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Was it really February when I last posted? I know I've been doing so less and less (and never as often as some), but still! I've certainly done quite a bit of writing since then. Just not here.
That post was a round up of last year's fic. I said then:
When I take a look at my 2018 year-in-review, the list is headed by my first Legends of Tomorrow ficlet. Given that I watched and loved most of the CW Arrowverse shows from the first episode of Arrow, it's surprising that it took me so long to get the urge to write fic for them. The commonality of themes and textures I've used in their webpages makes it sensible to deal with them all together.
Anyway, that's as good a place as any to start.
For the past few years, I've had a big idea for a Legends/Flash crossover that I still haven't more than nibbled at. I remember I was quite uncertain of my ability to handle the characters and their world properly. So I tipped a toe in the water with a couple of ficlets for Chocolate Box in 2018: "Price above Emeralds" (LoT) and "Truth and Lies" (Flash), both written forsperrywink. While waiting for author reveals, I designed their webpages. For the former, I decided to go with a green theme, partly because of the green tones used for the temporal zone, but also because of the emerald of the title. For the latter, I decided I wanted an ice-themed background (since the story was about Captain Cold), and found a very suggestive one on 1-background.com: it has pale tones of both red and blue running through it. I picked these colours up, red for Flash and blue for Cold, in making the border around the story panel itself; and finished it off with a rim of a very pale version of a sandy texture, which gives somewhat the appearance of snow.
Almost immediately, I wrote a much longer story, "Stopped Cold", forrivulet027 in the Worldbuilding Exchange. This picks up a late part of the Legends/Flash crossover—I did say I'd nibbled at it, but it's a 17K nibble!—in which Captain Cold's newly formed Rogues attempt their first big robbery with potentially devastating consequences for the Flash when he tries to stop them. Since this was basically a ColdFlash story (albeit Cold & Flash rather than slash), I used the same main background that I had for "Truth and Lies". However, I tried to design a more sophisticated border for the story: a dark marble, with touches of blue and (once again) the snowy rim. As the story was very long, divided not only into three chapters but into subsections within each, I also created multiple levels of divider to decorate the page. These all involve combinations of the Flash lightning bolt with a large snowflake.
That year, I was tempted to pick up a Flash pinch hit forsandrine in Fandom5K. It was a ColdWestAllen request (i.e. Iris/Barry/Len poly), which is not the sort of thing I would usually write. But it lingered long enough for me to come up with a plot bunny. In the event, someone else claimed the pinch hit before I did. However, the same recipient became a pinch hit with the same request in MultiFandom Tropefest. So, of course, I snatched it up as soon as I saw it. The result was "Rogue Kiss".
Once again, I used the same ice background as before; but, with a different character focus, I felt I needed to create a new border. So this time I designed one that was basically gold, with the broadest band being a golden version of a glistening tile that I got from Heather's Animations. Towards the edge of the border, though, I put a narrow strip of red; and I also gave it the snowy rim.
For the Worldbuilding Exchange in 2019, I began a series of short stories that, collectively, describe the childhood of Leonard Snart a/k/a Captain Cold. Three were written at that time, all forrivulet027; and "A Little Cold", "Growing Cold", and "Chill" are all on AO3. However, I've not yet gone back to finish the series. So, although I did design a common layout for Depths of Cold (i.e. the series), I haven't uploaded anything to my website yet.
So, to move on....
Last year was the first time I participated in Not Prime Time. I matched again withrivulet027, and wrote "Silver is Gold", a Legends of Tomorrow story describing how Mick Rory becomes the famous romance writer Rebecca Silver. By default of a good LoT background, I used the same ice graphic as before, justifying it (more or less) by its silveriness. To match the "gold" of the title, I created a broad gold border, using a variety of different textures. Still, I've never been quite satisfied with the design. The story does, after all, star Mick and Zari Tomaz: neither Flash nor Cold appears.
For this reason, when I wrote my latest LoT fic, "Double, Double, Time and Trouble" in this year's Worldbuilding Exchange (forrivulet027 again), I took pains to manipulate a mottled graphic I had in order to turn it into something that I felt was more appropriate for the background to a Legends story. It may not be quite the same appearance as the temporal zone; but it's fairly suggestive. The border around the story panel is also in shades and textures of green.
So far, that's it for the Arrowverse. There will, I hope, be more. Perhaps even later this year.
Next up, though, will be a more varied bunch.
