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missycolorful · 1 year

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I posted 811 times in 2022

That's 811 more posts than 2021!

158 posts created (19%)

653 posts reblogged (81%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@areus-in-a-little-cave

@antimony-medusa

@elbowreveal

@simplepotatofarmer

@lesbianwilbur

I tagged 781 of my posts in 2022

Only 4% of my posts had no tags

#fan art - 216 posts

#fanart - 159 posts

#philza - 145 posts

#emduo - 79 posts

#technoblade - 70 posts

#lore discussion - 47 posts

#ranboo - 43 posts

#wilbur soot - 43 posts

#tommyinnit - 42 posts

#dsmp - 33 posts

Longest Tag: 122 characters

#when really tommy's tragic story is written by this kid in his late teens who was a theater kid and wants you to subscribe

My Top Posts in 2022:

People who try to call c!Phil a hypocrite… I don’t think they know what the term means. Or at least, how hypocrisy works.

So c!Phil killed his son, after c!Wilbur committing terrorism and convinced his father to help him commit suicide. And thereafter, months later, c!Phil blew up and committed terrorism on that same nation. On the surface, these actions do come across as contradicting and hypocritical. So what’s going on here then, if not hypocrisy?

c!Phil, in all he does, simply wants to help, because his beliefs are set in trying to do what he believes is right. It’s why he killed his son; after seeing the destruction, after hearing his son say “It’s what they want” and not knowing his son only has one life, c!Phil thought it was the right thing to do. He was just... wrong. One thing to note is that his disconnect from everyone else, all the mortals with short lives compared to his immortal years and experience, makes his views of right and wrong vastly different from the others. Not necessarily bad or good. Just different.

So what about blowing up L’manburg? What about his beliefs there? The thing is, at first, c!Phil helped rebuild L’manburg after Wilbur destroyed it. He tried bonding with the people there. For example, should he have killed cWilbur, and then shortly after, like a day or something, just went to destroy L’manburg out of nowhere, that’d be hypocritical. Because there would be no sign or show of any change in his ideals here; he just be doing exactly what he killed Wilbur for doing. And hypocrisy comes from holding certain standards/beliefs for others, but not being able to meet them yourself. As such, his belief it doing what’s right would be contradicted, because he’s destroying land he initially tried to help.

However, where the lore stands, he had nothing against these people or its government and thus did not see reason to its destruction. He trusted L’manburg, to a certain point, thought it was fine. He wanted to assist it in starting anew. He has seen many empires rise and fall; he knows this process. He knows there is both destruction and rebirth in nature and life. So Phil has no qualms with government in general, really. That is, until he sees with his own eyes how it is corrupting and hurting its people, as he has seen many times before. Until the president admits to stealing from his citizens for his own gain, until he gets placed on house arrest and is forced to watch his friend be executed without trial, until the only connection he could see between Wilbur and his spiraling is the government. All signs that another kingdom needs to fall, by his own hands. And that is when he takes action, however drastic it may be. Because he believes that is what is right.

Things changed in those few months between these two things he did. A lot. Phil changed. New L’manburg changed. And he saw it, experienced it all, all of the worst of it. And that’s the biggest thing to focus on here, in differentiating what cPhil did as him being a hypocrite from him following through on what he believes in: change. For both Phil and the country he resided in.

cc!Philza himself said that despite these contradicting actions, c!Phil had his reasons. That’s not cc!Phil saying he admits to c!Phil being a hypocrite, and I’m vague posting about tweets I’ve seen, yes, but it drives me up the wall how people put words into others’ mouths. He NEVER said that, ever. He simply said c!Phil has his reasons for the way he went about things. Not perfect reasons but reasons that c!Phil thought best nonetheless. Where in cc!Phil’s explanation does he say his character’s a hypocrite??!! I think it’s wild to twist a cc’s words just for one’s benefit, thinking they are finally valid in their horrid misrepresentation of a character.

Phil wants to add meat to his lore so people can understand those reasons, but me and many others already do. And for antis to try and say this is points against him and his fans are wrong because HIS FANS, WE ALREADY KNOW THE REASONS and we know why his actions aren’t hypocritical. They make sense, they are a sign of change in his character, as well as his environment that caused him to think over his views on New L’manburg.

There’s that well known video analyzing cPhil where it describes him as "Philza, the angel of death, is what happens when you break a good man” (which cc!Phil totally approved of, btw!!). It perfectly explains his actions and who he is as a character, yet... people just don’t seem to care. Just because you have a bias against him and don’t give an ass about his lore does not mean that those reasons were not there in the first place. They always have been, and his fans know that. We just hate when people misread c!Phil’s character and say things about him that just aren’t true.

