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Hogsmeade Haul
Oct. 15th, 2013 07:42 amI'm procrastinating filling orders for my shop but for the uninitiated, I'm part of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hogwartsishome, which is a sorting community (you fill out an app, you get voted into a house) that turns into a landcomm filled with tons of procrastinate-y things to do. Among the procrastinate-y things it does is hogsmeadewkends, which basically stuffs Friday-Sunday with all kinds of activities (puzzles, writing challenges, graphic challenges, social, etc).
Well, one of the activities is a fic and art (and manip) exchange, and I'd not put any requests in until the last minute, but now I wish I had, because I had some of the best presents.
My prompts:
- Harry and Ron are drift-compatible. Draco and Lucius pilot Striker Eureka. READY SET GO
- Remus Lupin is a teen wolf
- Luna's mum: former Night Vale resident
- Sherlock investigates an incident regarding the disappearance of hundreds of students every first of September at King's Cross.
- Bellatrix found four horsemen. Harry and Luna go to Sleepy Hollow to stop her.
- Hermione Granger: Doctor's companion
( And in the order they were received... )
Cackling with so much glee. Everything but Night Vale was done, SO doing the same crack crossover thing next Hogsmeade. \o/
hogwartsishome, which is a sorting community (you fill out an app, you get voted into a house) that turns into a landcomm filled with tons of procrastinate-y things to do. Among the procrastinate-y things it does is hogsmeadewkends, which basically stuffs Friday-Sunday with all kinds of activities (puzzles, writing challenges, graphic challenges, social, etc).Well, one of the activities is a fic and art (and manip) exchange, and I'd not put any requests in until the last minute, but now I wish I had, because I had some of the best presents.
My prompts:
- Harry and Ron are drift-compatible. Draco and Lucius pilot Striker Eureka. READY SET GO
- Remus Lupin is a teen wolf
- Luna's mum: former Night Vale resident
- Sherlock investigates an incident regarding the disappearance of hundreds of students every first of September at King's Cross.
- Bellatrix found four horsemen. Harry and Luna go to Sleepy Hollow to stop her.
- Hermione Granger: Doctor's companion
( And in the order they were received... )
Cackling with so much glee. Everything but Night Vale was done, SO doing the same crack crossover thing next Hogsmeade. \o/
Look I did a thing
Title: no need for nervousness (it's just a little turbulence)
Creator username (LJ or tumblr, etc.):![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
slumber (Tumblr user slumber-at)
Pairing(s): Stiles/Danny, Scott/Allison, Ethan/Danny
Rating: Teen and up
Word Count: ~19,000
Notes: Many many thanks to my betawasureneba, theaeblackthorn for encouraging me to sign up, lautre_m for the awesome prompt that launched almost 20k words, and the mods for running this amazing fest!
Summary: In which Stiles is a conman for hire, Danny is the hacker of his dreams, and Argent Industries is their target.
( 'This is not what I signed up for,' Danny reminds Stiles for the umpteenth time. Stils is tying Danny's tie in the worst possible way, but Danny feels awkward enough as it is so he just lets him mangle it. He's nervous as fuck and he can't figure out if it's because of what they're about to do or because Stiles's hands are on him. )
Title: no need for nervousness (it's just a little turbulence)
Creator username (LJ or tumblr, etc.):
slumber (Tumblr user slumber-at)Pairing(s): Stiles/Danny, Scott/Allison, Ethan/Danny
Rating: Teen and up
Word Count: ~19,000
Notes: Many many thanks to my beta
wasureneba, theaeblackthorn for encouraging me to sign up, lautre_m for the awesome prompt Summary: In which Stiles is a conman for hire, Danny is the hacker of his dreams, and Argent Industries is their target.
( 'This is not what I signed up for,' Danny reminds Stiles for the umpteenth time. Stils is tying Danny's tie in the worst possible way, but Danny feels awkward enough as it is so he just lets him mangle it. He's nervous as fuck and he can't figure out if it's because of what they're about to do or because Stiles's hands are on him. )
Celebrity Similarity Test
Aug. 26th, 2013 05:06 pma) it was going around and b) I haven't updated this month. <.< >.>
Take the test here.
Samantha Stephens: Samantha Stephens is the sweet and loveable main character of the show Bewitched. A witch who has decided to marry a mortal husband, Darrin, Samantha endures rejection and ridicule by much of her magical family. She is remarkably patient with the difficulties caused by her magical relatives, is a loving wife and mother, and is also very clever. She often cannot resist using her magical powers to get her family out of the problems that they face, despite her promise to Darrin that she would live as a mortal.
