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reflectedeve) wrote2011-02-28 07:52 pm
reflectedeve) wrote2011-02-28 07:52 pm
it's easy to forget if they keep you on the ground
Back from the funeral and feeling wiped out, but okay. Some wonderful family friends really ameliorated the worst of the experience for me (particularly their four-year-old daughter, who has decided not to be nervous of me anymore and spent half the wake asking me a lot of very earnest questions). I'm so glad it's March tomorrow; I'm really ready to start the climb out of this winter.
(I'm also starting to get really excited about school! All my dad's random cousins were asking me a lot of questions about it, and I should be getting my further information in about a month, so I can finally start some more in-depth planning. Also, I'll probably need to officially inform my job in a month or so.)
Anyway, right before I left, I finally finished a piece of fanart I've been working on for awhile. I had the idea when I first saw some of Patrick Stump's publicity photos from late last year, and it wouldn't leave me alone. Something about the sharp clothing and oddly distant expression. (You may remember this preview doodle of Patrick with ray guns.) Full image behind the cut:
Whew. Photoshop, you have not broken my spirit yet! Thanks toataratah for the advice and encouragement while I was working on this. ♥
I had already started sketching this when the news about Pete and Ashlee broke, which made me feel a little strange about the whole thing, but ... it's an AU anyway, IDK, and I couldn't bear to leave her out.
It's a little weird that I still haven't done any regular Killjoys artwork (and I will!), but BLI!Patrick is absurdly compelling. Everything the real Patrick does has me adding to this characterization in my head, too. (I almost had a heart attack when I saw what he was wearing in the Spotlight video, even with all the exuberant grinning and jumping around.)
In a thrilling reversal,jjtaylor has written a story in this universe: Nothing To Confess. I am so fucking excited to read it, I can't even tell you. :DDD
(I'm also starting to get really excited about school! All my dad's random cousins were asking me a lot of questions about it, and I should be getting my further information in about a month, so I can finally start some more in-depth planning. Also, I'll probably need to officially inform my job in a month or so.)
Anyway, right before I left, I finally finished a piece of fanart I've been working on for awhile. I had the idea when I first saw some of Patrick Stump's publicity photos from late last year, and it wouldn't leave me alone. Something about the sharp clothing and oddly distant expression. (You may remember this preview doodle of Patrick with ray guns.) Full image behind the cut:
Whew. Photoshop, you have not broken my spirit yet! Thanks to
ataratah for the advice and encouragement while I was working on this. ♥I had already started sketching this when the news about Pete and Ashlee broke, which made me feel a little strange about the whole thing, but ... it's an AU anyway, IDK, and I couldn't bear to leave her out.
It's a little weird that I still haven't done any regular Killjoys artwork (and I will!), but BLI!Patrick is absurdly compelling. Everything the real Patrick does has me adding to this characterization in my head, too. (I almost had a heart attack when I saw what he was wearing in the Spotlight video, even with all the exuberant grinning and jumping around.)
In a thrilling reversal,
jjtaylor has written a story in this universe: Nothing To Confess. I am so fucking excited to read it, I can't even tell you. :DDD
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I'm just completely in love with the idea of BLI!Patrick. My mind's been working overtime and I didn't get a wink of sleep from drawing too damn much. One idea I had was using "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)", because it conflicts so much with the idea that BLI are just into owning everyone's lives and dreams and the Killjoys are the very embodiment of that song. I can see some conflict between Pete and Patrick this way.
I don't know man, maybe I have sleep deprivation. *shrug*
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That sounds like a fascinating take to me! I hope you run with it; I'm really interested to see where it might go.
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Well now I've got the go-ahead I'd better get writing, huh? This is what holidays are made for, tons of free time :D
The whole thing that started it off for me was listening to that song and hearing these lines:
They might try to tell you how you can live your life
But don't, don't forget it's your right
To do whatever you like, you like, you like, you like
That's Patrick saying that, and Pete knows it- but it's not Patrick now. He wonders where it all went wrong.
Well, I'll keep you updated :D