Ok. I'm not fuming anymore. I did make a gallery at Elfwood, only not in the scifi section. So now I have a fantasy gallery, because I think my fantasy drawings are more easily defined as fantasy, also by Elfwood's standards. I *did* get one pic rejected, but when I wrote a longer explanation to it, underlining the fantastic content on it, it got accepted. Now I'm left wondering if I should try to resend my Damon pictures to the scifi section and write looooooong explanations about D's character and the story's plot in the description to get it accepted. Would it work? Do I want to overwork my keyboard and use my time to think up the explanations only to get the pics rejected again? I don't know for sure yet.

Let's not talk about that anymore. I've been thinking about making a comic about Damon during the summer holiday, in order to get 'work exercise' credit for it and receive study grants during the summer. I'm not sure if I have the time to do a brief storyboard about the subject for my teachers, when I have to redo the whole beginning of Damon's story in order to write Cafe de Minuit, and thus other people's characters, out of it. Who knows. It would be fun, though, to actually receive money from drawing a graphic novel. <sigh & a dreaming look...>

AAGH! Ok, so I won't join Elfwood, then. Okay, I joined, but won't make a gallery since my pictures "aren't modern fantasy"! I sent some nice pretty pictures of Damon and his friends and foes there and got a rejected ticket as a response. The reasons stated that "The pictures aren't modern fantasy. Simply saying that they are based on tarot cards doesn't count"! As I've written my novel quite a lot, and it being my favourite one, I think I can state that it *is* modern fantasy, if a label should be put to it.

What is modern fantasy, then? What does Elfwood think it is? Isn't the point of modern fantasy (at least sometimes) that the guys don't look any different from normal people but have some strange gifts/powers/natures? How can one send a picture of a modern mage there, if it's just a guy on a trenchcoat? Is it enough to say that the picture portrays a mage? And how about a modern vampire? Perhaps my gloomy Christophe in his pinstripe suit? Should he be grimacing like a standard vampire, showing his fangs, if it isn't enough to say that he is a vampire? I mean, what is going on?

I'm just so very mad now. I love my Damon. He's happy as modern fantasy. But if Elfwood doesn't want me to share my stories and imagination, then I won't. I won't be drawing pointy ears or huge freaking guns to my characters just because they would then feel happy to call it modern fantasy.

So there. Not joining a community of interesting and good artists, then.
Rant over.
(............still fuming................)