Something for Auburn and Mona's "Ardhanarishvara"

[anna_luna]

For those of you who haven't read "Ardhanarishvara", it is a wonderful fanfic by auburnnothenna and monanotlisa, where an advanced alien civilization, in order to further enlighten their new business partners, had several members of Sheppard's team genderswitched.

Now this inspired a whole lot of fanart by me and other assorted people.

And now, since Mona's in the hospital and I'd like to make her feel a tiny bit better (if you want to make something for her, there is a community called ficformona), I made these:

Preview:



ETA: I have added a second version of the manip and the graphic after I followed some of icarusancalion's suggestions.



Original version:



New version:



Just the Manip.

I figured, maybe I was going about this business of genderswitching the wrong way: Instead of trying to make John into a woman, maybe I should be trying to make a woman into John. So I used a picture from 'Resident Evil II' and proceeded to give her some of John's features. I felt like a bit of a Frankenstein, adding the nose and the eyes, the shape of the face, the ear and of course, the hair.







This is from the bar scene in Part Eleven.

Comments

[auburnnothenna.livejournal.com]

The manip is glorious. I love the overall color values, and think that - according to your comments above - you've found the right technique, with maniping a female to be John, rather than trying to feminize JF's features. The DNA strand, the ghost image, it's a really, really successful piece of artwork. And, unlike many manips, it doesn't make me have that weird uncomfortable, wrongwrongwrong feeling.

And the second one is just fun. Very nice the way it looks like Ronon is watching Rodney and Sheppard, even while she'd threatening to kill Gigolo Boy if he so much as squeaks.

I'm not even sick and you've made me feel better.

[anna_luna]

:) I'm glad you liked it and especially that I made you feel better, there is so little we fans can do to thank the writers.

Following icarusancalion's suggestions, I tried to maker her look a bit more like John so now there are two versions of both the graphic and the manip in the post.

I'm especially proud that you liked my fanart. Ronon is *so* watching both John and Rodney and fully intends to kill "Gigolo Boy" if he makes a sound (I secretly think she would have hurt him if he *had* laid a hand on John).