Mutually Assured Destruction by PommesDeFuji (SFW)

[felis]

Fandom: Person of Interest
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The Machine, Samaritan
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital drawing/graphic
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: PommesDeFuji
Why this piece is awesome: How do you depict two AIs in battle? With a lot of creativity and symbolism, which this striking piece delivers in spades. (Very interesting to read the artist's notes, too.) Samaritan's cold and youthful strength vs. a completely fascinating avatar of the Machine - all black, veiled, glitchy. The broken chains! (A hint of multiple faces?) And then the background, which evokes the cyberspace setting of the battle without being clichéd. Amazing work. (I actually downloaded the picture so I could zoom in - it's quite small on AO3.)

Link: Mutually Assured Destruction, the Gods of Person of Interest

Farfarello by Willocwen (SFW)

[bardsley]

Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Farfarello
Medium: Digital Art / Photomanipulation
Artist Website/Gallery: Deviantart
Why this piece is awesome: I like anime, but tend to think of it as a world unto itself. It has its own set of physical laws visible in the differences between how things move and how people look in the anime world versus the real world. Because of the seeming separateness of these two worlds, I never tried to imagine the way that anime characters would look in real life… until I saw this manip. At the time, I did not know who Jonathan Rhys Meyers was. Looking at this photo was simply seeing Farfarello’s pretty, scarred face staring out at me from the darkness. I should probably say something intelligent about the use of light and shadow here, but really, just look at the picture. You won’t regret it. (Icon is the anime Farfarello, for reference and prettiness.)
Link: Farfarello