#but yeah idk I'll prolly stick closer to the prompts and be more outright aro in my next pieces

[captainschaos]

I missed yesterday, so catching up with @mcyt-aro-week !!! day 1 - unconventional relationships / trope subversion

cledubs qpr you will be famous forever <3<3<3 but admittedly it's a bit of a stretch and not really apparent what the connection to the prompt is, is so I'm gonna explain under the cut ! tldr ancient greek vase painting visual culture, nerd stuff <3 I was in class LOL

so I'm currently studying ancient greek mythology in one of my classes, primarily through the lens of visual culture, which mainly focuses on vase art! learning the conventions of the symbolism and the culture is really interesting (and I might someday do something with showing how mcyt really has created an extremely similar culture, but I digress) and ngl I didn't even mean to do this when I was drawing during lecture LOL. but a lot of the stylistic traits of greek painting crept into this piece, you can kinda see the influence in bdubs' pose, as well as cleo's to a certain extent, and the main connection here is in the fact that cleo's facing forward! this was extremely rare in greek visual culture, and very significant when it did happen. in many instances it's connected to the crossing of boundaries or breaking rules, which was where I felt it could connect to the prompt! but even more specifically for cleo, and why I really leaned into it, is that forward-facing figures are often doing so because they aren't alive <3 it almost paints them as more object than person, but could also certainly be about undeath ! so that's the part that cleo really fits into, refusing to be controlled by anyone, defiant in undeath. and also aromantic, which I DEFINITELY have thoughts about connecting to those two ideas but they're evident enough and this is long already LOLL