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fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (avatar toph bring it on)
Friday, December 17th, 2010 10:01 pm
Lately I've been introduced to a lot of awesome things, so I thought that I should share with everyone!

1) Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] hallowd I have been reading Scandinavia and the World. Think Hetalia, only modern day. And focused on European countries. And OWNS its biases.

Especially since it centers around the three Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It's IN THE NAME, DUH.

2) This MV rocks because it wasn't shot with a video cam. It was spliced from over 15,000 photos! Just watch, it's AMAZING.



3) It's the time of year for [livejournal.com profile] picfor1000. How does it work? Sign up by 30 Dec, get your pic, and write exactly 1000 words on it. The pics are given by theme, and this year's theme is DRESSED TO THE NINES. Isn't that awesome? Due dates are also more of a guideline than a deadline, so no pressure there.

(Hint: SIGN UP. It's FUN!)
fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (ichi aichi)
Friday, September 10th, 2010 08:20 pm
A snapshot of Ichigo's determined eyes through the manga

Karakura arc





Soul Society arc





Hueco Mundo arc


fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (holding out for a hero)
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 08:28 pm
Goal: To make icons for each of the 132 moods

Status: 50/132

Things You Need to know:
  • Comment and credit if taking, thanks!

  • This is an icon/moodtheme set. Icons will be posted in batches since I'm still working on the other 112 icons.

  • If you want the moodtheme, I'll be providing a zipped folder plus instructions in the 9th batch of icons. Watch out for it!

  • Resources are here
Preview:
depressed dorky exhausted

Lyric moodtheme/icon set - D & E )

BONUS DL SECTION
Three songs featured in the above icon set:
depressed - Emilie Autumn - Opheliac
drunk - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Skeleton Key
embarrassed - Regina Spektor - Better

Other sets of lyric icon set/moodtheme
A to B
C

Hope you enjoy the sets!
fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (morning rain)
Friday, April 30th, 2010 10:54 pm
Goal: To make icons for each of the 132 moods

Status: 30/132. That makes about... less than 25%??

Things You Need to know:
  • This is an icon/moodtheme set. Icons will be posted in batches of 20 or less since I'm uh, still working on the other 112 icons.

  • If you want the moodtheme, I'll be providing a zipped folder plus instructions in the 9th batch of icons. Watch out for it!

  • Resources are here

  • Comment and credit if taking, thanks!
Preview:
calm cold crappy

Lyric moodtheme/icon set - C )

BONUS DL SECTION
Three songs featured in the above icon set:
calm - Ricky Martin & Meja - Private Emotion
cold - Snow Patrol ft Martha Wainright - Set the Fire to the Third Bar
cynical - Hole - Violet

Other sets
Lyric moodtheme/icon set - A to B

Hope you enjoy the sets!
fay_e: Text: I'm dreaming away, wishing that heroes they truly exist (wishing heroes exist)
Monday, April 26th, 2010 10:08 pm
Once upon a time, I read a tutorial on how to make text icons. "Cool!" said I. "Now I can finally make icons with lyrics I like!" Since I was making another moodtheme, I had another bright idea. "Why don't I make a moodtheme... with lyrics?"

Now, older by one year (and hopefully wiser) and the revelation that I don't know how to work on anything smaller than 100x100, here's the first batch of icons from that bright idea.

Things You Need to know:
  • This is an icon/moodtheme set. Icons will be posted in batches of 20 or less since I'm uh, still working on the other 112 icons.

  • If you want the moodtheme, I'll be providing a zipped folder plus instructions in the 9th batch of icons. Watch out for it!

  • Resources are here

  • Comment and credit if taking, thanks!
Preview:
apathetic awake bouncy

Lyric moodtheme/icon set - A to B )

BONUS DL SECTION
Three songs featured in the above icon set:
Eve 6 - Think Twice
Lisa Germano - From a Shell
OK Go - Do What You Want

Hope you enjoy!
fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (orihime)
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 02:24 pm
This Scriptfrenzy is extraordinarily tempting, given that I have a graphic novel idea in my head. Hmmm.
fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (ichiruki dorky love)
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 09:32 pm
A pretty productive week in terms of creative works - I finished the first version of my moodtheme/icon set featuring my favourite song lyric. Making 100 over icons isn't easy guys! I'll need to revisit some of the icons though - think some of them look squeezy or don't have backgrounds matching the lyrics. (I used premade textures as the backgrounds, which saves time but means that I have to be careful about matching.)

