#ya adaptations

[marisatomay]

i’m so sick of writers who proudly proclaim that they don’t read and directors and actors and other filmmakers who smugly say that they rarely watch movies or any artist who acts like an audience is stupid for connecting with their work like what the fuck is wrong with you that you hold such contempt such derision for the art that you have chosen to make the art that so many people dream of the opportunity to make the art that brings meaning and connection to people’s lives it’s unbelievably disrespectful to both your audience and the art-form and if you can’t muster basic respect for either your art-form or your audience then kindly fuck off and do something else

#i hate how rare it is to have an actor be like ‘yeah i just really love movies and going to the movies it’s the best i love what i do’ #to the point where when an actor or director IS like that people are like ‘wow what a freak…they’re faking it for attention’ like!! no!! #that’s what it’s SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE!! you WANT creators who are obsessed with their medium!!! #and what gets me about the people who don’t feel that way is the clear Pride they feel like they’re Better for not caring #that uk ya author adapting the odyssey and admitting that they’ve never read the odyssey or the iliad #that writer on twitter saying that telling writers to read is ableist #the russo brothers saying that the theatrical experience is elitist and auteurism should bow to the disney/netflix model #christain bale and any number of other actors who proudly announce that they don’t watch movies #sam levinson who talks about tv like it’s a long movie because he can’t hack it as a filmmaker like his dad but he doesn’t actually LIKE tv #like i get not wanting to consume your own work after it’s released unless it’s for research or self reflection purposes #but you do not exist or create in a vacuum and it’s SO disrespectful and arrogant to act like you do

[jccatstudios]

Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

Part 1, Chapter 3

Pages 19–20

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#soc comic adaptation #six of crows #soc #six of crows fanart #six of crows duology #six of crows comic #soc fanart #grishaverse fanart #grishaverse #kaz brekker #comics #jan van eck #ya fantasy #ya fiction #fantasy books #book art #bookblr

[prokopetz]

Principal villain of a best-selling YA fantasy novel trilogy: Silver hair cascading down his back like a waterfall, face like rough-hewn granite, eyes like smouldering coals, cheekbones that could cut glass.

The exact same villain in the prestige-format streaming television series adaptation:

#media #literature #television #adaptations #tropes #ya #fantasy #ya fantasy #character design #villains

[yomeiu]

I cannot position myself with graceful nature, to take upon the role of a righteous person, and not have it be the deceptions of a farcical liar.

Sincerity lacks my actions, and the world has a way of knowing.

His voided gaze reaffirms on own his mirror image, at last. Bestowing upon himself a self-critical examination. Two brown irises in return, glower back blankly. The delicate skin just underneath is sunken in. Discolored into a sickly grey, this detail allocates a incurable tiredness to the man.

#dazai 1 week after defecting the mafia #ok i dont usually put written musings but i just wanted to try and capture that he may have struggled adapting to a life in the light #and expressed his own self doubts about whether he should could and would even be allowed to become a better person #ya anyway #eyes #dazai #dazai osamu #bsd #bungo stray dogs #greyscale

[thatannoyingbitch]

please don't let this show get canceled!

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #six of crows #shadow and bone netflix #leigh bardugo #netflix #no mourners no funerals #grisha #ya adaptation #sab #the grisha trilogy #the grisha series #seige and storm #shadow and bone tv

[emsartwork]

Barbie Girls: Genevieve 

shout out to this really cute jewelry edition of the princess’s flowers that inspired the phone charms here!

#barbie #barbie girls #barbie movies #barbie and the 12 dancing princesses #12 dancing princesses #barbie genevieve #fashion #fairy kei #kind of? #idk what subculture this design would really fit into tbh #i usually have a good modern adaptation of the girls' stories but 12dp is difficult lol #also! if this is a hairstyle what wouldn't actually.... work? please let me know! #like braids + edges + bleached? i've seen hair similar to this but idk if it would actually be a thing thats done culturally ya know

[mtkay13]

(and way more TYK designs below!)

Here it is! My personal designs of the (mostly) full TYK cast! What I mainly learned from this: TYK has a lot more characters than expected, haha.

