Submissions are all in! Thanks to all who joined, we got a very good response, this year’s exchange is going to be great ❤
If you signed up, your official assignment will follow by 12/7.
Btw, if you didn’t sign up but would still like to participate, anyone is welcome to submit gifts to the VC fandom in general, and we will post those along with the assigned gifts ;D
Fun story time: you guys know how in TVA and B&G everyone freaked out about the speed with which Marius painted?
So, in this ‘Paint like Botticelli’ class I joined, I didn’t tell anyone about my experience, and especially not about Vincent, because I just want to go there to paint without facing any expectations. And most of the people there are amateurs, they hardly have any previous experience with oil paint.
So, I picked a spot in the corner and started to quietly paint my portrait.
Some 4 hours later a group of wide eyed people:
HOLY SHIT WHAT HOW??? YOU CAME HERE WHEN I DID, WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU PAINTED AN ENTIRE OIL PORTRAIT, WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?????!
I’m not saying I feel like Marius, but I totally do xD I have a secret superpower :3
Hello and welcome to our gift exchange! Not a strange question at all, no need to apologise 😉 Don’t be nervous, it’s all for fun!
I totally get where you’re coming from tho, we are definitely experiencing a surge of talent in the fandom, and it’s been wonderful to see such great response to #InktoberVC!
(^Claudia would totes join if she could, but she wouldn’t draw anything for the Louis/Armand ship lol)
From what I’ve seen over the years, ppl participating in the @vcsecretgifts exchange are happy to get any gift at all that relates to their prompt 😀 Even the best fanartists and writers talk about needing improvement in their work, and they know that we all have to start somewhere ^______^
Personally, I feel like the concept of a fic can make it great even if the writing style needs improvement, and similarly, I feel like great dialogue in a fan comic can elevate a piece even if the drawing itself needs improvement. I actually prefer to buy commissioned fanart in black & white bc I don’t always feel like a more “finished” look with color is necessarily better. There are some beautiful WIPs that stand up without being “finished”!
It’s all subjective, too, what I think is a “good” drawing or fic and what someone else thinks is “good,” but I prefer to think of all of it as being different styles. Some ppl dislike Jackson Pollock bc they see his art as splatter paint only (and therefore, totally unskilled), some ppl dislike Photorealistic painting for being too much like a photograph, despite the fact that it takes an enormous amount of skill.
We have ppl who participate who are unable to write or draw, but they are music buffs and make excellent playlists of songs for the characters/ships, or there are fans who do aesthetic photo sets, etc. Everyone participating is doing it more for the fun of giving a gift and receiving one, rather than one-upmanship.
(While some gifts do get more notes/reblogs/comments than others, well, I feel like the only comments that really matter are from the specific recipient, so it’s very important to show gratitude for the gift you’re given no matter what it is! Bc smne made it for you!)
All the gifts on that blog are for all of us; it’s true for me that I’m more likely to actually MAKE a fanwork when there’s a deadline and someone(s) expecting it, so I think that’s what it’s more about ;D
Btw last chance to join! Sign ups close at 11:59 pm CST!
Paris Catacombs: Bones from the Madeleine Cemetery
The Madeleine Cemetery, which stood in the 8th Arrondissement in Paris, was one of four where victims of the guillotine were buried during the French Revolution. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were buried there temporarily, but now they lie at the Basilica of St. Denis.
The cemetery was named for Mary Magdalene. It opened in 1720 and closed in 1794, purportedly because it was full. Among those buried there were 130 victims of a fireworks accident at the engagement of the dauphin to Marie Antoinette, the Swiss Guards who were killed at the Tuileries, Charlotte Corday, and Madame du Barry, among others. It’s hard to know for certain how many people were actually buried there.
The Paris Catacombs hold the remains of an estimated 6 million people.
My human death was long finished, I was ravenous, and surely my face was no more than a living skull. No doubt my eyes were bulging from their sockets, and my teeth were bared. The white robe hung on me as on a skeleton. And no clearer evidence of my divinity could have been given to the Druids, who stood awestruck as I came out of the tree. […] The voices were singing in concert around me as the priests placed the flowers in my hair, on my shoulders, at my feet.
…For our fourthannual Vampire Chronicles Secret Santa exchange!
If you participated last year, or participated in any of the other exchanges we hosted after, you should be familiar with how this works. Think Secret Santa, but with no sharing of physical addresses. The gifts given are all shared completely on Tumblr, be it drabbles, fanart, awesome graphics, or what have you. We’ve had great turn outs the past couple of years, and we are definitely looking forward to seeing what great stuff you all submit this year!
If you would like to join:
You can sign up until December 2nd at 11:59PM CST.
By December 7th, we will be assigning all of you your Santas.
Presents must be submitted to the page no later than December 23rd at 11:59PM CST.
Gifts will be posted in a queue throughout the day on December 25.
So, feel free to swing by the rules page, and once you’ve read that through, go ahead and join!
Do the thing, ppl! @wicked-felina and I will be the mods of this event. We saw great turnout last year, and for @monstersinthecosmos & @superhiki‘s #InktoberVC, let’s keep the fanworks momentum going with this year’s @vcsecretgifts exchange <3<3<3</p>
Join the exchange:
[The page will be updated for 2017, but for now, go ahead and sign up]
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