#publiusmaximus

[archibaldtuttle]

What are you doing for your birthday?

I'm DMing a game of Night Witches, one of my favorite TTRPGs, where you play Soviet pilots during WW2. And right now I'm doing crepe camp, where I teach three Americans how to make crêpes !

[thelegendofclarke]

Welcome back.

How do you feel about gay pirates?

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you have my complete and undivided attention.

[lynx-tales]

I want a candle that smells like your cat.

A candle that smells like cat fur would be an experience

[mcufandomhatespeopleofcolor]

We're 3 episodes into WandaVision. How are you folks (this account has multiple mods, right?) feeling about Monica so far?

I’m ashamed to say I found the first episode too boring without Monica and haven’t gone back to watch lol.  but like I promise to go back and binge watch after this half of the semester is over.  so like no worries about spoilers for us mods I fully accept I might be spoiled lol.

In other news I bingewatched the first four episodes of All Rise season 2!

mod ali

[darkwingsnark]

YOUR BLOG NAME IS AMAZING

Ha! Thank you! I am the terror that snarks in the night, and all that.

[ekjohnston]

What bit of Star Wars Legends (that is not part of the current canon) do you love most?

The whole of Kenobi. I’m going to drag that book into new canon one detail at a time.

[crunchybones-mcspine]

Love your blog name!

Thank you so much!!!!!

[countessbatman]

What's the deal with Dan Didio?

What a blessed life you have lead, not to be burdened with all of DC comics fuckery. 

Dan Didio is the Co-publisher of DC Comics, he’s said and done a lot of stupid things mainly, that Superheroes can’t be happy or get married. Many people blame him as the reason why Batwoman wasn’t allowed to get married to Maggie Sawyer in J.H. Willaims run.

He said that he wants to kill off Nightwing??? No reason was given. Nightwing is Dick Grayson ex Robin sidekick of Batman.

Here’s a snippet of him giving an explanation on Batwoman marriage and even jokes about killing Nightwing.

He hates legacy characters( Dick Grayson, Wally West, Donna, Roy, Garth) because it ages up the “heroes” like Bruce Wayne Batman, Flash. Which explains the push for a five-year timeline in the New 52. Bruce only adopted Dick Grayson five years ago which explains why bruce is still eternally 35 years old yet erases almost all of his relationships with his other adopted children. See Link for (TIMELINE PHOTO) which was adjusted to 6 years. 

He placed both King on Batman, pushing for him to kill Alfred Pennyworth. Also, they teased a Catwoman/Batman marriage only to trick people into buying a book, because in Didio’s world “supeRHErOes  CAn’t get mArRieD”

Previously Wally West(Kid Flash) had been erased from the Timeline, he was brought back only to have his family and children also erased and King also wrote Heroes in Crisis which turned Wally West into a murderer. It’s hard not to believe that Didio was not involved, but company man King said it all his idea.

Didio hired Bendis and gave him full control of Superman, and is just destroying his character, got rid of Super Sons, the book of Damian Wayne(Robin) and Jon Kent (Superboy). He aged up Jon Kent so he can toss him in the future. He broke up Clark’s family. 

He said he wanted to break up Lois and Clark “DC Comics May Split Up Superman and Lois Lane” . Which he was successful in doing, Lois and Clark don’t live together anymore, they just kinda hook up. They have no son anymore. And for what???

He also made a character “hit list” of all the DC characters he wants to get rid of. let just say I’m not a fan of his. I’m glad he is gone, but I doubt very much will change at DC, the problems didn’t all stem from him. 

[deco-devolution]

I've just started following you, and I hope 2k hires you to do some writing.

[swainlake]

↳ got au // sansa and jeyne escape kings landing together

they don’t talk about how sansa was to be a queen, or how jeyne used to sigh over the boys in the training yard. they don’t talk about how neither of them looked back when they clasped sweaty, shaking hands and ran from the kingsguard. they don’t talk about a lot of things but that doesn’t mean they don’t talk. their nights are spent curled around one another as bedmates, huddled together for warmth like they were still girls and they were still safe in winterfell instead of here in this desolate place. at night they didn’t need to worry about food or coin. the nights were for them. and sometimes, in her heart of hearts, jeyne thinks that there’s nothing in the world worth worrying about when her legs are entwined with sansa’s and the other girl’s breath warms her face as they whisper secrets to one another in the dark. 

[archibaldtuttle]

Is that a stuffy tiger bag?!

This is Hobbes, my loyal pencil case!

Hobbes says hi.

[thelegendofclarke]

publiusmaximus reblogged your post and added:

Wait. Netflix also dropped them?!

YUP!

Confederate (the series that D(ouche bag) & D(ick head) ironically phoned in the entire last season of GoT to start writing) was canceled last August. the Official On The Record reason for it’s cancelation was all the backlash over it being downright repulsive and racist af (which it is don’t get me wrong) but i’m sure the epic cluster fuck train wreck shit show that was GoT s8 prrrooobably didn’t do them any favors. 

[lynx-tales]

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[flange5]

publiusmaximus replied to your photo: As if Nat could give up that fabulous outfit,...

“all that jazz”!

Best not to get too specific.

[thescarletlibrarian]

What makes the 17th century so much worse than, say, the 15th century?

@publiusmaximus

If this is costume-related (I've been off Tumblr for a while and have no idea when this ask came in), the answer for Europe is ruffs and lace.

If this is about The World, the short answer is Death.

It's SO shitty it's referred to as The Crisis of the 17th. c.

The longer answer is climate change, and general shittiness culminating in Deaths from Famine, Plague, and War.

As well as a lot of Miscellaneous Death from fires, witch hunts, massacres/mass murders, Inquisitions, the Dutch East India Company, and expansion of global slave trades (which is Generally Shitty, but associated with a lot of Death.) Most of the "bad things" people associate with the Middle Ages are much, much worse in the 17th c. shitstorm.

Multiple "Great Famines," even more Just Regular Famines (death toll multiple millions)

Multiple "Great Plagues," even more Just Regular Plagues, and some epidemics (including the general epidemic of new diseases wiping out the Americas).

List of 17th c. Health Disasters

LOTS of wars

(including the most religious warfare ever seen in Europe, the Ming-to-Qing transition in China (just a ton of people over most of the century), the troubled expansion of the Mughal Empire under Aurangzeb until it surpassed even the Qing economically, all kinds of shit in the Americas, the Ottomans vs. the Holy Roman Empire and Poland and Russia and the Safavids and whoever else was available that week, and various revolts, rebellions, uprisings, resistance movements, etc. pretty much everywhere.

(Source)

And some miscellaneous deaths.

General Crisis of the 17th c. (details of climate change and the Little Ice Age)

Witch Hunts

Fires

Massacres and mass murders

The Dutch East India Company

Global Slave Trades (which involved a lot of Death, as well as General 17th c. Shittiness)

Link goes directly to Qing China, because there's a LOT, but there have always been forms of slavery throughout Asia (like the rest of the world).

And finally, Russia didn't go "full serfdom" until 1597.

In short, the 17th c. sucked. Everywhere. For everyone.

[ekjohnston]

Was there anything you had wanted to write where the Story Group came out and said it just wouldn't work for timeline or other reasons?

Yes.