Times Caligula Was Probably Fucking With People

Times Caligula was probably fucking with people

I have a pet theory that at least some of Caligula's "madness" was really him being a huge troll and screwing with people, and that several incidents the ancient historians take seriously were shitty jokes taken out of context. From Suetonius, Gaius:

Wandering into emperor Tiberius' bedroom at night with a dagger, thinking, "Eh..." and wandering back out. (12)

Chucking money into crowds to make people scramble for it. (18, 26)

Telling people "I'm gonna fuck the moon." (22)

Getting into arguments with a statue of Jupiter. (22)

Constantly pranking his uncle Claudius. (23)

[Caligula's daughter violently attacks her playmates] Caligula: "Yep, she's definitely mine." (25)

Promising an exciting gladiator show and then swapping in old shitty fighters at the last second. (26)

Reminding people "I could kill you whenever I like." (29, 32)

Grumbling about how the empire was too peaceful and there was nothing heroic left for him to do. (31)

"Everyone reads Homer. I should ban him and see what happens." (34)

Leading an army to the coast, making them gather seashells as "spoils of war," then telling them "Treat yourselves!" on the tiny monetary bonus he awarded them. (46)

Practicing goofy faces in his mirror to freak people out. (50)

Invites three terrified senators to the palace in the dead of night. Jumps out from behind a curtain and does a song and dance number in drag. Refuses to explain. Leaves. (54)

Does not actually make his horse consul, but pampers it so much people said he wanted to. (55)

Taunts the praetorian guards with so many "sissy" jokes they get fed up and shank him. (56, 58)

When people heard he was dead they thought he was pulling a stunt. (60)

Working on doing that ranking post, doing the gathering of various online sources because at the moment I don’t have any Rome books :[

Anyway would like to say everytime I see a post about something Rome related I start a very stupid laugh my friends have likened to a bird, dolphin, or hyena. Love seeing them,

My musical production begins meetings sooner and sooner every minute and… I should probably practice my audition a bit more lol-

But uhhhh, substance- working my way through TBoSaS (the ballad of songbirds and snakes) sadly I probably won’t do much, about hunger games. But if I do let it be known that it would be mostly about,

District 2

The Capitol

District 4

Because that’s what I’m interested in, the Capitol mostly because it just haifjwbdiekanfnrjrjw- hits the yummy part of my brain.

Anyway, more Octavian general hcs, or another Michael Kahale one? We’ll see what I decide to do while waiting for both my McDonald’s and the new episode.

Okay that’s all (it’s going to be an Octavian post all about his siblings/family)

ALSO! I’m working to get a grip on Ancient Roman naming conventions(?) and posting my hcs about that an applying it to Camp Jupiter or whatever, also the Ranking post will be the first time I’ll bring up New Rome (gonna talk about the governance, which I think I’ll pull from late Republic? We’ll see idk I don’t usually pull from specific eras of Rome intentionally-) weapons post coming up, and more in depth map one :3

TV SHOW SPOILERS!!!

*Note from the future; this has been my live reaction to the new episode, I was going to write about Ares but clearly I spiraled. writing this upped my enjoyment so much because I got to put I down and andondjroanfnsi

OMG I LOVE ARES

Ahfoneanfindnfjsaj

THEY SIFJAODMRNSIJFBF

He’s so silly. He is a mean older cousin, exudes that energy

LOOK AT HIM

That first scene, so silly. Goofy. THE GABE THING, HEHEHEHEHE

I LOVE HIM. ARES NOT GABE. HES PERFECT

The entire episode solidifies my love for Pjo!Ares so much. And i already adored him.

I’m actually Ares. Annabeth’s snark is so rhaokfjiandhsi

This isn’t coherent whatsoever but like- he’s so hehehehehe.

