Dream of Love
Ok, I love looking at this but the prompt and the summary - and the two in combination - are WTF? They make nothing clear.
I guess I have to do *homework* (aka Research) to understand this? A couple of links would have helped, O Prompt person & artist.
Mind, I do like it, as I say. I just find it frustrating to read a summary & prompt that explain nothing of the intertextuality except that "Harry is sold to a brothel" which of course means he's a prostitute, and a book (?) title referencing a geisha, which means very elite, Japanese prostitute/companion in aesthetic tastes. Which seem to be contradicted by the gorgeous art showing Harry as more of a ... um... workman? young athlete? and Severus looking geisha-like.
So I'm not getting how Harry is a geisha,"instantly smitten" with a "very powerful official in the Ministry of Magic, Severus Snape," and becoming his consort. It looks more like Snape is the geisha-cum-consort, and Harry is ... bzuh? Not an official, nor a geisha. LE SIGH. I get that I'm not very good at reading art, but in this case I can't read any sense out of the summary and prompt, either!
*off to fill in the missing pieces*
...sneaks back to drink in more of the gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS coloring and poses. Note to artist: if I didn't LOVE this on first sight (too bad I read the header!! some people skip them all and now I see why ;-) I wouldn't even comment. Much less do "homework" when I'd rather this be my snarry happyplace without, liek, *work*! But this art is ZOMG so lovely, I am going to go spend the middle of my day reading up on the characters of a film & book I only barely know about. All for the Beauty of This Work. !!!!