#solaceoflegomanvalues

Good question, actually; I hadn't even noticed. I'm not totally sure if it was a conscious decision to avoid covering sprite work so far, but now I think about it there's probably a few decent reasons why we haven't.  For one, as much as we're all generally supporters of the field in and of itself, the fact remains that sprite work possesses quite the social stigma, ESPECIALLY around the BZP community which seems to comprise the bulk of our tiny readership.  It interests us, but it likely doesn't interest our audience, so... yeah.  Or something like that.

I guess there's also the problem that compared to other fields of bonkles fanwork, we're all SO UP IN the pixelry business that a) we're borderline unpleasable snobs in the area, b) accordingly we see very little which we actually like which isn't made by us in the first place these days (even worse, we also rarely see anything made by us :P), and c) our tastes these days tend toward the ironic and satirical (see: BAC), so our views of the field are VERY biased and probably unreasonably doused in nostalgia.

Looking around in our drafts, though, it looks like Kahi was working on some sort of tribute essay about Lavaside Rahi that ultimately never came to fruition.  Shame.

Point is, maybe we will get around to it eventually.  It'll have to be up to one of the others, though; I have no idea about what the sprite comic community is like around BZP these days, aside from the bad ones which end up on the Lunacy.

EDIT BY LIME: Good sprite comics aren't really even a thing on BZP anymore, as far as I can tell - which sucks because there actually used to be some pretty cool stuff there. Or at least I REMEMBER there being some pretty cool stuff, but if my own old sprite comics are anything to go by, my standards weren't particularly high back then. Maybe someday I'll get around to taking off the nostalgia goggles and trying to dig up some legitimately good ones. Which shouldn't be hard, since I made an entire majshelf folder like two years ago dedicated to archiving the best ArtIII has to offer. And by someday I guess I mean probably later today???

If you're going to submit something, it would be nice if you could format it in the way we format most of our posts, or at least mention who made it so we can properly credit them

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Guys, I have a confession to make: as of late, I find myself (re)developing a far less ironic and more legitimate interest in BIONICLE and its fandom.  Maybe it's because I've been replaying Templar's early work like MNOLG, or because I've observed that BZP seems to be changing for the legitimate better recently, or how I keep finding great fanworks, but I'm feeling really optimistic about this fandom as of late.

Somehow, starting a blog which is pretty much the opposite of the Lunacy seemed like a good idea in all of this, so that's what happened.  Hence, the Solace of LEGOman Values, also known as "the day the Lunacy decided to try its hand at lame puns on its own name".

Whereas the Lunacy is about the dark and seedy underbelly that is bad fanwork and loldrama, the Solace is about shining some (more) light upon some of the best this fandom has to offer.  There'll be a few minor differences, though: we're intending to focus primarily (but not exclusively) on BIONICLE and Hero Factory fanwork on the Solace, simply because there are like a billion general LEGO blogs and/or LEGO blogs devoted to specific themes beside these two, whereas BIONICLE/Hero Factory ones are significantly rarer to our knowledge and we're more familiar with the BIONICLE/HF fandom(s) anyway.  Either way, there will still be some inevitable overlap with other, more famous ones like The Brothers Brick (which you really should be reading), but hey, more blogs about good stuff never did any harm.

That said, you'll find that the majority of our proper reviews, essays (if they exist), fandom historical profilings and other miscellaneous unique musings will remain here, or at least they'll be initially posted here and just reblogged to the Solace later.  In a way, they kind of have more of a place here rather than there.