I usually don't go for dark hair/dark eyes in my men, but he and RDJ, well, and Karl Urban, too, can make me swoon. Those are my only sexceptions. (I'll leave the typo, it's too precious.)
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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SailAweigh - Sep 05, 2011 4:44:19 pm PDT #21207 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Amy - Sep 05, 2011 4:48:45 pm PDT #21208 of 30002
Because books.
Sexceptions! Good god, do I have a list of sexceptions.
Beverly - Sep 05, 2011 6:10:52 pm PDT #21209 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
How do we feel about euclase?
Amy - Sep 05, 2011 6:15:33 pm PDT #21210 of 30002
Because books.
What do you mean "we," exactly? Do you like her?
Beverly - Sep 05, 2011 6:25:22 pm PDT #21211 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think she has amazing talent, and every now and then one of her portraits just reaches out of the page (screen) and really affects me emotionally. But by and large, it's like looking at photographs. Idealized, heavily retouched photographs.
You know what her work reminds me of? Breck girls. The paintings the shampoo company did as advertising, that soft, idealized pastel realism.
Amy - Sep 05, 2011 6:35:33 pm PDT #21212 of 30002
Because books.
Exactly. I think she's fairly respected and well loved, but her stuff does nothing for me.
Anne W. - Sep 06, 2011 1:45:06 am PDT #21213 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
In general, I'm much more fond of illustrative fanart that has an obviously human hand behind it (ita's work is a prime example of what I like, as are things like these pictures of Anna and Lilith). Some of the digitally assisted art out there is amazing, but a lot of what seems to be popular (e.g. artmetica,) is poised on the edge of the uncanny valley for me.
Amy - Sep 06, 2011 7:11:44 am PDT #21214 of 30002
Because books.
Extra bloopers/scenes from The French Mistake."
"An atrocity is happening." Still one of my favorite lines.
Beverly - Sep 06, 2011 8:58:03 am PDT #21215 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I agree so much about "the hand of the artist". Uncanny Valley was the phrase that came to mind about the art I posted above. That type of art, like a similar type of fic, dehumanizes a character rather than illuminating a previously unnoticed or unremarked facet. An actual artist, or writer, tends to reveal the humanity, for good or ill, in a character. Sometimes we don't like what we're shown, sometimes we ache in sympathy, sometimes we're angry. But I think what I want in words and pictures, pro or fan, is a resonant revelatory stroke, rather than a sympathetic idealization. Even an AU can reveal character--bring out the pirate captain, or the Reno croupier, or the driven ad exec traits. And I want that reveal through the perception of this particular artist or writer.
If all you're producing is vaseline-lens schmoop, don't bother on my account.
SailAweigh - Sep 06, 2011 9:48:02 am PDT #21216 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
vaseline-lens schmoop
::snicker::
How'd the vaseline get there?
::runs away::
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