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Title: "Comforting Sounds" Chapter 17/EPILOGUE: "The Rose" (17/17)
Fandom: The Last of Us
Characters: Ellie, Joel, Tommy, Maria, OCs
Pairings: Ellie/OC
Warnings: PLEASE SEE NOTES ABOUT WARNINGS IN FIRST CHAPTER
Word Count for this chapter: 3351
Rating (for fic as a whole): R

( THE END! )

#mylivejournal #lj18 #happybirthday

Since all the cool kids are doing it!

Dang. And I've barely used this thing since 2012 so you could shave 5 years off to make the commenting look even more impressive, lol.

I told sakurafromjapan I would catch up on this "soon" -- and then another couple of months flew by! I think the fact that I'm not really happy with any of them is a contributing factor to my laziness? Not going to bother with the WIP photos this time (which I did take for the paintings, not the drawing).

Fandom: Supernatural
Subject: Sam, Dean, Castiel
Medium: Colored pencil
Rating: G
Notes: This was for a LJ arts & crafts exchange last summer in which graphic art was not allowed -- perfect for me, I thought! Well, not so much. This is embarrassing to admit but my recipient didn't even acknowledge receiving it. I included a little note, multiple ways to contact me... nada. I checked with the mod who matched me to her -- no complaints of not having received anything. Obviously she just didn't like it. I don't know anything about Supernatural so I just copied something I found online that I thought would be to her taste.

( Exchange fail! )

Fandom: None
Subject: a howling wolf
Medium: Acrylic
Rating: G
Notes: This was a birthday gift for a friend who likes wolves. He liked it. I had sooooooooooo much trouble with the sky, I spent hours doing it and redoing it and it never did come out right :( I watched a "how to" vid on the technique, but that only made me feel worse because they could do in a few minutes what I couldn't do in hours! I like to think that their expensive materials trump my cheap ones, but how much of a cop-out is that really?! lol. I tried to cover it up by making it swirlier. Just, ugh.

( Sky fail! )

Fandom: American Idol
Subject: Dalton Rapattoni
Medium: Acrylic
Rating: G
Notes: Another birthday gift for a friend -- we were both really pulling for this guy to win the final season of AI but alas, he did not. The oddly-colored hair is not me taking liberties, he really did have crazy hair! (okay, perhaps I took SOME liberties, only in the back) And yep he wears black eyeliner :)

( No specific fail here, just not thrilled with it as a whole )


I finished the last one in October and haven't done anything artistic since. I'm going to start my next piece when I'm done posting my current longfic, which only has 3 chapters left. Hopefully my brain will recognize my desire to trade writing for painting! I have two more to do for other people, then by golly I think I might just do another one for myself.

...is this thing on?

Ha.

Soooooooo I see that many of my friends have stopped posting at some point in the 4 years I've been away.  I hope some of you are still lurking, though?  :D?

I haven't really been "away," just not over in this neck of the woods.  I think I want to wander through these woods again... make new friends, find new communities, perhaps update my icons so they're not all time warp-y (hmmm.....nahhh, I like a lot of 'em still).  I'm not sure how often I'll be posting, but I do know I won't be oversharing like I used to!

Anyone seen Beauty & the Beast?  I saw it for the second time yesterday -- we accidentally went to the sing-along version.  I even sang most of the songs -- there were only four people in the theatre, lol I imagine it's a little more lively when you have kids in there.  Fun random fact -- the "lumy" in my name comes from Lumiere, the candelabra.  It was actually a legit, albeit short-lived, RL nickname before I ever used it as an internet handle.

Everyone have a great holiday weekend!

Title: "Comforting Sounds" Chapter 13: "Cold Comfort" (13/17)
Fandom: The Last of Us
Characters: Ellie, Joel, Tommy, Maria, OCs
Pairings: Ellie/OC
Warnings: PLEASE SEE NOTES ABOUT WARNINGS IN FIRST CHAPTER
Word Count for this chapter: 7276
Rating (for fic as a whole): R

( Not quite the way she'd imagined their reunion... )
~Continue to Chapter 14~

Title: "Comforting Sounds" Chapter 11: "Clocks" (11/17)
Fandom: The Last of Us
Characters: Ellie, Joel, Tommy, Maria, OCs
Pairings: Ellie/OC
Warnings: PLEASE SEE NOTES ABOUT WARNINGS IN FIRST CHAPTER
Word Count for this chapter: 8010
Rating (for fic as a whole): R

( ~Tick~tock~Tick~tock )


~Continue to Chapter 12~

Title: "Comforting Sounds" Chapter 9: "Shape of My Heart" (9/17)
Fandom: The Last of Us
Characters: Ellie, Joel, Tommy, Maria, OCs
Pairings: Ellie/OC
Warnings: PLEASE SEE NOTES ABOUT WARNINGS IN FIRST CHAPTER
Word Count for this chapter: 6634
Rating (for fic as a whole): R
Author's Note: Chapter title from the song by Sting, which was used in the end credits of Léon: The Professional (the main characters of which parallel the characters of Joel and Ellie! Great movie)


( ~I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier...~ )
~Continue to Chapter 10~

Title: "Comforting Sounds" Chapter 7: "Games We Play" (7/17)
Fandom: The Last of Us
Characters: Ellie, Joel, Tommy, Maria, OCs
Pairings: Ellie/OC
Warnings: PLEASE SEE NOTES ABOUT WARNINGS IN FIRST CHAPTER
Word Count for this chapter: 5849
Rating (for fic as a whole): R

( If monsters were real, couldn't the good stuff be real too? )
~Continue to Chapter 8~

Title: "Comforting Sounds" Chapter 5: "The Prisoner" (5/17)
Fandom: The Last of Us
Characters: Ellie, Joel, Tommy, Maria, OCs
Pairings: Ellie/OC
Warnings: PLEASE SEE NOTES ABOUT WARNINGS IN FIRST CHAPTER
Word Count for this chapter: 8145
Rating (for fic as a whole): R

( ~Broken things should be discarded~ )
~Continue to Chapter 6~

Title: "Keep Moving"
Fandom: The Last of Us
Characters: Joel & Ellie
Prompt: none!
Word Count: 2346
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "I would kill for something to eat right now" can be taken literally in the TLoU 'verse...
Author's Notes: While working on a scene for an upcoming chapter in my long fic, I created a memory for Ellie to think about, and I thought, "Hey that would've been fun to do as a one-shot." And then suddenly the words poured out! This takes place between the in-game events of Winter and Spring.

Crossposted to AO3 and FFN

( ~Follow the smoke~ )