#like pretty gnarly

[thekatastrophy]

Post apotheosis Peter Sqloint....... my beloved.

[brother-emperors]

ANTONY cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war

earlier in my script (which is not Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar), Antony refers to Dolabella as one of his ‘dogs of war’ when talking to Cassius (which IS a reference to Shakespeare’s JC), and it comes back around after Cicero writes to Cassius and informs him of Trebonius’ fate

While these things were taking place at Rome, Cassius and Brutus were collecting troops and money, and Trebonius, governor of the province of Asia, was fortifying his towns for them. [...] Trebonius, who was captured in bed, told his captors to lead the way to Dolabella, saying that he was willing to follow them. One of the centurions answered him facetiously, "Go where you please, but you must leave your head behind here, for we are ordered to bring your head, not yourself." With these words the centurion immediately cut off his head, and early in the morning Dolabella ordered it to be displayed on the praetor's chair where Trebonius was accustomed to transact public business. Since Trebonius had participated in the murder of Caesar by detaining Antony in conversation at the door of the Senate-house while the others killed him, the soldiers and camp-followers fell upon the rest of his body with fury and treated it with every kind of indignity. They rolled his head from one to another in sport along the city pavements like a ball till it was completely crushed. This was the first of the murderers who received the meed of his crime, and thus vengeance overtook him.

App. Civil Wars III. 26

For Dolabella is in Syria, and, as you have foreseen in your prophetic soul and have foretold, Cassius will crush him while they are on their way. For Dolabella has had the gates of Antioch shut in his face and got a good beating in trying to storm it. Not trusting in any other city, he has betaken himself to Laodicea, on the sea-coast of Syria. There I hope he will speedily pay the penalty of his crime: for he has no place of refuge, nor will he much longer be able there to stand out against an army as large as that of Cassius. I even hope that Dolabella has by this time been overpowered and crushed.

Cic. Fam. 12.14

Place then before your eyes, O conscript fathers, that spectacle, miserable indeed, and tearful, but still indispensable to rouse your minds properly: the nocturnal attack upon the most beautiful city in Asia; the irruption of armed men into Trebonius’s house, when that unhappy man saw the swords of the robbers before he heard what was the matter; the entrance of Dolabella, raging,—his ill-omened voice, and infamous countenance,—the chains, the scourges, the rack, the armourer who was both torturer and executioner; all which they say that the unhappy Trebonius endured with great fortitude. A great praise, and in my opinion indeed the greatest of all, for it is the part of a wise man to resolve beforehand that whatever can happen to a brave man is to be endured with patience if it should happen.

Cicero, Philippic 11

Philippi and Perusia, Ronald Syme

ko-fi⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

[mattodore]

pets him

[piosplayhouse]

In retrospect I think the main reason I've always been more into media about becoming dragons/autonomous dragon society (wings of fire) yet disinterested in dragonRIDING media is because everything is built on the foundations of me being a horse girl, and so the usual fantasy knee jerk response of cool monster mount replaces horses has never resonated with me because horses are already a cool monster mount on their own in a way. Even more if you are in a fantasy setting perhaps because imagine you walk outside to regularly see dragons and direwolves and those are cool and all but what you wouldn't give to see witness the king's eastern heavenly horse being born with its infant tentacles intact

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: Delicious in Dungeon Danjon Meshi ダンジョン飯

by Ryōko Kui

[ghostyolive]

See the fun thing about dolcetto is that he's probably pretty competent and skilled in the world of fighting but he somehow managed to exclusively encounter the top 0.1% of most powerful people in combat. Dude literally has to fight a suit of posessed armor with no stamina or sensation, an unassuming housewife who lifts bears for fun, and the superhuman fucking dictator who can see everybody's weakness. Maybe we should cut him some slack

[dinoburger]

Which tf2 character do you think is the prettiest girl? Gray disqualified on accounts of already being prettiest girl in the world.

Miriam :)

[misty-missdee]

Girl who likes spiders.

[nsfwitchy2]

Decided to try and figure out what exactly “cozy horror” is and the first article I came across says you can enjoy horror that isn’t all slashers and gore which like. Yeah that’s a given. But the examples they use are midsommar and the vvitch and I hate to break it to you article author but both of those movies actually very much involve gore. Like it may not be their main selling point but I definitely wouldn’t describe them as horror movies without gore-

[fluorescentbrains]

just got a pilar cyst (random keratin lump) (my family just develops these for some reason) removed from my scalp which does require excision and a few stitches but is mostly nbd. and i had the classic doctor visit experience of having like 3 trainees in the room to Experience my silly little head bump. afterwards the medical assistant insisted i eat a hard candy because apparently my face went extremely pale even though i felt completely fine

[rivilu]

Important things to teach your runaway mages pt2: Hand-to-hand basics.

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

A car door opens | Moth Work

He’s sitting on the curb in front of a diner when she pulls up in her hatchback. They’ve agreed to meet here because this is the only place Lonan could describe—a neon sign outside that says we’ve got the best hamburgers in the state! Lonan keeps his head low and covered by his hair—he’s warned her that he doesn’t look very pretty but feels vulnerable in the presence of a stranger who isn’t a stranger to his father. In his pocket, he fingers the photograph of her, tracing his nail along the ridges. Her car door opening echoes throughout the parking lot, and he stares at the dandelions growing in between the pavement when she walks up.

Quick bloody Lonan sketch, lol. Imagine pulling up to a diner for some silly little pancakes and this what you see. I’d turn around LMAO.

[mypeggableromance]

not to be too real on main but i just got word that I passed my Games studies masters degree with a distinction im literally 🙈🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😝😝🥰🥰🥴🥴😤😤😍 aaaaa!!! I wasn't anticipating thissss

[spearxwind]

How matched are Hades and Talas in a fight, both in and out of their leviathan forms? Does Hades' new threat display give him a leg up in battles with other leviathans?

Oh great question!! They are actually pretty evenly matched :D

While in mer form Hades hits REALLY HARD, so he's not someone Talas can just push off easily like he can with Graves, and his scratches are pretty gnarly too. Usually when they fight/spar it's 50/50 over who wins every time.

While in leviathan form though things are more nuanced for multiple reasons. Talas has the upper hand over almost pretty much 90% of everything in the ocean just out of sheer size (including Hades) and its just a question of how much trouble other things give him to the point where some fights arent worth getting into (this also includes Hades) unless theres a reason for it.

Hades' display would give him a leg up (heh..) with MOST other leviathans, specifically all of those who live closer to the surface and do rely on sight. When faced with one who didnt rely on sight (like Talas), the pattern on said display is actually incandescent so at least itd be a deterrent (no one wants to bite into a blowtorch)

SO the TLDR for this is basically: pitting a creature who has evolved for an extremely visual environment against a creature that has evolved to be able to survive in complete darkness and is two size classes bigger. The latter would obviously win. Except the first creature is also a blowtorch.

[loverboybrightsideghost]

for my next trick i will become god

[kittehbiscuits]

Warning for rot and maggots and shit

I need to stick my hand in his rotting abdomen cavity