#agrippina

[uncleclaudius]

Agrippina crowning her son Nero, Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, modern Turkey.

[leoruby-draws]

Kid Villains, pt 2.

Decided to post more kiddy villains, bit of a sequel to this. First up is Kitten, Mothman's bratty daughter from the 2003 teen titan cartoon:

Modeled her costume after the Rosy Maple Moth, while there are species of moths with the name kitten on them I figured she would prefer a pink outfit.

Thought it'd be kinda cool for her to be a villain for the batkids, she's already evil so why not. I don't imagine her to be all that talented at the job tho she would still be very dangerous if you underestimate her. I think she would work particularly well against Steph, being that Mothman started as a villain for Barbara (Cass might be too high level for her tbh).

Here's some more doodles:

Here's my Scarecrow's sidekick oc, I should probably name her something like Rag Doll or Raggedy Scream maybe? The three boys are oc's modeled after the Terrible Trio, criminals who commit crimes wearing animal masks. Their identities change a lot over continuities, so these kids are probably aspiring to be the next incarnation of this group.

Here's another random oc, a sidekick for White Rabbit (Jaina Hudson). Thought it'd be funny if it was just a kid in a silly rabbit suit, like what the kid wore in that movie, A Christmas Story. I'm not sure on what his personality should be. Maybe someone genuinely nice, a cheerful, polite boy who likes to hand people bombs (unintentionally dangerous) or maybe someone pretending to be nice but is actually malicious. Whatever's funnier I suppose.

Here's some characters inspired by the Super Friends enemies, the Super Foes. You'd see some of them return for the Robins 2021 mini, except for Toy Boy. Giggles and Guffaw are newer, only appearing in the mini.

I messed with their designs a bit to make them more unique looking. Honeysuckle for example was shown with either red or brown hair but I gave her a sorta dark maroon, thought it contrasted well with her green outfit. Honeysuckle btw, is older than the rest, and is more of an enemy to Dick and Barbara, tho her teenage self has no problem attacking the younger sibs.

Also Giggles and Guffaw might look a little similar to a certain anime starring a group of sextuplets, just being a little funny there. I gave these kids some made up names, mostly taken from whatever writer created them. Couple of them worked out pretty well actually, like Bridwell (well, spring, stream) and Estrada (Road).

This next one is a character from the 2004 cartoon The Batman, which I never actually watched but I did see commercials of. His name is Prank ( Donnie ?), a protege of the Joker. He wasn't evil enough to stick it out, but I gotta say I just loved his costume (esp how the jacket resembles Robins coat a bit). Made up a last name for him, just a random one from searching up famous clowns.

Being Barbara's peer, he's also more of a antagonist for the older kids, decided he and Honeysuckle should friends. I kinda want to use them as a sorta contrast to Babs and Dick, that could be fun to do. Also look at baby Dick, I don't draw him enough at this age.

Speaking of Barbara, I've been going back and forth between having her start out as either 12 or 16. All the other kids start out really young, so it makes sense for Babs to do so as well. But I kinda like the thought of her starting out much older, makes her more unique among the batkids (in pre-crisis she became Batgirl in like her 20s btw, cool huh?)

More various rivals for the kids to fight, excluding my oc Pink Rabbit, all of them more antagonists for the kids themselves rather sidekicks of the villains that Batman fights.

Here's Jason and Steph torturing poor little Enigma, who would be considered the bad guy here?

Here's some more proteges, Holly probably exists in this world, she's a bit too old for all this nonsense tho. Kitten is also a Super Foes member and was in Robins 2021 as well, she's been shown to be a sidekick to the Cheetah and Catwoman. Maybe she's just likes to attach herself to any cat-themed villain.

Crazy Quilt is more of an enemy to Robin than Batman, plus he has his own legacy in Crazy Quilt II, so obviously I had to include them. I wonder what name should I give the younger one, Duvet? Silly Blankie? idk

Lastly here's Earth 3(?) Jason Todd as Talon II paying a visit to the Training Wheels universe, seems like hes a bit of a crybaby. I don't think we've seen a earth 3 variant of Jason, so I'm just making up my own version of him. Wonder why he seems so nervous...

Anyways!! That was a lot, hope you liked all that!

[call-me-noa]

Nero’s mother Agrippina.

First image is from the Fate/Extra manga, the other two are from Mortalis;Stella.

Today’s chapter in the FGO Arcade event talks about her a lot.

[igotsnothing]

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[elkanach]

agrippina the younger

i cant draw claudius for the life of me LMAOOO he looks like that one julius ceasar painting

[seianusfanboy]

ANCIENT ROME FAMILY TREES !!

(that I've written down so far)

- THE JULIOCLAUDIANS (until Claudius, sorry Nero! - starting from Brutus' ancestors)

- MARCELLUS AND HIS FAMILY (down to Messalina!)

- THE FAMILY OF AELIUS SEJANUS (the only one whose family isn't a circle)

[glowing-starlight]

Women of I, Claudius(1976)

[very-grownup]

Over on bluesky I got a reminder of this, one of the many highlights of the 2019/2020 Met production of Handel's Agrippina, with Kate Lindsey as supreme fuckboy Nerone. A masterclass in full body performance and lung capacity and she's just so fucking good.

[duxfemina]

Who of the many women that surrounded Mark Antony could you see yourself being FRIENDS with? Not who you admire the most but who you'd enjoy drinks and dishing the dirt with the most

It's honestly kind of hilarious how the "Julio-Claudian" Dynasty is really a bunch of Antonians. Over half of the emperors and most of the influential women of the family are all Antonians

[theromaboo]

I literally just came home from the library with Emma Southon's book Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World. I haven't even finished the first page and the writing style and humor is so good. It's like a combination of Horrible Histories books and Philomena Cunk. I sure do hope every part of it is as good as the humor. I'm interested to see how open she is to the theory that Brit wasn't poisoned.

I can only aspire to be as funny as she is.

She said it! She mentioned how different the Annals would be with one missing letter.

[baliisarda]

This is an old (I'm saying old but i's from october 2023 😭) illustration of mine but I just came across it again and wanted to share it!

(here is the original picture by the way)

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

this just in: stéphanie d’oustrac and ying fang are SERVING over at the dutch national opera

[garland-on-thy-brow]

My latest three saved pictures:

I love trouser roles a normal amount.

[ameramor]

Emma Southon on Germanicus attempting (pretend) suicide only for his soldiers to tell him to use a sharper blade:

“At this point, [he] had three kids, was in his late twenties, commanded a huge army, was first in line to the throne if something happened to Tiberius, and was acting like the protagonist in a very low-quality YA book.”

[generic-lab-assistant]

When I say we are back I mean it

[akathecentimetre]

WARNINGS: stage blood, some off-stage violence, uber angst.

'Voi chi udite il mio lamento' from Handel's Agrippina, performed by Iestyn Davies // Bayerrische Staatsoper, 2019

I just had to. I can’t get over this. HELP.