Trick or Treat reveals
I made two works for Trick or Treat! And I was very careful about not referring to them as fics, because one of them's only half fic.
The Revolution Will Be Illustrated (956 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Sabine Wren
Additional Tags: Mixed Media, Fanart, Fanfiction, Backstory, Character Study, Traditional Media, Digital Art
Summary: Sabine changes and her art changes with her.
According to the wishes of the artist, every piece is presented as it might have been at the time of its inception.
My assignment was
shiningstar who requested both fic and art and ALL OF THE STAR WARS. I'm not sure which of the Star Wars we matched on, but it wasn't Rebels since I don't offer what I request.
Anyhow, my first thought was to write Sabine/Numa crackship femslash (although they have actually met and talked in canon so it's not that much of a crackship). I couldn't figure out how to make it work in the time that I had -- but now I know how to do it -- so I went with an idea I'd been vaguely thinking of before assignments went out.
Sabine is, canonically, an artist, so I wanted to do a character study through her art.
So I did! It's a combination of backstory (+ futurefic) and character study, with art. Sabine's an Imperial cadet turned bounty hunter turned Rebel by the time we meet her in canon. The fic is split in three parts: one at the Imperial Academy on Mandalore, another while she's a bounty hunter and one last one set after Return of the Jedi.
Fic-wise, I tried to reflect the dehumanising effect of the Empire by having names creep into the narrative as Sabine spends time away: first part has no names, second part has other people's names and last part has her name. You can see that in the in-story titling of the artwork too.
I mirrored that in the art by having colour creep into the pictures. First one's black and white (+ red), second one is blue monochrome (+ red) and the last one is in full colour. And now I'm going to talk more about said art.
Fight for Mandalore fight for THE EMPIRE, Unnamed artist, 25:5:15
This is a propaganda poster, in story. It's all China ink, except for the writing, which I added on the computer. It reads "Fight for Mandalore / fight for / THE EMPIRE". I hesitated between filling in the line-art digitally or using the actual finished artwork, but I went with actual art work, just so the use of ink in both would mirror/contrast with the last picture.
Starbird: WANTED, unknown graffiti artist, 30:1:13
This one's in-story a wanted poster. It's digital -- I cropped and messed with the colour level of the first picture in this Star Wars.com article. The blue text reads "WANTED / Sabine Wren / For crimes against the Empire" and the red text reads "Starbird".
TIE DYE, Sabine Wren, 35:3:9
In stroy this is painted on a TIE fighter. In real life, it's ink for the figure and digital for the symbol in the background -- the Starbird. The vignette that goes with it says "She had her hair dyed Empire red fading into Starbird orange into sunrise yellow. / For once she let herself follow the cheap lure of easy symbolism." The red of her hair is the exact same red as the red I've used in the previous two. "Easy lure of cheap symbolism", indeed. Look, symbolism can be fun, okay?
(I also may or may not have done this whole thing because of the pun in the title of this painting.)
The title of the work is a reference to Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
It was really, really hard for me to give someone art as a gift, even with fic associated with it. I kept having to talk myself into it -- "It's not good enough!" "Self, the writing part alone is three times the minimum requirement! POST THE THING."
(Also while I was fiddling with it I managed to accidentally default on my assignment. *facepalm* I PM'd the exchange mod who gave me back the assignment -- but didn't tell me, so if I hadn't noticed will posting Out of the Cold that my assignment count had gone back up, I might have stayed defaulted.)
Filling my assignment took up a lot of time and brainspace, so I only made one treat for the exchange.
the ruin of the soul (669 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Haggar (Voltron)
Additional Tags: Mad Science, ToT: Monster Mash
Summary: A day in the life of Haggar, mad scientist of the Galra Empire.
The title comes from François Rabelais' Pantagruel: "Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul". And while "Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme" is a MASSIVELY famous quote in France, it sadly not so in English and suddenly I sound really pretentious quoting 16th century French authors? So I figured "in for a pretentious penny, in for a pretentious pound" and didn't capitalise the title at all. (*dodges pitchforks from the title police*)
I hesitated to tag Shiro in this, but Haggar doesn't consider him a person I went with not tagging him.
This fic also features all of my Voltron headcanons, except the one about Pidge being a K-drama protagonist an adult woman who is both short and can pass as a boy. To wit, it features the following: that Shiro was experimented on to make him compatible with the Black Lion and that the Galra let him escape on purpose. While writing it I also gave myself the headcanon that Haggar gave Shiro the white lock in his hair deliberately.
Idk, apparently my theme this ToT was "artists and their art". Both fics were betaed by the ever excellent chiiyo86, who I can finally credit now that author reveals are here.
