DE: Pictures on the wall

[yakalskovich]

I saw something better than this on tumblr yesterday, but  can't find it any more, so have this:

What pictures, tapestries or other ornaments do your characters have on their walls, either at home in canon, or in Milliways?

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[yinyangwizard]

Seimei has a lot of Japanese artwork, as you might expect. He also has a number of Dutch still lifes, which you wouldn't expect. But some of his very favorite pieces are Chinese Sung Dynasty landscape paintings.

[tu_vas_triompher]

Feuilly is a visual guy and he uses every surface available to him. In Paris his walls would be plastered with newspaper articles, maps, prints of historical and current faves of his. In Milliways, there aren't so many newspapers, but there's still MAPS and PRINT-OUTS OF THIS AWESOME PORTRAIT OF TADEUSZ KOSCIUSZKO and outlines of whatever projects he has in hand and...probably a lot of important notes to himself to remember to do really basic things like walk the dogs and meet Enjolras for Latin lessons at 2:30. He's also discovered the joy of fridge magnets, so his little mini-fridge has joined in the fight. And uh. it still has the map that harry drew of the milliways fair. aaaaaand he's left the alphabet letters where harry spelled out his name. because he is a ridiculous sap

Most of my other characters don't have anything all that remarkable. The Chief's room is a lot like Feuilly's, only everything is more 1990s-children's-TV-show. Bossuet canonically has no home and lives with his friends, so his walls depend on where he's at. He's still kind of in that mindset; Joly does most of the decorating in the Blue Cherub Room. (Which uhhhhhh came with its own Madonna Inn stylings.) Helen Ramirez likes knick-knacks and art prints, Hal isn't really in charge of his own decorating but he's got whatever English kings are supposed to have, Djehuty probably has metaphysical equations visible only to gods in a sort of opposite-of-Lovecraftian way.

And of course Gredya disapproves of rooms.

[clayforthedevil]

rooms are probably a bourgeois plot anyway

[harryhotspur]

SAP

[tu_vas_triompher]

ugh such a sap

[merryeccentricities]

ooh, I like this one!

Joly is not really much of a decorating person? Back in Paris, his little apartment was generally too packed for much in that line anyhow; there was a wardrobe, a few shelves, maybe a space he tacked important papers too, and the Don't Put Anything There Sometimes That Wall Leaks We Can't Stop It wall.

In Milliways, he's got more room and is still not a decorating sort of person. So his room stays blue and gilded. It has acquired a sort of cat-gym built along the walls since Bahorel's stint petsitting. His lab is perpetually full of Projects Happening; the fridge is eternally covered with notes and Humourous Art (thanks Bossuet) and messages in little alphabet magnets. That's probably as much Decorating as is gonna happen unless a friend decides it's all been quite enough Blue here.


Bahorel is very much a decorating person, just..to his own ideas of decor. His apartments back home in Paris tended to be covered wall to wall in draped pieces of interesting material, hanging baskets full of Things, Inadvisably Situated Lamps and Candles, ticket stubs and interesting advertisements and art from/of friends.
His rooms at Milliways have generally headed the same way, with the addition of photographs of friends and landscapes and some artists from well after his time. In particular there is now very noticeably a Georgia O'Keefe print hanging in a place where it's very hard not to see, Thanks Liz!
(The rooms are Prouvaire's too, at this point, but since they both come from a shared aesthetic movement it's probably a bit hard for anyone who doesn't know them very well to know just who's responsible for what Random Thing Hanging From The Ceiling. )

[never_promised]

just how excited was joly by the discovery of stickynotes

[merryeccentricities]

They come in SHAPES!

