#my roman empire is these aqueducts

[forrrrrrrest]

Roman aqueducts

these things occupy my mind constantly, and I found an unfinished painting I started like 2 years ago in my sketchbook so I finished it.

Critique and constructive criticism is welcome!

[beatrack92]

Building a Roman aqueduct

[dear-ao3]

hey hey hey hey hey

how often do you think about the Roman empire

my sister and i have been going off about this for weeks. i think of princess diaries 2 far more than i think of the roman empire

not too often honestly. my sister thinks about the aqueducts specifically at least once a week.

[ducktoonsfanart]

Scrooge McDuck as Gaius Julius Caesar - Roman Empire - Conquerors - Real Ducks in History - History in Duckverse - Quack Pack, Ducktales and Duckverse

I'm posting some of my drawings that I've done before, this time related to history and one by one where our famous Duckverse ducks play famous historical figures. See more about it here: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/749604818515050496/donald-duck-as-napoleon-bonaparte-scrooge-mcduck

This drawing is a redraw of a statue made by Nicolas Coustou at the end of the 17th century for the decoration of Versailles, which depicts the greatest Roman, Gaius Julius Caesar. Although he was not an emperor, certainly many presented him, but he was a dictator, consul, general, writer, historian, engineer, constructor, and a great military leader who changed the Roman Republic into an almost Roman Empire. His fights against the Gauls, as well as the conflict with Pompey and his love with Cleopatra, are known, but he also changed a lot in Rome and was extremely rich. And he lived during the first century BC. That’s why I drew Scrooge McDuck as Gaius Julius Caesar since Scrooge is a great leader and he also strived for fame and fortune and to be remembered in the future and he plays the role of the best Roman. Behind it are the Colosseum (built a century after him), the aqueduct (then irrigation) and the Pantheon (built two centuries after him), as well as a Roman temple that symbolizes Rome at that time, as well as the roads themselves. In addition, Topolino (Italian comics) are showed Scrooge as Caesar two or three times so that’s where my inspiration came from.

By the way, Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC, and was killed on March 15, 44 BC. Scrooge's birthday is July 8th, so the difference between Caesar's birthday and Scrooge's birthday is minimal, right? Coincidence? I don't think so. Certainly in my version of Duckverse history Scrooge plays Gaius Julius Caesar whether it's in the Civilization game, Asterix and Obelix or the Rome AU.

Yes, every day I think about the Roman Empire and the history of Rome, but also about ducks, so that I can connect them together into one. And this is my Roman Empire.

I certainly hope you like this drawing and this idea and that these characters have such historical roles. Of course, Duckverse in history I combine mostly everything related to Duckverse (Donald Duck comics, OG Ducktales, Three Caballeros, Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack) and it’s mostly my version and my idea. By all means if you like this and support these ideas, feel free to like and reblog this, but please don’t use these same ideas without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you!

[txttletale]

Hi! I would love to read your poems, but unfortunately you only post them as pictures of text instead of actual text, which makes it hard to read for me, especially on mobile and especially since it is in "night mode" with light font on black background. Could you maybe post them as actual text, too? Or put the text in alt text? Thank you!

yknow i really should do that! thanks for letting me know anon, i will definitely do that for all of my poems i post from now on :). for now here's the most recent one:

Aqueducts Imperial  (walking the salton sea beachfront) The coward tide flees my feet. Defeat at Trasimene. I will not mourn the Roman sons that died there, not unless you cry for every Gaul and Libyan who had no august grand republic. Fishermen will dredge up corpses for a week & then it all goes back to normal. Empires eat each other in the womb & not yet satisfied turn upon their mother’s meat & chew their way out. Babes born fat & chubby cheeked & photogenic, swaddled in monopoly capital.  Moral: Caesar was the first chestburster.  Our mortal city’s veins pump poison just as well as lifeblood. Day by day, another aquifer envenomed. It was a shock when swampmen failed to rise in vengeance from the lakebed. We are told that cows die nobly—placidly, to a machine they do not understand. But machines are fools and architecture just the limbs of idiot giants, impudent and jutting. Somewhere nearby you hear Deleuzean deathsquads make a tunnel of your neighbour’s house. The city is a body and this is why it can betray you.  Moral: This side’s the outside.  The country is sick. We all joke around coughing up dead fish and dribbling wet and sorry ochres. Bile is milked from captive livers and misted into the upper atmosphere but this doesn’t seem to be helping. This is a new hostile environment, one big immune reaction. Out of bodies, towers, out of towers, sand. We see them at the city gates each day carting amphorae of victory wine with birdlike wringable necks. It’s pathetic. We spit out teeth and something black and heavy and smile at each other. We wait, young and feverish, for a signal. Crows of the volcanic beaches.  Moral: There is nothing so peaceful as a desert.

