#link: justinian

[wearethekat]

Anticipated New Releases of 2024

**As anticipated by Me. Mostly SFF. Links are to goodreads because that's what I use, sorry. Anything marked "new to me" I haven't read anything by that author before and therefore can't vouch for the quality. I just think the premise is neat.**

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, Heather Fawcett (16 January)

Sequel to the charming novel about the fairy anthropologist.

Exordia, Seth Dickinson (23 January)

Well, it isn't a new Baru Cormorant, but this modern SF about first contact may be the next best thing.

City of Stardust, Georgia Summers (30 January)

New to me. A young woman descends into the underworld in order to break her family's fatal curse.

The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (6 February)

New to me. A sherlock holmes flavored duo solves the mystery of the murder of an imperial official in a labyrinthine fantasy realm.

What Feasts at Night, T Kingfisher (13 February)

The sequel to the mushroom horror book What Moves the Dead.

The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden (13 February)

A ghost story set in WW1 about a woman searching for her missing brother.

The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo (13 February)

New to me. A detective in 1908 Manchuria investigates a young woman's death in an area full of mythical foxes.

Redsight, Meredith Mooring (27 February)

New to me. Unpowered priestess and Imperial pawn is set on a collision path with a pirate with a grudge for the Imperium (Gay romance).

Sunbringer, Hannah Kaner (12 March)

Sequel about the professional godkiller Kissen.

Jumpnauts, Hao Jingfang (12 March)

New to me. A SF novel in translation from Chinese, with three scientists joining forces to deal peacefully with a first contact situation.

The Woods All Black, Lee Mandelo (19 March)

I liked Mandelo's debut novel very much so I'm excited to read this queer horror novella set in 1920s Appalachia.

Floating Hotel, Grace Curtis (19 March)

New to me. A series of cozy character vignettes on a space cruise ship after a murder has occurred. One of the four (!) space hotel murder crimes books coming out this year.

The Emperor and the Endless Palace, Justinian Huang (26 March)

New to me. Reincarnation gay romance set in 4 BCE China, the 1740s, and modern-day LA.

Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (28 March)

Far future space xenoarchaeology by a man trapped on a prison planet.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (2 April)

New to me. Bizarre lesbian cannibalism monster romance from the point of view of the monster.

The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (9 April)

Glad to see Bardugo writing more adult fantasy, and this one is especially exciting because it's a fantasy set in early modern Spain with a Jewish main character. Fun to see a more original historical period.

A Sweet Sting of Salt, Rose Sutherland (9 April)

New to me. Lesbian selkie romance.

Death in the Spires, KJ Charles (11 April)

Charles branching out from romance into historical Oxford murder mystery about a group of friends with dark secrets.

Audrey Lane Stirs The Pot, Alexis Hall (22 April)

The new Hall thinly veiled british baking show romcom. Libby says it's releasing in April but I've heard nothing from the author so I think it may be Alecto'd (shifted to next year)

Necrobane, Daniel M Ford (23 April)

Sequel to the dungeons and dragons-esque low fantasy lesbian necromancy book.

A Letter to the Luminous Deep, Sylvie Cathrall (25 April)

New to me. Sweet underwater epistolary academic romance.

How To Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, Django Wexler (21 May)

New to me. A young hero caught in a fantasy time loop gives up and tries being the villain in an attempt to escape.

Goddess of the River, Vaishnavi Patel (21 May)

Another woman-centered retelling of Hindu mythology, this time based on the river goddess Ganga.

Escape Velocity, Victor Manibo (21 May)

New to me. Evil and toxic private school alumni jockey for position in a space hotel event in an attempt to escape a dying Earth.

The Fireborne Blade, Charlotte Bond (28 May)

New to me. Gay dragon slaying knight novella.

Evocation, ST Gibson (28 May)

New to me but looks very cool. Attorney and medium David attempts to escape his deal with the devil with the help of his ex boyfriend and his ex boyfriend's wife (Poly romance).

Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (4 June)

In an SF future, a robot kills its human owners and ventures out into a world where human supremacy is beginning to crumble.

Lady Eve's Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (4 June)

New to me. A con artist seeks revenge on the man who hurt her sister, who's coincidentally also on a space cruise ship (Sapphic romance subplot).

Triple Sec, TJ Alexander (4 June)

An actual mainstream published poly romance (!!) by trans author Alexander.

Running Close to the Wind, Alexandra Rowland (11 June)

Gay! Pirates! Scheming! Alt fantasy world! Monks! I liked Taste of Gold and Iron a lot and I'm very excited for this one.

