Ducky

Any pronouns Ultra Magnus enjoyer “Fraus vectiagalos, se occidete” -@rightpastnowhere

[herssian]

you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want

[sideswipesjetpack]

Happy pride month 🗣️🗣️

[tulliolamonster]

I think if I had a fursona, it would be a serval cat. I do’t think I’m a furry or am able to meaningfully create a fursona, though (I’ve tried, many times), so I think I just really like servals. We’d be bros

[tulliolamonster]

I am not dead! Just recovering from graduation. I’ll be back in a few :3

[en-theos]

think a lot of my clutuals will be interested in this open access book published this year:

In ancient Rome, the Latin word viscera denoted the inner parts of the body, where physical sensations related to fear and anger could be fe

Part 1: Politics Chapter 1. Anatomy, Sensation, and Sacrifice 25 Chapter 2. Civil Strife and the Body Politic in Cicero, Vergil, and Livy

Part 2: Reproduction Chapter 3. Womb Words and Kinship Metaphors Chapter 4. Abortion and Domestic Violence in Ovid Chapter 5. Civil War and Dynastic Struggle in Ovid

Part 3: Succession Chapter 6. Overdetermined Violence and Polluted Sacrifice in Seneca Chapter 7. Self-Destructive Devotion and Aberrant Divination in Lucan

Conclusion: Changing Words, Changing Worlds

[desertomb]

Velocity! 🩺

[physzoo]

double cee

[tulliolamonster]

Context-less doodle from DND

[tulliolamonster]

Very interesting to share a room with an influential person in my field. Like wow. I could explain Roman senator RPF communities to you right now and change the trajectory of both our lives forever

[tulliolamonster]

Academic conferences as an undergrad/grad student are just the “kid sitting at the grown-ups table at a family gathering” experience for adults

[romanconcrete]

woag,,, ancient roman fidget spinner

[tulliolamonster]

Showed a dear friend Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and am positively giddy that they enjoyed it as much as they did. I hope more ppl watch it

[physzoo]

fancy that

[tulliolamonster]

YIPPEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Gallon of strawberries forever

[mmilhoja]

screamer

[tulliolamonster]

A friend of mine recommended looking up Livy for Roman history.

Do you have any thoughts on it and/or translation recommendations?

Thank youuuuuu ily miss your post-it arts but still take your time no worries 😘😘😘😘😘😘

I hope i didnt ask this already

Hey! :D

Livy is a heavily biased source on Roman history, but he’s also a very interesting primary/contemporary source. He was friends and and allies with Augustus and his family, and, like a lot of writers who were supported by Augustus (or at least weren’t killed by him during his reign), do a lot of work to justify Augustus’ rule as emperor through their work. You can see it to varying degrees in Horace, Ovid, and Vergil too. Still, I think he’s really useful for understanding what elites wanted their history to be, elite Roman values, and elite worldviews going into Rome’s imperial age. I even used Book 1 of his Ab Urbe Conditia for my first undergraduate research project, lol!

As for translation recommendations, that depends what you want. The Penguin and Oxford publishing house copies are the gold standard, and are more likely to have additional notes. Common bookstore copies often don’t include a commentary (which provides extra info on the translation choices and cultural context), and don’t really feature the translator as a result. If you’re fine without commentary, I’d consider online translations as well. They tend to be slightly older, but they’re free, they’re great, and they’re on websites with more translated Latin texts too. Project Gutenberg and ToposText are pretty good for this, and Perseus has the Latin with vocabulary of you want the original language. Poetry In Translation doesn’t have him, but has most other Latin and Greek texts.

Most Greek/Roman writers are biased in some way, so don’t let that discourage you. If you’re interested in other primary sources on Roman history, Caesar, Terence, Tacitus, Polybius, Sallust Suetonius, and even Cato the Elder and Cocero are all great (and have easily accessible online translations!)

Finally, thank you for the love for my sticky note art! I really want to get back to it soon.

This year has taken a lot out of me. But there’s hope! I’ll be mostly free when I send my thesis paper for publication and finish up with my upcoming conference, and the first thing I plan to do it draw. I’ve missed posting art!

Tell me how you like Livy!

[tulliolamonster]

Can’t attend the presentation on uses of the omegaverse in classical reception studies bc of classes 😔 Conference scheduling sucks if you’re not 85

[tulliolamonster]

Hopefully when I’m free from the conference I can actually go back to Transformersposting, as my heart desires