Chess Game👏👏

now he where he wanted to be... in an arctic cold state.

unironicaly, i too walk with wide open coat in sub-zero temperatures when it's blizzard and (almost) don't freeze. we do have similarities.

appearance based on broadwaymoscow cast (kirill gordeev)

More Chess fanart that no one asked for

Also I realized after I drew it, but the scene from Endgame is actually between Sergievsky and his wife, not Florence. But oh well.

These are my character designs and are based solely on the music and a few glances at the set and costumes.

Check out my Sergievsky x Trumper fic on ao3

Well, at least she's a good-looking spy.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis/Spy Movie Chess au for @because-i-love-chess for the Chess Cherver's Secret Santa exchange! Creative decisions/thoughts about the au below the cut!

Anatoly's outfit takes major inspo from the youth counterculture movement in Russia at the time! The Stilyagi! I thought this would be a good way to show how he's not a "proper," Russian, but in a way that still read early 60s as opposed to the more famous counterculture movements of the late 60s/70s. Stilyagi dressed very Western, with zoot suits, plaid, bright colors -- unfortunately there's not a lot of color photos of them that I found online, so I took some creative decisions, and looked at the 2008 movie musical about them! Funnily enough, this idea all started with Anatoly quoting a Cole Porter term in canon! Now, would Anatoly be able to get away with wearing Stilyagi fashion as such a public figure? Probably not, but I thought it was an interesting enough choice that I could handwave it. At this point, Russia had started becoming a bit more Westernized, and so the stilyagi are starting to fall out of fashion. However, Anatoly is still kinda clinging to his youth in a way, and to his idea of what America could be.

In contrast, Florence is very modern American. The hair, the silhouette -- it's not quite what the idea of the 60s we have in our heads yet, but it's tending towards that! I wanted her to read as up to date as possible because this Florence was an adult when she left Hungary! So she's deliberately trying to be as American as possible to avoid suspicion.There's no ties to Hungary in her appearance in this point in the show. I think this Florence is very involved in trying to get her father back, and she has rather more ties to the American government than usual.

In style, I wanted to try to pay homage to some of my favorite mid-century illustrators. Coby Whitmore and René Gruau were especially the ones I looked to for this. I tried to take influence from Gruau's color choices and his trick of black lineart on the outside, colored lineart on the inside. So, this was a little bit of a study for me in trying to learn from artists I really like too!

I have become quite fond of this au actually! I'd have to do more research for it to come to anything, but it's been fun harking back to the original concept for Chess, and I'd love to make more stuff for it.

the guys from chess. in my mind

gotta test these guys designs out so yknow

why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

og post by @pqnnier

he's right though

i love giving anatoly a borzoi and an attitude (inspired by this), and a bonus goof

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i realized that i had all these random headcanons for my fic versions of freddie and anatoly, and i suddenly had a great need to reveal them so...here.

also i this is the first time i've drawn them in a while so it felt like a good time to tweak their designs a little bit, although freddie looks basically the same lol.

also if you don't know what i'm talking about, go read my fics on ao3 @cremeriie ;) ;) shameless plug.

feel free to use if you want

So I decided to do pencil sketches of each fruit from drqco's 'of the peaches and the mangos' on Ao3

I honestly love the fic to bits and it warms my heart each time I read it

Here’s some chess everyone. Freddie was very much inspired by @awesomesaurous character design cause it’s iconic.

Haphephobia

Haphephobia is a rare specific phobia that involves the fear of touching or of being touched. Haphephobia is a greatly exaggerated human desire to “protect” one’s personal space, a reluctance to touch and communicate with other people, especially strangers.

i headcanon sergievsky has it. he's whole life he was pushed around, dominated and oppressed, and this can cause such an extreme reaction. just let him breathe for a second.

Did somebody say Chess (the musical)?

This is a little preview for the epilogue of my Chess fic I’ve been working on. I’ve been too excited to write it, but I have like 2 chapters before I get to the scene, so I had to draw it.

I mean..you guys should check it out..I mean if you wanted to

“The Twisted Game of Chess Called Love” by Beaniebabe727 on ao3 :))

[Softly, but with feeling] Bastards

Freddie and Anatoly have this kind of “friendship”