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The first line of this story being "Rejoice! [The literal main character] is dead!" is soooooo iconic.

STOP TALKING ABOUT ALASKAN FISHING

"you are not gay. bisexual maybe," what is this book

this kidnapping plot is even more bizarre than i expected

somehow i didnt see the "kiss on the ice after winning The Big Game" coming. and yet i 100% should have

youve heard of the heated rivalry cottage, get ready for the kennedy rule alaskan house

everyone has such beef with alaska in this book. like its getting the "bad neighborhood" of a city treatment lmao

"I'm not the first gay athlete to ever step onto the Olympic ice by a long shot. It's like everyone in the world has forgotten men's figure skating exists" HELLO???

girl its been like 2 weeks why are you planning a life together

i never need to see sweat being described as "salty, heady, nectar" ever again in my life

the constant harping on gavin's bigness is truly getting to me

Lucius Licinius Lucullus is such an unserious name. who did that him.

cicero had enough money to provide for at least 25k poor families but it would have only given around 30 men the wealth standing to hold office? and he wasn't even part of the super-rich?????? WHAT in the income inequality

"after the death of her father, an adult woman could own property in her own right, buy and sell, inherit or make a will and free slaves -- many of the rights that women in Britain did not gain until the 1870s" diabolical. every day i thank god i was not born in another time period.

kinda interesting that roman marriage basically just meant saying "yeah we're married" and you could just as easily divorce

say what you will about free speech in the modern US, at least we don't tend to beat comedians to death while they're on stage

his flesh dissolved into WORMS?????????

'hostis' going from a word used to mean foreigner/enemy to being used by Romans against other Romans during the civil war period is such an ironic bit of symbolism

wondering if panem in the hunger games came from panem et circenses

really like the detail that ancient romans also were out in the streets shaking hands and canvassing voters

Hannibal (Carthage) mention!

"In a systemic way that was then unparalleled, they made it possible not just to become Roman but also to be a citizen of two place at once: one's hometown and Rome." Seeing stuff similar to modern nation-building in like 200 BC is so crazy.

Making the people you conquer serve in your army, which makes them invested in the profits of victory so that eventually they just become part of your nation... wild that this just. worked.

Really intrigued by the idea of patrician-only footwear.

when and how did lestat acquire a lawyer