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Wow. Haven't done this in a while.




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Signed up for seasonal_spuffy. I'm glad it was decided to hold it at a later date 'cause otherwise I probably wouldn't be able to participate. I've got a few short story ideas in mind--one of which is a story following my previous fic Hot Chocolate and Bittersweet, but that story won't actually have Spike in it, though it'd be Spuffy centered, so I don't know. I do know I want to do some art at the least, graphics mostly, though I do have a few hand drawn stuff I haven't scanned yet. So we'll see. It's been a while since I've done anything in the BtVS fandom. I'm starting to miss it.

I'm also dropping by to pimp a community: spn_animated. Just because I love animated gifs (can you tell?) and there's not a whole lot of members for it yet.

Edited the Billie Piper header--found a better quality picture to work with. I also added two more headers to the rotating file--both of Eliza Dushku because I couldn't decide what picture to use. We'll just say one represents Faith and the other one Echo, alright? That makes eight headers now (how many do you think would be too many? 'Cause I'm having a lot of fun with these.) so hopefully the page will stop getting stuck on one picture so often now.

I'll probably edit the J2 header; it could look better as well. It was the first header I did so I wasn't sure exactly what I was doing and where I was going with everything. And I think I'm going to throw out the Spuffy one altogether. It looks really bad and grainy compared to the other ones, I'll have to find a better image to use.

Anyone know where I can find some really good quality pics of that pairing? Most of the screencaps I've found aren't that great.

I want an animated icon of Sam slurping that banana daiquiri. That image just cracked me up.

So, I've got like, six banner images made for the layout I want. How many rotating do you think would be too many? 'Cause I'm having so much fun making these.

The basic design is this:



And then I added images from different fandoms and changed some of the color variations, so that when it rotates it sort of looks like only the fandom images change. Here's two examples:



I'm really excited about these, 'cause it's been a while since I've done anything creative in photoshop.

What do you think?

I'm being distracted from my J2 fic (which is going very slow at the moment--only 5,000 words and I'm not even done with part 1) by a Supernatural fic. Not a tiny, three hundred word ficlet but an actual fic. With some plot and everything. (Gasp!) And I'm distracted by that by the Headers I'm making with Photoshop. I want to redo my layout, but I can't decide on a header so I just keep making more.

I'm a little spastic and ADHD with my projects today.

Been a while since I've done anything in photoshop. Words are lyrics by Regina Spektor.




( I want to sing another melody )

So, I went ahead and redid everything in html tables. It took me forever, especially since I decided to redo the color scheme and add another image--which wasn't already made. Of course, what happens when I post the code in? All my colors are gone! The images and text are in nothing but a white background.

I give up. It's staying that way. *sigh*

At least it's still pretty, even without the colors.

Edit: Uhg. You can see the faintest outline of the corners in the bottom picture. I'm going to have to do fix that and reupload it. But not. right. now. Ugh.

So, I went ahead and rewatched the rest of season 1 of Doctor Who--plus the Christmas Special. And you know, every time I get to the end of Parting of the Ways I'm always just as sad as the first time I watched it. I loved Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. But then, it only takes the first few moments of David Tennant talking in front of the Sycorax to make me fall in love with Ten again. :) This upcoming regeneration is going to be rough--the first time I ever watch when it actually happens on the show, rather than years afterwards when I've already seen episodes with the next Doctor.

Anyway, I made another banner. This one for Parting of the Ways. I should probably be writing--I still have several drabbles (ficlets) that I owe to people and I need to get started on my chapter story I have planned, but I can't seem to get the motivation. I feel very lazy, and making graphics is relaxing for me. I stress out over my writing. But don't worry, I won't be able to ignore my word processing program for long.


Oh! and look! Rounded corners! It took me ages to learn how to do this, and when I finally did I couldn't figure out how to make the corners transparent. Finally, I just zoomed in and erased the corners pixel by pixel. If someone knows of an easier way, please let me know. :)

Enough rambling. On to the banner.


( I create myself. )

So, I went ahead and rewatched the rest of season 1 of Doctor Who--plus the Christmas Special. And you know, every time I get to the end of Parting of the Ways I'm always just as sad as the first time I watched it. I loved Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. But then, it only takes the first few moments of David Tennant talking in front of the Sycorax to make me fall in love with Ten again. :) This upcoming regeneration is going to be rough--the first time I ever watch when it actually happens on the show, rather than years afterwards when I've already seen episodes with the next Doctor.

Anyway, I made another banner. This one for Parting of the Ways. I should probably be writing--I still have several drabbles (ficlets) that I owe to people and I need to get started on my chapter story I have planned, but I can't seem to get the motivation. I feel very lazy, and making graphics is relaxing for me. I stress out over my writing. But don't worry, I won't be able to ignore my word processing program for long.


Oh! and look! Rounded corners! It took me ages to learn how to do this, and when I finally did I couldn't figure out how to make the corners transparent. Finally, I just zoomed in and erased the corners pixel by pixel. If someone knows of an easier way, please let me know. :)

Enough rambling. On to the banner.


( I create myself. )

This one was fun. Azkadeillia really had the prettiest scenes.