#🌺👑🐂 love in idleness

[thesteriuswife]

You know how people used to make slideshows on why u should get into their favourite show or favourite ship or w/e. Well here you go.

#📜 muse's voice #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #misc #dont have energy for art writing is going so slow yet still want to make ship content..... #and so i must find more creative means. <3

[thesteriuswife]

Today marks three years of Dianthus existing! I made my first concept sketches for her on 11/20/23 💖 this also means it's been three years of Diathesterius! I sometimes use the date I uploaded Dia to toyhouse, the 21st, as the anniversary date just in case I'm late... but I managed to finish colouring this <3 I had actually wanted to do something for this earlier in the month, I even made some very elaborate plans for it... but it ended up not happening! Which is okay 💞 but I still wanted to draw a little wedding piece... so I did! I'll make something fancier when I have more time later on... 💝 I used my own handwriting here for authenticity, but at some point... I'd like to be able to rewrite in Greek for More authenticity <3 Uncropped version (and long rambling post) under the cut 💕 I get a little Vulnerable so don't read it if you're gonna be mean or else I'll like Get You or something

I've made posts in the past talking about why Theseus and Asterius mean so much to me, but I don't think I've made one on why Dianthus herself means so much to me.. so for her own third year anniversary, I'll do that here! before I begin...! the fruit in dia's hair here are from the strawberry tree, arbutus unedo. I associate the tree and its fruit with Theseus but... it's honestly been so long, I don't remember exactly why! Just that, for some reason, I imagine thathis childhood home had a tree of these fruit blossoming just outside his mother's room, and thus he has fond memories of it. Lady Dianthus... she who loves all things pink, actively hates celery, and still has a job at the library despite being so fogetful and clumsy... she who met Theseus and immediately became obsessed because it was the first interesting thing to happen to her- not a parent or someone she's close to, but herself! her first time feeling as if she had a true purpose. She who didn't understand Theseus' obsession with Asterius until meeting he Minotaur, and promptly decided "he's not scary? he's not scary at all! he's just a cow!" I've made sona and the likes before Dia of course, but she was the first in a long time who was truly meant to resemble me in all ways (except for the setting, of course...). I made her design simple so I would easily be able to redraw her, and gave her one of my favourite palettes pink and green and cream and gold. At first I really didn't expect to get that attached to her... I went months without drawing her after her initial creation. but the more I drew her the more I realized how much fun I was having with her...! It's funny looking back on it... originally I had a much more comedic idea for her story, and di not intend to ship her with Theseus in any serious way. It was going to be a completely one-sided love (with Dianthus taking the role of "crazed fangirl" - which she still is, in a way). I'm sure it isn't a surprise but it didn't take me long at all to start drawing ship art of them, creating artworks and writing of Theseus and Asterius was a self indulgent joy for me, so why not selfship art too? I ended up invested, of course. Using Dia I put a lot of my own feelings into a story; a sense of otherness, her loneliness, feeling lost and out of place. I had removed it later on because I felt uneasy with how vulnerable it was, but at one put I had placed one of the most traumatic events of my life into Dia's story- sometimes I think about adding it back, because I know giving her an oppurtunity to open up about it with her beloveds would be something beneficial to Me irl(!). But that's besides the point here... she's a stubborn girl, sweet but arrogant is my usual go-to descriptor for her; that's how I think of myself too, just based on what I've been told (I have a hard time thinking of myself as nice, though others always say so to me...). That may be part of why I tend to look for those features in (fictional!) lovers... something feels good to me about being able to butt heads due to this shared traits, but still coming together and making amends despite it. I do think it's a little funny that the sonas I've gotten the most attached to so far- Dianthus, and now Nerine- have some sort of theme of death with them. Dianthus is literally a ghost, and Nerine is metaphorically one (and maybe liteally, if I ever make up my mind...). Maybe that's just fitting for me, though... hmm... I'm not sure what else I want to say here... I think of Dianthus as "Me but in Hades Game / Ancient Greek context." Of course some events that happen in her life didn't happen to me, or, sometimes, I dramatize it (Dia's mother leaving her and her father to become the wife of a god was inspired by the fact that for the first few yers of my life, my parents were separated... but they always had a positive relationship with one another! Unlike Dia's parents), but she's become a big par

t of me all the same. Just as I am happy and hoping to spend many more years with Theseus and Asterius, I hope to spend many more years with her as well. i think that's all I'll write for now <3 if you read this thank you for being curious enough about me to be interested in all this 😭

btw, here's the first ever post of her... (yes thats my priv </3 i briefly unlocked it to search for this... don't try and follow me over there though it's crazy over there)

#🖼️ manuscripts #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #@ this site. let me post!!! let me post this!!!!!

