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soney7)
Mood: lazy
My little ones side dinner bento... carrot, blackberries, strawberries, turkey slice, brown sugar ham slice (2)
Next time I should probably cut the strawberries up to fill the spaces in between more. I ran out =(
landofthekwt)
Title: The Death of Dreams
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG 13 for Darkness
Genre: Angst
Universe: Canon
Word Count:313
Warning: None Inuyasha Quotes Literary Quote #2
Inspired by “Montage of a Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes
Summary: Inuyasha reflects on his future after Kagome leaves with Sesshoumaru
bentolunchinternetnoodles)
What do we have here, Packey the Elephant Aragarumi? It looks like a bento box, filled with delicious food!
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sew_lolifaithfulmoder)Project Title: "Wa Aristocrat Coat" (sewing a pattern from an old formal kurotomesode kimono onto a favorite old coat)
Project Start Date: Feb. 3, 2008
Planned Finish Date: None Set
Actual Finish Date: May 5, 2008 (Good thing I had none set!)
Did you make changes from original plan? Yes, I ended up not using interfacing or fabric spray underneath it mainly out of novice fear and not wanting to mess the coat up.
Did you discover something you want to share? Never underestimate how much patience you'll need to handstitch 7 feet or so of small, tiny stitches, especially when you're trying to stitch the top outer layer without getting the lining layer as well.
How happy are you with the result? 90% on appearance, 70% on quality, 100% on concept. It looks pretty much like I had imagined in my mind, though I may go back later and stitch across the back fold the one leftover edge of the pattern I now have lying around loose, so I'm happy with that! However, I'm not the most talented at embroidery so close-up my stitches aren't perfect.
By 100% on concept I mean I liked the overall result enough I may try more Meiji-era-inspired/Wa-ristocrat(?) sorts of things. The idea is to give a more mature/Aristocrat/boystyle accompaniment to Wa Lolita.
( Two large-ish photos, front and back )
dermotmacflann)
Mood: still sick but in good spirits
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
linka_lebedeva)
Olga Sherer in Vogue Paris November 2007 by Ben Hassett
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in Numero (june\july) 2007 By Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello
( more inside )
antigonist)If I started posting CSS codes for livejournal layouts, would y'all be interested? I think my coding skills are about as great as my photoshop skills, at this point.
mithrigil).
Title: Rose Parlor
Author: Mithrigil
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Characters: Ashley, Heidricht, Callo, Sydney, Samantha
Rating: PG
Warnings: None!
Theme: lack of powers/real world -- Vassar College, 1965.
Done for roads_diverged (IJ).
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Rose Parlor
vagrant story
Mithrigil Galtirglin
MONDAY MARCH 15, 1965
2:46 PM EST
( A charismatic teacher is hardly cause for alarm, Dr. Heidricht. )
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priestess_skye)
After discussions with a few people, a new sainkoku challenge fic community has been opened.
This community will offer a weekly prompt that will hopefully inspire people to write fics for them. Each week we'll vote and give out banners :)
I know there is saiunkoku_fic but this one is a little different as it is challenge fics based on the prompts given each week.
Come check us out and I hope you join the fun. New prompts will be announced every friday evening. There will be ones shots, drabbles, and all pairings are welcome. saiun_challenge
Let's see if we can make the amount of fanfiction available grow!
saiunkokupriestess_skye)
After discussions with a few people, a new sainkoku challenge fic community has been opened.
This community will offer a weekly prompt that will hopefully inspire people to write fics for them. Each week we'll vote and give out banners :)
I know there is saiunkoku_fic but this one is a little different as it is challenge fics based on the prompts given each week.
Come check us out and I hope you join the fun. New prompts will be announced every friday evening. There will be ones shots, drabbles, and all pairings are welcome. saiun_challenge
Let's see if we can make the amount of fanfiction available grow!
bentolunchohlalalindsey)This one is not as cute as I would like, but it gets the job done! a tuesday lunch.
a cup of steamed vegetables, two cherry tomatoes, some sliced peppers - Korean fish cake (I know, sounds gross but actually isn't), some bread and butter pickles, apple slices, a chibatta role, and a hard candy.
priestess_skye)
dragonbat2006)Time: Modern Day (though it doesn't really apply here)
Googled: Escrima versus Bo Staff; Bo Staff versus Escrima
Basically, I'm writing a training scene in a Batman fanfic. I've got one seasoned fighter aged 20 using escrima, while drilling a 13-year-old neophyte armed with a bo staff. My googling led me to this youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TY3QXDgbqi4&f
I'm having less luck showing how one might use escrima on the offensive against a bo staff (or any other long weapon).
If the stats of the characters are a significant factor, the one holding the escrima is 5'10", 175 lbs, athletic but wiry and a champion acrobat and gymnast.
The one with the staff is 5'4" and about 140 lbs, in excellent physical condition but not (yet!) olympic calibre.
Any tips, pointers or links to youtubes that my google fu missed would be appreciated!
Thanks!
bentolunchnightmare_gal)
Mood: exhausted
Still making bento lunches but forgetting to take pictures! Oh well, it's not a big loss. The ones I didn't take pictures of were exceptionally bland. Even though I'm still new to making lunch this way I've already noticed a difference in how these lunches are more filling and healthier than the lunches I was making about two weeks ago.
