Image Description: A digital drawing of Fleur and Tonks sleeping peacefully in their bed. Fleur is wearing a lightblue sleeveless shirt, her long blond hair is fanned out on the pillow behind her. Tonks has a short pink buzzcut and is wearing a white tanktop. Fleur is spooning Tonks: her lips are pressed against Tonks’s left shoulder and her left arm is wrapped securely around Tonks’s middle. Their left hands are intertwined. Tonks’s other hand is pushed under the pillow. They’re covered by a darkblue bedspread that has a colourful pattern of icecream cones, fruits, chocolate and cake slices. A thick Sudoku book and a pencil lie at the head of the bed. The afternoon sun bathes the scene in warm light. A sliver of sunlight falls across the couple, illuminating their joined hands. Art by celilasart. End description.
This was a spur of the moment “what your fic doesn’t have art?” creation, and I’m so happy I got the chance to create art for this beautiful fic (and to get to read it almost before everybody else ;D). I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! The story illustrates so wonderfully what it means to support your partner, not just in small things, but also in big life decisions.
Go check it out and please have a look at all the other amazing works of @hpwlwbigbang
Summary: Countdown (n.) a game show broadcast by Channel 4, where two contestants try to make nine letter words from randomly selected letters and solve maths puzzles using the four basic functions with the greatest accuracy.
Pointless (n.) a BBC quiz show where four pairs of contestants try to provide the lowest scoring answers on general knowledge questions to advance to the next round(s).
On the consequences of the Delacour-Tonks Quit Pact of 2009. Or, Fleur hates working and only wants to do trivia and solve puzzles.
Words:29930
Author’s Notes: Huge thanks to violetclarity for modding this fest with me for another year, for beta reading this, for increasing the cheekiness of my summary, and for kindly assuring me that I had, in fact, written a thing. Massive thanks also to aibidil for the beta, for adding extra layers of humour to a couple scenes, for pointing out what wasn’t working, and–most of all–for photoshopping Daniel Radcliffe’s face onto Macaulay Culkin’s from the Home Alone cover and DMing it to me. Many more thanks to Tami for generously offering to create something for this and for creating a magnificently cozy piece of art incredibly quickly!
Artist’s Notes @celiasart: This was a spur of the moment “what your fic doesn’t have art?” creation, and I’m so happy I got the chance to create art for this beautiful fic (and to get to read it -almost- before everybody else ;D). I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! The story illustrates so wonderfully what it means to support your partner, not just in small things, but also in big life decisions.
Image Description: A digital drawing of a polaroid photo in sepia colours with the words “The Gateways 1960” scribbled underneath the picture. The polaroid shows Minnie and Poppy on their first date slow-dancing at the Gateways Club. Minnie is wearing a sleeveless jumpsuit with white polka dots and a deep V neckline, Poppy is wearing a white blouse with short sleeves and a high collar as well as a dark maxi skirt. Minnie and Poppy have their hair in artfully arranged updos, they are smiling widely and only have eyes for each other. They don’t even notice the women dancing in the background or sitting at the small tables next to them. Art by celilasart. End description.
The fic, this fic, I was allowed to create art for, is absolutely phenomenal. Whether Minnie & Poppy are your OTP or you’ve never read a single fic for this pairing, this fic is for you! It’s just beautiful how we follow these two through the decades :))
Go check it out and please have a look at all the other amazing works of @hpwlwbigbang
Warnings/Content Notes: minor character death, mentions of illness, mentions of depression, mention of death eater attacks (see full tagset on AO3)
Summary: When Minerva, Minnie, decides to leave the ministry to teach at Hogwarts, she soon gets more than what she bargained for.
She finds a friend, a lover, a partner that lasts throughout the years, through the good and the bad.
Word Count:25096
Author’s Notes: What a journey this has been!
When I started thinking of writing for the WLW Big Bang, I knew I wanted to write an established love story. A couple that goes through the good and the bad together, show how they do it, how love prevails over all. Minnie and Poppy were absolutely perfect for it.
When the sign-ups were originally open for the fest, I was swamped with work and didn’t pay much attention to fandom life. I only came back out of my nest right when the artist sign-ups had already closed. When I saw that the lovely mods were looking for pinch-hitters, I jumped on the opportunity. And I’m sooo happy I did. The fic, this fic, I was allowed to create art for, is absolutely phenomenal. Whether Minnie & Poppy are your OTP or you’ve never read a single fic for this pairing, this fic is for you! It’s just beautiful how we follow these two through the decades :)) Thank you, oh talented author, for creating this gem and answering all my questions! And thank you, lovely mods, for organizing this fest and giving me the opportunity to be a part of it in the final hour ;D I hope you like what I’ve created.
Reading the scene my art piece is inspired by gave me so many feels! Thank you for creating such a tender fic, and for letting me snag this particular scene to draw. It was a joy to read and to illustrate, and listening to “Somewhere beyond the sea” while drawing and thinking about that moment was beautifully bittersweet.
