#emperor gaius

[uncleclaudius]

These bronze decorations are part of what remains from the Nemi ships, pleasure barges of Emperor Caligula. The sunken ships were recovered in 1929 but were destroyed in 1944 during WWII.

#ancient rome #roman empire #ancient art #ancient culture #ancient history #julio claudian dynasty #emperor gaius #caligula #emperor caligula #bronze #nemi ships

[girlcatilina]

that was your first mistake

(Caligula's Sexual Desire for the Moon, David Woods)

#caligula #suetonius #ancient history #tagamemnon #julio claudian dynasty #emperor gaius #emperor caligula #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

[the-gom-jabbar]

The whole genetics project of the Bene Gesserit may have been dubbed a failure because Paul wasn't a girl but there was nothing stopping Paul and Feyd-Ruatha acting on that sexual tension they had in both book and film.

Paul could have taken Feyd as a third Consort. Just imagine Paul with his Empress Irulan and his wife Chani sitting at his side and Feyd just sprawled on the dais steps just wearing something scandalous like

You were right Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, wasted potential.

#I mean Paul could have taken Feyd as a third consort #The Imperial Quad #Irulan could write Chani could be Paul's actual spouse #Feyd could just lounge around Arrakeen or Kaitan just looking pretty and doing whatever he wanted #Feyd would get jealous of course #dune #paul atreides #dune 2021 #dune memes #dune messiah #frank herbert #children of dune #chapterhouse: dune #duncan idaho #god emperor of dune #feyd rautha #paul x feyd rautha #feyd rautha harkonnen #house harkonnen #house atriedes #house corrino #frank herbert's dune #reverend mother mohaim #Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam #Bene Gesserit #dune part two #dune part ii #Dune 2

[puffywiz]

"It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”

- Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

💝 Thank you for 1k. Special thanks to my lovely friend @sessjudoodles for helping sketch the line work for the Albertaceretops :)

#the locked tomb #tlt #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn #nt9 #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #ianthe naberius #paul tlt #pyrrah dve #emperor john gaius #alecto the first #my art

[floweroflaurelin]

Huevember day 6: Emperor John Gaius

—

The only splash of colour was an enormous portrait of the Emperor as Kindly Master, with an expression of beatific peace.

As seen hanging on the wall of the Eight House’s quarters in Canaan House ✨⚔️💀⚔️✨

#huevember #huevember 2023 #the locked tomb #john gaius #emperor john gaius #the locked tomb fanart #ejg #tlt #tlt fanart #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #htn #ntn #gtn #htn fanart #floweroflaurelin art

[mayasaura]

Obsessed with that bit where P— told John to be a bad wizard. That they could write the history books later to say he was good, but what he needed to do now was to scare the shit out of people. What he needed was leverage.

Because that's what he did! That's exactly what he did. He got his leverage, he played the bad wizard, he scared the shit out of everyone. And then after the dust settled, when he was the last man standing, he wrote the history books to say he was good.

And like. The thing that gets me is. After all that, he named her Pyrrha.

They won. It wasn't worth it.

#like it's not P—'s fault John took her advice so to heart and cornered himself at the end the way he did #but talk about people bringing out the worst in one another #the world that could have been if John had listened to C— as closely as he listened to P— and the nun #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #ntn spoilers #pyrrha dve #emperor john gaius #john gaius

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

#the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #harrow the ninth #this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL #this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships #(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think #the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real #but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed) #there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone? #yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't) #the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god #when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care #(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution) #and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on #it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there #while john is -- well he sure is being john huh #this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end #(with john slam dunked right into hell that is) #it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up #john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too

[thechekhov]

The Emperor Undying, the Kindly Prince, Necroslut Prime.

#tlt #the locked tomb #john gaius #harrow the ninth #emperor undying #necrolord prime #the things i draw for a simple ass youtube video apparently #how did it end up like this #it was only a video essay #chekhov draws tlt #chekhov draws the locked tomb #tlt spoilers

[brungeons-and-bragons]

Me starting GTN after hearing about it from a friend: NEEEEEEED the bone lesbians to kiss

Me finishing NTN: love is all around me and god needs to die.

