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Girl dinner ~
You are what you eat and all that— personally my diet is 90% fanfic at this point so I had to do something haha
I thought the nostalgic and polished veneer of a 1950s style diner contrasted against a sense of surreal grotesque indulgence was interesting to explore. Very debauchery, very ortolan.
Some small details:
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the doves flying from her halo shift from red to white
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Her halo is red and the lamp behind it is green to look like an apple (fruit of knowledge and all that)
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An apple tree supports the dining table. I very purposely did not include a serpent. I don’t think temptation is needed to want to consume — mental or physical.
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The melted milkshake bleeds red running down her hand. It was originally supposed to be apple juice but the yellow color made it look like pee so I changed it…
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Lots of eye like details especially in the shadows. The flyers and lighting is supposed to create an eye like frame around the central “pupil”
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There are silhouettes of people pressed up against the windows looking in. Consumption seems a private event but is judged
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Ortolan reference — but instead of the diner’s face being obscured it is the dove’s or rather, the media that is being consumed. If you read dead dove fic… you know.
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A baby bird gags on paper below. The others clamor for food— which is the body of a grown dove. They don’t know any better so can you blame them?
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The horizontal straight on perspective is supposed to add to feeling of unnatural surrealness/ performative artificiality . It’s also very subtly last supper — but she’s certainly not a religious figure but there are 12 smaller birds for the disciples
Of all fanfic tags, I believe "Dead Dove Do Not Eat" to be the most representative. In a meta sense, it is the Platonic ideal of a fanfic tag -- it literally just tells the readers to heed the warnings and read the tags! What you get is what you get. There is no tag that is as taggy as "Dead Dove Do Not Eat".
Please enjoy the meal!