#cleopatrasdaughter

[faersflower]

but u kno Quentin loved that ugly tie

Gugfyghv

Quentin probably loves anything Eliot wears tbf

Which like

Same

So

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[weloveperioddrama]

You mind your step with care, boy. Many a giant has tumbled to the afterlife, believing himself too big to fall.

(requested by @cleopatrasdaughter)

[everythingroyalty]

i just wanted to tell you all these years i've always admired you and you never cease to make me laugh happily

[p-andore]

ancient history meme | 1/4 cities: petra

Petra (Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα), originally known as Raqmu (Nabataean Arabic: الرقيم), is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra lies on the slope of Jabal Al-Madbah in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah valley that run from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. It is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, where ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture. An ingenious water management system allowed extensive settlement of an essentially arid area during the Nabataean, Roman and Byzantine periods.

The outstanding value of Petra resides in the vast extent of elaborate tomb and temple architecture; religious high places; the remnant channels, tunnels and diversion dams that combined with a vast network of cisterns and reservoirs which controlled and conserved seasonal rains, and the extensive archaeological remains including of copper mining, temples, churches and other public buildings. The fusion of Hellenistic architectural facades with traditional Nabataean rock-cut temple/tombs including the Khasneh, the Urn Tomb, the Palace Tomb, the Corinthian Tomb and the Deir ("monastery") represents a unique artistic achievement and an outstanding architectural ensemble of the first centuries BC to AD.

[swan2swan]

cleopatrasdaughter replied to your post: Sidenote: Don’t let anyone forget the fact that...

suprised this website is upset abt this since all the 12 year olds keep saying americna soldiers aredrvilscand should die

Well, I’m not 12, and they really don’t say that, so how about you sit down, shut up, and let the adults talk?

[thetwelvecaesars]

hi again :) I read in Suetonius that Servilia prostited her daughter to Caesar. Would it be wrong to allude to it in a novel?

Hello again @cleopatrasdaughter! I see that you discovered I’m a writer! I like helping people with their story problems.

Now, alluding to the idea that Servilia prostituted her daughter to Julius Caesar is your choice. Because asking someone if it’s ‘wrong’ is always going to get  you different replies. This is due to the fact no one has the same morals. Morals are subjective and vary between every single person in the world. Even my view that morals are subjective is subjective.

So, I looked this up and Suetonius writes:

 “And in fact it was thought that Servilia was prostituting her own daughter Tertia to Caesar” (Suet. Caesar, 50).

I also took the liberty to look up more on Servilia’s daughter on Wiki and found this:

“She [Junia Tertia or Tertulla] was first said by some to be the natural daughter of Julius Caesar, her mother’s lover at the time of her birth. Later on it was said that Servilia offered her up to Caesar when his interest in her mother began to wane – although the former rumour, that his interest in her was paternal, seems the more likely to be true (as it is unlikely that both were true at once: incest not being a vice that Caesar was ever accused of even by his worst enemies). Either could have been the reason for Cicero to remark, at an auction where Caesar had sold goods to Servilia at reduced prices, that they had been discounted by a third (tertia)”[2] (Wikipedia - the author’s unknown.).

Now, some might think you’re ‘ruining’ the reputation of Julius. But I personally, wouldn’t worry too much about that. Since the first line from Suetonius is IN a prime source, it’s free to play with in my own personal ‘rule’ book. I’ve taken 1 liners from the prime sources and ran with them in my own novels. It’s also what you feel comfortable writing. I personally think it is up to you what your limits are. History can get ugly. Fast.

Trust me.

Now, the one thing I would take into account is, as long as a reader can FIND evidence in a prime source for the things you write in your novel, use it. If not, make it reasonable and believable for the historical figure to do; just as any other character.

I will personally advise though, If you ARE running wild with or without the prime sources, figure what your theories are for this novel are so you can write an author’s note about it at the end of your book. Or something. I personally find that if something is going to be alluded to or changed in a historical novel, do it for a reason. Don’t JUST put it in there to put it in there. Historical fiction shouldn’t be the new HBO.

Happy writing!

TTC

[jeffreycombs]

would jeff top caesar?

jeff only tops people who aren’t whiny bitches

[thecatsaesthetics]

i'm pretty sure the movie passengers was based off a r*ylo fic. This group of people is frozen for expected 120 years to reach another planet. Some idiot accidently wakes up 80 years earlier. Being lonely with manpain, he gets obsessed with one of the other passangers and essentially murders her by wakening her from her sleep so he didn't have to be alone. The grossest part is that when she has the opportuinity at the end to be frozen and have her future, she stays with manpain - a love story!!!

I’ve never seen the movie, but it sounds like something a r*ylo would write lol.  That ending sounds super disgusting as well and reminds me why I hate men cause they thought this was a love story. I’m glad I never saw it.