#antoni → text

[kookiekult]

There are 3 stages to becoming a dilf.

Twink

Late 20's/Early 30's awkward ugly phase

Dilfism

[sforzesco]

--or perhaps,' continues Octavian. 'You're angry that I've outplayed you at your own game because you were too busy fucking in your old master's house to notice anything that was going on around you.'

He smiles suddenly, bright and wide. 'Enjoy the party, Marcus.'

this scene takes place sometime after philippi, and was originally just some historical fiction I was writing last year for fun focusing on antony, octavian, and agrippa. then I got stressed out watching the new season of a show, started drawing while it played, and ended up turning it into a short comic lmao

the dialogue in this scene is referencing this bit out of Suetonius:

In early youth he incurred the reproach of sundry shameless acts. Sextus Pompey taunted him with effeminacy; Mark Antony with having earned adoption by his uncle through unnatural relations; and Lucius, brother of Mark Antony, that after sacrificing his honour to Caesar he had given himself to Aulus Hirtius in Spain for three hundred thousand sesterces, and that he used to singe his legs with red-hot nutshells, to make the hair grow softer. What is more, one day when there were plays in the theatre, all the people took as directed against him and loudly applauded the following line, spoken on the stage and referring to a priest of the Mother of the Gods, as he beat his timbrel: "See'st how a wanton's finger sways the world?"

Suetonius Augustus 68

what a fun group of people!! they should all eat each other

[backjustforberena]

Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra‘ (2014)

[the-marshals-wife]

Edward Rutledge + text posts

[lanae111]

I feel like actors know exactly what they’re doing when they’re out doing press and you see they got the beard with glasses on combo. And sometimes with the curly hair. It’s deadly to us who get it and they have to know that

[britneyshakespeare]

man fuuuuuck thiiiis. i come to bury caesar not to praise him

[threeway-with-the-wendigo]

Somehow both Bedelia and Antony Dimmond coded imo

[cisthoughtcrime]

… can you … elaborate?? On the Roman republic empire thing? I mean is this That’s Interesting or an Oh Shit situation??

I might do a longer post with more details in a few weeks, but the short version is definitely Oh Shit.

There's an extremely polarising and power-hungry guy with rabid followers and he says he's into making the country great again because it has become decadent and weak. He's running to be king of a democracy which prides itself on having overthrown kings to become a balanced republic. He gains support by writing and publishing his own self-aggrandizing heroism with particular emphasis on the barbarity of foreign nations supposedly less civilised than his own, and even takes his armed supporters into the capital when he's faced with prosecution if he loses his chance to get back into office, which causes his political enemies to flee in fear for their lives. After he regains power and manages to bribe, threaten, kill, go to war with, or otherwise remove enough of the threats to his power, he is a dictator in all respects, but he's still saying it's democracy and he's not really a king. Even after he's assassinated and the Senate is tentatively trying to get back to how it was before the dictator consolidated power and cemented his office, the damage is already done, the seat is open for a new dictator, and once the bloody fighting over it is done, the democracy is dead and the Republic has become a monarchical Empire with one man in office for life who appoints his own successor. The new Empire kicks off with the passing of laws to encourage traditional values and higher birth rates, and the new emperor has already killed off enough of his enemies and collected their wealth to pay off the massive debts left by his dead predecessor. The assassinated dictator becomes literally deified and worshipped by an actual cult, and his name becomes synonymous with the office of dictator for the next several centuries of the country's history.

His name is Caesar.

[gennsoup]

"A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men."

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

[redchikittymeow]

[cloudfishh]

When your fandom so small you start reading actual fucking historical sources bc you crave more content 💔💔

[helenvaughans]

someone PLEASE make a hbo rome mark antony edit with 365 by charli xcx.....................

[pekoeboo]

man. I've been reworking a lot of content involving Act II of Home Is Where You Are and like. ugh. it'd work so freaking well in novel form but I just Do Not have the dedication or the drive to start from scratch and rewrite everything that happens.

idk how else to share the updated version of that part of the story with y'all tho, considering that Khalan's journal is insanely outdated now and isn't entirely canon anymore, so I'll probably just have to accept that I likely won't ever be able to update the story for y'all in the way I wish I could. >n<;;

[typingwithmyhandstied]

My favorite way to mess with Immortal Longings is thinking of it as a Julius Caesar retelling even though it really isn't. Like the implications it would have. The roles everyone would play. The most obvious way to mess with it in this way is Kasa as Julius Caesar and August and Calla as both some word mixtures of Cassius and Brutus. This would pretty much leave Anton as role-less in this idea.

It just occurred to me though that you could also view it through the lens of August as Cassius, Calla as Brutus, and Anton as Caesar. The arena scene? Calla stabbing him in the back? August manipulating her to get him to that point? Calla did it not because she didn't love Anton but because she loved Talin mor---- *gets trampled by a herd of sheep*

[britneyshakespeare]

love how productions of antony and cleopatra make everyone a little bit slutty ✨

[homeb0ys]

pov: my sister who hasn’t watched the boys gets her first homelander experience via gen v