You know when someone at the absolute top of the talent pyramid comments on one of your fanwork posts? Except this time--I had mentioned her name in the post, although she didn't refer to it
and
she didn't comment on my work, just the notes of my work--I hate it when a comment can't just be a comment. There's no reason everyone has to mention my work when they comment on a post--there are words there too--but OMG I'm the only other person in the fandom using the same media as her and now I feel extra extra shy.
She was very nice, though. This is entirely an issue all about the insides of my head so I had to get it out there so I could read how silly it is.
I just ran across a fic that describes someone's eyes as "full of dark and dangerous things, mostly sex."
My own eyes are full of dark and dangerous things, mostly the insides of my eye sockets...
Okay, I *need* someone to write about a character whose eyes are full of humour. That would be fucking hysterical, and is also why I don't get as many nice things as I want.
Would the humours be balanced?
Because I'd read that. I might mock it, but I'd read it.
The humour could be watery or glassy, that's the most I'd ask of it. And I would not mock, I would give a standing high five, because that is precisely my favourite sort of pun.
I remembered to ask the woman who suggested I'd used a Sherlock picture as a ref for the Sherlock picture, and yeah, it's the same pose. I wonder if we used the same photo....there are so many source photos, but no way to know if you're treading other people's grounds.
I would have assumed same original photo at
worst
but maybe that's because I have seen other pictures people have drawn off photos I have in my collection. "Stealing" from a 2012 Sherlock pic would be asking for trouble--and the person who asked did back off when I denied it.
Malinda Lo is looking for artists and illustrators. Anyone who wants to spread the word to fandom artists should -- she's the author of, among other things, the YA book Ash, which is a Cinderella retelling with a lesbian perspective.
So if anyone's been following it, Lettered's Groundhog Day Avengers story is finished. It's really good, although I could have done with Tony being less of an asshole and Bruce being a little less wound up in his manpain.
Link, plz? I haven't been reading it, but it sounds interesting.
Ack, I'm at work, but if you go to AO3 and search on Lettered, it should be the top thing on her list.
