#earthbound-in-doubt

[combeauferre]

1, 6, 8 for Fabien

1 - what’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?

probably about two seconds. every one of the bahorel kids has adhd and it helps that fabien grows up on a farm where there's Always something to do, but he's not very good at coping with nothing

6 - do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?

flexible. not as flexible as bahorel himself, but he looks up to bahorel and he's stressed their mother out no end following after him

8 - what were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child

stop running in the house, stop throwing things, start being more productive - none of them are flagged as having adhd as kids and fabien gets the brunt of the frustration of their parents in childhood

[twentytwoarts]

i like to think because he became a prince so young poo disavowed all things "childish" and suppressed his emotions so that they wouldn't get the better of him when it came to important decision making, so when he joined ness and co he didn't really know how to behave his age and it led to everyone in the party just kinda feeling bad for him

[dirksstri]

Everytime Kumatora and Duster are shipped together, an angel loses their wings 💔

[stealingsocieties]

hi again m1 fandom it’s been 3 yrs are we rocking with them

[iknaenmal]

GOT THE BEIN-FRIENDS URL

[21st-century-ninja]

art reposter

So up front!! This is not intended as a call to dogpile, harass, or bully op. I just wanted to make an awareness post, because I saw people on my dash reblogging their works who didn't seem to be aware that the art was stolen. Just block and/or don’t interact with them and move on with your life, yk?

Anyway @sophia336 posted a fic called Earthbound last night (link). A cool premise where Cole merges with the earth in MotM, right? The only problem here is that they also posted artwork along with it, artwork which, by the watermark at the bottom left, seems to belong to a Mr. Essy.

Okay, I thought. So maybe they have two usernames for art, for personal use, etc. but going to their blog revealed no more art with that watermark on it.

So I searched it up in a couple of minutes and found the original artwork as, indeed, belonging to Mr. Essy over on instagram. (Link)

Okay. So the art belongs to Mr. Essy. Maybe they got permission to post it, even there was no mention of “The art isn’t mine, art belongs to Mr. Essy, etc” on the post.

But here it is again, and with a different artist.

(sophia336 link)(usagi haruka’s insta link)

Again, this took me two minutes of googling to find.

(Both of these artists appear to be non-native English speakers, which isn’t necessarily a pattern of anything, just something I noticed.)

Okay. So they’ve reposted art without credit or seemingly permission. Maybe they don’t know any better.

I found this post, though, on their blog from May of 2022 that suggests they have been made aware that this behavior is harmful.

(link)

For the third time, it took me two minutes of googling to find these artists I'd not heard of before. In the aforementioned May 2022 post, sophia336 wrote "All art isn't mine" in the description. In their ninjago posts, it seems that they never make a claim either way.

Tl;Dr: Sophia336 reposts art with their (as far as I can tell and have no reason to doubt) original fanfics. They are aware that this behavior is harmful and not what should be done.

And I get where they're coming from! Honestly I do! As a fellow fanfic writer, it can be really disheartening to see artwork getting more love than fanfic, even when the same amount of effort went into both. From what I read of their fics, they've got really great writing skill. I just wish they didn't feel the need to use stolen art to get views.

[nanaten]

HEYYY!! I love you art so much it’s so cute you’re def my fav earthbound artist!! I saw you liked nesspaula and I wanted to ask if you have some head cannons about them they’re my favs ship!!! Also any opinions about jefftony?? I love em>:3

HELOOOOOO !! sorry im responding to this so late, ive only just realized i had so many asks 😭😭

I do like nesspaula!! i think they’re so cute! as for headcanons, i don’t think i have many interesting ones, but i’ll give you a few little ideas i have about them!

- Ness doesn’t really understand how he feels about her for a long time. he likes her, alot, but he doesn’t really understand what that entails. like, “i like her, but what do i do with this information?”. it’s only in his mid-to-late teens he realizes that his feelings for her are something he should act upon; that he loves her, and wants to be in a relationship with her.

