ice calligraphy and alternative medusae

[asakiyume]

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.





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):

Comments

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

The snow queen only knows one word, and that is "eternity."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know that's the word the ice forms when Kay is freed, but I like to think that there are all sorts of other things he learns and muses on, all cold and frozen, before Gerda rescues him.