wait did I miss you talking about Antinous? plz talk about Antinous again
Haha, no you didn't miss me talking about anything! It's just that my current WIP is a fantasy novel which is also a Fake Academic Text about the Fantasy Romans, and two of the main characters are inspired by Hadrian and Antinous. The first couple sections are available on Patreon!
Facts about Fantasy Antinous:
His name is Anaticula, which means duckling. 😍
His critics/political enemies call him Anserculus behind his back, which on one level means gosling (because It Is A Beautiful Day In the Lausan Empire And You Are A Horrible Goose Twink) but also could be glossed more punfully as "goose-ass", presumably because he swings his hips like one.
They also call him Regulus ('little king') because, according to the poet/philosopher Faucian, “Lausa may be ruled by the emperor, but the emperor’s cock is ruled by his darling, Regulus.”
He is having his Hot Girl Summer road trip and it's causing problems for literally everyone. You will not believe how many people this is causing problems for.
Much like the canonical Hadrian, this emperor handles breakups the worst that anyone has ever done it, to wit: spends the rest of his life ugly-crying, commissions 2000 sculptures of said boyfriend, and sets them around the place like "he will live forever he will be immortal and you will all make offerings to him like a god". tbh we love to see a man destroyed.