30 Day Meme: Artist + character meme

[hamsterwoman]

perpetual has this very cool 30 Day meme (which shall be known as "The Kairos 30 Day Meme"), which involves coming up with 1 to 30 favorite fannish things in 30 different categories -- X favorite actors, Y favorite books, Z favorite cartoons, etc. etc. Of course, I had to try my hand at it. perpetual is keeping the full list a surprise, so I will, too, and I did

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[belleweather]

Gansey from the Raven Boys

[hamsterwoman]

Holiday headcanon -- Gansey's favorite holidays are the ones that don't involve giving or receiving presents, because that complicates everything

Gansey, continued

[hamsterwoman]

Physical appearance headcanon -- very randomly: as he grows older, Gansey's hair starts going a very distinguished silver, starting neatly with the temples -- I'm seeing a George Clooney-like progression

[aravishermione]

Your post reminds me, last week when I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art I saw some works by Dali and thought of you! I didn't get as much time in the museum as I would've liked (it was a few hours' drive each way from my sister's in NJ) but it was really great. I think I first came across Dali when I was 4 or 5 (my mom started taking me to museums at age 3 and when we weren't at the museum she'd be showing me pictures of art) and it was like opening a magical world to a child with a very large imagination. I really do want to see that museum!

And for the meme, Dumbledore ♥

[hamsterwoman]

I think I first came across Dali when I was 4 or 5 [...] and it was like opening a magical world to a child with a very large imagination. II wonder if that's part of why we imprinted on him so well -- if the key is encountering his art when you're a little kid and more likely to be fascinated than disturbed by the crazy world inside his head

[aravishermione]

if the key is encountering his art when you're a little kid and more likely to be fascinated than disturbed by the crazy world inside his head Yes, I think you could be right. An adult would be more likely to make a snap judgement "that man was crazy!" and move on, but for a child it was a window into another world, beyond time and the boundaries of space and logic.

I agree with your headcanons...tbh, as we got into the later books, which I didn't enjoy as much, I sort of retreated into headcanons and ignored some of JKR's Gospel statements. And while I've reread books 1-4, I haven't reread the others since they came out so I think headcanon has overtaken memories of what canon even was.

[hamsterwoman]

I'm also fonder of the earlier books than the later ones (though I did really enjoy HBP, and thought DH was a decent conclusion). Plus, I've read so much HP fic, I can't always remember what was fic and what was actual canon.

[perpetual]

Yaaay, so excited to see you start on the meme! You've got the right idea swapping them out and rearranging. Also the right idea with Salvador Dali, but we already talked about that. :)

Zuko for the meme.

[hamsterwoman]

Also the right idea with Salvador Dali, but we already talked about that. :)Ha, yes! :) (I'm going back and rereading your entires for the category as I'm done with my own, so I had actually just gone to reread your post on artists and our conversation on Dali

[perpetual]

(And now that I thought I was done coming up with my favorites, I keep remembering more and having to rejigger things. Or sometimes whole new categories, like "tropes" and "quotes" XD But I think I have to draw a line in the sand and go with what I've got, or I'll never get anywhere!)

FINALLY SOMEONE KNOWS WHAT I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH. "Tropes" was one of my categories for a while. I guess I took it off to make room for something else.

And holy cow, what a magnificently long and complete answer. I love the bath/shower one! And his aversion to various Fire Nation things. He's so tragic and lovely. He is totally singing Iroh's songs, probably at this very moment.

The Azula icons made me laugh. Especially "Fire and Blood", because wow, she is quite a Targ, huh?

How about Katara for the relationship question? I still haven't forgiven canon for not giving me that ship.

[hamsterwoman]

FINALLY SOMEONE KNOWS WHAT I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH.

I've definitely come to appreciate just how planning-intense this meme is!

And, heh, I was wondering about tropes not being on the list, since you'd reerenced a few in your other posts.

because wow, she is quite a Targ, huh?Such a Targ! Complete with the madness-or-greatness toss of a coin thing (although I don't like the way her breakdown in season 4 was done). (I was part of an ASOIAF landcomm where one of the favorite pastimes was sorting people into ASOIAF houses, and then making icons of the results, and those come in very handy when I get into new canons

[bearshorty]

Degas is my favorite artist but I do like Dali a lot. He is certainly original and inventive. One of the first presents that I got for Bear was a Dali book,  since he likes him a lot as well.

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, cool!

(It occurs to me that I *don't* have a Dali art book, because I always kind of think it's still there, at my parents' house. But I should probably rectify that... Especially as there's a favorite painting of his that I don't remember the name of and therefor haven't been able to find, because "Dali ants" brings up a lot of entries on Google Image, many o which I don't actually want to see, but not that one XD)

What are some of your favorite Degas pieces? I've seen (reproductions) of a number of the ballet ones, but don't know much else about him, tbh.

[bearshorty]

I do love Degas' ballet paintings and his bathing ones. I've seen some lovely ones at Metropolitan
Museum of Art and Musee D'Orsay. Got a poster at the latter one of ballet dancers in green. Soft brush strokes just draw me me. (I think I like Turner for the same reason, haziness is appealing).  I'm not a fan of his horse paintings.

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, I like the haziness, too. In Turner's art, also.

[jaelle_n_gilla]

When I was younger I always found Dali disturbing. Maybe that's what he intended, but surrealism disturbs me. I got used to it over time and there are some pieces I like. The ones with less deformed bodies I guess :)

And this one kind of reconciled me with him:

[hamsterwoman]

Ha Salvador Dalek -- I've not seen that before! Fun! :D

I totally find Dali disturbing most of the time... just, in a good way, I guess, where it provokes a shiver. (The deformed bodies are also not my favorite, and my favorite of his pieces are quite light on them. Well, except snail nipples up there, I guess. :P)