AnimaSinistra
Governor
Eternal peace, probably!If all your enemies are slain, peace will follow jk
Eternal peace, probably!If all your enemies are slain, peace will follow jk
You have not made enough enemies...and boredom will surely follow.If all your enemies are slain, peace will follow jk
So sorry to learn of the difficulties you and your wife have been dealing with, Jedakk. I hope things are getting back to normal for you both.
Thanks for continuing to provide us with these lovely images.
I also hope that you have been clear of the latest storm!
No tornado sightings!!
Good luck, I wouldn't know one end of a snake from the other!You're welcome! It has been a challenge. Now I have a neighbor who needs help too. Her husband is in the hospital, don't know if he'll make it. At this point it might be a relief for him if he didn't. Anyway, doing a little plumbing for her, then got a call from her to remove a snake from her kitchen. I'm the resident expert on snakes, so I'm the person neighbors call if they encounter one. Non-venomous, very docile variety, I caught it, moved it to a better environment. Then there was the dead rat that needed removal. Sounds like "Dirty Jobs", the TV show.
We fortunately missed that weather! The snowfall was incredible. I was looking at pictures of our granddaughter's house in Colorado Springs earlier. Nobody is going anywhere there for a while.
thimking of youGood luck, I wouldn't know one end of a snake from the other!
Yeah, that weather was pretty messy!
As you relate to us about you being the "resident snake guy", I wondered if the title of (one of) your ever enriching masterpiec "The Seprpent's Eye" was a wonderful example of serendipity. Truly masterful, if so!You're welcome! It has been a challenge. Now I have a neighbor who needs help too. Her husband is in the hospital, don't know if he'll make it. At this point it might be a relief for him if he didn't. Anyway, doing a little plumbing for her, then got a call from her to remove a snake from her kitchen. I'm the resident expert on snakes, so I'm the person neighbors call if they encounter one. Non-venomous, very docile variety, I caught it, moved it to a better environment. Then there was the dead rat that needed removal. Sounds like "Dirty Jobs", the TV show.
We fortunately missed that weather! The snowfall was incredible. I was looking at pictures of our granddaughter's house in Colorado Springs earlier. Nobody is going anywhere there for a while.
All I ever got asked to evict,were House Spiders....As you relate to us about you being the "resident snake guy", I wondered if the title of (one of) your ever enriching masterpiec "The Seprpent's Eye" was a wonderful example of serendipity. Truly masterful, if so!
I actually had not thought of that! Just a coincidence I guess. When I first wrote the story, I used the analogy of a moth to a flame - that which fascinates it also destroys it. The only time it was used was in the last chapter, when Balbus is talking to Julia Lepida about her slave, Sabina.As you relate to us about you being the "resident snake guy", I wondered if the title of (one of) your ever enriching masterpiec "The Seprpent's Eye" was a wonderful example of serendipity. Truly masterful, if so!
Certainly my own attention has always been riveted on Sabina’s body, in all her various iterations.You make 25 feel like a hundred. I can guarantee that i haven't counted them out, and I doubt many other people would have either.
Another masterful job!I know many of you are looking forward to seeing Sabina's feet nailed, but you're just going to have to wait. There will be several scenes of preparation as the executioner's helpers finish tying Sabina's feet in place, she lifts herself up on the ropes, the executioner probes her foot, places the nail and draws his hammer back, and strikes the first blow. It will take several blows to drive it down while Sabina struggles and writhes, all the while trying to avoid slipping down onto the cornu. Then there's another foot.
Each scene takes time to construct, ropes are a royal pain in the ass, and there are 25 people in these scenes, all of whom may change position and pose and have a different expression to reflect how they react to watching a naked slave girl being crucified.
In this scene, Ajax is just finishing tying Sabina's feet in place, pulling the rope tight. Antius is dropping to his knees next to the cross, getting into position to nail her feet as the crowd watches. Sabina stares in horror, her body twisting, struggling to put space between her and the executioner, but her feet are already bound tightly in place. Sabina narrates this part:
I saw movement to my right, looked down and saw the executioner kneeling down next to the base of my cross, getting into position to drive the two iron spikes through my feet. He held the hammer in his right hand and the two spikes in his left. I couldn’t take my eyes off of them, moaning in horror, desperately wanting to escape, twisting my body away from him helplessly.I felt the rough end of the cornu digging into my buttocks as I struggled, but it didn’t matter, nothing mattered except getting even a little distance between my body and the executioner. But my feet, already tightly bound to the cross, refused to budge.
Wondeful, jeddak ! It will be a great scene, the nailing of the Sabina's feet ! Thank you.I know many of you are looking forward to seeing Sabina's feet nailed, but you're just going to have to wait. There will be several scenes of preparation as the executioner's helpers finish tying Sabina's feet in place, she lifts herself up on the ropes, the executioner probes her foot, places the nail and draws his hammer back, and strikes the first blow. It will take several blows to drive it down while Sabina struggles and writhes, all the while trying to avoid slipping down onto the cornu. Then there's another foot.
Each scene takes time to construct, ropes are a royal pain in the ass, and there are 25 people in these scenes, all of whom may change position and pose and have a different expression to reflect how they react to watching a naked slave girl being crucified.
In this scene, Ajax is just finishing tying Sabina's feet in place, pulling the rope tight. Antius is dropping to his knees next to the cross, getting into position to nail her feet as the crowd watches. Sabina stares in horror, her body twisting, struggling to put space between her and the executioner, but her feet are already bound tightly in place. Sabina narrates this part:
I saw movement to my right, looked down and saw the executioner kneeling down next to the base of my cross, getting into position to drive the two iron spikes through my feet. He held the hammer in his right hand and the two spikes in his left. I couldn’t take my eyes off of them, moaning in horror, desperately wanting to escape, twisting my body away from him helplessly.I felt the rough end of the cornu digging into my buttocks as I struggled, but it didn’t matter, nothing mattered except getting even a little distance between my body and the executioner. But my feet, already tightly bound to the cross, refused to budge.
There are a couple of views where I tried to squeeze nearly all of them in. There should be 21 of them visible in this view:You make 25 feel like a hundred. I can guarantee that i haven't counted them out, and I doubt many other people would have either. I absolutely respect your decision to bring to live a crucifixion by painstakingly crafting ever single detail of the process, solving problems like you were the carpenter or executioner that was really there. Take your time, some of us know how to relax and drink in all of the detail!