Most popular posts for September 2004

Не люблю всякую мразь . Особенно, когда она воинственно наступает : В фантастике я разбираюсь. Среди прочего дружен с большим количеством хороших писателей и до отъезда за рубеж собрал у себя очень представительную библиотеку. Переслегин это не мыслитель. Это такой паразит, выросший на вонючем дохлом теле Стругацких. Неприятная надутая собственной важностью пиявка. Вся его "ценность" - в глазах, разумеется, фэндома, что он умеет писать длинные телеги, в которых рассуждения на тему квази...

A few colorbars for your viewing/using pleasure. Please comment if you take any. Hopefully I'll be adding more soon.

I get a lot of questions about how I create the comic book effect ( here and here ), so thought I'd do a tutorial on it. Here is our end result: Ok, so I started with this cap from Doppelgangland : It is important that you choose your image carefully. This effect won't work well on poor quality. You want a strong image with strong lines. Also, it's important not to shrink it down, because you need as much size as possible so the effect works. The first thing I did was play with the...

FIC: So Lonely Without Me (1/?) Author: Calligraphy Pairing: SS/HP Rating: To NC-17, this part R. Summary: Two men, two rooms. Takes place several years in the future, during the war. Warning: If you see a glaring error in content or grammar, please drop me a line and I'll be happy to fix it. The same goes for kind suggestions of the literary variety. Think of it as one big party-beta. (Or don't read it. Or read it, print it, and take out a nice, fat, red pen.) ***** “You’re up first.” “Am...

The Damage From When It Mattered Writer : Ashlee Genre : Drama/Angst/Death Rating : NC-17 Pairing : Matt/Quinn [Mest/The Used] Warnings : m/m, violence, graphic sexual content Notes : Written in 1st person point of view. Switches occasionally between past and present tenses. Summary : Getting what you want isn't always what's best. Disclaimer : Never happened that I know. I own nothing but the writing. Sorry about the wait, I've been obsessing over Queer As Folk. If you haven't seen...

The Damage From When It Mattered Writer : Ashlee Genre : Drama/Angst/Death Rating : NC-17 Pairing : Matt/Quinn [Mest/The Used] Warnings : m/m, violence, graphic sexual content Notes : Written in 1st person point of view. Switches occasionally between past and present tenses. Summary : Getting what you want isn't always what's best. Disclaimer : Never happened that I know. I own nothing but the writing. He just kissed me, didn’t he? Whoa. Okay. That’s cool. I kiss him back, the thought...

Title: Palms to the Taffrail – 12 -Twelfth Installment of Several- (First) (Second) (Third) (Fourth) (Fifth) (Sixth) (Seventh) (Eighth) (Ninth) (Tenth) (Eleventh) Rating: PG. language. heh. Loves to elizile and Srettan, for being my dearhearts, my Elizaboat/Elizabeta and my self-conscious little eyelash-batter, respectively. I’m nothing without you, girls! …and was just about to finish the first when out of the corner of his eye he saw Captain DeMontaigne hand his sword over to the French captain...

Title: Psalms to the Taffrail -Thirteenth Installment of Several- (First) (Second) (Third) (Fourth) (Fifth) (Sixth) (Seventh) (Eighth) (Ninth) (Tenth) (Eleventh) (Twelfth) Rating: Ummmm... PG for allusions? *shrug* Srettan finally kicked me into getting this done... (loves you!) What, homework? ...later. XP Hugs to the elizile as well, of course, for babbling me through all the little *squee* moments, and for just... being there. I know I say this all the time, but I just can't tell you enough -...

Ok, I need your help. Triple J is an Australian radio station. At the moment, they are running a promotion to "Beat The Drum" - to get the Triple J logo out to as many people as you can in the most creative way. So, this is what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get 1000 plus comments to this post from around the world to help my beat the drum. So, if you are reading this, please help me and do the following: * Comment to this post, with your name/user name, where you are in the...

Name: Dying Calendars Pairing: none have popped up yet - you'll see in a few chapters Fandom: Taking Back Sunday/Brand New/Straylight Run (would you expect other from me? heh) Notes: This is going to be a pretty long fic. I have the entire plot writtten out and then have started planning chapters (this is what I do during school hahahah) and I have to chapter 10 planned, and I'm only about halfway through the plot, and the ending might require more chapters than the beginning. "Get out...