Yuletide reveal post

[dhampyresa]

 First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR y'all! I hope 2014 is awesome for you.

I got two fics for yuletide: Transverse orientation by perryvic and/or Zaganthi (I honestly have no idea what's up with the authorship of this fic) in the Lucifer (comics) fandom, a reunion fic between Elaine and Lucifer that is pretty great and a treat, The Horsewoman's Tale by

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[sineala]

Thank you again for writing the Hannibal/Scipio fic for me -- and, ha, I guess I should have guessed you were the anon asking me how I felt about Gwen Stacy? I'm sorry I never replied to that and you had to track me down on #yuletide, but (okay, this is kind of embarrassing and mostly just a side effect of my anxiety issues) I, um, couldn't figure out if you were sincere or if it was some kind of elaborate _coal setup to ask everyone about Gwen Stacy and also I'm still not really clear on who Gwen Stacy is

[dhampyresa]

I was serious, but I can see how it would look like a _coal setup. Gwen Stacy is a Marvel character. The version that was controversial is the one from the Ultimates universe.

[sineala]

That makes more sense now, thank you for the explanation.

They weren't Hannibal-specific tactics books, but they both had a bit about the awesome things he did, because, well, he did awesome things. Probably the most interesting was Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods But Verify by Rose Mary Sheldon (which I was reading for fic research + the vague idea that I might write origfic about Hadrian's spies), which included anecdotes like the bit with the cattle with flaming branches tied to them. Also apparently he flung venomous-snake bombs at ships. (This book also tries to argue that Julius Caesar must not have really wanted to conquer Britain because he was Julius Caesar and therefore he could have if he'd wanted to.)

I think there were also Hannibal anecdotes in Adrienne Mayor's Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World, which was much less scholarly but still pretty interesting

[dhampyresa]

I didn't even realise I'd messed up the html. I'm sorry!

I would totally read a novel on Hadrian's spies, fyi. The snake-bombs are kind of really cool, seriously. Thank you for the recs.

I sent it to you, let me know if you got it? The adress is waitwhatyousaying at yahoo dot fr. (Wait, hold on, I just remembered, starting from Trasimene, there's stuff about f!Hannibal's eye that reaches its height at the end of and after the conversation with Symesh, so watch out for that.)