#texting with Julius

[sketchyface]

Guy who says “it’s my first time” before getting stabbed

[itsthemxze]

Happy ides of March tumblr

[silverysnake]

Some random and totally useless facts about the ides of march in preparation for the stabbing main event

Caesar knew that people were conspiring against him and that they wanted to kill him but he ignored the warnings bc he basically went: i don’t care if they plan to kill me, they don’t have the audacity to actually go through with it

There was a prophecy that Caesar would be killed but he ignored that too

Caesar wanted to ditch the senate meeting bc his wife had a nightmare that something bad would happen and begged him to stay home. Decimus (the third of the main conspirators) convinced Caesar to come to the senate meeting

There were about 60 conspirators who agreed to help kill Caesar, the rest of the senators just stood by during the murder, no one really tried to help him

Riots broke out after the murder because the population generally liked Caesar

Caesar’s body was later burned at the stake

Nothing changed politically speaking because the conspirators failed to actually take over the government -> Brutus and Cassius (and many of the other conspirators) had to flee

Some sources say that Brutus was haunted by Caesar’s ghost and later impaled himself on his own sword to escape the guilt said ghost confronted him with

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Caesar stabbed me.

[divorceblogger]

hey love of my life, you've read dune right? can u explain the kwistaz haderach scheme like im 10 years old

I willll <3 people aren’t wrong when they say that the ��kwisatz haderach’ is just a very, very special boy that a white guy was writing about in his silly sci-fi book before he decided to write more seriously about the dangers of imperialism and colonialism in the subsequent sequels. but really, the kwisatz haderach’s most narratively important role in the story is as the messiah-ruler figure of a despotic, genocidal empire; and he’s still a victim of the story he creates, a helpless product of his bloodline’s imperial ambitions and generations of political scheming.

where the definition of kwisatz haderach gets more complicated is when you start to pay more attention to the worldbuilding side of things apart from just looking at the role he plays in the larger story.

in the books, the bene gesserit essentially begin a breeding program to develop a biological product who’s supposed to have superhuman capabilities - capable of training in the bene gesserit way & developing the ability to peer into ‘male avenues’ which are beyond a bene gesserit’s ability - as well as ‘female avenues’ (which the bene gesserit are restricted to). the ‘female avenues’ referred to here are probably mostly in reference to the inherited biological memory of the past, and the reverend mothers (who inherit the memories of previous reverend mothers) probably possess the most heightened state of a bene gesserit’s powers. I suspect the male avenues refer to the ability to peer into the future although it’s never clarified - but to summarise, a kwisatz haderach is supposed to have mental powers that enable him to explore time, access the past and sort through different possible futures which can enable him to shape/choose what form it takes (dune messiah deals with the tragic consequences of losing your free will and expands more on the concept). spice and its various forms are the drugs which enable bene gesserit to train and develop these powers. the significance of the kwisatz haderach to the fremen is more complicated, although you probably already understood what was happening there - the bene gesserit plant ‘prophecies’ and superstitions through its branch of the missionaria protectiva to develop a mythology and faith that a trained bene gesserit - ideally the mother of the kwisatz haderach - can exploit to her advantage to protect the product of several centuries of breeding in case the necessity arises. and jessica and paul do actually exploit the fremen to their advantage in the books and the movies, if more explicitly in the latter.

the movie obviously simplifies this concept more to its benefit. the bene gesserit, with their own political agendas, vaguely describe the kwisatz haderach as someone capable of leading the universe into a better future, which sounds too good to be true for a reason. jessica tells paul that the bene gesserit tried to develop a mind capable of bridging space and time and those are words also used in the book - the movie just does away with most of the weird, inane gender stuff.

[zegalba]

Julius 7 

[sforzesco]

crassus: like. do you need me to introduce you to other politicians. what's with this scene.

the way some people write about caesar bringing pompey and crassus together to form a political alliance feels like a seduction. as conspiracy and politics often are!

this is a very unserious comic about caesar attempting to get a threesome situation going on but he severely underestimated crassus' feelings towards pompey. and also probably shouldn't have tried to fuck pompey in crassus' house. better luck next time caesar! maybe start with crassus in pompey's house.

regarding crassus' mention of caesar sleeping with tertulla:

suet. iul. 50

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Ides of March x Mean Girls x TBOSAS 🐍🗡️

[sawpaingsheadband]

I have nothing to offer today if not some good old shitposts.

Pls accept my offer.

[henclair]

we need more fanart of the deeply unethical old man crime polycule being homosexual together

[peebrainiac]

spicy mints texts posts part two electric boogaloo

[catilinas]

you know jstor’s understanding shakespeare where you can click on a line from any play and it will show you articles that reference it. they should make that but for any given line of a text it will show you my mutuals’ beautiful posts

[britneyshakespeare]

man fuuuuuck thiiiis. i come to bury caesar not to praise him

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in my food preparation class and the entire class turned around and stabbed me Julius Caesar-style.

[merciawintersageposting]

[lunar-dawn]

Julius: About Reinhard (LN)

*No idea which LN volume this is from, (this photo is not mine and it’s buried in my camera roll) but the character cut off on the page im 95% sure is Elsa :)

note: the words in quotations are direct quotes from the machine translation. I used DeepL and google translate in order to get an idea for the text, so my summary may not be 100% correct!

The first part is about Reinhard and Julius’ first meeting and Julius’ feelings about it (nothing we already didn’t know about how it went— though Julius considers Reinhard his “most equal” friend).

The second part goes more into depth about Julius’ current feelings about Reinhard.

*Julius recognizes that Reinhard’s life hasn’t been easy, though Julius has never asked him about it in depth.

*Julius wonders if Reinhard (wording is a little confusing) ever finds it difficult to keep on going because Reinhard has never given him any indication that he struggles in that regard, though he understands that Reinhard probably has times of distress and wanting to quit.

*Julius wishes that Reinhard will one day be able to confide in him, and he almost hates his own “immaturity” for Reinhard’s inability to do so.