- when he tells her, he imagines it to be like the romance films his mom likes, but it isn’t. Paula is overjoyed, there’s no doubt about that, but the first thing she says is “Oh my god, it took you long enough!” all exasperated like, lol. it mortified ness at the time but now it’s something he tells everyone when they ask about their relationship (“Oh god, you’ll never guess how we got together— Paula said—“ “NOOOO”)

- Paula is slightly taller than him. By a few inches. You’d think that’d bother ness, but no. He loves his slightly taller wife. (they’re both regular height overall though. 5’7 and 5’9 respectively)

- Ness is really warm, and paula appreciates it. Due to her PSI, her hands are often cold and numb to the degree the tips of her fingers and blue. Thankfully Ness is a space heater, so he’ll take her hands and warm her up :]

also i like jefftony!! i think they would be very funny and chaotic. to describe their dynamic in my head it’s like this

[someoneoffthestreet]

MAWS s2 thoughts before the finale:

I’ve been thinking over what we’ve seen of Krypton this season. Mostly how, even though it feels like a lot, we haven’t actually seen much at all.

Notably, most of the information we have received about Krypton is actually sourced from Brainiac, which- well. Brainiac is a certified liar, or at the very least, has a very skewed perspective of Krypton and what it was supposed to be. I do not doubt that Krypton was at one point a warmongering planet that benefited off of others’ suffering (Jor-El’s account backs this up,) but dialogue from Brainiac in 2x08 suggests that, towards the end at least, Krypton was moving away from this and pursuing a more peaceful existence.

(Speculatively, this could have angered some Kryptonians ((it’s been 20-something years and Brainiac still sounds pissed off about it)) and instigated a coup that then led to the attempted invasions against Darkseid/Apokolips and Earth, and we know how that went.)

The images we see of Krypton show the Kryptonians with superpowers on their home planet. But we don’t? Actually know? If that’s completely true?? Because it seems strange that the show would have this, but keep the red sun weakness. Did Krypton not have a red sun in this universe?

Pushing on that, the images of that Krypton are from the Black Mercy, which Kara outright states is Brainiac’s domain. The world Clark is trapped in is based off of the one Kara shows him in 2x05, but we don’t actually know where that vision originated from. It couldn’t have come from Kara, because she was also an infant when Krypton was destroyed and would have no natural memory of it. So whose memory is that? Is it a memory at all? How do we know Brainiac didn’t tamper with it?

(Like in all likelihood it was just a throwaway line, but my brain keeps getting stuck on Clark noticing Ma and Pa’s doppelgängers in Kara’s Krypton, and I keep wondering if maybe that was a result of Clark’s subconscious infecting the simulation because it isn’t an actual, tangible memory, but Kara doesn’t seem to notice anything unusual with the memory so maybe I’m stuck on nothing.)

More on that, is how all of this interacts with what we see of Krypton from Jor-El’s memories. Admittedly he gives us very little, but the contrast is pretty stark. And maybe it’s just because the planet was mere moments from exploding, but the Krypton we see back in 1x02 is a wreck, in very stark contrast to the peaceful paradise that was Krypton’s Last Days as shown in 2x05. Even more notably, neither Lara nor Jor-El do anything superhuman in Jor-El’s account. Think about that. They are rushing to save their infant son’s life, but they aren’t using flight or super speed: they are very much earthbound.

Now to be fair, there’s another explanation. Krypton was already a spacefaring civilization before the fall, so they definitely discovered how their biology reacted to different suns. Maybe they created some kind of device that could simulate the yellow sun on Krypton (like the red solar shielding around Cadmus in s1) that “blessed” all Kryptonians with superpowers; and then this device was damaged/shut off in the time before the planet’s destruction.

Like it could be both: the above point being true and Brainiac still omitting/manipulating things about how Krypton was, maybe to better preserve his idea of what it should have been.

[bobafish]

hi @earthbound-in-doubt ! Here's your gift for the @drinkwithme-exchange for Joly, Bossuet, and R!! :DD

(I AM SO SORRY IF THIS ISNT WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING BTW 😭😭 THIS IS MY FIRST DRINK WITH ME)

[duplexide]

Just for fun I decided to draw up some concepts for a "bad end" Earthbound hack I had an idea for a while ago. This would depict a timeline where the Phase distorter failed horribly and Robo-Ness wound up stuck, broken and alone in a timeline where Giygas corruption went uncontested.

I mostly wanted to give each kid a biomechanical form similar to Pokey that depicts their different skills, Jeff using cannons, Paula using psy attacks, and Poo possessing six sword arms. Poo failed his Mu training here so his eyes, tongue, etc would be missing. Ness' body was possessed by Giygas while his soul was displaced so while you're in a weakened robot state you'd have to fight your previous self at full power.

