Friday woo hoo!

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Yay: New layout! casa_mcshep! SPN 4.13 (boyyyys)! Getting orangey Rodneylike yarn! Surviving yesterday! Aside from a 6-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, life has treated my kindly the past two days.

I think the best part, though, is just finally, finally being able to get things done beyond the bare minimum required to satisfy people. After a year--really longer, but the past year has been notable for its awfulness--of torpor and feeling lousy and chronically exhausted, having some get-up-and-go is such a relief.

To celebrate, a meme! Stolen from telesilla: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

[tags are here! And hey, if you have a question about the art, for that matter, ask it! I like talking about teh arts.]

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1) I don't know what I will do with the yarn yet! Maybe make a cowl (even though I have another one already, heh) or else a hat. Or I might just cuddle it :D

2) Boy did I learn a lot about tone with AFNK :D Definitely the hardest part of the story wasn't the plot--that was actually fairly easy to figure out--but trying to get it to feel like noir and have that atmosphere. I ended up reading quite a bit of Raymond Chandler and Hammett's Maltese Falcon (and the fic itself is kind of a fusion of that novel and Chandler's The Long Goodbye, with some pulp science fiction thrown in). Little-known fact: the description of the diner in the opening scene is a representation of Edward Hopper's Night Hawks; I love that painting, and Hopper's urban works always have a noirish feeling to me, with those heavy shadows, even when the colors are bright.

Also, Rodney's office is, I think just a couple blocks down from where Philip Marlowe's office will end up being :D