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judge and the judgling

lil sketch dump - Athena, Ares, Zeus, Hades, Poseidon

More explorations coming soon. I have decided to make a height chart of the Olympians in order to force myself to design them. And I figure it will be handy for future projects.

love it when i talk about a character with someone else and i gradually realize that actually they don’t get the character and lowkey refuses to and borderline hates the character like okay wellllll. let’s stop talking.

#wh SHHAH ?

medusaspeach

Zeus and Hera - for the line up

the moment i pick up a pencil its like i dont know how to fucking draw anymore hello?????

adriles

The year is 1217 BCE. There's battle tomorrow and your mom just commissioned you a fine set of armor from Lord Hephaestus. Youve been staring at the bloated corpse of Patroclus for 19 hours straight

strawberrytallcat

Basil was part of the problem alongside Henry by the way. He loved the stagnant idealized idea of Dorian he built in his head and romanticized as an artist. Henry told Dorian that his only worth to other people was his beauty and Basil was right there proving his point. Even when shown the portrait Basil was in denial that after all these years of life apart there was any hint of darkness or depth in Dorian beyond his youthfully angelic, unmarred by the world, perfect pretty appearance. That there could be any hint of hell in the person he elevated to be above a real person. As flat and eternally beautiful as a painting.

#he treated dorian as a possession then claims that dorian is the one that treats him that way #which is rather interesting and implies a lot about what his perspective is truly like #‘When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them.’#‘If I did I would lose all my pleasure.’#like being able to keep and share dorian in the way he wants is what matters #dorian himself does not mean anything to basil. it is the possession of dorian and the effects dorian has on him #none of it is about dorian and all of it is about him.#how henry and basil talk about ‘the real dorian’ in ch 2 is also a big pointer #henry is trying to tell basil that the real dorian is an emotionally vulnerable person who in the moment is distraught and upset #but basil is so in denial that he later says the painting itself is ‘the real dorian’ instead. bc it will not alter and it’ll always be his #tpodg

medusaspeach

"Lord of the silver bow, now hear my prayer! Great guardian of Tenedos and Chryse and sandy Cilla! Mouse Lord! If I ever built temples to your liking, ever burned fat thighs of oxen or of goats for you, fulfill this prayer for me, and let the Greeks suffer your arrows to avenge my tears!" (Homer. Iliad, trans. wilson)

Apollo sends a plague to the Greeks, my piece for the 2026 edition, Sing! O Muse Zine.

ivyoryb

Dorian Gray ✨️

#tpodg

starweaverblog

Angst time-

starpeace

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

wrath-of-achilleus

the iliad

#Love is not enough in this world

thesungod

one of the most refreshing elements in Trials of Apollo is the lack of insufferable lecturing and overexplaining about its themes. it’s a corny, delightful story about love, redemption and the inherent wonder of humanity. apollo still drowns his evil ex because fuck that guy.

herr-hair

Kid chibi I did while messing around in a different program. Look at him go.

#blood meridian #hes so baby i hope nothing bad happens ever

wreneging

girl who just finished watching castlevania

wreneging

nocturne ✅

#i am collecting weird otherworldly blonds of mass destruction like it’s pokemon #so i guess we are not addressing old man coyote ok. why is his design Like That.

girl who just finished watching castlevania

#moving onto castlevania nocturne now

mireielle

basil hallward is so often framed as the moral opposite of lord henry but that reading feels way too comfortable.

like yes basil cares about dorian in a way lord henry very obviously does not but the way he cares is not actually harmless.

basil doesn’t just love dorian. he idealizes him to the point where dorian stops being a person and starts being a kind of living artwork.

the portrait isn’t just about dorian’s soul. it’s about basil projecting himself onto dorian and then being afraid of what that projection reveals.

henry objectifies dorian through language and philosophy turning him into a kind of experiment. but basil objectifies him through worship which is quieter and feels more sincere but still strips dorian of agency in a different way.

and the wild part is basil knows this. he literally says the painting shows too much of himself which means he understands that his love is tangled up in ego and possession. he just frames it as purity instead of control.

so dorian ends up caught between two people who both refuse to see him as a full human being.

henry pushes him toward experience and excess. while basil freezes him into this perfect untouchable ideal. neither of them actually lets dorian just exist.

which makes basil less of a moral center and more of a different kind of danger. not corruption through indulgence but corruption through idealization.

and honestly it makes his fate feel less like random tragedy and more like the collapse of something that was unstable from the beginning.

#tpodg #yes yes yes #dorian is not a person he is the subject of others’ obsession and projection

nobodypoff1

Old illustrations for the coursework. I chose Dorian's favorite

#tpodg #colors im going to eat them

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