#ancient scene

[didoofcarthage]

Ancient Scene with a Funeral Ceremony for an Actor by Louis-Jean Desprez

French, c. 1777

pen and black ink and watercolor

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[zaahvi]

GLORY TO THE RISEN GODS

[finnamin]

So we put on a mask. It's not hard to understand why. What's hard is knowing that sometimes, the mask is who we really are.

Zuko in 1x06 - Masks

[lucky-fy]

For the Laicion nation (aka, me and three other people)

I had this illustration commissioned (a big thank you to @lunehowls) for my werewolf AU Laicion fic (still a WIP).

The general pitch is as follows :

AU in which Laios never got to meet his sister again, putting his life on a whole other path, a more desperate one. A military deserter with barely a coin to his name, Laios hitches a ride on a boat to one of the elven continents, where he learns about magical tattoos that binds one’s soul to a wolf’s, effectively making them artificial werewolves. Illegal magic be damned, this feels like the answer to… everything.

In the process, he learns about the existence of an illegal fighting ring in one of the elven cities, where beastmen gladiators gather. Freshly tattooed and without anywhere else to go to, Laios decides to head there, where he meets Lycion, an elf and artificial werewolf gladiator. If they first bond over a simple shared meal, by spending time together (sharing the same room in the barracks, maybe the same bed? gasp) they find that they have a lot in common, notably a shared distaste for the body they were born in, a dysphoria partially remedied by becoming a werewolf.

They bond :)

NB: I commissioned another piece, go take a look :D

[agendratum]

kiseki: dear to me as text posts (3/?)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

practicing for scares, i imagine!

[k-wame]

LUKE EVANS as ZEUS IMMORTALS (2011) | dir. Tarsem Singh Dhandwar

[an-established-butt-dent]

Solas, Arlathan

Long ago, there was a time when Solas admired every new creature of Ghilan'nain, and the Halla were his favorite.

She was the only Evanuris capable of creation instead of destruction.

Acrylic ink and fineliner on bamboo paper.

[bread--hood]

"Tell me though ... was it worth it?"

[my-name-is-apollo]

I saw a Troilus post and that made me have Feels™ all over again. Something that particularly upsets me is the image of Troilus being dragged by his hair to Apollo's altar:

Like even putting aside the fact that Troilus, apart from being Apollo's son, is also a suppliant to Apollo here and to harm anyone in a god's temple is already an unforgivable violation of the sacredness of the place-

Troilus was a little boy or a youth at the most. His hair was most definitely sacred to him. It would have been cut and dedicated to Apollo, the protector of boys, if he had reached his adulthood. But he got dragged by his hair to his death, as if he was an animal being sacrificed to the god. Achilles didn't simply kill Troilus, he deliberately violated everything Troilus would have held sacred to him - his hair, his body, his god's temple...

Achilles had previously killed Tenes as well, another son of Apollo, despite Thetis very clearly warning him not to do so. So all of this was him knowingly spitting in Apollo's face, if you think about it.

[macaronijail06]

This body means nothing to me-

"Get a Hold of Yourself!"

[travelinglikethelight]

iconic fight scene: anck su namun vs nefertiri

[sleepy-edits]

[uncleclaudius]

Cameo depicting emperor Claudius and probably his wife Messalina on a chariot drawn by snakes. Dated around 45AD.

[brother-emperors]

this is a scrapped scene from Trikaranos & originally it joined a standalone series of comics from Pompey’s point of view, but it got scrapped from THAT set too because I decided they both needed to be weirder and worse and this is kind of vanilla ngl. however I’m still kind of fond of it in some kind of way, and it’s been a second since I’ve posted a comic! also I wanted to draw it. so I did.

for context: Crassus cut his hand open helping Pompey out with something in a previous scene! for more context: the answer to Pompey’s question is a reliable (business/political) partner. that’s about it!

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[sarafangirlart]

Ppl saying Apollo was super scary in the Iliad when Athena was the one who was absolutely menacing and terrifying.