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Fourth Doctor Bookmark by ~Keladry-Lupin on deviantART

This is something I've been working on for the last several months, and I've finally put on the last stitch and washed and pressed it. I just liked the scarf, so I found a knitting pattern for it online, used the software I got online to build the chart, and started stitching in my spare time. I have plans to make a bookmark for myself at some point (either Jeeves or the Ninth Doctor), but I have a queue of four right now, so I won't be working on that any time soon.

Disclaimers (this is fanart, after all) and specific information (floss colors, etc.) are at DA.

Dear friends for whom I've made similar projects: if/when it's convenient, would you please take a photo or scan what I've sent to you and e-mail me the image so I can catalog them? I lost all my scans of past projects when my laptop died, and the data can't be retrieved.

Post edited because of reasons.

Snape Is Soo Sexy by ~SnapeisSexy on deviantART

Look familiar to you? This is Marquise's work that was on Playwitch years ago. SnapeisSexy is displaying it in her gallery and responding to comments like she's the one who created it. I've reported the theft, and even though Playwitch is no longer online to prove the date and Marquise's ownership, the Playwitch logo is on the artwork itself. Don't just leave a comment for this ersatz artist like you're reviewing it; PLEASE REPORT THIS THEFT TO THE MODS. I did ask Marquise first if this was hers, and she confirmed that it is. (As if the Playwitch copyright logo at the bottom left didn't give it away.)

I agonize over my fanfic and my fanart. For ages. And while the final results are pleasing (according to the reviews), I consider myself to be merely adequate at both. So when some pissant twerp takes something that's exceptional and claims it as her own, it's one of the few things that can shorten my fuse from very long indeed to almost nothing.

From caeria's Pet Project:


All Through the Night by ~Keladry-Lupin on deviantART

I've been wanting to draw this since I first read chapter twelve where Hermione sings the spell to make the sheet for Professor Snape. Took me a while, but I finally got around to it!

(Its title on DeviantArt is All Through the Night, but that's only because I My Loved One's Watch Am Keeping is too long, according to them.)

( Scraps under the cut for anyone who's interested. )

Since I'm more than halfway done with my PIF presents (I'm sending them all out at once when they're all done), and droxy has issued a challenge to us drabble writers, I am offering the best bribe I can think of. To the first six active grangersnape100 Spies and Death Eaters who will commit to joining the Order outright for six months, I will commit to drawing a character or scene from the fic of your choice before those six months are out.

YOU:

1. You need to have posted six drabble ENTRIES between 1 October 2007 and 31 March 2008. Each post in a serial counts as one entry (even if there were 22 drabbles in that entry, it only counts as one); this includes every chapter of Yuletide Potions, for those of you who participated. Provide links to at least one of your drabbles, so I can click the author tag and ferret out the rest.

1A. If your first-ever GS100 drabble was posted more recently than six months ago, I want to see at least one post to GS100 for every CALENDAR month since you started writing drabbles. (Example: if your first was in December -- even 31 December -- I want a minimum of four entries to GS100 between 1 December and 31 March. Doesn't matter when exactly they were posted, just so there's an average of one a month. Savvy?)

2. You commit to making at least twelve drabble entries (not just 12 x 100 in one or three entries) for the Order between now and Halloween, all under the banner of the Order of the Phoenix. And join the Order outright, please, even if your spy points have always gone to the Order in the past. This means ALL your drabble points earned between now and Halloween go to the Order. (I will be keeping track.)

ME:

1. You name the Potterverse fic, and you may express a preference for certain scenes/chapters, but I choose what I will draw. Know this: I have not yet succeeded in drawing more than two people in one picture to my satisfaction, so please keep that in mind (to keep me sane). Also, whatever I draw will be work-safe. The artwork will be yours (online); you may make icons/wallpaper and share them (or not). The artwork will also be posted in my DA gallery. Or it could be a simple portrait of a single character, if that is what you wish.

2. The switch is easy for you, but your drabbles and my drawings will take time for us to conjure. However, I shan't wait until after Halloween to post the drawings; I'll post each when it's done. Satisfaction is NOT guaranteed; go to my gallery to decide if it's worth joining the risk of joining the Order or not. (You can see that I am drawing backgrounds now, if that makes any difference!) And if someone specific is your Severus or Hermione (or Remus or Millicent or whoever), please point me in their direction -- I can draw other people besides Alan Rickman!

My journal, my bribe, my rules (which are subject to change if you make puppy-dog eyes; I am a Hufflepuff, after all). I know I'm not the best fanartist out there (not by a long shot), but a Keladry drawing is yours, if you qualify and you reply quickly enough. Ask if you want clarification on any of my picky, fussy, entirely bend-able rules.

bluestocking79 wants a moment from The French Connection
wonderfulwrites
snapeophile
dickgloucester
And the jury is out on two other writers ATM.

The good news is that I figured out what was wrong with the drawing I did for Camillo. It's the eyes and eyebrows, not the smile, that look wrong. (Amazing, what a difference a few degrees in eyebrows makes.)

The bad news is that I figured it out as I was holding it in my hands, ready to take it out the door this morning. No time to correct it before work. Since I don't care to share my unique (read: WEIRD) hobbies of fanfic and fanart with my co-workers (I don't like being looked at oddly or fawned over), the correction will be done tonight at home. If the correction goes well, it'll be scanned, cropped, and posted tomorrow.

I wouldn't post and remind you guys of this, except I don't want anyone to stay up late or haunt my LJ on my account. *ducks and hides*

Between computer difficulties and my terrible absent-mindedness, I never saved and showed you all my lovely Christmas (or was it birthday?) gift from the lovely and talented averygoodun. (It's still languishing in my e-mail because I keep forgetting to bring a disc from home to save it.) It's a scene from the first chapter of She Was Beautiful to Him, and its title is Kindred. Avery posted it to DeviantArt a few days ago, so now I'm delighted to share it with you: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/51102298/

Please go look and leave a comment for her. I was absolutely stunned when I first saw it! Ain't I lucky?

(Progress report: the next chapter has been returned by the lovely Britpicker and is now at the lovely betas' for pressing. Though they have a bit more than the usual "pressing" to do, bless them.)