It is NOT hypocrisy for your ideals to change. It is NOT hypocrisy to execute actions you seemed against prior, simply because new experiences have changed your point of view. Awareness and the will to change your opinion is not hypocrisy. c!Phil is a flawed and complicated character but no I will never say he is a hypocrite. Because he just isn’t.

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Btw, I never wanna hear from Philza that he's bad at RP ever again. His voice, when c!Phil was mourning c!Sam, mourning the man he knew and respected, even if this man was no longer who he once was. The pain is near tangible when he's saying "This will be the first and last time I visit this godforsaken place," because being there, seeing Sam like this and in a way confronting what Sam has done to himself, is complete agony. But even in his grief, he knows who he is. The Angel of Death. And his warning "I will not hold back against you" is quiet yet unwavering, fierce. cc!Phil's acting is phenomenal, and I hope he knows that.

He still feels such anguish when he loses people, and especially so when they're trying to fight against something that cannot win, against someone he will never turn his back on. Because after all this time, he cares. Even with whatever Sam had done, Phil still thought about the good man Sam had once been. Because if there's anything to know about Phil, it is that he remembers. And he remembers forever, because that is his burden and his blessing.

And in just these few minutes, cc!Philza expresses so much of his character, who he is, what losing someone means to him, and how he lives on. And all his character did was stand in front of a box, and speak.

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"You were looking for someone that you can be friends with for a long time."

... This is before c!Phil met c!Technoblade. For who knows how long, Philza was seeking a friend to be by his side for a long time. And he had come up empty, enduring years of watching dear friends die within a blink. It's such a lonely little cycle to endure by yourself. The weight of immortality sits heavy over Phil's chest.

c!Sam knew this, and he tried, he tried to be that person. He wanted to be that friend who made the cycle easier to bear. Was even willing to cheat Death Herself. Except he... can't. He's just another person caught in the cycle of inevitability, of being so plainly mortal. And Phil watches, again. And again and again.

Until one day, there's a piglin warrior, who proudly proclaims, "Technoblade never dies!" And at first, Philza scoffs.

But the years pass, centuries pass, and Technoblade bears scars, not wrinkles, on his face, and he can definitely still fight a bunch of orphans with ease. Best of all, he eggs on Phil for being such an old bird, presses his back to his as they fight armies in a well practiced dance, promises him the world. And for the first time in years, Philza can breath.

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Fucking... all of this Techno lore... my heart hurts. I'm glad Technoblade's character was pretty much completely with his story, but even knowing that is just sad.

c!Technoblade is off wandering and overthrowing other governments now. You can't convince me otherwise.

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My #1 post of 2022

It really is heartbreaking to see that message about Technoblade, and how he had known it was severe for much longer than we were aware of. But it is so fitting for him to do that. To wave away the severity of his situation, because he’d rather make people smile.

It’s common as is for people to try to hide conditions this bad from people, because, well, they don’t want to be looked at with pity or fear or nervousness or what have you for the rest of their lives. Because as soon as others, friends and family and loved ones, know the time bomb is ticking, they can’t help but act differently. It’s natural, it happens, it’s really hard not to, honestly. But it also hurts, because many will treat those who are dying as fragile and someone to fret over. And a lot of people just don’t want that, even it it IS a natural response. They want to enjoy the life they have left without being looked at differently.

This is even more so for Technoblade. A widely well known content creator with a fanbase who genuinely loves him. If we knew, we’d be paranoid, we’d be panicky, we’d start mourning before anything happened. And he never wanted that. He wanted to make us laugh, to make people smile, not cry. So he didn’t really let people know, because he wanted to make whatever time he had left count. He continued working, helped give a lot of money to charity, he tried so hard to continue storylines on the Dream SMP and bring in the lesser known creators into it.

He continued to make us and his friends laugh and smile and have a good time, until he finally wrote that last message to us, and still made us laugh even in his final goodbye. Because it’s what he loved to do. And as upset as I am that he was way worse than he initially expressed, I totally get it.

Thank you, Technoblade.

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#2/5 biggest posts being about techno's death... oh :(#i appreciate my lore stuff being well liked tho #i always worry about being like annoying or something so that's nice! :)#also nearly 1/5 my posts being about philza yeah that's expected #long post #honestly not bad considering I made this blog halfway thru the year lmao

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kaiokentimesten · 2 years

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lesbianwilbur and areus-in-a-little-cave

Not just one beloved mutual, but TWO! WOAH!