Teaser:
( Please click for larger pictures and ingredients )
sekiria)
After sitting and bobbing my head nearly falling asleep until 3:30pm, the defense / prosecution still couldn't be satisfied with the jury. Over and over from 9am they kept on switching people out and I was starting to feel the butt numbing sensation that I've only ever gotten from lecture class. Then at 4pm they suddenly called *my* name...When they started on the 10 questions and the judge heard my situation, he interrupted me halfway and he said, "Well, I'm sure you'd much rather be out there looking for a job rather than sitting here for the next four days?" and got the two attorneys to agree, and so I got out! Woo! Saved!
THANK YOU, JUDGE! I'm sorry I thought you were a jerk when you first introduced yourself! Have a nice life! (Until next time)
mechamuffin)does anyone have insider info on when the new miami store might be opening? lush customer service has no idea and i'm going a bit crazy with the waiting.
kiapurity)
Mood: blah
While waiting on the cookies to chill, I'm trying to restart with the transcribing of X-Men:TAS
...and the tape I pop in
...is Xternally Yours as the first episode on that tape. Sigh, now that episode won't leave me alone. *curls up and weeps*
(ps; on a good note it appears Gambit is in aptly titled "Wolverine ... and the x-men" (should've just taken out "and the x-men" entirely) ... and is wearing the classic outfit. :D)
(pps; need moar Gambit icons. I made some Gambit and Rogue icons a while ago. No idea where they WENT. Probably somewhere in Zohar that I'm afraid to touch.)
ETA: I HAVE LEARNED THAT GAMBIT BELONGS TO A GUILD KNOWN AS THE TEEVEES GUILD. ... an interesting pronouncation on "thieves" so now I'm stuck here with the mental image of them stealing tvs and stuffing 'em in the tithe to toss at the External.
31_daysaishuu)
Title: East Kingdoms Block Party
Author: aishuu
Day/Theme: May 12, "He was running out of road, he was running out of breath"
Series: Twelve Kingdoms
Character: Gyousou
Rating: PG
Notes: I've lost a day, but I'll be doing it before the month is out. So I'm still doing 31 of these suckers.
He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
31_daysincandescens)Title: Order In The Court: Part XIII
Day/Theme: 13. Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Prosecuting Team, Ichigo, Renji
Rating: G
( Order In The Court: Part XII )
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Compilation Order in the Court post.
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For one thing, I don't write a first draft completely, then edit it several times. I work with scenes. I write a scene, I correct it, a re-correct it, I edit it and so on. I usually have a story planned out in my head entirely, so I end up writing the scenes in any order, really, although it's mostly chronological.
I'm guessing your advice would probably be "whatever works for you", but the thing is, I don't know if it works for me. I've never finished a novel yet. Actually, my first novel (which is uncomplete) is resting right now because I met my husband, who's Canadian and couldn't speak French, and I stopped writing in French. I just though, what's the point of writing if the person I love the most can't even read it? I want him to read it /before/ everyone else, not years later.
So I started writing in English, and man is it hard. You think you're fluent in a language, and next thing you know you're struggling to find synonyms or words that have the right connotation, and your characters all speak the same way, because that's they only way /you/ speak. So I'm extremely slow.
I'm just worried that my approach might just be plain wrong, and lead me to never finish anything. I don't know who to ask for advice so I'm turning to you.
I guess my question really is, should I make sure to finish a first draft as soon as possible, even if what I write is crap and has to be rewritten later, or can I polish each piece, put them all together, then polish the result? Is it very important to have a whole to work with, and can that whole be in your head rather than written? (I always spend several months just thinking about a story for hours every day before writing it. By which I mean, that's the way I did it for the only two "real" novels I've started)
Sorry I wrote that much. Feel free to take an aspirin.
The National Doodle Day auction has begun. Proceeds will benefit
Neurofibromatosis, Inc. (nfinc.org). Gillian Anderson's (Scully of The
X-Files) brother suffers from NF. Click here
(http://www.gilliananderson.ws
Gillian's involvement with the cause.
We have 175 doodles on the auction block including many from The
X-Files "gang": David Duchovny, Chris Carter, Annabeth Gish, Mark
Snow (composer of the well-known X-Files theme music), Mitch Pileggi,
and various XF Alumni.
You can easily check out all the available doodles by looking at our
Doodle Guide at:
www.gilliananderson.ws/cgi-bin
And it's a family affair for Gillian. We have doodles by her sister,
Zoë, her 13 year old daughter, Piper, and Piper's Dad, Clyde Klotz who
also used to work for The X-Files.
To immediately access the eBay auction --
http://search.ebay.com/
Direct Links to Neil Gaiman's doodles plus his fave doodles on the
auction block:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Neil
http://cgi.ebay.com/Neil
Kendra Stout:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Kendra
Cat Mihos:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Cat-Mihos
Fred Hembeck:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fred
Sergio Aragones:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sergio
Gahan Wilson:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gahan
There are some other pretty nifty ones as well I'd not seen the last time I posted about it (Simon Pegg! Robin Williams!). I was vaguely happy to notice that my first doodle, of something vaguely ifritish, seemed to be attracting more voters than the sort-of-Sandman I did next (thinking, they probably expect a Sandman).