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Otto Soglow in The San Francisco Examiner, California, December 10, 1932

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#hemmings

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#calliope

frontmansdefender

“How’s life?”

Me:

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The mammalian desire to stand at the edge of the ocean.

evehaze

It's fading

uroko

The WanderingSoul

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what’s the word for post nut clarity but for situations

#arlo

the four horse girls of the apocalypse

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I'm not usually a nitpicker about historical accuracy - and I know that my own comic is going to make Ancient Rome Nerds shriek about all the "fuck it, looks right enough" desicions I'm not even consciously aware that I've been making - but one thing I want to point out is that gladiators did not fucking have visible sixpacks.

Gladiators were trained for strength, endurance, battle fitness and stamina. Functional peak performance. The kind of a build you've got when your life literally depends on it. And because ancient Romans were exactly as horny and indulgent as imperial powers allowed themselves to be before the christian pretense of modesty was invented, they fought half-naked. And if you're going to have no armour over your skin, you've got to have some protective layer between skin and muscle. Roman gladiators were muscled, bulky and they were fucking

thick

and people were

stupid horny

about that. Everybody stop depicting them as skinned-squirrel-looking dehydrated bodybuilders, they were a work line not show line breed of built. This is a built-like-a-brick-wall stack body build developed by the people who discovered an indestructible type of concrete.

#bracken