Wayriding

| A bird bound by golden chains (NSFW) |

Holy crap the water was hard to do 😵‍💫 Super fun to learn new things though, I’m very pleased with the ripples, I’m definitely doing that again sometime!! (No idea for what yet though, I have so many other sketches laid out)

A little more Junius because I can’t get enough of him decked out in gold!!! It’s pretty late and I’m tired so I’ll keep it short, but I hope you like him!! Next painting might be some more Romans because I need some ancient angst 🥰 (ric&h...

| You, my sweet, are spring embodied (NSFW) |

This was intended for valentines but it took me a fair bit longer than expected!! However, my partner told me that the Roman celebration of Lupercalia happens on the 15th!!! (A very early kind of pagan valentines, altho quite a bit bloodier and frantic) So that was the perfect excuse 😖

BUT now that I know it was actually also a bloody affair, I’m very tempted to draw something somewhat sacrificial, perhaps Junius sacrificing a lamb!!

In any case, here is Junius (tr...

| Bones of my bones |

A job well done. His reward? To see the pride shine in those eyes. How that large hand went to ruffle blond hair and comment on the state of him; wrinkled, muddy, but bursting with laughter.

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These two make me ILL, I love them so much. The scenario here is, Jones successfully does a job Lewis tasked him to do, something important and deserving of praise when Jones comes back.

These two don’t get to spend many light moments together, so when they do happe...

| No more than simple bliss (NSFW) |

I wanted to do a lil teeny painting with Jones and Xue, another character from the 1930’s story!! They’re friends but never hook up in said story, I just had a craving to draw them together, I can dream 💞

These two meet when Jones trashes Xue’s boat during one of his drunken stupors. Accidental, but messy. From there Xue sets to cleaning him up, brings him to his parents who feed him as well as offer Jones the chance to help with work in order to pay back the small amount of da...

| I kiss cold marble, wishing it was you |

A quick little Horatius, longing for Rictus, knowing he won’t ever have him. Also oranges 🍊

I love Hor because he’s an absolute mess of a man, a disaster prowling the senate, cold and calculated and yet desperately jealous and in love with his one true friend.

Please enjoy 🧡

| I can still taste you on my lips (NSFW) |

You growl and huff out hot breath against my lips. You smell like that musty cologne you like, something a little fancier than your usual. And I know you put it on for me.

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Jones is experiencing something divine here. 👁 He often sneaks into King’s apartment, sometimes through the window or by picking a lock, as well as trailing King home like a stray in search for some warmth. They know each other’s schedule well so it isn’t hard for either of them to t...

| The after party (Light NSFW) |

The gala had carried on late into the night, with some gentlemen having gotten themselves (inevitably) entangled with the second MacAllistair brother.

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Didn’t actually think I’d manage to finish this today, but here it is!!! This is actually a canon scene from the 1930’s story, where everyone who’s anyone attends a charity gala. (Watching the party scene from Gatsby certainly helped)

Jones entertaining a few eager men while politics happen downstai...

| Early days and sleepless nights (NSFW) |

I feel this need for you, darling. Aching and painful and never sated.

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For this one I had a fairly clear color mock-up made but it was pretty difficult in the editing stage to make it how I’d envisioned! Still, in the end I’m very happy with how the light looks, a little more wispy I guess? I also tried something a little new with the smoke and I’m absolutely in love, I think I’ll definitely have to do some more like that very soon.

Jones and Horat...

| These threads you’ve weaved, like a spider spinning it’s web (NSFW) |

You’ve having trouble connecting the dots of a story unfolding right before your eyes.

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It was only a matter of time before I gave Rick a crazy red thread wall. (There’s a second picture I did in procreate with the Charlie meme)

My bf and I have been talking more about the 1930’s story and I’m loving it, I’m excited to share stuff about them soon!! If you’re curious to know a lil more right now though, 2022-02-01 13:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post

| 1930’s Reference Sheet |

Forgot to post it on here for some silly reason, but here tis!!! Finally got around to finishing these boys and I’m super happy with how it turned out. You can definitely expect another ref sheet at some point with a few more characters, some of which I’ve never drawn before but I’m very excited for.