Cia has like the best layout ever and SUCH cute art their c!Wilbur is everything to me

Areus makes BANGER fics and just good posts in general

#holleh.ask

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embers-archive · 2 years

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ember ember it's may first its compliment your favourite artist day except you don't have anon on but that won't stop me

I AM. obsessed with how you draw people. your style is so pretty just all around, the shape of the hair and how it flowers with the character, the amount of detail your put into the skin and the textures and the designs!!! it's incredible!!

colouring is probably like my favourite thing about your art, I ADORE how you colour and render stuff. it looks so good, the lighting is clear and beautiful, the shine on the hair, the USE OF RENDERING TO SHOW OFF TEXTURES AAA the way you colour metal and gold are just. beautiful

also you are just really good at making designs. like the way you draw characters speaks so much to their personality and general traits, it's amazing. like that drawing of sally where she had the coat Fundy wears!!! or the twinsduo drawing in general, the designs there are fantastic, I love the details on Techno's cloak, the little stitching marks!! also just. his design over all he looks so nice

you just draw clothing and characters and colours and lighting and EVERYTHING SO WELL

Just want you to know you made me cry like full on tears

Areus!!! I'm so!!! Gosh!!! This makes me so happy

Maaan im so lucky to have you as a mutual mate youre amazing

#gosh i dont even know whawhat to say #thank you!! sjdnksjdnkd #asks

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areus-in-a-little-cave · 7 months

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c!crimeboys dancing on the beach!

#areus rambles #areus makes art!#crimeboys #lovely discord whiteboard art

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dwellordream · 3 years

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“...In early portraits Livia sports the nodus hairstyle, in which the hair rolls forward over the forehead and is then drawn back to form a distinctive topknot. This style was seen by Ovid as a useful corrective to a very round face. Generally in the heads of this group the face is a regular oval with broad cheekbones. The eyes are large and the brow above them arches slightly. The nose is large and aquiline, while the curving mouth and the chin are very small. The portraits project an image well suited to Livia—one of ageless and elegant beauty, calm and dignified, perhaps strangely emotionless.

The severity of the nodus style would be less appealing with age. Thus the hair in portraits of the Tiberian period generally has a centre parting, and falls from either side in waves. The head is still relatively youthful, given that Livia must have been now in her seventies, a tradition maintained by modern aging monarchs, whose images on stamps and coins tend to be frozen for several decades. It could be argued that the elusive issue of Livia’s appearance is irrelevant in a political biography. But it has some historical importance. The sources suggest that Augustus was drawn to Livia initially by basic sexual attraction. Some knowledge of her physical appearance would help us place that claim in a proper context.

Whatever attributes Livia was granted by Nature she could enhance by Art. When it came to dress, Ovid attributes to Livia a surprisingly progressive attitude, that she was simply too busy to spend a lot of time on her appearance. The assertion has to be seen against the background of a large household and an enormous staff, whose task it would have been to pay attention to those details deemed unworthy of their mistress’s time and effort. The evidence for the wide range of functionaries operating within the household of Livia is dealt with in chapter 9.

At this point we can limit ourselves to noting the surprising number of helpers devoted to Livia’s personal appearance. Inevitably there were several ornatrices (dressers), as well as staff a veste/ad vestem, whose task it was to keep her clothes in good order. In addition, the ab ornamentis would have had responsibility for her ceremonial garments and accessories, along with a specialist who looked after those she wore as priestess of Augustus, a freedman ab ornamentis sacerdotalibus. Her calciator made her shoes. Augustus liked to boast that his clothes were made by his wife and sister. Perhaps, but they would have had help. Livia employed both lanipendi (wool weighers) and sarcinatores / sarcinatrices (sewing men / women). For her comfort she had an unctrix (masseuse).

Perhaps most striking are the skilled craftsmen who would have been employed for the manufacture and maintenance of luxury items. Her aurifex (goldsmith) and inaurator (gilder) might have been occupied mainly with furniture, but the margaritarius (pearl setter) sounds like someone who would have been employed to work on her personal jewellery. Elizabeth Bartman has noted the absence of jewellery from the sculpted images of Livia, which she describes as ‘‘bordering on the ascetic.’’ This, of course, may have been a deliberate fabrication of Livia’s image in the sculptural prototypes that she allowed to be distributed. There was a tradition of Roman women making a sacrifice of luxury items for the good of the state, such as the women who donated their jewellery to help fund the war against Veii in the early republic.

But it may be that Livia aimed for understated elegance, to be simplex munditiis, as Horace expressed the concept in his famous poem. This could explain why Augustus aroused amused disbelief among the senators when he held up Livia as an example of womanhood and, when pressed to explain, cited as evidence her appearance and dress and her exodoi (her public forays) as illustrations of moderation to be emulated. Augustus had the evidence of his own eyes, and he admired her for avoiding extravagance. But the senators perhaps may have seen a kind of elegant moderatio, the appearance of simplicity that only the best dressmakers, coiffeurs, and jewellers can produce, using the finest and most expensive material.

