#VGsecretfairy2023

[starboystudios]

my piece for @placebopilled for the velvet goldmine secret fairy event!! we haven't really spoken but i saw that you liked the manic street preachers and i thought that taking their lyrics with the context of shots from the film would be interesting. i've been listening to this is my truth tell me yours a lot, so i ended up pairing lyrics from you're tender and you're tired with the dynamic between brian and curt.

this ended up being a triptych because i had several ideas i felt worked best together - the idea for the first one started with the "sand and sea" line, the rest of which reflects brian's allowance for curt to use him as a support, as well as the poetic tragedy of their relationship. The latter two, with the repetitive lyrics at the end of the song, reflect the end of their relationship and brian's denial of that support he once offered to curt, defined by his silent exit.

these were also an interesting experience to draw, as they allowed me to flex some technical skill muscles - rather than drawing from observation, i mapped out the tonal values semi-blindly and only after that did i add colour. each one was executed differently depending on what worked best with each image. the text is also a very technical element, it allowed me to work with the remaining space and create lettering with both consistency and difference, as well as with a visual flow. this is also a style of writing i used in another piece inspired by glam rock.

thank you @gayalienwilde and @placebopilled for this opportunity!! and to the latter, i hope you enjoy this work!!!

#VGsecretfairy2023 #velvet goldmine #curt wild #brian slade #manic street preachers #todd haynes #jonathan rhys meyers #ewan mcgregor #starboy art #artists on tumblr

[placebopilled]

velvet goldmine gift exchange for @pikslasrce!! :333

#VGsecretfairy2023 #my art #velvet goldmine #one day i will learn how to do consistent linoprints but not today

[srcepiksla]

secret fairy gift for @mangle-my-mind <3

the prompt was the berlin polycule or jack/curt/mandy being besties so i immediately thought of them having a sleepover.. one must imagine jack fairy happy and gossipping surrounded by people that love him

#IM SO SORRY FOR BEING LATE IM TERRIBLE AT ORGANIZING MY TIME #my art #art #velvet goldmine #jack fairy #mandy slade #curt wild #vgsecretfairy2023 #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration

[transjackfairy]

my secret fairy for @gayalienwilde :3

#velvet goldmine #vgsecretfairy2023 #sorry this is a few hours late btw

[morally-earl-grey]

Secret fairy for @dragelton :)

#Mandy Slade #vgsecretfairy2023 #velvet goldmine

[dragelton]

secret fairy for @transjackfairy

hope you like it :)

#vgsecretfairy2023 #velvet goldmine #jack fairy

[didntyoubelieveinme]

my secret fair was @morally-earl-grey !!!! the prompt was just jack fairy

this was so fun to do!! i included my sketch (because i killed the jawline and i need everyone to know) and my reference!!

#velvet goldmine #jack fairy #art #vgsecretfairy2023 #i had to finish all the coloring today cuz i kept procrastinating 😭 #stressed myself out but i actually really like how it turned out! #it was definitely a trust the process moment cuz it looked horrific at first #i hope you like it!!!

[gayalienwilde]

Velvet Goldmine Secret Fairy gift exchange

These holidays I thought it would be fun to organize a Velvet Goldmine themed gift exchange. This event's tag will be #VGsecretfairy2023 feel free to use it!

How to participate

Whoever wants to participate can fill out this google form, that closes in a week, and will have until the 30th of December to work on a gift, the gifts can be fanarts, fanfics, analysis posts, web weavings, playlists etc...basically whatever your heart desires! I added a question for people that want to specify what character/s or scenarios they're interested in to make it easier for people to come up with a gift for them, if you want to be surprised simply leave it blank.

For any questions you can send an ask or message me any time :)

Happy holidays and have fun everyone!!! <3<3<3

#velvet goldmine #VGsecretfairy2023 #I cannot wait to see everyone's gifts #it's gonna be so much fun

[thomtrebond]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Velvet Goldmine (1998) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Brian Slade & Cats Characters: Brian Slade Additional Tags: past brian/curt, Slice of Life, Cats, References to Oscar Wilde, vgsecretfairy2023, past brian/mandy

Summary:

In the years between Maxwell Demon's death and Tommy Stone's birth, The Artist once known as Brian adopted cats.

Written for @transunicorn as part of the Velvet Goldmine Secret Fairy 2023 (#vgsecretfairy2023). Thanks to @gayalienwilde for coordinating the event!

#vgsecretfairy2023 #velvet goldmine #my writing #brian slade

[didntyoubelieveinme]

Happy Holidays from your Velvet Goldmine Secret Fairy!

This is (tentatively) Part One of your gift. There is another part but I might not finish it in time. For now I hope this will do!

Since you love Curt, especially Curt in the gold suit, I made a playlist capturing Curt's state of mind during the press circus, leading up to the kiss, and then immediately after. He's overwhelmed and annoyed by the press and the public! He's head-over-heels for Brian! He's conflicted by Brian's craving for attention and he's irked by the Maxwell Demon business machine! He's in lust and in love and he sees how this will destroy him! He doesn't care - he'll fight for Brian anyway! Enjoy!