Still might have gripes about depictions but I feel like it’s better than book but that might just be my first impression happiness to see Ares :3

Typing this in realtime of the episode. WHAT GROVER IS A FAN?!?? THIS IS SO SILLY! WAR HISTORY BUFF GROVER IS SOMETHING I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED BUT I CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT. GROVER AND ARES HAVING A RELATIONSHIP IS SO FUN TO THINK ABOUT! SILLY LITTLE FAN GROVER SILLY LITTLE FAN GROVER

WHAT IS THAT MELODY? WHAT IS LOVE, BABY DONT HURT ME!!

RHIS IS EPIC HEPHAESTUS ORIGIN STORY

Deep conversation while the what is love song plays in the background is what I live for.

Still not liking the Ares hating his kids. Mythology from what I’ve read and interpreted likes to often disagree with that. Does this imply he hates Phobos and Deimos in Pjo canon because that’s sad :[ I like Phobos and Deimos and liked the silly little headcanons in my brain over them. Grover is so real though.

PRESENTATION? wHAT? I need to talk about this now-

Grover 600 iq? Love Athena and Ares sibling rivalry.

ARHENA TALKING TO HER OWL? HER BEST FRIEND, THATS FUN

What.

Grover.

Grover is so silly. Him getting the answer that Ares knows who got the bolt is so good, love them.

Wait what, no the episode can’t end. Grover- GROVER-?

Ranking post is I think like 1/4-1/8 finished! Well, the first round of concepts for the top of the hierarchy is, not mentioning the other stuff I have to mess with. Just the actual historical roles taken into account and my pride in my notes, except I tried drawing one of those pyramids you’d see that like explain the hierarchy and I messed up really badly-

Anyway, I don’t have much to say but here’s some Mercury and Octavian! Honestly just glad I got to draw them together.

*Also don’t mind how weird the speech bubbles read because I was tired and not considering how people would actually read the bubbles-

Mercury is the Calliope I mentioned way way back, and this is her current design (which is 100% going to change once I figure out what to do with her hair-)

But I don’t have much substance to this post, other than the re-imagining Ranking might completely be plowing over some of the established ranking (it’s just me adding in roles that were forgotten about and putting them into Camp and modifying their stuff to fit with camp. Camp just gets to be my little sandbox playground where I can demolish pieces for my re-imagining and then giggle about.

I also have a Bryce Lawerence hc post that is mostly just my random brain thoughts out on the post about possible things during exile. Literally none of them are backed up and just excuses for cool scenes in my head and to possibly write a little Bryce Lawerence exile story thing.

Okay, that’s it :3

Taken a stupid amount of time for me to work on the weapons in Camp Jupiter post because it’s been a day and I barely have started on the Spatha section.

Watching a documentary on fungi and it is improving my mood significantly. Also a stuffed animal, his name is Gus (that is short for Augustus.)

Would love something to talk about but I really don’t have anything going on in my little brain, the weapons post is just taking a while and I might do that map post.

We’ll see, idk though. Always open to suggestions, I think my asks are open, I’d love to give my opinions on prompts.

Will not be tackling anything New Rome or Temple hill related though. Gonna mention New Rome in my Ranks post that will come at some point of time in some point of the future.

Octavian headcanons :3

Another round of general Octavian headcanons, family edition! Would first like to state I’m not touching the legacy strands currently because stuff like Augustus Caesar and his demigod status in Pjo and all of that messes stuff up and I need more time to think about that and actually reading ToA and stuff.

Anyways, motivation for the Octavian post is to settle pre-audition jitters. Drama club beauty and the beast production, and auditions are tomorrow :,] gonna have to weasel my way through the singing part and hope my acting carries me the rest of the way through (in the words of Perseus Jackson; if I tried to sing I’m pretty sure it’d cause an avalanche.)

*Update because I’ve been writing this post for a day; we had dance auditions first! Pretty much just seeing where we are in dancing skills for this, it was really chill and fun and vibes were immaculate! Sorry this post is kind of ajifnsdb and I couldn’t get names down for these people, but I’d want to do that after figuring out.. naming work?