Livia’s energies would have been channelled mainly into her role as wife of Augustus and as mother of Tiberius. We know little of her private interests, or of how she tried to relax. Only one scrap of evidence survives for anything remotely approaching frivolity. She seems to have competed inanely with Julia, the granddaughter of Augustus, over the record for owning the smallest dwarf. This was settled honourably, as Julia owned the smallest male, at two feet, one palm (about sixty-seven centimetres), but Livia could boast the smallest female dwarf, Andromeda, height not recorded. We might also detect perhaps a hint of a certain silliness when she was a young woman.

The story of her trying to foretell her child’s sex by means of a hen’s egg is noted in chapter 1. After Tiberius’ birth she seems to have consulted an astrologer (mathematicus), Scribonius. He was able to forecast that her son would govern, but without the trappings of monarchical rule, an especially impressive performance, because he anticipated this before the principate had been established and before Livia had even met Augustus. But this kind of behaviour should be viewed in the context of its age, and Livia was probably no more unsophisticated in such matters than the great mass of her contemporaries.

Otherwise her interests are likely to have been more serious, and she seems to have been a literate and educated woman. At any rate, in one of his letters to her Augustus quotes frequently and extensively in Greek, presumably on the assumption that she would understand him. She did of course spend some time in the Greek world during the period of her first husband’s exile, but she would at that time have moved mainly in a Latin-speaking milieu. It is more than likely that she learned the language through formal tuition. Given her family background, we can assume that Livia would have been well educated as a child. Roman girls shared domestic tutors with their brothers before their marriage. There are many examples of the happy result of this practice. Pliny the Younger was flattered to find his young wife reading and memorizing his works, and setting his verses to music. Cornelia, the wife of Pompey, was educated in literature, music, and geometry, and enjoyed attending philosophical discussions.

The existence of the highly educated woman, at least at a slightly later date, is confirmed by the caustic observations of the atrabilious Juvenal, who proclaims horror at females who speak with authority on literature, discuss ethical issues, quote lines of verse the rest of humanity has not even heard of, and even correct your mistakes of grammar. Apart from Livia’s knowledge of Greek, however, we have no concrete evidence of her intellectual pursuits, in contrast to her great-granddaughter Agrippina, whose memoirs survived and were read by Tacitus. But we do have some testimony about Livia’s intellectual sophistication. Philo was a contemporary and, though a resident of Alexandria, very familiar with Rome and the imperial house.

For example, he met Caligula in person when he headed a delegation to Rome to represent the case of the Jews of his native town. In a speech that he attributes to Caligula’s Jewish friend Herod Agrippa, he has Agrippa cite the precedent of Livia, whom he represents as a woman of great mental ability and untypical of her sex, for he contended that women were generally incapable of grasping mental concepts (whether this is Agrippa’s or Philo’s prejudice is not made clear). Agrippa supposedly attributed Livia’s superiority in this sphere to her natural talents and to her education (paideia). Livia was well disposed to the Jews and generous to the Temple, and we might expect some gilding of the lily. But Philo’s characterization of her could clearly not have been absurdly wide of the mark, or the arguments attributed to Agrippa would have been discredited.

The Corinthian poet Honestus describes Livia as fit company for the muses, a woman who saved the world by her wisdom. The inflated language traditional in such a dedicatory piece, however, means that it has little historical value. Apart from the uncertain case of Honestus, we have no other case of Livia’s supporting any cultural or intellectual endeavour, although she was an active patron in many other areas. In this sphere she was eclipsed by Augustus’ sister Octavia, who was a sponsor of the architect Vitruvius and to whom the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus of Tarsus dedicated a book of his work. Although Livia’s interest in fostering artistic and cultural undertakings might have been limited, there was one field in which her enthusiasm seems to have been boundless: the issue of healthy living, both physical and psychological. Despite her general reserve in most other matters, she seems to have been willing, even eager, to impart her views on the issue of how to live a long and robust life.

She was ahead of her time in her use of what would now be called a grief counsellor. When her son Drusus died in 9 bc, she was devastated. That she managed to handle the situation with dignity was due to no small extent to the counselling given her by the philosopher Areus (or Areius) Didymus of Alexandria. Areus was basically a Stoic but kept an open mind to other schools and ideas, the kind of eclectic pragmatist that the Romans found appealing. He was clearly a man of great charm, and at the time of Actium, Octavian described him as his mentor and companion. Octavian reputedly spared all the Alexandrians after the battle and stated publicly that he did so because of the fame of Alexander the Great, the beauty of the city, and his regard for one of its citizens, Areus. In the event Alexandria did not emerge totally unscathed, for Octavian followed up his generous gesture by visiting the corpse of Alexander, where he behaved like the worst kind of bad tourist, touching the nose and breaking it off.

