QUICKSILVER

a slaughterhouse—eight corpses all told. it brings out the best in us. [ flor . they . ao3 ]

[diabhalic]

Damen thought of the ivory and gold casing that held a creature duplicitous, self-serving and untrustworthy.

[goo-p]

a good man !

[goo-p]

mmmm

[littlestpersimmon]

the happy prince

[banana-books]

Friends… is that what we are?

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Happy Holidays to Andy!! (@andiavang) This is for the Captive Prince Secret Santa 2016 ! (@captiveprince–ss​)

This scene always makes me happy and I hope you enjoy it too! :)

[ming85]

Needed to draw Damen on a chunky horse as well, after all the ones I've done for Laurent.

(my Capri tag)

[ming85]

Memorial day at Marlas

(my Capri tag!)

[heatherdrawings]

[heatherdrawings]

Commission of Pallas and Lazar for someone on Instagram

[heatherdrawings]

You can’t tell me they were subtle with repressing their laughter. It’s just not a debate I’m willing to have

[peachesobviously]

the amount of time i've put into these is indecent

and the companion illustrations

[inupenka]

equality | omegaverse!AU Captive Prince

[hamrikaa]

Smaurent and Auguste ✨️

[useless-catalanfacts]

Cloister of the Cathedral of Elna, Northern Catalonia. The Cathedral was built between the 11th and 12th centuries, with some additions in the 14th century.

Photos by sabichouquette on Instagram.

[sforzesco]

alternatively WAR AND DEATH

it’s time for Alcibiades, baby (bonus round, the corpse he’s caressing is Chalcideus)

the fall of the athenian empire, donald kagan

florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city, john henderson

hunter h. gardner pestilence and the body politic in latin literature

alcibiades’ entry on the political stage at athens II, edmund f. bloedow

daniel r. blickman

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[sforzesco]

CHECKMATE

something something about the battle of notium killing alkibiades’ political trajectory and sparking lysander’s (not that it ended well for lysander either, in the end)

sometimes I have sources or excerpts from books I was reading that inspired what I end up illustrating, but tbh what happened here was I read bret devereaux’s this is not sparta collection (I hate 300 with a passion, both the movie and the comic, don’t @ me about it if you disagree, I did my time debating my position on it in art school, you cannot change my mind on this), went through all the texts he cited and started reading those, jumped into some other bibliographies for more things to read discussing the spartan mirage, and then went back to re read jennifer roberts’ the plague of war to think New Thoughts About It

[sforzesco]

AMPHIARAUS ENTERS THE UNDERWORLD

adapted from the opening scene of chapter VIII of Statius' Thebaid

man its like. kind of horrifying (fun) how Apollo begs a favor from Ares to grant Amphiaraus glory on the battlefield because he's incapable of sparing Amphiaraus from death, but in doing so Amphiaraus stops behaving like Amphiaraus, you are given a "gift" at the expense of yourself, and he's aware of what Apollo is doing! "How much longer are we going to drag this out?" he says

before asking for a favor himself, before the earth splits open and he falls into the underworld, because Apollo can't spare him death, but he does spare him the act of dying, and maybe it's a mercy because there's a moratorium on burials! maybe it's just one more horrifying thing that's done to him because he's Wrong in the underworld, and his presence there brings the cosmic itself into this war. Everyone is brought into this awful theater of family curses!!!!! There Is No Place Spared From The Stain And Gore Of This Crime!!!!

Statius' Thebaid Ch. VIII, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

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