Fan Art Friday (Xmas Edition)

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Before I FAF you, let me mention two cool things.

1) There’s a podcast reading of my short story “Ass-Hat Magic Spider” up at the Dunesteef Audio Fiction magazine. You should go check it out. The story starts about 4:30 in, after some yucks between the hosts.

2) Next week I’m going to be live-tweeting an old movie with various friends around the world (namely, @justinelavaworm, @readingincolor, and @gwenda). In other words, we’ll all be putting the DVD in at the same time, watching it in sync, and tweeting VERY witty things. Or just crapping on about Cary Grant’s amazing car, ore likely. Why are we doing this? Because it seemed like fun, and @readingincolor hadn’t seen it yet.

The movie is called Topper, and is a screwball comedy about dying in a car accident and then messing with your banker as a ghost. (Seriously. People laughed at some weird stuff back then.)

If you’re on the twitter machine, please feel free to join in.

Time: 8:30PM US EST
Date: Tuesday Dec 27
(Sydney Time: 12:30PM Wed Dec 28)
Hashtag: #Topper

And now for some FAF! Today’s FAF will have unusually low editorial content, because I have a seven-course meal to cook the day after tomorrow. All my spreadsheets are full of recipes! Also, the fan art has been building up over the last few weeks, and I haven’t always kept records of who sent what. If I haven’t attributed the art, please identify yourself in the comments.

We should start with this seasonal confection from the excellent @NovelNovice’s mom:

Snow airmen! Snairmen!

This is cool. I saw it on Twitter, but I can’t remember who did it.

Abigail sent me this one of Deryn.

I like her smile. Deryn is more of a smiler than Alek.

This one is by AdventureIsOutThere. I think the expressions tell an interesting story. What dialog would you caption it with?

Here’s some Dr. Barlow cosplay. Again I can’t remember whom.

That’s a great Barlow expression.

I LOVE this shot of Deryn hanging out on the ratlines. It’s by Helen Yoon, and should totally be the poster for the Leviathan musical. Feel free to photoshop it into exactly that!

This next one is by Melissa, and shows Alek walking in on Deryn in a dress. (It predates the Bonus Chapter, obviously.)

Love the look of this next piece by Jesidres. Apparently Alek has held onto Tesla’s walking stick. (I never exactly say what happened to it, after all.)

This next one is by Maile. Just Dalek, hanging out in Istanbul after the war. You know. No big thing.

It’s nice to see them just having fun.

And this is not properly fan art at all. It’s just a picture of Princess Margaret of Prussia. But it TOTALLY looks like Deryn if she had wound up marrying into the Hapsburgs. As in NOT very happy.

“Alek, you know your family are barking mad, don’t you? LOOK AT WHAT THEY MADE ME WEAR TO BREAKFAST,” is clearly what she’s saying. With her eyes.

And penultimately, a pair of pencils pieces portraying our princely protagonist and his pugilistic protector.

Hmm. Can’t seem to find who did this one either. I ADMIT TO SUCKING AT CERTAIN FORMS OF ORGANIZATION. Do not let me do your taxes.

And finally, here’s another entry in a long-running competition I call, “No, it is I who mark up my books most of anyone, ever!” (Also known as America’s Top Post-It Model.) This time it’s the new edition of Uglies:

Sophie sent that, by the way. (Sometimes I know!)

Thanks to everyone, named and unnamed, for sending in such fabulous fan art. It’s the best present a writer could ever hope for.

Have a happy Hanukwanzamas, materialistic orgy of capitalist consumption, or whatever’s happening at your place. I might take some time off from blogging, so see you after the New Year.

It will be all Uglies Manga, all the time!

1,399 thoughts on “Fan Art Friday (Xmas Edition)”

  4. Greek and Latin aren’t spoken anymore. They’re used for medecine and classification of species and science. You can’t really learn to communicate in them. You can only study them.
    And German is AWESOME!

  5. Here is a list of languages I want to speak my the time I go to college.
    1. English (I already speak it)
    2. French (I also speak it)
    3. Greek
    4. Austrian
    5. Latin

  6. Do you know how much easier all languages are when you speak Greek and Latin? And I also want to study some languages during college.

  8. Well, Latin and Greek ARE root languages, I suppose. That is if I’m not incorrect. Which does not happen often.

  10. I can figure out a good deal of words because in 4th and 5th grade my teacher had us study a bunch of roots, prefixes and suffixes.

  12. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
    BTW, Sorley, my brother wants me to punch you in the face for saying Uglies is better that LBG. *Punches Sorley in the face* Take that!

  14. Oh, so you decided to leave just because I showed up? Thanks, guys. So much. *Sniffle* I guess I’ll just reload the page constantly and write Fanfic, which will be depressing as it reflects my mood!

  15. @Miles- Wow. That is… interesting… I would say I am still learning sarcasm. But I’m pretty close! Seriously? You should hear me talking to my sister. I am HILARIOUS! My parents don’t agree.

  18. @1312- That’s what I thought! At one point I memorized a part of it, lets see if I can remember: “‘Do you love me?” Luke asked. Annabeth glanced at Percy, who was standing, watching them.
    ‘You were like a brother to me Luke, but I never loved you.'” I think that was it… That was probably wrong though.

  23. @ 1310- HA! ME TOO! Oh, that was barking HILARIOUS! I’m fluent in American and stupid.
    Well…… That makes only one language.
    Not that Americans aren’t smart.
    But we just aren’t….. Proper.
    At least Kentucky isn’t.
    Or so stereotypes claim.

  25. Actually, that’s good. Because that means you are WRITING! So my bottomless pit of want will slowly but surely be somewhat filled.

  27. It’s alright. A big part of a good daughter (or son, I suppose) is helping parents unload groceries.

  29. That’s awesome! On my orchestra test, I drew a picture of a fat happy Levithan getting shot at by a Clanker plane and the German is saying “Die you vermin!”

  30. For example: Advanced Physical Science:
    Synthesis: Combination of 2+ substances to form a new substance. Example teacher gave; A+B ->AB. Example I wrote down; Deryn+Alek->Dalek (and there are sooo many more where that came from. I can say them if you want)
    MUAHAHA! And don’t even get me started on my history notes. We’re doing WWI.

  36. @ 1332- ‘Blisters! He barely even knows me!’ or something along that lines of when Lilit kissed Deryn. Or Dylan, I suppose. No. It was Deryn.

  41. @ 1339- Ummm….. BARKING NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    It was a REFERENCE. JUST a reference.

  44. Ugh. I’m doing homework right now. I have LOADS because I’ve been gone for the last 3 days. Well, 2 full days and 2 half days. Stupid barking wisdom teeth!

  48. I forgot to reply to your comment (@ 187) under “A Musical Interlude”. I just did. Sorry.

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