According to Seneca’s account, to which the author undoubtedly added his own imaginative touches, Areus, in giving his advice to Livia, described himself as an assiduus comes (constant companion) of her husband and claimed to know not only their public pronouncements but also the secretiores animorum vestrorum motus (the deeper emotions of the two of you). He clearly knew his patient well, and in the event proved a highly effective consultant. He gently observed that Livia had been in the habit of repressing her feelings and of being constantly on guard in public. He encouraged her to open up when dealing with the subject of Drusus, to speak to her friends about the death of her son, and to listen to others when they praised him. She should also dwell on the positive side of things, particularly the happiness that he brought her when he was still alive. The advice may have the shallow ring of the popular psychology handed out in the modern media, but it worked.

Seneca observed how well Livia coped with her loss by following this advice, in contrast to the morbidly obsessive Octavia, sister of Augustus, who never ceased to be preoccupied with thoughts of her dead son Marcellus. Livia lived a long and, by her own description, healthy life, with only one serious illness recorded, when she was already eighty. Her formula for her robust constitution seems to have been proper diet and the use of ‘‘natural’’ remedies. She clearly had the irritating habit of healthy people who insist on inflicting on others their philosophy of wholesome living. For history this has proved fortunate, because some of her dietary recommendations are recorded. In her early eighties she anticipated a trend that was to reemerge almost two thousand years later, attributing her vigorous condition to her daily tipple. She drank exclusively the wine of Pucinum. This was a very select vintage, grown on a stony hill in the Gulf of Trieste, not far from the source of the Timavo, where the sea breezes ripen enough grapes to fill a few amphorae. Pliny confirms its medicinal value, which he suspects might long have been recognised, even by the Greeks.

It need not be thought that in following this regimen Livia had simply invented a formula for healthy living. In fact, she was echoing a nostrum that had become very trendy in her youth, and in doing so marked herself as an acolyte of one of the master-gurus of health-faddists, Asclepiades of Prousias. According to tradition, Asclepiades started as a poor professor of rhetoric before turning to medicine. During his career he acquired considerable fame (Pliny speaks of his summa fama) and provoked the animosity of other medical writers—he was still being attacked by Galen almost three hundred years after his death. The anger of his fellow healers is not hard to explain, because he turned ancient medicine on its head by distancing himself from dangerous pharmacological and surgical procedures, even describing traditional medicine as a ‘‘preparation for death.’’ Instead, he placed emphasis on more humane and agreeable treatments—diet, passive exercise, massages, bathing, even rocking beds. Pliny felt that he mainly used guesswork but was successful because he had a smooth patter.

How effective he was cannot be gauged now. He is said to have recovered a ‘‘corpse’’ from a funeral procession and then to have successfully treated it. But famous doctors in antiquity routinely restored the dead to life. Perhaps more impressive, and more alarming to the medical profession, was Asclepiades’ pledge that by following his own prescriptions he could guarantee that he would never be ill, and that if he lapsed, he would retire from medicine. He was apparently never put to the test, and eventually died by accident, falling from a ladder. It is not hard to believe that Asclepiades might have exercised an influence on Livia, especially in that Pliny remarks that he almost brought the whole human race round to his point of view, and Elizabeth Rawson argues that a case can be made that he was the most influential Greek thinker at work in Rome in the first century bc. Pliny notes a dilemma that has a strangely contemporary ring—whether wine is more harmful or helpful to the health.

As the champion of the latter belief Pliny cites Asclepiades, who wrote a book on wine’s benefits, based to some extent on the teaching of Cleophantus. Asclepiades received a familiar nickname oinodotes (wine giver), although to avoid being cast as someone who encouraged inebriation, he did advocate abstinence under certain circumstances. As Pliny words it, Asclepiades stated that the benefits of wine were not surpassed by the power of the gods, and the historian, like Livia, seems to have been won over, conceding that wine drunk in moderation benefitted the sinews and stomach, and made one happy, and could even be usefully applied to sores. Livia might have become acquainted with Asclepiades’ teaching while he was still alive (it is uncertain when he died), but in any case Pliny makes it clear that after his death his ideas took a firm hold on the population, and would still have been in circulation for many years after he made his ultimate precipitous descent from the ladder.

Apart from her views on the benefits of fine wines, Livia was known for other health tips. Pliny adds his personal recommendation for one of her fads, a daily dose of inula (elecampane). The elecampane, with its broad yellow petals, is a common plant throughout Europe, and its root has long been a popular medicine. Because it is bitter and can cause stomach upset if eaten alone, it is usually ground up, or marinated in vinegar and water, then mixed with fruit or honey. It was supposedly useful for weak digestion. Horace describes its popularity among gluttons, who could overdo safely by using elecampane afterwards. Then, as now, celebrity endorsements helped; Pliny observes that the use of the plant was given a considerable boost by Livia’s recommendation. In some modern quarters it is still promoted as an effective tonic and laxative.

