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! )

So I know you guys remember me going on and on about wanting your bids at help_haiti ... but what I didn't talk about yet was that the three magnificent people who won my graphic services with their bids - eurydice72 wanted a banner for her incredibly sweet and beautiful Wes/Willow fic, brutti_ma_buoni gave me three of her fics to choose from and I ended up falling in love with this amazing Darla character examination of hers, and jerakeen (the crazy-wonderful) actually ended up asking me to do movie posters for three of the most amazing and kind of cracktastically wonderful (even if they're not crack, because they're not) AI fics for shelbecat , minglingcrab and butterfly .  Below the cut you'll find those and more extra graphics I've done in recent weeks.

As usual, the graphics for fics link directly to the fic, so please, go read and give a little love to the authors as well, because they're AWESOME.

( so you tell me what you think - did i do em justice? )

I want to thank EVERYBODY EVER who participated in charity auctions - I cannot express how grateful I am, and awed, by the generosity of people to both Haiti relief and also to DonorsChoose (one of the graphics above was done in honor of a donation there). I'm doubly grateful because right now, I simply can't make a monitary contribution to these causes, even though I believe in them, deeply. But you guys who have bid on my work have enabled me to do something that's almost as good - contribute in the way that I *can*, so that our combined efforts are going for the greater good. And I get to do this thing I love doing in the process. If you ever wondered what good comes from these kinds of fandom auctions, fandom drives, and fandom energy, you have only to look at the thank you pages from DonorsChoose to know that we're making a difference. thanks guys, for allowing me to be part of that.

I did more than just make icons for fall_for_sx.... what else? movie posters! I can't help these things, I adore them. I've noticed that there are movie poster comms out there now. And I love it! So, addiction, here you go again.  The other best part?  Reading fic I would have never read before (I tend to run screaming from angst or unhappy stuff, even when it's by good writers, because I am a shrinking violet.  And yet some of the most poetic, or haunting fic is written around the characters when they're not in a happy place).

( oh spike, and xander. you are too cute. even when there's angst )

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 )

For the holidays this year I put together a couple of graphics for many of my favorite people.  Some are fic graphics, some are layouts, etc.  If you haven't taken a look at the fic they were created for, please take a look!!  Read!  It's my way of saying happy holidays to some of my favorite people.

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( this way to the pretty )

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 the holidays I put together some graphics for some truly wonderful people.  Many of these are actually fic graphics, and so I don't feel too guilty reposting them here - especially if you all haven't taken a look at the fic they were created for!  So this is, in a way, a recs post with some sparklies attached.  And my way of saying thank you to some of my favorite people (well, thank you and happy holidays). It was also much faster than baking cookies for them all. :D

( Some of you may have seen some of these, but I know you haven't seen all of these, so check 'em out! )

and if you've been wondering when the heck i'm going to actually do a *real* graphics post with sharable art, it's forthcoming!  soon!

 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// )

In a last gasp of graphic productivness, I bring you my postings for my day at fall_for_sx  (reposted here because I'm cooky that way...)

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Inside:
[19]x Icons
[07]x Wallpapers (1 is not worksave at full size)
[06]x Banners
[02]x Manips (1 is not worksafe - no dangly bits, but still)
[06]x FO Banners

( yep, i finally succumbed to the lure of spander )