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ancientcharm

The Via Sacra. Photo taken during a morning wandering the Forum and Palatine in November 2024.

Photo and caption by Michael Petersen

#rome

all-too-unwell-13

you’ve met me at a very spanish time in my life

#world cup 2026

ilikedetectives

#MI AMOREEE #deimos!kassandra #ac odyssey

mccleans

for example nothing

#mbappe special

catilinas

galenic lesbians in a butch/phlegm relationship

penny-anna

Something I think ppl who aren't used to it struggle with when it comes to ancient history is that frequently 'we do not and cannot know this' is the only truthful response a historian can give. People severely overestimate how much we actually know about Ancient Rome.

I remember talking to someone at a party once about the debate over Septimius Severus's ethnicity (whole other can of worms) and they asked if genetic testing of his remains was not a way to settle it and I was like oh. Oh okay you are under the impression we have the physical remains of Roman emperors from the second century AD alright then. (We. Do not.)

penny-anna

Can't stress how much of high level study of Ancient History is devoted to trying to make sense of what actually factually happened. When I was at university (10+ years ago now) the discipline was embroiled in the lengthy and ongoing process of trying to unpack not just the biases in ancient sources but the centuries & centuries of biases within the field itself. I don't imagine this process is ever going to Stop. It's not uncommon for historical accounts to be so garbled & contradictory that it's not possible to reconstruct the real events behind them.

Once in an introductory lecture one of my professors was talking about this problem and articulated it very simply as 'we know real things happened between real people, but we aren't sure what they were'. Sums it up really!!

nedlittle

age of sail tracy chapman: you've got a fast ship

consulships

i would care about the world cup if there were more players on the pitch and rhe pitch was made of marble and bricks and concrete and filled wirh benches and the players wore voluminois white jerseys and the ball was a sort of decree or law and the referee was called "tribune of the plebs

consulships

aand they all had stiicks and also they could fist fight

I’ve once read somewhere that the first draft/idea is unlikely to be the final product and you should be willing to let go of it and try again from another angle. Don’t let it discourage you. I’m sure the work will come out great when it’s finished. I wish you all the best. Writing can be really something… 😅

It’s great to hear you may pop back on AO3. There are so few Deimos/Aspasia fics on there it’s a drought. I do especially love the possessiveness Deimos always has in your fics 😩 Aspasia is always like what. the. fuck. but secretly she’s digging it and ya know what.. relatable queen

Absolutely, writing is a very iterative process, and I've found it's rare not to get things wrong before you get them right. A lot of my AO3 chapters had up to 5 drafts to get them right, and it's just a case of learning the process for a novel now. Thank you again for your words of encouragement!

I'll definitely be back on AO3 before then, though. I'm glad you enjoyed my Aspasia/Deimos fics ❤️. It really does feel like an untapped goldmine, and there's a fic of theirs on its way soon, hopefully later this month 👀