…These curiosities do provide a possible context for one of the charges levelled against Livia, which the scholarly world generally agrees was groundless: that of using poison to remove those who blocked her ambitions. The accusation is one that powerful women in competitive political situations throughout antiquity and the middle ages found difficult to refute, because poison has traditionally been considered the woman’s weapon of choice. Because women took the primary responsibility for family well-being, they would have been the inevitable targets of suspicion if a person died of something brought on by gastric problems. If Livia had insisted on inflicting her home cures on members of her family, it is not difficult to imagine that a malign reputation could have arisen after a death that was advantageous to her. One also should not discount the possibility that the combination of birthwort and ash of swallows did more harm than good, and that she might indeed have helped despatch some of her patients, despite the very best of intentions.

Allied to Livia’s preoccupation with herbal remedies is her passionate interest and regular involvement in various aspects of horticulture. The most vivid illustration of this comes from her villa at Primaporta . The highlight of the complex is the garden room, built and decorated around 20 bc in the form of a partially subterranean chamber nearly 12 metres long by 6 metres wide, perhaps a dining room intended for summer use. The most impressive feature of the room is the magnificent wall painting, unparalleled for its scale and detail. It creates an illusion of a pavilion within a magical garden, teeming with flowers and birds. Unusually for the Pompeian Second Style of painting, all structural supports have been dispensed with, even at the angles, although along the tops of the walls there is a rocky fringe, which conveys the impression of the mouth of a grotto. In the foreground stands a wicker fence. Behind that is a narrow grassy walk, set with small plants, bordered on its inner side by a low stone parapet. A small recess is set in the wall at intervals to accommodate a bush or tree.

Behind it stands a rich tangled forest of carefully painted shrubs and trees, with various types of laurel predominating. The rich mass of foliage is framed at the top by a narrow band of sky. The painting is detailed and accurate, with flowers and fruit and birds perched on the branches or on the ground. The birds, of many species, range freely, with the exception of a single caged nightingale. Flowers and fruit of all seasons are mingled together. This rich extravaganza belonged clearly to an owner who exulted in the richness and variety of nature. But Livia’s horticultural interests went beyond a mere feast for the eye—she had a direct and practical interest in produce. She developed a distinctive type of fig that bore her name, the Liviana, mentioned by agricultural writers and recommended by Columella and Athenaeus, and which may have contributed to the tradition that she eliminated Augustus by specially treated figs grown in their villa at Nola.“

- Anthony A. Barrett, “The Private Livia.” in Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome

#livia drusilla #livia first lady of imperial rome #history #roman #ancient #anthony a. barrett

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apileofmoss · 1 year

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winter always makes you feel more yourself, doesn't it? (left is Zakael who uses he/they ; right is Azaela who uses she/fae/xe)

art/writing taglist: @snaxle @samnook @neonkoii @areus-in-a-little-cave @aiilov-c @cupsmp @cnnamonrolls @yourfriendphoenix @wiiwarechronicles @tee-gee-em @tweewig @omegamoo @glowconcept @thehelpenchantingfig @t3rm1nus @esynk @atthebell @cavern-of-shenanigans @avid-dust-collector @marszstar @frauggietheperson @inmentalcrisis (ask to be added/removed)

#mossisgay #art #digital art #original characters #original character art #moss ocs

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sparatus · 4 years

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i need to make art of areus and sivia so i can put that little "i've loved the stars, and i've loved her, sorry universe but you can't compare" poem with it cause areus is an ASTROMER and just try to tell me that wouldn't be the most romantic shit for him to tell his wife

#areus is the token straight in the sparatus family but he's a good straight who chugs respect women juice

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k-sunrael · 6 years

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Detailed - Kaevia Sun’rael

Character Chart

Character’s full name: Kaevia Sun’rael

Reason or meaning of name: It was a name offered by a friend of the family.

Character’s nickname: Dove (by some family members) and Kae by friends

Reason for nickname: Kaevia compared to most of her relatives is a ‘dove’ among ‘ravens’; or so they say.

Birth date: January 29th

Physical appearance

Age: 63

How old does he/she appear: 25ish

Weight: 124lbs

Height: 5’5”

Body build: Lissome

Shape of face: Heart shaped.

Eye color: Light green though they have begun to turn a yellowish color.

Glasses or contacts: No

Skin tone: Lightly sunkissed

Distinguishing marks: None that can be seen in simple passing.

Predominant features: Her lips or eyes, depending on who you ask.

Hair color: Black.

Type of hair: thick and short

Hairstyle: Always down and often kept in a bit of a sassy bang flip or with a small wave.

Voice: Silvery and calm

Overall attractiveness: Attractive in the face and personality but overall her curves aren’t all that impressive compared to most.

Physical disabilities: None

Usual fashion of dress: Rich colors such as greys, blacks and dark purples.She seemingly favors slacks and vests, jackets and high-boots these days which is her everyday wear, her more regal attire is often kept for events and celebrations.

