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[abangpinoy]

Tales from my inner romanticist #1

When your friends who you recently came out to ask if you’re actually looking for someone and you say, “Not really but sure, why not?” find you someone and they tick off 90% of your checklist (like, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH), only to find out he’s already killing it and you feel like you’ve done comparatively nothing in the last few years because your own insecurities have held you back?

Then you also find out your friends are pretty sure he’s gay but he hasn’t come out to them. =.= I mean, I haven’t even come out to most of my family so I know how he would feel if he too wasn’t comfortable coming out to them either.

But my inner romanticist can’t stop itself from drawing up plans and futures and so we enter self-doubt territory.

I don’t know what’ll happen next, but we’ll see.

[sovetskoy]

[ 6/? ]   First man in Rome —— Characters ; ; Publius Clodius Pulcher

❝ [ … ] The perfect target for Publio Clodius, who adored to make mischief of the kind whitch made people stiffen with outraged disapproval.

——— Colleen McCullough, Caesar’s women

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[ 5/? ]   First man in Rome —— Characters ; ; Gaius Scribonius Curio (the younger)

❝ [ … ] Young Curio was cleverer by far than his father, and a brilliant roator. Every day he was in the Forum, making trouble.

——— Colleen McCullough, Caesar

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[ 4/? ]   First man in Rome —— Characters ; ; Lucius Sergius Catilina

❝ [ … ]  Catilina’s darkly handsome face brightened, looked alert. “Gladly, Lucius Cornelius. “

——— Colleen McCullough, Fortune’s favourite

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[ 3/? ]   First man in Rome —— Characters ; ; Gaius Iulius Caesar (the younger)

❝ [ … ] ”The valiant tastes death only once. “

——— Colleen McCullough, Fortune’s favourite

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[ 2/? ]   First man in Rome —— Characters ; ;  Gaius Marius

❝ [ … ] maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. didn’t know. Perhasp a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.

——— Colleen McCullough, The first man in Rome

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[ 1/? ]    First man in Rome —— Characters ; ; Lucius Cornelius Sulla

❝ [ . . . ] for an unwary moment Sulla dropped his mask, and Aurelia caught a glimpse of someone she didn’t know. Yet - was that really true? Better to say, someone she had sensed lived there inside him, but never before had seen. Someone devoid of human qualities, a naked clawed monster fit only to scream at the moon. And for the first time in her life, she felt terrible fear.

——— Colleen McCullough, The Grass Crown