[wolf-tail]

Tbh, like nearly all Tiktok trends the "only men think of the Roman Empire" bullshit is wildly innacurate, I know because as someone who is a woman (most of the time) I can guarantee that I have thought about the Roman Empire more often than those sigma edit-watching statue pfp having scrubs ever have.

At the tender age of 10 I had the most autism-fueled Roman Empire phase imaginable. It's still a special interest to me now.

Stfu about the Praetorian Guard and tell me about some fucking aqueducts. Indoor heating. Public bathrooms. Do they even fucking know they used to flood the Colosseum for mock naval battles?

Fake fans smh my head

[adapembroke]

New Moon in Capricorn: Musing on Dark Ages

When was the last time you took a break?

For me, it had been too long by the middle of December. It had been my intention the entire year to take a significant amount of time off during December to celebrate my baby's first Christmas.

I'm glad I had set that intention in advance. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have taken it. I would have told myself that I couldn't afford to take a break, and that would have been a big mistake.

It's a strange thing, the way human needs work.

There comes a point when you have gone so long without meeting a need that you don't even think you have the need anymore.

People who are starving don't get more and more ravenous. They eventually reach a point where they don't feel hunger. Even if they start to eat again, they can't dive in all at once. They need to start slowly, remember how to eat and digest.

When you go too long without an intellectual rest, similar things happen. Competence wanes. The well of inspiration goes dry. Your work gets harder. The results are sloppier, more and more derivative.

This bothers you, at first. Then it stops bothering you. Once it stops bothering you, you're in a dangerous place. Extreme starvation has its own momentum. It takes an outside force to intervene and keep you from limping along forever.

You might, from time to time, look back at things that you've done in the past with awe the way Dark Age Europeans looked at the ruins of Roman architecture. You know that you aren't capable of those great things anymore, but your curiosity is gone. You don't have the will or the courage to ask yourself, "Why are these things beyond me now? What would it take to get back to my full strength?"

Dark Age Europeans told themselves that the world was once inhabited by giants.

Did some part of them remember that they had been giants once? Did they ever wonder if they were just tired, or if they had fallen into decline?

They couldn't see the universities and cathedrals their children would build. They could only look behind with the certainty that they would never build Roman aqueducts again.

Maybe, they didn't think about those things at all. Maybe they told themselves that thinking about the past was a distraction.

Eventually, we know, they got back to work, meticulously copying manuscripts in a language they could no longer read, because, once upon a time, someone believed the task was useful.

The Dark Ages are a useful myth.

Recent historical scholarship suggests that the Dark Ages weren't as dark as we were once lead to believe, but the story of the years between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Renaissance persists because it is an important cultural myth.

The Dark Ages remind us that time moves in a circle and a line.

Rome is gone. Its language is dead, and its monuments are ruins. It is no longer possible to walk across the continent on Roman roads, and Roman tax collectors can no longer compel you to pay for their bureaucracy.

Rome is gone, but you can trace your finger along the arc of history and find empires that rhyme.

Some histories jump through time from monument to monument, empire to empire, but that isn't an accurate picture.

Human energy rises and falls, waxes and wanes like the moon. There are times when we active and growing to new heights, and there are times when we rest and decline.

Often, we are doing both simultaneously in different areas of our lives.

New Moon in Capricorn: Darkest Moon in the Darkest Season

I am writing this just before the New Moon in Capricorn. I am back from vacation, but I am still tired.

