aka @lindaistoooldfortiktok was the first to wade into the mire to defend my sterling reputation. I appreciated her efforts, but as those early days wore on, she saw how it affected me. “Maybe it would be best for you to delete the video.” At that point, I had 28,000 views....
A further thought is whether it’s sensible to pretend to be an emperor who, despite that sense of humour, had a reputation as somewhat unpredictable and kinda ruthless. Isn’t it actually more likely that Martial shared the poem with Domitian (we have evidence that this happened in poem 1...
When you’re the little brother and your big brother perennially gets way more attention than you, earns more money, spends it more extravagantly, is infinitely more successful, and has a reputation that far exceeds yours, yeah, you’re going to get pissy every time they’re brought up. Me...