I want you to remember:
The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.
Lestat would 100% cry to Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain
What a year this week has been.
Relationships: Marcus Acacius/Lucilla, Emperor Geta & Emperor Caracalla Rating: Mature Chapters: 3/? Words: 15 321/? Warnings: Violence, detailed depictions of physical and mental illness, referenced child abuse, trauma (varied + sexual) Tags: Canon divergence (Macrinus isn’t there), “fix-it”, found family, accidental adoption, politics and war, healing and learning to trust.
Summary: Taking over the Palatine Hill is not the end of an insurrection, but merely the beginning of a new Roman era. As dust settles, it leaves in its wake triumphant and devastated men on uncertain foundations: what will dawn bring with its first light? What is the will of the people, and how to best guide it when it is known to be so fickle, and so often at odds with its own best interests? How to convince an Empire that it needs no Emperor, when a thousand shadows are watching through the cracks, waiting for an opportunity to claim the throne for themselves?
And what to do with two orphan boys, abandoned by their gods and their people, in this lair of wolves?
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glad to know people will still be experiencing this video for the first time this daylight savings
it would seem that emerald fennell and her perfect cast created saltburn exclusively for me and 6 other people on tumblr to go absolutely bonkers, crying-in-a-corner, life-changingly insane over and for nobody else on earth to understand or appreciate fully