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not to be an augustus stan but imagine spending all your life building a legacy of lies no one knows who you actually are no one can see beyond the mask bc you won't let them like yes you have power and wealth and the empire but what have you done to the sick little boy who found out his father won't be coming home did he ever really exist or have you erased him so thoroughly you as good as killed him. there's nothing left but you and you are a hollow shell looming over an empire dying since the day it was born

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not now, kitten. daddy's regime is collapsing

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to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

from John Keats’s love letter to Fanny Brawne Tristan and Isolt (Death), Rogelio de Egusquiza The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Leighton Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, Alexandre Cabanel

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Roma. Circo Massimo

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can mark antony kill himself again i think it would be cool

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ogni giorno mi sveglio e il mio primo pensiero è: americani infami e maledetti

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well i think we all would. You’re not special

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the actual reason I consume mediocre media is because I have bad taste. the deeper secret pretentious reason is because I think there’s something very revealing about bad media that you don’t get with good media. when you watch a poorly executed plot point unfold, you see the machinery behind it. you see the gap between what’s actually on screen and the true goal the author is striving for. if it’s particularly awful, you can even measure just how poorly mismatched the author’s skills are with the story they’re trying to tell you. watching a poorly executed narrative play out feels like you’re discovering something, because you see all the wiring and guts underneath that better authors hide from you, in the same way that movies hide boom mics and books make you forget you’re turning the pages. if a story is good and executed well you just see the story. but I want to see the guts and wires!

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Livia: (617). we had sex in his office so i figured it was appropriate to like his company's page on facebook

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alicent x larys | fire & blood verse

After thirteen days of torment, Blood was at last allowed to die. Queen Alicent had commanded Larys Clubfoot to learn his true name, so that she might bathe in the blood of his wife and children, but our sources do not say if this occurred.

+ larys is allowed to watch her bathe as his reward 👀

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apropos of absolutely nothing i need to remind everyone that francesco petrarca’s skull is missing from his tomb and no one knows where it is

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Gaius [future emperor Augustus] made two special school friends, very different from each other in personality. The first was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a year younger than Gaius. The origins of his family are unknown, but Suetonius says that he was of “humble origin”; the name “Vipsanius” is highly unusual and Agrippa himself preferred not to use it. He may have come from Venetia or Istria in northern Italy. Like the Octavii, the family was probably of affluent provincial stock. (…)

Gaius’ second friend, Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, boasted a distinguished ancestry. He traced his lineage to the splendid, mysterious Etruscan civilization, based in today’s Tuscany, which dominated central Italy before the rise of Rome. (…) By the first century B.C., though, the family had come down somewhat in the world: they were now equites.

If one may judge by their later careers, Agrippa was likely a tough, down-to-earth boy who enjoyed physical exercise and warlike pursuits, while Maecenas had a more pacific, even feminine temperament and was especially interested in literature and the arts. They grew into adulthood alongside Gaius, learning to accord him total trust and forming a lasting, loving bond with him. (Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor - Anthony Everitt)

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affirmations i will learn latin and i will get insane . more insane. whatever

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Do you ever think about how there was a time where [insert historical person you are interested in] was alive and breathing like you now and perhaps they never thought that centuries later someone would care about them and their story? Because I do. All the time. And it's such a strange yet so human feeling.

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the author's barely disguised open wound splattered livid and filthy across everything they create

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bro wtf is a situationship. devotion or die

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men liking asoiaf feels so wrong. this is a girl interest. get the fuck out.