Hamlet and I’d like to understand

So please explain tumblr, why do people love Hamlet? (either the play or character is fine)

[alanide-arts]

UTOPIAN CITIZEN TYPE: POTENS

The Potens are the pride and power of Utopia, with a portion of them assigned towards city-wide defense in case of emergencies. They are the most uncommon type, garnering them respect and admiration from (most) citizens.

[horatiompreg]

my english teacher compared claudius to walter white from breaking bad so im thinking laertes is jesse pinkman😭😭😭

[moonlarked]

thinking about the fact that we never get anything about hamlet’s past at wittenberg except through sparse lines from other characters. as I’ve said before, wittenberg represents a contrast to elsinore - freedom as opposed to a prison. his education and philosophy are such an important part of his story and yet the only time we get any mention of it is either from his banter with horatio or the king and queen telling him to go back. in fact, we get much more about hamlet’s life before wittenberg. we get the queen referring to ros and guil as hamlet’s closest friends despite the fact that he is obviously closer to horatio. we get constant mention of hamlet’s father and his family life before wittenberg. we get ophelia, who hamlet presumably met before wittenberg (and loved that version of him). and wittenberg is freedom compared to elsinore’s prison. all of hamlet’s new self that he built away from his family is slowly chipped away by his father, his mother, and his uncle. “why, what a king is this?” it’s the king hamlet was supposed to be. it’s the king he almost had the freedom to not turn into.

[uncleclaudius]

Jean-Paul Sinibaldi, Claudius proclaimed emperor, 1886. Probably my favourite painting of the scene. I mean his face is the perfect mixture of total terror and total surprise.

[saucybokchoy]

happy almost nosferatu day 🦇 have a claudius portrait!

my bitter, old, frank sinatra loving, porsche driving cammie scum, nosferatu.. i luv claud v much. he has everything but nothing at the same time its kinda crazy lol... anyway im practicing colouring more and its a struggle (i hate colouring omg)

[wav3y-zzz]

Claudius and Galba.... ugly old dudes EWWWW