I'm imagining him as a Sea Monkey now. With a little crown!
Let me guess. We're in a hurry.
Inara ,'Serenity'
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Amy - Jul 31, 2013 4:39:14 pm PDT #28703 of 30002
Because books.
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2013 4:53:43 pm PDT #28704 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, ten times cuter.
There's octo-Cas art floating across my dashboard periodically, but I think this story is actually just four tentacles, so they aren't related.
Damn, I'm tempted. But the list of stories I'm too chicken to randomly draw for gets longer and longer (there's a baby angel I even started talking to the author about, and bailed...ita !, behave), and these AUs are even harder to draw for.
Fins for wings, though! Cutie pie.
...maybe Dean could give him a crown to cheer him up. He's a depressed little thing sometimes.
I need to actually make a list of pictures started or planned, but never finished. That would help, right?
Amy - Jul 31, 2013 5:04:43 pm PDT #28705 of 30002
Because books.
You can file it next to my list of fics started or planned and they can be BFFs.
Anne W. - Jul 31, 2013 5:05:32 pm PDT #28706 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm not sure if making a list would make me feel better or worse.
Amy - Jul 31, 2013 5:07:29 pm PDT #28707 of 30002
Because books.
I don't even have to. I just wander through my Google drive and laugh.
Anne W. - Jul 31, 2013 5:12:28 pm PDT #28708 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm a little afraid to look at my Google Drive right now.
In another hour, I should be officially done with Big Bang season. I need to wait to hear that my author was able to post to the comm. She has never posted a fic anywhere before, and she started off with the SPN Big Bang. Brave, brave woman... Anyhow, she wasn't even sure how to set up a masterpost, so I wound up coaching her through that.
On the other hand, she provided me with some wonderful reference photos to work from.
Amy - Jul 31, 2013 5:13:21 pm PDT #28709 of 30002
Because books.
Good god. That's ambitious.
Anne W. - Jul 31, 2013 5:18:42 pm PDT #28710 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm pretty impressed. The story is a fairly solid case fic with good brotherly moments, even in the rough draft. I haven't had a chance to re-read after it was beta-read.
I don't think it really registered with her that it was any kind of Big Deal. It seemed more of a "oh, this looks neat, I think I'll try it!"
Amy - Jul 31, 2013 5:42:07 pm PDT #28711 of 30002
Because books.
Oh, I didn't mean it was a bad story, just that doing all that on your first fic is ... ambitious!
I'm glad it's a good story!
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2013 6:09:22 pm PDT #28712 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe they could procreate, Amy? I'm not sure what shape the child of an unfinished fic and a partial sketch look like, but hopefully they have potential.
I just went to look at what "making a list" would entail. So, there's the "sketches in progress" folder-small, eleven deep. I don't know why there are a couple mod & rockers sketches filed in the unlabelled folder, but let me move those into "ideas" which I'm going to measure in cm deep, not number of pages--that's about 1.25 now. I popped it open to refresh my memory, and 30 or so of them are even post-it flagged with notes from when I scanned them in to show Amy what was on the back burner. Back oven. Back ovens. That was ambitious too. But why the fuck do I also have an "unfinished" folder? Post it flags too--"shoes need more sexy!"
That's not counting "Oh, I could do a pair, then--one set in S4 and one set in S9" and "what about this reference?" comments that get tucked into emails to Amy or my sister, or photographs of my work or TV screens or someone else's magazine that are filed electronically. Or the web application that I've set up to manage reference pictures, where more than 50% of the reference pictures are there because they gave me a picture idea.
How the FUCK does one do this efficiently?
At least I only have three abandoned fics.
Anne, you had an author send you reference photos? That's amazing! So often that's what I need to get traction, or to get polished, when I can't make my idea hit the paper right, and getting concrete (ish) input from someone else involved in birthing the shared work can be better than what your own brain or research can provide, by virtue of not being entrenched in the grooves you've dug out in your head (of course, they can also be worse, because they can set up expectations you absolutely can't fulfill, but yours sounds like a win).
Most of the authors I've banged with have been newbs, and most of the experiences have been great. I think I prefer that gamble to getting something from Misha's favourite minion, because respiration is unimpeded, even if they turn out to be nigh-incoherent like my one DCBB experience (go figure! Ruby and Gabriel were much better experiences!).
Next year, maybe, back on the challenge train. I was so irritated by not having a reasonable shot at J2SPN that I stopped looking at LJ, and since I don't post there except for monthly batches, I'm way out of touch. I'm looking forward to seeing your work, Anne.