#romana project

[stopmyhearts]

GOLD USHER: Do you swear by the Rod of Rassilon to uphold the holy office of President of the High Council of Gallifrey? ROMANA: Hang on. (ADJUSTS MATRIX AT JAUNTY ANGLE) I swear. (TIME LORDS LOOK SUITABLY UNCOMFORTABLE.)

Oh this is going to be good

[silverfoxstole]

I started toiling the new version of my NotD coat the other day, using an old duvet cover and some scraps.

I don’t normally re-toile a pattern I’ve made before but this one needs some adjustment; I already knew that the sleeves and skirts needed to be longer but having worn the one I made eighteen months ago out a couple of times before Christmas I decided that I’d raised the waist seam too far as well. I’ve therefore returned all the pattern pieces to their original lengths and added three inches to the hem (I’ll probably add another when I cut out the fabric as I want it to be just below the knee); the sleeves will need taking up a bit but I’d rather have that extra fabric to play with. I’ve also made the skirts slightly wider which gives me a bit more swish, and also for bum coverage; I had to add an extra bit to the tails as I was putting it together last time to try and rectify a bit of gaping over the rear!

While I was at it I decided to try and work out the right length for the collar at this stage rather than wasting fabric later on. I want collar and lapel to meet, so to be able to see where I was going I added facings and trim, which I wouldn��t normally do with a mock-up:

I cut out the lapel pieces again instead of the facing by mistake and the denim moved when I was sewing it which is the reason for the huge tuck on the left but I think I’m about there. I need to practise my mitred corners as the binding took me a whole day to put on last time!

I haven’t started the coat proper yet because I still need to order all the bits and bobs but I bought the fabric a few weeks ago as the supplier had low stock. For the first coat I used cotton drill but that was a bit stiff and having now seen the way Paul’s moves I wanted something a bit more fluid so I ordered several samples to choose from. I could have used a wool mix coating but that would have been too thick; I want to be able to wear this outside of cosplay but I don’t want anything too warm or heavy so I had a look at suiting fabric, plumping in the end for a gabardine:

The right-hand picture gives a better idea of the colour. It has a nice drape to it and a bit of weight without being too heavy so hopefully it’s going to work OK! I had to get a few samples of trim, too, to find one that was a good contrast:

I’m hoping to get started on it sometime next week. It’s not going to be a quick project; the first coat took me about fifty hours’ work across ten days and this time I’m intending to tailor as much as I can so am going for sew-in traditional interfacing rather than the iron-on I used before and which I want to try and pad stitch (not something I’ve tried yet!) to the shell.

Fingers crossed it all comes together!

[samwisethewitch]

On Lughnasa (August 1st), 2023, under a full moon in Aquarius, my partner and I got married in a handfasting ceremony.

We designed this ceremony from scratch ourselves, incorporating elements from our own faiths. My personal practice is a mix of Heathenry and Reclaiming (and, ngl, is heavily influenced by Wicca) and my now-husband is Roman pagan. We also both have Irish American heritage that is important to our families, which is why we chose to incorporate historic Irish elements.

And our boyfriend was our officiant!

[frateleeblaga]

���Ca furtuna am intrat

Eu n am venit cu valul nou, eu l am creat”

<BLVGV>

[storiearcheostorie]

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[triple1st]

underrated romana/leela moment to me is that despite leela swearing that blood will have blood & that her last purpose on gallifrey will be to avenge her husband by killing his murderer before joining him in death, she doesn't, when she learns it was romana (under pandora's control) who struck andred through his hearts she laments that she cannot kill romana & therefore she will leave gallifrey without her vengeance. like that is devotion baby, that's the unhealthy dependency that romana inspires in her friends, unflinching loyalty to the office of lord president as long as romanadvoratrelundar holds it & if she is no longer in power her closest friends will stay by her side until she regains her right as heir of dvora to rule gallifrey

[idobebeinggay]

Not seen this one before!!!!

Welcome back Romana

[stopmyhearts]

Tegan’s experience of travelling with the Doctor had convinced her that (a) he didn’t know what was going on most of the time, and (b) when he did get things right it was more by luck than judgement.

