Roi de mes rêves

And here is everyone together! This really was fun to do ✨ I do hope I'll manage to make an artbook out of it...

a little guide circa the 15th century

🌈YCHs Special Pride: ♠️Huskerdust❤️

Commission work made by @kaereth - Thank you so much, they look perfect >v<) <333

01: Paris

“As many myths attest, Trojan men had an extraordinary erotic appeal for both male and female admirers, generally with negative consequences for themselves and others. Paris is no exception. His beauty is, however, not that of a mighty warrior like Achilles, which is an effect of perfected masculinity, a proper expression of magnificent physical power. It is, rather, a “feminine” allure of the kind associated with fine clothing and luxurious accessories. In keeping with the attraction of like to like, this feminizing type of beauty is expected to make a man attractive to women. It is also closely linked with heterosexual excess and transgressive desire on the part of the man. Paris is the archetype of this feminized variety of masculine beauty: he is the masculine “beautiful evil.”

Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell

then I looked in the notes and y’know.

some people seems confused.

Why a shopping cart with stained glass? 

or This would be cool to shop with

or something about religion and NO

NO

THIS. Is about HOMES.

That style stained glass? Those diamonds? They speak to me, and they say “Townhouse”. and FANCY townhouse, at that. They say “City home, old home, a home that is RICH, a shelter from the storm and a safe place for a family”.

But on! a! shopping cart!

That evokes - to me - Homelessness.

The person on the street who had no other choice but to steal the best cart they could from a store’s corral just to have a way to transport the meager belongings that are all they fucking have in this world. And it’s NOT a home or a safe place or a shelter but it’s all you fucking have!

And this piece goes and puts them fucking together! AND NAMES IT.