#cato’s things

[brother-emperors]

Cato the Younger, early days.

he is. a weird guy. I've always read about him in association to brutus, but ever since kicking it back a generation, I've been reading more about him and I gotta say: eerie! usually I'd go, oh necromancy. but this is more like sticking your tongue into the intercostal space of a thing that should've decayed a long time ago and wearing it's death mask. arguably worse, because doing that is like tapping open an entombed space that will never be closed.

eventually he'll look less like an old design I had for brutus (or. hghg. lucius junius brutus, because I realized after I finished this that this is a parallel composition to when I drew lucius, only no dead sons) as I draw him more, but. ehguh. had some thoughts! wanted to excise them from my mind so I can go to sleep!! what a guy!

Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the end of the Roman Republic, Fred K. Drogula

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#i dont trust him #cato the younger #that said. he's compelling #anyway everything he does has me going: oh no #its like watching a tomb robbing show and the main characters are in a room and discussing things and im like. fellas you're going to #Wake Up The Dead. FELLAS. #drawing tag #roman republic tag #gotta readjust my dmbj au. it would not be caesar waking up the dead. cato would beat him to it

[chiropteracupola]

So come and hear of a Christmas game / How the emerald night begins again / How I risked my life to make my name...

[a gawain for @mortiscausa's 'march to camelot,' for the prompt 'quest']

#em draws stuff #march to camelot #arthurian things #arthuriana #gawain #look you gave me a red and green palette how was I supposed to NOT gawain that. #AND ALSO it is sorta a photo study of a couple of places in orkney that I took photos of in the summer #not exactly any of them because I was just gremlinously snatching up compositional elements >:) #I also wanted to do something vaguely sutcliff-y and this felt good felt right #caption lyrics are from the trials of cato's 'gawain' because again how was I supposed to not gawain that

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

The Ultramarines are currently arguing over whether to wear their helmets or not. The arguments boil down to:

We just got attacked by a battlesuit that was invisible to electronic sensors but not to the naked eye, so we should leave our helmets off in case another battlesuit just like it attacks us.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE BLESSED WISDOM OF OUR LORD AND GENESIRE ROBOUTE GUILLIMAN WHO SAID WE SHOULD WEAR OUR HELMETS IN BATTLE!

Literally no one has contemplated what I like to call Option C:

Most of us should wear our helmets, both for safety reasons and for the built-in sensors. However, several men on the perimeter should keep their helms off, in case we're attacked by more enemies that are invisible to sensors.

Pretty sure I can hear Guilliman rolling in his grave chair from here.

#warhammer 40k #ultramarines #cato sicarius #jorus numitor #doricus thaeos antelion #codex astartes #fucking lol #you just know that guilliman said at some point #“hey you should keep your helmets on in battle” #y'know because that's usually the smart thing to do #and then his sons took that and made it religious writ #never to be questioned #only to be obeyed #god codex arguments are always hilarious

[stop-ur-losing-me]

ok... so i understand that thg fans are not exactly cato stans... but like, his last moments (in the movies) were like so painful... "one last kill. it's all i know how to do" hurt so much. like, they're all just kids sent to die and kill each other and cato and all the other tributes were all KIDS, i can't stress it enough. i think cato could've had a very interesting story if he was the main character... now i need a book about cato's life pls

#cato #KILL HER CATO #thg #hunger games #the hunger games #district 1 #plus the whole cato x clove thing would be interesting too

[pastafossa]

Pet loss below the cut.

Cato was my cat. That's the long and short of it.

From the first night I had him when he curled up against my neck to fall asleep with me, to his final night when he curled up on my chest to try and comfort me, there is not a single day I've been home that I haven't had my kitten chow with me. He was my tiny shadow, always trotting along after me or singing at me from around the house with that long Siamese wail or bringing me scores of socks he hid god knows where (although once he brought me an entire umbrella instead, which he was understandably proud of). He was by my pillow every night cuddled up against my arm, and we fit together like two puzzle pieces, like that little crook in my arm was designed for him, for his exact shape and size. He was with me through my health issues, through high school and college, through moving states, through covid, through tears, through the loss of other pets. He was there as I really learned to write, and there is not a single chapter of TRT that was written without his presence for at least a section of it even if it meant I had to stop editing or writing for a bit and just stare at the words instead because he wanted to be held NOW. And he even managed to hold off the cancer just long enough to walk with me through mom's hospital stay and her return home. I was his person, and he was my soul cat, a piece of me.

I was so torn last night. He was clearly in pain, dehydrated, wobbly, confused and restless, and couldn't get to the litter box. It had been really clear this week the moment was coming, that the cancer was going to take him soon. I'd had this big plan, to have it all happen at home in peace. He hated the vet, hated the stress, but it happened so fast, and I just... knew he couldn't wait for the vet's office to open so she could come here. He'd chosen his time and it was now.

