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ok I don't think I asked first time around. I love these old pics, most of them are familiar to me, but where did #7 and #8 come from, please? I'd love to know!

Some in my backlog, I'm not big on breast binding but some might be, nice girl anyway.

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Absolutely true. The first two are killing me :firedevil:.
 
Here's a lovely image Mahashiva's done of me on DevArt -

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It's 'Eulalia and the mutineers' - rebellious legionaries are using me as a human shield
against the forces loyal to the Tribune - who happens to be my father....
Thank you for reposting this, Eul! Looks like your ordeal is far from over yet, as it turned out: Spartacus.jpg

Shortly after she was rescued from the hands of the mutineers, Eulalia found herself in trouble again, this time together with her sister Barbaria, when the rebel forces of Spartacus occupied their hometown of Rhegium. Awe-stricken by their breathtaking beauty, the rebel leader decided to take both of them as his consorts de camp. Neither Eulalia nor Barbaria was a willing participant in the events that followed, but Spartacus proved to be very persuasive.

(https://www.deviantart.com/mahashiva001/art/Eulalia-Barbaria-and-Spartacus-770704696)

Stay tuned for further development in the complex relationship among Eulalia, Barbaria, and our hero Sparty. As we all know 2000 years later, things did not work out very well among them... :sisi1
 
Thank you for reposting this, Eul! Looks like your ordeal is far from over yet, as it turned out: View attachment 641283

Shortly after she was rescued from the hands of the mutineers, Eulalia found herself in trouble again, this time together with her sister Barbaria, when the rebel forces of Spartacus occupied their hometown of Rhegium. Awe-stricken by their breathtaking beauty, the rebel leader decided to take both of them as his consorts de camp. Neither Eulalia nor Barbaria was a willing participant in the events that followed, but Spartacus proved to be very persuasive.

(https://www.deviantart.com/mahashiva001/art/Eulalia-Barbaria-and-Spartacus-770704696)

Stay tuned for further development in the complex relationship among Eulalia, Barbaria, and our hero Sparty. As we all know 2000 years later, things did not work out very well among them... :sisi1

Uh oh!!! :confused::eek::facepalm:
 
Thank you for reposting this, Eul! Looks like your ordeal is far from over yet, as it turned out: View attachment 641283

Shortly after she was rescued from the hands of the mutineers, Eulalia found herself in trouble again, this time together with her sister Barbaria, when the rebel forces of Spartacus occupied their hometown of Rhegium. Awe-stricken by their breathtaking beauty, the rebel leader decided to take both of them as his consorts de camp. Neither Eulalia nor Barbaria was a willing participant in the events that followed, but Spartacus proved to be very persuasive.

(https://www.deviantart.com/mahashiva001/art/Eulalia-Barbaria-and-Spartacus-770704696)

Stay tuned for further development in the complex relationship among Eulalia, Barbaria, and our hero Sparty. As we all know 2000 years later, things did not work out very well among them... :sisi1

I look forward to what your imagination has in store for Eulalia-Barbaria-and-Spartacus :)
 
And here is one that features Yupar: Judea.jpg

One of the lesser-known pre-Christian prophets in Judea, Yupar was a slavegirl from the Far East who was crucified by the Romans a few years before Jesus of Nazareth. Although she receives little recognition from mainstream Christians today, St. Yupar remains one of the most prominent theological figures to the followers of a small but highly active sect--or cult, according to some--known as the United Fantastic Brethren in SkatingJesus.

(https://www.deviantart.com/mahashiva001/art/St-Yupar-of-Jericho-768924846)
 
Another recent pic that incorporates our favorite apparatus, this one starring Berseh, a popular member on DeviantArt: Rome Mkt X.jpg

Berseh never thought she would see Anghus again, let alone under these conditions. The last time they were with each other, she was still the "princess" of the Pictones, and he was her father's most capable and best trusted young warrior. It was her rejection of his courtship, very much to the dismay of her father, that caused him to go into self-imposed exile. Now, five years later, they were suddenly in each other's sight again--he the deputy commander of the local Roman garrison, and she a lowly slave being punished in the marketplace.

(https://www.deviantart.com/mahashiva001/art/Berseh-s-Reunion-769788627)

Hope y'all will enjoy these! :cunaooooo:
 
I look forward to what your imagination has in store for Eulalia-Barbaria-and-Spartacus :)

Here we go...straight out of the oven! Kind of a sneak preview for my fellow cross-lovers; I'll probably be doing some more fine-tuning on it before posting it on DeviantArt. But first of all, many thanks to our friend Bobinder for helping me get rid of some pesky scan lines in the background photo (a TV screenshot, really)! I have no idea how he did it--apparently something very high-tech that involved the mathematical theories of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. :eyepop:

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For their brief "collaboration" with Spartacus, Barbaria and Eulalia ended up paying a heavy price a few months later. After the final defeat of Spartacus' army in the Battle of the Silarius River, they became a part of the gruesome spectacle that Marcus Licinius Crassus set up along the Appian Way, where more than 6,000 of the captured rebels were crucified.

