• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    44·
    2 days 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…

        • Hegar@fedia.io
          12·
          2 days ago

          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!

          • Gathorall@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            2 days ago

            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.

            • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7·
              2 days 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.

            • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
              7·
              2 days ago

              Akira Toriyama drew some badass vehicles especially in the OG Dragon Ball series. Some of the filler pages between chapters or volume covers were so damn cool.

            • Hegar@fedia.io
              6·
              2 days ago

              The motorbikes in akira were incredible, i still only use motorbikes in cyberpunk 2077 because of that.