#I had to draw a fucking villa in pompeii and I spent three days pointlessly looking at italian websites with no results | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

greypetrel · 1 year

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Every time I think that it's a pity that I live in Italy and I never write anything set in my country (I love historical fantasy and mainly write that for my fully original works)... Every time I think that and then I try to research something historical/artistical here that's not the two villas in Pompeii, the Coliseum or the Uffizi Gallery, I spend at least one hour cursing like a sailor because everything is done with the apparent purpose of kicking people away and making finding informations difficult, and close everything like this:

#personal crap #I had to draw a fucking villa in pompeii and I spent three days pointlessly looking at italian websites with no results #I was about to ask friends living in Naples if they could please go there and take some photos for me #after they kindly sent me the leaflets and map they got the last time they went there #when I found infos and photographs on an american website #which I didn't check before because you know #I'm a mothertongue italian #I may as well look up for informations in my own language no?#no.#on the other hand I had to research old Colchis for a Medea illustration #And it took me half an hour on Georgian websites because I stopped to look at recipes and local food #Everything was well organised and easy to research with plenty of photos #Tbilisi ended up high in my list of “Places I'd like to visit”

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