The Knife and the Serpent, Tim Pratt (11 June)

New to me. Space opera about an interdimensional organization. Also, there's a sentient starship.

The Witchstone, Henry Neff (18 June)

A childhood favorite of mine's adult debut, featuring a demon who suddenly has to shape up at his curse keeper job after eight hundred years of slacking.

Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (18 June)

VERY excited to read more weird queer sff from this author after a fantastic debut. Looks weird. I'm in.

Foul Days, Genoveva Dimova (25 June)

New to me. A witch in a Slavic fantasy inspired world flees her evil ex, the Tsar of Monsters. There's also a plague and a detective.

Saints of Storm and Sorrow, Gabriella Buba (25 June)

New to me. Filipino inspired anticolonialist fantasy novel about a nun who is secretly practicing the religion of her goddess.

The Duke at Hazard, KJ Charles (18 July)

A queer regency with an incognito duke by one of my particular favorite romance authors.

Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (30 July)

!!! Very excited to see a new adult fantasy by Brennan. A reader is dragged into a fictional world and finds herself the villain.

A Sorceress Comes to Call, T Kingfisher (20 August)

A retelling of The Goose Girl from reliably good fairy tale stalwart Kingfisher.

Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (17 September)

Collection of Novik's short stories.

Swordcrossed, Freya Marske (8 October)

VERY excited to see a new book by talented writer Marske. A man falls in love with the duelist hired for his arranged wedding. MEANWHILE. details of the fantasy world wool industry.

Feast While You Can, Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta (29 October)

New to me. Small town queer cave horror.

The Last Hour Between Worlds, Melissa Caruso (19 November)

Multiple reality murder mystery spy vs spy type antics, with lesbians.

[gemsofgreece]

TIL from a podcast featuring historian and Byzantine archaeologist Yannis Theoharis:

Athens was one of the most religiously conservative cities of the Byzantine Empire. It adhered to the ancient Greek religion for longer than most other areas. Contrary to popular belief, its eventual conversion to Christianity did not happen violently. Christianity was getting more and more ground amongst the believers progressively. Meanwhile, the ancient temples and shrines were progressively emptying but as long as there were believers they were functioning properly and had guards and went through restoration works and all, as stated by Neoplatonic philosopher Proklos (with the exception of nude sculptures which had been destroyed already by proto-Christians). The historian also claims the conversion of the temples to churches happened later than what was previously believed, around the 7th-9th centuries. As the vast majority of the population had eventually converted to Christianity, the temples were left abandoned. The empire ordered their conversion to churches so that funding their preservation could be justified. Furthermore, there wasn’t as much of violent banning of ancient schools as it was thought. Justinian did not ban the function of the Neoplatonic school in Athens but ceased the state funding unless the school accepted to add Christian theology to its curriculum. The Neoplatonic school refused but it was not banned. It kept functioning using its own private funds until this wasn’t enough and the school had to close. Evidence for this is that it is documented that the school functioned for several decades or more than a century (don’t remember exactly) after Justinian’s imperial command, which was previously viewed as an immediate or violent shutdown. Meanwhile, the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria (in Egypt) agreed to add Christian theology to its curriculum and it kept functioning undisturbed until the 7th century and the Arab conquest.

Also, he has more insight into the similarities observed between Eastern / Greek and even all Orthodoxy and the Ancient Greek religion, such as idol / icon worship, lesser deity / saint worship, virgin female deity / super saint worship, patron gods / saints etc He says there was an interesting cycle of Christianised Hellenism followed by Hellenized Christianity. Some of these elements of Christian Orthodoxy were emphasized more than in the early years of Proto-Christianity or even exaggerated by the Byzantine Greek Christians in order to attract the pagan Greeks and make them understand more easily the philosophy of the new religion and find common ground between them. It worked.

Lastly, he disputed the dated assumptions that the Visigoth king Alaric I was assisted by monks to destroy Athens during his invasion in 396. This was falsely concluded because in documents it was found that Alaric was accompanied by men clad in black. Theoharis says these were actually Thracian soldiers (Alaric indeed fared long in Thrace and the Thracians were by large mercenaries) and supports it is very unlikely based on historical evidence of the time that Athenian or Greek Christians would collaborate with a Visigoth invader to help him destroy historical areas of Athens, even if they were pagan.

These are the most important bits from memory, I am linking the podcast here, it is in Greek.

