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A challenge...
...for you creative-types (fic, art, icons, interpretive dance, whatever), because I am bored interested.
Long and long ago, I found a list of 100 topics on which to draw pictures over on DeviantArt, which had been translated from Japanese. I drew 5 or 6 pictures according to the list and then forgot about it. They were good prompts, but the problem is that they pretty much all were of theemo evocative type and while that's fine sometimes, sometimes you just don't want to deal with that sort of thing. So I've made my own list. And it's much shorter, only 10. If there's an actual response to this, I may add more later.
If you choose to try the challenge, your job is to produce, at some point because there is no deadline unless you really really want one, ten (or as many as you feel like doing) works of whatever ilk - fanfic, original fic, art, icons, interpretive dance, poetry, Spam sculpture, whatever - each of which has some sort of relevance to one of the topics. Creativity in interpretation is encouraged. Feel free to mix and match: you don't need to stick to one fandom, medium, or whatever unless you want to.
And of course I can't actually take this seriously, so I made my list out of the Engrish and the comments from the Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Engrish reports.
1. Special sales day
2. I can't handle this alone
3. Eight hundred mice
4. Be more elegant
5. In the corner
6. I'm so tired
7. The royal we
8. Delicious!
9. Blur
10. Mistaken
ETA: It was pointed out to me that I left off #3. NO I DIDN'T! SEE! IT'S RIGHT THERE! Er, you're not buying that, are you?
Drop a message here if you think you might try. :D
ETA: And if you didn't read it then, you really really need to read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rushthatspeaks' report of the HK DVD set of Saiyuki. If you read it then, you really really need to read it again. Trust me.
Long and long ago, I found a list of 100 topics on which to draw pictures over on DeviantArt, which had been translated from Japanese. I drew 5 or 6 pictures according to the list and then forgot about it. They were good prompts, but the problem is that they pretty much all were of the
If you choose to try the challenge, your job is to produce, at some point because there is no deadline unless you really really want one, ten (or as many as you feel like doing) works of whatever ilk - fanfic, original fic, art, icons, interpretive dance, poetry, Spam sculpture, whatever - each of which has some sort of relevance to one of the topics. Creativity in interpretation is encouraged. Feel free to mix and match: you don't need to stick to one fandom, medium, or whatever unless you want to.
And of course I can't actually take this seriously, so I made my list out of the Engrish and the comments from the Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Engrish reports.
1. Special sales day
2. I can't handle this alone
3. Eight hundred mice
4. Be more elegant
5. In the corner
6. I'm so tired
7. The royal we
8. Delicious!
9. Blur
10. Mistaken
ETA: It was pointed out to me that I left off #3. NO I DIDN'T! SEE! IT'S RIGHT THERE! Er, you're not buying that, are you?
Drop a message here if you think you might try. :D
ETA: And if you didn't read it then, you really really need to read
rushthatspeaks' report of the HK DVD set of Saiyuki. If you read it then, you really really need to read it again. Trust me.
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:D Yeah, they're quite trendy. Most of the lists I see, which are in the art or icon-making communities, tend to go for the
boringevocative. The 100-item art list I originally saw 2 or 3 years ago had, in part:Section 4: Fantasy
061: The far end of the world
062: Wind corridor
063: Town of ruins
064: Floating island
065: Prayer
066: The lost forest (more like the forest you get lost in lol)
067: Aerial garden
068: One winged
069: A moment of dream
070: Miniature world (or a world in a miniature garden)
071: Destiny of the wind
072: Home (As in the place you were born/grew up)
073: Female shaman
074: Cage of ice
075: Forest of pure white
076: Moonlight
077: At the end of a dream
078: Fragile past
079: Illusion
080: Eternity
Which are nice, but I like themes with an edge, and I like funny icons, and you almost never get funny icons with the topic icon challenges. You end up with ten jillion pictures of L or Light with grunge brushes, color overlays, and "The distance between us" or some such Deep Meaningful TM phrase slapped on it. And once you've seen three or four, you've seen them all.
I figure, with my list you can make 'em Meaningful or Stupid, whichever you choose.
and hey, an excuse to find the DVDs and continue watching!no subject
Though my favorite is still
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boringevocative.Well, that's where the imagination part comes in. :D "Eternity" becomes something like "an endless wait in line", "at the end of a dream" becomes "waking up to find yourself chewing on someone's leg 'cause you thought it was beef", "town of ruins" becomes "someone's smashed model town, likely through dumbassery on the part of [insert character(s) here]", etc.
Though, of course, now I've got to admit that in the one _100 comm I've ever been in, I don't think I did anything interesting before I ended up drifting away from the fandom it was for. ;; Though I totally meant to turn the "touching" theme into "ass-grabbing", and it's the thought that counts, right? >_>;;
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Also, #7 above has to be some sort of Katamari Damacy art or somesuch. I demand it.
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This and the sort of things you'll find over at seventhsanctum.com are awesome when you're
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Yeah. I got several good pics out of the big 100-list, although a lot of them were too Deep and MeaningfulTM for me to handle, and I like reading lists like that.
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...and rabbi Sanzo. I had heard about that before, actually, but it never stops being funny.
The killer about the HK fansubs is that they're good...until they stopped having fansubbers to rip off and had to start doing it themselves. Then it became comedic gold.
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# 11
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:D Atleast they wouldn't translate names weird XDD
I did something for "The Royal We" but I forgot my sketch book at home ;-; so I'll scan it later.
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BTW, you can find me on dA at wilder.deviantart.com
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Look again.
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Be More Elegant - the boutique where Hakkai shops for their new clothes.
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Although, nothing could ever be as crack as Engrish.