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dancing_adriftTitle: And the City Stopped As I Held You in My Arms
Rating: G (NC-17/Explicit for fic)
Fandom: Supernatural RPF
Pairing: Jensen/Jared, Jared/Adrianne (in fic only)
Characters: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Adrianne Palicki (fic only)
Summary: Art for And the City Stopped As I Held You in My Arms, written by akintay / whispered_story and created for the 2017![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_reversebang challenge.
READ THE STORY! (AO3)
STORY SUMMARY: New York City, 1946. Jared’s been putting off proposing to Adrianne for long enough. But when the day comes and he’s still having doubts, it seems like a sign he can’t ignore when a handsome stranger knocks into him and destroys the roses meant for Adrianne. Jensen is like no other man Jared has ever met, and it makes Jared start to question much more about himself than his discarded plans for marriage.
THE ORIGINAL PROMPT
Title: Running [In]to You
Prompt Description: "Jensen is late for his train, and in his hurry he runs smack into a handsome stranger (Jared), knocking the dozen roses he’s carrying to the ground."
This is my second time collaborating on art and fic with my dear Anna (for our first collaboration, check out “The Dizzy Heights of This Dreamed of World” - FIC | ART). We’ve been working together on fic for a while now outside of official challenges, so it was such a thrill to be paired up again for the reversebang.
Above the cut you’ll see the original prompt which I submitted to be claimed. It depicts the moment after Jensen has run into Jared, knocking the dozen roses he was carrying out of his arms.
The story that Anna wrote for this art… it’s perfect. If you don’t want to be spoiled for it, I suggest you go READ IT NOW. It’s so good. Anyhoo, now that those people who want to read the fic first are off doing that, let’s talk a bit about the art and the fic it inspired.
There are a couple elements that I very intentionally incorporated into my art in an attempt to influence getting a certain type of story, and Anna picked up on them so flawlessly. Like the fact that I chose an older picture of NYC to use as the backdrop. When I was google image searching, I was just hoping to find a decent shot of a NYC street to use, but then this gorgeous photo outside the subway popped up, and I just had to use it (even though it's actually a picture of NYC in 1929; the feel is still right for my intended era of the 40s, and I still love it, so there). And I tried dressing the boys in clothes that would be found in that era as well. But if a story about two men falling in love (which I think was kind of implied by the fact that I listed J2 as the pairing in my prompt) was going to happen during that time period, and be remotely realistic, it was probably going to involve a lot of hiding, a lot of secret-keeping, and closeted characters. The fic has all that, and I think Anna did a really nice job of subtly keeping that 1940s feel in the background of her story.
Also, the dozen roses. I don’t think there are a lot of standard, expected reasons why a man would be carrying that specific bouquet. The classic dozen red roses is very typically given to a romantic love interest and this is almost always going to be a woman. So the fact that Jared was carrying roses to bring to a woman when he met Jensen... Seems to kind of indicate that Jared was already seeing someone romantically. And Anna hit that one square on the nose, too. Normally I’m not one for infidelity in fics (or in general, lol), but somehow Anna has a way of just making it work.
ANYhoo, what I’m saying is… I think Anna basically wrote the exact fic I was hoping to get when I created this prompt. The art’s not exactly my usual style, since it’s a little ‘mixed media’, if you will, what with the actual photograph combined with my drawn characters and roses, but I was still really pleased with it.
Here's the image (created in Corel Painter Essentials 5) before I did any editing in Picasa:
I actually created several variations of the original drawing, thumbnails of which are below (click to view a larger image). I wanted to edit it somehow so that the photograph and my drawn images would feel a little more like they fit together, like they were part of the same picture. I eventually settled on the mainly sepia tone to make it feel more accurate to the time period, but with a focal color spot on the roses to draw attention to the minor tragedy of their falling, because it really is a very symbolic moment in the fic.
Lomo-ish, Holga-ish B&W, Focal B&W
BANNERS & DIVIDER
Header Banner
End Banner
Usually I try to use my original prompt or at least a part of it when I make banners for a fic, but I didn’t want to dilute the effect of the original piece. So I played more with that awesome photograph to create a simple header and end banner for this fic. I initially wanted to include the “quote”/“tagline” from the end banner in the header, but it just made the whole thing too busy. So instead I just left a very subtle “love will always win” in the header to tie the two together.
Divider
One of Adrianne’s fallen roses, looking a little rusty from being abandoned on the street seemed like a fitting image to use as a divider. This is definitely one of Anna’s angstier fics, and I wanted to reflect that with the one piece of art that would be scattered (heh) throughout it. The inherent angst is another reason I liked the idea of an ending banner with that “Love will always win” message resonating from it, because while this J2’s life together won’t be easy by any means, it will still be a close happily ever after.
Thanks as ever for reading all my ramblings! I hope you enjoy the art as much as I enjoyed creating it, and enjoy the fic as much as I enjoyed reading it! ♥
P.S. A special shout-out to Sammie (non_tiembo_mala) for her encouragement and feedback as I created this piece. Love you, chica!