#these books make me insane #how the Fuck do I cope #tlt series #i came for lesbians I left with trauma. and lesbians. #this series is the reason I need therapy and the therapy itself #you can’t take loved away #tlt #tlt memes #gtn #htn #griddlehark #alecto the ninth #Gideon the ninth #ntn #nona the ninth #john gaius #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #Jod #the emperor undying #the locked tomb #1k

[julius-caeser]

#ides of march #look at what youve done #youve given a perfectly normal emperor anxiety #julius caesar #caesar #ancient rome #brutus #gaius julius caesar #roman history #rome

[spookyscaryfox]

reread the epilogue of gideon. god. the desolation. harrow throwing herself down to her god's mercy. harrow asking — harrow, the nun! — how dare you ask me to live with it?

how

dare

you

and he doesn't kill her even though she wishes he did. note the emphasis: you, the god i worshipped along with my beloved, how dare you. you, the emperor who is supposed to be almighty? you, the king, who is supposed to be kind? you, the scourge of death?

the entirety of harrow the ninth is set in stone the second john says "i can't".

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon nav #griddlehark #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #emperor john gaius

[uncleclaudius]

This mosaic retrieved from Lake Nemi had once decorated a floor of one of Caligula's pleasure barges.

#ancient rome #nemi ships #lake nemi #caligula #emperor caligula #emperor gaius #mosaic #ancient art #ancient history #roman empire #ancient culture #ancient civilizations

[poetic-mac-n-cheese]

Why is Gideon not a necromancer even though her dad is literally the necromancer prime (tm)?

My unserious answer is Wake’s body would have physically rejected a necromancer pregnancy - she’s just that stubborn.

My real answer is Wake was pregnant in space. Space is famously devoid of thanergy. My understanding is that the reason the houses have necromancers and the colonies don’t for the most part is not some coincidence or cosmic gift - it’s a consequence of the resurrection. The houses are thanergy planets and so the people there are soaked in death energy even pre-conception. Also they all have previously dead, then resurrected ancestors, so that probably fucked with their reproduction for ages - literally every one of them came originally from an egg that died and then was resurrected. Harrow is a necromancer because her parents somehow infused her embryo with the death energy from 200 kids - so there is definitely a relationship between thanergy presence around conception and necromantic ability.

I even wonder if John can pass on necromancy genetically (I guess necromancy isn’t fully genetic but w/e), since his necromancy is the only one that didn’t come from dying and being resurrected/coming from a thanergetic line/planet, but was instead apparently just bestowed upon him by the soul of the earth herself (?). And Wake, presumably, comes from the billionaires that escaped from the earth before the apocalypse/resurrection/thanergy bloom, so it’s extremely unlikely if not impossible for her to give birth to a necromancer. But in any case, I’m pretty sure she spent her entire pregnancy, from fertilization to ill-timed delivery, in space. Why didn’t she land on the ninth before giving birth? She could have cosplayed as a pilgrim and had a much easier time of it I would think, but instead she stayed in her ship the whole time. Gideon wasn’t exposed to any thanergy (unless you count the presence of lyctors from her mom’s fucked up polycule lolll) from conception to birth, and that probably negated any potential she had to be born with necromancy.

I’m pretty sure Wake knows all of this though, which means that my serious answer is in fact that Wake physically refused to birth a necromancer - she’s just that stubborn.

#I don’t have the books on hand I might be totally off #the locked tomb #commander wake #Gideon nav #john gaius #emperor john gaius #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt #the locked tomb meta #tlt meta

[gracerings]

never meet your heroes except it’s harrowhark nonagesimus, most devout lil nun, meeting her god and he does nothing when his bestie tries to murder her, he nearly has a threesome in front of her, he tries to give her paternal sex advice and, on top of that, his biscuits fucking suck

#'are you and ianthe being safe' was actually jod's funniest moment #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #emperor john gaius #tlt

[puffywiz]

tlt doodles (her divine highness au)

I wanted to add more but I ran out of steam 😔

#tlt #the locked tomb #kiriona gaia #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #EJG #emperor john gaius #alecto #my art #her divine highness au

[6th-for-truth]

I can’t be trusted with craft supplies. The brain rot is too strong.

#the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #ntn #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #locked tomb #cows watch sunsets #Jod #john gaius #cow wall #Jod the emperor