for i was an earthly knight - fanart and fanmix

[violacea]

I was absolutely blessed to have two awesome people - brandixcyanide and druidspell - lending their creativity to my story!

brandixcyanide made the following, and the more I look at it, the more I love it – it illustrates three totally separate parts of my story, all in one piece! I love the colors, the photo she chose, everything. I literally clapped and made stupid noises when I saw it in my email, seriously. So give her lots of love here, because she deserves it!





My fanmix was made by the lovely druidspell, who put together a really amazing mix of songs. When I look at fanmixes, I always look at the sound and atmosphere of the music more than the lyrical content – I think that fanmixes are meant to set the mood for the story they’re accompanying. This mix sounds exactly like I want my story to sound, melodic with a great dark undercurrent. I am totally in druidspell’s debt for capturing it so perfectly!! But, also, not only do I have awesome songs, but she made me several pieces of cover art, too!

Hard To Pin Down (download via Sendspace)













druidspell would like to give proper credit for the photos she used! Pictures taken by enoughoflove with this camera, and used with permission. If you'd like to see the larger originals, you may see Spencer here, Jon here, Brendon here, Ryan here, and Brendon again here. These photos happened at their May 10 Wallingford show, and if you'd like to see all of enoughoflove's photos from that concert, kindly direct your attention this way, please.

Words cannot express how deeply awesome it is to participate in this whole bit of madness – I owe these two artists so much thanks, more than I can put into words right now! So, please, if you enjoyed the story, please take the time to sample their work and give them feedback! It’s totally worth it, trust me. :)

Comments

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

*dolphin noises* I'm so glad you liked the mix (I agonized over songs and song order for so long, you have no idea), because I adored your story. OMG, so much love for this story. It was everything I ever wanted to read in a Faeries! at the Disco AU. ♥ x eleventybillion

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

Dude, your fanmix is totally and completely amazing. I have rocked and I have loved. And you really did capture the story beautifully.

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, thank you :D On first read through, I just tried to go through my music library for songs that might fit the mood; I knew almost from the beginning that the first song would appear somewhere, but finding out where it fit the mood was a bit more challenging. I'm so glad it worked for you!

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

The songs are AWESOME! ♥ ♥ You used one of my very favorite Alanis songs, and I'm going to have to go check out Crossfade now, because I absolutely love both of the songs you put on there!

Thank you for the kind words - I've been agonizing over this story for so long, it feels so good to have people reading and enjoying it finally! :D

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it! Crossfade is awesome, seriously. I had a hard time choosing which songs to put on there, and was really satisfied with Invincible and Broken Like an Angel.

[brandixcyanide.livejournal.com]

The minute i read about the auras i knew where i was going to start and this thing just kind of grew from there. i think that was probably my favorite part about the whole thing (aside from, ya know, everything else).

I am so so so incredibly thrilled that you like this so much, you have no idea!

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

What an amazing and incredible piece of art. Everything blends beautifully together. I am in awe.

[brandixcyanide.livejournal.com]

thank you soo much! It was a lot of fun to make because it gave me a chance to use some techniques i'd never touched before.

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

I wanted art that included the auras so bad, you have no idea! So I'm so glad you used that. :D

Thank you again! I love it!!

[brandixcyanide.livejournal.com]

I did the different pieces separately, so if you'd like just the picture of spencer with the aura, I can send you that? I think it took me longer to get that how i wanted it to look than to render the pendant *g*

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

That fanart is fucking amazing. I just wanna stare at it...

The mix is fantastic too! I recognize some of the songs & I love them so I can't wait to listen to the rest. I love the album art too!!

brandixcyanide and druidspell are both like nine kinds of awesome! I'm off to read your fic now...

[trinity_clare]

I got about halfway through the story and thought there really, really needs to be fanart for this and then remembered that it was BBB so there WAS!

(And the lighting in those photos is so awesome. O.O)

[olivia-circe.livejournal.com]

THIS MIX IS BASICALLY GENIUS. A+++

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thank you! I was really nervous about the mix because this fic was pretty much everything I've ever wanted in a Faeries! at the Disco story, and I wanted so badly to do it justice. I'm glad you liked it!