Allow me, if you will, a moment to go absolutely rabid over your blog and everything that goes on here. Iβve always loved history but the USA hardly likes teaching anything that isnβt American History. Iβve forgotten how much I love WORLD history, specifically the rise and fall of empires.
Iβve been smothering myself in your posts and I love it ALL. JC, Pompey, Crassus, Sulla, Octavian, Antony, Cassius, and Brutus. Wow what a mood. You donβt miss on your references or your modern AUβs and Iβm over here like- Iβm trying to buy whatever web comic you put out, book you write, etc.
Also, if youβd be so kind to list some material with like themes to start breaking into these topics. Preferably materials in English or translated materials.
HELL YEAH LET'S GO
if you really want to start on the ground floor for breaking into something, I'd recommend my personal favorite approach which is picking the figure that's most interesting to you, reading through plutarch's biography on them (free! online! in english!) and then putting their name through a jstor search and reading whatever sounds fun.
other than that, the primary theme I've been wandering around in lately, so these are the materials I've been really enjoyed related to that:
The Deaths of the Republic: Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, Brian Walters
The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide, Paul Plass
Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War, Shadi Bartsch
Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban
Rome, Blood & Power, Gareth C Sampson
I also have a comparatives tag where I play connect the dots with texts that made my brain go brrr
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I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.
C.S. Lewis
David is thorny at the beginning. And I like the idea that he knows that. That he realizes, in the months that follow his father's death, that his grief has made him unnecessarily cruel. Especially towards people he loves. People like Asher. People like Milo. People like Marie and the Talbots and Gregory.
And it's annoying because he can't stop it. Whereas before he was too grief striken to to notice, now he has enough perspective to see that the way he talks to people has changed.
[Is it because he is the Alpha?]
And he knows that it hinders his ability to lead, because he may not have experience as an alpha, but he has seen how others were around his father. They were open, and honest and willing to be vulnerable.
And when he enters a room everyone tenses up. There must be things he is missing because his own pack members won't open up to him. Because he cannot just stop being so guarded and prickly.
He must've met angel at that sweetspot of his journey through grief. Where the hurt is still there,but has become more habitual and there is willingness to try living again.
Angel doesn't care much for his thorns. Which is good, because he cannot bring himself to trim them yet.
And they don't expect things of him: like leadership or guidance.
He's a hot dude, and his foul mood just makes him funny. Not uncomfortable to be around. Not an authority to suck up to or second guess.
And that's refreshing. That's new.
Here is something that the calamity hasn't touched. Here is something outside of it, or maybe it is the eye of the storm.
But of course that would be too simple.
Because they get closer. And he craves their presence but he still is David. He still says things in a somewhat cruel way sometimes. He doesn't say sweet things without prodding.
And it all comes to head when his own mate, in their own home, says that they didn't tell him about their pet cat for fear of upseting him.
And that just gives him pause for a while. Because it confirms what he already suspected; his loved ones wouldn't seek him out if they needed his help.
That's a failure, as an Alpha, as a mate, as a friend.
I think he spirals for a while. Old insecurities rise to the surface. He is a man of few words which means, of course that he is listened to when he speaks only the bare essentials. But it also means that he cannot (or has lost the ability to) express more complicated feelings that would require lengthy and heartfelt sentences.
So when his mate admits to being scared of storms, and he tries and succeeds to calm them, it's a paradigm shift. He can say things how he feels them now. Without being too mean.
He has less thorns on him and the ones left are dulled.
The rest follows. Milo talks to him about the bullying. He catches up with Tank. He invites Asher for Halloween. And yes, his handelling of things isn't always perfect ,but he is handling them. In more words than he used to. With more of himself than he used to give.
And the pack senses that.
It's like the final piece of the puzzle that would solidify his footing as Alpha.
Better yet; his progress is not lost after the inversion. He can still open up when he needs to or wants to. Like with the anniversary of Gabes death in the hoody thief video.
I know it's been said before but he's come so far from the frustating guy we meet in the first couple of videos.
I love him so much!!!
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19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like? / fumikage~
SCREAMS. MY LITTLE GUY?
This was the hardest question of my life. I don't even know if I can answer it for real because I think most of his relationships with other characters are very unique.
I think I'm neutral at worst to Fumi's relationship with Izuku, Jirou and Aoyama? But only because I wish Horikoshi would just let ME write for him because I would make him the main character and develop all of his relationships to 5 stars. There are many interesting things he could do with those three and him .. but I know it will never happen. </3
Character Asks!!
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Gessi! Gessi! Hi! Unfortunately, as much as I want to continue the modeling of the game and all the coding, I have middle school to attend to now.. Don't worry! I'll still try and make the game! It's just that I have less time on my hands now.
Oh! Thatβs alright!! No need to apologize for that! Making a game takes time regardless of whatever you have going on, but ESPECIALLY when you have other things going on.
I like to see personal projects like these as something that shouldnβt come before school, school is very very important!! At least get your high school diploma :D
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