Words, Words, Words.

About 10 minutes ago, I finished my first chaptered fic since Begin the Beguine -- and that was a year ago! (I don't really count Mirror Darkly, since that was basically finished already . . . just undergoing some serious, headache-y tweaking.)

So I'm feeling pretty "Yay!" right now!

It gives me hope for my other WIPs. :)

Of course, by "finished," I mean the draft is complete. Now begins the editing process, but still, finished is finished! (YAY!)

The first chapter of Balance of Power is at FF.Net -- which took me an eternity to do because it's been so long since I posted anything there. Chapter 2 can be found here. (And any new chapters will be posted at The Virtual Realm first since the story is part of seal_girl's Christmas Challenge.)

Finished fic also provides the opportunity to use one of vicxntric's fabulous new icons. So OMG YAY!


(ETA: This post has, apparently, been brought to you by the word "finished." *G*)

I made these for the folks at zoe_wash. I'm not one for icon making - I leave that to the pros on my flist - so these are nothing fancy. They're just the images from the pre-Serenity comic that feature Wash, Zoë or both. Feel free to take and/or alter as you like. Credit is lovely, though not necessary. (After all, I didn't draw them; I just cropped them. *G*)

The few with text are either completely random, adapted from the comic in which the pictures appear, or from Serenity. (Nothing overly spoilery, but I thought I'd issue a warning just in case.)

Samples:



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Just a wee bit of netiquette:

Spoilery icons, while gratuitous and fun to use as early as possible . . . totally uncool for the rest of us.

Thank you. (Humph.)

Does anybody happen to know who made this icon? I absolutely loved it when I saw it, but I want to be able to pay the proper credit to the creator before I go using it.

Hopefully someone who is a bit more computer savvy than I am can help me answer this. I can't seem to figure out why icons that I've saved to my computer for later use only seem to save as Bitmap images. I'm thinking I may have incorrect settings on my computer. (Especially since the images in question are originally GIF's or JPEG's -- since LJ will only allow GIF, JPEG, and PNG uploads.) I've even tried saving a few of the icons I already have uploaded (which I know for a fact are the proper file type or they wouldn't be there) and the same thing happens -- they will only save to my hard drive as Bitmap.

It's frustrating because I have to go through the process of saving them to a disk and bringing them down to my other computer just to convert the file. Not only that, but saving animated icons is out of the question since Bitmap only captures one frozen image of the animated series.

I probably did something to my computer without knowing it, since I was able to save the correct file types just fine before. If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd sure appreciate it!

(I have Windows XP, if that makes any difference.)

I went a little nuts on this one -- thus, too big for LJ. I may whittle it down to a more usable size, but I just liked it too much to trash it altogether.

Gotta love "Swingers!"

( Don't be that guy.... )

*rambling tiredly*

Hooray for Photoshop! And hooray for finally having the opportunity to tribute my favorite BtVS couple. Sorry, though I've always liked Angel very much, my ship sails with Spike.

Big Bad Creature of the Night.

With an Accent.

I did make the icons myself, but the screencaps were taken from Just Imagine. Great stuff!
They repeat a bit, but I like them just as much with and without the text.

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