icon made by me but can anyone point me to the texture used (the 'love' magazine scan) and other magazine scan textures, maybe featuring the letters 'E' and 'P' for some I'm going to make in the future? Thanks

 Title: The Longest Night
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Avatar
Pairing: Zuko/Katara
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "During the darkest days of Winter, Katara's grandmother would light candles for a whole week."

The Longest Night

Title: The Longest Night
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Avatar
Pairing: Zuko/Katara
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "During the darkest days of Winter, Katara's grandmother would light candles for a whole week."

The Longest Night

Hey everyone (: I really don't know how to make an animation with screencaps. I want to make a mini-movie icon.
Every tutorial I can find is for Photoshop or something else, but I'm using Gimp.

Does anyone know a tutorial for that? 

I'm glad about every help! 

GO, GO, GO!

Two texture sets: one script texture set (700x400) and another grunge type texture set (800x600).


Located here @ crimson_iink

I love this effect and I was wondering if it would be possible to recreate it for a batch of icons I'm planning on making?

Thanks in advance
I'm using Photoshop [Photoshop 7 or cs4, I have both on seperate computers]

♥

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So, Hetalia-fans, you want to create some Original Characters, Hetalia-based of the countries that haven't been shown. Hey, cool for you! It's a good exercise in research and creativity.

However, want my advice? Here is the very first thing you should do if you want to creat an OC about, oh, I dunno. 'Africa-tan', like a certain fan told me.

The very first thing you should do?

Buy yourself an Atlas and learn that Africa? Refers to a whole continent with over 50 countries within, and thus, your plan about writing an 'Africa-tan'? Not gonna happen. It would be like creating 'Europe-tan' or 'American Continent-tan'.

Maps and research. In this fandom more than in any other one, they are your friends. At the very least? In Geography.

Hello everyone, I hope this post is ok, otherwise, feel free to delete it.

There is going to be an anime convention in Tucson, Arizona on March 26-28, 2010 and one of our guests is Crispin Freeman himself!

If you happen to live in the state, or can travel, you get the chance to meet him on Saturday! It helps that this is a smaller con than the usual AX, SakuraCon, AWA, etcetera, so the chance to meet him is pretty high.

I'm the General Art Manager as well as the Artists' Alley Manager for this con. I'm planning on making a picture of Zelgadis for him (although I'll take a different approach than the usual illustration. I'll make sure to post it here once I finish it.

Anyhow, hopefully I'll see some of you there!

www.con-nichiwa.com

Contests
Mid-Week Reminder at bleach_icontest.
Week 141 Winners at bleachorus.

Fanfiction
One-Shots/Drabbles
Corona, by shootingstars (Ichigo/Rukia; T)
Midnight Feeding, by sr625sw (Ichigo/Orihime; PG)
Defiance, by aliale (Ichigo/Rukia; T)
Does pain go away and leave no trace? by lyingfiend (Gin/Byakuya; PG)

Multi-Part
See Me Now: Chapter 4, by diorcrystal (Ulquiorra/Grimmjow; M)
3 Multi-Chapter Fics, by passionate_ink (Various)

Fanart
Art Dump, by azirae (Shuuhei/Akon, Mayuri/Akon, Urahara/Mayuri, Shunsui/Ukitake, Shinji/Ichigo; PG-16)
Shuuhei/Kira, by midoripanda (Not Rated)
Ayasegawa Yumichika, by thepinkrabbit (Worksafe)

Icons & Graphics
2 Ichigo/Rukia Wallpapers, by mikaoru.
12 Ukitake Icons, by bluishorbs.
9 Byakuya Icons, by bluishorbs.
17 Kenpachi Icons, by oulan. Multi-fandom post.
Mood Theme, by myredpineapple.

capslock_bleach Discussions
CHAPTER 382 SPOILERS.
EPISODE 245 RECAP.
WTF WEDNESDAY.

Discussions & Miscellaneous
Looking for Renji/Byakuya and Byakuya/Renji doujins in English at bleach_yaoi.
Byakuya/Renji doujin scans at bleach_doujin.
New Years Exchange Sign Up post! at ishi_ichi.
Image help? at bleach_fact.

Feel free to comment on this post for news we might have missed, errors, broken links, etc. and we'll fix them ASAP.

Are there any comms not included in these updates because we're not watching them? Let us know!

Dear UK Supernatural ficcers,

This doesn't happen a lot, but when it does - damn, it's jarring.

I run across a fic that's friggin' awesome...right until someone starts talking. Usually, it's Dean. Ya see, one thing Dean Winchester shouldn't ever sound like is very, very, very British. Seriously. I doubt he's going to use "whilst" or "Indeed" unless he's going for humor or sarcasm, and I'm pretty sure he's not going to refer to male friends as "mates" or "boys" or use terms like "bloody hell"...or just basically sound like he just rolled in from a posh boarding school and it off to the polo match after tea.