After four days of unspeakable suffering on the cross, it was reported, Barbaria laid a bitter curse on Rome in her dying breath. According to historian Bobbius Nearledus Cruciatus, her last words were: "Woe onto thee, Rome! Thou that hast failed to defend thy mothers, sisters and daughters, and art now punishing them for failing to defend themselves!"

It would take more than 500 years, but eventually Barbaria and Eulalia were able to exact their revenge on Rome. In the 5th century A.D., the descendants of Barbaria and their followers, known historically as the Barbarians, overran the Western Roman Empire and repeatedly sacked the city, finally abolishing the empire in the year 476.
 
After four days of unspeakable suffering on the cross, it was reported, Barbaria laid a bitter curse on Rome in her dying breath. According to historian Bobbius Nearledus Cruciatus, her last words were: "Woe onto thee, Rome! Thou that hast failed to defend thy mothers, sisters and daughters, and art now punishing them for failing to defend themselves!"

I always thought I had a way with words ... too bad they were spoken with a raspy pain-racked voice while nailed naked to a wooden cross somewhere along the Appian Way. :confused:

Nice artwork!!!!!

The lighting is at once truly spectacular and foreboding.
 
I always thought I had a way with words ... too bad they were spoken with a raspy pain-racked voice while nailed naked to a wooden cross somewhere along the Appian Way. :confused:

Nice artwork!!!!!

The lighting is at once truly spectacular and foreboding.

"Raspy pain-racked voice while nailed naked to a wooden cross somewhere along the Appian Way"...now that sounds like a very sexy voice to me. :sisi3:

Thanks for the comments, Barb!
 
But first of all, many thanks to our friend Bobinder for helping me get rid of some pesky scan lines in the background photo (a TV screenshot, really)! I have no idea how he did it--apparently something very high-tech that involved the mathematical theories of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. :eyepop:
Aww, it was nothing - just a little selective Gaussian Blur in Photoshop.
And I do like a challenge! :D

As others have observed, you have a flair for combining suitable components and lighting, producing some very convincing and atmospheric images.

Thanks for posting your manips here - I also enjoy the little narrative explanations.
Have you thought of posting in Eul's thread, Short Crux stories
- I am sure they will be well received. :)
 
Thank you for reposting this, Eul! Looks like your ordeal is far from over yet, as it turned out: View attachment 641283

Shortly after she was rescued from the hands of the mutineers, Eulalia found herself in trouble again, this time together with her sister Barbaria, when the rebel forces of Spartacus occupied their hometown of Rhegium. Awe-stricken by their breathtaking beauty, the rebel leader decided to take both of them as his consorts de camp. Neither Eulalia nor Barbaria was a willing participant in the events that followed, but Spartacus proved to be very persuasive.

(https://www.deviantart.com/mahashiva001/art/Eulalia-Barbaria-and-Spartacus-770704696)

Stay tuned for further development in the complex relationship among Eulalia, Barbaria, and our hero Sparty. As we all know 2000 years later, things did not work out very well among them... :sisi1

eul's submissive demeanour is unsettling for Spartacus, not what he's used to - but it's only arousing his lust and fury!
 
Barbaria laid a bitter curse on Rome in her dying breath. According to historian Bobbius Nearledus Cruciatus, her last words were: "Woe onto thee, Rome! Thou that hast failed to defend thy mothers, sisters and daughters, and art now punishing them for failing to defend themselves!"

And Eulalia died happily, having managed to smuggle an ablative absolute into her translation of Barbaria's defiant dying words:
'Vae tibi Roma! Matres sororesque etiamque filias tuas defendere defecisti, nunc et eis se defendere deficientis punies' :)
 
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And Eulalia died happily, having managed to smuggle an ablative absolute into her translation of Barbaria's defiant dying words:
'Vae tibi Roma! Matres sororesque etiamque filias tuas defendere defecisti, nunc et eas se defendere deficientis punies' :)

Whooooohooooo! We die happily now!
 
And Eulalia died happily, having managed to smuggle an ablative absolute into her translation of Barbaria's defiant dying words:
'Vae tibi Roma! Matres sororesque etiamque filias tuas defendere defecisti, nunc et eas se defendere deficientis punies' :)

Eul is the only person I know who has ablative absolutes on her bucket list! :rolleyes:

In case you're interested:

An ablative absolute is a construction in Latin and Oscan and Umbrian in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

Now you know :confused:
 
Eul is the only person I know who has ablative absolutes on her bucket list! :rolleyes:

In case you're interested:

An ablative absolute is a construction in Latin and Oscan and Umbrian in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

Now you know :confused:

CF is so educational! Just think of all the things we learn here! What a place!
 
Eul is the only person I know who has ablative absolutes on her bucket list! :rolleyes:

In case you're interested:

An ablative absolute is a construction in Latin and Oscan and Umbrian in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

Now you know :confused:
I humbly beg to register a slight dissent. While the linguistic skills that Eul possesses are truly remarkable (as every man who has ever received a blo...perhaps I digress!) However, every Latin scholar who plowed painfully through the middle books of Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico, learned to despise his over-use of AAs (I think it drove some of us to AA). How would you like to read sentence after sentence which began: Hīs verbīs dictīs, Caesar discēdit. "With these word having been said, Caesar departs." I humbly HATE!!!!!!! ablative absolutes.:firedevil::firedevil:
 
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