Thank U @tractym For Letting Me Borrow Some Inspiration From Ur Piece 🥺

it is an honor to work on this project, thank you so much for the commission! <3 <3

Artemis & Kallisto as the Moon, from the Dionysian Tarot Deck.

Art is by @Tractim! You can read more and help make this project happen below:

tfw you are in Ancient helltalia mood and clothing references are hard to find 

@something-indecent-and-dramatic okay I see now that I responded very quickly so I will elaborate a bit more here even in case someone else has the same doubt! 

The drawing is inspired by the moment in the fourth episode of the Bacchae in which Pentheus enters the stage dressed as a woman and the first thing he says is:

(i’m using a translation of T. A. Buckley that I found on the internet here)

about this I want to clarify that the Dionysus=bull one is not an isolated association that only Pentheus makes in a moment of hallucination, but that it is an image that keeps recurring in the whole tragedy (ex. when the bacchae refer to dionysus as to the “bull-horned god” or when Pentheus wants to imprison Dionysus but finds himself trying to imprison a bull) and in general also in some invocations linked to the dionysian cult outside the context of Euripides’ play

overall in the drawing i wanted to depict Dionysus in a moment in which he reveals himself to Pentheus who has finally accepted his divinity, and in this sense in my mind the bull conveys Dionysus’ powers (or at least his powers as we see them at the end of this tragedy) in a better way than a human form does.

i hope this answer has cleared up my choices a bit!! also thank you for the question <3

Pentheus and Dionysus, again 🐍🐂

Happy new year!!

some days ago i found myself pointing to a pdf about italy's influence in german literature while listening to schubert; it was half past midnight; my best friend, my only listener, was making exasperated grimaces. have some cute gerita

thank you for all the decorations you have been sending, i can't wait to read your messages tomorrow!! 🥺

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It took me a while but finally it’s finished! Thanks to all the people who sent me a character 🌟

Apollo sketches for the latest drawing I posted 🌞

Sixfanarts challenge (4/6) - Our beloved Virgil 🐝 

(he’s reading the aeneid to augustus...)

sketchdump 🩸