This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/156801.html and has
comments over there.
The Revolution Will Be Illustrated (956 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Sabine Wren
Additional Tags: Mixed Media, Fanart, Fanfiction, Backstory, Character Study, Traditional Media, Digital Art
Summary: Sabine changes and her art changes with her.
According to the wishes of the artist, every piece is presented as it might have been at the time of its inception.
My assignment was
shiningstar who requested both fic and art and ALL OF THE STAR WARS. I'm not sure which of the Star Wars we matched on, but it wasn't Rebels since I don't offer what I request.
Anyhow, my first thought was to write Sabine/Numa crackship femslash (although they have actually met and talked in canon so it's not that much of a crackship). I couldn't figure out how to make it work in the time that I had -- but now I know how to do it -- so I went with an idea I'd been vaguely thinking of before assignments went out.
Sabine is, canonically, an artist, so I wanted to do a character study through her art.
So I did! It's a combination of backstory (+ futurefic) and character study, with art. Sabine's an Imperial cadet turned bounty hunter turned Rebel by the time we meet her in canon. The fic is split in three parts: one at the Imperial Academy on Mandalore, another while she's a bounty hunter and one last one set after Return of the Jedi.
Fic-wise, I tried to reflect the dehumanising effect of the Empire by having names creep into the narrative as Sabine spends time away: first part has no names, second part has other people's names and last part has her name. You can see that in the in-story titling of the artwork too.
I mirrored that in the art by having colour creep into the pictures. First one's black and white (+ red), second one is blue monochrome (+ red) and the last one is in full colour. And now I'm going to talk more about said art.
Fight for Mandalore fight for THE EMPIRE, Unnamed artist, 25:5:15
This is a propaganda poster, in story. It's all China ink, except for the writing, which I added on the computer. It reads "Fight for Mandalore / fight for / THE EMPIRE". I hesitated between filling in the line-art digitally or using the actual finished artwork, but I went with actual art work, just so the use of ink in both would mirror/contrast with the last picture.
Starbird: WANTED, unknown graffiti artist, 30:1:13
This one's in-story a wanted poster. It's digital -- I cropped and messed with the colour level of the first picture in this Star Wars.com article. The blue text reads "WANTED / Sabine Wren / For crimes against the Empire" and the red text reads "Starbird".
TIE DYE, Sabine Wren, 35:3:9
In stroy this is painted on a TIE fighter. In real life, it's ink for the figure and digital for the symbol in the background -- the Starbird. The vignette that goes with it says "She had her hair dyed Empire red fading into Starbird orange into sunrise yellow. / For once she let herself follow the cheap lure of easy symbolism." The red of her hair is the exact same red as the red I've used in the previous two. "Easy lure of cheap symbolism", indeed. Look, symbolism can be fun, okay?
(I also may or may not have done this whole thing because of the pun in the title of this painting.)
The title of the work is a reference to Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
It was really, really hard for me to give someone art as a gift, even with fic associated with it. I kept having to talk myself into it -- "It's not good enough!" "Self, the writing part alone is three times the minimum requirement! POST THE THING."
(Also while I was fiddling with it I managed to accidentally default on my assignment. *facepalm* I PM'd the exchange mod who gave me back the assignment -- but didn't tell me, so if I hadn't noticed will posting Out of the Cold that my assignment count had gone back up, I might have stayed defaulted.)
Filling my assignment took up a lot of time and brainspace, so I only made one treat for the exchange.
the ruin of the soul (669 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Haggar (Voltron)
Additional Tags: Mad Science, ToT: Monster Mash
Summary: A day in the life of Haggar, mad scientist of the Galra Empire.
The title comes from François Rabelais' Pantagruel: "Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul". And while "Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme" is a MASSIVELY famous quote in France, it sadly not so in English and suddenly I sound really pretentious quoting 16th century French authors? So I figured "in for a pretentious penny, in for a pretentious pound" and didn't capitalise the title at all. (*dodges pitchforks from the title police*)
I hesitated to tag Shiro in this, but Haggar doesn't consider him a person I went with not tagging him.
This fic also features all of my Voltron headcanons, except the one about Pidge being a K-drama protagonist an adult woman who is both short and can pass as a boy. To wit, it features the following: that Shiro was experimented on to make him compatible with the Black Lion and that the Galra let him escape on purpose. While writing it I also gave myself the headcanon that Haggar gave Shiro the white lock in his hair deliberately.
Idk, apparently my theme this ToT was "artists and their art". Both fics were betaed by the ever excellent chiiyo86, who I can finally credit now that author reveals are here.
This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/156801.html and has
comments over there.