Um...
Having decided that I need to write more porn (don't ask), I went and had a look at the prompt page for the last Porn Battle. It's over, but I figured there would be something there to inspire me. Scrolled through the fandoms sections, until I hit the historical RPF section, and found this:
Pliny the Younger/Publius Cornelius Tacitus, boar, longing
This is the ship I never actually knew I wanted. I mean, it must have crossed my mind at some point, it must've, but seeing it there, in black and white...
OMG nerdy oratorical verbose Romans slash YES omfg asdfl;jk
It would be a thing of beauty. Pliny would be all "lololol I caught three boar the other day" and Tacitus would be all "oh, you" and would shut him up with sexings.
Or they could write really - er - detailed letters to each other. (The whole thing about exchanging manuscripts for proofreading thing is totally code for... something.)
Or after the Marius Priscus trial, they celebrate by getting roaring drunk and having sex.
Or Tacitus is trying to write his Annals, and Pliny is there being annoying about... something, and Tacitus is all, "Shut up, man, I'm trying to write a serious passage about sexual vices during the reign of Nero" then he ends up getting ~inspired, if you know what I mean.
Or... or... well, you get the idea.
Not even just smut, though. You could also have h/c fluff where Pliny is having traumatic Vesuvius flashbacks, and Tacitus is awkwardly trying to comfort him.
Basically, there's a mine of untapped slashy potential here.
In sum: OH GOD I WANT THIS SHIP SO BAD YOU HAVE NO IDEA ASD;JKL;JF;A
What have I become?
Pliny the Younger/Publius Cornelius Tacitus, boar, longing
This is the ship I never actually knew I wanted. I mean, it must have crossed my mind at some point, it must've, but seeing it there, in black and white...
OMG nerdy oratorical verbose Romans slash YES omfg asdfl;jk
It would be a thing of beauty. Pliny would be all "lololol I caught three boar the other day" and Tacitus would be all "oh, you" and would shut him up with sexings.
Or they could write really - er - detailed letters to each other. (The whole thing about exchanging manuscripts for proofreading thing is totally code for... something.)
Or after the Marius Priscus trial, they celebrate by getting roaring drunk and having sex.
Or Tacitus is trying to write his Annals, and Pliny is there being annoying about... something, and Tacitus is all, "Shut up, man, I'm trying to write a serious passage about sexual vices during the reign of Nero" then he ends up getting ~inspired, if you know what I mean.
Or... or... well, you get the idea.
Not even just smut, though. You could also have h/c fluff where Pliny is having traumatic Vesuvius flashbacks, and Tacitus is awkwardly trying to comfort him.
Basically, there's a mine of untapped slashy potential here.
In sum: OH GOD I WANT THIS SHIP SO BAD YOU HAVE NO IDEA ASD;JKL;JF;A
What have I become?