day 28: ANCESTOR (a day late)

Amarantus, an enslaved person from birth, explains to Grata, a British enslaved person new to the house, some Roman customs concerning ancestors...

(A new little Amarantus illo, with permission from )

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if you like

✪ messy interconnected queer casts
✪ platonic relationships taken seriously
✪ parent characters
✪ close up art of hands
✪ disaster women
✪ wife guys with poor taste in wives
✪ c h o i c e s that m a t t e r

Amarantus will be for you

https://t.co/ZhbGtNh5Rs https://t.co/W1Gi90imMW

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The old man, begging with his dog, is also from the Julia Felix frescos, and he became a recurring background figure in the book - see if you can spot him in your copy of ‘Amarantus and his Neighbourhood’!

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Happy Birthday to the wonderful Dr Sophie Hay 🥳
aka Sophe from created by based on Dr Hay’s excavations at Pompeii, and lovingly drawn by me ❤️

Have a lovely day matey!

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So I absolutely did NOT steal the opening line 'Hey, Big Nose!' from Monty Python, (tho I'm not against the odd tribute to my fave books & films) 😁 Graffiti shows Pompeian freedman Amarantus with a giant schnozz!

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A few elements that went into the making of one of the many characters in our new novel, Amarantus & his Neighbourhood. Blond Quintus Mestrius Maximus (circled) perfumer & undertaker has pride of place on the fab cover, standing next to (Note his ring stamp!)

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… then whose Bar of Amarantus excavations have inspired something like 60 illustrations in the upcoming project!

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Amarantus is an in-development visual novel about trysts, trust & treason.

😚date your friends
💘wingman your friends
🖤screw your friends over
🗡rid your realm of its tyrannical ruler
🤞make it out of this one alive

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Pre-Saturnalia Update: Bellum Sacrum Olympian Colouring Books and tees, and the Amarantus Project! Open the link for info and a Saturnalia surprise! https://t.co/hvnpN54D8d

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Thanks to for sending us this fabulous fresco of Roman scaffolding from the 4th century AD. We are still having so much fun working on the 😊 https://t.co/eZturqBRrg

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day 5 -- In Battle.

Kistra is a healer, but as a Priestess of The Moon, she can hold her own with a weapon. This is her ancient bow, Amarantus -- "the flower that never fades".

As old as she is, she has never faded; only gone dormant, waiting to blossom again.

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For all the dinner party scenes in our a nice red-figure scene showing a youth (probably a slave) carrying a couch and table to the symposium. This pelike was made in Athens, found in Sicily & now lives in . Also some boys drawing wine.

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Excited to share passages from the with year 8 girls at today... and astonished by the excellent 'origin story' we came up with for 'Fabia Fortunata, the Snooty Beauty'. I can't wait to read some samples! 😍 (illustration by )

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