This was Caracalla (bust and reconstruction)
And this was Geta (bust and reconstruction)
The Severans were from Carthage and likely had a North African look not different from modern day Tunisians, on the reconstruction Geta is too dark skinned but Caracalla is about right. Caracalla did wear a blonde wig while on his campaigns on Germania but it probably looked very uncanny on him.
Meanwhile on Ridley Scott slop
The trailer is hilarious! Rap music, Kang merchant Denzel working to destroy the Roman Empire, two ginger gay twinks as villains. I was half-expecting the Rock showing up with Vin Diesel !nooticers
@Aevann can this get a pin please
Hollywood seems keen on erasing North Africans and replace them with either pasty Bongs or Kangz.
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I have a bunch of Roman coins (slowly trying to get one for every emperor) and I keep Geta and Caracalla in the same dirty sleeve without the usual explanatory insert for who the emperor in question was because I want them to make peace and they're going to stay in there together until they learn !commenters
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This man thinks about rome every day
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i actually used to regularly tism out about rome but the whole tiktok trend made me ashamed of it and now i never do
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What a little b-word you are
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Lol you let a TikTok trend affect your life.
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NO
YOU CAN'T ADJUST YOUR SOCIAL BEHAVIOR BASED ON SOCIAL MORES AND EXPECTATIONS NO NO NO 
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I don't think anyone has social expectations from a closeted roman coin collector.
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You can be ashamed, but you can never hide from the autism deep within you. The autism is so great that even the gods fear it... and the neurodivergents fear us!
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Absolutely horrid article for anyone interested
https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/men-think-about-rome-almost-every-day-thats-a-problem-but-it-doesn-t-have-to-be-6b5a2393dcbe
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Has there ever been a medium article worth a click? Substack too, not wasting my time with pathetic, wannabe journos.
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A few good ones about the social media autism goyslop algorithm.
Like weird shit on youtube. Or how phones are causing brainrot in the kids. That type of thing.
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Where'd you buy real ones at?
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I hate the generic portrayal of Roman emperors as effeminate s*x freak sadists. Yes, some were. However, many were charismatic and capable generals that commanded the loyalties of their legions and put filthy fricking politicians and court schemers to the sword upon taking power.
Of course, the ancient deep court would claw them back into corruption within a couple years anyway.
They absolutely were not filthy cumskin Krauts though
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They believe almost every emperor was Caligula and Elagabalus. Commodus is another overdone emperor, will we ever get Hadrian adapted into the screens? Or Titus/Vespasian in some kino about the Jewish Revolt? Septimius Severus and Diocletian are also super underrated.
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Lmao you think this kind of true kino is ever getting made in Hollywood?
They're still bitter !jidf 
https://x.com/JewishWonk/status/1564615611686199300
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They can portray them as "villains", it can still be kino and it will be a success in the Middle East.
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He was a Good Emperor!
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Jews are like all Mediterranean and middle easterners in that they never forget their grudges.
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Even if I was this type of cringy hardcore Zionist I still wouldn't do this stuff because it's just embarrassing man
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nero would work too
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There's a show in production at the moment
https://ilbegroup.com/ilbe-marguerite-yourcenars-memoirs-of-hadrian-becomes-a-tv-series/
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Funny how this is one of the most respectful fictional portrayals of an Emperor, even though he is also a villain.
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THIS NEIGHBOR GOT A AAAH PARSLEY WREATH
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God turned Romans into Italians as punishment for crucifying Christ
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I'd much rather hang out with these two again
G2 is just gonna be G1, but with a rhino.
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!historychads best Roman era show ever made. I can't believe it got cancelled
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They should have just stuck with the actual history. Instead, the show runners thought it needed to be peppered with ridiculous side quests and modern'ish melodrama.
Otherwise, I loved it. The acting was great all around--and especially so where Ray Stevenson was concerned. He crushed it. RIP, Pullo.
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If season 2 hadn't been rushed and split into more episodes it would be remembered up there with Deadwood and The Wire.
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Daddy Diesel can show up wherever and whenever he wants.
Keep his name out of your fricking filthy mouth!
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It's not wokeshit if I like the actor's body of work
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I disagree.
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it's also not wokeshit if I am attracted to the actresses
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Yall neighbors should know by now.
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Yeah I'm fine with most of the individual things in the Gladiator 2 trailer but song just feels slapped on and cheapens the vibe. Moving on from Hans Zimmer was going to be tough but moving to pop music wasn't the way to go. Denzel's character could be alright, but from the trailer it seems a little over the top and not as cunning as they could have made him.
Also I'm getting of tired of Pedro Pascal and I skipped a bunch of his recent stuff.
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good god the amount of people losing their shit over how totally cool it was to use that rap song in the trailer on twitter yesterday was the worst
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They used a rap song in a gladiator show?
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The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan
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The character that Denzel is playing is a former slave turned arms dealer.
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How else will anyone know that they are the bad guys unless they are the whitest people in the movie?
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The real question is If three accurately portrayed actors were shown over lyre music, would it have been any better? It would still be a Ridley Slop production with the same Assistant Director, Cinematographer, Executive Producers too Key Grip.
@ObamaBinLaden love sucking peepee
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No because the casting is a symptom of Scott's inability to produce a good film like he could in the past.
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Pizzashill and ShreddedManlet enter the arena while carp watches over them as Vivaldi's ancestors blast flute and lyre music. The crowd chants for blood. ShreddedManlet is baying for blood but pizza keeps him at bay with his BO while delivering fiery speeches about the downsides of a gladiatorial system.
Slowly the crowd starts listening to him. A lady (poj) draped in white jumps over the fences & femcels to kiss him. She's dragged away to be banished forever to the Britannica islands. The crowd is now chanting PIZZA! PIZZA! (that's how Italy invented Pizza btw). Someone (
@kaamrev or 
@sneedman , hotly debated among historians) picks up a book and hurls it at the fish emperor and all heck breaks loose. Chaos everywhere. The Praetorian guards captures the two saffer troublemakers and slays them on the spot (that's why south africa is called praetoria btw) but this enrages the crowd more. They climb over and drag the king down.
Down with the Emperor! Long live Pizza!!
Pizza still hasn't finished delivering his opening sentence when he's being crowned.
True story.
The great chronicler 
@nuclearshill was there to record it all in one of the finest literary works of ancient Rome: The Seasoning of Pizza. (Which became the inspiration for another Italian legend almost a millennia later when Vivaldi composed his Seasons)
@ObamaBinLaden love sucking peepee
!bookworms
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"PICKS UP A BOOK AND GIRLS IT AT THE FISH EMPEROR "
wat
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You could have done crack instead of this shit
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The BBC had Septimus Severus listed as a black history figure, could probably have decent bait asking why his sons aren't portrayed as black on reddit.
Decry it as whitewashing and you could probably get multiple groups seething with the same bait.
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