I Keep Saying It- But The Ranking Post Might Actually Be Done Soon-

I keep saying it- but the Ranking post might actually be done soon-

I have most of the ranks summarized. Now I just have to actually make them fit into camp and modify them a bit for camp structure. It’s… a lot more roles, but it’s my re-imagined and I can do what I want with the concept I’ve been building and it helps stage how I want camp to feel in the re-imagining (regimented, suffocating, and confusing compared to Camp Half-Blood. Something something more concepts that maybe I’ll use a different time-)

The actual reason I wanted to write this was just to say that if I hear another person say the word “preppy” around me to describe something or an action I perform I will actually sob. Was standing for the bus and had one of my friends call it preppy when I started talking and jumping about like Pompey the Great or something-

It actually irritates me, which arguably it is 100% a dumb thing to get irritated over. But it upsets me and I need somewhere to vent-

Anyway… I’m gonna make strawberry cupcakes today :3 and probably finishing off the note summaries because after that I can work on the ranking in my free time at school because then I don’t need (as much) historical accuracy.

Also here’s a draft for a sort of Octavian art I did,

Okay I really don’t know what this post is anymore. Ranking will be out soon and possibly either a Mercury short story I need to figure out or a little Bryce one that I also totally don’t have figured out.

Or y’know the ranking post. That’ll probably be it.

Octavian doodle- Octavian doodle-

Did the style that I did for the other doodles because it fit a more laidback doodle thing like this, I forgot his stuffed animal belt and the dagger but :[

Anyway this is totally me stalling reading something because I’m nervous (I probably will in a few minutes when I calm down lol-) but it’s really cold where I live at the moment (our low temp for today is freaking 7 degrees) and I wanted to draw some Octavian reflecting that (had a quiz and drew a Octavian with earmuffs saying it was too cold for this-)

Anyway it’s not proportionate and whatever but it makes me giggle to look at :]

ALSO! Working more on the Ranking post! It’s a slow process but I get work in when I can, today when I get home I will be working on the actual historical research part and then I’ll blend that with the canon, my own head-canons, and trying to make it all semi-reasonable. Though no promises :]

Guys I laughed too hard from a post about Ancient Rome and now my nose is bleeding in retaliation.

Also the weapons post is being worked on :3

*Realized this is my 100th post.

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)

Okay aaaa, last post of the night but,

Just read a poll about holding a mug and- this might be just me but I’ll hold it in a like thumbs up?

Like if it’s a small handle you loop two fingers through, your pinky and pointer would be on the outside resting on it and your thumbs up? Bigger handles you can put your pointer finger in and rest your thumb on the rim?

I’ve traced over pictures of me holding the mugs to try and get the point across,

Genuinely might be alone in this.

are we told on how Probatio’s work?

Did people like Octavian, Michael Kahale, Bryce Lawerence, etc. have to go through the Probatio process??

Would go look in the book but I’m not swimming through it again to try and find answers. That’s… probably my fault but I just got back from vocal auditions (fingers crossed I get the LeFou role-) and I don’t want to try and scramble through it to figure out.

Anyway this is 100% me just not remembering it and I will probably go back and try to read through for information. About all the roles, for the post. Probably might just post the beginning of my drafting process. Auhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyway another Bryce Lawerence post soon potentially because he’s so silly and I like talking about him. Possibly might be an outlining for a Bryce underworld trip thing? Either it’d be in the same style I write all my posts, or an actual story? We’ll see when we get there I guess.

Anyway Bryce headcanon of the day is that through exile he got a pet reptile. Don’t know what type but he thought it’d be cool and actually took pretty good care of it. Or it’s a mouse. I like the idea of Bryce Lawerence with a mouse so really it’s all up for debate (or maybe a rat. I can see Bryce with a rat.)