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Hi! I just saw your post about the Ukrainian LGBTMilitary group and I'd love to donate too, but the instagram doesn't seem to be working right now, or maybe it's that I don't have an instagram account at all, to view things properly with. Do you happen to have another copy of the donation link? Thank you!

Hi! Here is their Linktree: English and Ukrainian versions. Both languages have a link to their PayPal; Ukrainian version additionally has their Monobank link, where you can donate by credit card/Google Pay. So whichever works for you! Thank you for your support!

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oh Vivaldi you madlad

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Just fixed something in the house that was making me uncomfortable for months. Took whole ten minutes. Feels good.

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Demetrio really sang a whole love duet with Berenice while planning to depose her and crown Selene. The commitment (to the bit)...

A marvel that Christophe Dumaux has not sung him yet.

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trial of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus

date: 103? BCE charge: iudicium populi [trial before the people] (for failure to perform properly duties as priest [augur?]) defendant: M. Aemilius Scaurus cos. 115, cens. 109 prosecutor: Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus tr. pl. 104? 103? cos. 96, cens. 92 (ORF 69.I)

Cic. Scaur. fr. c; Deiot. 31; V. Max. 6.5.5; Asc. 21C; Plut. De capienda ex inimicis utilitate 91D; Dio 27 fr. 92; see also Suet. Nero 2.1 Gruen (1964) 107-8

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a homo novus is when you're the first out gay person in your family

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not dying a hero or living long enough to become the villain but a secret third thing (diminish, go into the West, and remain Galadriel)

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Cato in Catone in Utica is one of the opera characters ever. The snark!

Other opera characters ever by their amazing lines are Cassius in La morte di Cesare and Demetrius in Berenice regina d'Egitto.

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It is a puzzle that can go SO many interesting ways!

Personally, if I were to cast Mo Xuanyu as a poet, my first thought would be Lucan, because - the act of epic necromancy that both kills the necromancer and sets the story in motion. But this is not to say that Catullus cannot do necromancy! He can, he should, and he will. Catullus bringing back Catilina would also validate the Catullan-Catilinarian thematic connection that exists in my head (born from Sallust's description of Sempronia the Catilinarian).

I think Nie Huaisang would thrive in first century bce Rome.

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Yeah! And Wei Wuxian as L. Sergius Catilina.

I think Nie Huaisang would thrive in first century bce Rome.

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I think Nie Huaisang would thrive in first century bce Rome.

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Turns out coffee makes my head hurt now. Good thing I have decaf somewhere.

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the gods looked at the draft for caelius and went like ok what if we gave this guy talent and intelligence and political savvy but zero wisdom and the temperament of a rooster

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how can i not be obsessed with this guy he’s literally insane

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Clay model of a Minoan house

* 17th century BCE

* Archanes

* Archaeological Museum of Heraklion

source: Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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trial of Quintus Servilius Caepio

date: 103 BCE charge: iudicium populi [trial before the people]? (over defeat at Arausio, defendant as procos. 105 shared command with Mallius) defendant: Q. Servilius Caepio cos. 106 spoke pro se [for himself](ORF 62.I) prosecutor: C. Norbanus tr. pl. 103, cos. 83 other: tr.pl. L. Aurelius Cotta pr. ca. 95 and tr. pl. T. Didius cos. 98 driven off from veto

ad Her. 1.24; Cic. Balb. 28; Brut. 135; Liv. Per. 67; Strab. 4.1.13; V. Max. 4.7.3, 6.9.13; Gran. Licin. 13 Flemisch

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Etymology of the day.

ponsò (Italian) - bright scarlet (the colour and the dye). Adapted in 17th century from French ponceau. [etymology as per Treccani]

ponceau (French) - poppy flower / poppy colour. From Old French poncel (“poppy”), a diminutive formation from Old French paon (“peacock”). [etymology as per Wiktionary]