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For epicflailer's The Deception Curve, an Arthur/Cobb story for inception_bang.

notes: Thank you so much to epicflailer, who is a delight and wonder in every way ♥♥ I can only hope these can make your awesome fic even more awesome!

Since I couldn't decide which approach I liked best, you'll find three variations under the cut, featuring the main characters in the story. The typography in v. 2 was inspired by those in the posters for I Am Love and I'm Still Here.

All covers are safe for work and non-spoilery for the fic :)



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The Gestation Conundrum Contingency
The very true story of how a freelance superhero working for a top-secret organization has to deal with some very uncomfortable facts of life (and evil mad scientists who want to take over the world). (The Middleman AU) (Cook/Archuleta)

wordcount: 18,850
rating: NC-17
warnings: non-explicit violence
notes: Written for mrsachid's prompt "mpreg" as part of cookleta_hols and originally posted here! Some lines were taken from the show, especially episodes one, four and eleven; The Middlepedia and TV Tropes were also invaluable. Information on pregnancy should not be taken as medical advice. No pop culture references were harmed in the production of this story.

A multitude of thanks to the following: epicflailer for her enthusiasm and hand-holding, the wrisomifu community for its support as I wrote the last 9000 words, rajkumari905 for the encouraging read-through and jehane_writes for the speedy beta. Any remaining mistakes are my own.

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3

If you'd rather read it on one page, it's also on Dreamwidth.

UNIVERSE! I am climbing a mountain tomorrow, going down some caves, lighting a few candles, that sort of thing. It will be very wet and I will be a mess. Also I will be incommunicado for the entire weekend, unless if I fiddle with my cellphone correctly to update Twitter :|

The help_pakistan auction closes on August 29 1 AM EST. I won't be around when it does, but my offer still stands - the top two bidders will win my services :D

I tossed some of these on Twitter, and now I'm tossing them here. Used to do this for [another fandom] after I got inspired by the original & watch_this_rain's Jeeves/Wooster sets of yore, and now crayon_scrawls has done excellent ones for Inception -- TL;DR JUMPING ON BANDWAGONS :D?

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Some nifty fandom stuff you'll like better than the above: a gorgeous Inception/Sandman crossover from the artist of Hero, a mashup of the 2009 Holmes movie trailer audio with video from the new BBC series and new Katie Forsythe fic(!!!) ♥

Also posted to Dreamwidth with comments. Reply here or there :)

- That desktop wallpaper meme: ( you know what to doCollapse )

- This fic meme:

1. Go through my story index and pick out a sentence from one of my stories.

2. I'll try to guess what story it's from. If something comes to mind, I'll give you some backstory or DVD commentary for the excerpt.

3. If I guess wrong, you get to ask me for a drabble. I'll take characters or a pairing, and a nudge in the right direction.

- This is either a new high or a new low: I made seven variations of one base icon :| That's the effect of having very limited caps to choose from, I guess.

Also posted to Dreamwidth with comments. Reply here or there :)

In a valiant effort to not get rusty at this, I fired up my music player and Photoshop to make something. Anything. Coincidentally, I have been ridiculously obsessed with figure skating lately and had accumulated a lot of pictures in my HD.

Now to resume the end-of-school grind ;_;


15 Johnny Weir
5 Johnny Weir (& Stéphane Lambiel, Kim Yu-Na, Kelly Osbourne, Evan Lysacek)
4 Kim Yu-Na
1 Stéphane Lambiel
5 crossovers w/ Arrested Development (Evan Lysacek, Nobunari Oda, Lambiel, Brian Joubert)
+ 1 wallpaper (Johnny Weir/Stéphane Lambiel - 1280x800)

      

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eta: corrected a typo in #16 - thanks to finetimeforpie for the heads up!

Um, I don't know what to say, except that I kind of ♥ the letterpress text effect a lot. Enjoy!


11 Sherlock Holmes '09 (Watson, Irene, Holmes, Holmes/Watson, quotes)
1 David Cook/David Archuleta
2 David Archuleta
1 Stephen Fry

         

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:O:O:O:O how come no one told me wallpaper-making could be so addictive? I hope you enjoy my last fannish hurrah for 2009 ♥ Unhealthy obsession with permutations of the word "love" Y/N?



1440x900 ★ 1280x800 ★ 1024x768
Resources used: brasaremean, _excentric_, kiho_chan. Please don't edit or modify for use as a header/banner/icon/whatever without my permission.

(Not in your resolution? Feel free to request it, and I'll get back to you after my vacation!)

Today -- in my timezone, at least -- is David Archuleta's birthday! Happy 19th, wonderboy! Since last year I totally spazzed out re: anything celebratory, I figured I'd make up for it this year with a graphics-type thing :D

This is my first time doing a somewhat complicated desktop wallpaper (that is, using more than one picture and two textures) and I think it came out okay. It's bottom-heavy because my taskbar's on top (ha).



1440x900 ★ 1280x800 ★ 1024x768
icon (100x100) ★ header (500x300)
(Resources used: brasaremean, elli, ffffound & David HQ. Please don't edit or modify for use as a header/banner/icon/whatever without my permission.)

If I haven't provided for your desktop resolution, just tell me and I'll resize it for you, though it might take a while, as I'll be computer-less for the next three days~

♥♥♥!

Of all the things that would make me start making icons again, I didn't expect it to be A Nero Wolfe Mystery. But while preparing a *cough* small picspam, I looked at the caps I made and went, "aw, heck." (This also means there may be more in the future, with the other episodes & characters I still have yet to watch/cap :D)


10 A Nero Wolfe Mystery ("Champagne For One (Parts 1 & 2)")

        

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For marginaliana's Submerged, a James May/Richard Hammond story for rpf_big_bang.

[ trailer | fanmix ]
notes: There are quotes from the story under the cut, so potential spoilers abound! My laptop crashed before I could finish the fanmix (external HDs are lifesavers!) so this is what you might call a careful reconstruction on someone else's computer :) Most of the files are in .mp3 format, though some are .m4a. Individual tracks are up at box.net, with the entire mix as a zip file at Megaupload.

  

a minor incident
a "submerged" mix

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