And thanks again to my amazing author Anna. Please go show her all the love on this amazing fic she wrote for me ♥
♥♥♥
Rating: G (NC-17/Explicit for fic)
Fandom: Supernatural RPF
Pairing: Jensen/Jared, Jared/Adrianne (in fic only)
Characters: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Adrianne Palicki (fic only)
Summary: Art for And the City Stopped As I Held You in My Arms, written by akintay / whispered_story and created for the 2017
spn_reversebang challenge.READ THE STORY! (AO3)
STORY SUMMARY: New York City, 1946. Jared’s been putting off proposing to Adrianne for long enough. But when the day comes and he’s still having doubts, it seems like a sign he can’t ignore when a handsome stranger knocks into him and destroys the roses meant for Adrianne. Jensen is like no other man Jared has ever met, and it makes Jared start to question much more about himself than his discarded plans for marriage.
THE ORIGINAL PROMPT
Title: Running [In]to You
Prompt Description: "Jensen is late for his train, and in his hurry he runs smack into a handsome stranger (Jared), knocking the dozen roses he’s carrying to the ground."
This is my second time collaborating on art and fic with my dear Anna (for our first collaboration, check out “The Dizzy Heights of This Dreamed of World” - FIC | ART). We’ve been working together on fic for a while now outside of official challenges, so it was such a thrill to be paired up again for the reversebang.
Above the cut you’ll see the original prompt which I submitted to be claimed. It depicts the moment after Jensen has run into Jared, knocking the dozen roses he was carrying out of his arms.
The story that Anna wrote for this art… it’s perfect. If you don’t want to be spoiled for it, I suggest you go READ IT NOW. It’s so good. Anyhoo, now that those people who want to read the fic first are off doing that, let’s talk a bit about the art and the fic it inspired.
There are a couple elements that I very intentionally incorporated into my art in an attempt to influence getting a certain type of story, and Anna picked up on them so flawlessly. Like the fact that I chose an older picture of NYC to use as the backdrop. When I was google image searching, I was just hoping to find a decent shot of a NYC street to use, but then this gorgeous photo outside the subway popped up, and I just had to use it (even though it's actually a picture of NYC in 1929; the feel is still right for my intended era of the 40s, and I still love it, so there). And I tried dressing the boys in clothes that would be found in that era as well. But if a story about two men falling in love (which I think was kind of implied by the fact that I listed J2 as the pairing in my prompt) was going to happen during that time period, and be remotely realistic, it was probably going to involve a lot of hiding, a lot of secret-keeping, and closeted characters. The fic has all that, and I think Anna did a really nice job of subtly keeping that 1940s feel in the background of her story.
Also, the dozen roses. I don’t think there are a lot of standard, expected reasons why a man would be carrying that specific bouquet. The classic dozen red roses is very typically given to a romantic love interest and this is almost always going to be a woman. So the fact that Jared was carrying roses to bring to a woman when he met Jensen... Seems to kind of indicate that Jared was already seeing someone romantically. And Anna hit that one square on the nose, too. Normally I’m not one for infidelity in fics (or in general, lol), but somehow Anna has a way of just making it work.
ANYhoo, what I’m saying is… I think Anna basically wrote the exact fic I was hoping to get when I created this prompt. The art’s not exactly my usual style, since it’s a little ‘mixed media’, if you will, what with the actual photograph combined with my drawn characters and roses, but I was still really pleased with it.
Here's the image (created in Corel Painter Essentials 5) before I did any editing in Picasa:
I actually created several variations of the original drawing, thumbnails of which are below (click to view a larger image). I wanted to edit it somehow so that the photograph and my drawn images would feel a little more like they fit together, like they were part of the same picture. I eventually settled on the mainly sepia tone to make it feel more accurate to the time period, but with a focal color spot on the roses to draw attention to the minor tragedy of their falling, because it really is a very symbolic moment in the fic.
Lomo-ish, Holga-ish B&W, Focal B&W
BANNERS & DIVIDER
Header Banner
End Banner
Usually I try to use my original prompt or at least a part of it when I make banners for a fic, but I didn’t want to dilute the effect of the original piece. So I played more with that awesome photograph to create a simple header and end banner for this fic. I initially wanted to include the “quote”/“tagline” from the end banner in the header, but it just made the whole thing too busy. So instead I just left a very subtle “love will always win” in the header to tie the two together.
Divider
One of Adrianne’s fallen roses, looking a little rusty from being abandoned on the street seemed like a fitting image to use as a divider. This is definitely one of Anna’s angstier fics, and I wanted to reflect that with the one piece of art that would be scattered (heh) throughout it. The inherent angst is another reason I liked the idea of an ending banner with that “Love will always win” message resonating from it, because while this J2’s life together won’t be easy by any means, it will still be a close happily ever after.
Thanks as ever for reading all my ramblings! I hope you enjoy the art as much as I enjoyed creating it, and enjoy the fic as much as I enjoyed reading it! ♥
P.S. A special shout-out to Sammie (non_tiembo_mala) for her encouragement and feedback as I created this piece. Love you, chica!
And thanks again to my amazing author Anna. Please go show her all the love on this amazing fic she wrote for me ♥
♥♥♥
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Date: 2017-11-08 03:28 am (UTC)