In the northern hemisphere, this is the time when the moon's cycle and the sun's cycle align. We are at the darkest phase of the moon's monthly cycle at the darkest phase of the sun's annual cycle.

It's time to be tired. It is time to rest.

Are you resting? When was the last time you really deeply, truly checked in with your heart? When was the last time you really asked yourself what you're hungry for?

I have rested enough to know that these are the questions I need to be asking, and I will be using Moon Mood Workshop to ask them.

If you are where I am, I'd like to invite you to join me.

[secundus-cinaedus]

https://www.tumblr.com/secundus-cinaedus/752933230490091520

Your tags… it’s obvious you don’t know much about European history lol

get off anon you fucking coward put your money where your mouth is

for anyone who doesn't to pull up the post, this is the tag

i'm sorry, anon, literally what the fuck about this tag is incorrect?

(7000 years was entirely incorrect tbf lol i wasn't thinking and pulled the number from OP talking about writing in europe not the minoans, that was so obviously incorrect i should have caught it but i think i wrote this response on the shitter so my bad. sometimes i'm retarded. so, correction, ~3000 years after)

the main thesis of my point is literally correct though. it's not as if every civilization in europe (or even in greece, or even on the island of crete) had sewer systems once the minoans came up with them. that's not how technology words. there's a great number of civilizations (who even predate the minoans in areas of the middle east/indus river valley) that archaeologically have proof of having had a sewer system, that when you look at later civilizations in the area, after the earlier civilization fell, don't have sewer systems.

literally all you need to do is look at the decline of living standards in roman europe after the roman empire fell. sewer systems, aqueducts, standards of sanitation, were not maintained, especially in fringe regions like roman britain. quality of life, both within urban centers and outside of, declined. technological advancements become lost until a centralized power forms again and prioritizes advancements again. this has literally been the cycle of history for the past 6000-ish years of civilization

eternally upset you'll be too pussy to come back into my inbox again to try and justify why you called me wrong because i really want to know lmao

[p3melee-blog]

Alright buckle up everybody because my girlfriend railed me so hard today that I realized Mario is an idealized representation of the Roman Republic, and now I have to prove it to you with my shaky knowledge of Roman history and my even worse understanding of Mario lore.

Who is Mario? Famously, an Italian Plumber. What are the Romans associated with? Aqueducts, latrines, baths, and other Italian Plumbing.

This is where I started friends, but oh, it goes so much deeper. Despite being a humble plumber, whenever we play as Mario his goal is to destroy the enemies of the Mushroom Kingdom. He travels around the world requisitioning supplies and sacrificing Yoshis on an anti-Koopa campaign. His authority? Unlimited. His reach? Absolute. However, when Peach is returned to her castle and the war is over, Mario seems perfectly happy to go back to fixing pipes and leave the business of ruling to her. That’s right, Mario is the ideal Cincinnatus figure, ruthless in defense of the realm but humble enough to return to his fields (or sewers, whatever) when the war is over.

At this point you might be saying “but p3 you absolute buffoon, the Mushroom Kingdom is clearly more like the early Roman Kingdom, it’s in the name!” WELL THAT’S WHERE YOU’RE WRONG. Rome’s legendary seven kings were both military and political leaders, which can’t be the case here since while Peach rules in peacetime, Mario quite obviously has imperium while the Kingdom is under threat. For similar reasons it can’t be the Roman Empire, because Augustus de facto claimed both of these powers as princeps (along with the office of chief priest, who is obviously Luigi, exorcist in chief). The Mushroom Kingdom can call itself whatever it likes, it has a constitution with separated powers and I’ll die on that hill.

Speaking of hills, let’s talk about class inequality (that was a secession of the plebs joke, who the fuck am I writing this for?) We have two classes of free citizens in the Mushroom Kingdom, the Humans and the Toads. Other than actual speciation, the differences between the two are just like the patrician/plebeian divide, with the Humans as the powerful minority and the Toads as the lower-class majority. If we continue this metaphor of different groups of people as different Mario creatures though, that means Imperator Marius over here is conquering his through all the peoples around the Mushroom Kingdom as soon as he has any hint of a casus belli. Why do you think Bowser always lives in a volcano? It’s not for the decor, I’ll tell you that. The Mushroom Kingdom is an aggressively expansionist state that has already conquered all the good land nearby, and King Koopa has to do whatever he can to resist these fungal legions pushing his people off of what is left.