You are most similar to:
Samantha Stephens
Dr. Donald Mallard
Chandler Bing
Jim
Pam
You are least similar to:
Betty Draper
Bart Simpson
Michael Scott
Dwight
The Skipper
...I wish I knew these half of these fandoms. :|
Superheroes: Spiderman
Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister
Lord of the Rings: Legolas (...lol)
Harry Potter: Albus Dumbledore
Scifi: Yoda
...IDK.
Take the test here.
Samantha Stephens: Samantha Stephens is the sweet and loveable main character of the show Bewitched. A witch who has decided to marry a mortal husband, Darrin, Samantha endures rejection and ridicule by much of her magical family. She is remarkably patient with the difficulties caused by her magical relatives, is a loving wife and mother, and is also very clever. She often cannot resist using her magical powers to get her family out of the problems that they face, despite her promise to Darrin that she would live as a mortal.
You are most similar to:
Samantha Stephens
Dr. Donald Mallard
Chandler Bing
Jim
Pam
You are least similar to:
Betty Draper
Bart Simpson
Michael Scott
Dwight
The Skipper
...I wish I knew these half of these fandoms. :|
Superheroes: Spiderman
Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister
Lord of the Rings: Legolas (...lol)
Harry Potter: Albus Dumbledore
Scifi: Yoda
...IDK.
I probably owe you an actual update, but distractions are funner:
Caroline and I are running The Last Station over on IJ (See here for info) and it's basically a light post-Hogwarts rebuild that's also set in Hogsmeade, so there's a lot of opportunity for interaction with pretty much anyone in the game. Somehow we've gotten pretty Hufflepuff-heavy (a surprise for me, tbh; most games I've been in had more snakes normally) so there's a temporary cap on them, but everyone else is fair game. We would REALLY appreciate more Ravenclaws, though. Like. We have a grand total of one, how did this happen.
The concept is a live-work community, so any shop owners (in particular, we need more dining options; no one wants to keep eating at The Three Broomsticks, yo) or shopkeepers are welcome--there's room for developing employee-employer or coworker lines. There's also a Quidditch team starting out (yes, yes, I can never resist Quidditch) but it's new and probably not very good, so washed out players and the like would be fun to add too.
For more info, visit the comm, or ask me questions. It's still pretty new but so far so good, so come and join if this is your kind of thing! :)
Caroline and I are running The Last Station over on IJ (See here for info) and it's basically a light post-Hogwarts rebuild that's also set in Hogsmeade, so there's a lot of opportunity for interaction with pretty much anyone in the game. Somehow we've gotten pretty Hufflepuff-heavy (a surprise for me, tbh; most games I've been in had more snakes normally) so there's a temporary cap on them, but everyone else is fair game. We would REALLY appreciate more Ravenclaws, though. Like. We have a grand total of one, how did this happen.
The concept is a live-work community, so any shop owners (in particular, we need more dining options; no one wants to keep eating at The Three Broomsticks, yo) or shopkeepers are welcome--there's room for developing employee-employer or coworker lines. There's also a Quidditch team starting out (yes, yes, I can never resist Quidditch) but it's new and probably not very good, so washed out players and the like would be fun to add too.
For more info, visit the comm, or ask me questions. It's still pretty new but so far so good, so come and join if this is your kind of thing! :)
...is the number of "Congrats, Evy!" texts I have been receiving.
Um....????
C'mon guys I didn't win the Cup I just cheer for the team?
BUT OMG WE WON THE CUP WE WON THE CUP WE WON THE FRIGGIN' CUPPPPPPPPPPPP JAS;LKDFJA;KLSDFJA;KDSFJA;SDFJA;KSDFJA;KDSFJ;ALFD
(BOLLAND!!!!!!)
Um....????
C'mon guys I didn't win the Cup I just cheer for the team?
(BOLLAND!!!!!!)
Experimented with how these two Hermione pieces were done. Much trickier than I thought. >.>
Meh. Not pleased with this. Her hair was a bitch and a half to sort out and wow, depressing image much? It's hard to find a Sansa picture that's iconic enough to make her stand out as clearly being Sansa without me having to tell you who she is. I did like how her lips turned out but that's probably just me.
Hair's always fun to work with, but IDK if I like her lips as much here. There's always something!
More art that I've been doing lately. Still nowhere with my fic-writing mojo, although I signed up for a team at mating_games which means at least a 500-word thing every week \o/ buuuut that's about it, oops.
Ummm ArtRage has been great, but in terms of coloring I've been finding Photoshop easier to work with. I do love the way the oils work on ArtRage, but I'm not quite getting the hang of manipulating those. And I've always preferred to work with watercolors (like, you know, back when I was taking 6th grade art classes, lol) and the adjustment to digital is just kind of iffy for me.
