I've integrated Wrapping Paper likes and prompts throughout my letter, but I've also broken them out here for easier reference! I love art, and I will love anything you are inspired to create in my fandoms. Any style, any theme, any character(s), any rating. ♥ Sketches, finished pieces, cartoons, porn ... I can't think of anything I wouldn't like! (Except something in my general DNWs, like detailed gore or noncon. But I have no "specific to art" dislikes!)
General Note: While I've had fun thinking of prompts, if you have a different idea or inspiration, GO FOR IT. As long as it doesn't conflict with my DNWs, I would love any art in my fandoms. You don't have to feel restricted to my prompts in any way! You are also welcome to any of my fic prompts, if those inspire an art idea!
AO3 Handle: categranger (AO3) Letter Link:https://categranger.dreamwidth.org/852.html Fandoms: Operas - The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, Le Comte Ory (Met Opera 2011) Historical RPF - The Anarchy RPF, 14th & 15th CE Plantagenet Dynasty RPF, War of the Roses RPF
General Art Likes: - Smiles. - Sunshine. - Affectionate, tender embraces. - Passionate embraces. - "Novel covers" (or "DVD covers" for the opera fandoms) - Characters caught in the moment of telling/listening to a joke. - The moment before a kiss (especially a first kiss). - Characters with their head on their lover’s shoulder or in their lover’s lap. - Characters gazing at their lovers with looks of utter besotted-ness. (If for an opera, perhaps while their lover is in the middle of an aria!) - This is, uh, quite specific, but men kneeling in front of women (whether in penitence, worship, playfulness, lust, homage, etc.) I realised while writing this letter that it was showing up in basically all my fandoms, so might as well ‘fess to it up front. :) - A man in a greater state of undress and/or dishevelment than the woman he's wooing. - Portraits of women looking stalwart and determined. - For my historical RPF fandoms -- I love the Disney Robin Hood, and I wonder how any of these historical characters might be interpreted in a similar-style Disney film. What animal might Margaret Beaufort be? Henry FitzEmpress? Etc. :D
Fandom and character(s): Il barbiere di Siviglia | The Barber of Seville - Rossini/Sterbini (Rosina, Conte di Almaviva, Figaro) Fandom-specific prompts: (some notes to specific productions, which I explain in my letter) • ‘Lindoro’ serenading Rosina on her balcony. • Rosina writing her letter to Lindoro and plotting her plan of attack during “Una voce poco fa”. • Rosina’s wheelchair and pink cast from RoH 2009 are adorable. I’d love to see any art of her from that production, especially flirting with/kissing Almaviva, but also plotting with Figaro. • Almaviva in costume! As I mentioned, I love the 2007 drunken-soldier costume a lot. But any costume is great. • The singing lesson scene (with a sleeping Bartolo, perhaps?) • Exasperated Figaro on the ladder, with besotted lovers necking beneath. • The trio singing “Zitti zitti” and smiling a lot. Especially the trio from 2007. • The Count and Rosina kissing, or embracing. (I’m equally fond of DiDonato/Flórez and Leonard/Brownlee’s portrayals, and would love to see either. If the latter, I found the height difference hot (Rosina taller than the Count), so please keep it!)
Fandom and character(s): Le nozze di Figaro | The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart/Da Ponte (Rosina, Conte di Almaviva, Susanna, Figaro) Fandom-specific prompts: • I love the Act II finale – the music is gorgeous, and the drama tense. Any snapshot from it would be neat. Susanna hiding around a corner/behind a curtain while Rosina and the Count face off! The bit where the Count offers Rosina his arm to leave together and she totally scorns him! Susanna emerging from the wardrobe to shocked faces from Rosina and the Count! Etc. • Susanna and Figaro flirting. • Susanna and Rosina dressing in each other’s clothing/Susanna adjusting Rosina’s veil. • Susanna, Figaro, and Rosina smiling at each other. • The Count romancing ‘Susanna’/his wife in disguise. • The final scene, with a penitent Count kneeling at Rosina’s feet (the Gardiner in particular does this very well). Or with him kissing her hands (or a real kiss! Only a few productions give us one but I’d like it.)
Fandom and character(s): Le Comte Ory (Met Opera 2011) (Adèle, Isolier, Comte Ory) Fandom-specific prompts: • The Comte in his nun disguise! I love ‘Sister Colette’. • Sister Colette and Adèle. • Sister Colette kneeling at Adèle’s feet (especially if Adèle has that knowing smirk on her face). • Adèle and Isolier in love, embracing, kissing, etc. • Threesome romp! • Isolier and the Comte kissing while Adèle watches them, smiling. • Isolier or the Comte with their head up Adèle’s skirts while the other one watches avidly and Adèle giggles.
