#huh. i'll have to think on that for awhile. idk if i should count lucilius or not.

[brother-emperors]

Are Marcus Antonius and his friend in love? Cuz... If he touched Marcus Antonius' lips, what does that mean?

I don't think I've drawn Antony with a friend on this account before, do you mean Octavian? for me, they hate each other, but there's an overlapping area where resentment, desire, violence, and power come into play, and past that: familiarity, only it's the kind of familiarity where the pitch was turned up too high and it becomes claustrophobic.

if Antony shoves his fingers into Octavian's mouth, it's coming from a place of erotic debasement and power play, but he's also giving Octavian the opportunity to bite his fingers off. If Octavian kisses Antony, it's less a display of romance and more of a desire to consume, to conquer, to bite, to cannibalize.

They can't get what they want from each other, and in the end they're too similar and too different so it becomes absolutely unbearable.

On the Translation (of Sophocles' Philoctetes), Carl Phillips

#ask tag #....does antony have friends. he has partners for sure but does he have. friends. #huh. i'll have to think on that for awhile. idk if i should count lucilius or not. #anyway they hate each other (to me) (which is also romantic) but they were kind of married (through octavia) and also divorced