#Artemis reference

[eyeofthebrainstorm]

There's something very compelling to me about how Vax and Vex are the Apollo/Artemis trope with a twist. Vex is a huntress and she uses bow and arrows, but while Artemis is goddess of the moon and chaste, Vex is very sensual and ends up under the protection of the sun god. Vax is a theater kid and he's charming, with that main character energy and poetic destiny. But unlike Apollo he's dark and connected to shadows and death. He's also very devoted to a woman who will eventually become a tree.

[asterlizard]

I wanna be with you My best friend

[the-artistic-pie]

Olympian goddesses, but referenced from sculptures and paintings

References down the cut

(afrodita es "el nacimiento de venus" de Botticelli, Artemisa "La diana cazadora" de Juan Fernando Olaguíbel, atenea es "La diosa Atenea sosteniendo a Victoria " de Carl Kundmann, Demeter es "estaua femenina" encontrada en la villa de los papiros [Tambien podria se Hera pero quien sabe])

[kindlingkeen]

Say what you will about WFA, but this makes my angsty little heart so fucking soft 😭🥰

Source: WFA (S3) Ep. 123

[willthespy]

do you ever just sit in a group and realize everyone is some flavor of homo. that’s how i feel reading anything rick riordan. fuck, not every one of them is friends, but that just makes it more accurate

[catboycannibal]

Why is he so hard to draw

[genderlesssnake]

*explosion sound effect*

Have some Artemis and Alex

[stardayzzing]

Could you draw some more Artemis and Apollo? Artemis if you can’t do both, I just love your version’s vibe

Artemis for you!! There was modifications and also I didn't draw her full cloak I'm sorry 😭

I'll have more of her and Apollo interacting in the future, though hopefully!!

Also!!! Guys I am so far behind on my inbox 😭

But in my defense, waking up at 5am, babysitting a toddler half a day and then still somehow only getting 4 hours of sleep a day, I think I am simply a little guy and yall should have mercy. (Ive also been using all my free time to watch GOT with one of my friends)

But I am getting to yall!!

[hop-a-lot]

Universe where Holly is a traffic cop🏍️

[kibeer]

Fem!Rook as a statue of Artemis

[melmoros]

goddess of the hunt (image ID in alt) ♡

"you drew her outfit wrong" sorry for wanting to see women's backs. as if it's my fault

[prolibytherium]

There's a LOT of things people do wrong when constructing fantasy beliefs in pantheons of gods, but one of the more specific is having only one god related to fertility and it kind of being just a horny sex thing.

Like you'll have one in the entire bunch whose sphere is listed as fertility and it's basically like Yeah this is the sex one. She's always depicted naked (but not TOO naked because censorship and/or the writer's own skittishness). She's going to have the exact body type epitomized in contemporary western beauty standards and there's usually no chance in hell that she's gonna be fat (unless MAYBE they're referencing 'venus' figurines). Her thing is fertility, which means having sex and making babies. Might be a goddess of beauty or love or marriage too, because these are kinda sex things, but that's probably it. And yeah that sort of thing is virtually nonexistent in real life.

Like the concept of fertility is so fundamentally important to the function of most societies in human history in ways that it is just Not in industrialized imperial core countries. Most people are getting food from stores, and not having to worry about harvesting crops or breeding livestock or foraging for food or having enough animals to hunt, so fertility only really comes up as a concern if you're trying to have kids (and there is certainly societal pressure to have children, but your wellbeing and survival is rarely going to Depend on it). And I think writing only from that perspective and not even trying to learn about WHY fertility is so conceptually important is why you see this trend.

There's no absolute universal statement about how people believe in gods but it's broadly accurate that systems with many deities will Usually have more than one deity associated with fertility, and these associations will certainly include human reproduction but also the fertility of livestock/hunted animals, plants, the land itself.

Some fertility deities may also be heavily associated with seasonal changes or environmental factors that agriculture or foraging is dependent on (spring/summer/fall, seasonal rains, seasonal flooding, rain itself, sunlight, good soil, rivers, wetlands, etc). Some certainly might be related to love, marriage, sex, and beauty, but that's VERY RARELY going to be the sole way the concept of fertility is embodied. And they'll often will have other associations not directly about fertility, or related to fertility in culturally specific ways.

[tommynb]

the doctors got what you need

also clara

[sasoxichomoshi]

Potnia Theron

This is about brilliant Artemis her golden arrow, her hunting of deer, her pride in arrows, the sacred virgin, the sister of Apollo in his gold sword, Artemis

[tekstelart]

C-can you talk more about your Rook, Artemis please? 👉🏼👈🏻

Omg yes ofc 🥹 Artemis is an OC I've had for almost 10 years now but since I have not created a Dragon Age AU for her so far, I'm going to be playing her as my Rook.

I am still crafting her Dragon Age backstory so I can't say much about that other than she was born in Tevinter and lived pretty much exactly the way you'd imagine a non mage elf to live in that place. I'll also have to wait on more info about the game before I can really fine tune this. As for her personality: She is very distrustful of people and outright terrified of magic, though she usually masks that as detest rather than fear. (Cant show your weakness u know) This also makes her seem very cold and distant. She also cannot stand being touched in any way, at least not if she doesn't trust you 100% Due to the scars on her back, she get's startled and anxious when people stand behind her so she will subconsciously be standing in front of walls, pillars, tables, anything really, just to avoid having people behind her. Regardless of her fears, she's spent a majority of her life learning how to hide her emotions out of necessity (Not Ben-Hassrath level obv, but enough to be unreadable to a good amount of people)

[maripr]

Patho healers are soulmates but in a literal sense methinks. Three sides of an impossible coin in an impossible town.