Fandom and character(s): The Anarchy RPF (Empress Matilda | Maude, Matilda of Boulogne, Henry FitzEmpress) Fandom-specific prompts: • Maude escaping in the snowstorm • Maude having Stephen brought before her in chains; bonus if Stephen is kneeling in front of her - double bonus if he's in chains AND wearing his crown • Maude and Henry! (Either child-Henry or adult-Henry. Or baby Henry!) • AU where Maude wins: "coronation portrait" of Maude in her crown • Matilda besieging Winchester • Matilda being reunited with Stephen after the prisoner exchange • Stephen meeting the fourteen-year-old Henry after his invasion • Stephen and Henry sharing the kiss of peace at the Treaty of Winchester • Henry introducing Eleanor to Maude.
Fandom and character(s): 14th & 15th CE Plantagenet Dynasty RPF (Joan of Kent, Edward of Woodstock | The Black Prince, Katherine Swynford, Catherine de Valois) Fandom-specific prompts: • Joan and Edward at a joust. Joan giving Edward her favor? • Edward presenting Joan with a silver cup from one of his military campaigns (this was during her earlier marriage and is a major hint that he was long-term pining for her) • Joan on tiptoe to kiss Edward while he is still in his black armor • Katherine surrounded by her boisterous blended family • Katherine being honored as "the king's mother" by her stepson Henry Bolingbroke; whether just the two of them, or maybe Henry bowing his head to her at court after the coronation while courtiers look on? Or whatever that means to you! • Katherine, Blanche, John of Gaunt, Hugh Swynford, and their ten assorted children (+ in-laws & grandchildren?) in the afterlife. Truly a menagerie. xD Or just the trio of Katherine, Blanche, and John! • Catherine meeting Owen somewhere secret - maybe the stables? • Owen kneeling in front of Catherine, and Catherine laughing • The contrast between Catherine's first marriage (Princess of France, a forced bride) and her second (disregarded Dowager Queen, eloping) • Any of the ladies with their true love
Fandom and character(s): Wars of the Roses RPF (Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth of York Queen of England) Fandom-specific prompts: • Margaret watching Henry be crowned, or watching the crowds acclaim him in a procession • Margaret with her grandchildren – whether playing with them when they’re little, or watching Henry VIII marry Catherine or be crowned • Margaret and Elizabeth Woodville negotiating the Henry/Elizabeth marriage • Margaret with her baby son, dreaming of the future • Margaret holding the crown (or wearing it!) • The first time Elizabeth and Henry meet • Henry on one knee to propose (may be anachronistic, but I would still like it) • Elizabeth and Henry’s wedding • Elizabeth, Henry, and baby Arthur • Elizabeth surrounded by her family at a boisterous Christmas
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General Note: While I've had fun thinking of prompts, if you have a different idea or inspiration, GO FOR IT. As long as it doesn't conflict with my DNWs, I would love any art in my fandoms. You don't have to feel restricted to my prompts in any way! You are also welcome to any of my fic prompts, if those inspire an art idea!
AO3 Handle: categranger (AO3)
Letter Link: https://categranger.dreamwidth.org/852.html
Fandoms: Operas - The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, Le Comte Ory (Met Opera 2011)
Historical RPF - The Anarchy RPF, 14th & 15th CE Plantagenet Dynasty RPF, War of the Roses RPF
General Art Likes:
- Smiles.
- Sunshine.
- Affectionate, tender embraces.
- Passionate embraces.
- "Novel covers" (or "DVD covers" for the opera fandoms)
- Characters caught in the moment of telling/listening to a joke.
- The moment before a kiss (especially a first kiss).
- Characters with their head on their lover’s shoulder or in their lover’s lap.
- Characters gazing at their lovers with looks of utter besotted-ness. (If for an opera, perhaps while their lover is in the middle of an aria!)
- This is, uh, quite specific, but men kneeling in front of women (whether in penitence, worship, playfulness, lust, homage, etc.) I realised while writing this letter that it was showing up in basically all my fandoms, so might as well ‘fess to it up front. :)
- A man in a greater state of undress and/or dishevelment than the woman he's wooing.
- Portraits of women looking stalwart and determined.
- For my historical RPF fandoms -- I love the Disney Robin Hood, and I wonder how any of these historical characters might be interpreted in a similar-style Disney film. What animal might Margaret Beaufort be? Henry FitzEmpress? Etc. :D
Fandom and character(s):
Il barbiere di Siviglia | The Barber of Seville - Rossini/Sterbini
(Rosina, Conte di Almaviva, Figaro)
Fandom-specific prompts: (some notes to specific productions, which I explain in my letter)
• ‘Lindoro’ serenading Rosina on her balcony.
• Rosina writing her letter to Lindoro and plotting her plan of attack during “Una voce poco fa”.
• Rosina’s wheelchair and pink cast from RoH 2009 are adorable. I’d love to see any art of her from that production, especially flirting with/kissing Almaviva, but also plotting with Figaro.
• Almaviva in costume! As I mentioned, I love the 2007 drunken-soldier costume a lot. But any costume is great.