( Bellatrix )
( Viking Warrior )
And then yesterday I learned how to make vectors!
Well, not quite. Because you really kind of need Adobe Illustrator for that, and I just don't need it enough to justify a purchase. BUT there were a few Photoshop tutorials for how to make vector-like images, so I went and got my favorite image of Daenerys Targaryen from this season and did this:
( Dany )
mating_games which means at least a 500-word thing every week \o/ buuuut that's about it, oops. Ummm ArtRage has been great, but in terms of coloring I've been finding Photoshop easier to work with. I do love the way the oils work on ArtRage, but I'm not quite getting the hang of manipulating those. And I've always preferred to work with watercolors (like, you know, back when I was taking 6th grade art classes, lol) and the adjustment to digital is just kind of iffy for me.
( Bellatrix )
( Viking Warrior )
And then yesterday I learned how to make vectors!
Well, not quite. Because you really kind of need Adobe Illustrator for that, and I just don't need it enough to justify a purchase. BUT there were a few Photoshop tutorials for how to make vector-like images, so I went and got my favorite image of Daenerys Targaryen from this season and did this:
( Dany )
Art: Fleur Delacour
Apr. 21st, 2013 02:42 pmThe lines aren't super clean but I'm actually really happy about how this turned out in terms of shading/coloring and stuff. Still not quite sure how to manipulate the tools in Photoshop and ArtRage but this weekly practice is useful, I guess.
( Fleur Delacour )
( Fleur Delacour )
So I'm not entirely sure what's happened the last few months, but doodling is coming easier than words to me lately. Oops? But I really do love the drawing tablet I got-- I feel like I've been using it more than my Kindle, even, but because most of my things are being posted directly to hh_sugarquill it occurs to me I should probably be posting some of them here too. For posterity or something. :D
Behold, my forays into fanart (from earliest to newest):
( Starry Starry Hogwarts )
( Mermaid )
( Ginny Sorted into Slytherin )
( Allons-y, Luna! )
( From Valley Broad )
( Mother of Nargles )
( Pansy in Haute Couture )
hh_sugarquill it occurs to me I should probably be posting some of them here too. For posterity or something. :DBehold, my forays into fanart (from earliest to newest):
( Starry Starry Hogwarts )
( Mermaid )
( Ginny Sorted into Slytherin )
( Allons-y, Luna! )
( From Valley Broad )
( Mother of Nargles )
( Pansy in Haute Couture )
GoT/Princess Bride mashup
Mar. 18th, 2013 10:58 amAs seen on coffee_n_cocoa's LJ:
Just simultaneously made me laugh and cry. I haven't gone past maybe 15% of the third book, so a lot of the specifics of S3 I don't really know yet, but I've basically been spoiled for all the major events so I'm well aware of the fates of most characters thus far.
( Spoilery talk, so cutting off here )
coffee_n_cocoa's LJ:Just simultaneously made me laugh and cry. I haven't gone past maybe 15% of the third book, so a lot of the specifics of S3 I don't really know yet, but I've basically been spoiled for all the major events so I'm well aware of the fates of most characters thus far.
( Spoilery talk, so cutting off here )
Valentine's Day food for thought
Feb. 14th, 2013 03:09 pm
Source
I don't necessarily agree with the all of the quotes listed in the source, but this actually crystalizes a couple of thoughts I've had lately.
There are always things that are out of your hands-- things you can't control, things you can't change. Worrying about them too much distracts you from working on the things you can control and the things you can change. I can't manage when the world goes to shit, but I can manage what I do about it.
Which, I realize now, isn't exactly about love, but whatever. XD Hope you all are enjoying today. <3
<.< >.> Graphics Tablet Update
Feb. 1st, 2013 07:44 amAfter posting this and reading what everyone had to say, trolling Tumblr for reviews, watching YouTube videos, reading Amazon reviews, I bit the bullet and ordered it. I figured, if I couldn't get a lot of use out of it, I could always just sell it on eBay -- it's not going to be at the same price, but at least I wouldn't lose all ~$65 on it.
It came in yesterday, because I chose local delivery (which was the same price as standard delivery, which would have taken 3-5 days), and I have to say, I kind of love it.
( First shot )
Drawing on the tablet while looking at the screen takes some getting used to, but I already work with a mouse in general and I don't think the difference is all that huge, actually. Hovering to do things hasn't been hard to do either. The only thing that's been annoying me is sometimes it'll switch from brush to the grabby little hand that moves your canvas around, but I figured out that might just be the little buttons on the stylus, so that's corrected itself for the most part. Definitely need to work on cleaner lines, though. And shadows. Urgh. How do you shadow?
