#romantimes

[istyles]

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[the-sun-and-the-sea]

do you have anymore childhood Odesta fics

Sure, I have a few!

i only see him as a friend (i just tripped & fell into his bed) by romantime - This is a cute take on childhood odesta. I really like how it maintains a light tone without ignoring the reality of their situation. Definitely go check this one out!

Odesta X Aurora by AmeliaAndreas3 - This is a cool series that fleshes out Finnick and Annie's history, mainly focusing on pre-canon events. Some works in this series will probably be more relevant to your request than others, but I thought I'd link the whole thing.

Portrait by carrie_b - This is a short one but it features a cute odesta dynamic and a really interesting point in their history. I would definitely recommend giving it a try.

When We Were Young by TheWalkingGrimes - This one takes an innocuous childhood moment between Finnick and Annie and gives it a lot of depth, which I really like. It's not long but the story is very poignant.

Forever by shipping_goggles - This is a beautiful one that takes Annie and Finnick's childhood friendship and explores how it influences the events we see in canon.

before our innocence was lost by Sanamun - I love how this one explores how growing up in Panem and training for the Games would impact a childhood friendship. I also really like Finnick and Annie's dynamic in this one.

From Splashes to Ashes by Evermgmre - This one might not be exactly what you're looking for since it follows Finnick's Games, but it does feature odesta as childhood friends, and his friendship with Annie impacts how Finnick sees the world. Just a warning, this one is not complete, but it does have some good moments.

That's all I have for now! If you have any fics of Finnick and Annie being childhood friends that you know of or are writing, feel free to mention them!

[solar-halos]

paul isn’t percy’s step father he’s the father that stepped up

[throes-of-warm-tornadoes]

planet of the apes crossover: the umbrella academy edition

[butchhamlet]

historical cleopatra was indeed from a greek dynasty! macedonian greek, specifically, descended from one of alexander's men. and you are correct that they went very hard on adopting the culture, but were still greek! and right about the coins! AND right that her great beauty came later! plus their entire family was constantly doing incestuous marriages with each other, not marrying from the populace, so probably historical cleopatra wasn't egyptian at all, yes. (stacy schiff talks about this in her cleopatra biography, if anyone wants more info!)

however! i clarify historical cleopatra because this post by tumblr user butchhamlet, from a book with shakespeare in the title, is about shakespeare's specific version of cleopatra. who is almost definitely a woman of color. i mean, she's described as "tawny" in the first scene of the play, and she refers to herself as "with Phoebus’ amorous pinches black," ie, pinched lovingly by the sun until her skin is black (act 1 scene 5). janet adelman has a great section about this in her antony and cleopatra analysis goldmine, which discusses the fact that 1. "black" didn't always mean literally black in shakespeare's time (it could also just mean "not fair-skinned and -haired"), but also 2. that "the sun makes africans black" was a common trope in early modern england.

how one would literally categorize her race isn't clear because, as you noted, the idea of race was very different back then. but it's pretty clear that her skin is darker than an englishman's. notably, probably darker than antony's, because the play leans hard on portraying cleopatra and egypt as an exotic, sensual, feminine foil to the cold, masculine, passionless rome that octavian rules and antony is dissatisfied with. i don't think cleopatra is a one-note solely-stereotype character (i think she's a great character), but the play absolutely associates her exoticness with sexuality and the ability of the foreign woman to charm and feminize an upstanding warrior man, and that is extremely tied into racial stereotypes, now as it was then.

of course, "exotic" in romantimes could just mean "from anywhere that's not rome," but we are not in romantimes; we are in shakespearetimes! and in shakespearetimes i'd say it's pretty safe to call shakespeare's cleopatra a woman of color, which is what dr. karim-cooper is talking about here.

"But there is something particular about Cleopatra and the imaginative escape she offers for white performers. She presents a fantasy of a stately queen with an erotic power that white actresses can inhabit and take pleasure in without facing any of the difficulties faced by Black women. Like white European colonial settlers, they occupy her character though only briefly. And this is nothing new. In the seventeenth century, one aristocratic woman had her portrait painted as Cleopatra—a performative act in which it was possible to pretend to be the kind of woman she could never actually be within the chaste and virtuous bounds of Renaissance white womanhood. The sitter is identified as Lady Anne Clifford. A Jacobean lady in Egyptian regalia, according to seventeenth-century orientalist notion of national costume, holds an asp above her breast, iconically invoking Cleopatra. For a long time, it seems, white women have stepped into the fantasy of the dark queen. It seems odd that Antony and Cleopatra was not always viewed as one of Shakespeare's race plays. That is changing, finally. If theatre directors continue to centralise whiteness in their readings of the play, however, it in many ways replicates Caesar's triumph over Egypt. We relive Cleopatra's defeat every time we watch a white woman play her—due respect to Dames Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Harriet Walter, and Eve Best. But we begin to see more clearly the Egyptian Queen's own prophetic vision as she chose to end her life on her own terms. She imagined herself being performed for years to come by actors who do not resemble her in any way—and that is, for the most part, what has happened."

—Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper, The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race (emphasis mine)

[vanellopesblog]

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[legyenoriginalkontent]

Slightly out of context

[shopbejeweled]

The beautiful patina on this glass developed over two thousand years! This glass was blown by the Romans in Israel and has been excavated and now set in sterling silver to create this link toggle bracelet. #ancientglass #Romantimes #handmadebracelet #shopbejeweled #bejeweled #shopsathilltop #shoplocalvb (at BeJeweled, Virginia Beach, VA) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChaYRVCOcJb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[expfcultragreen]

I mean like she also grew up in the yukon? Like her brother became a military tech and competitive weightlifter, their moms second husband was a religious weirdo.........im not getting a lot of like, unfashy enrichment here, theyre like definitely model canadian immigrant descendant type people. She clings to the heritage thing as a like, identity security thing. You know? It's strange to me, like she was told youre Ukrainian so she "feels Ukrainian" but she doesn't speak it and doesn't know anyone there and has never been there. But like she was told youre a man and doesnt feel like one (unless that alter is fronting lol i got the spicy gf advanced pack) despite all the constant pressure to--you know, the supposed immersion in whatever culture of maleness is imagined to be stored in the balls (jk more like, the way people are obsessed with dimorphic legibility and enforcing it/punishing free expression). But like someone who doesnt know much about any of it would be like ah, she hyperidentifies with being Ukrainian because she's autistic and she hyperidentfies with womanhood and a variety of other psychological conditions because shes autistic. And im like ok what if thats why anyone does a nationalism or a gender

Some people probably do it due to other neurodivergences that get described by their symptoms as "personality disorders"

All the people doing it are looking for comforting signs and signifiers, there's a whole culture war over who is allowed to shelter where and why, in terms of identity, because of who's comfort is impinged by what/who

I honestly think dilecticism is a boondoggle so a lot of these people seem crazy to me regardless of position, because theyre fighting over unreal things as tho they are real, in the most essentiaized and formulaic way they can-- on purpose--because thats the smart solution to them, like theyre concerned about conceptual trespasses as tho its literally people skittering upon the walls of their home tagging them with slogans when 99% of the time it isnt and the 1% of the time it is, its somehow so shocking that people instantly go into denial about it and continue to make a bigger deal about totally immaterial things

You wanna know what bathroom she uses? Whatevers empty. We're the same that way

Neither of us are ever going to be in a bathroom with you so if youre stressed about it thats on you and your brains limitations of faculty

Anyway why are bathrooms sometimes still animal shithouses like its the past, at all? Why should a strange cis man be able to look at your dong just because you had to piss and the room is like romantimes or some shit where you all have to do it together. Shouldnt they all be like fancy restaurant bathrooms now? This is so gross

Related to prev post: gratifyingly, my gf was automatically so well versed on the issue from being a ukrainaphile that she knew more about how big a faux pas it was than anyone who shoved that old nazi at Zelenskyy did to begin with and was immediately like "eeeew one of those guys? But like THEY are nazis. Zelenskyy personally hates those guys its a matter of public record, he did suchandsuch and suchandsuch..."

And im like 🥰

And then she goes and ruins it by saying some wildly unhinged shit like better a nazi than a stalinist and im like 🙃 sweetheart you are demented i love you but what the fuck are you even made of

Pure autism clearly lmaooo ayyyyyyyyy

[alfredonoya]

Discovering Colosseum #daytours #destitation #skiptheline #experience #visit #arthistory #arthistory #Romantimes #alovelyday #withabeautifulfamily #explore #Rome #bestours #smallgroups (at Colosseo, Roma, Italia)

[the-sun-and-the-sea]

hey! do you have any fanfic recs with annie as a career? or as like a mentor?

Hi, thanks for the ask! I don't think I know of any fics of Annie as a mentor, but I do have some Career Annie recs for you, so I hope you can find something!

to dust or to gold by dancingonmoonbeams - This is a great ongoing fic that does a great job with capturing Annie's Career mentality while showing hints of who we know in canon. I also love the dramatic irony as she and Finnick interact, so I'd definitely recommend this one!

Control by TheWalkingGrimes - This series is another great option especially if you're looking for a more realistic take on Finnick and Annie's relationship. It really does both of their characters justice and I also really love the D4 worldbuilding.

a wistful waltz by romantime - This is a great take on Annie as a Career. I love her internal monologue and watching how the Games change her (and how they don't). Definitely check this one out!

Canvas by ashen_key - This one features Career Annie and portrays the inhumanity of the Games in such an understated way. It's not super long but it holds a lot of emotion, and I find it really beautiful.

pitch black, pale blue by thelostauthor - This is another really good Career Annie fic that really shows off her skills and the way her training shapes her mindset. Her relationship with Finnick is interesting to see here and the ending is so vivid.

I also wrote a Career Annie fic that you might be interested in checking out.

Does anyone else know any Career Annie fics (or fics where she mentors)? Feel free to reblog with your own recs or self promo!

[solar-halos]

odesta baby fic!! except he’s not a baby he’s 14 and is trying his hardest to sneak out of the house to go to a concert with his besties!!

[redosnap]

Pretty fucked up move by Nero #romankings #romanemperors #history #romansenator #oldtimes #emperornero #romantimes #todayilearned #TIL #redosnap #redditdailymemes https://www.instagram.com/p/CIet731s9GY/?igshid=5nqsei596e17

[dudeshead]

[ Arène] Dude's Head @dudeshead 10/2020 #draw #drawing #character #characterdesign #art #2d #dudeshead #pen #pencil #blackandwhite #paper #observationaldrawing #observation #look #arena #place #romantimes #roman #past #history #monument #shadow #school #student #new #work #newwork #imagination https://www.instagram.com/p/CIFhw4GlYM6/?igshid=14jneeiwy41zl

[arktrux]

The Roman influence in London #romantimes #roman #conqueres #romanexpansion in #england #romantimes #lifestyle in England #romanos #museumdisplay #londonmuseum #memories from #lastweek (at Museum of London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFURnV7Jp5S/?igshid=qhextimtu7mi

[legyenoriginalkontent]

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