#modern roman

[cod-dump]

Ghost: How many kids do you have?

Graves: I don’t have any-

Ghost, looking at the several Shadows behind Graves: Fuck- You got pregnant that many times??

Graves:

Graves: *stares blankly at Ghost, mouth hanging open with only a broken, very confused noise coming out*

Shadow 10: Holy shit- The Ghost broke the Commander

Shadow 13: WHEN DID HE GIVE BIRTH TO ME??

[deathblossomm]

Neil is the most beautiful man this planet has ever seen

[elucubrare]

got a book about a 1940s detective getting portal fantasied, which is objectively better than a normal guy (gender neutral) from the writer's period getting portal fantasied

[the-cricket-chirps]

Bronze statuette of a dog

Roman

2nd-3rd century CE

[earlymodernbarbie]

Reference drawing of Juana I of Castile for the Tomb of Maximillian I by Jörg Kölderer (1522)

[brother-emperors]

TRIPLE THREAT, BABY!

aka modern AU Cicero, Caelius, Crassus! I originally planned on doing this set in the Late Republic, but I forgot I had a stack of reading to do on Caelius and decided to set it in the modern day because I’m confident in my ability to draw a shirt collar but if I try reading anything Cicero wrote before I drink my morning coffee, I will simply turn to dust

(also the buttons for Cicero’s vest are on the wrong side, I’m aware, I flipped the canvas to ink it as one does and realized I liked it better this way & didn’t feel fixing it etc)

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[agnel]

The Birth of Venus

Odilon Redon, 1912

[notacluedo]

Happy new year everyone read Lavinia by Ursula k le guin

[uncleclaudius]

Statues of Agrippa and Augustus side by side on the Cologne City Hall. It was Agrippa who first settled the Germanic tribe of the Ubii in the area and the settlement was known as Ara Ubiorum.

Agrippa's granddaughter Agrippina the Younger was born in the town, which became an important military base, in 15 AD when her father Germanicus was campaigning against the Germans. In 50 AD on Agrippina's urging Claudius promoted it to the Colony and it was renamed Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. Her statue is also featured on the city hall, a short space from these two.

[sukunasteeth]

Made by Ogariane She makes dreams come true <3

[cod-dump]

Shadow 10: Are the Ghost and Captain Price related?

Soap: … why?

Shadow 10: They both have excellent asses so I’m wondering if it’s genetic

Soap:

Soap: Please, why would you do that to me? I'm going to have to stare at Price's ass now

Shadow 10: You're welcome, it's a nice ass

[deathblossomm]

he was so insane for this

[garadinervi]

Roman Cieslewicz, Więzień, [Luigi Dallapiccola, 'Il prigioniero' (1944-1948, 1950)], Opera Warszawska, 1962 [MoMA, New York, NY. Centre Pompidou, Paris]

[askuemki]

it was me who did that... 🤭

[brother-emperors]

so it’s. it’s like. man this is so hard without my laptop.

alright so Crassus is a weird guy, existentially. There’s a tendency to speculate, assign, and insert him into whatever places are conspiratorial and shadowy because he fits into those narrative places with ease. My personal favorite (aside from all of it) is the idea that he may have pulled strings wrt to Sulla and Caesar’s conflict to help get Caesar out of it.

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

In the universe that exists in my head, he definitely had a hand in it, but he didn’t really intend for Caesar to figure out he played a part in it, but Caesar’s good at puzzles, and noticing someone goes both ways. Binding someone to yourself goes both ways.

Crassus: The First Tycoon, Peter Stothard

This scene takes place sometime relatively soon after Sulla’s death. Crassus has complicated feelings about it, Caesar less so. Veni, vidi, vici, baby!

Here’s a bonus thing that I keep thinking about with them.

The Roman Revolution, Ronald Syme

like, utang na loob. and it is DEEP between them.

[ghcstao3]

short cat shifter!ghost post because it feels like a necessity every few days at this point

but it’s always a gamble as to how ghost will be found napping in his cat form—he does sleep in usual positions, curled up or laying on his side—but sometimes he’ll also sleep in odd ways, like on his back or stomach with his limbs sprawled out, hanging over a door with his legs dangling, or sitting in a loaf with his face to the ground in a way that’s honestly a bit concerning

and sometimes he just naps so well that the rest of the 141 always have to do a double take to make sure he’s still breathing (he is, and is now grumpy that he was woken up)