In summary, Nintendo please call me, I’ve started work on the script for Mario: the Punic Wars already and I want Jack Black as Hannibal.

[dknuth]

Uthina

Our first Roman city this morning, Uthina. It's south of Tunis and an easy day trip.

We drove along the ancient aqueduct for several miles. I noted that it was built from a mixture of cut stone and concrete.

There's a nice visitor center with a bridge over a wadi to the amphitheater ruins.

One of the exhibits in the visitor's center was the location of the sources of all the marble used in the city. They have identified marble from Spain, Sardinia, Egypt, Algeria, and mainly from Greece and Asia Minor. It's really remarkable to me that they were shipping marble from all over the Roman Empire to a small city in North Africa.

The amphitheater has bee partially restored.

The next large feature was the baths. Roman baths are different than what we might think. It's better to think of them as a modern health club with facilities for working out and socializing in addition to bathing. It's also important to understand that soap was not used in the Roman world. You rubbed yourself with olive oil and then scraped it off.

So there were large municipal baths, private baths, and small neighborhood baths. The largest baths, particularly in Rome would have bars, libraries, meeting rooms, etc.

The largest one in Uthina was not that big but was still quite massive.

This was the caldarium, the heated room. The floor was on the top of the pedestals and hot air circulated under the floor and behind the wall.

Here you can see the toilet in the foreground, an 8-holer it appears. It also appears to only be one.

The walls of the major rooms would have been lined with marble. here you can see the remains of the thin marble slabs on the walls.

How did they cut marble slabs that thin? With saws. I have seen an ancient water-powered marble saw in a site in Jordan.

The vaulted roof had collapsed. These huge masses of masonry give an idea of the size and weight of the vault over the main room.

Amazingly the spaces below the floor survived.

These spaces would have been utility areas and not for the public. Above one doorway was a bit of ancient graffiti, a sign of protection,

One of the women sardonically commented, "Because nothing protects like a penis."

Up at the top of the hill was the capitol with three temples. Today there are only the bases and parts of the columns of the ain temple.

Before the site excavations it had been a farm with the owner's house on the temple platform.

After the government took over the site they took down the house.

The spaces under the temples do appear to have been public gauging from their marble floors, in excellent condition.

The lowest level was more store/work rooms and later held an olive press, etc.

I am really curious about that oddly shaped door, although it would make a great door for a wine cellar.

After leaving Uthina we drove to Old Tunis where we walked through the Souk and had lunch.

One person found an interesting piece of pottery at the site that our professor identified as African Red pottery, a famous export from the area in Roman times.

We learned it was identifiable as the lid of a cookpot and that the shapes and particularly the edges of this red pottery have been cataloged and matched to particular potteries and periods. This makes pottery shards a particularly valuable resource for identifying the era of a site.

With that, we headed back to our hotel for a more relaxed afternoon.

As a note overfeeding is a real issue on this tour. Breakfast has been a buffet, but lunch and dinner have been in hotels, with the meals preordered. Typically after the salad or appetizers, I am some others are full. Then they bring out main courses of huge proportions. I have had limited success turning these away, with the restaurant being insulted that I didn't want their food. But I can't imagine that they are more pleased when I leave almost all of it on my plate.

I, and some others, have started just skipping dinners altogether.

[vinceleemiller]

Correcting a Brother | Galatians 2:11

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. — Galatians 2:11

CALL OUT: Call out today to Joey Johnson from Woodbury, MN, who is leading a group using our easy-to-use resource 30 Men Who Lived With Conviction.

Antioch is an essential city during Paul's time. Today, this is Antakiya, located in Turkey. However, during the Roman Empire, Antioch was the third largest city in the empire, with about half a million people. It was the capital city of Syria and was known as the "Rome of the East,” furnished with theaters, aqueducts, public baths, a great basilica, and a famous colonnaded main street adorned with marble pavement and vaulted stone roofs.

