I'd forgotten this little chapter and hope the convention of the occasional "sheet of paper" from the world continues. It really is evocative.
Something that should have occurred to me first time around - if nothing else, Max-Earth could have influenced "SS-London" (shitty-smoggy" to have a sane currency.
Oh, no, I see the creation of a Triverse kept Britain from adopting the metric system!
Next, we'll discover decimalization never happened and British currency is still utterly batshit. I forget exactly how many horsehoofs are in a tripenny, or how many hatracks are in a pound*...
Anyway, in the context of the story, the 'photo' was appropriate, but, yeah, you probably won't (and shouldn't) put up images of all your other characters.
Your worry is founded. After all, if you were to, say, look up "A Song of Ice and Fire" fan art from before 2012 or so you'd see a lovely variety of designs based on the artist interpretation of GRRM's imperfect verbal descriptions. Look up recent fan art (or "Game of Thrones") fan art and, yeah, it all looks like the TV show. Of course, Danerys being drawn as Emilia Clarke rather than her book description does help hide that, in the books, she's still only about 14/15 years old and really shouldn't have so many gratuitous nude scenes.
My mental image of Fenris from TMC was quite different from the art you created and posted. Now, fan art doesn't affect my mental image of a character, overall, but YOU are the author, so your art, to my mind, became "official," and overrode MY Fenris, who had a bald pate (under a little cap), but longer hair in the back, a pointed van dyke, and Peter-Capaldi-ish "Attack Eyebrows." I won't say your images necessarily inhibit my own imagination, but, images provided by - especially created by - the author do have a "weight of authority" beyond any cover artist.
Anyways, I didn't think of Callahan as that thin, or with a "porn 'stache." But, 1970's, I should have anticipated the 'stache.
*Yes, yes, I know, except for the pound, none of those were units of currency, but farthing, ha'penny, thruppence, sixpence, shilling, florin, half-crown, crown, guinea and groat...? We can agree that (based off the penny) having 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and 1/6d coins, then having 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound was just... Y'know, I really need to look up how that system grew.
I see I'm an inch taller than him! (Probably more now, given, well, you know). Also his birthday is the 22nd, which only confirms a belief in my immediate family that 22 is bad luck.
I'd forgotten this little chapter and hope the convention of the occasional "sheet of paper" from the world continues. It really is evocative.
Something that should have occurred to me first time around - if nothing else, Max-Earth could have influenced "SS-London" (shitty-smoggy" to have a sane currency.
6'1" and 150-ish lbs? Skinny dude!
Oh, no, I see the creation of a Triverse kept Britain from adopting the metric system!
Next, we'll discover decimalization never happened and British currency is still utterly batshit. I forget exactly how many horsehoofs are in a tripenny, or how many hatracks are in a pound*...
Anyway, in the context of the story, the 'photo' was appropriate, but, yeah, you probably won't (and shouldn't) put up images of all your other characters.
Your worry is founded. After all, if you were to, say, look up "A Song of Ice and Fire" fan art from before 2012 or so you'd see a lovely variety of designs based on the artist interpretation of GRRM's imperfect verbal descriptions. Look up recent fan art (or "Game of Thrones") fan art and, yeah, it all looks like the TV show. Of course, Danerys being drawn as Emilia Clarke rather than her book description does help hide that, in the books, she's still only about 14/15 years old and really shouldn't have so many gratuitous nude scenes.
My mental image of Fenris from TMC was quite different from the art you created and posted. Now, fan art doesn't affect my mental image of a character, overall, but YOU are the author, so your art, to my mind, became "official," and overrode MY Fenris, who had a bald pate (under a little cap), but longer hair in the back, a pointed van dyke, and Peter-Capaldi-ish "Attack Eyebrows." I won't say your images necessarily inhibit my own imagination, but, images provided by - especially created by - the author do have a "weight of authority" beyond any cover artist.
Anyways, I didn't think of Callahan as that thin, or with a "porn 'stache." But, 1970's, I should have anticipated the 'stache.
*Yes, yes, I know, except for the pound, none of those were units of currency, but farthing, ha'penny, thruppence, sixpence, shilling, florin, half-crown, crown, guinea and groat...? We can agree that (based off the penny) having 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and 1/6d coins, then having 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound was just... Y'know, I really need to look up how that system grew.
I see I'm an inch taller than him! (Probably more now, given, well, you know). Also his birthday is the 22nd, which only confirms a belief in my immediate family that 22 is bad luck.