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Happy birthday to two of the most talented ladies I know: cupid12203, whose art never fails to fill me with awe, and ki_caelum, whose world building talent is unsurpassed!
Wow, they're making Blood and Chocolate into a movie. I just saw a preview. I liked that book way back when, in my teen vampires-and-werewolves phase, but now it's on my 'best not to reread because it probably won't be good now' shelf.
Rome, I kind of want to write horribly composed sonnets declaring my adoration for you, because you are so very awesome.
Atia is such a glorious, glorious bitch. The bit with Servilia? Publicly declaring them friends in such a way that Servilia couldn't refuse, all the while planning to have her murdered? Glorious. (Thankfully for Atia Octavian is a smart cookie and put a stop to that, because it could have been all sorts of bad.) Telling Cleopatra, the freakin' Queen of the Nile, to "Die screaming, you pig-spawned trollop"? Somewhere past glorious.
And my darling Octavian! It made my inner shipper very happy to see that he and Octavia still confide in one another, and are close.
He really threw down the gauntlet on Marc Antony, though. I knew he was building up to something, because he was clearly frustrated with getting the constant brush-off, but that scene was positively explosive. Both right out of bed, still in their cute little nightshirts, fighting. So many interesting levels going on there! Octavian breaking free, dissing his mama to try to establish himself as his own man, going against Marc Antony but still trying to convince him to stand beside him for the empire, showing initiative to become who we all know he will become... And Marc Antony actually seemed to want to defend Atia, as well as reassert himself as the man around those parts. So much love.
And Octavia clutching Octavian, beaten and bloody, made me happy for all the wrong reasons. Aww. (Octavia was sort of great the whole episode, thinking back. I loved her casualness at the breakfast bruhaha, complaining about the lack of figs in the fruit salad.)
And dude, Vorenus has lost his mind. Understandably, given his circumstances, but still. The part where he smashed the idol and completely made the ruffians TERRIFIED? Clearly he was a madman.
Eeee! Cleopatra recognized Pullo! That cannot be good, especially what with her bid to have her kid legitimized.
And ha! The kids WERE sold into slavery.
So. Much. Love.
Wow, they're making Blood and Chocolate into a movie. I just saw a preview. I liked that book way back when, in my teen vampires-and-werewolves phase, but now it's on my 'best not to reread because it probably won't be good now' shelf.
Rome, I kind of want to write horribly composed sonnets declaring my adoration for you, because you are so very awesome.
Atia is such a glorious, glorious bitch. The bit with Servilia? Publicly declaring them friends in such a way that Servilia couldn't refuse, all the while planning to have her murdered? Glorious. (Thankfully for Atia Octavian is a smart cookie and put a stop to that, because it could have been all sorts of bad.) Telling Cleopatra, the freakin' Queen of the Nile, to "Die screaming, you pig-spawned trollop"? Somewhere past glorious.
And my darling Octavian! It made my inner shipper very happy to see that he and Octavia still confide in one another, and are close.
He really threw down the gauntlet on Marc Antony, though. I knew he was building up to something, because he was clearly frustrated with getting the constant brush-off, but that scene was positively explosive. Both right out of bed, still in their cute little nightshirts, fighting. So many interesting levels going on there! Octavian breaking free, dissing his mama to try to establish himself as his own man, going against Marc Antony but still trying to convince him to stand beside him for the empire, showing initiative to become who we all know he will become... And Marc Antony actually seemed to want to defend Atia, as well as reassert himself as the man around those parts. So much love.
And Octavia clutching Octavian, beaten and bloody, made me happy for all the wrong reasons. Aww. (Octavia was sort of great the whole episode, thinking back. I loved her casualness at the breakfast bruhaha, complaining about the lack of figs in the fruit salad.)
And dude, Vorenus has lost his mind. Understandably, given his circumstances, but still. The part where he smashed the idol and completely made the ruffians TERRIFIED? Clearly he was a madman.
Eeee! Cleopatra recognized Pullo! That cannot be good, especially what with her bid to have her kid legitimized.
And ha! The kids WERE sold into slavery.
So. Much. Love.