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I love your curls! You have such a Mediterranean face.

thank you! the moment i read your ask i pictured a vintage map of the mare nostrum plastered across my face

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i’ve already read yourcenar’s memoirs of hadrian now it’s my mutuals’ turn 😾🫵🏻

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we’ve all seen the pictures she’s looks absolutely beautiful. um and he’s there.

(hadrian and sabina as mars and venus)

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wait. balbilla built the PHILOPAPPOS MONUMENT??? of thee hill of the muses in athens fame???? NICE

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study of Villa Adriana reconstructed ft. Julia Balbilla and Vibia Sabina

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finished version of Vibia Sabina and Julia Balbilla for your ancient sapphic needs <3

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my #sabilla your #sabilla our #sabilla

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forgive me, but hadrian reminds me of my father, secretly bisexual for twenty years of marriage, traveling the world with his lover while my mother spent all his money on designer handbags and on funding her artist and writer lovers (suetonius, julia reference?). except my father never called my mother “aspera et morosa” but he probably thought it

julia balbilla & vibia sabina toxic yuri summer

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julia balbilla & vibia sabina toxic yuri summer

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Still thinking about that academic article about how vibia sabina might have been in lesbians with Julia balbilla. I read the abstract at 1 in the morning and started kicking my feet and giggling. how fucking funny. there are two faggots in the oval office

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Vibia Sabina study to match Hadrian’s and Antinous’

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part one of some character turn arounds for a project i’m working on about the Roman Emperor Hadrian

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Giuseppe Molteni (Italian, 1800-1867)

La derelitta (La morte del bimbo)

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The Ecstasy of Saint Francis (c.1595) by Caravaggio

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Isabelle Adjani in La Reine Margot (1994)

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L'Inferno | 1911

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i get unsettled when people go on the defensive right away because i don’t know how to defend myself. i never learned. so i admire them, i wish i could build walls too, place a quiet distance between myself and the other. but i love human beings. i don’t know how to live without them. i love even those i clash with. i love even when they hurt me. the truth is, i feel something close to pity, sometimes even tenderness, for those who inflinct cruelty on me and then my breath falters, and all i want is to sleep for days