#tragic form

[chthonic-cassandra]

One girl, her shoulder-piece loosened, revealed a white breast to the moonlight as she lay. Meanwhile another girl danced and laid bare her left flank. Naked, she appeared in full view in the open air, and she resembled a living picture; her white complexion met the eye with an answering gleam, the work of dark shadow. Another girl exposed her lovely arms, throwing her hands around another's feminine neck, and this one showed a glimpse of thigh beneath the folds of a torn cloak; and hopeless love set its seal upon her smiling bloom. Drowsily they sank down upon the calamint, crushing the dark-petalled violets and the crocus which smeared the shadowy trace of its sunny image on their woven garments, and the sturdy marjoram, nurtured by the dew; and they lay there, stretching out their necks in the soft meadows.

Chaeremon, fragment from the Oeneus (trans. Matthew Wright in The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy Vol. 1)

[hekatiane]

I am absolutely radiating. Why can't you see?

[stellerssong]

Tell us the sex stone joke

so this joke requires the light setup of, as the Resident Geologist, on any given hike my dad will have been subjected to a light barrage of Hey What's This Rock I Just Picked Up Off The Trail, answers ranging from "that's clearly serpentinite, the state rock of California—note the distinctive gray-green color and soapy texture" to "that's probably a local mudstone" to "that is a piece of concrete" to "that is tanbark."

the joke typically runs as follows:

you, presenting an interesting pebble for identification: hey, what's this rock i just picked up off the trail? my dad, after a few seconds of thoughtful examination: ah, interesting. what you have there is what's known as a "sex stone." you, slightly shocked by the apparent erotic provenance of what you thought was a random rock: oh! okay. i see. thanks. my dad, slyly: would you like to know why they call it that? you: um. yes? my dad: BECAUSE IT'S JUST A FUCKING ROCK.

[perversion666]

album covers ♱

[dyinggirldied]

you ever think if danny becomes immortal and he has to watch as his father reincarnates as bruce wayne and his mother as talia al ghul and is so conflicted/baffled? the father in his memory is nothing but a disguise in this life. his mother is more diabolical and has an army within her hold.

he watches damian, who probably, could have, should have been his own reincarnation if the portal incident never happened.

[saessenach]

I keep threatening to draw heartbreaking galadriel/sauron things and yet when I actually get down to it, they want to be tender and naked instead so who am I to refuse them

EDIT: finished piece (and full sketchdump) here

[jesncin]

what are either of you guys favorite queer hcs for your favorite characters (if you have any ofc)

I have a cursed current fav queer headcanon:

I like to think Johnstantine had a massive crush on Ray Monde when he was young, and is embarrassed about it once he got older. Ray keeps gently turning young Constantine down but still takes care of him on the occasional times Constantine's homeless.

This probably isn't a popular hc but a friend of mine who I'm calling a Constantine Scholar had a similar hc so it counts now!!

[ambrellaexists]

Waowao my favorite princesses got even better

[phantomoftheorpheum]

Julie and the Phantoms being one of the most heartwarming and feel good shows I've ever watched, while simultaneously having the most absurdly tragic premise will never not to be funny to me.

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

“kaz and inej didn’t end up together”

does ‘the boy beside her. the future before her. anything was possible.” mean NOTHING to you

[princescar]

Ultimate Fashionista... Mikan Tsumiki??

she doesn’t like this one very much

[dykedvonte]

Honestly a sorry from Curly would mean nothing to Anya.

I’m not saying she wouldn’t want to hear it, it’s a hollow vindication. She told him and he couldn’t hear her. He saw it and he couldn’t understand it. They both experienced it and he should apologize that it took that for him to get it. She already knows he’s sorry but what’s the point if neither of them can do anything about it? It’s earnest but at the same time what she wants an apology for is what Curlu can’t apologize for.

He can’t be sorry for what happened to her even if he is. Even if he carries that guilt with him until the day he dies it’s not all his to bare. The most heinous parts aren’t his weight even if he tries to balance it. A part of her bitterness is the fact he can’t be sorry for it all. She can’t just direct it all towards him even if she wants to. She was failed in so many ways by all of them. It hurts with him the most cause he had the power but they all did nothing in the grand scheme of things.

The one person who should apologize would never and could never, it’s not something you can be sorry for. She wants an apology, she needs one but what would it fix?

[faun-buns]

eat eat eat

[clairedaring]

Liar! Why would P'Joe help you? At first, he wasn't going to help me. But he wanted to help my baby

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.11

[koszmarnybudyn]

I havent drawn in ages so refrence sheets wips yay, because that's easy and fun.

The Trudies are 1-pre robot Trudie 2-our Trudie currently 3-our Trudie at the begining of the season and 4-replacment Trudie

In the second one we have the main cast and the two Fracis's are current Francis and start of season 3 Francis, and of course Trudie and Kelsey (i did not want to draw Tony sorry :/ )

[borgialucrezia]

"There is that final embrace that I think helps with letting his brother go in a way. Juan has been the one who drove Cesare to become what he is now, and I think Cesare is building walls around his heart. You do get colder and less sentimental when you take that path. He has to go on and he can't mourn him forever, especially since he's responsible for his death. He's not making excuses for what he is anymore, and what he wants to be. He ultimately feels that it's the right thing for himself. It's something that he focused on and I think he can control his mind into having no second thoughts. And that's the only way you can rule in that era, really." — FRANÇOIS ARNAUD