tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:284874Scales and TalesKraitKrait2022-04-17T22:38:22Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:284874:286477Gundam Wing Fanart Rec2022-04-17T22:38:22Z2022-04-17T22:38:22Zpublic0<a href="https://twitter.com/lililithblooody/status/1515141919483244547?t=21I-wp5RHcAC9v_sHhOM9w&s=19">Gorgeous artwork</a> of Quatre Winner, by lililithblooody!<br /><br />It's really too bad he didn't get an outfit like this in the show. :D<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=krait&ditemid=286477" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:284874:279567Tiny NiF Recs2021-10-11T02:46:22Z2021-10-11T02:46:57Zpublic5The <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://nirvana-in-fire.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://nirvana-in-fire.dreamwidth.org/'><b>nirvana_in_fire</b></a></span> community held a <a href="https://nirvana-in-fire.dreamwidth.org/40176.html">zero comment challenge</a> last week, encouraging fans to find and comment on works with no comments yet. I'm a week late, but I went browsing and found some small gems to share:<br /><br /><br />Some fantastic 'metaphorical' art of Jingyan and a dragon: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/34367293">Imperial Law</a> by Bacca.<br /><br />A short little character piece on Mei Changsu's untruths: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/26900380">deceive, delude, mislead</a> by Xuer.<br /><br />A great Qin Banruo/Jun Niang ficlet set, dealing with trust, betrayal, and the legacy of Xuanji: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/32099131">heaven made me</a> by Anahita.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=krait&ditemid=279567" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:284874:253089Incredible fanart2020-04-08T05:24:59Z2020-04-08T05:24:59Zpublic3Attention, please?<br /><br />I have to share <a href="https://danukimart.tumblr.com/post/137543655613">this incredible Mei Changsu fanart</a> by Danukim. The intensity! The suggestion of haunting and of threat! <br /><br />I really love it when an artist somehow conveys multiple levels of a character, and Danuki has done that here: this is Mei Changsu, the outward calm and the past pain and the coming destruction.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=krait&ditemid=253089" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:284874:247611Fell down the old!fandom rabbit hole2020-02-02T06:24:37Z2020-02-04T04:08:30Zpublic2Well, I fell down the rabbit hole into another old fandom, so between yesterday and today I have read more than 100K of Forgotten Realms fanfiction.<br /><br />Oops?<br /><br />Have some recs. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://krait.dreamwidth.org/247611.html#cutid1">Below the cut!</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><br />Most of these are Jarlaxle/Artemis Entreri - which feels weird, because I didn't have the slightest interest in Entreri back in the day! But Drizzt is so unrelentingly het in the series that it's hard to find fics about him that I enjoy, Zak's dead, I've forgotten most of the cast of War of the Spider Queen, and it turns out (I discovered gradually through my reading) that there's basically a whole series about Jarlaxle and Entreri now? And they tried very hard to make everything as un-gay as they could, but since I have not read the books I'm just going to substitute logic instead. Nothing will ever convince me that male drow aren't all bisexual; Menzoberranzan is absolutely a Situational Sexuality setup if ever there was one.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=krait&ditemid=247611" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:284874:247314Drive-by art rec!2020-01-20T01:15:41Z2020-01-20T01:15:41Zpublic2I just ran across <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/21684658/chapters/51717649">Four seasons of promises</a> by spaceArtie, a set of four seasonally-themed images for Nirvana in Fire's Jingyan and Lin Shu. <br /><br />Beautiful and evocative, and the emotional progression hits as hard as the show's did.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=krait&ditemid=247314" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:284874:229161*Amazing* beautiful fan animation!2019-04-16T03:01:50Z2019-04-17T00:44:21Zpublic0Guys, I just found this <a href="https://twitter.com/hjurrgd/status/1117038082564341760">incredible</a> fan-drawn animation of Yuri and Victor pair-skating to On Love: Agape! It's in a lovely spare sketchy style that reminds me of both the anime's ending credits, and of a storyboard.<br /><br />I'm blown away by the talent shown here, and also by the little flash of Yuri's grin toward the end. <3<br /><br />I also giggled a bit over how sharply the height difference is. :D Victor, you're a beanpole!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=krait&ditemid=229161" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments