bookish dreamer

I keep forgetting to post these to my own journal.  I am lame.  Spring with Xan happened.  I posted.  So maybe I'm not totally lame - especially since I am posting them now!

I use graphics this size for fic & music covers in itunes, but they also work as banners and other stuff :D Hope you like!

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( just a couple of banners )

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( some pairing headers and another xander-only graphic this way! )

I just made an offer over at spring_with_xan and you can take me up on it if you're so inclined.....

1/3 of the 3 day Japanese test down.  (and sadly, mostly failed, no, really, i'm serious).  At least I have most of the weekend to study for the next two parts.

Know what I like most about Japanese?  The way kanji looks.  And the little things, like these phrases we're learning with each chapter.  They're called 諺　(pronounced kotowaza and translated as proverbs, or sayings).  These are the ones we've learned so far:

失敗は成功の基　（しっぱいはせいこのもと）
{Shi pai wa sei ko no moto} Failure is the basis for success
yeah, this is the one I tell myself all the time.  Over.  and over.  and over.

サルも木から落ちる　（さらもきからおちる）
{Sara mo ki kara ochiru} Even monkeys fall from trees
More translated - everybody makes mistakes, no matter who they are

急がば回れ　（いそがばまわれ）
｛Isogaba maware} If hurried, go around
Sometimes the fastest route isn't the straightest

類は友を呼ぶ　（るいはともをよぶ）
{Rui wa tomo o yobu} Similarities attract friends
More translated - like attracts like

千里の道も一歩より　（せんりのみちもいっぽより）
｛Senri no michi mo i po yori} The journey of a thousand li begins with one step

So, I'm going to try to do my best to bring the joy of Japanese back into my life.  Yes, the test sucked.  But the language itself is kind of interesting. 

Oh, and, um, if I got the email stuff right I am going to be seeing Nicholas Brendon in his play and then going to his meet and greet after in about a WEEK.  Which I still can't believe actually worked out, but somehow it did (thank you emelye_miller !).  So does anyone have any pressing questions they want me to ask?  And is anyone else going?  I've never done something like this before, so HELP! Advice? Thoughts?  

And finishing with movie posters ...

I offered to make movie posters for fics (either completed, WIP, or forthcoming).  Inside you'll find the results!  I hope you like looking (and perhaps reading the fic attached to them) as much as I enjoyed making them.  And if you do like the fic, don't forget to feedback your author as well.  :D

( complete fics now available at livejournals near you! )

( works in progress in journals now! )

( coming soon! perhaps even to spring with xan! )

( a special tribute to Conspiracy Theory )

And THEN, I had this idea that I'd make a movie poster for every story posted at spring_with_xan this year. So, I made it up to April 26th before I totally buckled. So if you missed an early fic, here you go! If you wrote a fic, here you go too!

( here you go )

Today was my posting day at at fall_for_sx... I did not do my usual spectacular spammmm. But I still think there are some pretty things in here... manips, banners and icons, oh my!

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( icons oh yay )

( banners oh my )

( the pretty boy manips (worksafe though provocative, i hope) )

For my first day at spring_with_xan  I did 113 icons, and collected some of the great Xander Harris moments of Season 3 into 8 picspam sets.  These icons are both variations on textures using promo pics, and images cut from Season 3. 

to give you a taste:
   

( Icons anyone -- Forgiveness is my middle name. Well actually, it's Lavelle, and I'd appreciate it if you guard that secret with your life. )

( Now, onto the picspam -- So the dummy tells us that he's a demon hunter, and we're like, 'Fine. La la la la.' He takes off, and now there's a brain. Does anybody else feel like they've been Keyser Soze'd? )

I've had a strange yen to use Angel promo pics lately.  There are a couple btvs in there too, not to worry.

Gunn, Angel, Cordy, Wes, Xander, Buffy, and a tiny bit of Fred & Willow. 

teasers: 
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( and if a header works for you - i'm happy to customize! )

In an attempt to finish my fic for maleslashminis (Oz round), I apparently went into a frenzy of Oz iconing.  But I couldn't just stop there - there are also some new Core 4/Scoobies icons (with antennapedia in mind), some Tara/Xander (made for secondalto - who has graciously shared them), two Oz/Xander, a bunch of Oz/Willow, and then at the very end some Giles (because I can't leave him out), Xander, and one G/B.

Frenzy, I tell you, frenzy.

At least for me.

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( at least for me )

 Rather than do a fic year in review I thought I'd do a kind of summary of my graphics.  Below you'll find the pieces I kind of fell in love with (or the ones that turned out far better than I had any right to expect, or heck, the ones I was most surprised by).

( //icons// )


( //wallpapers// )


( //manips// )


( //banners// )