#loved romans reaction

[luchorgasm]

Roman reaction to Cody telling him: “Your ring… your WWE… Well, it was.”

Denial - Anger - Depression - Acceptance

[samijey]

[fabxpunk]

[sforzesco]

ALRIGHT okay I will attempt to explain this to the best of my ability, which is currently being held together by tape and coffee

so I have a long running post philippi story focusing on the octavian-antony divorce arc conflict and it's heavily dramatized and full of dead people. it's one part historical, one part my own invention, and one part fucking around with ideas (or the lack there of) in movies about antony and cleopatra. many of which are bad! however. there is a bad one that's actually good. like, I wouldn't recommend it except that I talk about it constantly.

it's the 1953 movie, Serpent of the Nile and I have not known peace since watching it. it's one of the more interesting takes on antony and cleopatra (TO ME), and more importantly: I'm obsessed with the plot point where antony helps lucilius escape egypt to warn octavian.

this scene is partially inspired by that! this scene is partially inspired by several things, but that's the one to mention bc I haven't published any of this story except for the periodic scene I've drawn for fun so listing the rest of it will not add to this experience and also I’m very sleepy right now

the egyptian wall backgrounds in the first page and the last page are of a tomb wall painting, the third page uses an illustration of the death of antony for shakespeare's antony and cleopatra, and on the second page is actually my own painting of antony and cleopatra after giambattista pittoni's painting of antony, cleopatra, and the famous pearl incident

additionally, that last page. the floor. that's a relief commemorating the battle of actium. I'd been reading about depictions of actium and it is. intriguing, especially since my first thought wrt to all of that is usually abt the bodies in the water and how they'll never be buried or antony's parthian fuck up setting the stage for all of this.

also this specifically. fascinating.

Representations and Re-presentations of the Battle of Actium, Barbara Kellum

[hotch-girl]

Isn’t that right, Dad?

SUCCESSION — 4.06 “LIVING+”

[aideneverybody]

“And then he smiles, and that’s what I’m after.”

[destinationtoast]

gosh you guys make me feel loved 😭😭😭

[artbyach]

My Roman Empire:

When dudes that have a dark aura lol listen to kpop and not say much but you gradually see the merch and hype accumulating in their room and in themselves

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

I never cared much for Roman ngl and yet I still felt really bad for him this episode, and that’s a testament writing and acting. I’ve always had a soft spot for Kendall, I still do, but I don’t know he makes me queasy, has done the whole of this season, I do like his character but I want to kill him before he becomes Logan yah know. Shiv I both like and she doesn’t make me want to throw up, like yeah she threw away her principles this episode but who doesn’t throw away their principles on this show this isn’t Charles Dickens world! So she is my favourite I guess, but Connor, Con my beloved. Can’t even choose between Con and Shiv, they’re so different, like choosing between two different species.

[susieskinner93]

Succession 4x10

[korovamlecznybar]

parents succession news: mom thinks roman will win, dad is betting on shiv

[attila-werther]

pompeyo and cassio getting drunk at a party and making out is probably one of the more questionable narrative choices I've made with Part 2, but I'm a romantic at heart and xxxholic did a specific kind of permanent damage to me so I will Not be taking it out in the edits

[mrboy425]

its hard talking about my interests sometimes,, like its easy for me to talk about the ocean and jellyfish as nature often comes up in conversations,,, but wwe????? how do i just. bring that up

[sforzesco]

Lucullus and Cicero were, as I have said, ardent friends, and members of the same political party, for Lucullus had not withdrawn himself entirely from political life, although he lost no time in leaving to Crassus and Cato the ambitious struggle for the chief place and the greatest power, since he saw that it involved both peril and ignominy.

-Plutarch, Lucullus

rejected panel layouts for a scene between lucullus and crassus, but it was still fun enough to play with that it gets memorialized on the blog :)

crassus ???? reaction has less to do with his own characterization and more to do with me, who was mostly thinking about how much cato wanted to Stab Sulla and completely forgot that lucullus had independent ties with cato. like, a whole relationship dynamic was going on with those two.

so jump cut to

lmao. anyway! something interesting (gestures vaguely) is happening in all of this

Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic, Fred K. Drogula

Lucullus, a Life, Arthur Keaveney

A Life in Pieces, Plutarch, Crassus 12.1-16-8, James T Chlup

Lucullus: A Life, Arthur Keaveney

Plutarch, Cato 3

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

[walkingclownemoji]

love watching pre Tribal Chief Roman matches and see the subtitles say: [crowd cheering] Are they? Are you sure? Are you sure that's what they're doing?

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

this imagery slaps