Art for saki101 A Day in the Life, PG

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Title: A Day in the Life; or, Watson, the Unreliable Narrator
Recipient: saki101
Artist: [redacted]
Rating: PG

Notes: Compressed charcoal. Many thanks to my very patient, pseudonym-less beta, and to [redacted] for helpful comments. For those who wonder what a palimpsest is (I didn't know, at least) it's a manuscript where the original text has been erased and then written over.

Captions are actual citations, from NORW, GOLD and YELL.

Saki, you mentioned wanting art, and stories weaving in different artistic aspects, and that's what inspired this. I hope you like it!

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

A charming look at the private life behind the public stories - it's lovely how happy and comfortable they seem together. I wonder if "palimpsest" and "treatise on surgery" is Watson's little joke. "Palimpsest": Watson hides their real life by writing a new version on top of the truth, and "surgery": in the stories, he cuts away the bits of their life that he can't share with the public.

[garonne.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and thanks again for 'beta-reading' too! I love your play on words -- I never thought of it myself, but it's perfect here.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

You're welcome about the beta-viewing ^_^ You may remember that I worried a bit at the time that I was missing a play on words? ^^" Then when you gave the definition of "palimpsest" here, it suddenly popped into my head what it might be ^^