I held him at the emergency vet when they gave him the sedative. I managed to choke out that silly singing tone that always made him happy, as I called him every last nickname he knew: my Cato-wato kitten chow, my Cato kins, my little Mr. meow meow, my sweet happy baby kitty. I made sure all he could see with those big beautiful blue eyes of his was me, as I petted his soft little ears and scratched his neck just the way he liked. And he actually managed to purr for me. He purred as he slipped away and the lights went out, and it was the last sound I ever got to hear from him.

I already miss you so, so much, my sweet old kitty, my Cato kitten chow. I'm sorry it couldn't be at home. But thank you for purring for me. Thank you for spending your journey with me. Thank you for the love you gave me. Thank you for the big meows and the headbonks and perching on my shoulder to interrupt with a breaking news story of Meow Meow. Thank you for the stealing of hundreds of my socks over 16 years and the way you always wanted to sit on me regardless of convenience or your own comfort. Thank you for letting me scoop you up for head smoochies, guarding me from nightmares, and solemnly supervising over 150 chapters of TRT. My soul cat, my baby kitty, my lovebug. I will always love and miss you. And one day I'll see you again.

#tw: pet death #cato the siamese #this is the hardest pet loss i've ever experienced #i didn't want to leave him there. it was so so hard walking out without him #i'll have his ashes in a few weeks and i have plans to get a tattoo of his pawprint but this is going to be rough for a while #he was such a part of my daily life for 16 years and now he's just gone #it's been so long that i don't really remember how i did things without him around #and now even having to feed the other kitties makes me cry because he's not there to meow at me to hurry or trot after me #i miss him

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

I think if you dropped Cato the Elder into the middle of a "make love not war" hippie march he'd literally explode.

#things to do with a time machine #jlrrt speaks #just roman memes #cato the elder

[catoscloves]

i love katniss's absurd observations of other people that she doesn't care about. she is absolutely a kind and empathetic individual, there is no doubt, and extends mercy towards people she dislikes/outright hates but if she can't remember your name because you haven't made an impression she will literally just be like "oh yeah sly cunning girl from district five. foxface. district six tributes that are clearly addicts. the morphlings. monstrous boy from district two" etc etc and it's. extremely funny

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #foxface #imagine deadass calling someone that the entire time you're in a murder competition #w marvel who literally murdered a twelve year old kat was like 'aww he probably had a family back home waiting for him to return. maybe a g #w the careers she is all 'i am snow's slave that's why i killed cato' etc etc #but no random redhead girl gets to be 'foxface' #qkrjflrlfk i love her #no wonder peeta carried the entire socialising part of the thing on his back #the morphings #DEADASS ARE JUST. NAMES AFTER THEIR SUBSTANCE ABUSE/ADDICTION #imagine if she called haymitch 'white liquor dude' #cato

[maidragoste]

I was reading a clato fic and I think I ended up shipping Clove with Marvel instead 😭

#I feel like I'm betraying my roots #but it breaks me every time clove thinks about marvel after winning the games #LIKE SHE WONDERS WHAT THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN IF THEY WERE FROM THE SAME DISTRICT #lu speaks #thg #the hunger games #clato #clove #clove kentwell #cato hadley #cato #marvel #marvel thg

[commanderfloppy]

Finally finished my first batch of Art Party drawings! 3 EU and 1 NA!

Lady Midday belongs to @astralarias

Cato Eatweed belongs to @little-leaf-man

Kudo belongs to @catmanderratmander

And Chak was @bluebudgie

#gw2 #my art #VSartparty #god limiting myself is so hard idk how I am gonna decide who to draw for the next batch #it was fun trying something different and doing the chak #also yeah one of these is not like the others... #since Cato is a known weeb I thought it would be fun to bring out the childhood art skills and recreate the Sailor Moon style #I think I did alright #it is fun to try new things sometimes #also the dyes for Kudo's maid look might not be right #only had screens of him in normal armor but #I wanted to draw the maid Kudo

[glitchaxolol]

Help, I think I have a thing for low-key evil hot (dirty) blondes

#002 stranger things #002 #michael langdon #ahs apocalypse #apocalypse #lestat de lioncourt #billy hargrove #stranger things #draco malfoy #draco lucius malfoy #lucius malfoy #vecna stranger things #henry creel #Ryan McCarthy #coriolanus snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #cato hunger games #hunger games #Angel #warren worthington iii #xmen apocalypse #tate langdon #ahs murder house #caius volturi #james twilight #there’s probably something wrong with me

[marcusagrippa]

do yio think cato or cicero. more fertile . serious ansewrs only

hesitantly would say cicero for pater patriae reasons nd the first triumvirate acidic womb club exclusion thing. but. its a very tough choice

#i dont knoww i feel bad not for saying cato on His Day but. cicero feels more fertile. #i think i might be going to hell for the things i say on this site. #asks

[chiropteracupola]

I remember, I swear - I was eighteen at the time / Time to spare - far from the wind and rain / And blueness reaching into every corner...