She gets it

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

State of Decay:

I just wanted to watch this one so it’s up next for lore

Time lords are the ancient enemies of the vampires

Doctor told a ghost story about the vampires by a hermit in gallifrey → look I won’t say that he should know by now that all time lord myths are true because he hasn’t encountered enough yet, but yeah another case of all time lord myths are true

‘We time lords hunted them down across the universe is a war so long and so bloody that we were sickened of violence forever’

‘In the misty dawn of history. When even Rassilon was young’

Interesting to me that Romana doesn’t seem to have ever heard of the legend of the vampires

There’s a bureau of ancient records

‘Something called the record of Rassilon in one of the old data books … and it was an emergency instruction. A copy of the book was to be installed in certain time vehicles.’ → specifically type 40

Info on vampires absent from tardis databanks → something something didn’t want any legacy of the war?

Time lords had bow ships

‘Hence it is the directive of Rassilon that any time lord who comes upon this enemy of our people and of all living things, shall use all his efforts to destroy him, even at the cost of his own life’

so i've decided to watch through every episode that gallifrey appears in and take notes on them (not doing this for every episode a non doctor time lord is in because that's too many) for the purposes of either ranking them, figuring out the lore, or later comparing eu depictions of time lords to how they're shown in the show, i'll figure it out later. this little intro thing is basically just for myself to make a post where i can put the highlights of my notes (very much not putting all of them since so far its been an average of 1.5 pages of notes per episode)

[anghraine]

I've had an unfathomably stressful weekend among my right-wing maternal relatives. Naturally, I'm celebrating my escape with a poll!

I like to headcanon a bunch of my faves as ace or grey-ace, sometimes with reasons that make sense to other people, sometimes out of pure projection (I'm a grey-ace lesbian myself, and this bleeds out into my fandom tastes!).

REMINDER that this isn't (necessarily) a vote for your favorite character, or even your personal favorite-of-all-time ace headcanon. Vote for the character on this list that you would most enjoy imagining as asexual or grey-ace. Feel free to add details about your headcanons for your choice, though!

Details for mine specifically:

Luke Skywalker - aro-ace, misunderstands his natural rapport+psychic bond with Leia as attraction in part because he's never actually experienced real attraction and never will.

Charlotte Lucas - ace lesbian.

Men in Tolkien - grey-ace or ace, depending on the instance (I was tempted to exclude a very few specific individuals like Finwë, Samwise Gamgee, and Eöl, but it was inconvenient, and honestly, I still feel the Tolkien default for dudes is grey-ace).

Spock - gay grey-ace outside of pon farr scenarios (he hates the prospect of pon farr with T'Pring for multiple reasons! he's also aggressively disinterested in Mudd's women, the lady sexbots in "Shore Leave," etc, for ... uh, also multiple reasons).

Romana I - grey-ace.

Athena - very aggressively 100% aro-ace, can and will strike down anyone who doubts this.

Anakin Skywalker - Padmésexual.

Fitzwilliam Darcy - grey-ace, has been slightly attracted to people before, but rarely and not very strongly, until Elizabeth upends his entire experience of sexuality in the space of about 2 weeks. His own feelings only get (far) more intense and foreign to him from there.

Emelye - aro-ace. Rarely have I more strongly wished I could free someone from the story they're trapped in.

Tar-Telperiën - aro-ace, will bring the full weight of royal power to bear on anyone who has a problem with it (following the example of her lesbian great-grandmother Tar-Ancalimë, but refusing to marry at all. goodforher.jpeg)

Moiraine - grey-ace & lesbian. Yes, I know Jordan wants me to believe she's into Thom. je refuse

Cassian Andor - grey-ace, and near the "fully ace" boundary. He's mostly into Jyn and very surprised (and initially dismayed) about it.

