Been reading recently about how people during the napoleonic wars would press gang their one literate friend into reading out the news to everyone else and thinking that this probably happens to Mary a lot

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Been reading recently about how people during the napoleonic wars would press gang their one literate friend into reading out the news to everyone else and thinking that this probably happens to Mary a lot
MSpaint has been soothing my soul lately so uh bunch of misc doodles of my characters! [kofi]
OCtober Day 4: Sona/Self Insert OC
The lil guy I made when I was 8 will always be my mascot aha
can y’all help me with something i’m writing and think of any other examples in history, mythology, or art/cinema/lit of men becoming inconsolable after the death of their “friend” (in the sense that people deny it was romantic) or lover (in an unequivocal way). when it comes to cinema/lit typically it’s the grief that drives the character’s arc throughout the story
such as
Alexander and Hephaestion
Hadrian and Antinous
T.S. Eliot and the friend that inspired a lot of his early work
Achilles/Patroclus
David/Giovanni in Giovanni’s Room
Brick/Skipper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Ennis/Jack in Brokeback Mountain
The men of Longtime Companion
Flint/Hamilton in Black Sails
Paddy/Eoin in Rogue Heroes
Omar/Brandon in The Wire
Ragnar/Athelstan in Vikings
George/Jim in A Single Man
Neil/Todd in Dead Poet’s Society
Jim/Plato in Rebel Without A Cause
Whale/Boone in Gods and Monsters
Barca/Pietros in Spartacus
idk if i ever shared this! a lineup of characters my partner and i were rping for a while, they ended up being a fun bunch. from left to right:
Maksim (they/them) A knight recently turned into a vampire and trying soooo hard to be a good person
Poe (they/them) A changeling witch, who "helps" Maksim out. Selfish lil shit.
Whisper (he/they) A demon, formerly Poe's familiar, they turned him into a crow and he's never gonna forgive them for it.
Ira (she/her) Maksim's ex, they accidentally killed her when they were turned. She's back from the dead and wants revenge.
Eoin (he/him) Poe's human counterpart, Just a Guy!
Conlang!
Iruga is a fictional language of Aerda spoken by the Irugatites which one of my characters, Eoin (AY-oh-ihn), speaks. (He's my profile pic :D) It is written with an abjad with a small exception of two "vowel letters" like Hebrew and is widely considered a "dead" language used mostly by Irugatite scholars and religious folk. On Aerda, it's spoken mainly by the Irugatite elites to convey high social class, though some folk songs are still passed down in some families. It is also used in certain fields of study such as medicine, dracology, and theology.
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Thank you to all CC creators! Raw & details under the cut