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mean to him
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do you guys know about lio gangeri's statue of fulvia with the head of cicero.
i saw this irl when i was sixteen and it forever altered my sexuality i think. you can't tell but she's holding a pin to puncture his tongue with
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(Re)Watching some episodes of the first season of "Rome" (HBO) I wonder why they didn't include Portia, Brutus' beloved wife.
She is a wonderful character (sweet, strong, faithful to her husband) and I loved their relationship dynamic in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It would have been nice to see Portia on screen and significantly reduce Servilia's excessive presence in later episodes.
Trick or treat!!👻
Treat ofc! You're getting a medieval manuscript version of Plutarch and a rare bust of Catllus!
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by the way thank you @catominor for this. i had a good laugh
this one's for all my mean girls
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So I've finally gotten around to watching HBO's Rome and here are my two hot takes:
- Where's Fulvia?? they really are doing my beloved Roman dominas dirty :/
- Excellent casting for Mark Antony (capturing the slutty energy) and for Brutus (capturing the sad wet cat energy) though
- 1. ATIA in this show is a mix between Fulvia (It is no coincidence that she is Marco Antonio's lover and proves to be very badass!), Messalina (In the series Atia is a woman who indulges in sexual pleasures while her historical counterpart is described as a moderate woman) and Agrippina Minor (In the series Atia tries to control her family members and particularly cares about Octavian's rise to power). Same thing for other characters like OCTAVIA: she reminds me Julia The Elder (Augustus' daughter), Vipsania (Tiberius' first wife) and Claudia Octavia (Claudius' daughter).
- 2. I agree. I think "Rome" has the best casting in the history of TV series about ancient Rome. I also found Allen Leech as Agrippa (<3) and Simon Wood as Octavian very suitable for the role.
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Fulvia With the Head of Cicero by Pavel Svedomsky
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Calling history nerds 🚨🚨🚨
Which historical figure(s) would you put on your hear me put cake?
I would put Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Ulysses S Grant on ofc :) (They can also be someone just for goofiness)
hear me out cake example:
Tag people!!! @allysah @tommy-288 @tompoose @maip--macrothorax @rosemeriwether @pranklinfierce @chaotic-history and everyone else :)
Oh boy, this'll be interesting 😅 Thank you @macaron-n-cheese and @mexicanwanderingsoul for the tags!
Shockingly I don't have many historical figures I'm into that way, but I think the few I do have all count as hear-me-outs, so here's my cake:
In my defense for putting de Sade here, sometimes his desperate horny rambling is kind of Pathetic. De Tocqueville is just very pretty with the grabbable waist and sad wet brown puppy eyes (+ bonus points for having very good opinions on the Puritans), and then I have to include my wife ofc <3
Tagging: @estomia, @enlitment, and anyone else who wants to do it 😅
oh dear 😅 I'm not sure thanks is the right word to use here, but thanks for the tag @chaotic-history!
Behold, my Hear-me-out cake:
- Denis Diderot - a pretty lousy husband but 1700s no. 1 girldad (maybe along with Aaron Burr). Every source I've read went on and on about how charming he was. His writing's pretty funny. Plus someone I could bitch about Rousseau with. Letters to Sophie are still among the most beautiful ever to be written.
Plus relevant grasp of female anatomy confirmed by primary sources.Do you see my vision? - Mark Antony - look, if we take Plutarch's word for it, there's potential. Whatever dynamic they had going on with Cleopatra - the horribly un-Roman one - seems genuinely fun. Plus there's the whole Curio story to keep in mind.
I bet he'd look good in a stola. - Gaius Valerius Catullus - sigh, you knew this was coming. Whiny, but by all accounts a great poet. Takes no prisoners with his writing. Plus his daddy's rich.
- Camille Desmoulins - he seems to have been really charismatic and I do share a lot of his views? Plus, a talented writer. Plus, I'd trust that Lucile would have had a decent taste.
- John Polidori - underrated. A doctor. Has that early 1800s romantic look down. And the sad wet cat energy is all there.
tagging @edwardscissorfeet @trzepotttt @marcusagrippa @theghostofbean @tunathena (no pressure ofc!)
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cicero, the megalenses and the defence of caelius
catullus 63
So I've finally gotten around to watching HBO's Rome and here are my two hot takes:
- Where's Fulvia?? they really are doing my beloved Roman dominas dirty :/
- Excellent casting for Mark Antony (capturing the slutty energy) and for Brutus (capturing the sad wet cat energy) though
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The fact that this country was founded by middle aged men roleplaying Roman senators explains a lot unfortunately
this post probably about the USA but i think it's applicable to the french revolutionaries as well
what kind of republic would it be if it didn’t have cuntymen
cuntymen, lend me your ears etc. etc.
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clutuals and rome mutuals should i be watching megapolis because based on the reaction to the movie i cannot tell wtf is happening in it or if it’s even good
I've got some great responses in my post, so I'm passing down the knowledge
(also I think I'll just cave in and go see it tomorrow. need to offset the good literature I'm forced to consume with a bad movie)