Antioch was also ground zero for Paul and his apostolic ministry to the Gentiles. It played a crucial role in Paul's ministry for several reasons. First, it served as a base for his missionary journeys, launching him into diverse regions with the gospel message. Second, its cosmopolitan nature made it an ideal location for financially supporting the advancement of the Gospel to Jews and Gentiles. Third, the Antioch church's early acceptance of Gentile believers affirmed Paul's mission as the apostle to the Gentiles. Fourth, the church is also willing to wrestle with theological issues, leading to the Jerusalem Council's decision affirming salvation by grace through faith. Fifth, Paul's collaborative efforts with Antioch's leaders, such as Barnabas and Silas, strengthened his ministry and provided mutual support. Overall, the Antioch church served as a pivotal "northern hub" for the Gospel to the Roman Empire.

Knowing this context, Peter visits Antioch, and we will explore the confrontation here in the coming verses. For now, I would like you to take note of the moment here. Peter, the man identified as a "pillar" of the Jerusalem Church, meets with Paul, the Antioch Church's pillar. The setup here sounds like a weigh-in between two prize fighters coming face-to-face with each other. But remember, these two men don't hate each other; they are brothers challenging one another for the purpose and preservation of the Gospel.

When believers love one another, love the Gospel truth, and love Jesus, they know how to do this. They know how to get in each other's faces. They know when to do it, how to do it, and why they do it.

Paul does it here because he knows that if it is left unaddressed, it will harm the Gospel. Clearly, it did because Paul had to deal with the issue again by writing this letter.

Which leads us to a critical application. If you know a believer doing something wrong and needs to be corrected, why aren't you doing or saying something about it? If you don't, the issue could get so out of hand that it might become irreconcilable.

#GospelPreservation #BrotherlyConfrontation #ChurchLeadership #AccountabilityMatters #PaulandPeter

ASK THIS:

Reflect on a time when you witnessed a fellow believer engaging in behavior contrary to the Gospel. Did you address it, and if not, what held you back? How can you approach similar situations differently in the future?

Consider the importance of accountability in your Christian community. How can you cultivate an environment where loving confrontation is embraced for the sake of preserving the truth of the Gospel?

DO THIS: Who do you need to confront?

PRAY THIS: Lord, grant me the courage and wisdom to lovingly confront my brothers and sisters in Christ when their actions stray from Your truth, knowing that by doing so, we can uphold the integrity of the Gospel and strengthen our bonds as a community. Help me to always prioritize the preservation of Your Word above personal comfort or convenience. Amen.

PLAY THIS: God Help Me.

Check out this episode!

[lunar-goodness]

My brother and I were talking about the whole “how often do you think about the roman empire” meme and I asked him and he was like “I do think about aqueducts quite often”

[pandalavalamp]

Don’t understand what the big surprise is about “guys thinking about the Roman Empire a lot”

As if our culture isn’t heavily based on shit invented during that time? It’s hard for me NOT to think about it every day? The library of Alexandria? Why train carts are the size they are? Aqueducts/viaducts, the word VIA… Roman numerals?? There are traces literally everywhere, why don’t YOU think about the Roman Empire more is my question cause damn that brain of yours sound silent…

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

The year is 117AD, you just inherited the Roman Empire at its absolute height of territory and power. What do you do to make certain it survives until modern times?

i'm not sure how much you want me to cheese it vs be realistic but i have some ideas.

reform, reform, reform....

first things first, revive the republic and reform the administration of the provinces. turn the empire into a quasi-federal republic with a mix of local and federal government. let's advance the creation of the "imperial" and "senatorial" provinces. amply assimilated provinces will be made into "senatorial" provinces and they will be given a greater degree of local government and they will elect their own governors and provincial senates. "imperial" provinces will be under the direct control of the consul/imperator/princeps/whatever and will be treated as military-occupied territories, being governed by military governors appointed by the federal government (the city of rome, which would be their equivalent of D.C.).

we also would establish /clear/ rules of succession/election. i'm not too concerned with the details, but since we're americanizing the roman empire i'd suggest some electoral process similar to what we have in america and establish some kind of senatorial electoral college that elects the consul and his co-consul. hopefully this will limit the occurrence of generals starting rebellions because they think they can just take the throne by force.

