Yesterday I almost died- or fainted - or fell into a coma. Or maybe all three, not in that order. 😭 I meet Mrs. Barnes yesterday!! She is the first author I've ever met - I was so nervous, my lips were trembling when I smiled for the photo, I couldn't even bring myself to say what I wanted to say to her! 😭
Bro I just got back from seeing the S/truts again and first of all I love them so much but second of all
Their like tour handler guy for the VIP stuff was saying he’s sick and his voice is all croaky so we need to listen real careful about the rules briefly and he ofc went on to say the obvious (be respectful, don’t grab them etc etc)
And THEN THIS MAN!!! This fucking tour guy
Was like “the boys [the band] are probably sick too and just don’t know it yet”
AND IM LIKE SIR PLS IM ALREADY FERAL DO NOT SAY THAT SHIT TO ME 😭😭😭
I also by the way have SO MUCH stuff to say about the concert but I have work in the morning and am going to bed
BUT
L/uke S/piller GAVE ME A HUG UNPROMPTED in his little soft boy hoodie and I’m literally screaming this was the best night of my life wtfff
i want buck being wooed - flowers and being taken out and a little protective hand on the small of his back
i want to hear all the soft ways tommy can say evan and the look on buck's face when he does
i want to see them at tommy's karaoke trivia place because holy shit buck would love it (and didnt oliver say that we're getting buck singing this season cause uhhhhh)
i love that this is such a fling, such a happy thing for buck - he is finally feeling that puzzle piece click into place and it is freeing
and i cant wait to see all the small ways we see that play out!!!
they really put alicent in bridgerton blue on the reunion and genuinely expected me to think that she didn’t in fact march all the way to dragonstone to get wifed up? bfr
Some of the more environment-focused scenes I drew for Reinaeiry's Take Me To Church but it's EPIC video!
Here's a link to the animatic! And if you haven't already go check out her music asap
Some notes about my artistic inspiration under the cut:
It was so much fun to dive a bit deeper into the details of Gideon the Ninth and try to make the environments come to life, especially Canaan House. For Canaan, I specifically took a lot of inspo from Neo-Gothic/Gothic-Revival architecture, including Larnach Castle in New Zealand! (The girls are Maori!! And Nona the Ninth shaped my visualization of the first house tons) occasionally some elements were an artistic battle of balance between description and visual tone (overgrown disrepaired gold-shot marble rainbow tile mosaic wood floors, anyone?) but nearly everything I was using as inspo fit so perfectly into my mental image/what I was trying to achieve and I couldnt be happier with the way some of these turned out. For Drearburh I very loosely combined a gothic cathedral with an ossuary and then Pluto-ified the color scheme!
I especially love this scene:
It set the tone for how the rest of the animatic was gonna be colored and it fit my mental image of canaan house vibes so perfectly
Overall I put a lot of love into including as many canon environmental details as I possibly could, and taking meaningful creative liberty where there were gaps in Muir's descriptions. Some parts involved a little logistic puzzling but I'm ngl I love the challenge of translating textual desc to artwork. Working on this was such a treat