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anima_mecanique in schoslashtic

RomanSlash!

Dec 25, 2003 03:32

Um...hi. First post here, though I've been reading every word of the community up until now.

At the apt suggestion of chefkatsuya and because I'm absolutely obsessed with ancient Rome, I wrote a Vergil/Maecenas fic. Vergil, of course, being the author of (among other things) the Aeneid, and Maecenas being his wealthy, upper-class patron who always looked out ( Read more... )

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chefkatsuya December 25 2003, 01:04:09 UTC

You rock, Tilly! Coughing Vergil is soooo sexy!

I hope you realize that with the success of this one, you will be forced to write numerous other fics in the future as well. AT MY BIDDING! Hahahahahah!

reposoir December 25 2003, 06:59:33 UTC

Mmmmm...the world should have more Romanslash because that was very enjoyable.

Now, all they need to do is whisper things in Latin and the world is set! ;)

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Re: AWESOMENESS! anima_mecanique December 25 2003, 13:23:09 UTC

*bows* Thank you! There will be more. Because if chefkatsuya doesn't write Vergil/Alexander, I will. OMG master/slave love. And it's a true story! ^_^

Re: AWESOMENESS! chefkatsuya December 25 2003, 13:50:19 UTC

I will, I will... *sigh*

postingwhore December 25 2003, 11:16:53 UTC

This was a wonderful history lesson as well as great entertainment. XP You rox0rz. XD

I'm planning on writing fanfic based on Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar because that play was begging to be slashed. :p

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anima_mecanique December 25 2003, 13:20:34 UTC

Yes, yes, do it! Do it! Now if only I could get proper plot bunnnies for Caesar/Crassus/Pompey....mmm, triumvirate three-way.

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deerlike December 25 2003, 17:00:31 UTC

:DDD I love you, I really, truly love you. You wrote Vergil slash and for this you rock. Although, I must say, as sweet as Maecenas/Virgil is, I always personally fancied Virgil/Horace because of that ode the latter had written to the former where he called him...was it "friend of my heart"? I can't remember, I just know that we translated it last year in my AP Latin Poetry class, and d00d, even our teacher was all, "ahem, this does not, of course, imply anything." Hah, right. We believed her ( ... )

anima_mecanique December 25 2003, 23:29:23 UTC

Aww...I feel so loved. I'm glad you all liked my fic. I haven't written fanfiction in years, so I was kinda nervous...

Ahh, I remember that ode...the one he wrote about Vergil on the ship? "Bring him back from the shores of rocky Greece and save half my soul". I love that line. Terribly sad, too...Vergil died on that boat trip despite Horace's prayers. I even translated that poem in class...and here I didn't even think of that. Silly me.

I'm not sure whether it's mere gratitude or not...I guess you'd have to ask Vergil about that, wouldn't you? Horace too -- Maecenas gave Horace a farm. Hm, could be a love-triangle there, eh?

Actually, I've been thinking of Catallus, too...he has a couple poems hinting at some fiasco involving a boy, and I'm taking Catullus next semester, so you might very well get your angst...

deerlike December 26 2003, 20:01:57 UTC

It's really very lovely, so you needn't be nervous. (nervous like our friend Virgil, perhaps? mea culpa, being a geek. :P)

One wonders if there might not be unrequited love involved between Horace and Virgil, or if they were simply very close friends, and so on. I only wish that we knew that it was more than our speculation from whatever few sources we have. I think that ode was the sincerest, and most enjoyable thing to translate in our book of Odes by Horace; considering how everything else was either tongue-in-cheek sarcastic or thinly-disguised contempt (mostly for Augustus). It's almost like for Virgil, his comrade in arms, he could feel true emotion. But I may enjoy the poet-slash element a touch more than I'm willing to admit. (no, I did not slash The Inferno, whydoyouask? *sheepish ( ... )