For the latest chapter of Effort I commissioned some art from @lydkyd-art and I am SO delighted with how it turned out!
23 year old Newt inadvertently becomes a meme and a laughingstock after a disastrous CNN appearance. My directions to Lyd were, I want this, but with the energy of this. They suggested the early 2010′s pinwheel background and I thought it was brilliant.
Here’s the excerpt from the fic describing that moment.
At the end of the year, there was this special on CNN about the attack. They called in all sorts of people: survivors, family, regular joes and politicians. Even a few experts. Geiszler was part of the MIT team that got to study the first big batch of Kaiju samples. He was sent to be on this special to represent them – even though he was basically a fetus compared to the rest of the team. And this interview… I mean if you remember Brian Bately for anything, it’s for this.
Apparently the MIT people asked Geiszler not to mention the alien thing on air – even though it was all there in the stuffy paper they published. But tiny baby 23 year old Newton Geiszler was made of equal parts scruffy idealism and anti-authority, so it was like the second thing he mentioned.
Avelera 