My Four Extras for the Sandman Fandom
I've been so late with my entries that I can't squeeze in another fic rec, but I'd like to use the option of reccing four "extras", which can be vids, art, or other non-fic things. I decided to put them all into one entry as to not clutter up your friendslists.
Let me state first that there's so much great fan art, resources, and thoughtful essays out there -- including Neil Gaiman's blog *g* -- that it was really hard to limit my choices. But here's what I finally came up with (all rated G or PG at most):
1. Game Over, a Death fan art by hombregris on deviantART. A rather dark piece in colors and tone, which is an interesting digression from the canon/fanon depiction of perky, good-natured Death. The perspective is great, and I love how this Death has some meat on her bones.
2. Another fan art on deviantART: Mister Sandman, by elDepressio. A quirky and highly stylized, but adorable Morpheus picture.
3. An essay by khilari on LiveJournal: Dream and Autism, in which she discusses Morpheus' behaviour and how it might look familiar to someone with knowledge of the autistic spectrum.
4. Something in 3-D for a change: a Corinthian dollfie puppet by silvernaofficer (on LJ's the_worlds_end community). Unfortunately, the dollfie models look very delicate to begin with, so this Corinthian is much "younger" than he ought to, but apart from that? Great work, down to the canonically correct boots and the eye-teeth made from clay.
So, that's it -- I'm done with my claim. I hope you enjoyed the recs. Feel free to leave a comment if you have something to say, be it praise or criticism -- it's the first time I've done a project like this, and if I can learn something from it, that's even better.