quite frankly, i would just codify the whole roman constitution and reform the legal code in general. streamline and modernize it. make the constitution resemble the american constitution as is reasonably possible, while still respecting traditional roman rights. but the important thing would be to establish civilian control of the military and outlining the election process.

i would also need to establish a national bank and start issuing fiat currency. have this national bank loan money at little to no interest to individuals, collegia, and other institutions, etc. whoever needs capital to invest in something. this fiat currency will be made the only legal tender in the empire.

speaking of investing, the roman government would be encouraged to invest in various infrastructure projects and internal improvements; roads, canals (build the suez canal), bridges, aqueduct, watermills, public schools, etc. also start subsidizing the construction of imperial academic institutions of higher learning. especially ones that are researching and development things like steam engines, windmills, agricultural efficiency, etc. start sponsoring geniuses and inventors and patronizing artists. "nationalize" the shipbuilding industry; starting pumping out a shit ton of boats (owning the seas is a top-priority) and include a shipbuilding university that studies and teaches sailing and shipbuilding and facilitates new innovations.

reform the tax system. both the kinds of taxes (like institute a land-value tax) but also the method of collecting them. introduce protective tariffs for critical industries.

deal with the parthians. just conquering them would be ideal but with conditions as they are in 117 AD i don't think this is practical. maybe in a few decades after all of my above mention policies have taken effect we'll be in a better position. but right now i think i'd be seeking peace and trying to normalize relations. establish the border at the euphrates. let them have mesopotamia as an act of good will. create some kind of trade agreement to maintain the flow of trade through the silk road. we need to end the wars in the east so we can focus on the north.

the north. brittania, germania, and dacia are the three big problem areas. i say we cut brittania loose. create a client kingdom, trade for their tin and silver, and also get some income from the import duties. fact is, brittania costs too much to hold right now. we can easily get the tin and silver through trade. we will conquer her another day. our focus should be on germania and dacia. move the british legions there. and i say we push the border to the elbe. it will actually shorten the border.

as for the germanic tribes. we play them off each other. divide and conquer. ally with some, fight the others. we settle our allies inside our territory and assimilate them. break them up and scatter them across the empire though. mandatory military service for them. you know the drill.

either abolish slavery or severely restrict it to the point that it will slowly die out over time. also abolish serfdom.

also land reform. start distributing lands in imperial provinces to soldiers and the urban poor (after being educated how to farm) and to newly integrated germanic citizens. this will both help with a more equitable distribution of land/wealth but also expedite the colonization and assimilation of these imperial provinces.

/actually/ persecute and exterminate christianity.

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck as Napoleon Bonaparte, Scrooge McDuck as Gaius Julius Caesar and Louie Duck (Quack Pack) as Alexander the Great - Conquerors - Real Ducks in History - History in Duckverse

I've always wanted to do a special project called Duckverse in History and my plan is to draw my favorite characters as redraws from famous works of art as well as famous historical figures. And since history is my favorite science, and my favorite field, I definitely wanted to do something related to it and related to one of my favorite historical characters. Since I don't want to complicate the situation, I will gradually publish a drawing related to that historical figure from time to time. I started this last year for Duckvember only to finish at the end of last month.

The first drawing is a redraw from Jacques Louis David's famous early 19th century artwork depicting Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps in 1800 before the Battle of Marengo. Napoleon Bonaparte was the most famous French military leader, general, consul and emperor who waged war with all of Europe at the time and managed to subjugate it in its entirety except for the Ottoman Empire, Russia and Great Britain. He is from Corsica, but he left a lot for France and proved that France is not worth messing with easily. He also gave many reforms and his Civil Code which spread throughout Europe and brought order in France after the French Revolution. Napoleon's nature is very similar to Donald Duck and I drew Donald as Napoleon since he was created for that role and I drew him riding his horse Marengo in my own style, but in a realistic way and that Donald has five fingers.

