Happy Yuletart, Mific!

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Title: Death Gliders
By: Leyna
For: Mific
Media Used: Digital Painting
Rating: G
Fandom(s): Stargate Atlantis
Warnings: None
Summary: Steampunk!AU. The Pegasus Expedition journeys to a distant archipelago where they find the beautiful deserted City of the Ancients, awaken the deadly Wraith fleets, and become entangled in the politics of the God-Kings and their City-States. Here, John and Rodney escape from the city of the Serpent-God in stolen Death Gliders.
Notes: Thank you Mific, for the SGA inspiration. Your request for "Any setting. Any type of wings" got me speculating - in a Steampunk!AU are the Puddlejumpers and Death Gliders individual winged antigravity transports instead of small spacecraft? I chose to paint Death Gliders because the Goa'uld designs were gorgeous, and I wanted to play around with some of those elements – plus the thought of a SGA team vs Apophis confrontation was fun.



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Comments

[sulien]

Oh, my Gods, that is so gorgeous! The sky, their faces, their hands, the amazingly cool wings... You win everything with this, as far as I'm concerned.

And now, as usual, I'm hoping someone decides to write the story that goes with this. If I could write my way out of wet tissues paper, I'd do it myself, but I can't hold a plot together to save my life.

Anyway, thank you so much for sharing your amazing talent! I always love your work, even when I'm not in the fandom, but it's even better when I am. *g*

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[leyna]

Thank you! I had a very strong inspiration of colour, design and concept, and everything else just worked out easily (I love those sorts of paintings!).

I enjoyed thinking up ideas for this AU as I was working on it, but it would be great if someone was inspired to write the story :) (I can come up with plots, but can't write my way out of wet tissues, either :D )