• The singing lesson scene (with a sleeping Bartolo, perhaps?)
• Exasperated Figaro on the ladder, with besotted lovers necking beneath.
• The trio singing “Zitti zitti” and smiling a lot. Especially the trio from 2007.
• The Count and Rosina kissing, or embracing. (I’m equally fond of DiDonato/Flórez and Leonard/Brownlee’s portrayals, and would love to see either. If the latter, I found the height difference hot (Rosina taller than the Count), so please keep it!)
Fandom and character(s):
Le nozze di Figaro | The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart/Da Ponte
(Rosina, Conte di Almaviva, Susanna, Figaro)
Fandom-specific prompts:
• I love the Act II finale – the music is gorgeous, and the drama tense. Any snapshot from it would be neat. Susanna hiding around a corner/behind a curtain while Rosina and the Count face off! The bit where the Count offers Rosina his arm to leave together and she totally scorns him! Susanna emerging from the wardrobe to shocked faces from Rosina and the Count! Etc.
• Susanna and Figaro flirting.
• Susanna and Rosina dressing in each other’s clothing/Susanna adjusting Rosina’s veil.
• Susanna, Figaro, and Rosina smiling at each other.
• The Count romancing ‘Susanna’/his wife in disguise.
• The final scene, with a penitent Count kneeling at Rosina’s feet (the Gardiner in particular does this very well). Or with him kissing her hands (or a real kiss! Only a few productions give us one but I’d like it.)
Fandom and character(s):
Le Comte Ory (Met Opera 2011)
(Adèle, Isolier, Comte Ory)
Fandom-specific prompts:
• The Comte in his nun disguise! I love ‘Sister Colette’.
• Sister Colette and Adèle.
• Sister Colette kneeling at Adèle’s feet (especially if Adèle has that knowing smirk on her face).
• Adèle and Isolier in love, embracing, kissing, etc.
• Threesome romp!
• Isolier and the Comte kissing while Adèle watches them, smiling.
• Isolier or the Comte with their head up Adèle’s skirts while the other one watches avidly and Adèle giggles.
Fandom and character(s):
The Anarchy RPF
(Empress Matilda | Maude, Matilda of Boulogne, Henry FitzEmpress)
Fandom-specific prompts:
• Maude escaping in the snowstorm
• Maude having Stephen brought before her in chains; bonus if Stephen is kneeling in front of her - double bonus if he's in chains AND wearing his crown
• Maude and Henry! (Either child-Henry or adult-Henry. Or baby Henry!)
• AU where Maude wins: "coronation portrait" of Maude in her crown
• Matilda besieging Winchester
• Matilda being reunited with Stephen after the prisoner exchange
• Stephen meeting the fourteen-year-old Henry after his invasion
• Stephen and Henry sharing the kiss of peace at the Treaty of Winchester
• Henry introducing Eleanor to Maude.
Fandom and character(s):
14th & 15th CE Plantagenet Dynasty RPF
(Joan of Kent, Edward of Woodstock | The Black Prince, Katherine Swynford, Catherine de Valois)
Fandom-specific prompts:
• Joan and Edward at a joust. Joan giving Edward her favor?
• Edward presenting Joan with a silver cup from one of his military campaigns (this was during her earlier marriage and is a major hint that he was long-term pining for her)
• Joan on tiptoe to kiss Edward while he is still in his black armor
• Katherine surrounded by her boisterous blended family
• Katherine being honored as "the king's mother" by her stepson Henry Bolingbroke; whether just the two of them, or maybe Henry bowing his head to her at court after the coronation while courtiers look on? Or whatever that means to you!
• Katherine, Blanche, John of Gaunt, Hugh Swynford, and their ten assorted children (+ in-laws & grandchildren?) in the afterlife. Truly a menagerie. xD Or just the trio of Katherine, Blanche, and John!
• Catherine meeting Owen somewhere secret - maybe the stables?
• Owen kneeling in front of Catherine, and Catherine laughing
• The contrast between Catherine's first marriage (Princess of France, a forced bride) and her second (disregarded Dowager Queen, eloping)
• Any of the ladies with their true love
Fandom and character(s):
Wars of the Roses RPF
(Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth of York Queen of England)
Fandom-specific prompts:
• Margaret watching Henry be crowned, or watching the crowds acclaim him in a procession
• Margaret with her grandchildren – whether playing with them when they’re little, or watching Henry VIII marry Catherine or be crowned
• Margaret and Elizabeth Woodville negotiating the Henry/Elizabeth marriage
• Margaret with her baby son, dreaming of the future
• Margaret holding the crown (or wearing it!)
• The first time Elizabeth and Henry meet
• Henry on one knee to propose (may be anachronistic, but I would still like it)
• Elizabeth and Henry’s wedding
• Elizabeth, Henry, and baby Arthur
• Elizabeth surrounded by her family at a boisterous Christmas