[saintsenara]

atramentum bellatrix lestrange/lord voldemort teen | 1.9k words

when he ruled in majesty she would buy him an ermine-trimmed mantle, in byzantine purple with pearls at the throat. he would not wear it, but he would laugh - his soft laugh, the one you knew he actually meant - and kiss her without commanding her otherwise, and they would roll upon it like he was justinian - tyrannical and pious - and she was theodora - wanton and capricious - and they were actually in love. 

two lovers pass a halloween afternoon.

this piece was written for week eight of @ladiesofhpfest, on the theme of villainous vixens [you can find the masterlist for this week's fics here].

it's my second piece for this fest [the first - death (eaters) in paradise - is here] on one of my favourite ships: bellamort. i am obsessed with them, and the tragedy and - in my opinion - tenderness bound up in their canonical relationship.

author's notes under the cut

indeed, this piece is - sort of - the serious version of death (eaters) in paradise. both examine the same key theme - that voldemort is the only man of bellatrix's acquaintance who allows her to transcend the extremely restrictive gender roles which dictate the lives of magical women, particularly pureblood ones, and, therefore, the only man of her acquaintance who comes even vaguely close to offering her a notion of equality in his treatment of her. which, given that they are technically master and servant, is really saying something...

equally, both pieces examine the complexity of bellatrix's relationship with sex - and, in particular, the fact that she sees sex, pleasure, and her relationship with her own body as separate from the duty to wife- and mother-hood which she chafes against. this is also a theme i have drawn out in my writing on narcissa - such as in my piece other women and of purer blood.

here, bellatrix is thinking, morbidly, of how passion and desire is bound up with the fact that she is a murderer; how sex and death are linked for her; and how she is in love with a man who makes her feel alive, and who offers her something much more tangible than her loveless marriage, but who is not truly alive himself.

and yet, her love for him is still authentic. that voldemort retains the habits of his working-class upbringing is a recurring motif in my writing, with his tendency to take attic bedrooms - something he is not particularly upset by if his minions take as insulting - a particular feature of this. that bellatrix finds something more real in her thirteenth-best bed [i know that the question of whether shakespeare bequeathing anne hathaway his second-best bed was insulting or not is contentious - i'm choosing to interpret it as romantic] than she does in the sumptuous furnishings of the decaying manor house she inherited as a bride.

i've always wondered how bellatrix felt about voldemort's apparent death in 1981 - certainly, she must be suitably blindsided by it to lose all sense and attack the longbottoms [an attack which is not only morally bad but also just plain clumsy, and seemingly quite far removed from how the voldemort of the first war liked to conduct his operations], but she is also convinced at her trial that voldemort will rise again.

atramentum is sort of adjacent to that wondering, as bellatrix and voldemort spend what will be their last afternoon for fifteen years together, as rain pours down.

[combat-model]

i) Jews revolt and Hadrian expels & genocides the Jews from Judæa

ii) he settles Romans in their place

iii) the Romans convert en masse to Samaritanism

iv) Samaritans revolt and Justinian expels & genocides the Samaritans from Palestina Prima

v) the survivors travel to Italy, where they settle amidst the Ostrogothic-Roman-Lombardic transition

vi) they convert to Judaism to link up with the far smaller existing Italian Jewish community

vii) from there they spread to the rest of Europe, becoming the ancestors of the Aschkenasim

Israelis = Romans qed

[libraryleopard]

July reads

*= reread

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Icarus by K. Ancrum

Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reed

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood

The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel 

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States edited by Maya Schenwar, Jo Macaré, and Alana Yu-Lan Price

Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido

Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

Generation Loss by Elizebeth Hand

This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo*

[maklodes]

This is kind of weird. One of my posts – possibly more, but certainly one – has disappeared. I remembered making it, and then I searched on siikr for it based on it having the name “Justinian” in it, and I found it on siikr:

The link is dead, though.

As far as I can tell, the entire thread has disappeared. I remember @argumate posting in this thread as well, and sure enough, the post was on siikr:

But the link is dead.

Anyone know what’s going on here, whether the posts can be restored, whether they were removed for a reason, or anything else? @staff

(I drafted this when siikr was still a thing.)

[theowritesfiction]

Hi @theowritesfiction how are you doing? So I was scrolling through Spotify the other day and came across “the history of Byzantium” podcast. Remembering our earlier discussion, I found an episode on Justinian II. Link is here

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4x6lJEqY4weIcuEqHp3Yjv?si=J8_rmroYQoadWDmDpZ7MiA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A2APexkhnuepwYbPhbrq3Mm

I hope the episode can be of some modicum of help should you need it. The actual Justinian II discussion begins at 1:50 into the audio. After the adds.

