bookish dreamer

My mom is visiting for a week down here in sunny la-la-land, and so far we've managed to totally goof around without real plans - though we did go see Spy on Saturday and gave my landlady's front yard a facelift Sunday (it needed it). I'm trying to make it so we're more lazy than not just so when she goes back home she feels rested. Like tonight we're going to a comedy show, but since the meditation center we wanted to go to is closed on Monday, we're hanging out at home.

My landlady is finally showing her house to renters (anyone want a 2 br 1&1/2 ba in Los Feliz?), hence us helping clean up the front yard. (I live in the guest house in the back and while it looks like a converted garage it's really a two-bedroom open plan apartment that they laid foundation for and everything.) However, the people who have renovated the house have pretty much done so at the expense of the front yard, and the flower bed running around the perimeter was filled with old pots and slightly used supplies (grout bags anyone?) and some of the grass had been painted when the painter set up to repaint the house. All in all it looked pretty terrible. We moved border stones and for about $50 bought some pansies and a couple of bags of bark, rearranged the half-dead (but still alive) potted plants that were already there and made it so things have a shape and it feels like someone likes living there. It was really cool. I love gardening with my mom, and it was great to do it in my neighborhood too.

And in fannish things it was my day at Summer of Giles and I committed fic, which is really fucking weird, because I haven't in years. At least I did the art to go with it, so there's are there and stuff, and that feels normal.

Think it's gonna rain? (Giles/Faith, PG for language) Instead of using the device on Buffy when she wakes up, what if the Mayor intended Faith to use it on Giles?

Pari Passau (with Equal Step) (Giles/Buffy, PG) Before the Cruciamentum there was the bond between Watcher and Slayer.

Apparently I'm fandom hopping. I promised some graphics to people... and then actually delivered! So inside you'll find some Buffy stuff, and then... I did a couple more completely unsolicited for fantastic crack!fics (one steampunk AI and one star-warsy Merlin)

( so these are the big images - and they're already at a lj near you! )

working on an icon post to hopefully go up sometime soon!

My fadom!squee today is brought to you by two fantastic writers who took a gauntlet that I threw down a while ago... because in fandom, when you give, fandom gives back.

Remember this graphic?

It's coming up on Valentine's Day, and since I haven't put much out by way of graphics, I thought I'd make some banners and sorta story art (for stories that haven't been written yet, so you writers out there, that's a hint, really it is!) AND icons, of course.  All Giles pairings - my favorite ones. 

So Happy Early VD!

teasers:
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( this way to the pretty banners )


( this way to the pretty walls/story art )


( this way to the icons )

I forgot to repost my summer_of_giles entries in my own journal.  So, here they are, in their entirety.  This post is not for the faint of dail up.

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Inside:
[84]x icons (includes Giles only & Giles with as many pairings as I could make + icons from walls and manips)
[06]x walls (G only, G/Wes, G/S, G/B)
[07]x banners (G only, G/Wes)
[08]x manips (G only, G/Wes, G/S, G/F, G/B)

( this way to see the many faces of Rupert Giles )