[thesteriuswife]

Diathesterius from earlier last year 💘 dia squished in the middle and dia being flirted with(!!!!)

My first draft of the first drawing. Btw. (And a bonus one for crop)

#🖼️ manuscripts #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness

[thesteriuswife]

Valentine's art from last year 💘 last one is a redraw of art from the anime Mar.tian Succe.ssor Nade.sisco

#🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #🌺👑 king's flower #🖼️ manuscripts

[thesteriuswife]

Recent commissions I've received 💞 top is by PokkiOkki (Toyhouse) and bottom is by Moonsideswing (Twt)

#🫂💞 comms and gifts #🌺👑 king's flower #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness

[thesteriuswife]

I don't often see ship memes for poly couples, so I of course wanted to fill this one out 🙏🏾

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#🌺👑🐂 love in idleness

[thesteriuswife]

Apparently never posted the Nobuteru Yuki style Diathesterius on this account... 💞 Still very fond of this 😭

#🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #🖼️ manuscripts

[thesteriuswife]

old sketch i never coloured until now... inventory of items seen at the diathesterius wedding

#🏺 lacunae #🌺 nymph of the happy fields (dianthus) #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #okay 2 reblog if u wanna. its not too interesting <3

[thesteriuswife]

Made an observation that "Theseus Excitedly Explaining Something" is a common Diathesterius art topic 😭 [ from 2022 / 2023 ]

#🏺 lacunae #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness

[thesteriuswife]

Saw an edit of this old memay which lead to me making this 💔 based on:

#📜 muse's voice #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness

[thesteriuswife]

I can't do one of those "which of my ships is best" polls because (if I may be honest) I know myself and know I'd get pissed off no matter what the results are 😭 so I'm doing this instead

#📜 muse's voice #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #🌸🌨️🗝️ eternalflowershipping

[thesteriuswife]

i think Asterius becoming romantically involved with Dia was an inevitability..... Every time I thought of her going on dates with Theseus he'd be there too (as support. And Yet........)

#📜 muse's voice #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #Note: I know platonic dates are a thing and I'm their biggest supporter #But for Diathesterius in particular this was bound to lead to some homoeroticisms of the yuri variety. Please understand.

[thesteriuswife]

I'll post this here too... AZNerine is a weird lesbian couple but Diathesterius is every acronym at once weaaaiitt i almost forgot to add it... black lgbt flags by @/frogwhomp (except for the demisexual flag which I colour edited to match <3)

#🌨️🗝️ eternalflowershipping #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #🌸🌨️🗝️ Eternalflowershipping

[thesteriuswife]

AZnerine microorganisms + a repost of the Diathesterius microorganisms 💕

#🖼️ manuscripts #🌨️🗝️ eternalflowershipping #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #💠 see i have vanished yet i still sing (az's floette) #🌸🌨️🗝️ Eternalflowershipping

[thesteriuswife]

i do think of Theseus and Asterius as having a romantic relationship but it's... Very untraditional 😭 there's dialogue from Asterius implying that his way of trying to cheer Theseus up was through friendly combat. But it's why their relationship works so well, too. They can relate to and engage with one another in ways no one else can.

On another note: they like when Dia sits in on their sparring matches :~)

#📜 muse's voice #👑🐂 the king and the bull (thesterius) #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness

[thesteriuswife]

girl who keeps fantasizing about her selfship being made canon

#📜 muse's voice #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #Like I know it doesn't have to be canon to be Legitimate 😭 #But a girl can dream can't she 🥺🥺