Oh yes, thank you, that's one of my favorite history podcasts. :) I would definitely use that episode as a source for inspiration, in case I end up writing an atla x rl history crossover!

[caesarsaladinn]

there are lots of reasons that the Byzantine empire is barely mentioned in history classes, but I suspect a big one is that it just doesn’t have a compelling map. with the western Romans, you can lay out side-by-sides of dramatic territorial changes, linked to charismatic leaders—look what Augustus did! look at Trajan! Diocletian!—but Byzantium had very little of that. After the spectacular losses of Heraclius, it was pretty much five centuries of trading territory back and forth with various khans and emirs, which is complicated and boring.

I suspect that’s why the fabulously overrated Justinian is usually the only one who gets mentioned. his territorial gains may have been vain, cruel, short-lived, and costly, but damn if they don’t make for a sexy map comparison.

(his reign was consequential, sure, but it’s not like the curriculum ever plans on following up on the effects of the Codex or Italian wars. he’s just a memorably large blob of red.)

[redwayfarers]

🖊 ahh I don't know who so I'm gonna give two categories: Wayfarer of your choice OR new OC you are excited to talk about!

ty for dropping by! <3 since i've been missing my wayfarer kids something fierce, so have some wayfarer kiddos! here's some honoria for you :)

picrew link

🖊 she's from sathir but her father, justinian, isn't. he's an ayadan melusine warrior that did helped the court of sarin, and over time, after he and his first wife parted ways, he married a minor-ish elven noblewoman of sarin's court named galla and they had honoria and her two siblings :)

honoria is also very much attached to her father, who didn't shun her for being a magianis, who loved and defended her, as did her mother. the decision to join the wayfarers was honoria's own, and even though she grew close to cenric and views him as a second father after being his apprentice, she never really shook off her father's name, ionneon, in honor of him.

when the spire fell (since in my extended verse honoria and thesor sereno are older wayfarers who are spire survivors) she took a very injured thesor to her father in sathir to recover, where they spent some time living with the clan. i have an old fic about it, if anyone's curious to read! i love oria and thesor's relationship, they're platonic life partners and they're so funny together. i care them lots!!!

[queens-an-tings]

Matching depictions in separate mosaics of the 6th century Byzantine Emperor and Empress, Justinian and Theodora at San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.

Theodora was one of the most influential and powerful women of the Eastern Roman empire, she apparently worked as an actress and prostitute before she married the future emperor Justinian I.Historian Procopius of Caesarea famously wrote a book about her and husband Justinian probably not long after Theodora’s death in 548 which was highly critical and probably biased due to a personal grievance against them. Regards women’s rights, Theodora did a lot of good. She worked for women’s marriage and dowry rights, anti-rape legislation, and was supportive of the many young girls who were sold into sexual slavery. She tried to stop pimps making their money from prostitutes and set up a house where such women could live in peace. The mosaic here shows her with a halo, so she must have been regarded as a good sort by someone!

‘Theodora: the empress from the brothel’, [ADD LINK], Stella Duffy, The Guardian, 2010.

[vh-rp]

How Time Works in Thedas for Valiant Hearts

So, OOC time works as such, in way of compromise: January: 1.5 IC months onsite Feb: 1.5 IC months onsite Mar: 1.5 IC months onsite

Another example using the onsite calendar: January (1.5 IC months) = Roleplaying in Wintermarch to about mid-Guardian. Feb (1.5 IC months) = Guardian to Drakonis. March (1.5 IC months) = Drakonis to Cloudreach

The staff team trusts that members will implement this if they want; it is not a requirement, but it is how site time officially moves. We won’t be policing this construct, but just know that every 2 OOC months equals about 3 IC months and you can choose to have things like pregnancies and child-growth follow this.

The Thedas Calendar The Thedosian calendar is similar to our own, consisting of twelve 30-day months. The majority of Thedas celebrates 5 major holidays mostly linked to the changing of seasons or the beginning of a new year.

All of the months have a name in ancient Tevinter, but most of Thedas use the common names.