My idea was mainly to get a clearer image, for myself, of all the people appearing or being mentioned in the book (and btw, a big chunk of the characters above died before the story even started and don't even get a line, but, you know...). One of my guidelines was, everyone has to look interesting, has to look like the main character of their own story. TYK is pretty much a story about side characters... so if noone is a main character, everyone is, no? (...does that even work? lol) Some of these designs were inspired by SHL, because it being the first one I saw, it of course left an impression in my mind. The rest is essentially taken from the few descriptions we get in the book, and my own imagination (plus some help from pinterest for the clothing). Rong Changqing is 100% inspired from @tbgkaru-woh depiction of him.

One noteworthy thing: the giant dog is too big. I thought it was supposed to be the size of a big horse, but it's actually the size of a pony... woops. Now, additionally:

The protags families! Wen Ruyu and Gu Miaomiao had to look heroic because that's pretty much what their characters are about. The traditional Wuxia story heroes that marked the legend. Conversely, the Zhou family has to be as plain and normal as possible, haha. ZZS says, in QY, that he's often called "Zhou San" (=Zhou three), which means he's the third child in his family. Since I like the idea of him being the youngest, I only gave him an older brother (who will inherit the position of head of the family and thus justify ZZS being able to leave for a shady remote sect) and an older sister. And as another bonus:

Hehehe. So these are... let's say, the men in ZZS' life, before WKX.

- Jiuxiao, of course, because I'm convinced ZZS had feelings for him

- Huang Xu, an OC developed with Bichen (son of a HLZ supporter, whose family ZZS infiltrated for a while --as Su Yan-- to try and sway them towards HLY's cause ((Su Yan's "Yan" is the same "Yan" as in Zhen Yan, just as a little nod to SHL))) - Zhu Ai, a magistrate OC, developed with Moose and Bichen, who's deeply infatuated with ZZS --only knowing him as that one guy who handles imperial guard watch tours and trains guards--

-and one guard I just like to imagine having a crush on him too. I started working on some guy from WKX's childhood too, but I feel like WKX's past is such a huge can of worms, I'll save all of that for later, haha.

#tian ya ke #design #character design #adaptation #zhou zishu #wen kexing #zhang chengling #gu xiang #cao weining #jing beiyuan #wu xi #helian yi #gao chong #天涯客 #faraway wanderers #tyk #fanart

[fictionadventurer]

While we're on the subject of Persuasion, I want to mention that I think no one should be allowed to make YA retellings of that book. "I'm twenty-seven and running into the guy I broke a betrothal with at nineteen" is in no way comparable to "I'm eighteen and running into the boyfriend I dumped at sixteen." Persuasion's arc requires maturity. Time for both the leads to grow. You can't get that with teenagers.

#persuasion #jane austen #books #i say this as i have a ya retelling on my library pile #but that's cuz it's set in trinidad and counts for my world tour #(and i gotta admit that having anne's family run a hotel is a sharp adaptation choice)

[feline-evil]

Doing a big page of Nathan screenshot drawovers, here is the wip of one of them in a really really early sketch form; just like a first pass ref sketch from the screenshot.

#metalocalypse #nathan explosion #my art #low quality bc i just screen shotted my drawing software lol but thats ok its a wip #and yeah we r still in left handed mode still not using my right hand. ITS HARD WORK OUT HERE FOLKS ILL TELL YA THAT MUCH #in this stage my sketches r very heavily reffed but i do still try and make sure im adapting them into #my style and not doing a one to one. bc i like having fun w this even if its hard w this hand #u can see the next one ive started trying 2 find the shapes of in the corner lol yeag its an aotd aortid desecration scene night

[heyitsrink]

I'm on my first read through of Realm of the Elderlings and as a little personal project for myself, I'm taking a scene or small moment from each book in the series and turning it into a comic spread. I've been working on this project since January so I'm catching up a little bit with posts here.

Here's my spread for Royal Assassin. This bit of dialogue stood out to me the first time I read it - I love when the Fool talks in riddles!

"Who knows what will swirl up from the bottom of a stirred kettle?" He went suddenly to my door, and set his hand to the latch. "That is what I ask of you," he said quietly. "To forgo your twirling, Sir Spoon. To let things settle."

"I cannot."

He pressed his forehead to the door, a most un-Fool-like gesture. "Then you shall be the death of kings."

