#Romechu

[renonv]

do you fw romechu. by any chance. grandpa rome and china. by any chance (pleading)

HELL YEAH I fuck w them heavy style 🫦

[ellmovy]

Romechu for the ship polaroid section of @hws-anthology !!!

[ask-aph-axis]

slay

[tabrisangel]

welcome to the underground how was the fall

[salchichas-art]

thats a sensitive topic

[aphetaliamessages]

is this enough for you to forgive me 😗

[frukmerunning]

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@heta-on-the-books

[jikimo-world]

Rome in a letter: "I'm sending you this statue of me so you can remember me when I'm far away XOXO"

China, dragging a marble block wrapped in a sheet in his room: What is this? The first and weirdest nude of the history?

[mytale0]

[aph-binch]

china, internally: how has he not noticed that i’m mad at him? we haven’t spoken in 40 minutes

rome, internally: yea i could probably take a bear in a fight

[blankitty]

Can’t do line arts *dies* will color,maybe

Can’t draw hanfu either so Yao’s in a suit sry *dies again*

[renonv]

Not good very bad romechu doodles

[meitoscringe]

[tabrisangel]

BEAUTIFUL FAT ROMANS WANT TO BE STUPID AROUND YOU

[stirringwinds]

returning to romechu, inasmuch as it really puts the long in long-distance r/ships, i feel like a big part of yao is glad for that. because there's no getting around how he and rome may be on the opposite ends of the known world, but at that point in time, han dynasty china was no less an empire than rome. yao knows they both will put ambition and power over anything like sentiment for another nation—even with iran/persia and india, whom yao generally gets on well with—there've been conflicts. so i think for yao, fact that the edges of his and rome's empires don't meet gives him the luxury to enjoy the company (even if in epistolary terms rather than always face-to-face) of another nation he sees as a peer in power and position. pre-modern yao is someone whose relationships with those closest in proximity to him, especially yong-soo, kiku and lien (vietnam) are always this janus-face of deep cultural linkages and asymmetrical power dynamics, after all, where their knowledge of how sharp yao's blade can be is ever-present. it's the price he knowingly paid for power, but it's something yao doesn't have to think about when it comes to rome because there, the thread of the silk road is long.

[aphetaliamessages]

Li Xiao got an angry phone call for that last part

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