Some Fanarts

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

I've been posting a lot of fanarts on Tumblr, but I haven't shared them here yet. So here are a few of them. Hope you like!










And here's one from -- well, not "from", but hypothetically happened -- in TaT

Comments

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

I can't see them! Can you link to your tumblr?

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Omg, why is the default set to private when uploading photos??? @__@ *needs to look at settings*. Thanks for letting me know. Hope you can see them now. If not, here's the link to the first (https://mander-draws.tumblr.com/post/162005662356/at-first), and the second (https://mander-draws.tumblr.com/post/160923424461/just-a-quick-sketch-because).

I saw them on tumblr and I LOVE LOVE LOVE

[11rod88staff11.livejournal.com]

seeing them again here. More than ever I love the drawings that really articulate how each character relates to another. I LOVE the last one. You know, when it comes to literal scenes, we read very little descriptive detail of Irene's heart shattering vulnerability and yet we all know it and feel it to be true in between the lines. The ultimate fan fiction prompt.

Re: I saw them on tumblr and I LOVE LOVE LOVE

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah, I saw your comments on Tumblr, thanks so much! And thanks for commenting here again.

The ultimate fan fiction prompt.

Lol, you don't know how many nights I've stayed up making angsty stories in my head about Irene/Gen.

Re: I saw them on tumblr and I LOVE LOVE LOVE

[11rod88staff11.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I know I also stay up all night making angst-y stories about Irene in my head and I have yet to really write any of them down or bring any of them full circle because my god their unique tone and diction are so so so high level difficult to emulate accurately and I really find it important that the tone of the fan fic not be ridiculous and fluffy and it's almost like nails grating on chalk board to read a fan fic and have that misalignment and it's really intimidating to think about! and I have SO much admiration for those that can duplicate the tonal subtleties of MWT.

I feel like there are RARE exceptions to this personal rule of mine... like this fanfic, Dance Me To Your Beauty (https://archiveofourown.org/works/8883880) is one of my all time favorites (although I have many favorites)... even though it differs tonally. (It's distinctively light and joyful between the Gen, Irene and Costis and yet for most of the narrative, the lightness really, really works until I feel it starts to unravel a bit toward the very end and I don't like reading the end part as much as I like reading the beginning and middle parts as a result.

Anyway just some thoughts. I love being able to see your work. I'm available any time to just talk about the characters in the most indepth way possible, discuss the plot whatever. I can't believe how different my life has been in the past 4-5 months because of the Queen's Thief.

Re: I saw them on tumblr and I LOVE LOVE LOVE

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

I agree with a lot of what you said. I've been a fanwriter for much, much longer than I've been a fanartist, but for QT especially, it's so difficult for me to write for exactly the same reasons you mentioned. It's tough to even get the characterization right in the first place (though everyone would think of the characters in their own way, of course), let alone write a story with the same kind of aplomb that MWT pulls off.

I think I prefer to read fluffier stories, because I can easily distance myself from the actual canon work so I can just enjoy it without thinking how it could fit within the framework of the book. I think my issue with fanfic is when it's serious and the characters aren't quite how I envisioned them, because then it's just jarring. I was just talking with another fic writer about this, and I told her that Irene's caustic humour is one of those things that really disorients me in fics; in canon, when she "threatens" Gen, there's usually double entendre involved, but I think the subtlety doesn't come through in most fics, and it just looks like Irene is bullying Gen. I mean, I don't want to complain *too* much, because these fanfic authors are really brave, and writing takes *so* much effort and energy; and not everyone is going to have the same interpretation of the characters as I do. But yeah, when it comes to QT, I read much less fics than I do for other fandoms.

Thanks for the fic rec, I'll check it out.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I saw these on Tumblr and am so glad you posted them here, too. I love the panels in the first one, and the story they tell. No words are necessary--the artwork tells it all. And the second one--I could tell immediately what it was about. Touching and lovely.

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Aww thanks, I'm glad you liked it! I was a little afraid the comic one would seem choppy because there were no words, but I'm happy it still got the story across ^__^.

wait the second one..... wHAT IS IT ABOUT?

[11rod88staff11.livejournal.com]

Gah... I thought it was a more general depiction of Eugenides comforting Irene... its about the miscarriage?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like........ you know.... I haven't DARED even try to put this into words yet but I can feel the tidal wave, the tsunami of creation and inspiration brewing amidst the earth's fanfiction writers about Irene's miscarriage..... there's one fanfic I have read that's a light and happy story about preparing for the birth ........ that's very good but ..... &%^YTSDKJGJFKDSHKLFDSHKJLDFHKH(*^*&FS^&.... alright my ability to articulate has run its course.....

Re: wait the second one..... wHAT IS IT ABOUT?

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

The weirdest thing is that the miscarriage was something I thought about even *before* reading TaT... it seemed like the next brutal thing our dear author could do. I mean, of course, when I thought about it, I never really expected it to happen, so it was mostly for the angst, but now that it happened, I don't really know what I think, especially because the fandom is pretty much split between the miscarriage being real or a cover-up for something else.

As far as I know, there's only one person who's writing a fic about it (throwaninkpot from Tumblr), and I'm reading waiting for her to upload the next chapters in her fic.

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

Very nice, but I think you've missed the matching pistols hanging on the bedposts? ;P
That last one ... reducing me to tears again! :'(

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Ah, no surprise there, because I seem to be cementing my reputation as a forgetful being... you know what else I forgot? GEN'S SCAR ON HIS LEFT CHEEK T__T.

*pst, we can cry together*

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

You Forgot His Scar?!? You Forgot His Scar?!?
[yeah, okay, I missed it too ... but I think YOU probably need to be sleeping with a knife under your pillow in case of a visit from one or other Eugenides ;P ]
Are you going to do fanart for the Hamiathes Gift exchange?

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

You know what else I *almost* forgot? His stump in the 2nd last picture, where he's pushing her away. The sketch had a hand where the stump was supposed to be. But I'm horrible at drawing hands, and when I was making the lineart, I thought, "Is there a way I can just hide his hand? I don't want to draw more hands!" And then it clicked that he *wasn't* supposed to have a hand there.

I'm not sure yet if I'm participating in the Hamiathes Gift exchange. If I do, I'll probably offer both fanfic and fanart, so it depends on which prompt I get, I suppose.