[autisticzoeheriots]

*pats romana on the head*

you’d be surprised how much self projection, disability headcanons and whumpy fic ideas can fit into this timelord

[lerios]

i want TW or WR era narvin, delirious from blood loss or being scifi drugged or something, calling romana Madam President again

let it be clear that to his bones he still considers her his commanding officer. to him she is bound irrevocably to the concept of Gallifrey itself. he is building that cross and nailing her to it because he needs something to devote himself to and now that his eyes are open his planet is no longer something he's able to worship no matter how much he would like to be blind again. he will never be anything less than doggedly loyal to her because he will never allow her to stop being the power structures that he needs and has projected onto her

[religio-iapygiorum]

oh hey this got popular while i was asleep! there's already more interest than i expected tbh, which is super exciting!

i do want to clarify bc i'm worried i'm getting people's hopes up that this is Reconstructionism Hard Mode™. we've got a fair bit of material evidence, several short-ish inscriptions, a bit of description from outsiders, but no narratives from the emic (i.e., ingroup) perspective. there will be deities we know only by name & practices we know only by the offerings that failed to burn completely. there is nothing resembling a complete picture here, especially not by the standards of hellenic polytheism-but when we find similarities to hellenic polytheism, we can guess at the gaps. sometimes.

i think this sort of exercise is worthwhile, personally. i yearn to know more about deities long forgotten, the evidences they've left behind, their echoes in a landscape long buried. but while there may be a treasure trove of individual pieces here, it's difficult to form an overall narrative. so. be warned, ig

right, so: what is this project & why am i doing it?

a quick intro first—i’m e (any pronouns) & i’m a history student of a completely different time period. that’s your first indication not to take my word as fact! i’ll be drawing on & quoting from established scholarship, which i’ll always cite. they’re the real experts, not me, so please do go back and read them if you’re curious & have the language. (you can always message/ask if you’re having trouble accessing papers.)

in general & on a personal note, i’m super interested in life on the peripheries. we’ve got a billion million sources for the polytheisms of rome and athens and a few other greek poleis—awesome, but what about everywhere else?

(why this particular periphery? my ancestors, both very recent & presumably more distant, are from this location. that’s where my interest stems from, but it doesn’t have to be yours—i will not tolerate folkist attitudes in this space.)

ok, so, what is this blog?: a place for me to aggregate research, in english, on the religious practices of pre-Roman Iapygia. this is not my own research—what i’m doing here is not-strictly-academic synthesis of existing research, primarily for a polytheist reconstructionist audience.

the evidence my sources discuss are almost entirely drawn from archaeological research, and most of this research is written in italian. i am not an archaeologist and italian is not my first language (though i can get by), so there’s another handful of reasons to take anything written here with a grain of salt—though of course i’ll always strive to be as accurate of a transmitter & translator as i possibly can.

why am i doing this?: because i wanted something like this to exist, and it didn’t. at the very least, this blog will be a place for me to sort out my own thoughts, organize my notes, and speculate on possible historical practices. at the very most, it’ll be interesting to other people as well.

if you’re interested in learning a bit about pre-roman religion in one region of the italic peninsula, then i’d love to have you along for the trip!

[daughterofheartshaven]

A quick Timeline of Romana

I was rebloging something by a mutual and I realized that I have a very specific order of Romana's different stories in different mediums in my head and that might actually be relevant to share here given how many of my mutuals are Romana fans. As usual, I assume Last Great Time War is the same as The War In Heaven. So here we go. I'm starting with Romana's return from E-Space. Anything in bullet points is a headcanon I made to reconcile different stories

Blood Harvest / Goth Opera: Romana II returns from E-Space and takes a place on the Gallifreyan High Council

The Chaos Pool: takes place while Romana is on the High Council, but before her Acencion to Presidency

Happy Endings: Romana becomes President

The Apocalypse Element: Romana's Presidency is interrupted by the Etra Prime incident and the disaster that followed

Neverland / Zagreus: Romana meets Leela, and is forced to watch the Doctor remove himself from the universe

Lungbarrow: Romana has a run-in with a Doctor from the past, from before he left the universe, and has to be very carful to avoid letting either the Doctor or the CIA know that she knows the Doctor's future

The Gallifrey Series (and a couple misc. audios that have Romana II as president): Lots of things happen, but the big one is that the Time War starts

following the end of the Gallifrey series, Romana escapes the Time War and flees into Gallifrey's past at the cost of her current incarnation's life. Now in her third incarnation, she Spearheads the Nine Gallifreys project to give herself a different Gallifrey to work with - avoiding a paradox - and begins preparing her Gallifrey for the war she knows is coming

