man it’s always something with these guys
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Explanation: The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometimes said to be mad, once threatened (or joked, depending on who you ask) to make his horse consul, one of the two leaders of the Senate. Caligula was a tyrant, a dick, impulsive, and petty, but one can argue he wasn't mad. Just... well, a tyrant, a dick, impulsive, and petty. And with a cruel sense of humor.
The Roman Emperor Elagabalus had a much more discernable form of madness - youth mixed with ultimate power. Elagabalus was a teenager when they (as their gender identity is a matter of perpetual debate) were oh-so-wisely granted absolute autocratic power over a continents-spanning Empire by the political machinations of their grandmother. Two of their more notable offenses were proclaiming themselves to be the Syrian sun god, and having young women hitched to their chariot like horses to pull them around Rome, whipping them all the while.
While you can say teenagers fulfilling all their most wild teenage fantasies with no one to stop them isn't 'real' madness, it seems closer to it than flexing on Senators and daring them to defy you as a petty show of power!
Oh, so like billionaires (~Caligula) and kids of billionaires (~Elagabalus), got it.
Of course Elagabalus was the one with human ponies… lol.
Artist hears that a roman emperor used women as horses:
"Say no more fam, we got sauce to draw"
Anonhistory is both blessed and cursed with Terminal Horny
Anonhistory: "I can draw badass warriors, I know historical depictions, and I CHOOSE to draw anime girls"
I respect an artist who knows the rules so they can break them.
Celtic Dommy Mommy? Yes, please!
What's the name of that Roman emperor that feigned to be "simple" just to ensure the praetorians didn't off him?
You may be thinking of a non-Emperor - Brutus, the founder of the Republic, pretended to be simple to avoid the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, from killing him. Brutus hid his competence until Tarquinius went too far, and then quite competently led a coup/popular revolution to oust him and replace the monarchy with a republic. 'Brutus' even means 'stupid' - and yet it became one of the most honored family names of Rome, lmao.
EDIT: Oh! Or you may be thinking of Claudius! Claudius was a scholar, but had a terrible stutter, a limp, and shook; he claimed to have played these up during the reign of Caligula to avoid Caligula seeing him as a threat. The Praetorians actually acclaimed him as Emperor after assassinating Caligula, though, despite Claudius thinking they were going to ice him too, lol.
I love a member of the Julian dynasty thinking someone being disabled makes them not a threat. Like motherfucker you’re in the dynasty of the epileptic twink that destroyed the republic
Oh, come now! The Julio-Claudian dynasty is FILLED with fit, healthy, genetically perfect god-heroes! Why, we have...
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Epileptic baldie too scared to admit he's a bottom
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Sickly sun-averse twink
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Mega-depressed paranoid potential secret pervert
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Insane sister-fucker
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Claudius
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Neckbeard Supreme
Thanks, it was Claudius, but I got Brutus for free, so that's a win on my books.
My little ponies!!
My big pony will be covering my job while I'm gone (on an adventure of friendship, & magic, and other kinky stuff).