But the real reason for this post is to record that I saw 3 Lamborghinis today. That's right - 3 different ones. The first one was a reddish orange one parked at the Grand Hyatt hotel. Since the hotel driveway is just next to the pedestrian pathway, lots of people were taking photos and I was one of them. =D

Then I went to the next hotel (Marriott, where I was going for a high tea) where I saw another Lamborghini - an orange one this time. It was parked in the hotel driveway, which is why I had a hard time taking photos, but once I found a good angle, EVERYONE came over to my exact spot to take photos too. Which made me nervous and I didn't get good shots of this car.

The last one I saw from THE BUS, which meant it was moving too fast for me to get a good shot. It was an orange one as well, but I knew it wasn't the same one that I saw at Marriott because it was a different model.

Still, seeing 3 Lamborghinis in one day means I'm extremely lucky. ^_^ That or a lot of rich people are suddenly in town...
fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (byakuya blue eyes)
Friday, March 5th, 2010 10:12 pm
I made a note last night to start documenting all the creative things that go through my head in the course of a day - I have a lot of WIPs that I either don't have the time or stamina to finish. (12 hour work days do that to you =P)

But I managed to surprise myself today! Although I don't have anything concrete to show for it, I have mentally worked on several things. The first one being the idea that set off this post, which in turn was inspired by snippets from the comic Yume and Ever. It's a really beautifully drawn comic with a unique narrating style. Not to mention male eye candy, which is rarely done well, and key characters of colour. Woo hoo! I really want to read the series, if I can get it.

More importantly, it reminded me that I really wanted to write a comic book. I'm not good enough at drawing, and the last time I wrote a comic book was in a school project with some extremely talented artists, something I'm short on now. But that shouldn't stop me from writing it out, as if it were a play.

The original story currently in my head that seems to lend itself better to this form is a superhero story that I've been thinking of on and off. The general form would be a romance set in a superhero comic, but identity instead of romance would be the key theme. Namely, if it's the superhero identity that is supposed to be attached, what does that mean for the person behind the mask? I've got some detailed scenes in my head, all the way down to panelling, which makes me wish that brains could be wired to a printer so that I can get it out immediately instead of having to write it out instead.

Unfortunately the other things I've been doing aren't very condusive to writing a comic book. I did up the playlist for my Star Trek fic, and it consists mostly of break-up songs, which makes sense considering my plot... I was planning on getting myself into the appropriate mood for the fic through the playlist, but now some individual songs are bugging me. Perhaps I'll just weed the wrong type of songs out.

Then I read this very beautiful poem called COSMOLOGY: A USER'S MANUAL. It put me in the mood for poetry as well, and I'm glad that I have [community profile] poetry on my reading list to solve urges like that!

On top of that I'm reading Wuthering Heights. I actually bought the book a few years back, but I didn't start reading it because I wanted to reread Pride and Prejudice first. My first impression is that everyone in the book is crazy, even the narrator, which makes for a very interesting framing of the story. But I am already sorry for Heathcliff, because it appears to me that the circumstances of the story conspire to make him a villain.

So now I just have to pick one thing to focus on tomorrow. I wonder what it would be?
fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (renji crows)
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 09:49 pm
GO GO GO!

Title: An Acquired Taste
Author: [livejournal.com profile] raynos
Fandom: Bleach
Spoilers: If you know what the Hueco Mundo arc is, you're good.
Author's note: Endless puns on strawberries in the name of fluff, if you're familiar with the source material. =) Some liberties taken in the second and third parts beyond what's in canon and I've assumed that inter-world travel is a lot hard than it looks.

Summary: Ichigo doesn't like strawberries. He really doesn't.

Aizen has a pantry )