Eight Days of Happiness: Fanart

[thefourthvine]

As I remind myself endlessly when really cool memes are going around: I don't do memes. Except it occurred to me, when the eight days of happiness meme was going around, that I could in fact do that one. Because fandom brings me happiness! I can talk about one aspect of fandom that makes me happy, and provide a rec or two as an example, and I would

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[laura47]

things that bring me happiness (partial list): anything you write. :-)

[thefourthvine]

Awwww. Thank you! *blushes*

[beck_liz]

pregnant elf Blair

OMG, you had to bring that up. *flees in terror* I'd managed to repress that!

(Once, I swear I saw Aragorn's head on Arnold Schwarzenegger's body. The very thought still wakes me up in a cold sweat some nights.)

*stares* The horror.

Those pieces of art you've linked, however, are very adorable.

[thefourthvine]

OMG, you had to bring that up. *flees in terror* I'd managed to repress that!

Look, you didn't really want it to stay repressed. It'd be lurking in your hindbrain, causing no end of havoc, messing with your dreams and your subconscious reactions. It's better to have these things brought forward into the light. *nods decisively*

(In other words: if I can't repress it - and I can't, oh god, I've tried - I'm going to try to keep everyone else for repressing it, too.)

*stares* The horror.

It wasn't even one of those subtly horrible uncanny valley manips. No, it was just - Aragorn's head. On a body I swear I last saw when Schwarzenegger's naked photos were making the rounds.

I...I don't think I should think about this anymore.

Those pieces of art you've linked, however, are very adorable.

Aren't they awesome? I'm going to go look at them again, to see if I can overwrite some of the shuddering horror I'm now feeling.

[minervacat]

Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen are some of my most beloved comfort reads. I am always delighted to see that other people have read them, and that ART. *heartsheartshearts*

[thefourthvine]

OMG yes! Comfort reading! Particularly Lirael, which I go back to again and again. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3!

Totally missing the point, I know

[melodyunity]

The Library of the Clayr, which is up there in the top five of my favorite fictional libraries!

So what are the other four fictional libraries in your top five?

*is curious*

Re: Totally missing the point, I know

[featherlane]

Seconded! I don't usually comment, but I also have a list of favorite fictional libraries (I'm not going to even pretend to apologize for this), and now I'm dying to know what yours are. The library in Sandman? The library in "The Silence in the Library" (New Who)? The library in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"? (The last one is my personal favorite; Belle was the only Disney princess I could ever relate to as a kid, because the best present anyone could get me was also unlimited books! And it was so big, and there were so many books, and secretly, it is still how I picture Heaven.)

Re: Totally missing the point, I know

[melodyunity]

I love the "Silence in the Library" library. I also have a deep and abiding fondness for the library in Robin McKinley's book Beauty, which is a retelling of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast." In it is a copy of every book ever, even the ones that haven't been written yet.

Re: Totally missing the point, I know

[thefourthvine]

I knew someone would ask! Or I was hoping, anyway. My current top fictional libraries (list always subject to revision, of course):

The Library of Babel (Borges)
The Library of Unseen University (Pratchett)
The Graveyard of Unwritten Books (Gursel, but I admit I only know it through the Dictionary of Imaginary Places)
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (Zafon, but I liked the book less than the concept inside it)

The Library of the Clayr probably fits just under the Library of Babel, actually. And, in my secret heart of hearts, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books is displaced by a library that exists only in my imagination, as the place where bravecows goes when she goes to study.

[thefourthvine]

The dS comic book really is fabulous, isn't it?

And I'm glad I'm not the only person who spent her early fannish years fearing fanart. I've never seen XF art, but I can believe it would be scary, just because it seems like the earlier fandoms were more inclined toward the OMG NO school of art. And even though I was admiring fanart before SGA - thank you, dS - SGA has some of the best, most original, and prettiest fanart I've ever seen. Just, really wow.

I love ileliberte, although I had somehow managed to miss that first one. Thank you for linking me to it!