The environments would all feature an earth overtaken by alien pollution and an overgrown Devil Machine. Many familiar creatures and allies would now be mind controlled by Giygas with the only real resistance being Dr. Andonuts and a small community of Mr. Saturns that have taken up hiding in trash cans. I doubt I'll ever have the time to actually make it but its been a lot of fun to think about.

[combeauferre]

🛁 for bossuet

🛁 - a nice, warm bath

"God, I have had such a day."

Bossuet dumps his bag by the front door and beelines straight for the couch, flopping down into the seat.

Musichetta gives him a sympathetic look and then frowns.

"There's a bruise on your chin, what have you done?"

Bossuet sighs and puts his fingers to it like he's checking it's still there.

"Well there was this microwave at work and- I lifted it from the cage and it was heavy and I kind of.. accidentally launched it at my face?"

Standing, Musichetta walks over and puts her thumb on it gently.

"Have you put any ice on it?"

She doesn't wait for an answer before she walks into the kitchen, getting a bag of frozen peas and a hand towel to wrap around them.

"Well, no..." Bossuet says with a sigh. He holds up his fingers for her to see where the nail is bruised underneath. "I got my hand stuck between the cage and the microwave, too."

She puts the bag of peas to his chin and gently kisses his forehead.

"What am I going to do with you?" she asks, nothing but fondness in her voice. Bossuet gives her a crooked smile. "Any other bumps or bruises I should know about?"

Bossuet shrugs.

"Just the usual," he says, lifting an arm and a leg. "These hurt, back hurts. Nothing I'm not used to." As he puts his arm and leg down, he notices the way the sole on his shoe slaps the floor before the rest of his foot is down. "Oh."

"Foot," Musichetta says, holding back a sigh.

Bossuet obediently lifts his leg and waits for Musichetta to slowly undo the laces and pull the shoe gently from his foot, before tapping his other leg gently to swap.

When she's done, she stands and presses a kiss to his forehead.

"Text Jol for me, will you? Tell him to hurry home quick and he can join us in the bath."

Bossuet smiles softly and reaches up to take Musichetta's hand as she turns away, pulling her back gently.

"Thank you," he says quietly, kissing her hand. "I know I'm a lot."

"Hush," Musichetta says, with no force behind it. "You're a delight, I won't hear any of that."

She bends, plants a kiss on his lips, and stands back up.

"Ask Joly to pick out a nice bath bomb too?"

When Joly gets in, he's balancing two bags alongside his work tote bag, slowly slipping off his shoulder.

"I'm home," he calls gently into the empty corridor. There's no answer, so he stumbles his way into the kitchen, shedding the tote bag on the way and dropping one bag on the side. The flat is quiet while he organises the store-bought Chinese takeout into the fridge, shoving the empty bag back into the cupboard, overflowing with old reusable bags.

Left over is a small paper Lush bag with three bath bombs in it, so that whoever's had the bad day has a selection to choose from. Bossuet hadn't specified, although Joly suspects it must be him.

"Loves?" he calls, walking out the kitchen.

"In here," comes Musichetta's muffled reply from the bathroom. He hears the sound of running water now and smiles, stripping off his jacket and scarf and hanging them on the door.

Steam escapes as he opens the door to the bathroom, and inside are Musichetta and Bossuet, wine glasses in hand, nude, watching the water fill.

"Jol," Bossuet breathes, smiling softly up at him. Joly spots the same bruise Musichetta had pointed out, and leans to press a kiss over it.

"Here, I thought you'd like to choose," he says, settling into Bossuet's lap and handing over the paper bag.

Bossuet presses a kiss to Joly's temple and opens it, peering inside and pulling each bath bomb out one by one, inspecting them slowly.

Among them is Bossuet's favourite, black and horrendously glittery. Joly hates it for the way it leaves trails of glitter around the flat for weeks after, and it's reserved for bad day baths.

Bossuet holds it up so he and Musichetta can see.

"Will you be mad if I pick this one?" he asks, pouting as best he can, until Joly laughs and shoves at his face gently.

"This once, I'll allow it," he replies, kissing Bossuet's cheek.

"Would you like to do the honours, love?" Musichetta asks as she turns off the faucet and tests the water temperature.

Bossuet presses three quick kisses to Joly's temple, cheek and neck.

