Uh Oh

[przed]

So one thing that happened at MediaWest this year was a little conversation I had with m. butterfly, one of my best friends, fannish and otherwise. She'd been trying to pimp everyone we talked to into the Spartacus fandom, and was bemoaning the fact that while I'd managed to suck her into a few of my fandoms (Pros and TT chief among them), she'd never successfully managed to get me into any of hers.

As a joke, I said "Well, I could write you a Take That/Spartacus crossover."

Except apparently my muse didn't realize I was joking and immediately started pointing out how awesome Howard would be as a gladiator, and how great a Roman Jason would be, and wouldn't Markie make a cute little slave boy.

Then yesterday I wrote the first scene.

I now have 650 words of TT/Spartacus slash, and need to find time to watch all of Spartacus, and do extra research on Spartacus' rebellion and the era of Roman life in general so I can write the rest of what will no doubt turn out to be another fucking epic.

And if anyone has any brilliant ideas about how I can turn Howard into a Roman gladiator name, I'd appreciate it. (I don't think Howardus is going to cut it. *g*)

::headdesk::

Comments

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Sure -- though if you actually want to make the senator former-owner a governor (proconsul) he will possibly have had to be consul first (I think it depends on the province). And that means you can actually make him a real person if you want since we know who all the consuls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_consuls) were.)

Even if he stays in Italy he can pick up Latin, Greek, probably Oscan and Umbrian, Etruscan if it's not dead yet (and I don't think it is). Not sure about the prevalence of Gaulish outside Gaul. You probably can't appoint the owner governor of Egypt, because Egypt had special rules (and was not a province until Augustus, I don't think)... so Egyptian's out...