3 and 8 for the history ask?
3. Favorite female historical figure
Oh gods, that's a tough one. Love Fulvia and Clodia Metelli so much. Love Aurelia (Caesar's mom), Livia, and Octavia (Augustus' sister) a lot, too. And Hypatia of Alexandria is from a completely different country/time period but still has a special place in my heart.
If I could only pick one, it'd probably be a toss-up between Livia and Aurelia. For now. It's so hard for me to pick favorites...
8. An obscure historical figure who needs more love
SNAIL MAN.
The scene: Gaius Marius is besieging a fort atop a steep, impregnable mountain during the war against Jugurtha in Numidia. The fortress appears impossible to attack, and there's a big risk Marius' legions will die of hunger before the defenders do. But if they retreat, Jugurtha will keep killing Romans. What do?
Enter: a random, absent-minded soldier who really likes escargot.
So, Randomus Snaileaterus has gone out one night to fetch water. On his way to the well, he gets distracted. By snails! He hasn't had snails in years! He wanders off from his cohort and enthusiastically collects all the juicy snails he can find, getting so wrapped up in his snail-spree he doesn't notice he's scaled an entire mountain until he almost walks out in front of the enemy like a goddamn Looney Tunes character.
Snail Man realizes he's all alone, and (presumably) almost pees his tunic before realizing the Numidians are all looking the other way. They're watching the path up the mountain, and he came up through the back. So, with all the prudence you'd expect of a 16-25 year old boy who has spent an entire night eating snails off the ground instead of doing his job, he ninjas his way up a tree and sneaks into the fortress just because he can. Then skedaddles back to tell his boss Marius about the sweet new path he found.
Snail Man then leads an entire legion up the back entrance, and I want you to picture 5,000+ armored legionaries trying to be vewwy vewwy quiet, because they're hunting wabbits enemy soldiers, before finally managing to capture the fortress.
Sallust, The Jugurthine War, 93.1-6
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MY GEZEBELLE CD CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY AND I'M SO FUCKING HYPER IT HURTS 👹👹👹👹👹👹
She sent me 8 snail man pins because I mentioned that I lost mine and got really attached to it 😭😭😭 I FUCKING LOVE THESE SO GODDAMN MUCH
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you know is anyone else deeply concerned the snails can build more snails. like. they are alien snails that can eat anything and then BUILD NEW SNAILS. like. okay. has anyone ever accidentally gotten a river snail in their aquarium and then they have 200 river snails and they are out-competing all the fish and they can’t be gotten rid of no matter how many times you try to wash out the aquarium and so you just have a SNAIL AQUARIUM and have to start over from scratch to save your fish. I think that is about to happen to hermitcraft. except instead of an aquarium it’s a server. and instead of fish it’s, uh, hermits,
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