#coloseum

[aesthetic--mood]

Gladiator Movie Aesthetic

[imthefailedartist]

Gladiator II: Less the sequel

This movie needed more.

More gladiator stories. More gladiator battles. More battles.

Why did we never hear about the other Gladiators? That's what grounds Gladiator they are part of why Maximus keeps fighting.

Lucius needed more character motivation. He wants to kill Acacius when he should be wanting to kill the Emperors, as they are the reasons the war is being fought.

It needed less Maximus.

This movie tries to ruin Maximus' story. It's never made clear that he's his dad it's hinted at for a reason. Calling him his father outright, knowing that his only goal in the first was to get to his wife and child with honor just sucks the air out of the first one.

It needed more General Acacius. He's a fantastic character who shows what this type of life does to a person and has five minutes of screen time.

The Twins needed more development or screen time. You've got them being sickly and weird, up the stakes, people are afraid of them people are annoyed by them people think they're idiots, yet they follow them. Let's see why and how they hold the throne together.

What is Lucius motivation? The no mercy scene and him saying he doesn't want to fight that one guy were pointless. Do you want to be with your wife or not.

Macrinus was in the right. If Lucius had more development, he'd see that. Lucius didn't want to be in or a part of Rome, and he didn't want to be prince or king. So why do you all of a sudden care that Macrinus wants the throne.

If it ended with Macrinus on the throne and Lucius leaving Rome I could see that or with him seeing that Macrinus is going to be just as unfit for the throne as the rest I'd like it more.

As a matter of fact, this movie needed a time jump. If Lucius spent years being the unkillable gladiator and seeing how Rome could be from the stories of other Gladiators or being the prized gladiator so he gets perks of being wined and dined and pampered by the royals and what it used to be. If you gone be a sequel be a sequel.

Maybe all of this was in the May Calamawy scenes. Maybe you don't get to have a well developed movie when you cut out characters for being pro Palestine and anti-genocide. Maybe your movie gets to suck when your movie is about people fighting against their enslavers and imperialism and for a free Rome but you cut out an actress who wishes for the same thing a nation and its people actively being wiped out actively being erased from history.

[cpahlow]

[daily-spanish-word]

sand la arena

The word ‘arena’ is derived from the Latin ‘harena’: a particularly smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient arenas like the Colosseum in Rome.

Competing clowns get into a real fight in the circus arena. After throwing their (big) shoes at each other, and not finding anything else, they start hurling sand.

We made a sand castle. Hicimos un castillo de arena.

[covenawhite66]

"Venatio" was a type of entertainment in ancient Rome involving various animals being pitted against each other in fights or being trained to perform tricks.

The dogs would have been ancestors of sausage dogs rather than true dachshunds, the paper noted.

[wzart]

(prostřednictvím "Coloseum 1" podložka pod myš na prodej od Wartist )

[2-times-infinity]

[skotydoesntknow]

I been feelin majorly under the weather today but remembered that I promised myself that I was going to post something each and everyday. Setting realistic and achievable goals has been one thing over the past year I have struggled with. But the small victories are still worth every bit as much as the big ones. Here’s a piece I had the absolute pleasure of making for the homie @tphillybaby thanks again for your service and thanks for your continued patronage! #blackandwhite #blackandgrey #blackandgray #gladiator #roman #warriors #lion #coloseum #fightingpits #guyswithtattoos #asseenincolumbus #columbus #cbus #oh #ohio #tattoo #tattooer #instagood #tattoooftheday #247365 (at Sacred Hand Tattoo Society) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5lhjAIK1U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[digi-lov]

With each of these sets released, I wanted to compare them again.

Like I've mentioned before, EX-03 Draconic Roar, EX-05 Animal Colosseum, and EX-06 Infernal Ascension are based on the Pendulum Progress vpets from 2002. Animal Coloseum kept the name as is, Draconic Roar was Dragon's Roar, and Infernal Ascension replaced the name Armageddon Army. (A very understandable name change)

A large percentage of the Digimon featured in the Pendulum Progress versions were included in the respective card sets. Many of those who weren't included had similar replacements.

