Mark Antony lucking out Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
 

all 18 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [S] 44 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Explanation: Mark Antony, one of Caesar's close allies, was considered crude and something of a boor by his fellow Romans, and never showed any hint of the genius - political, cultural, or military - that Caesar did. Yet after Caesar's death, Mark Antony managed to snare the extremely well-educated and cultured Egyptian queen Cleopatra first as his lover, then as his wife. One supposes she saw some manner of charm in him that his fellow Triumvirs lacked! Though Mark Antony was noted as having sexy legs, and wearing scandalously short tunics to show them off...

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    How short was scandalously short?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] [S] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Above the knees was standard-length. I suppose one must use one's imagination as to exactly how far above that Mark Antony liked to show off...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Where are the screenshots from, Pug?

  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] [S] 19 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Porco Rosso, if memory serves!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Damn! Gotta go see that and Ponyo!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Porco Rosso is my favourite ghibli film. A lot of it is just miyazaki drawing gorgeous airplanes in gorgeous sky-scapes. Plus there's a pig!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    There is a perplexingly large percentage of Japanese masters of art who make brilliant thought-provoking art as an excuse to draw their favourite vehicles. Mangakas doing faces in 4 lines and manually raytracing the reflections of the meticulously accurate headlights.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Akira Toriyama was able to draw maybe 2 unique humanoid faces, but that man could draw machines like no one else. Early Dragonball covers are mostly just the characters driving whatever car Toriyama was obsessing about that week.

  • source
  • parent
  • 1 comment in c/roughromanmemes@piefed.social view that post
    [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago

    Explanation: Mark Antony, one of Caesar's close allies, was considered crude and something of a boor by his fellow Romans, and never showed any hint of the genius - political, cultural, or military - that Caesar did. Yet after Caesar's death, Mark Antony managed to snare the extremely well-educated and cultured Egyptian queen Cleopatra first as his lover, then as his wife. One supposes she saw some manner of charm in him that his fellow Triumvirs lacked! Though Mark Antony was noted as having sexy legs, and wearing scandalously short tunics to show them off...

  • source