COMMON NAMES 1st month: Wintermarch (First Day) 2nd month: Guardian (Wintersend) 3rd month: Drakonis 4th month: Cloudreach 5th month: Bloomingtide (Summerday) 6th month: Justinian 7th month: Solace 8th month: August (All Soul's Day) 9th month: Kingsway 10th month: Harvestmere 11th month: Firstfall (Satinalia) 12th month: Haring

TEVINTER NAMES 1st month: Verimensis (First Day) 2nd month: Pluitanis (Wintersend) 3rd month: Nubulis 4th month: Eluviesta 5th month: Molioris (Summerday) 6th month: Ferventis 7th month: Solis 8th month: Matrinalis (All Soul's Day) 9th month: Parvulis 10th month: Frumentum 11th month: Umbralis (Satinalia) 12th month: Cassus

[rollarollasupanova]

2024: September Log

Books (bold = recommend, * = actively dislike)

Her Body & Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado (would recommend "Inventory" & "The Husband Stitch", the rest didn't hit)

The Emperor & the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang*

The Weaver & the Witch Queen - Genevieve Gornichec

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel

The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak & Magic - Breanne Randall*

TV & film

Rings of Power (up to 1x04)

Fallout

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (started rewatch from season 1)

Music (best songs & top songs)

Asphalt - Pygmy Lush (especially the NPR tiny desk)

anything - Adrianne Lenker

Blood in the Cut - K.Flay

Eshu Nigüe (Elegua) - Okan (NPR tiny desk)

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra: Field Recordings x Aspen Ideas Festival

Apple - cover by Griff

Looking too Closely - Fink

symptom of life - WILLOW

Radioactive - MARINA

Take Me to the River (I Will Swim) - Alex Yurkiv & Thelma Costolo

Bed Chem - Sabrina Carpenter

Food

Quick Fridge Pickled Cucumbers - Nom Nom Paleo Ready or Not (subbing in lychee juice for apple is amazing!)

This lemony basil salad dressing on arugula, pasta, and chickpeas

Links

how your boyfriend became your brand. (vid)

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14 (news)

40 minute deep stretch yoga routine (vid)

cute (twitter vid)

beautiful sapphic art (ig artist)

kamala harris calling to start gay marriages after prop 8 (twitter vid)

This American Life: Music of the Night After Night (podcast)

I Nearly Died Drowning. Here’s What it’s Like to Survive. (essay)

What It's All About (essay)

We're Not Going to Run Out of New Anatomy Anytime Soon (essay)

Highlights

Roller derby (as always, but especially new skates)

Getting back into research

Finally figuring out nightshift schedule

Being busy again!!!

Proximity to babies!

[shroud-of-empire]

I forgot to even mention this in my review, but another funny thing about So Speaks the Heart is how it repeatedly insists that Leandra is better/smarter/more attractive than Theodora. E.g. Leandra is a virgin and Theodora is not, Leandra knows things that Theodora can’t understand, Theodora is attractive but Leandra is beautiful… you get what I mean. The narrative specifies at one point that Theodora has gained weight, while Leandra is still youthful and slim. Alexander even sleeps with Theodora just so he can compare her to Leandra later (and he obviously concludes that Leandra is better). I guess it’s just part of the fantasy—Leandra is prettier than the most famous courtesan in the world, because she’s written for escapism, not accuracy—but a lot of books do this. Generally, if a book is set in the sixth-century Byzantine Empire and the main character is anyone other than Theodora, the narrative will repeatedly emphasize that Theodora isn’t that attractive/powerful/intelligent. If the protagonist is a woman, the author will establish early on that the protagonist is the more beautiful of the two; if the protagonist is a man, the author will establish that he’s smarter and his wife is prettier. And you see this everywhere in Byzantine speculative fiction.

Like, okay, The John the Eunuch books don’t really focus on Justinian and Theodora anyway, but every time Theodora does show up, the narrator has to comment on how unattractive she is (especially compared to John’s love interest). In the earlier books, she’s described as mediocre-looking and generally underwhelming, and in the later books, she’s described as having aged poorly (again, the narrator comments on her weight). A Flame in Byzantium describes her as an aging matron with a receding chin, wearing gaudy, tasteless outfits to disguise her fading looks. Every Belisarius book makes a point of mentioning that Antonina is more desirable than Theodora, either because Theodora is sluttier, less attractive, or somehow “broken” (a lot of books give her exaggerated trauma or mental illnesses, so she can be dismissed as a crazy shrew that no normal man would ever want). And it’s not like I’m personally invested in defending Theodora’s looks—I don’t really care if some vampire novel describes her as less attractive than the idealized protagonist—but I do think it’s a weird pattern. I mean, we know what Theodora looked like. We know how her contemporaries viewed her. We know that she had a successful career as an actress and a courtesan, and that she married the heir to the Roman Empire. And yet so many books present her as an overrated, overweight, middle-aged has-been with bad taste in jewelry and tacky barbarian clothes.