[genarti]

hey Joly

[tu_vas_triompher]

those are perfect for the extremely necessary "THIS IS PEOPLE FOOD NOT CAT FOOD" notes

[clayforthedevil]

Look food storage and processing have improved radically since his time, he's not blaming anyone, he just doesn't want anyone getting confused

[sdelmonte]

From Memory-Alpha, the best Star Trek wiki:

James T. Kirk's San Francisco apartment was the home of Admiral James T. Kirk in 2285. It was in a tall skyscraper in San Francisco and featured sweeping views of the city, the bay, Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge and at least two other prominent 23rd century skyscrapers. The apartment featured a fireplace in the living room with a curved wall and mosaic treatment behind it. To the left of the fireplace and to the right of the windows there was a metallic sculpture that perhaps could have been a model of the skyscraper the apartment was in. Kirk filled the apartment with antiques, reflecting his fondness for them; in particular, a lot of the antiques were of a nautical nature. Also among the items were 18th and 19th century Earth firearms and a late 20th century Earth computer.

[genarti]

Ooh, fun!

Enjolras is a spartan kind of guy. Here at Milliways, he's got the bloodstained red flag he died holding and a poster-type copy of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on the walls inside the room, and a placard Feuilly made him saying "Here we honor the title of citizen" on the door, and... that's it. He's got a pot of cacti Bahorel gave him too, but that's not wall-mounted. In Paris it was about the same, except without the flag or placard, and possibly with some pamphlets in progress pinned up or something. At Milliways, he's sharing a room with Combeferre now, which is why the room is full of science paraphernalia, but probably not a whole lot more in the way of decoration on the walls, unless Roberta corrects me on that.

Cosette, on the other hand, loves to make places nice! I'm not quite sure if she'd have busy Victorian wallpaper yet or if that's still a few years down the line for houses that aren't super-fashionable. I've kind of fallen down a rabbit hole of googling 1830s decorating that I'm going to yank myself out of, but basically: lots of decoration! I think she'd lean towards pictures of plants and birds and nature scenes and religious scenes, and embroidery, and fabric draperies occasionally supplemented with fresh leaves or flowers, and so forth. Her rooms at Milliways are similarly decorated even though she only rarely stays here, and she's added nice things to Valjean's and Fantine's to whatever extent they let her.

Thor, uh. Tons of geometric ornamentation (knotwork, etc) in gold and stone, on an epic scale? We don't actually see his chambers ever, but that's what Asgard's palace in general has. I don't think he's worked too hard on the interior decoration. He'd certainly make any changes he cared about -- changing the color of drapery he didn't like, etc -- but mostly he isn't the kind of person who'll sit around thinking how to make a room look nicer. And probably some of the decoration is ancestral.

Kazul lives in a cave. But it's a cave with a lot of treasure! I think in general she tends towards knicknacks more than pictures or fabric draperies. There's probably a big mirror somewhere, but it's probably in a back room because you never know when a thing will up and decide to be enchanted.

[never_promised]

Oh, Enjolras. Decorating with the blood of your friends never goes out of style.

[genarti]

Okay but seriously why WOULD you bother putting anything up on a wall unless you can be fervently moved by passionate revolutionary feelings every time you look at it...??

[never_promised]

Hey, Fwee is right there with you, Enjolras. REVOLUTIONARY FEELINGS and okay maybe a reminder to get a new collar for one of the dogs

[genarti]

Admittedly, both of them can be moved to fervent revolutionary feelings by staring at a blank wall also, but THAT'S NOT THE POINT.

[clayforthedevil]

"Hey doesn't that splotch on the wall look like France? ..No, really, look, that darker patch, that's totally Paris there, CITY OF LIGHT CITY OF REVOLUTION."

[genarti]

"I may be looking at slightly dingy plaster, but what I'm seeing is THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE IDEAL."

[yakalskovich]

OT: I totally love your icon!!

[genarti]

Heee, thank you! I ran across it in a general multifandom icon comm ages back, IIRC, and I cackle a little to myself every time I get a chance to use it.

[yakalskovich]

Still, with two characters whose subtext has become text in their respective last seasons, I love seeing an icon with that phrase.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka's rooms at the temple are spartan in decor. If she has any wall hangings they'd likely be illustrations of the lightsaber forms. She might have a landscape from her home planet but I'm not sure about that.

