Omorka's Lair

You ever stumble across a thing that is over 10 years old on the Internet and go "Oh, wow, this is great, a decade of fanworks to flip through!" And then you poke around on AO3 and find a grand total of three fics?

There's fanart out there; I checked DeviantArt. Most of it's 5 years old or more, but it's out there. But so far either there isn't any fic, or it's on the Pit and I don't want to go there.

*sigh* This is what happens when the fandom is 95% dudes, isn't it? Dammit.

Behold: a moe Moe.

So I won one of the help_haiti auctions, specifically scarfman's fanart offering. (Yes, I'm aware that fanworks-for-charity are problematic for a number of different reasons, and yes, I would have donated anyway. And no, I didn't offer anything, partly because of the issues just mentioned but mostly because I only have, like, three fans *waves at them*, and they're all more broke than I am.)

I made three possible suggestions, and he combined the two that did not involve doing triangle versions of the Boys In Grey. ;-) The cartoon is an epilogue to my Banzai/Eureka crossover Spun Right Round, with the Doctor giving exposition to Banzai, one of the few humans who might understand him if he got technical.

I am completely and totally in love with triangle!New Jersey. That is the cutest thing I've seen so far this year.

( I am horrifically rude and hotlink the image behind the cut )

*squees*

Hey, fiona_conn, Dapper Dan also posted a really cute Blues Brothers piece, if you haven't seen it already.

Hee. And I wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't gone looking for his 13 Days of Halloween stuff. Huzzah for October!

. . . At least, I can't think of any other reason I'd be trawling on DeviantArt for fanart.

But this is hysterical - it's an AD&D/Ghostbusters crossover. Before you click, guess who's the thief, who's the mage, who's the fighter, and who's the cleric? It's not hard.

Here's an image of all the races that formally join the New Alliance of Free Stars (or the Empire of [your name here], depending on what you chose to call it) during the game.

There are several other friendly races, and one that isn't exactly friendly, but that you can trade with, that aren't in the picture. Also, the Thraddash - the big rhino things with the cigar - eventually turn against you (you have to steal something from them in order to save the galaxy, and they don't ever forgive you). Sadly, the artist has not done the Hierarchy, or the unallied races.

I have discovered that I am just not all that into fan-photomanips. Some of them are cute, but for the most part unshopped photos or screencaps with lewd titles just end up doing more for me. Image vs. text again, I suppose. But I find digital art using photos as very close reference to be just as enjoyable as hand-drawn fanart; in fact, I have such a piece as my desktop image. *scratches head* I think I have a very inconsistent reaction to image-based fan-content, much more inconsistent than my reactions to text-based fan-content.

In the process of discovering this, I have also realized that the rule about attractive faces being more symmetrical has some pretty glaring exceptions. Jude Law and David Tennant both have crazy-asymmetrical faces, such that when a photomanip flops them they look absolutely wrong. And yet they are clearly both smokin' hot, not merely by my judgement but by that of squealing fangirls (and fanboys!) worldwide. (Come to think of it, Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal aren't exactly even functions either, so it's not just an Anglophilia thing.)

Oddly enough, I can't find any 'conventionally hot' women with the same degree of asymmetry. (Tina Fey doesn't count; she's a comedic actress, and they're neither required nor expected to be conventionally attractive. And she's still not anywhere near as quirked as Tennant is.) Is that because the audience for male stars (straight and bi women, bi and gay men) is more tolerant of a slightly skew nose or crooked jawline than the audience for female stars (bi and lesbian women, straight and bi men) is? Maybe women who achieve a certain level of fame almost always get their asymmetries 'fixed,' while male famous people find it easier to resist such pressures? (The story of Jennifer Gray's nose writ large?) Or is this just the Hollywood beauty machine working? (Anyone arguing that Tennant wouldn't have made in it LA either still needs to deal with Law, who clearly has.)