Ahahaha okay so for this person who has only met these people these post, basically, I didn't think (or realize?) the text was out of character for Maximian, exactly -- like, I think in the world of the AU he DID miss Diocletan. But I do think sending an email like that would have been out of character, because that would have been, like, communication! Which is where our girls step in :D
(I think the Diocletian who bought "those were the days" from Maximian is the same Diocletian who let Galerius make the succession arrangements, i.e. no one can be "on" all the time. :P)
I mean, in this AU the Diocletian who let Galerius make the succession arrangements was arguably the one who was boffing him, which honestly I think is brilliant on the part of the writer, it posits a reason for him making those not-great decisions, and at the same time gives Maximian a motivation as well for suddenly throwing his weight behind Maxentius.
My reading of the AU is that explicit Diocletan/Maximian (in AU) was how Maximian got talked into retirement in the first place (per Lactantius's blog), then post-retirement, there MAY have been some sort of Diocletian/Galerius hijinks, but regardless of whether anything DID happen (which I think it probably did, because as Maximian says, Diocletian never denied it! Now, perhaps, like we think may have been the case with Fritz and Fredersdorf, he maybe didn't do much, but emotional affair, sure!) Maximian thought something happened, which is how he decided yeah screw this retirement for Diocletan thing! And then both of them are too mad at each other to take the first step, but once Theodora/Fausta do, they're both like "...yeah, I miss you :( "
(But the great thing here is that some of my evidence is from Lactantius' blog, and both you and Selena would be the first to tell me that Lactantius can't be trusted as far as one could throw him... ;) )
ETA: I wanted to reply to this as well: Normally I just paste the liveblog reaction into the box and that is my comment, but this time I decided to try cobbling together the reactions into something resembling a normal-person comment.
This is basically what I do as well :) So, like, if one was wondering what was in that liveblog mentioned in I waited until she woke up to read it so I could liveblog my reactions at her in our time-honored Yuletide tradition (she did hers at me yesterday), it basically became my "Prussian Doll" comments, with more explanatory remarks added :)
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Re: Diocletian/Maximian fandom primer
Date: 2023-01-01 04:40 am (UTC)(I think the Diocletian who bought "those were the days" from Maximian is the same Diocletian who let Galerius make the succession arrangements, i.e. no one can be "on" all the time. :P)
I mean, in this AU the Diocletian who let Galerius make the succession arrangements was arguably the one who was boffing him, which honestly I think is brilliant on the part of the writer, it posits a reason for him making those not-great decisions, and at the same time gives Maximian a motivation as well for suddenly throwing his weight behind Maxentius.
My reading of the AU is that explicit Diocletan/Maximian (in AU) was how Maximian got talked into retirement in the first place (per Lactantius's blog), then post-retirement, there MAY have been some sort of Diocletian/Galerius hijinks, but regardless of whether anything DID happen (which I think it probably did, because as Maximian says, Diocletian never denied it! Now, perhaps, like we think may have been the case with Fritz and Fredersdorf, he maybe didn't do much, but emotional affair, sure!) Maximian thought something happened, which is how he decided yeah screw this retirement for Diocletan thing! And then both of them are too mad at each other to take the first step, but once Theodora/Fausta do, they're both like "...yeah, I miss you :( "
(But the great thing here is that some of my evidence is from Lactantius' blog, and both you and Selena would be the first to tell me that Lactantius can't be trusted as far as one could throw him... ;) )
ETA: I wanted to reply to this as well:
Normally I just paste the liveblog reaction into the box and that is my comment, but this time I decided to try cobbling together the reactions into something resembling a normal-person comment.
This is basically what I do as well :) So, like, if one was wondering what was in that liveblog mentioned in I waited until she woke up to read it so I could liveblog my reactions at her in our time-honored Yuletide tradition (she did hers at me yesterday), it basically became my "Prussian Doll" comments, with more explanatory remarks added :)