I just finished reading the Orchard and if i had a nickel everytime the protagonist in a talmudic historical novel cuckolds the governor, I'd have two nickels. I have no idea what's up with that.
But also! The Akiva and Elisha friendship is still the shit 🙏
Yochi brandes wrote Elisha like a highschool girl bff with a beard (going to the bathroom (cave) together, having a ritual there. Standard bff stuff)
Milton Steinberg was lowkey gaslighting people into wanting him carnally. That's why i drew him different.
















