SPQR Blues part CX
Monday, 24 August 2009 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I say it's still the 24th of August.
Today is the 1930th anniversary of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Some scholars have disputed the date, placing the eruption in September instead. In support of September: jars of new autumn wine, people wearing heavier clothing, and a coin that sort of looks like it was minted that month. In support of August: an eyewitness account with a fairly clear date, and jars of summer fish-pickle sauce.
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Date: 2009-08-25 07:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 09:11 pm (UTC)New wine...?
Date: 2009-08-26 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 07:39 am (UTC)And happy anniversary, indeed...
(Please don't let the baby be born a slave, please...)
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Date: 2009-08-25 08:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 07:58 am (UTC)(Though her nose appears to be un-inked in the second panel.)
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Date: 2009-08-25 08:31 am (UTC)I was too sleepy to trust myself to ink her nose tonight. I think she came out better in panel 2 than panel 4 (and in panel 3, it's hard to say :) ). I did a little Photoshop tweaking to make it look inked.
Also, thank you muchly for the compliment. I try to draw a variety of real, sexy women. (Well, and also some mean, unpleasant ones.)
Wait a minute... why are we awake at this crazy hour? I really should try to be asleep when the local skunk familt makes their nightly commute past the window...
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:14 am (UTC)Even C. Themis would be considered more attractive and likable if she were a lot nicer in personality and behavior instead of being nasty and having a sour expression / disposition. ^^ (Alas, for all her self-assurances of her "loveliness", she hasn't learned that inner intentions, compassion, and behavior toward others are the true secret to beauty....)
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 08:04 am (UTC)(I hope Felix and Menander are well out of there.)
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 12:49 pm (UTC)It's Volcano Day! As the Doctor would say.
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Date: 2009-08-26 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-26 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-27 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 01:53 pm (UTC)devouredburied . . .That said, lovely effects for the rumbling!
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 02:19 pm (UTC)::ambles back to the salt mine::
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Date: 2009-08-26 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-26 12:57 am (UTC)::decides not to::
Refuting August
Date: 2009-08-25 06:51 pm (UTC)1) Eyewitness memories can be unreliable, especially when *shock and awe* are part of the memory chain;even not-there-in-person memory could have slipped because of the overwhelming trauma and PTSD
2) Summer fish-pickle sauce could be the last of the summer batch finished while the new autum wine had just been started
3) (and most important!) September 24 is my birthday and I want it for a birthday present! (Please! @;>)
Re: Refuting August
Date: 2009-08-26 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 06:59 pm (UTC)Oh my. Lovely panels, lovely details.
Do I need to hook speakers up to the computer in case you start adding Sensurround to your comic? I normally web with sound off. (grin)
Dr. Phil
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Date: 2009-08-26 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 09:14 pm (UTC)LOVE the earthshake effect! Nice!
And yes you draw sexay womens. You know I've eyed Spendi and Seanti this whole time *wink*
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Date: 2009-08-26 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 11:45 pm (UTC)Anyway, it's all wishful thinking... But I certainly hope they get away fast enough to give them the chance to claim the papers buried under several feet of lava clearly state that she was a free woman the moment she gave birth to her child.
Oh, and totally unrelated, but I'm still in love with Justa's hair, just so that you know *stares at pretty curls in panel 1*
Nemo
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Date: 2009-08-26 12:47 am (UTC)My own hair has been a complete disaster all summer, but at least I can put some stylish hairdos in the comic :P
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Date: 2009-08-26 11:58 pm (UTC)Nemo
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Date: 2009-08-26 01:18 am (UTC)In which case I hope nosy Domitian, who ordered her not to be freed, does not get wind of this. (Too bad he doesn't end up under the lava himself.) Of course, when he gave the order, he wasn't emperor YET... (Hey, Titus! Do NOT trust your brother!!)
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Date: 2009-08-26 11:56 pm (UTC)Or at least I hope so. I beg our beloved author to make it happen like that. Pretty please? I'll send some handy jars of wine?
Nemo
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Date: 2009-08-26 04:11 am (UTC)*looks on bright side*
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Date: 2009-08-28 10:22 am (UTC)Or, if you must disappear, just tell us and we'll amuse each other by, I dunno, having another baby-naming contest. Or placing bets on when the baby will be born (in real time, not Herc-time). Or imagining other phrases for "Don't worry -- it's just . . ."
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Date: 2009-09-08 05:01 am (UTC)Also, I am back :)
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Date: 2009-08-29 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-29 11:19 pm (UTC)But the suspense, it is a-killin' me... O.O
ETA on 9/07: I see Spendusa is observing Labor Day by being in labor... :p
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Date: 2009-09-08 05:02 am (UTC)I'd better get back to her part of the story tomorrow, or feel her wrath...