Luna Romana framing narrative: Romana III prepping her Gallifrey for war

The Shadows of Avalon / The Ancestor Cell: Romana comes into conflict with the Doctor (still from before he left the universe), and her plans end in disaster as her Gallifrey is destroyed before it can even reach the war

The Gallifrey Chronicles: The Doctor is implied to resurrect Romana and the other citizens of her Gallifrey

Now that she has lost any chance she had at making a difference in Gallifrey's stand in the War, Romana flees Gallifrey and reconnects with the Tharils before the war starts.

The Little Book of Fate: Romana, now running refugee support from the Time War, meets the Doctor from before they came into conflict (and before he left the universe). They are able to work together, but Romana still has to conceal all she knows about his future.

Romana eventually gives up on Gallifrey and the Time War and, with her third body dying, flees to the end of the universe (much like the Master did, but without a chameleon arch).

Tomb of Valdemar framing narrative: Romana III dies at the end of the universe and we meet her fourth incarnation - a dark skinned woman

Gallifrey returns and Romana finds her way back to it. At some point, she regenerates again into someone with freckles and ginger hair

Cwej: Down the Middle: Romana is implied to be actively trying to help Chris behind the scenes, and appears at the very end to negotiate with him regarding the end of the Cwejen Uprising against Gallifrey

Notes:

Does Romana ever find out that the Doctor returned from the Divergent Universe? It seems likely, but from the Doctor's perspective, Zagreus appears to be the last time they met.

If you want me to elaborate on any of this, I'd be happy to! Just let me know.

[romana-after-dark]

Our Gentle Sins: Bonus Chapter; Scott's POV

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Chapter summary: Scott is watching

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Before

“Something is going on between those two…”

 Scott murmurs, staring at Logan and you while dancing with Jean. He knew he should be paying attention to Jean, not Logan, given how much he fought for the former over the latter, but he couldn’t stop. Around them, students danced and giggled and whispered, and Scott was aware much was about the two couples. Students weren’t stupid, especially in high school, and they have their own “ships” as they call them between the teachers. Scott was also aware that he was very much liked by the students, second only, probably, to you, and he had a group that liked to come and eat lunch with him as a group. He didn’t mind, and if he had work to do he’d simply let them know, so it was a great way for him to really get to know his students. The other upside is that he gets an inside view of the students goings on.

Much to his annoyance, lots of students “shipped” him and Logan. They started to say something about “enemies to lovers” but Scott told them not to talk like that with him. There was an all out shipping war in the middle of class one day while the kids were supposed to be working on a group project, and he was flabbergasted to find the teenagers extremely invested in whether Jean chose Logan or him last year. Insane. Of course, Logan lost Jean, leading to him running off once again. This time, in the middle of the semester. Luckily, replacing the gym teacher wasn’t too hard, but it was an annoyance.

Now, however, tides have turned with the introduction of Judith Palmer to the school. She was liked immediately by the kids, even if the teachers found her a bit odd to start. Remy and her had gotten along quickly, but that's no shock to anyone; Remy could charm the pants off anyone. Luckily, she didn’t wear pants, and it didn’t seem like he was trying to get into them if she did. The rumors flew like wildfire that she and Logan were together as soon as he came back, tail tucked between his legs to the school.

“Scott.”

She was sweet, quiet and shy while Logan was brash, sarcastic, rough. But were lonely in a way that attracted one to the other, a feeling that only they could understand one another. Pretty soon everyone “shipped” them together, thankfully leaving Scott alone with his wife.

Unfortunately, the relationship just didn’t sit right with Scott.

“Scott!” Jean’s voice broke him out of his thoughts, he turned to find her watching him in concern. “Hey, what’s going on?”

He sighs. “Sorry honey… I just don’t like it.”

Jean cocks her head to the side, frowning a bit at him. “What? Seeing Logan happy?”

“No! It’s just-” He looks at the dancing couple again. “There’s something going on between them!”

A soft hand touches his face, coaxing him back to the woman in his arms. The one he should be paying attention to. “Something is going on. They’re falling in love, Scott.”