I think what I like best is, in Photoshop and using layers, this is such an easy way to sketch something out, draw the line art in, and then move on immediately to coloring. I haven't tried Art Rage yet (the software it comes with), but I'm excited to because it looks like it works with coloring media (oil paints, for sure, but I hope there's watercolor) that's a lot more natural-looking than any other program does, so I'm gonna give that a go.
It came in yesterday, because I chose local delivery (which was the same price as standard delivery, which would have taken 3-5 days), and I have to say, I kind of love it.
( First shot )
Drawing on the tablet while looking at the screen takes some getting used to, but I already work with a mouse in general and I don't think the difference is all that huge, actually. Hovering to do things hasn't been hard to do either. The only thing that's been annoying me is sometimes it'll switch from brush to the grabby little hand that moves your canvas around, but I figured out that might just be the little buttons on the stylus, so that's corrected itself for the most part. Definitely need to work on cleaner lines, though. And shadows. Urgh. How do you shadow?
I think what I like best is, in Photoshop and using layers, this is such an easy way to sketch something out, draw the line art in, and then move on immediately to coloring. I haven't tried Art Rage yet (the software it comes with), but I'm excited to because it looks like it works with coloring media (oil paints, for sure, but I hope there's watercolor) that's a lot more natural-looking than any other program does, so I'm gonna give that a go.
On drawing
Jan. 30th, 2013 08:26 amSooooo I have been thinking, for Christmas I got a $100 Amazon gift card, and I could either spend that on Kindle books until it runs out, keep it in my account until I find something else later, orrrrr get a Wacom Bamboo Splash Pen Tablet for ~$65. It's supposed to be the "get started with art" model and is thus the cheapest of the product line.
I used to draw a bit before, but I don't really have much experience with digital art, except for that one time I tried coloring this. I'm not interested in entering fests as an artist, but I WOULD like to start drawing again, learn how to color in Photoshop, etc, at least as a hobby.
But is it a $65 hobby?
I used to draw a bit before, but I don't really have much experience with digital art, except for that one time I tried coloring this. I'm not interested in entering fests as an artist, but I WOULD like to start drawing again, learn how to color in Photoshop, etc, at least as a hobby.
But is it a $65 hobby?
FIC: Playing Favourites (Oliver/Cho, PG)
Dec. 15th, 2012 10:07 amTitle: Playing Favourites
Characters: Oliver Wood, Cho Chang
Word Count: ~2800
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: From the prompt: Cho's first patient as a Healer is Oliver Wood, fresh off a Quidditch injury. He wants to get back to the pitch as soon as possible. She wants to get him completely healed. They disagree. A lot.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the characters, and the plot isnessismore's. :)
Author's Notes: I ficced forinterhouse_fest. kalisgirl did a great beta job on this one! <3 Any mistakes are due to my post-beta meddling.
( The first time Cho catches Oliver Wood wandering St Mungo's ward nowhere near his own, he at least has the grace to look embarrassed. )
Characters: Oliver Wood, Cho Chang
Word Count: ~2800
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: From the prompt: Cho's first patient as a Healer is Oliver Wood, fresh off a Quidditch injury. He wants to get back to the pitch as soon as possible. She wants to get him completely healed. They disagree. A lot.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the characters, and the plot is
nessismore's. :)Author's Notes: I ficced for
interhouse_fest. kalisgirl did a great beta job on this one! <3 Any mistakes are due to my post-beta meddling. ( The first time Cho catches Oliver Wood wandering St Mungo's ward nowhere near his own, he at least has the grace to look embarrassed. )
Title: All Your Bullets Ricochet
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairing: Chris Argent, implied Peter/Stiles
Rating: R
Word Count: ~3200
Summary: In which Chris Argent runs the BAU and Peter & Stiles are serial killers on the run.
Additional Notes: Becausetheaeblackthorn & I started talking about D/s dynamics and my mind went to Criminal Minds as you do. You don't need to know Criminal Minds for this (TBH I'm not even sure I knew of it enough <.< >.>) but you probably need to be okay with implied everything else.
"The unsub is only sixteen years old."
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairing: Chris Argent, implied Peter/Stiles
Rating: R
Word Count: ~3200
Summary: In which Chris Argent runs the BAU and Peter & Stiles are serial killers on the run.
Additional Notes: Because
theaeblackthorn & I started talking about D/s dynamics and my mind went to Criminal Minds "The unsub is only sixteen years old."