Please enjoy!! And if you have any questions about them, feel free to leave some in the comments 😖💞💞💞

| The Scolding |

"Apologize to one another, now," the man said, and, staring from one to the other, it was Rictus who finally bowed his head and shoved his lower lip forward.

"'m sorry, Hor."

Horatius, sniffling, wiped his eyes and nodded.

"Sorry," the dark-haired boy mumbled.

"Two patrician sons, fighting like peasants over their ration of grain. What has this world come to!" lamented their tutor.

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Horatius accuses Rict...

| Those that are hardly ever happy (NSFW) |

So, this was real fun to paint, I had a nice digital mock up for what I wanted the final to look like as well, but?? I’m not too happy with the end result. I couldn’t make the colors work. Maybe I’ll try and redo this idea at some point, but for now This’ll be it, I can’t look at it anymore 🥲

The best part about painting this one though was getting to make King THICk and HAIRY (and jones as his skinny self)

I am definitely happy this one is done because I have a billi...

| And we are not yet saved |

Do you remember how you found me? Half drowned in liquor and soaked by the storm outside. You held me, ripped the curtain right off the bar to be with me. You didn’t ask questions for once, even though I could feel your rage bubbling below the surface, ready to scorch me.

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The MacAllistairs are prime dysfunctional family. Jones, more often than not tries to stay as far away from his brother’s grasp, but sometimes being home is exactly what he needs. Although...

| I think of nothing but you (NSFW) |

Do you remember our first time? Trying out something foreign and scary, something which shouldn’t be spoken of, lest your father find out. In this way, even you don’t talk about it afterwards, as if it never happened. Not with me, in any case.

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Horatius is a real broody man and this is where it starts :3c They meet when they’re around 8, and are tutored together in all ways a future senator needs be. They’re utterly inseparable, even as young men fighting...

| Those who borrow fire |

After all, those who borrow fire on this earth, might have to return it in hell.

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It took a while but I’m super happy to have finally finished it!! I got my booster shot and that knocked me out a bit 😵‍💫

This was intended as a mock book cover for the 1930’s story which I’ve been painting so much for the last two and a half months!

Oh also if you’re ever interested in reading the stories for this au and others, my partner has his own p...

| The smell of an open wound |

Something I can’t address, vile to many, ungodly to the rest. Something kept hidden inside of me.

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I’ve been on Pinterest too much, looking at pretty poses, I keep seeing great refs 😖

So have yet another lil Horatio contemplating his own wretched existence. He does that a lot, makes it a regular thing of sitting down with a nice cigar and a whiskey and ruminating for a couple hours :^)

(Also I imagined this as a younger him so it doesn’t act...

| Lo, the rose is gone from my eyes (NSFW) |

Their love had fizzled, but they were quick to pretend otherwise.

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Horatio and Jones fall in love and stay in a relationship for a whole decade, not realizing that by the end of it, what they have left is a stripped down to the bare bones version of what they once had.

(Also I was supposed to add the branding burn mark on Jones but I still haven’t figured out what it should be)

I had this sketch for a few weeks and was super excited to finally get ...

| Somewhere in the clouds |

I’ve been on Pinterest collecting refs, and I wanted to do a study of one of them. Felt too anxious too do anything super grand today, so instead you get a young Horatio.

Please enjoy 💙

| I see you through the cracks in your facade (NSFW) |

It's always a tug-of-war with Jones, never a straight conversation. Pure mischief, mischief and degeneracy, and booze and cigarettes, that's what the blond is made of. Unlike me, Rick thinks. So unlike me.

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Mmm yea Rick please continue with your dubble standards that’s so hot

I really like how Jones’ upper scar turned out, I feel like they look a bit too pronounced sometimes. Perhaps when I draw him with his back facing the viewer again I’ll finally ...

| We wont speak of this at daybreak (NSFW) |

Whatever is shared here, shall remain between these two bodies. No one is privy to the private dealings of friends, but they themselves. And know they won’t talk of it, not until they meet once more, at sunset.

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I worked on these Romans last month but felt a lil uh, terrible. ;3

I kinda started to really dislike it half way through as well, but now that it’s finished I’m glad I still continued it! (I’ve dropped more than a few paintings in the las...

| This will be the end of me (NSFW) |

They loved each other. Or at least, that’s what they told themselves in lieu of being clueless as to what love felt like. Even if what they had was so far from it, something entirely different perhaps. Maybe that was the only way they could possibly love at all.

