#or if they are on tumblr that's not how they commissioned me

[mals-writing-corner]

Cw: Roman Slavery, MCD

"Youth" did not mean a child in ancient Rome. It was a younger man who was very feminine. A femboy, if you will. It could be considered a third gender that only young men could have. But it did not mean underage.

This is inspired by the emperor Hadrian who made his dead lover into a god.

Special thank you to some amazing people who helped me out! Wolf and Ajax in the Ghoap Discord, and @paranoidpandora here on Tumblr! These three and I had a super fun brainstorming session, and after talking with my good good friend @irate-iguana , I came up with this idea. I may not make this into something bigger, but who knows 🤔

Roman emperor Soap who has been ruling for a long while. He's no longer in youth, his beard making sure of that. His skin is darker, more weathered. But, even as he's now left his youth, he doesn't have a youth yet. Even as his advisors try and push some onto him, he doesn't have one.

That is, until an outsider, the Ghost, is dragged into town. He was found on the outskirts, murdering traveling Romans. He was to be put to death. But he was the most beautiful youth Soap had ever seen. So he decides to take him as his slave. But his advisors will *not* let him anywhere near the emperor. So, Soap keeps him as his slave, owns him, but makes him fight in the collesseum. He watches, every fight. He's *terrified* that the Ghost is going to die, he's going to get killed by one of the beasts they throw in there, animal or human. But every time, he rises above. It seems, though, that the collesseum tempers his anger. He becomes more calculating as he continues to fight. So, Soap employs him to his praetorian guard, his personal bodyguard as it were. And, having fought in the arena, Ghost now knows Latin. He and Soap end up talking to each other, and eventually, Soap announces that Ghost, even with the scars of the arena, shall be his youth, because he's as beautiful as a youth. He doesn't know how old he is. Ghost won't say, maybe doesn't even know himself, but he's more beautiful than all the youths in Rome. They start a sexual relationship. In private, Soap is the bottom, the submissive, but in public, he carts Ghost around like his *lover* is the submissive one. Because youths could only be submissive. But Ghost is also good at his job. There have been several assassination attempts already, and Ghost has thwarted all of them. This only serves to make Ghost even *more* popular. But it also means his guard goes down more. And another assassination attempt goes through. And for his efforts, Ghost gets a dagger in the back. Soap uses that same dagger to slay his would be assassin, but it's too late for Ghost. He's dying. In his final moments, Soap frees him from his bonds of servitude, so that he may have a hero's death. Soap mourns his lover. He commissions statues in his honor, depicting him with the beauty of Venus, and the strength of Mars. He prays, every night, that his lover might return to him. One night, as he's laying across the marbled feet of his lover, he feels a cold hand touch his back. He looks up, and sees his lover, carved from marble, leaning down towards him. He explains that he was the child of Venus and Mars, and that Vulcan, his mother's husband, was jealous of him, of the attention he got from his mother, to a child who wasn't his. So he cast Ghost from Olympus, taking his memories, and his godly powers, but his youthful beauty could not be taken. Now, Venus and Mars see how loved their son is, and have brought him back as a statue, with Vulcan's blessing, but only for a moment, to give Soap the choice.

Continue living, or join him.

Soap doesn't even choose, he gets up into the pedestal and kisses his lover, holding him close as they turn to pure white marble. They would henceforth be known as the emperor, and his lover.||

[tj-crochets]

I'm curious about your crafting to-do list. It seems like a lot of pressure to put on yourself! Does having a list/deadlines help motivate you? I gave up on that because it felt too stressful for me, haha.

Btw, I'm always so impressed by your work!

Hi! To-do lists can absolutely be too stressful for me, but I've learned a few things that help me manage that and make them more inspirational than stressful. For me, that mainly means having my to-do lists be rough guidelines, not rules, and leaving space in my schedule to impulse make things when I want to. I mean, my 2023 to-do list post here is less a to-do list and more of a like "here are some things I'm thinking about making" and a note to myself to not forget ideas? I do have an actual to-do list that I need to get done, but the due dates on the things are like one in February, one by June, and like three by November, so I am giving myself a lot of time so I can do things like spend a week playing with my new accuquilt thing and assembling scrap blocks and then getting distracted quilting a different quilt lol I got a little sidetracked in my answer, but no, lists and deadlines don't motivate me at all. I have them, because my memory is not great and I need lists to remember things, and I have deadlines because there are commitments I have agreed to meet, but I don't like to-do lists. I do like possibility lists though! It feels like brainstorming and sometimes it gets people here on tumblr to suggest things I never would have thought of but that I have a lot of fun making

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EDIT:

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[funkle420]

no talk me i angy cant stop thinking about my girlfriend who's been kidnapped by a crazy powerful ancient magician

[royaltea000]

Saw his stage actor and now I can’t act right

[holographings]

happy valentines day may all your love be monstrous and uncontainable

[gotchibam]

Commissioned piece for Gaia!

[sunpoppa]

obligatory amokposting

[bscotchbread]

girl in the painting, mary from ib

[lotus-lamps]

like father like son

hes just toji but smol

[sleepless-sketches]

Art of @mellonella ‘s very pretty boi Feral! This base isn’t technically available yet, but a sneak peek never hurt anyone.

In other news, the shop is currently open! :]

Edit: It’s now available! Go on, shoo! Go order it

[yet-another-haven-of-dollya]

*Tap mic*

Yes, it is I - your poor little Dollya

As some of you may have known already because of my constant whining and bickering for the past few days, my original blog was flagged and I'm trying to appeal. Things seem to not be on my side, though, so I figured a new blog is a must.

I won't delete the og blog, there are too many things going on over there and I simply can not. All my contributions to the DoL fandom, my AU and asks and stuffs,... have all been hidden away from the tags.

Not gonna lie I was terribly discouraged and couldn't pick up a pen to draw or do anything for several days. Terrible, just simply terrible, to look at the ask box or that stupid default avatar icon... But, well, you know, it is what it is, no point just weeping around so might as well make a new place to post stuffs!

This is a sub-blog with the same email address as the flagged one, I think I would still use the same tags as the original flagged blog: Dollya art, Dollya ask,... and I won't repost my higher interaction posts here either, that's just bitter.

I will post more "community-friendly" kinds of stuff here, so spicier asks or requests oughta go to the original blog' ask box... I don't really know, I guess things will kinda fall into the right places after some time... What do you call it? Settle down?

Anyway, I'll try to be positive. After all, the Pandora box was opened, so if I don't hold onto the tiny hope left behind, I will have nothing.

Let's just hope for the best.

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

Otto in a pink sweater

100% doesn’t correlate to what I wore a couple of days ago

[knifebaby3000]

mattodore for @mattodore ❣️

[peppermint-moss]

✩ peppermint-moss commissions: open! ✩

Find all info on commissioning me at: peppermint-moss-commissions.carrd.co

Want to commission me? fill out an order form from my website and send it to mossthesmol@gmail.com!

Excited to say that my commissions are open again, this time with a new website!! please read my terms of service page.

This post is a more of a quick overview; my website has more details on what i will draw, my prices, the cutest little comic i drew just for the Process page (that i promise will also be posted to tumblr soon!!), and more! 💕

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[royaltea000]

And how many times have you come back now, devil?