#as with any adaptation I took some artistic liberties #for ya know #drama #i also made a comic spread for AA but I have a lot of issues with it so I think I'll revisit that later #comic spread #fan comic #royal assassin #rote fanart #rote #realm of the elderlings #robin hobb #the fool #farseer #farseer trilogy #fitzchivalry farseer #panels of the elderlings #from page to panel

[dunderbread]

anyways why does stephen stills never get to have a boyfriend in any of the adaptations like in the comics? doomed to be single & closeted forever poor motherfucker

#anyways ya the new show good. people who haven't seen it & know the comics please please watch it blind I beg #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim takes off #stephen stills #will say I am glad they always cut knives & kim kissing from the adaptations. that was a bit weird

[jccatstudios]

Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

Part 1, Chapter 3

Pages 21–22

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#soc comic adaptation #six of crows #soc #six of crows fanart #six of crows duology #six of crows comic #soc fanart #grishaverse fanart #grishaverse #kaz brekker #comics #jan van eck #ya fantasy #ya fiction #fantasy books #book art #bookblr #wylan hendriks #wylan van eck #alys van eck

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

idk man maybe i'm missing something but telling people that they aren't real fans of a source material because they don't full-on despise the live action adaptation just sounds a little close-minded and idiotic to me

#yes this is about natla #but it can also be about any live action adaptation #like i actually like the monster high live action movies but it's kinda hard to find others who will let me like it peacefully #natla definitely wasn't perfect but i still liked it #and so did many others #and while someone just saying “you're not part of our fandom anymore” doesn't actually remove someone from a fandom #it's still just not nice #if you see a post of someone praising natla or just talking about it in a non-negative light just keep scrolling #you really don't have to fill their inbox with tangents about your hate for the show #natla #natla positivity #<- ya know what yeah i will tag it that #all non natla haters get behind me #atla #avatar live action #avatar the last airbender #netflix atla #atla netflix #atla la #la atla #atla live action

[leahthedreamer]

Netflix officially cancelled Shadow and Bone this is the greatest cancellation news I’ve ever heard I’m hysterically laughing.

#shitty ass parody combining two series that were never meant to interact #and FUCK the writers who ruined the characters too #subjecting rhe masses to nonsense #one of the worst hyped ya adaptations known to man Leigh Bardugo im sorry they massacred the crows #shadow and bone #six of crows

[checkoutmybookshelf]

You Have My Attention: Secret Shanghai First Lines

Chloe Gong's Secret Shanghai universe has been hugely popular. It's based on a couple of Shakespeare plays combined with the glittering world of 1920s-30s Shanghai, so this universe is rich and packs a punch. We know Shakespeare's reputation for amazing lines, but how does Gong catch a reader? Let's find out!

So this universe is four novels and two novellas, so actually we get six first lines instead of five!

"In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens."

-- These Violent Delights

"The New Year in Shanghai passed with such fanfare that a sense of party still permeated the city a week later."

-- Our Violent Ends

"Two knocks meant 'all clear,' and three knocks meant 'dorogaya, for the love of God, I'm holding something in my hands.'"

-- "A Foul Thing" in Last Violent Call

"The socks were bundled at the upper left corner, the shirts crammed along the middle, and the gun tucked right in between, nestled gingerly among the most padded clothes so that it wasn't knocking against the hard material of the luggage case."

-- "This Foul Murder" in Last Violent Call

"Out in the countryside, it doesn't matter how loud you scream."

-- Foul Lady Fortune

"The easiest way to disappear was to never disappear fully, always hovering right at the periphery of being caught, responding in an instant when there was movement."

-- Foul Heart Huntsman

#chloe gong #secret shanghai #these violent delights #our violent ends #last violent call #foul lady fortune #foul heart huntsman #ya fantasy #ya romance #shakespeare adaptation #books and reading #books & libraries #books and novels #books #book recommendations

[chocolate-cringymuffin]

Guess who has a new inconsistent style? :)

#korranok art #now seriously #Ihave not been active for personal reasons #and let´s say I REALLY messed up #so I lost all my drawings that I didn´t post here #And well I had to get a quick substitute for my old drawing tablet #so I am getting used to this new method an it will take me time to adjust #so of course the comic is going to be paused until I can draw decent art again haha #that's why the line art such as the color is too weird here #just posting this to know I still care about you guys and hope ya all are doing fine #some mutuals deactivated recently and well... #someone has to keep the problematics ships floating right? #and it seems we gotta keep up with the task! #hope to adapt to this soon