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This new episode of The Lion & The Owl marks the start of the Comum Arc!!
Three new characters are introduced in this one, and I think you’ll enjoy them. Each has their own ‘big secret’ throughout the arc, and I’m excited to tell their story.
Three new characters are introduced in this one, and I think you’ll enjoy them. Each has their own ‘big secret’ throughout the arc, and I’m excited to tell their story.
I'm editing the next chapter (releasing 4/20) and it's mostly Aedan stuck in a wagon (locked up after his bullshit in Mediolanum) riding into the Servii lands. He rifles through the goods and finds some of Skipio's keepsakes. LOL!
I give up posting journals here - this interface is awful XD
Here a link to the post: https://gunsguysyaoi.blog/2024/04/05/worldbuilding-fun-with-tablets/
Here a link to the post: https://gunsguysyaoi.blog/2024/04/05/worldbuilding-fun-with-tablets/
The final installment of the Honeymoon Arc is up, and it's been a ride. Some notes: The Romans didn't call it Lake Como—it's Lario/a—and they're just hours away from it. Will edit later once my editorial-brain isn't blind to the narrative.
There's a heterosexual scene that some may find offensive, but this is still an m|m series—and as always, Luna is the hero of this story.
There's a heterosexual scene that some may find offensive, but this is still an m|m series—and as always, Luna is the hero of this story.
NEW EPISODE - 29th!
Sorry for the delay, I've had client projects to finish.
Sorry for the delay, I've had client projects to finish.
I learned Romans did not number days sequentially from the 1st of the month to the last. They counted back from the 3 points of the month:
+ the Nones (7th some months/9th others)
+ the Ides (15th)
+ the Kalends (1st of the following month.)
(There were only 10 months during the Republic)
Martius (March): Mars, the god of war - start of the agricultural season.
Aprilis (April): The opening month - when flowers in spring bloom.
Maius (May): Month of Maia, the earth goddess - growth and fertility.
Junius (June): Juno's month, the goddess of marriage (and women.)
Quintilis (July): The fifth month (renamed later in honor of Julius Caesar.)
Sextilis (August): The sixth month (renamed in honor of Augustus Caesar.)
September: The seventh month.
October: The eighth month.
November: The ninth month.
December: The tenth month.
I've decided to open this last chapter of the Honeymoon arc with a letter from Planus to Niko (the Serverii family cook).
He writes his letter and the date appears as the 3rd day before the Kalends of November [the day they landed in Genua.]
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Caesar Gaius Planus
III Kal. Nov.
Niko, my eyes and ears in the Servian hearth, your letter reached me on the Ides of Sextilis just four days before Imperator Caesar put us on the Bucarati, bound for home (...)
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The Month of Honey began on (August) 19th - and now Skipio and the boys are outside Mediolanum in time for the Plebeian Games, a November festival that runs from the 4th to the 17th.
Their arrival is strategic, coinciding with the annual March of the Equites - when cities like Mediolanum parade their new horsemen graduates through town on the second day of the festival. Skipio is too occupied with his infiltration of that parade to see that Aedan is losing it emotionally - whatever will poor Looir do now??
+ the Nones (7th some months/9th others)
+ the Ides (15th)
+ the Kalends (1st of the following month.)
(There were only 10 months during the Republic)
Martius (March): Mars, the god of war - start of the agricultural season.
Aprilis (April): The opening month - when flowers in spring bloom.
Maius (May): Month of Maia, the earth goddess - growth and fertility.
Junius (June): Juno's month, the goddess of marriage (and women.)
Quintilis (July): The fifth month (renamed later in honor of Julius Caesar.)
Sextilis (August): The sixth month (renamed in honor of Augustus Caesar.)
September: The seventh month.
October: The eighth month.
November: The ninth month.
December: The tenth month.
I've decided to open this last chapter of the Honeymoon arc with a letter from Planus to Niko (the Serverii family cook).
He writes his letter and the date appears as the 3rd day before the Kalends of November [the day they landed in Genua.]
====
Caesar Gaius Planus
III Kal. Nov.
Niko, my eyes and ears in the Servian hearth, your letter reached me on the Ides of Sextilis just four days before Imperator Caesar put us on the Bucarati, bound for home (...)
====
The Month of Honey began on (August) 19th - and now Skipio and the boys are outside Mediolanum in time for the Plebeian Games, a November festival that runs from the 4th to the 17th.
Their arrival is strategic, coinciding with the annual March of the Equites - when cities like Mediolanum parade their new horsemen graduates through town on the second day of the festival. Skipio is too occupied with his infiltration of that parade to see that Aedan is losing it emotionally - whatever will poor Looir do now??
Uploaded the penultimate chapter of the honeymoon arc - one left to go before we meet these characters!
https://tapas.io/episode/3119778
https://tapas.io/episode/3119785
Still steadily editing old chapters - you'll know they've been refreshed when you see the 'will clean up later' note removed. (^_-)
https://tapas.io/episode/3119778
https://tapas.io/episode/3119785
Still steadily editing old chapters - you'll know they've been refreshed when you see the 'will clean up later' note removed. (^_-)
Trying to figure out why my finished chapters weren't lining up with my outline - which is the norm for Tapas since they make me split chapters up, but there was a legit issue and I fixed it.
Nothing new posted today, just some title reissues.
Nothing new posted today, just some title reissues.
I’ve put off starting the final installment of The Honeymoon Arc until Monday. I’ve been steadily editing older chapters until I figure out how to untangle the knots. A lot is happening—the whole senate commandeering the garrisons throughout Trans and Cisalpine Gaul doesn’t make coming home that simple for Skipio and his 1000 men.
Aedan sniffs out some Senate loyalists among the ranks, all four lancers formally commanded by Castor—this should be interesting. One aspect I’m dedicated to exploring is Aedan being overwhelmed by ‘Rome.’
The sheer number of people and places – Mediolanum and its walls (built during Rome’s issues with Carthage) and how this world never sleeps (carts and trade moving at night, and people and commerce by day). Brittania wasn’t a backward world, but they’ve got nothing on the Roman social machine.
Does he try to run away? You bet your ass he does – but will he make it back to Brittania?
Aedan sniffs out some Senate loyalists among the ranks, all four lancers formally commanded by Castor—this should be interesting. One aspect I’m dedicated to exploring is Aedan being overwhelmed by ‘Rome.’
The sheer number of people and places – Mediolanum and its walls (built during Rome’s issues with Carthage) and how this world never sleeps (carts and trade moving at night, and people and commerce by day). Brittania wasn’t a backward world, but they’ve got nothing on the Roman social machine.
Does he try to run away? You bet your ass he does – but will he make it back to Brittania?