My Bookworm Valentine. Valentine’s Day is approaching! As a gift for you guys, here are some geeky hand-drawn cards, inspired by the awesome doodles of elledoubleyou and butthorn. Feel free to print these out and give them to your loved ones if you want! ;) It will surely make a happy, Cupid-esque single this February 14. Haha!
Card 01: Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark from Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games (whoops! Looks like Cupid managed to slip one of his arrows in your quiver, Kat!).
Card 02: Daenerys Targaryen & Khal Drogo from George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. I originally planned to draw Cersei and Jaime, but I guess the Khaleesi’s love life is less…poisonous. If you know what I mean.
Card 03: Of course we’ll have a gay couple! It features Jack & Grayson from Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Love Will Tear Us Apart (anthologized in Zombies vs. Unicorns and Wilde Stories 2011). Grayson’s drooling because Jack still smells like a happy meal to him. :p
Card 04: Touchstone & Sabriel from my ever-favorite fantasy YA series, Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Trilogy.
Supposed-to-be Card 05: I have a lesbian valentine card too, but a friend took it away before I had the chance to scan it. It features two girls from Malinda Lo’s Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella. I drew Kaisa and Aisling with their backs to the viewers, looking up at a small clock that reads 12:01. The caption says, “I’ll love you even after midnight.” Maybe I’ll just post it later, when I feel not-so-lazy to doodle again. LOL
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol’s plans. The symbol of the rebellion.
To anyone who still hasn’t seen it, Lionsgate has released the official poster of The Hunger Games movie a few days ago. There are also two official stills: one featuring Katniss and Peeta clad in their Cinna-designed, yet-to-be-lit jumpsuits before the tribute parade, and the other featuring Team District 12 either watching the recap of the chariot parade or the announcement of their training session scores.
EDIT: There’s more!
Is it March 23 yet?!
(source: mockingjay.net)
Hunger Games by einlee. (L to R) Gale Hawthorne, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Cinna (I thought it’s Beetee!) and Finnick Odair.
The Hunger Games trailer. There are a few times in my life when I wanted to use a time machine so I could jump into a particular period in the past or in the future to see or do something. But I can’t remember—in all the years of my bookworm-infested and fangirlism-dominated life—how badly I felt the want need to use one for real—not just wishful thinking—except after watching the official full trailer of The Hunger Games. No kidding! I wanted to twist the machine’s dial to March 23, 2012 and be transported into a moviehouse, all comfy with warm buttered popcorn and Kleenex on my lap (I’ll need it) while my favorite dystopian book comes to life onscreen. Ooh, if only such a thing really exists! I’m all tears and goosebumps after my first play of the video…and also on the second, on the third, on the fourth…
Now you know what I’m excited about? The official soundtrack. :)
