AO3 Handle: Zabbers Fandom and character(s): The Philosopher's Series, The Rake's Progress Prompts:
The Philosopher's Series: A WWI-era world in which mostly women are able to fly and do instantaneous transport and craft smoke into useful shapes and convince plants to grow better, etc., full of cool gadgets and gear to help them in their work! (The magic/sigilry/empirical philosophy is enacted through a combination of powdered chemicals and hand gestures that channel the user's energy.) I think this would be a fantastic opportunity to do some worldbuilding through art. There are flying harnesses, powder bags and vials, an endless array of things made with various kinds of smoke, sand-based messaging boards, cutting-edge flight suits...all in period dress, settings, uniforms...or you could project forwards or backwards in time or to cultures only barely or not at all mentioned in the novels.
The Rake's Progress: The stagings I've seen of this opera about a series of Hogarth etchings/paintings about a morality tale are all fascinating in the way they combine storytelling/worldbuilding needs with visual arts elements, and the way they straddle the lines between representational and allegorical and...technical?--I mean emphasizing things like crosshatching (the Glyndebourne version) and brushstrokes (the Salzburg Festival version), but writ large on the stage, in three dimensions. You could have a lot of fun doing art of some of the existing ones or come up with a brand new one of your own. In my fic prompt I mentioned character dynamics I'm especially compelled by (Nick Shadow/Tom Rakewell, with Ann Trulove's influence a strong presence) but I love all the characters, and I'd be fascinated to see art about any of them or of the settings or objects or even mood of the scenes or inspired by the music.
My signup covers most of my DNWs, but for art, I'd like to add bulgy eyes, skulls, and body horror (especially of the kind that involves extra limbs/extremities/teeth in unlikely places or clumps of things growing out of bodies) to that list.
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Fandom and character(s): The Philosopher's Series, The Rake's Progress
Prompts:
The Philosopher's Series: A WWI-era world in which mostly women are able to fly and do instantaneous transport and craft smoke into useful shapes and convince plants to grow better, etc., full of cool gadgets and gear to help them in their work! (The magic/sigilry/empirical philosophy is enacted through a combination of powdered chemicals and hand gestures that channel the user's energy.) I think this would be a fantastic opportunity to do some worldbuilding through art. There are flying harnesses, powder bags and vials, an endless array of things made with various kinds of smoke, sand-based messaging boards, cutting-edge flight suits...all in period dress, settings, uniforms...or you could project forwards or backwards in time or to cultures only barely or not at all mentioned in the novels.
The Rake's Progress: The stagings I've seen of this opera about a series of Hogarth etchings/paintings about a morality tale are all fascinating in the way they combine storytelling/worldbuilding needs with visual arts elements, and the way they straddle the lines between representational and allegorical and...technical?--I mean emphasizing things like crosshatching (the Glyndebourne version) and brushstrokes (the Salzburg Festival version), but writ large on the stage, in three dimensions. You could have a lot of fun doing art of some of the existing ones or come up with a brand new one of your own. In my fic prompt I mentioned character dynamics I'm especially compelled by (Nick Shadow/Tom Rakewell, with Ann Trulove's influence a strong presence) but I love all the characters, and I'd be fascinated to see art about any of them or of the settings or objects or even mood of the scenes or inspired by the music.
My signup covers most of my DNWs, but for art, I'd like to add bulgy eyes, skulls, and body horror (especially of the kind that involves extra limbs/extremities/teeth in unlikely places or clumps of things growing out of bodies) to that list.