Just write! (Snowflake Challenge #8)

[aquietjune]

As life is pretty exhausting (mentally, more than anything) right now, I haven't been able to participate much in the snowflake_challenge although I very much wanted to.

Challenge #8 has just come out and I have about half an hour. Can I make it count?

Challenge #8

Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

(1)

If I used my Dreamwidth journal in any way this past year, it was to keep my mind set on the objective of finishing and starting publishing a longfic I've been working on with consistency since July 2022.

I've talked about it extensively: it's an Attack on Titan fic called Little Bird, about the character of Annie Leonhart. All is well.

I will talk about something related to it: a series of images I'm making chapter after chapter to "promote" the chapter publication. Since the story is set in an alternative late 1910s-early 1920s era, I take graphical works from the period (advertisements, book covers or frontispieces, product labels, but also working documents like cadastre files) and I edit them to talk about something else entirely -- my story. Possibly with a lot of irony.

I already shared a favorite of mine, the frontispiece to a manual of etiquette for ladies in society, but this time I'll share a more recent one (the last one, since I hadn't been able to make one for the latest chapter yet :')), a label for canned cabbage (I don't think I have to reveal to you the origin of it, in the sense that's blatantly obvious):

I'm learning plenty of things about how photo editing and such, and it makes me very proud. (But yes, it takes a lot of time.)

(2)

As a consequence of 1), I'm learning (or re-learning? I don't know) how to make DW icons. I'm not very active here, and yet I find it enjoyable to play with images while I'm feeling lazy. The icon you see on this post is one of the new ones. Pretty basic, yet I like it a lot.

(3)

Latest WiP, another AoT oneshot about a haunted house (what a novel concept!). As usual, it started as a small endeavor, and now that I've outlined the scenes... well, I want to get to the end of this, and not letting it haunt me like many other WiPs that I have.

And that's it for now!

(Did I make it in time? It appears so... nice!)

Comments

[enchantedsleeper]

Nice work!! I've had a bit of a gap in posting for the Snowflake Challenge myself, so I feel you ^^; I hope you can get some rest! <3

I loooove your graphics for this story - they look amazing! I never learned to make icons and so I take my hat off to you. They're so very cool, and my collection of icons from my LJ days is a lovely trove of nostalgia :D

[aquietjune]

Hey! I got some rest but I'm as lazy as ever -- I'm trying to get some writing done but who knows.

I dabbled in graphics before, but only understanding very little of it. Now I think I'm doing... a bit better! But it still is a journey, and as with all things graphics... it takes time...