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[essayel]

Time for a quick update:

A) Feeling happier now my best RL friend has had her results and they show that her cancer is treatable. For a while she was led to believe that it wasn't and at 41 with two young boys that's just not the sort of news to be carrying over Christmas. She will have to have masses of chemo and radiotherapy of course, which will be wretched for her, but she's amazigly brave and philosophical about it. Finger's crossed that the things they do don't make her feel too horrible.

B)The Boudoir Christmas challenge is almost finished, thank goodness, and soon I'll be able to go back to my WIPs. I have a couple of very wriggly plot bunnies demanding my attention.

C) I'm doing a cartoon - no really! Sam Vimes, aka copperbadge, wonderful man that he is, was kind enough to make an edited version of Stealing Harry so I could read it to my daughter without covering myself in confusion every time Sirius and Remus started fondling. In a sort of backhanded thank you (akin to handing someone a chocolate covered hand grenade)I've started a 'graphic' version of his marvellous fic "Acts Infernal" which he actually edited sometime ago for conversion to a comic. Retitled "Harry Potter and the Spirit Knife" I've made a little group for it here:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_SpiritKnife/
But I'm having a devil of a job getting the pictures to be accessible for people to see. Any ideas folks?
In the meantime, here's the first few pages...

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[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Cool, about the cartoon!

The pictures are back, in both the FILES and the Pictures folder. The Files ones are better, you can make them bigger.

I don't know what their problem was before. Lovely now.

So you're the ones the KF version was for; but I'm sure lots of others will benefit too. It's interesting to compare the two, isn't it? From the point of view of what Sam considers NOT kid-friendly.

Best of luck to your friend; that chemo and stuff is no fun. I've had a couple friends and relatives go through it-- just hang around with her and have as much fun as she can stand, and buy her silly hats, if she's at all the type.

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[essayel.livejournal.com]

It's a relief that they will load. I can't look at page 6 from the Files section - the screen just goes blank after a bit. I'll be posting them here a few at a time as well.
The KF version of Stealing Harry is brilliant for Jenny. She's perfectly happy with the idea of Sirius and Remus having a kiss and cuddle but at eleven was a bit too young for the - um - steamy bits. All I can say is that Chapter 20 will be a nice short read for us and I can go back and read the adult version to myself when she is in bed.
My friend lives next door - strange that there should be two Sally and Paul's in adjoining houses - and she is definitely a silly hat type. I just hope it won't be necessary.
Oh the plot bunnies are jumping so hard for the Davy Black story. It now starts on the battle field at Flodden and has another villain - did you know that a sept of the Elliots were called 'Illwand'? That just has to go in!

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[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Illwand-- perfect for your purposes; I wonder what it meant back then?

Great place to start. After any battle there must have been massive confusion and relocation. Which side the border was Davy Black from? Or did it depend on who he was talking to?

An idea for illustrations, not that you need any-- there's a very cool monument to the glorious Scottish heroes of that battle, in Hawick town centre. (I'm a sucker for horse statues.) I haven't tried but I'll bet if you search on Hawick you'll find it. Bloody but unbowed, sort of.

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[essayel.livejournal.com]

My 'bloody but unbowed' does seem to fit the bill.
Davy, of course, is on the Scots side and the defeat is what gives him the excuse to go home - only to find that home and family are gone due to the machinations of the 'Illwand' Elliots. I think that poor Davy can be a virtual Squib - hence his exile.
Aaaargh! No!! I MUST finish Dogs of War before I start this one!!! Problem is, I keep getting ideas!

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Couldn't get in a few hours ago, got in fine now - and I absolutely love it! Where can I read the original fic? And have you illustrated anything else? This is lovely - completely alive and the pages are so well constructed!

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[essayel.livejournal.com]

The original story is called "Acts Infernal" and it's on Schnoogle. It's brilliant and when I saw that Sam had done a script for a comic I just couldn't resist having a bash!! Just think - I get to draw Sirius in Roman armour!! Plus there's the whole Inferno bit and all that jazz too. I only hope I can produce a believable Draco and cope with all his wild facial expressions - how does one draw a smirk? I'm glad you like the pictures. I've illustrated some of my own but most of my public illustrations have been for Jewel of the Harem by Anise (I beta for her). She has an official artist - an expert at Draco and Ginny - and I mess about with the bit part players and the odd characters who catch my imagination. There' a group called Pillar of Fire where fic and pics are kept until required.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful. Would you like a website for it? A Yahoo group just seems like an odd method of distribution, especially since people have to join (i.e., take action) to see things.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like it. It's quite nervy drawing fictional characters where everybody has their own idea of appearance. Luckily HPers are a fairly tolerant bunch. I remember posting a portrait of Francis Crawford of Lymond on one of the Dorothy Dunnett fansites and someone coming back to me with a very sniffy comment that it didn't look anything like Francis - the jawline was wrong!
I would LOVE a website for it but anything I made would necessarily have to be one of those "Build-your-own-Website-for_Idiots" jobs. I only used the Yahoo group because I know how to set one of those up - a site that people can just click to see would be far far better. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to technology - the cartoons, you may have noticed, are drawn the old fashioned way with pencils and rubbers and lots of swearing. Anyway, any advice would be much appreciated.

[gonzothegreat.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[kc-risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

My God! This is STUNNING! WOWOWOWOW!

I had no idea you were THIS talented!

Go Sally!