#romebrain

[mcaelius]

deification as a form of cannibalism. you take someone's mortal memory and you eat it and then you become it. and you try and bury the bones of who they were in life so you can vomit up the half-digested bile-soaked image of a god. but you fail and their human ghost lingers, cold fingers forcing their way up out of your throat.

[mcaelius]

"golden curls, very pretty, fanned out on the pillow. like a halo. like he’s gone already."

love that one. i love the feelings of hopelessness and shame in the whole work and i love agrippa x octavian and most importantly i love reading and writing about octavian being sick so that work was candy for me. you wrote it so well :-)

aaah thank you !! sick octavian combined with octagrippa is like double soothing hot chicken soup for the soul i'm so glad you liked it eoifdjkdnmvdfj, im happy you enjoy my silly roman thoughts :D