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greerwatson) wrote2020-06-25 02:25 pm
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Website Updates - Yuletide 2018
All told, I wrote five stories for Yuletide in 2018. Besides the two Renault fic I wrote, there were "Joust on Vellum" (medieval manuscripts), "Flight at Christmas" (Mrs Pollifax), and "The Dapple Flows into the Dawl" (Lud-in-the-Mist). From which one may correctly conclude that no one requested Forever Knight that year—besides me that is—for, if they had, I would certainly have contrived to come up with something, whatever they'd asked for.
"Joust on Vellum" was written foroneirad. Odd illustrations in medieval manuscripts were a nonce fandom that Yuletide; and several writers essayed their own takes on the subject. The "old parchment" background represents the source material; and the border around the story is dominated by a broad band of oak, representing the tables and desks in the scriptorium of the monastery. This is light oak because it darkens with age, and the furnishings back then would have been newly made. For further decoration, I snipped out a number of details from pictures of actual illuminated manuscripts—being sure, of course, to include a jousting snail.
"Flight at Christmas" was written forphilomytha. With no idea how to "Pollifax" the webpage design, I decided to go for a Christmas theme. For the main background I used a tile of snowy branches, laying over it my usual animated snow graphic. The border panel is red, green, gold, and tartan, with touches of ice and snow.
The Dapple Flows into the Dawl" was written formoon_custafer. It's a brief postscript to Hope Mirrlees' fantasy, Lud-in-the-Mist, which is a great favourite of mine. I don't think I've ever seen it requested in an exchange before: it is one of the rarest of fandoms. I was utterly delighted to write a treat based on it. To illustrate the story, I modified a layout that I'd created some time before, but never used. The main background is a variant of brown128.jpg in shades of beige and aqua blue. The dominant panel in the border is a muted aqua green tile from BoogieJack.com, which I've used before. Here, it is combined with a glistening pale blue variant of Heather's Animations' gold-refraction.jpg, and a light variant of marb032.jpg from GRSites.com. To glitz all this up a bit, I added a couple of narrow ripply cream tones. All in all, quite a variety of shades were used. Nevertheless, they produce an overall pale, cool pastel impression. Very dainty, I think. Perhaps too much so. As an accent, therefore, I outlined the panel with a dark brown texture.
"Joust on Vellum" was written for
oneirad. Odd illustrations in medieval manuscripts were a nonce fandom that Yuletide; and several writers essayed their own takes on the subject. The "old parchment" background represents the source material; and the border around the story is dominated by a broad band of oak, representing the tables and desks in the scriptorium of the monastery. This is light oak because it darkens with age, and the furnishings back then would have been newly made. For further decoration, I snipped out a number of details from pictures of actual illuminated manuscripts—being sure, of course, to include a jousting snail. "Flight at Christmas" was written for
philomytha. With no idea how to "Pollifax" the webpage design, I decided to go for a Christmas theme. For the main background I used a tile of snowy branches, laying over it my usual animated snow graphic. The border panel is red, green, gold, and tartan, with touches of ice and snow.The Dapple Flows into the Dawl" was written for
moon_custafer. It's a brief postscript to Hope Mirrlees' fantasy, Lud-in-the-Mist, which is a great favourite of mine. I don't think I've ever seen it requested in an exchange before: it is one of the rarest of fandoms. I was utterly delighted to write a treat based on it. To illustrate the story, I modified a layout that I'd created some time before, but never used. The main background is a variant of brown128.jpg in shades of beige and aqua blue. The dominant panel in the border is a muted aqua green tile from BoogieJack.com, which I've used before. Here, it is combined with a glistening pale blue variant of Heather's Animations' gold-refraction.jpg, and a light variant of marb032.jpg from GRSites.com. To glitz all this up a bit, I added a couple of narrow ripply cream tones. All in all, quite a variety of shades were used. Nevertheless, they produce an overall pale, cool pastel impression. Very dainty, I think. Perhaps too much so. As an accent, therefore, I outlined the panel with a dark brown texture.