Favorite outfit: Black slacks and her house jacket with raven feathers at the shoulder piece.

Jewelry or accessories: Earrings in her ears and several bands on her fingers along with a silver pocket watch at her hip.

Personality

Good personality traits: Patient, Tactful, Blunt and honest as well as caring

Bad personality traits: Logical, Jealous and too blunt sometimes for her own good

Mood character is most often in: Observant and quiet

Sense of humor: Highbrow and sarcastic humors

Character’s greatest joy in life: Oriana, Rowan and Rhistel -- her three children

Character’s greatest fear: Losing her family

Why? It is her prized possession. She loves everyone in her circle and happens to be a character that loves hard. She isn’t willing to let go of a family member or friend easily.

What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? Losing one of her children.

Character is most at ease when: Reading.

Most ill at ease when: In the middle of a disagreement.

Enraged when: Injustice is present.

Depressed or sad when: She thinks about the past. While unfortunate, she feels she could have avoided quite a lot of her choice mistakes.

Priorities: Children, House and home as well as her thriving business.

Life philosophy: “Understand more. Analyze less”

If granted one wish, it would be: It just might be to have an actual cycle of seasons in Quel’Thalas than having to continue on with that damned perpetual spring.

Why? Its stagnant.

Character’s soft spot: Her kids and sweets.

Is this soft spot obvious to others? Depends. Those closest to her usually catch on.

Greatest strength: Stoic resolve and having that ability to not let people see her unnerved.

Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Failure. She doesn’t handle it well and even more so if others take notice.

Biggest regret: Tassarion and Dalaran.

Minor regret: Asking for her Aunt Nysaira’s help.

Biggest accomplishment: Holding down her own estate as well as being the active role and candidate to take over the Sun’rael house.

Minor accomplishment: Having the ability to master both Shadow and Holy magics in balance without being swayed to the whispers of the void.

Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: I’m sure she has had quite a few but I cannot remember any off the top of my head per say but it might be that moment when she professed her love to another back in her youth and was ultimately shut down.

Why? She didn’t take rejection well and even now, she still happens to have some issues with handling failure or rejection.

Character’s darkest secret: Having used and continues to practice blood magic even if it IS for the right reasons and to help others. Along with her past and how she once blinded a woman with a curse for harming a loved one.

Does anyone else know? Only those closest to her.

Goals

Drives and motivations: Keep building on her business and ‘empire’ as it were when it comes to her family name and legacy.

Immediate goals: Allow growth for herself as an individual.

Long-term goals: Keep healing and just keep doing better each and every day. Someday she also hopes to have more children.

How the character plans to accomplish these goals: By living day to day, surely something has to give.

How other characters will be affected: God only knows. I suppose that depends on who she interacts with and who decides to be a part of her life in some aspect or another.

Past

Hometown: Suncrown Village

Type of childhood: Fairly sheltered though she did leave home at a young age to study and practice the Holy word under Syrahn Bloodfeather, formerly known as Bloodlust. Her parents were both alive (Still are) and treated her well. She was an only child for much of her life and into her young adult years until her brother Arden was born. She spent much of her time abroad and in the presence of other Priests as well as Human Priests.

Pets: Several horses and hawkstriders, a wolf, a couple of sheep and goats along with several cats. All live on the estate grounds and are tended to by her groundskeeper, Illdarien.

First memory: The necklace of a tree that her father gifted her.

Most important childhood memory: Chasing her cousins around.

Why? They’re family and perhaps the only people in her family she can relate to the most just because of their age and shared experiences growing up.

Childhood hero: Her father @alucieussunrael

Dream job: What she does now. Confessor and owning her own establishment which happens to be the Smoking Crow Bar and Lounge for Mercenaries.

Education: Tutored by several mentors in the way of the Light and Shadow arts She became a full fledged Confessor a few years ago and wishes to continue along that path. She was a hired therapist that the thalassian hospital when that was still running and is quite skilled in sewing and tailoring as well as being able to administer basic healing and suturing.

Religion: The holy Light (?)

Finances: Nobility, roughly the lower or middle tier of what nobility might be.

Present

Current location: Silvermoon City / Eversong Woods

Currently living with: Her staff Illdarien and Siliva along with her three children and on occasion, Whitstan.

Pets: Several horses and hawkstriders, a wolf, a couple of sheep and goats along with several cats. All live on the estate grounds and are tended to by her groundskeeper, Illdarien.

Religion: The holy Light. (?)

Occupation: Confessor, Mother, Heiress to House Sun’rael and Entrepreneur.

Finances: Wealthy.

Family

Mother: Covaya Sun’rael

Relationship with her: Fairly good. They keep each other company and stable since her father has been missing.

