#good omens ancient rome

[its-lucifer-and-the-guys]

Just nipped in for a quick temptation. ✨

Temptation Accomplished.

Ancient Roman couch is loosely based on this one!

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[carnival-of-vanity]

Let me indulge you

Let me take you on a little trip back to Roman times. A beautiful summers day in the Mediterranean, lying lazily in the shade by the pool, savouring grapes, figs and wine while listening to the soft buzz of bees flying around the wisteria overhead

So, I've spent the last three weeks on this, my most ambitious and detailed painting so far. I had a lot of fun mapping out the composition and drawing every single grape, flower and tree in the background - my laptop not so much. Noted, 180 layers is about the maximum photoshop can take. But we need to find a way around that cause I've tasted blood now

[crowlixcx]

[captainfantasticalright]

Good Omens and ancient Rome board games:

I remember looking up ancient board games and came across so many versions of tic-tac-toe within the area of Rome. These are some of the names they had back then!

[actually-azi]

Michael Sheen is an absolute masterpiece 🔥

I wish Tumblr would let me post more gifs bc he has so much more range even than this, but alas, I had to pick 10 😭

Honestly though, how can one person absolutely rock so many different roles like he does? It's delicious

[starksual-art]

when in rome…

[sherdnerd]

I stg if I see one more "Justice for medusa's TRUE story!" post I'm gonna kill someone.

(TW: Assault mention)

The medusa is assaulted by posidon then cursed by athena for being assaulted in her temple only appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, which is written as a purposeful subversion of Greco-roman myths. most are reframed or rewritten from just kinda a thing that exists or a black and white moral tale of why you shouldn't be hubristic to full on tragedies on the part of the person often getting their comeuppance or the monster. Heck in book 13 we get a love story starring Polyphemus, the cyclops from the Odyssey.

In general mythology, Medusa is just another monster. Ovid revises the myth to turn it into a tragedy. I absolutely love ovid's work, he does so many clever things with the myths, but for the love of the gods its the furthest from the real version you can get

[ineffabildaddy]

this belongs in the cunt museum. that is all

[lydiablackblade]

"Still a demon, then?"

Aziraphale, babe, this is the second lamest pick up line told in a bar tavern EVER... You are really not good at how to ask him out, aren't you :D :D

[ineffableclassics]

"You'll never guess what people have been saying about oysters..." Aziraphale's speech was muffled as his mouth was full.

Crowley cocked his head to the side and raised an eyebrow. He suspected that he knew where this was going, but he wanted to play it off as if he didn't for as long as inhumanly possible. He waved his hand in a gesture of encouragement. "Go on."

"You see, they say that oysters are..." The angel lowered his voice and inhaled. "... an aphrodisiac."

Rome, 41AD: Aziraphale successfully "tempts" Crowley to go for dinner and try oysters with him. Crowley confesses during dinner that he's never hooked up with anyone before, and Aziraphale sets about putting this to rights immediately.

Words: 6,514

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

@ineffabildaddy

Art Credit: Ménage À Trois by Auseklis Ozols, 2019

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[shynrinn]

added colors to my tinie-tiny doodle

[ssheepie]

Alcohol. Quite extraordinary amounts of alcohol.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

happy ides, soothslayers. i have a video for you.

On the accursed occasion of the Ides of March, which Tumblr celebrates because of course you do, maggots, I rooted up a months-old video that was an art history project I made about art in the Roman Republic.

Except, well. It's really, really gay.

Not the art. The video. And it's called Keeping Up With the Ancient Romans.

The video is here. Or you can find the YouTube channel itself in the pinned post on my blog. Something.

Idk my brain is fried after rewatching that goddamn video.

I think @achilles-in-a-blanket-burrito said it best:

Plutarch, ancient writer, has never been gayer. And we don't even talk about General Pompeius.

Just. Just no. But if I had to watch it, shitty production quality and all, so do you. Below are two screenshots from the bloody thing:

Happy Ides. I have two other posts queued up for today. They're... they're almost as cursed.

Love you, my maggots.

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