Hii, I'm Sophie! This blog is mainly for sharing non/original art (tag for original is #my art), obsessing over fictional characters and stuff I like, and sometimes I also ramble lol
✨ What my soul is made of✨
aka my obsessions/interests
~ Anything related to ancient cultures (that's the subject of my studies hehe) and media inspired by it
~ Mythology, mainly (but not only) Greek and Roman, and hellenic polytheism (I'm a beginner helpol!)
~ Classic literature, especially romanticism, aestheticism and symbolism, and related art history
~ Classical music, ballet (my beloved <3), theatre and musicals
~ Vintage/old money aesthetics and related historical periods
~ Disney, Dreamworks and Studio Ghibli movies
~ Shoujo manga/anime
~ Drawing (both traditional and digital)
~ Translating (mainly classic literature)
~ Tarot reading (thanks to The Arcana)
~ Playing the piano, singing and dancing
(more under the cut!)
✨ List of favourites!✨
for further info about everything listed above
~ Ancient literature: The Iliad, Homeric Hymns, Sappho's poems, Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, The Bacchae, Catullus' poems, Vergil's Eclogues, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche, Satyricon, Dialogue of the Gods
~ Classic literature: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sonnets, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Happy Prince and other tales, Death in Venice, Narcissus and Goldmund, Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddharta, Gertrud, Notre Dame de Paris, Les Misérables, Memoirs of Hadrian, Wuthering Heights
~ Movies: The Sound of Music, Romeo and Juliet (1968), Death in Venice, Ludwig (1973 and 2012), Nijinsky, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The prince of Egypt, Howl's Moving Castle, Alexander, Little Women, Riot at the Rite, Tristan and Isolde, Fireworks
~ Classical composers (pieces would be too hard to choose from): Chopin, Mahler, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Wagner, Debussy
~ Ballets: absolutely ADORE them all - even the niche ones - so the list would be too long lol
~ Operas: Lohengrin, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Tristan und Isolde, Death in Venice
~ Musicals: Notre Dame de Paris, Romeo and Juliet (French and Italian version), Les Misérables
~ Historical figures (aka dead people who have taken up 90% of my brain at some point): Alexander the Great, Sappho, Antinous, Theodora, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Elizabeth of Austria, Fryderyk Chopin, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina
~ Anime/manga: Kaze to ki no uta, Lady Georgie, Rose of Versailles, Love through a prism
~ Videogames: Hades 1 & 2, The Arcana, Sultan's Game, Fields of Mistria, Romance Club, Love and Deepspace (and more I don't remember lmao🫠)
i have NO idea why ive kinda neglected muriel so far when his route is genuinely TOP NOTCH like. yess we do love a good slow burn and hurt/comfort. he's so cute he's so special. i regret not giving him enough attention before, i already know his route is gonna become one of my favs 🥲
drawing is all sbout becoming good at illustrating one character at 3/4 angle and nothing else no backgrounds no props no furniture no money no job no future
The Renaissance of Venus (1877) by Walter Crane (English, 1845 – 1915), tempera on canvas, 138.4 cm (54.4 in) x 184.1 cm (72.4 in), Tate Britain, London
u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit
i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall
WHAT I NEVER KNEW THAT? Wait you and @artandbeauty71 are moots I did NOT know that since when?!? Wait Sophie we’ve been moots basically since I joined tumblr aka late May
@artandbeauty71 I think… I’m getting the hang of this guy…
It’s genuinely been SO long since I’ve focused and tried to draw decently on paper (the perils of owning a nice iPad), but it’s paid off and I’m really happy with the result.
u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit
i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall
WHAT I NEVER KNEW THAT? Wait you and @artandbeauty71 are moots I did NOT know that since when?!? Wait Sophie we’ve been moots basically since I joined tumblr aka late May
Yeahh we've been moots for a while now! But tbh based on the interactions I've seen so far I'm pretty sure all the mutuals I've made this year are all mutuals with each other lolol
