Elfwood's crusade against Harry Potter fanart seriously bothers me. I respect his right to define what fantasy is and isn't, as Elfwood is privately owned, but I just wish I could understand his logic. Quite obviously, the series is fantasy, but Thomas doesn't seem to care. I was looking around Monica's Loth gallery (which has already been ransacked) and noticing that nearly all the images they removed were Harry Potter-themed. Some of her pictures have absolutely nothing to do with fantasy, much less "high fantasy", as Thomas now requires (such as La Belle Dame Sans Merci and the masks). Other pictures are about fantasy but don't show it, such as Claudia. Others only fit within fantasy because she says they do, for example the vampire, Hechicera, Louis, Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles... I could go on. It seems to me that the only borderline images Elfwood kept were saved because the subject had an unusual skin color.

From what her artwork shows, Draco Malfoy has the same fantasy quotient as Aragorn; pardon the unintentional double-meaning. Legolas and Galadriel qualify simply because you can barely see pointed ears under their hair. If Thomas wants me to start drawing ears on my Harry Potter characters, I'd be more than happy to. I guess I'd be safer with my HP art in FanQuarter and my Discworld art in Loth. ::hisses::

I'm actually looking forward to seeing what images of mine they decide to destroy. In a grim, bitter, ironic sort of way, at least. My sphinx? My house elves? My "Chamber of Secrets", which has a sword and a phoenix? Mad-Eye Moody, who reeks Fantasy from every misshapen pore? Harry and Cho, suspended on broomsticks? Lavender and Parvati, surrouded by wandlight? Wormtail, summoning the dark mark? This is going to be interesting. Ditto with Kell. A bunch of her images are undisputably Fantasy, but they will most likely be removed simply because they're Harry Potter related. I just dare them to try anything with Dumbledore and Fawkes, Hagrid and Norbert, Harry and Fawkes, Harry and the dragon, Hermione in Potions, or Harry playing Quidditch.