April - Challenge #12: Fairy Tales
Mar. 30th, 2011 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indelicateink posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
saiyuki_wk_auMarch is drawing to its close, and our April challenge is about to begin. For our next challenge, Yohji gets to be a real white knight, Sanzo dodges the advances of a lecherous wolf, Hakkai turns into a flock of birds, Aya trades his soul to a witch to save his sister, and Omi passes out poisoned fruit.
That's right--we're doing fairy tales!
Fairy tales can be defined as "a story involving fantastic forces and beings." Wikipedia says the exact definition of "fairy tale" is a source of some contention: some say it involves a sense of the fantastic, some say "transformation" is usually involved, and yet others say "it moves in an unreal world without definite locality or definite creatures and is filled with the marvelous"; most agree it doesn't actually have to involve fairies at all. We're pretty laidback around here--use your own take, and have fun! Make up your own fairy tale, recast a favorite, reimagine a classic--go wild.
If you would like some inspiration, wikipedia offers a list of some fairy tales and some common fairy tale motifs.
Also, random inspirational pics:
Further (and larger) fairy tale-themed works by almost all these artists can be found on flickr or the marvelous Golden Age Comic Book Stories site (http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/). I'm cheating on the Sam Weber--he's a contemporary artist illustrating Greek mythology there--but the image is so wonderfully evocative, and I'm insane about it (http://sampaints.com/2009/11/a-memory-of-wind/).
Posting begins on the stroke of midnight, April 1!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 07:37 pm (UTC)♥
no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 11:05 pm (UTC)And what a tragic end. His marriage was in the toilet, so he arranged to move to a new city with his wife and young child to start over. And the news was full of that horrific train accident in which so many burned to death, so he booked them passage by ferry--AND THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT AND THEY ALL DIED??
But god he was a great illustrator.
no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 09:39 am (UTC)Are fic snippets (bits of not-yet-complete works) allowed? I doubt CinderGojyo will ever be ready for the ball in time XD
no subject
Date: 2011-04-02 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 11:42 am (UTC)I have a couple of ideas brewing, I must do something for this prompt.
no subject
Date: 2011-04-02 06:51 pm (UTC)I love kappa!Gojyo! :D :D
no subject
Date: 2011-04-02 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-02 06:54 pm (UTC)