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Feb. 14th, 2004 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
essayelTime 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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...
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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Date: 2004-02-15 12:32 am (UTC)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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Date: 2004-02-15 02:13 pm (UTC)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.
Re: Hawick horse
Date: 2004-02-16 12:19 am (UTC)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!