After doing quite a lot of reading, I've come to the conclusion that the assassination of Julius Caesar may have, in fact, been a strategic suicide on Caesar's part, a reversal of the plot of Cassius Longinus and Junius Brutus. I believe that Caesar intended this suicide after some contemplation as a pragmatic method of creating an empire or ensuring lasting political power in Rome. I'll write up a full pseudo-essay later on, possibly tomorrow.
Let me start by saying that Nasuverse is a very complex setting to work with. It is full of background and interesting minutiae, the sort of world-building stuff I enjoy trying to piece together and make sense of in my spare time, so I can nerd-rage about inconsistencies and nonsensical elements until my heart is content. The problem with complex settings is, if you're on a budget and stuck in a specific timeframe, you can only show so much of that setting at any given time. So lots ...
Sometimes being a girl in a predominantly male fandom rather and truly sucks. Being a girl with a fair amount of talent in a predominantly male fandom with predominantly male writers is just as worse. It seems lately I'm just getting attacked wherever I go because either because I have no luck or because of my gender. For example we temp ban a member, who should have honestly been temp banded a while back, and I'm the one who gets called a Jackboot wearing Nazi on another forum. ...
So I haven't done one of these posts in awhile, and figured I'd touch back to it again with one of my personal favorite projects: Fellows, my RGU/FSN crossover that is woefully behind on updates because I swear to God school is trying to murder me. I'm not even through the first arc yet, but a lot of thought went just into the creation of the idea, so I thought it would be fun to ramble about that a bit. As I've probably made blindingly obvious in the past, I utterly adore RGU with ...
School is back in, and while my schedule is actually quite good to get some writing in, with my girlfriend back I've been spending most of my free time catching up with her. So Death and Justice keeps getting put on a backburner. I have the major images in my head written--the ones that got me to write this in the first place. Mainly filling in the spaces between these images. I3uster be warned, this will spoil what I know will be your favorite bit in this half of the story. The sound was sharp and quick, irritating, like taking two separate sounds of nails on ...