I'd be so glad to tell you about why I picked the tracks that I did, and how I arranged them, in case that interests you. But if not, I hope you have a great time jamming out to this anyway :)

IM ACTUALLY GONNA EXPLODE THIS IS THE AWESOMEST THING EVER

the way i feel inside being the first song might kill me AND I, CARRION BEING ON THERE UR TASTE AND SKILL 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

#VGsecretfairy2023 #PLEASE SHARE WHY YOU CHOSE UR CHOICES #this is genuinely so sweet oh em geee #impeccable music taste #velvet goldmine #curt wild

[gayalienwilde]

My secret fairy gift to @thomtrebond one of the longest analyses I've ever written until now (so much so that I'm still working on this). Truthfully, I was afraid that The Whole Shebang podcast had already said all there was about the Oscar Wilde references in Velvet Goldmine, and it has been a while since I've read The Picture of Dorian Gray, but while writing and doing research for this (I've studied more for this analysis than I ever have for school lmao) I realised things that I hadn't thought of before so this was a surprise for me as well! Also, since this analysis is gonna be split into different parts I'll link them all once I'm done with them. I hope you enjoy your gift <3

Part one: The importance of being Jack Fairy

When thinking about Velvet Goldmine and Oscar Wilde I'm reminded of the first episode of the miniseries "Queers" (2017), although I can't stand Mark Gatiss (Sherlock trauma) this episode is well written and just thinking about it makes me cry. There will be spoilers for the episode in this analysis, so be warned.

For the people that don't care about spoilers here's a small summary of what you need to know to understand this analysis: in the episode, titled "The Man On The Platform", the protagonist, a WWI soldier, gets asked about how gay men recognise each other, and he answers saying:"A certain liquidity of the eye." Later in the episode, he recalls a story from his teen years, while waiting for a train with his family he sees a prisoner getting taken away, he meets the gaze of the prisoner for a second and he feels seen by him and thinks "He knows me for what I am", after that he learns that the prisoner is Oscar Wilde.

In Velvet Goldmine, it's the pin that creates this connection between the characters and Oscar Wilde, Jack is able to find himself and others quite like him after finding the pin, and later we have all the young queer fans relating to Curt and Brian. The movie shows that self recognition through the other is an important aspect of queer communities, having an example of queerness to relate to or be inspired by makes it possible for people to find each other and learn about themselves.

In Jack's case, Oscar Wilde is not only a connection to queerness but also an inspiration for his art. Jack Fairy is the personification of art, specifically born from aestheticism's idea of "art for art's sake" Jack's persona is just that, beauty that exists simply to be beautiful and reveal nothing, the movie adds to this by never making Jack Fairy speak, even during the Death of Glitter concert he's either reciting a poem or singing, the little we know of Jack's inner thoughts is shown in the flashback of him as a child, adult Jack Fairy is a complete mistery to us.

What's interesting about this is that, unlike Brian, we never feel that Jack's persona is a manifactured one, even if we know nothing of him, and his looks and aesthetics are obviously thought out, he still appears much more genuine than Brian. Following Wilde's idea of art as an amoral creation that never expresses anything other than itself (in true wildean paradox fashion Wilde himself doesn't always respect this rule), it then becomes obvious why it doesn't matter if we know nothing about Jack, the way he presents himself is enough to express everything he wants other people to see, he's being truthfull to himself never trying to justify or moralise his art or himself but simply being, any possible reading or interpretation about his persona becomes then nothing more than the viewer's own thoughts or ideas projected onto him and do not necessarily reflect the truth, adding to the allure of his persona and making it a perfectly malleable art medium, free of bounds or expectations (apart from beauty, which is of course what all art, according to Wilde, should strive for).

On the other hand, Brian constantly trying to add a message to his aesthetic ended up being to his detriment since what he was saying was being fed to him through the record company to attract press, not leaving then any room for interpretation and putting strict barriers around his art, and of course to define is to limit causing his entire act and persona to never be as authentic feeling as Jack's. It's clearly artificial but not in a camp way, even if it might have started off that way, the alien and uncanny later becomes fake the same way advertisement is, planned and trying to get your attention for money, reaching the peak of uncanny valley with Tommy's way too pristine looks and character.

But even after having roasted him I have to admit that Brian's character has a much bigger connection to Wilde's work than Jack does, since Jack's story is more inspired by Divine from Genet's "Notre-Dame-des-fleurs", even having a scene from the book remade almost exactly in the movie, with Jack it makes more sense to compare him to Wilde himself since, just as Wilde became one of the major exponents of aestheticism and homosexuality in England, in the movie Jack is one of the original inspirations of the Glam Rock movement and an iconic figure in the queer community of the 60s and 70s, so of course he'd be the one to find the pin and carry the legacy of Oscar Wilde.

Tune in next whenever I post it to see me roasting Brian more in part two

#VGsecretfairy2023 #velvet goldmine #pointed epigram #movie analysis #ending this analysis by saying Jack Fairy is an icon and no one will be able to reach his levels of cuntyness #Also if anyone wants a link to the Queers episode feel free to ask me (it's a 🏴‍☠️ link so I hope you have a good adblocker lol) #"Peak of uncanny valley” new favorite oxymoron btw

[didntyoubelieveinme]

Hi again! I mentioned that my VG Secret Fairy gift to you was a two-parter. Well, I spent an embarrassingly long amount of time on the second part, and it didn't turn out half as good as I hoped, but here it is!

This is Golden Curt painted as Manet's Olympia. Everything is acrylic paint, except the suit itself, which is collaged from magazines. I saw Olympia in person last week and I thought it would be a perfect painting to place Curt lounging around! Instead of the cat (a symbol of Olympia's position as a courtesan), I put a wolf (duh), and instead of a maid bringing Olympia flowers, I decided to go with an iconic Curt quote :)

Alrightie that's it! Happy holidays!

OMG PUTTING THIS IN MY MOUTH RN

#velvet goldmine #curt wild #the suit was such a cool ideaaaa #this is so fire #thank you 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ #vgsecretfairy2023

[gayalienwilde]

This year's Secret Fairy gift exchange officially starts now!!!

Happy holidays and have fun everyone!!

#velvet goldmine #VGsecretfairy2023 #if santa goes “ho ho ho” secret fairies say “hoe hoe hoe” #ignore my awful jokes please