Octavian Doodle- Octavian Doodle-

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 :]

Maybe Looking too deep into this but that’s what I do for everything,

Anyway I was scrolling and saw another on of the silly little photos of the lizard from the Pjo Tv show,

And it got me thinking, what type of lizard (gecko) is that? Does he give us any silly foreshadowing?

This is a crested gecko I believe, and though crested geckos don’t have any specific mythos geckos themselves symbolize adapting to situations, regrowth, protections (dubious but idk)

And crested Geckos change colors through their natural life! I think having one of them specifically is really fun for the show because in line with the symbolism that I found they map well with Percy (who has to grow and adapt to demigod life)

Okay that’s it :]

Can’t produce very high quality art in ver short notice so here are the silly doodles I’ve made for the new episode,

Didn’t reference anything so sorry if it looks off. Also the needed Grover in the pig war shirt, he didn’t mention it in the episode but again- Washington. I needed the reference.

Also Ares with a little snake tongue. And that one scene from the beginning of the episode

Genuinely wondering if the camp Jupiter legionnaires get paid.

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