"I'll have to evict you, my dear," he says, patting Joly's clothed ass, the only one still clothed. He gets to work fixing that as Bossuet moves across the room, dropping the bath bomb into the water and watching, transfixed, as it works its magic.

Musichetta watches hungrily as Joly methodically undoes the buttons on his shirt, only allowing him a few moments before she gets up and bats his fingers out the way to do it for him. Bossuet settles down on the side of the bath to watch as Joly fumbles and Musichetta, who has always held the power to fluster each of them without getting flustered herself, kisses down his neck.

When Joly is finally rid of his shirt, Musichetta leaves him with one final nip on his neck to undo his trousers and let them drop. She gently climbs into the bath, taking the time to adjust to the temperature - almost scalding, just how her boys like it.

When she's settled, she holds out her arms, and Joly crowds Bossuet against the tub until he caves, presses a kiss to the corner of his mouth, and climbs in to settle on Musichetta's lap.

Finally, Joly climbs in to sit opposite the two of them, legs tangling with Bossuet's and fingers finding Musichetta's easily.

Slowly, Joly coaxes Bossuet to lie down, legs coming to fit round Joly's waist as he dips his back into the water, sighing as it warmth seeps into his muscles.

It doesn't take long for Musichetta to squeeze Joly's hand and let go, shuffling back a little so she can reach Bossuet's shoulders. She massages slow and firm, working out the knots in Bossuet's shoulders. Joly holds back a comment about his terrible posture, instead reaching forward to rub circles into Bossuet's thigh with his thumb.

They continue this cycle, massaging everywhere they can reach, until Bossuet is practically asleep in Musichetta's arms. Glitter covers his body from the shoulders down, and Joly can't take his eyes off him. He shares a fond look with Musichetta, who pats Bossuet's stomach gently.

"Come on love, water's getting cold."

Bossuet grumbles a complaint, shifting lower till his knees bend and he's submerged up to his chin. Joly smiles scritch-scratching along his knee for a second before it turns to gentle tickled along his thigh, making Bossuet squirm.

"Chetta's right, up we get now," he says fondly. "Doctor's orders."

He keeps tickling until Bossuet can't take it any more, and squirms away sharply, laughing open mouthed, jolting more than he anticipated and getting a mouthful of glittery bathwater.

Spitting it out, Bossuet coughs and pulls a face.

"Okay, okay, I'm done." Joly is still first to get out, concerning himself with pouring Bossuet a glass of water to wash out his mouth with and feeling for the softest towel to offer him. He holds it open as Bossuet steps out the bath, wrapping it around his shoulders and rubbing his back dry.

Musichetta climbs out the bath last, pulling the plug and not bothering at first with a towel. She's well aware of the way her body is covered in black glitter and Bossuet and Joly's eyes are looking fairly disrespectfully at her body, and she allows herself a second to be admired before she reaches for her own towel.

The three of them stand together, drying each other off for a while, until none of them are shivering, and make their way back to their bedroom to find cozy pyjamas.

"You know," Bossuet says, stretching his arms above his head, "I could really go for a Chinese right now."

Joly smiles softly, pleasant warmth settling in his stomach. Even after all these years, it still makes him feel giddy to know he got the subtle tells right, he made the right call, he made one of their days without needing to be asked.

He plants a kiss on Bossuet's clothed shoulder.

"It's funny you should say that."

[smallearthboundfindings]

Hi folks, I'm back! And I come bearing another theory post. Tonight's episode: Magicant in Mother 3 and why Tanetane island is a manifestation of Lucas's.

It's rather common knowledge that Magicant, both of them, are a manifestation of one's subconcious, with Smash 4 stating "[Magicant is] a magical world in Mother and EarthBound, brought to life by the memories of certain characters." and Mother Encyclopedia stating "You get the feeling you've stumbled into somebody's dream. Going inside another person's slumberland shouldn't be possible, yet this country is like the replicant (the reproduction) of a dream."

However, with the mind, comes one's fears. As Ness's Nightmare and regrets over his previous battles, Buzz Buzz, Porky, and the Flying Men (if they die) appear in Ness's Magicant, likewise, Maria's Magicant contains the Forgotten Man and similar regrets over the Flying Men. Mother Encyclopedia even makes this clear by saying this about the final stretch of the Crystal Caverns: "With strange apparitions flying all about, if there were ever such a thing as the bottom of the world, it would, without a doubt, look like this desolation of immeasurable loneliness. You can't help but think to yourself, is this really how lonely Queen Mary's sorrow is?"