That post was a round up of last year's fic. I said then:
I honestly feel that in some ways my biggest accomplishment has been finally putting Filezilla on the old laptop I've been using. I have thus been able to upload to my website. As I suspect pretty well everyone who reads my fic does so on AO3, this probably seems trivial. However, I do like designing pages for the stories I write; and it has been frustrating having them waiting around on the computer with no way to put them up.Now, I used to regularly write here about the new pages I'd made for my website. It's well over eighteen months since my old PC broke and I started using my mother's laptop; and—despite the delay in getting Filezilla on it—it has, at this point, been quite a few months since I started to upload new pages again. Looking back, I see that my 2017 Yuletide stories were the last fic whose webpages I wrote about here. It's long past high time that I got caught up!
When I take a look at my 2018 year-in-review, the list is headed by my first Legends of Tomorrow ficlet. Given that I watched and loved most of the CW Arrowverse shows from the first episode of Arrow, it's surprising that it took me so long to get the urge to write fic for them. The commonality of themes and textures I've used in their webpages makes it sensible to deal with them all together.
Anyway, that's as good a place as any to start.
For the past few years, I've had a big idea for a Legends/Flash crossover that I still haven't more than nibbled at. I remember I was quite uncertain of my ability to handle the characters and their world properly. So I tipped a toe in the water with a couple of ficlets for Chocolate Box in 2018: "Price above Emeralds" (LoT) and "Truth and Lies" (Flash), both written for
sperrywink. While waiting for author reveals, I designed their webpages. For the former, I decided to go with a green theme, partly because of the green tones used for the temporal zone, but also because of the emerald of the title. For the latter, I decided I wanted an ice-themed background (since the story was about Captain Cold), and found a very suggestive one on 1-background.com: it has pale tones of both red and blue running through it. I picked these colours up, red for Flash and blue for Cold, in making the border around the story panel itself; and finished it off with a rim of a very pale version of a sandy texture, which gives somewhat the appearance of snow.Almost immediately, I wrote a much longer story, "Stopped Cold", for
rivulet027 in the Worldbuilding Exchange. This picks up a late part of the Legends/Flash crossover—I did say I'd nibbled at it, but it's a 17K nibble!—in which Captain Cold's newly formed Rogues attempt their first big robbery with potentially devastating consequences for the Flash when he tries to stop them. Since this was basically a ColdFlash story (albeit Cold & Flash rather than slash), I used the same main background that I had for "Truth and Lies". However, I tried to design a more sophisticated border for the story: a dark marble, with touches of blue and (once again) the snowy rim. As the story was very long, divided not only into three chapters but into subsections within each, I also created multiple levels of divider to decorate the page. These all involve combinations of the Flash lightning bolt with a large snowflake.That year, I was tempted to pick up a Flash pinch hit for
sandrine in Fandom5K. It was a ColdWestAllen request (i.e. Iris/Barry/Len poly), which is not the sort of thing I would usually write. But it lingered long enough for me to come up with a plot bunny. In the event, someone else claimed the pinch hit before I did. However, the same recipient became a pinch hit with the same request in MultiFandom Tropefest. So, of course, I snatched it up as soon as I saw it. The result was "Rogue Kiss".Once again, I used the same ice background as before; but, with a different character focus, I felt I needed to create a new border. So this time I designed one that was basically gold, with the broadest band being a golden version of a glistening tile that I got from Heather's Animations. Towards the edge of the border, though, I put a narrow strip of red; and I also gave it the snowy rim.
For the Worldbuilding Exchange in 2019, I began a series of short stories that, collectively, describe the childhood of Leonard Snart a/k/a Captain Cold. Three were written at that time, all for
rivulet027; and "A Little Cold", "Growing Cold", and "Chill" are all on AO3. However, I've not yet gone back to finish the series. So, although I did design a common layout for Depths of Cold (i.e. the series), I haven't uploaded anything to my website yet.So, to move on....
Last year was the first time I participated in Not Prime Time. I matched again with
rivulet027, and wrote "Silver is Gold", a Legends of Tomorrow story describing how Mick Rory becomes the famous romance writer Rebecca Silver. By default of a good LoT background, I used the same ice graphic as before, justifying it (more or less) by its silveriness. To match the "gold" of the title, I created a broad gold border, using a variety of different textures. Still, I've never been quite satisfied with the design. The story does, after all, star Mick and Zari Tomaz: neither Flash nor Cold appears. For this reason, when I wrote my latest LoT fic, "Double, Double, Time and Trouble" in this year's Worldbuilding Exchange (for
rivulet027 again), I took pains to manipulate a mottled graphic I had in order to turn it into something that I felt was more appropriate for the background to a Legends story. It may not be quite the same appearance as the temporal zone; but it's fairly suggestive. The border around the story panel is also in shades and textures of green.So far, that's it for the Arrowverse. There will, I hope, be more. Perhaps even later this year.
Next up, though, will be a more varied bunch.