But ajdienajdjfneb whatever onto the headcannons!!

Big family, BIIIG family. In my head he has 8 other siblings (he is indeed the eighth child just for my amusement and it works for the little time before I work on how I think New Rome does naming, and I’m not touching that with a 39 and a half foot pole)

Old money family too. They’re descended from Emperors and they’ve managed to continue that legacy and have a family business, aware of Triumvirate holdings, may even have positive work relations.

Octavian is the 2nd youngest, in order his siblings go; 1st eldest, 2 kid, 3 child, 4&5 were twins, then 6,7,8,9. His poor mom has so many kids- but got solid breaks between them, though I don’t want to calculate ages at the moment.

Staring with his youngest sister. It’s Julia, that Julia. The one that’s Terminus’s little ‘assistant’. Octavian likes getting the opportunity to see her more often than most of his other siblings. She’s a little menace but gets away with it, nothing bad though, just mischievous.

Skipping Octavian we go to child 7. Who doesn’t have a name but just got out of the legion a few years ago, and moved out of the legion/New Rome. Bit of a rebel, but just wants to settle down with a family of their own and distance themselves from the family. They had a neutral-to negative relationship with Octavian. Octavian doesn’t like his siblings distance from Rome, and sibling likes Octavian but can’t help worry over him.

Kid 6 would be probably Gaius or something (again. Not about to go think too hard about what is gonna end up being Octavian’s Oc siblings. I can think about them later) he got out honorably after Mt.Tam, I like to think he’s still looking for a job and drifting in that University stage.

Kids 5&4 are twins, fraternal (maybe identical but I want more fraternal twins) and absolutely wild?? Jobs set up probably as something like loan sharks, they help upkeep the family fortune. Think like Ebenezer Scrooge or how Bob Marley are described in Christmas Carol. Taught Octavian everything they knew about blackmail, manipulation, etc. but they’re generally silly. Both usually try to charge people for various scams, think of the cartoonish dealer with the giant trench coat.

Child 3 has their own family and works for Bombillio’s (?) pretty comfortable with life. Fascinated with the mortal realm, slips on trips their parents take for business.

Child 2 and 1 have significantly branched off and live sort of anywhere, I feel like 1 is supervising that outpost in Canada (that’s another Hc I have that I talked about a LOOONG time ago) and then 2 probably lives out with their partner in San Fran and cats.

Okay a sorry I’m a little jittery because it is SNOWING!!!!! Where I am at least but still, SNOWING!! Sorry I couldn’t name anyone but still, wanted to get general family stuff down and writing posts like these calm me down when I’m feeling a bit aaaaaurgh.

Octavian has mostly good relationships with his siblings. Though he feels like he’s the only one really invested in being a citizen of New Rome and upholding the family name.

I’ll probably change around the siblings and their order whenever I decide how their ages work. But I feel they’re all relatively close in age and then Julia is just the odd one out.

His mother is a legacy from a newer family in New Rome, she’s pretty silly and generally just wants the best for her family.

His dad inherited the unnamed, unspecified family business/company and currently runs it, preserved his old crown awards and has them framed in his office, takes his family very seriously.

Okay, I’m working on the rankings research. It’s… a thing, but for now I might just make more of these random little hc posts, in between larger posts and passion stuff y’know?

Also maybe other fandoms? I’m still very much a Pjo person but I still wanna talk about other stuff lol,

Anyway here’s a quick Octavian thing I did, I’m still messing with his design, I feel like this might stick but I’ll still mess around with his hair, but I just wanted to add a little more to this post because it felt… pretty empty lol.

Also possible post on how some of the weapons characters have look? Would love to draw actual referenced things like IVILIS(? Don’t wanna go check but the Juno sword I think- Jason’s sword-) Reyna’s spear sword & dagger. Octavian’s Pilum & dagger, some hc stuff, maybe actual Camp Half-Blood stuff (because I wanna draw Backbiter)

Okay, I think I’m done now :3