"Sammy, go look down the alley whilst I go chat up the waitress."

No, dude. Just...no.

Happy birthday to Ameinwonderland!!!
she just returned from her trip from Disney so i HAD to draw THIS:
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sketched then colored digitally ^_^
DA: http://piku-chan.deviantart.com/art/ZA-Let-s-Go-to-Disneyland-143329436

the title is in reference to what Amelia is telling Zel to do to cure his chronic pessimism. So they go to Disneyland and become Minni and Mickey for a day. I think somewhere in the shadows, Lina and Xellos are recording as much evidence as possible while Gourry is getting himself lost while stuffing his mouth with goodies. Don't take that hot off now, Zel. XD
Let's hope the trip works out the best for Zel. (if not well, at least they had a fun time, Slayers style)

Another Slayers update from the chimera himself...

More Slayers today. Almost done with all 26 episodes. Some really great Zelgadis moments and backstory!

They're almost done already!? Dang, Freeman and Sinterniklaas must be dubbing machines!! O_o

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Is asking that writers for a fandom watch a few episodes, with special attention paid to how various characters address each other, really too much to ask?

Every single 'fic I've read tonight has snapped me out of the story by having some character refer to another character by his given name when in canon he would have used his surname, or with honorifics that the characters don't use with each other in canon, or even with weird nicknames that seem to have come from nowhere.

And maybe I'm just picky, but it irritates me. How can you watch a show without picking up on how the characters address one another? I don't even write for this fandom, really, but I've certainly picked up enough to want to attack a few 'fics with red pen...

On a sort of related note, if a character in an anime fandom has an English word for a name, and you feel like you have to spell it the way it's pronounced in the show instead of the way the word is spelled in English... please be consistant with your spelling. Remembering that you're calling a character something other than what I'm expecting is hard enough without having to be on the lookout for multiple unexpected spellings.

D:

I'm going through some tutorials that use selective color. When I went to try the tutorials in Photoshop CS2, I noticed that there's an option on selective color that can be set to "Relative" or "Absolute". When I'm trying out a tutorial, which setting should I have it on to achieve the demonstrated coloring?

Thank you!

I have no idea if this is even possible, but I was just wondering if you could bring back unexpectedly-closed files on PSCS3.

I was working on these icons [which took me FOREVER], then my laptop shuts down unexpectedly. Is there a way to bring these files back??

Any suggestions would be amazing. TIA!

(YMMV, of course)

I generally tend to avoid real person fiction as it sometimes makes me feel a bit ooky, even when it's not in extreme circumstances or a touchy subject(Heath Ledger anyone?) but I've noticed this quite a bit in past excursions.

You've got an actor(or a musician or a politician, etc. pick one, it doesn't matter). You've got a slash pairing in the summary and goldarnit, you're going to make that slash pairing happen! It's reasonable enough, the two actors have costarred in one or two movies and there's definitely room for some chemistry in there. But why oh why are you having Lawrence Olivier going to Walmart? Or Jeffrey Dean Morgan on a pirate ship?(not real examples yet.)

I check the summary. Nope, not a crack!fic. Been played pretty straightfaced up until that point, if a bit melodramatic and OOC. So...why? Do you really need to invent crazy circumstances just to get your OTP, especially when there are so many in character ways to get them together? Real people, though not part of a well-documented canon like most fictional characters are, have certain rules that apply to them and have exhibited a certain set of behaviors. No, I don't know that Viggo Mortenson will accidentally book a gay cruise and wind up rooming with Orlando Bloom...but there's a pretty good chance that would never happen.

And worse, don't suddenly turn it into a drama when it's been pretty friggin' cracky all along. It gives your readers whiplash.
If you're doing a crackfic good for you- all the more power to you for cooking that pot of crack!soup. Go the whole nine yards, make it a crack fic through and through, don't get your melodrama and wangst in my peanut butter.
If I'm laughing at the utter ridiculousness of your plot until you throw cancer or something in there to sober it up, I think you're doing something wrong. Gerard Way shouldn't bang his brother, go mall shopping, and then get killed in a drive-by all within the space of a few chapters.It makes me make this face @_@ and wonder what I just spent the past half-hour doing.

TL;DR, Keep crackfic crack, try to keep your RP fiction believable you crazy kids, you.

Some idle chatter on the [adult swim] Venture Bros. boards led me to create this subtle blend of geekery:



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I've heard of a lemon.

I've heard of a lime.

WTF is a MELON?????