[a perceval for @mortiscausa's 'march to camelot,' for the prompt 'fool']

#em draws stuff #march to camelot #arthurian things #arthuriana #perceval #tripling the number of gradients since the last one. fuck with me. #getting sutcliff-y with it again! I am in a mood and evidently cannot be stopped (yet) #I Simply Think That Perceval's Weird Woods-Wanderer Phase Could Be A Bit Warrior Scarlet If We Wanted It To Be #maybe later in the month I will shift into more classic Knightsmode but also it remains that I don't like drawing armor #and on the other hand I LOVE drawing fabric. So. #the Idea was that I was going time-by-time so that I'd do later medieval for pieces where I was taking inspiration from later authors #like chretien de troye / marie de france / &c... but the transitional one is being sticky :/ #stay tuned and We'll See I Guess (should not have decided to draw cei on a piece where I was doing time transition!) #caption lyrics are trials of cato again - the english translation of 'haf' this time around!

[wayward-wren]

Every single character I have ever obsessed over falls into one of four categories:

Kid with no one in his corner who's used to looking after himself realises that (often despite his best efforts) people actually care about him and he has a support system.

Older brother type vibes who is the comic relief and painted as dumb or clueless but actually has deep insecurities and is so so smart in other ways and has a fiercely protective streak.

Young (though not always) woman who has been through a rough time and has Trauma but is still strong and refuses to let her past define her and makes an effort to be kind. (this character tends to become part of my soul)

Loser man become dad.

Also bonus points to trope voted Most Relatable but is never my favourite character:

5. Kid who has had a reasonably trauma-less life compared to friends and feels a bit like a sidekick and maybe doesn't consider their problems worthy when their friends have been through so much more

#wren rambles #character tropes #examples of each trope include (ft all my past hyperfixations): #1) Varian(Tangled The Series) Little Cato(Final Space) Shawn Hunter(Boy meets world) Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso) Angus McDonald (TAZ) #2) Jaune Arc (RWBY) Steve Harrington (Stranger Things) Eric Matthews (Boy Meets World) Soren (Dragon Prince) #3) Ahsoka Tano (Clone Wars) Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables) Eowyn (Lotr) Rapunzel (Tangled) Jo March (Little Women) #4) Hank Anderson (Detroit: become Human) Din Djarin (Mandalorian) Geralt (The Witcher) #can't think of any for 5 off the top of my head cos that trope is usually Mostly Projection and not so much actual canon

[garland-on-thy-brow]

[Marco Bruto, a tragedy by Antonio Conti, 1744.]

@soldatrose because you liked the messy family themes in Marco Bruto, here is a little translation of the part that made me do a double take.

Porcia.

I myself chose,

I myself prepared the sharp blade

that must save the Latin liberty.

It is the same blade that pierced my father,

and that he sent to me from Africa as a gift,

writing on it, with his own hand, in blood:

"To the wife of Brutus". I often kiss it,

often take it off this image,

in which you see Cato

tear his entrails like a wild beast.

#marco bruto #roman plays #porcia catonis #things are happening there. #this wedding gift is possibly adjacent to cato-marcia goth anti-wedding in pharsalia.

[holidaywishes]

oh my god please i beg you where is the picture of Alexander Ludwig from you’ve used on ”not all monsters do monstrous things” cover

for research purposes. I NEED HIM BIBLICALLY

It’s so good isn’t it? I can’t believe this guy:

is this same kid:

Anyway, I think the picture just came from Google. It was between these two pictures:

But the one I chose felt more like Cato lol. Enjoy the photos 😘

#crazy how time effects people differently lol #alexander ludwig #asked #asks #ask #hunger games #hunger games fic #Cato #Cato fic #not all monsters do monstrous things

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

I'm working on more ancient Roman trading cards! However, most of these guys and gals don't have pretty, non-copyrighted portraits I can use. You'd think there'd be more paintings of Clodius shaking his booty in drag, but I haven't found them!

I could adapt art originally intended to portray other Romans, or unspecified Romans, and simply add a clarifying note under the "Read more..." where I cite where the art came from. Since I'm mostly planning to use pre-20th century paintings, I don't think the creators would mind. Plus, some of y'all might discover an artist y'all really like that way.

However, to do that I will still need to find those pieces first. And Wikimedia, while valuable and much-loved, is quite scattered for my purposes. So if y'all know of any good virtual collections of art depicting ancient Romans - ideally old non-copyrighted paintings - let me know! (No AI art or cartoony styles, please. Doesn't fit the old-fashioned aesthetic I'm aiming for.)

#do you have any idea how hard it is to find a picture of t. gracchus in which he is NOT a doe-eyed 8-year-old? #or cato the younger where he is NOT stabbing himself? #the things i have seen #paintings #jlrrt speaks #art #ancient roman trading cards