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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2011-12-28 06:05 pm

ice calligraphy and alternative medusae

On Christmas Eve, there were messages written in a loose, accomplished hand in the ice. I can't read them, but the Snow Queen's Kay could--he was studying that language, I hear.

ice calligraphy

ice calligraphy

Some days later, Little Springtime had a college interview with an alumna of the institution in question who happens to live locally. They met in a coffee shop. The ninja girl and I tagged along. I edited and she doodled, but then I finished my editing, so I doodled too. She doodled a Medusa and remarked that snakes for hair wouldn't necessarily be ugly--just rather alarming. I wondered how other things for hair might be. Birds, for instance, or knives. Later I thought, what about dogs' heads? (or wolves or foxes. canids.) Here are those alternative medusae (with one inexplicable fish head in among the canids in the third second):




[identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The ice looks like a tag, which I find endlessly amusing.

Yes! I had the same thought. :P

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's see the graffiti artist who tags in ice!

[identity profile] cafenowhere.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be funny if the inspiration went the other way. Graffiti artists jealous of fey ice writings stole the style but had to make up new meanings.