The second drawing is a redraw of a statue made by Nicolas Coustou at the end of the 17th century for the decoration of Versailles, which depicts the greatest Roman, Gaius Julius Caesar. Although he was not an emperor, certainly many presented him, but he was a dictator, consul, general, writer, historian, engineer, constructor, and a great military leader who changed the Roman Republic into an almost Roman Empire. His fights against the Gauls, as well as the conflict with Pompey and his love with Cleopatra, are known, but he also changed a lot in Rome and was extremely rich. And he lived during the first century BC. That's why I drew Scrooge McDuck as Gaius Julius Caesar since Scrooge is a great leader and he also strived for fame and fortune and to be remembered in the future and he plays the role of the best Roman. Behind it are the Colosseum (built a century after him), the aqueduct (then irrigation) and the Pantheon (built two centuries after him), as well as a Roman temple that symbolizes Rome at that time, as well as the roads themselves. In addition, Topolino (Italian comics) are showed Scrooge as Caesar two or three times so that's where my inspiration came from.

The third drawing shows Louie Duck (the Quack Pack version, not the Ducktales reboot) shows Alexander the Great, another brilliant conqueror from the fourth century BC and I drew it as a redraw from the mosaic of Alexander the Great from the battle of Issus in which he confronts the Persian king Darius III from Pompeii, probably from the first century BC. Alexander the Great was the son of Philip II and the king of Macedonia who united Greece and fought against Persia and managed to conquer an entire empire in his twenties. He traveled through the Persian Empire and reached India and wanted to continue, but his soldiers did not want to continue, so he returned to Babylon, his new capital. He certainly changed the world at that time and introduced a new culture, called Hellenism, as a combination of ancient Greek culture and the culture of the Ancient East and ancient India. I drew Louie as Alexander because as a young man he is a great adventurer and rides his black horse Bucephalus and is eager for extremes, yet unlike Alexander, Louie shows a bit of his shyness, but is still brave enough to take on new challenges. I also added a helmet as worn by Alexander III in his time. Behind Louie are the pyramids from Egypt, the Ishtar Gate from Babylon and the imperial palace from Persepolis where the Persian rulers lived and it actually shows the lands that Alexander the Great conquered.

I certainly hope you like these drawings and these ideas and that these characters have such historical roles. Of course, Duckverse in history I combine mostly everything related to Duckverse (Donald Duck comics, OG Ducktales, Three Caballeros, Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack) and it's mostly my version and my idea. By all means if you like this and support these ideas, feel free to like and reblog this, but please don't use these same ideas without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you!

[kaftan]

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Aqueducts Imperial 

(walking the salton sea beachfront)

The coward tide flees my feet. Defeat at Trasimene. I will not mourn the Roman sons that died there, not unless you cry for every Gaul and Libyan who had no august grand republic. Fishermen will dredge up corpses for a week & then it all goes back to normal. Empires eat each other in the womb & not yet satisfied turn upon their mother’s meat & chew their way out. Babes born fat & chubby cheeked & photogenic, swaddled in monopoly capital. 

Moral: Caesar was the first chestburster. 

Our mortal city’s veins pump poison just as well as lifeblood. Day by day, another aquifer envenomed. It was a shock when swampmen failed to rise in vengeance from the lakebed. We are told that cows die nobly—placidly, to a machine they do not understand. But machines are fools and architecture just the limbs of idiot giants, impudent and jutting. Somewhere nearby you hear Deleuzean deathsquads make a tunnel of your neighbour’s house. The city is a body and this is why it can betray you. 

Moral: This side’s the outside. 

The country is sick. We all joke around coughing up dead fish and dribbling wet and sorry ochres. Bile is milked from captive livers and misted into the upper atmosphere but this doesn’t seem to be helping. This is a new hostile environment, one big immune reaction. Out of bodies, towers, out of towers, sand. We see them at the city gates each day carting amphorae of victory wine with birdlike wringable necks. It’s pathetic. We spit out teeth and something black and heavy and smile at each other. We wait, young and feverish, for a signal. Crows of the volcanic beaches. 

Moral: There is nothing so peaceful as a desert.

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sick of problematic art so i decided to write a poem with clearly delineated morals to help everyone be a good person

magnesium oxide picked the title. you can read this and nine more poems in a snazzy pdf format here.