Santiago Cabrera as Aramis in The Musketeers (S01E01 “Friends and Enemies”)
#the moment of him blowing on the matchlock to keep it alight #oh we love incorporating the physicality of technology of the time #also: love a man in lace
everything everywhere all at once said “nothing matters but be kind anyway” and i havent been able to have a coherent thought since
everythingeverywhereallatonce:
When I read the script [for Everything Everywhere All At Once], I thought, this is something. Oh dear. No, this is something I’ve been waiting for for a long time. That’s going to give me the opportunity to show my fans, my family, my audience, what I’m capable of. To be funny, to be real, to be sad. Finally, somebody understood that I can do all these things.
Just got back from seeing Everything Everywhere All At Once and it was so unexpected and so heartwarming and so funny and so fucking good. Holy shit, that’s the best movie I’ve seen in ages. I spent it laughing and tearing up and being utterly surprised and delighted at every turn.
That’s it. That’s my full review.
You had to be quick because you were alone. If you get caught, that’s it. I get it. But you’re not alone anymore. Look. Look at me. You’re not alone. You’re not. You have a team. You have me. And I got you. I got you, girl.
Mesperyianae sacr(um) / pro sal(ute) et reditu / Q(uintus) Aemilii Tumblrini / T(itus) Blorbus Plinkon/ensis ex visu / d(onum) d(edit/edicavit)
Sacred to Mesperyian, for the safe return of Quintus Aemilius Tumblrinus. Titus Blorbus Plinkonensis dedicated this gift after a vision.
Mentions of Mesperyan in Picenum???? I thought Mesperyan’s cult only moved to Italy later on. This would point at an early adoption at least within the gens Blorba. It’s also interesting that she’s invoked here in her role as goddess of safe sea travel, an expansion on her original role and the reason why most of her initiates were sailors and merchants. Ships would often be captured by pirates for ransom, Mesperyan was believed to protect the people on the ships from torture and ruin and get them home safely. This made her a favourite with sailors, merchants and slaves. This is part of the reason why there are so few traces of her cult on land - most of the altars were in slave quarters or directly on ships. Seeing a dedication to her in a noble Roman house in this time period is very surprising. Two theories:
- the gens Blorba adopted Mesperyan indipendently after gaining knowledge of her during educational trips to Greece (I would be surprised as IIRC Blorbus Plinkonensis was a homus novus and therefore the probability of him going to Greece for education are scarce)
- the Blorbus family adopted the cult of Mesperyan from Greek merchant and sailors. We know that they were very active in the local Greek port of present-day Ancona. In fact I’m reasonably sure his parents made their money as amber??? merchants. Might not have been amber I am bad at Roman history I only know mythology. Either way they made their money thru commerce on the Adriatic and it would make sense for them to adopt a few Greek-adjacent cults. This theory makes more sense to me I think.
I would watch out for any mask-themed décor within the villa!
A piece I’ve been meditating over off and on this month. My head is full of skeletons recently <3
my vote for next season of Our Flag Means Death is pirate captains played by Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless.
