I want a Lord of the Rings animated series done by Tom Moore.
Cartoon Saloon's style portrays fantastical intensity so well while also carrying the stories they tell with such lightness and fluidity. The 1978 animated version of Lotr leaned on the weight, action, and drama of Tolkien's trilogy but I think Moore could make something that would include the abstraction and artistry the story deserves.
hannibal asked will how he distinguished the past and the future and will replied “before you and after you” and people still have the nerve to say that their story isn’t the greatest romance of our time? please be serious.
What I’m calling By the Sea au, I was thinking about how thetis is nymph and then I was like ‘what if mermaid?’ And here we are.
The second one is my favorite so far <3
Full body mermaid form
Patroclus bust shot (ignore how long his neck is)
In the au Pat is a lighthouse keeper with his dad and how he first meets Achilles is when Achilles saves him from drowning when he tries to get back to the lighthouse during a storm.
lol doodle
Peleus and thetis are in love but also kind of divorced and peleus runs a sandwich shop because why not.
She’s a lot more chill and mostly just wants Achilles to be less reckless and not get hurt
Briseis is Achilles’s friend and she is the one who helps him do a little spell to turn human for two weeks.
I need more selkie theon (and asha. I just think that would be a vibe. fuck the greyjoy sigil being a kraken for a moment and let them be seals) content.
like the opportunity to have theon's coat taken by ned when he's made his ward is right there and it is perfect and beautiful and tragic.
and you could build on that depending on the version of the selkie myth/story you're going off of (I personally love the song of the sea version of selkies for story writing). maybe he can't talk without it, maybe he gets sick, maybe his voice has magical properties of sorts.
I have this one concept in my head that I don't have the time to write, but it goes something along the lines of theon getting sick after years away from his coat and the stark kids have to find his coat and drag his slowly dying ass to the bay of seals (cause y'know bay of seals and theon's a selkie so he'll turn into a seal... I thought it was creative).
also, in a lot of versions of selkies, when they get sick, their hair turns white, which is on brand for theon. they're also pretty, their stories are typically soaked to the bone in tragedy, they're normally held captive/tortured, amongst other things, which are also very on brand for theon.
and maybe you get some selkie to selkie telepathy of sorts, so when theon finally enter the water a seal again, asha books it to come find him, cause its been years since she's been able to feel him (I'm soft for them, I will create the most improbable and ridiculous scenario's to bring them together and for them to have soft sibling moments).
all and all, theon being a selkie is something I need more content of, please and thank you.
I doubt I'll live to see it, but I was just thinking of how interesting it would be to have an adaptation of LOTR with largely diegetic music. Not ironically, either! There's so much music in LOTR, and Middle-earth's world-building is so deeply interwoven with literal music—and it's not that I don't really enjoy a lot of the non-diegetic Middle-earth music that exists, but a version in which you really feel how deeply musical the world is for the characters would be so cool.
I never do crossover AUs ( i mean, when the characters fill the roles of the characters of a serie or film, I don't like that generally but meh I'm making an exception today)
But Secret of Kells has me on a chokehold and I'm brainrotting so have some doodles !
I've got nothing much for this AU it'll be mostly designs or style experimentations with the WH characters
Here we have : Wally as Brendan, Home as Abbot Cellach, Julie as Aisling, and Nyxie as the cat
I'll assign more roles eventually
If you've never heard of this film before, I beg of you to give it a watch
It's in full on YouTube, but if you can find a way to watch it in a way that support the studio making those films, please do ! This film, as well as the others ( Song of the Sea, Breadwinner, Wolfwalkers ) are so so beautifully animated and written
Rn I'm just having fun doodling in colors
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Ik new WH AUs aren't that interesting anymore so for your troubles have a doodle of my lil SunEmbrodery ship (not canon to wttmv because doomed by plot (who doesn't like doomed yuri/j))
"vigilante shit" is the Kaz song, "Karma" is the Inej song, and "Mastermind" is the Kanej song, thanks for your time and consideration when working on your midnights edits