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i love failmarriages and i love divorce and i love the souring of love and i love the inadequacy of love!!! when their ideals are irreconcilable... when the power dynamics go loop-the-loop... when the weight of all their history is suffocating them... when all they do together is press on secret bruises, when only they know where to press... when they watch each other get further and further away from who they fell in love with... when they watch each other change and wonder if that's really who they've been all along... when they're all they have because they thought they would never need anyone else... even when there's no love, but there was intimacy, and that's just as bad....... hate can only truly come from closeness!!!!!!!

yendts

what have i become? my sweetest friend.

sabina seeing hadrian’s lightning strike scar for the first time sometime around 135-7CE

glossc1

happy 1914th birthday, antinous

yendts

was reminded of that one meme so i had to draw julia balbilla and claudia damo

#julia balbilla #empress sabina #vibia sabina #claudia damo #ancient women #sappho #ancient poetry #sapphic #mother and daughter right there fr

yendts

antinous + lucius vitalis doodles bc they deserve to be happy

#antinous #antinous of bithynia #lucius marius vitalis #lucius vitalis #my favourites ever #sobbing actually

I feel crazy anytime I mention Empress Sabina in a conversation about Hadrian, because why does everyone act like she's an irrelevant part of his story???? And then I bring up Balbilla and they act like I'm jumping to insane conclusions...like okayyy

#ancient rome #vibia sabina #empress sabina #hadrian #antinous #emperor hadrian #roman empire #ancient women

k-wame

#geez i hope no one can tell why i got into history #books #queer history #ancient history #ancient rome #roman empire #emperor hadrian

yendts

young julia balbilla with her older brother philopappos to go with sabina and her sisters

#julia balbilla #balbilla #philopappos #gaius julius antiochus epiphanes philiopappos #philo and his longass name #THE SIBSSSSSSS #sobbing actually

yendts

emperor trajan & empress plotina

#healthiest imperial couple to ever grace the Palatine #sobbing miss them (they died 2500 years ago)#plotina #pompeia plotina #roman emperor #trajan #GRUNKLE TRAJAN

yendts

apple trend with hadrian, antinous, sabina and balbilla

#failmarriage is failmarriage-ing #look at themmmmmm #ancient lesbians yes please #lesbian mums!!!!!!#ancient rome #vibia sabina #hadrian #antinous #julia balbilla

yendts

PIETAS AVGVSTA

Salonia Matidia based off the coin Trajan commissioned of her and her young girls, Matidia Minor and Vibia Sabina.

#LOSING MY MINDDDDDDDDDD #salonia matidia #matidia #vibia sabina #empress sabina #matidia minor #ancient rome #roman empire #trajan #emperor trajan #rome #ancient women

yendts

ancient yuri <3

#this is important to me in so many ways actually #they own me #sapphics on the brain always #julia balbilla #vibia sabina #ancient rome #ancient greece #ancient egypt #<333 #sabilla #roman empire

hey have you read Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey by T. Corey Brennan?

I have! Its brilliant, Corey Brennan is my favourite scholar (unbiasedly haha) and its what I use as framework for my novel.

I would definitely recommend both that and Mary Boatwrights book on imperial women.

#vibia sabina #ancient rome #empress sabina #hadrian

Its very intresting to watch people deny Antinous' age in favour of romanticising Hadrian and Antinous' relationship. When its a historical fact he was "a youth", and ancient morality is completely different from modern standards. Both can be true! People can enjoy the dynamic without ignoring facts 😮‍💨

#ancient rome #hadrian #antinous #emperor hadrian #people need to read other literature besides lambert.