oolonginus
oolonginus
They yearn for what they fear
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Hello! Classical literature and history comic artist. Lover of ancient epic. 2 years deep into ancient Rome and never getting out
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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plants love being polyploid its one of their favorite things to be
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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this is my piece for the @clubconcrave zine! this pressed flower collage was a labor of love! incredibly delicate work, but i'm so pleased with how it turned out. i'm so proud to have been part of this amazing project <3
a small number of giclée prints of this piece are available here on my ko-fi!
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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why do you hate Machiavelli
Cause i find his ideology to be harmful and usless. Unless you're like. A politician. Or smn. Actually, I take it back. It's even worse if you use it as a politician. And as I see it, if you end up following the philosophy, you end up cinical and lonely, as well as harming people around you, and for what? Power? Influence? All for power that doesn't even end up satisfactory because we are humans, and we want connection, not half assed attempts at being mysterious and nonchalant. And literally harming everyone around you to get ahead.
I'm not claiming to be well versed in polisci or political philosophy or even in Machiavellis work. But that's what I got from reading excerpts from The Prince (and 48 Laws Of Power, which is largely inspired by Machiavelli) at least.
I plan into looking into his works more once I have time, and my opinion may change, but for not, I'm a Machiavellianism Hater with a capital H, and I wouldn't like to be especially personally close with people who strictly and genuinely belive in his ideology 🤷 tbh I think real Machiavelli stans would never even be open about it lmao, they would keep those cards to their chest.
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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CANTO I: THE DARK WOOD
First of all, happy Dantedì!!!
If every major element in the Divine Comedy has its echo, then like Lucifer whose triplicate heads and wings remind one of the perversion of the Trinity, so too does the Dark Wood subvert the Earthly Paradise. To bring to mind the presence of the divine in such a wilderness, I thought of fractals.
Fractals are found in multiple aspects of the natural world (such as trees and spiral galaxies), and what makes them special is their recursiveness; they contain the same pattern when looked at as a whole, as well as when only a tiny part is observed. No spoilers to those reading the books right now (!) but this logical beauty and wonder to be found in small and grand examples is akin to how Dante speaks of some of the higher parts of the Paradiso.
The structure of our own lungs is a fractal as well, following an extensively branching formation in order to maximize gas exchange. Having lungs as the representation for the Dark Wood puts emphasis on the human aspect of error, but also evokes the imagery that Dante provides many times of the Holy Spirit moving as breath between the three natures of the Trinity.
Furthermore, Virgil is introduced as seeming “hoarse from long silence.” How long has it been since he’s drawn breath? How fitting that, being forbidden god’s grace, the first thing that Dante notices about him is that he has not had to breathe, to vocalize?
The lungs are gold primarily to harken back to medieval altarpieces framing the saints, but there’s also a certain epic written by a certain poet, where an underworld journey can only be begun by first finding a golden bough in a forest……
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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finally, a game for Me !
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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octavian groomed that old man
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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if you missed e-pistulae last time: cicero is back 🫵 he is being exiled NOW 🫵 you will hear from him soon 🫵
e-pistulae is like dracula daily but for the letters of marcus tullius cicero. i am translating them from latin myself. this time it is the letters from the period of his exile. he's having possibly the worst time ever, and you Will be hearing about it. quit your job subscribe to my emo substack!!!
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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hello??????
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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The difference in how people draw Vergil depending on whether they know him from the Divine Comedy or from his poetry will never fail to amuse me
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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Life is so good. I literally get to dress Dante up in any (historically accurate) outfit I want
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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siquid habent veri vatum praesagia, vivam
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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do i have the time for this today? no. will i try anyway? yes
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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There he is 🤍 Missed you beloved
It’s actually really hard to draw Vergil without making him into the most beautiful woman imaginable. Hundreds of years of artists have also struggled with thuis—
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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It’s actually really hard to draw Vergil without making him into the most beautiful woman imaginable. Hundreds of years of artists have also struggled with thuis—
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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It's Marcus Caelius Rufus, baby!
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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i think about her constantly
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oolonginus · 4 months ago
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It was bound to happen, my friends…
For context: Somewhere—I don’t remember the exact source—I once read that during the festival of Bona Dea, even images of men were covered. This inspired me to explore a slightly symbolic idea
Some variations below the crop!
Thank you for commissioning me sweetheart @p-clodius-pulcher 😭😭
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