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Okay, so I'm not going to lie, literal squeals of glee when I opened this file.

@ghostlycircaea, you are the best. I love this. I love them.

I present My Best Boys: Brasidas of Sparta, and the misthios Alexios with eagle companion Ikaros.

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⚔️ for the ask game 👀👀

a snippet from a different letter, from guess whomst:

My muscular misthios, where have you gone? This isn’t exactly what I had in mind when you asked me to let you inside. But perhaps it will please you to know that all is well here. Mundane, even. No one has come looking here—yet, anyway. Whatever you’re up to, I dearly hope you come again soon (and again, and again, and again . . .). You really could use a vacation, I think. __ I spoke too soon, my dear divinity. Your mater sent a few words for you. I suspect the note I received is one of several copies she has sent out across the seas in the hopes of finding a target, but as a precaution, I destroyed the note in case it bore some artifice that would enable her to glean any information she shouldn’t. I will summarize the note for you instead: she recommends that you return to Sparta at once if you wish to exonerate yourself as well as a certain General from royal suspicion. I, of course, take no position on Sparta’s internal affairs (I prefer to keep my positions flexible and oiled). As for your position, I suppose that is between you and Aphrodite.

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16, 18, and 25 for the ask game please✨💕✨

16. favorite place to write

it depends! if I'm writing by hand, my large desk once I've cleared everything off of it. if I'm typing, a combination of couch, chair, and bed, depending on (1) how sleepy I am, and (2) what my dogs are up to (much of the time spent on couch is me trying to type under the increasingly insistent paws of my dogs who wish to be petted AT ALL TIMES).

18. if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

A deleted scene of angst from near the end of Exile (post-Amphipolis):

“Brasidians?” She wonders whether there will ever come a day when his name isn’t a splinter in her heart. Anthea shrugs. “He would have hated it and told us to cut it out. But he would have let us do it anyway. Because, as he liked to say, our choices are ours. And there was nothing funnier than annoying him.” “Indeed.” She watches the children loping around farmers chattering and laughing with each other as they prepare for the harvest. No hovering dread, no cracking whips. “It is good to see you all well.” “I want to show you something before you make your excuse to leave.” Anthea beckons her head without pity or sympathy. She follows Anthea to a familiar spot where a large and bloodied boulder once stood. In its place is a circle of rich, fresh soil, out of which grow two intertwined saplings. “A white poplar and a cercis tree. We dedicated them to you and the General for defending our town when others would not. We would have invited you, but no one knew where you were.” She should feel touched. But her chest is hollow, a trunk crumbling with decay. “Thank you,” is all she manages to say.

25. besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

what AREN'T my hobbies! pls, someone send help, I don't have enough time.

horseback riding. my newest and most terrifying hobby. it is very fun and helping me deal with my fear of heights. I'm hoping to be able to do small jumps by next summer, but that might be ambitious.

jewelry. most recently started working on a silver version of the eivor raven clan shield brooch I made for @artschoolglasses, but I think it actually works much better in bronze:

weaving. I've had a half-finished warp for a while because I lost count and I haven't gotten myself to go back and count everything again yet. but once I remember how to count, it is OVER for you all. in the meantime, here's a double-weave project I had started, but screwed up the sett and also somehow irrevocably tangled, so I turned it into a wall hanging:

studying ancient greek and other classics-related subjects. I've just started my post-bacc in classics for fun. we're reading one of the ancient greek novels, and it is hilarious. my grammar is pretty rusty, so it is a challenge, but super fun.

ask me stuff!

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Ask Game! 12, 16, 42

12. what kind of day is it?

an eepy one 😴. I don't know why I'm so tired today, and I'm a little annoyed about it because the weather outside is actually really nice! but other than that, it's pretty chill, probably because I'm about to turn on my out of office for a few weeks, and it is going to be great.

16. can you drive?

yes! and I mostly enjoy driving, including in the city. but because I do live in a walkable city that also has public transportation, I don't have to keep a car, and I don't, which I appreciate.

42. an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site?

discord! shoutout to my discord buddies, the best buddies one could want 🥰.

(also, I kind of hate the tumblr app, so I use the desktop version of tumblr even on mobile.)

ask me stuff!