Negotiating Narwhals

[double_dutchess]

Happy New Year to all!

Of course I couldn't resist the narwhal prompt. So I quickly had to whip something up, because the rest of the month I will probably have zero time for fannish activities.

Prompt: The Nosy Narwhal Negotiation
Medium: Art

The narwhal photograph is by Paul Nicklen (source).

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

A huge part of the penguin!AU's charm was seeing just how much meaning the writers could imbue the simple word "ka-ark" with. I think that's the missing ingredient that's preventing narwhal!AU from taking off.

(That, and nobody's seriously pissed about the comics right now, at least in Spuffyland. Annoyed maybe. Right now "seriously pissed" is what the Bangels are. Although how the spacefrak didn't seriously piss them off is as mystifying to me as anything actually in the comics.)

Well, and ok, penguins are cute and look like they are wearing tuxedos and therefore sort of easy to humanize; narwhals are grand and epic and prehistoric and - where the heck are their eyes? And what about mouths? They look like torpedoes with lances at the end. So writers kind of have their work cut out for them.

[double_dutchess]

Yeah, narwhals are definitely more challenging than cute cuddly penguins, at least for fic! In fact, doing a proper narwhal manip isn't that easy either. That's why my best ones (in my opinion anyway) are the ones using only a few simple props.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I hadn't even thought about the challenge to artists but you're right!