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At the start of their relationship Horatio needs a lot of coaxing to act on his desires. But even years later, simply helping his love come to a climax is very satisfactory for him.

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2021 Art Summary!!

Alright, a slightly more cheery final post of the year. I wanted to do this all month, but wanted to wait right until the end. I’m incredibly happy with what I’ve accomplished this year, and these are some personal favs.

Thank you so so much for your support, it brightens my day knowing I can share these with you!! I hope you liked what I had to offer in 2021, and are looking forward to 2022 as excited and hopeful as I am.

Have a happy New Years guys, I hope it tr...

About the twitter suspension and all that

Hey again guys, I wanted to give a tiny update. I got the email which said I wouldn’t get my twitter account back. I forgot if I said it before but I got suspended because twitter didn’t deem my icon sfw enough.

So I made a new account, was ready to start over and was so grateful to people who spread the news.

Then that account got suspended as well.

So basically I suppose that’s it. It sounds a little depressing but I’m so emotionally exhausted over this. I’m ang...

| What broken wings have taught me |

You wrung it’s neck with a single snap. Didn’t think twice. Only thinking of the pleasure you’d get from watching me spill these tears.

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When Jones is around twelve he finds an injured dove, it’s wings broken from an accident. Jones cares for it for a while, keeps it a secret for as long as he can. Eventually, as always, Lewis finds out. The bird wouldn’t survive, he’d say, that this was a mercy, he’d snort.

And then he makes his younger broth...

| Nightly (NSFW)

White knuckled and straining for a release he knew wouldn’t alleviate the hurt.

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Finally beefed King up and I love him all the more. What’s the point in making a brawler character and not have him chunked out?

Jones goes through a fair bit in the mob au, something I wanna elaborate on perhaps in my next post! Right now I’m pretty tired myself, so I’ll leave you with just this for now. I might also explore a few new characters. (Although more detecti...

| I want you to hurt like I do |

Horatio contemplates, with difficulty, the fact that Jones feels so confident in his sexuality, yet he himself spend years of his life repressing this about himself. When Horatio started to understand his homosexuality as a young teen he literally got physically ill, and for obvious reasons didn’t dare out himself.

Now even despite being with a man he loves, he can’t help but feel the slightest bit of resentment and jealousy.

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A lil scene explainer because in ...

| The loving noose around my neck (NSFW) |

He wore it more often than not these days. Lewis usually asked to see it when he came by the MacAllistair estate anyway, (checking if he’d been good?) so why take it off at all?

Though lately, strangely, he’d found himself reaching for where the cross dangled, whenever he heard the church bells ring.

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I love painting Jones so much I literally cannot get enough of this boy 😵‍💫 (and neither can Horatio as it happens)

I’ve been ge...

| A safe spot to call my own (NSFW) |

Jones’ cheeky grin does me in, makes me wanna draw more faces bordering on silly. But he knows just what to do or say to Horatio, who really, really, doesn’t seem to mind.

I hope you like it! Just something small while I get some other sketches in order 💞 I again included the unedited painting as well as the color/light mock-up!

Please enjoy!! ♥️

| There, in my hours of weakness (NSFW) |

There was a certain kind of thrill that came with doing it so openly- and ever since the incident in the Pit, Jones had lost most of the restraints which held more sensible minds back.

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Just Jones a little traumatized. 🥰

Honestly this was mostly an excuse to draw another car scene with steamy windows. I think next If I do give in and paint more like this, it’ll be some kind of mirror in a bathroom scene!!

Also I thought it might be fun if I show...

| You we’re the song I’d always sing |

He digs the nail of his thumb into the thick skin and starts peeling it. Horatius finds himself glued to his seat, his mouth dry. Water, wine, anything, he thinks. But there is no respite, no vessel big enough to contain that which he needs to quench his thirst.

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Horatius pines for Rictus, wants nothing more than his golden emperor. And yet.. he can’t have him.

Really wanted to do a painting like this for a while now, I absolutely love painting close ups...