As the name suggests, Draconic Roar included many Digimon related to dragons. Since many main character Digimon fall into that category, frequently featured Digimon such as the Greymon line were exluded. This set's Agumon is yellow and the suggested line goes to Veedramon and AeroVeedramon, reminiscent of the V-Tamer manga. Veemon is red in this set, and instead of the usual Ex-Veemon we get Fladramon, along with purple Wormmon and Shadramon, going into a dark Imperialdramon line. Instead of Tyrannomon and MetalTyrannomon, we have DarkTyrannomon and ExTyrannomon too. This set also featured many dragon Digimon that have debuted since the Pendulum Progress, such as Dracomon and its two lines, and the Vorvomon and Jazamon lines from Digimon Links.

The Pendulum Progress Animal Colosseum contains many beast Digimon, notably the Four Sovereigns. The card set expanded on that and not only included the Four Sovereigns, but also their leader Fanglongmon, as well as all 12 Deva serving under them. Like the vpet, this set also featured many X Antibody Digimon, although many of them were switched in the card set. Such as Leomon being included instead of Leomon X, or Dobermon X instead of Dobermon. We also got the card debut of Lunamon and Coronamon and their respective lines, as well as the player chatacters from their debut games Digimon Dusk/Moonlight and Dawn/Sunburst!

Infernal Ascension has a dual theme of Angels and Demons. While the Pendulum Progress included all Three Great Angel, there was only room for two Demon Lords. For the card set all Seven Great Demon Lords got featured (and also received matching alt arts!) Many of the replacements also make sense. Instead of Terriermon and Siesamon we got Lopmon and Turuiemon leading into Antylamon. While Tsukaimon works as a replacement of Patamon in style, it isn't in the Angel lines. The role is instead filled by Luxmon, a very recent addition to the Digimon franchise. Same goes for ArkhaiAngemon taking MagnaAngemon's spot, and Dominimon finally getting recognition! The addition of Mastemon is just perfect for this set too. We also get some holy-themed Digimon from the chinese game New Century for the first time!

So yeah

I just think it's fun to look at these Theme Boosters and compare what they kept, what they changed, and what they expanded upon. Goes to show how much our list of Digimon has grown in the last 20 years!

[persephoneflouwers]

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[jorvikzelda]

two very different experiences were had

[shauni-will-never-write]

was going through your posts and saw that you're playing/had played Unicorn Overlord! what did you think of the characters?

For the most part, I thought it was a good cast :) Some characters I didn't like and some others I didn't care about, but that's just how it is in any game, especially a game with such a large cast of characters. There were some interesting takes on typical "FE" archetypes, and some refreshing personalities. I thought the 'religious' types were especially done well (Nigel, Raenys, etc.) or at least pretty interesting (Sanatio), maybe because it's not something I'm used to seeing in this kind of games.

I also really appreciated that, during 'cutscenes', many characters other than the royals got to speak, intervene, give their opinion or act (Travis going to scout ahead for enemies, flying units being sent to scout from the sky, magic users giving their opinion on magic-related topics, Chloe infiltrating a village occupied by the enemy and talking to the locals to gather information, etc.) and the mini quests involving specific characters (Selvie and the ruins, Yahna and the weird murals, Ithillion and the star iron shards, Sharon and the cemeteries, etc.) It's small, but it makes everyone in the army feel real and important.

Have a tier list, because I like making tier lists of characters XD

[silbaria]

VenEin for @manbehindtheshadows 👁️◡👁️

Commission info ✨ || Ko-fi ☕️

[daily-spanish-word]

sand la arena

The word ‘arena’ is derived from the Latin ‘harena’: a particularly smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient arenas like the Colosseum in Rome.

Competing clowns get into a real fight in the circus arena. After throwing their (big) shoes at each other, and not finding anything else, they start hurling sand.

We made a sand castle. Hicimos un castillo de arena.

[kurhl]

Os melhores do ringue em King of Coloseum.

[rainboas]

watched gladiator last night btw it was pretty bad.