I don’t know. I’m probably overanalyzing this, but I think it speaks to a number of different things. A lot of it is clearly rooted in sexism, but it’s like a fusion of a hundred different sexist tropes. You have the “evil queen” trope, where a powerful woman is depicted as an old hag envious of other girls’ youth and beauty—in Theodora books, the old hag is Euphemia, and in other books, the old hag is Theodora. And some authors have a tendency to portray adult women as uniformly petty and cliquey regardless, so then you get these weird stories where empresses compete over who’s prettiest like they’re sixteen-year-old pageant queens. (Granted, you see that more in older books, but it does pop up in more recent stories.) But that doesn’t entirely account for the “my wife is way hotter than that crazy bitch, Theodora” stories, which almost feel more sinister to me. That specific sentiment feels so rooted in such a complex web of sexist stereotypes—linking women’s worth to their looks, linking men’s worth to their assets (and presenting a pretty, young wife as an asset who increases her husband’s value as a man), depicting any women who aren’t stock “cool girl” characters as “crazy bitches,” etc. A lot of writers clearly do this to make Belisarius seem cooler and more enviable—they can’t give Justinian a normal, loving marriage, because then Justinian would have something that Belisarius doesn’t, so they have to make Theodora ugly or crazy so Belisarius still seems like he “won.” It’s more subtle with the other male-character-centric stories, but I think that motivation is present at least some of the time.

Anyway, this rant kind of got away from me, and again, I’m probably thinking too hard about this (most of these speculative fiction books aren’t exactly great literature, anyway, for reasons independent of Theodora). But I still think the tendency to compare Theodora unfavorably to other, more prominent female characters, often in ways that don’t make a lot of sense (like describing Theodora as overweight, unattractive, or somehow “broken” or “crazy”) is a phenomenon worth remarking on.

[thefilmed2008]

All known kings of Hyrule.

Link Arcadius Hyrule 1

“Hylia’s Chosen”

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Gustav Nohansen Hyrule

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Romulus Harkinian Hyrule

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Caesar Harkinian Hyrule

“The Conqueror”

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Nero Harkinian Hyrule

“The Atoner”

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“The Hero of Hyrule”

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“The White Stag”

(Real name unknown)

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Link Justinian Hyrule

“The Waker of Winds”

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“The Conductor”

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Rauru Atlas Hyrule

“The Golden King”

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Cain Bosphoramus Hyrule

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Roam Bosphoramus Hyrule

“The Scorned”

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Link Arcadius Hyrule 2

“The great”

[biblenewsprophecy]

European Union & 7 Kings of Revelation 17:10

@bible-news-prophecy-radio

Could the European Union be involved in biblical prophecies? If so, which? What did the EU form from? Did the little horn of Benelux grow larger towards the south and east as Daniel prophesied? What about the seven kings of Revelation 17:10? Could they be connected to the so-called 'Holy Roman Empire'? What is the 'Marian' EU flag based upon? Might the seven kings be Justinian's Imperial Restoration, Charlemagne's Frankish Empire, the 'Holy Roman Empire' of Otto the Great, the Hohenstaufen Dynasty, the Habsburg Dynasty, the European Economic Community/European Union, and the Beast of the Sea of Revelation 13? What about Napoleon or Benito Mussolini/Adolf Hitler? Did Otto von Habsburg renounce his right to the title 'Holy Roman Emperor' in the same year that the European Economic Union (aka the Common Market) formed in 1958? Did the EEU last until the EU was formed in 1993? What about the beast that "was, and is not" and "one is'? What about the beast that "also the eighth, and is of the seven"? What have Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars taught? What about Church of God groups and writers including Andrew Dugger and Herbert W. Armstrong? What are some of the religious connections between the Church of Rome and Europe? What about private prophecies related to the 'Great Monarch'? Could those looking for the Great Monarch miss the Beast and Antichrist according to Roman Catholic writer Paul Thigpen? Could the final Antichrist be an antipope? Is the the Mediterranean Sea the sea that the Beast of Revelation 13 rises from? How does the EU resemble the 'Holy Roman Empire'? Could the EU be the sixth king of Revelation 17:10? Might the United Nations be involved and support the rise of the seventh king? Is the EU setting the stage for the seventh king? Dr. Thiel addresses these matters and more.

An article of related interest is available titled 'The European Union and the Seven Kings of Revelation 17:10'

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