“But he’s not good for her! He’s gonna hurt her, somehow, he’s going to-”

Jean let go of him, stopping their dance. “This is ridiculous. You’ve gotta let it go. You won, Scott. That doesn’t mean he can’t have a happy ending too.” She looked frustrated with him, and he knew, he fucking knew he should take her back, wrap her up in his arms and have a nice night together, but when he glanced back, Logan spun her around, and thats when he saw it…

Her dress, it brushed to the side just enough for him to see 3 claw marks on her back. 

“Fine.” She huffs, turning on her heel, probably hoping he’d follow after her. “Stay bitter, if you want. But it’s not a good look.”

And he should've. He should’ve went after her, either danced with her or taken her back to their room and fucked her until they both forgot about Logan like they’d been trying to do since she first cheated on him… but Judith was falling into Logan’s trap just like Jean had, and by the way they were dancing, it’s clear she wasn’t phased by him hurting her. With her head resting on his shoulder, a soft smile… She was just the type of girl to fall into abuse, primed for it by her upbringing and the abuse she suffered. Charles had told him what happened to her, some of the basics without violating her privacy, and maybe he told Logan too. Maybe that’s why Logan chose her.

But Scott, Scott wasn’t going to let this stand.

So he didn’t follow his wife. Instead, he waited until Logan and her stopped dancing, until she’d had a chance to mingle with her students a bit.

Then, Scott asked her for a dance.

After

“She’s pregnant.”

Scott spit out his mouthwash. “Who?”

“Judith.” Jean washed her face, uninterested in the conversation she started. “She’s pregnant. Willing to bet her and Logan finally made it official. Are you gonna throw a fit over that now too? Or do you just want to go back to fighting him.”

Jean had not been happy that he and Logan had gotten into a fight again, especially the fact that Scott hadn’t even asked you what happened, simply accusing Logan of hurting you. Scott knew Jean still held a soft spot for Logan, that they still talked and it killed him knowing they were around each other sometimes. She’d said he was acting like a child, but she didn’t get it. 

Jean was blinded by her affection for Logan, and it was getting in the way of seeing what was happening. A few months ago, you changed. You were quieter, smiled far less. Bags under your eyes that had always been there worsened and he watched your appearance slip. You were still put together, but not the same pristine woman he’d seen even on holiday weekends. You also had been noticeably strained from Logan, something the students had noticed too. The only thing normal with you was your friendship with Remy, which did comfort Scott some.

Jean had become distant, but if Scott was honest, it wasn’t her fault. Scott was becoming obsessed with figuring out what was happening between the two, and he knew he was neglecting his wife for it. Still, he couldn’t stop.

“Come on, let’s go to bed.” He coaxed Jean back to the bedroom where he tried, really tried to show her he wasn’t interested in Judith being pregnant, even with Logan’s baby. He tried to show her he loved her, to make love to his wife. But the chasm between them was growing as your condition worsened. 

Now, he had another piece to why.

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I was trying to figure out some joke with the song "Scotty doesn't know" but with Scott knows.... idk i havn't figured it out XD

Anyway! a little snippet of Scotts side of things.

love yuh!

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[eleneressea]

I love playing with dwarven vs elvish interpretations of cosmology; I am fully convinced that the Mahal=Aulë business in the Silm is interpretatio romana-style equivalencies (interpretatio quenya?) and not necessarily accurate to dwarven beliefs and worship. the Silm is, after all, an elvish document,* not a dwarven one, and the elves we see are, by and large, not talking to the dwarves (and almost certainly not, generally speaking, about deep questions of comparative cosmology. Celebrimbor and Narvi, maybe; Eöl probably knows a bunch about how the dwarves in the Blue Mountains thought about things; the rest of them…probably not, no.) in other news I am working on my insanity project again

(*edit to add: also a Beleriand document; it's doubtful (to me) that the writers of the Silm had much access to other dwarvish sources other than the Firebeards and Broadbeams in the Blue Mountains; to the extent that it accurately reflects dwarven practice it would reflect the specific practices of those two tribes and not those of the Longbeards in the Misty Mountains or any other tribe.)