Izana has a very minimalist room at their Grandmother's home. They don't decorate the walls but there are books.

The one time they show a room Selina has made for herself there is nothing but a very comfy looking bed in the room. I think she carries the things she likes and always assumes whatever room she finds will be temporary.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess has lots of fancy artwork and stuff. The most meaningful things are in her office, shells, silvered urchins, dolphin statues.

Kylo has his dead grandfather's helmet. It's more of a conversation piece.

[genarti]

pffffffffft. More of a conversation piece INDEED.

[have_no_mercy]

:D

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee has pictures of movie stars cut out from magazines taped to his mirrors in his dressing room and in his flat. Because he's such a teenage girl.

[varadia]

X has so much Stuff in her apartment. She's got brightly colored glass bottles in her window, a stained glass wisteria hanging in her bedroom window from Amy, a wall of photographs some of which were taken by Liz Sherman and others which are hers and her friends', she has a bunch of coats hanging on another wall, and also a set of cat steps.

And her aquarium. (Avengers, Assemble!)

In Milliways mostly she has a stack of crates in her room full of weaponry. They're covered with a brightly-colored throw! For decoration.

Ysalwen's chambers in the Vigil mostly have tapestries to keep the warmth in, as well as several rings that are handy for attaching things to. Ahem. If she has to rent a room in Milliways the walls are pretty bare.

Raven's entire cabin is full of artwork and weird collected things and sculptures and shiny bits and pieces. He sleeps in the rafters in Milliways. I guess that means his room has a yellow bra on the wall?

Flemeth has a bunch of herbs and dried bits of dead things. And sometimes damp bits of dead things. FYI.

[yinyangwizard]

Flemeth's gotta have at least one creepy dreamcatcher-like kinda thing. For the proper eldritch aesthetic, you know. :)

[a1enzo]

Enzo and Dani's apartment has photos of both their families, a drawing of the two of them that Dani drew eight years ago, one of Hiccup's sketches of Toothless (an engagement present), a replica of one of Hexadecimal's masks, some spare swords, and a dartboard with a picture of Dani's creator on it. The rest is mainly posters, including several literary and library-related posters from her world, a jetball poster from his, band and comics posters from both, and, of course a Tron poster.

[maid_of_tarth]

Brienne, on her chamber walls in Tarth, has a small and faded tapestry of a knight rescuing a lady. In Milliways she hasn't really decorated, except with a map of Westeros with pushpins in certain places as she tries to use Milli-library info to figure out where Sansa Stark could be.

Fantine decorates with pretty flowers, pictures of birds, and little knick-knacks (often bird-shaped--she likes birds). Her Milliways room is slowly acquiring things like this, including an actual bird from Cosette.

Combeferre has...clutter. Mostly a lot of science paraphernalia, both in Paris and in Milliways, but also some things he thinks were just cool or nice-looking. In Paris there were a lot of finely detailed sketches of insects, hieroglyphs, and anatomical drawings; there was a skeleton; and there was also an old-fashioned globe. In Milliways, in addition to everything Gen said about what Enjolras has up, Combeferre has a periodic table of the elements, a painting of the solar system, the toy dinosaur given to him by Bahorel, a lava lamp (look he just thinks it's cool okay), and a WHOLE LOT of books and artifacts and specimens that are not there for decoration but end up forming an overwhelming part of the visual impression any visitor would have to the room.

Jehan Prouvaire actually has excellent taste, albeit in a dark and melancholy and slightly disturbing sort of way. He has a couple of paintings, mostly abstract but still with a theme of flower or star shapes(the Georgia O'Keeffe from Liz fits right in, albeit with subtext that isn't necessarily there in the other paintings). He has actual flowers, including a small pot of violets (his cat sometimes chews them). He has a very old iron throwing-star on one wall. Also he has a small shrine to Djehuty, with incense burning in it, though Jehan would not call this decorative. He just thinks of it as a way to say "Hi!" to Djehuty.