Father: Alucieus Sun’rael

Relationship with him: Very close. He is her hero and the only one in her family she truly seems to resemble both personality wise and physically.

Siblings: Arden Sun’rael

Relationship with them: Arden is roughly 4 years old and they have a good relationship though at times it is lacking because of the age gap.

Spouse: Divorced.

Relationship with him/her: Quite well, the two are committed and have been ‘dating’ for a while now though it might be hard to tell from those who are outside looking in, they don’t often put their relationships or feelings on public display.

Children: Oriana and Rowan (biological twins between she and her ex-husband Tassarion) and Rhistel (adopted daughter)

Relationship with them: The relationship between she and her children is great and as expected of most women and mothers. She never forgets a moment with them and makes good on her promises with nightly stories before bed.

Other important family members: Aunt Nysaira Del’nigmis and her Aunt Ashlein Nah’taal, Uncle Areus Sun’rael and her uncle Altherian Dalin’thar and her cousins Syhris Sun’rael, Paltiel Dalin’thar and Phaeris Dalin’thar as well as her Uncle Lykor Lathai.

Favorites

Color: Grey

Least favorite color: Brown

Music: Violin and harp

Food: Sweets though she loves Silvia’s homemade sandwiches.

Literature: History, theory

Form of entertainment: Books and people/conversation..

Expressions: We met for a reason, either you are a blessing or a lesson.

Mode of transportation: Walking, horse or by carriage. Once in awhile a zepplin or ship.

Most prized possession: The stave her father made for her.

Habits

Hobbies: Reading and sewing..

Plays a musical instrument? Yes. The harp.

Plays a sport? No.

How he/she would spend a rainy day: At home in a nice hot bath with a good book. IF EVERSONG EVER HAD RAIN!

Spending habits: Fairly good. She doesn’t over indulge in spending too often without reason. She saves quite a lot of her income as well.

Smokes: No.

Drinks: Once in a while, usually bourbon.

Other drugs: VERY rarely though thistle is about the extent of her dabbling.

What does he/she do too much of? Reading and working.

What does he/she do too little of? Actively trying to make friends.

Extremely skilled at: Sensing bullshit and liars. She can read people like a book and can be very witty.

Extremely unskilled at: Showing emotion and letting people in.

Nervous tics: Lip biting.

Usual body posture: Arms crossed or hands folded primly at her front.

Mannerisms: Very postured and well taught as it might seem at first glance. She seems very polite when speaking unless given reason not to be. She looks very well dressed and observant.

Peculiarities: Dark attire though there is a aura of Light magic about her.

Traits

Optimist or pessimist? In between.

Introvert or extrovert? Ambivert!

Daredevil or cautious? Cautious.

Logical or emotional? Logical.

Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? Methodical and neat.

Prefers working or relaxing? Working.

Confident or unsure of himself/herself? Confident.

Animal lover? A little bit.

Self-perception

How he/she feels about himself/herself: Kaevia is quite confident in herself and her abilities. The only time there is a sense of self-doubt is when others around her share their doubt in her. She is a stable person.

One word the character would use to describe self: Candid.

One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: “A question most never get asked unless they are trying to sell parts of themselves to another. I’m broken just as much as the next person but I prefer not to show it or to let it define me. I suppose I am resilient in a way, dedicated and driven.”

What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? Assertiveness.

What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? Creativity. She isn’t a talented or creative person in the way of performing arts or visual arts.

What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? Hair.

What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? Hahah! The lack of having big curves like some of the women she meets.

How does the character think others perceive him/her: To some she comes off as snotty or a know-it-all because of her blunt approach with truths and facts but a lot of people tend to admire that about her too as a character. She doesn’t sugar coat the truths and I have been recently told they like how she is a balanced character with being down to earth and also a well written noble as well.

What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: Not much as she is content with who she is but perhaps someone with a little less responsibility.

Relationships with others

Opinion of other people in general: She gets along with more than she doesn’t and she rarely happens to make enemies but she has trust issues. Everyone is out to get something.

Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? If Kaevia has an opinion about something she will share it, unabashed and straightforward though when it comes to emotions she does not show her emotions to those around her and leaves the tears for the privacy of her own domicile. Rarely does she let people see her at her worst (EX: crying or lashing out in anger).

Person character most hates: Ex-husband Tassarion.

Best friend(s): None. She hasn’t been close enough or trust someone enough yet for that role though she does have plenty of friends and acquaintances.

Love interest(s): Whitstan Wilhelm. @whitstanwilhelm

Person character goes to for advice: Silvia.

Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Her children though lately that role has gone to Telyina AKA Stitch @autumnblade-sorrows

Person character feels shy or awkward around: Never shy, never awkward.

Person character openly admires: Her father.

Person character secretly admires: Her Aunt Nysaira and her friend Lilthessa @lilthessa

Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Her parents.

After story starts: Herself.

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