Magicant is known for really showing the mental state of its owners, but this series stable is oddly not present in Mother 3.

Or is it?

It's not really clear if Magicant is a physical location in either case, but it is clear that they have some form of tangibility given how both Ninten and Ness can bring back items from Magicant to the real world. In Ness's case, it is most clearly a mental location as otherwise, he's in Fire Springs. He didn't move in any extreme way between passing out and waking up, so that one is mental, but Maria's is a little more debatable. There seems to be no tunnel between the entrance and exit caves to her Magicant, and yet, Ninten is able to enter one, pass through Magicant, and exit though the other tunnel. Perhaps her Magicant is placed over the otherwise invisible tunnel in some way or it's just some form of teleportation, but it's clear that Magicants can have some interaction to the real world. Cue the theory.

I think Tanetane Island is some manifestation of Lucas's Magicant. Now, not the regular island itself, but the state it's in under the mushrooms' effect is, in essence, Lucas's Magicant leaking out into the real world. With his mind in an altered state, he doesn't control certain cognitive abilities, and with this, it just may include his ability to confine his Magicant. Let's go over the points: does the altered Tanetane reflect on Lucas's mental state? Absolutely. It is rife with his fears and some of his team's fears. (Side note: this may be some kind of telepathy gone wrong where this might even be everyone's minds contributing a little.) On top of that, altered Tanetane is bizarrely colored as the previous two Magicants were with surreal elements, similarly to a dream. The island may be real, but it's modifications are not. This, I believe, is Lucas's (and possibly Duster or Kumatora's) Magicant. It would certainly bring things full circle.

[eegasleega-will-change-this-l8r]

you know what you know what, another thing that i've put too much thought into

this line on the earthbound wiki

hwha??? where? don't just leave it there!! show me!!!

so this sent me into a whole thing trying to figure out what this was talking about, since i love it when there's female grunts in things and i was reasonably confident that i had seen pretty much all developmental pigmask-related things there were to find

now, it's not like i need some vague unused sprite to justify myself imagining female pigmasks, since, like, there's only a couple explicitly male pigmasks too, but still, i wanted to get to the bottom of this

but try as i might, i could not freaking find anything about this anywhere else

so i started checking the history of the wiki article to see when that info was added it seems like it was first added on september 10th, 2010, by an anonymous user, in this form:

not very helpful

it received a couple tweaks to the spelling and grammar aftewards, but on october 30th, user Breakin'Benny added some more information:

okay! sick! i mean the baseless speculation is stupid, just gonna take a moment here and warn people not to use the earthbound wiki as a source, but it has an actual link to something concrete!! so let's check it out together!

okay welp that was a really disheartening bust no indication of what the video was, no images or anything

the line was trimmed down later on, first removing the video link, then the sexism part, and finally became its current form

so i decided to take a different approach i know pigmask stuff pretty well, so i figured i could try and deduce what it is they're referring to it's a sprite, of a yellow pigmask, seemingly with breasts hm

so let's see in the game, the only "yellow pigmask" is the mask boney wears in thunder tower, which doesn't really count the garbage collector pigmasks wear yellow vests that have a small line on the chest, but that's a pretty big stretch

for unused stuff specifically (i could imagine someone not remembering the vest pigmasks and confusing them for unused content, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt), we have this strange pigmask graphic

yellow, unused, and maybe someody's interpreting that line on the left as the shape of breasts, but idk there's an unused palette swap of a navy squeal, which is yellow, and perhaps someone could mistake the folds of the clothes for a chest, but i'm doubtful

and finally i thought of this picture from the 15th anniversary of the game, which features a yellow pigmask with a sort of weird-looking chest, but unfortunately the timeline doesn't match up

that's sadly where my search ended, my best guess is that they meant the weird-looking sketchy graphic, but i can't say for sure no idea if there ever was a legitimate source for that info, but they're not even trying to source it now and it really bugs me

don't use the earthbound wiki

[mad-bird-writes]

The Order of the Pallid Mask - High Priestess Sariann

By the time Sariann was born, work had already begun on restoring the Sundered City to a livable state, with its former glory nothing more than a pipe dream in the minds of most, and a bittersweet memory in the hearts of the still-living few who had seen it.

Whether she was born within the Cloister of Saint Cassilda or simply given unto its care as a newborn, Sariann could not, and cannot say. All she knows for certain is this: the Elders of the Order apparently saw something in her, some unrealized potential that they could shape to fit their needs.

From her earliest memories of childhood, Sariann was being taught, trained, moulded to fill a specific, vital role - that of a High Priestess. Whether she was to replace a dead predecessor or the originator of the position, she does not know and there are no records to show, with too few hands to waste precious time and resources on admin.

As a girl, she learned the Order's scavenged Scripture by rote, taking the Utopian dream of a reclaimed Carcosa as humanity's birthright to heart. In her teens, she retained that fond wish, but shifted her attention to matters more practical, more earthbound. The King in Yellow may well return in the future, but that wouldn't feed the starving populace now, so she, along with the more green-fingered Acolytes, took to working the Cloister's gardens (though with precious few resources), so they would have at least a meagre supply of fresh food. Or else she'd volunteer to barter for dry goods at the city's Market of Remnants, or tend the sick, the children...any work that required little more than a pair of hands and the will to do it, she did.

In adulthood, this trend of helping wherever possible has continued, more often than not to the point of overwork, but as they're really no closer to their ultimate goal than they were a decade ago, she sees no reason to stop now. Of course, her role as High Priestess has given her a host of other responsibilities, but what time she has, she gives freely to the Order.

Headstrong and industrious, she is well-liked within the Order, but as the Elders begin the next, crucial phase of their strange machinations, there are some who eye her warily, doubtful as to her true role in proceedings.

[space-writes]

Are there any stories/tales/pieces of fiction within your current projects such as folk tales, songs, or superstitions? Are they true accounts or simply stories? Who believes them?

if not, have any inspired your work?

-@/rodentwrites

hi @rodentwrites, thank you for the ask!

I’ll answer for Valloroth, since it’s the main thing I’m working on right now - there are definitely a lot of folk tales, songs, and superstitions! the one that has relevance in the main story is the one about Cidra, an ancient red dragon - one of the five dragons of Valloroth - who went gold-crazy and devoured most of the dwarven population before she was defeated by a group of Earthbound gods and bound beneath the mountains of Cidra’s Teeth.

At this point in the world, a lot of people thing it’s mostly legend. There’s no doubt that Cidra existed - dragons definitively exist, the only one left alive (that anyone can find) is currently ruling the Empire she founded, or what’s left of it. But the story itself has been tweaked and exaggerated over the years.

(it's true, though. and the gods that bound her get to come out to play in book 2/3 and im so excited about it)

It’s a fun plot point, because no-one believes the main cast that a real dragon is out and about causing trouble; after all, they’re all gone. It’s probably just a really big wyvern.

Also, my favourite fun aside in the book is the off-hand comment Zander makes about the Wraith (Vren, my beloved grouch) being the only assassin notorious enough to have a cautionary ballad written about him :P

Valloroth taglist: @cherrybombfangirlwrites @reininginthefirewriting @memento-morri-writes @foxboyclit @lawful-evil-novelist

@at-thezenith @morganwriteblr @fayeiswriting @serenanymph

@sam-glade @viscerawrites @thegreatobsesso @flower-reads (ask to be +/-)

[lessnearthesun]

Thank you, @mistressaccost for the tag 🩷

Last Song: Cigarette Daydreams - Cage The Elephant

Favorite color: Pastel blue

Last Book: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia was the last book I read, but I’m currently reading The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega, which I actually just picked up at Barnes and Noble like two hours ago lol. It’s my airplane book for tonight

Last Movie: I think it was Wicked, when I went to see it for the third time right before Christmas lmao

Last Show: Shameless! I’m currently on season 6, episode 8

Sweet/savory/spicy: Sweet!

Current Obsession: I think I have to say the late Roman Republic/early Roman Empire. I’ve started watching HBO Rome, I just bought SPQR by Mary Beard, and I’ve been listening to a podcast that (among other historical topics) discusses Ancient Rome. I’ve been on a real kick lately. (In case anyone is curious, the podcast is History is Sexy, and one of its co-hosts is Emma Southon, who studied and writes about the Classics)

Looking forward to: Flying home tonight 🙏 I’ve had enough of my hometown for a while lol. Also: I plan to FINALLY go and see Nosferatu later this week!!!

Tagging: @livvyofthelake @shakespecre @earthbound-in-doubt @cam1lla @richiepapes and anyone else who wants to! <3