Just One Week Left!

Posted on January 19, 2014 | Leave a comment
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TURN IN THE EXCHANGE FIC
Hey y’all,

It’s one week, SEVEN DAYS, before the exchange fics are due for the Official D/G Fic Exchange A-GoGo of Winter 2014. If you’ve turned yours in already, then yay! If yours will be ready in a week, then yay! If you’re having trouble, please let us know. If… okay, positive thinking is important, so we won’t even go there with that last IF. But remember, only you can prevent other Draco pairings. 😉
And Ginny pairings, too. Remember, EVERY time an author doesn’t turn in their fic, Ginny has to kiss Harry. We don’t want that, now do we??

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POSSIBLY almost kind of the first FIA site page. Or close, anyway.

Posted on January 16, 2014 | Leave a comment
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This is a REALLY big pic, so I’m not exactly sure how it’s going to come through.

I’m not sure if this is the VERY FIRST opening day of the FIA site, but if not, this is the closest we’re going to get. August 11, 2004. And I painstakingly put this together BY HAND in Photoshop, carefully assembling several different screenshots, JUST for you, walking uphill 10 miles BOTH ways in a snowstorm in January when it was -48750297543982 degrees. And we LIKED it that way! 🙂

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D/G Blast from the Past! Yay!

Posted on January 14, 2014 | Leave a comment
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And now it’s time for another episode of “Guess What This Is,” aka “Reason #83479204.pi Why It’s Totally Pointless To Take Down Your Fanfics In An Attempt To Pretend You Never Wrote Or Posted Them.” Because The Wayback Machine knows. That’s why.

Yep, y’all, it’s Dec 28, 2004. All of these lovely fics are still with us, to the best of my knowledge; this is a date randomly chosen to make a point.

Also, it’s fun to look up old web pages. Wow, there’s a lot on there. 🙂

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New Discussion Site for the OFIC Forums!

Posted on January 9, 2014 | Leave a comment
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OFIC FORUMS

Hey all,

So I’ve thought about this a lot. The ofic forum idea has been on my mind for about a year. And I’ve never really done anything with it yet. There’s so much going on right now, including the D/G fic exchange (only 19 days left, people!!) But I realized something: there will never be a perfect time!! Or maybe right now is ALWAYS the perfect time. 🙂 Sometimes you just need to carpe that diem.

What exactly IS an ofic forum? It’s all explained right here—and even a little bit about why it’s so important for the future of the D/G fandom. Whether you’re a writer, a reader, or both, you REALLY want to be involved with this. I’ve decided to have the discussion board as part of the FIA forums, because they’re already there and set up. So come and join in!

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3 Weeks Left to Write Exchange Fic! And New Ginny Pic!

Posted on January 5, 2014 | Leave a comment
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ginny 2_0Hey all,

So here’s a new Ginny concept I’ve been working on. What do y’all think? Ginny 1.0, or Ginny 2.0? 1.0 is the one you’ve been seeing, and this is 2.0. I’ll do another closeup render of 1.0, too.

And it’s 3 weeks to the day before the exchange fics are due! Yippee skippee! 🙂

Anise

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(poke poke) It’s time to write that exchange fic!

Posted on December 30, 2013 | Leave a comment
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So it’s now officially less than ONE month until exchange fics are due on January 26th!! Draco and Ginny are busy writing… so how about you? They’re doing really well on their fics, and—

(knock at door)

Just a minute…

Oh. It’s that white van again, and they have the straightjackets this time. Bye!

(starts running)

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A Nice Pic of Ginny. :)

Posted on December 25, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Made by me, yay, in Reality 3/Poser/Luxrender. I’ll probably work on the materials much more in another version, but Reality’s materials nodes are a little intimidating. One mesh light was used. 🙂

Oh, yeah, and the camisole top is an original texture!! I’ll give it away from free… If anyone has Poser 8 and up, and Rhiannon’s “Sugar Jamaz” for Victoria 4/4.2, you can use it. I don’t know of any other HP textures so far. If I actually have been thinking about getting Marvelous Designer— that software is now priced by monthly usage. While this has all the same problems at the Adobe system, it also makes it possible to actually USE this software… for those who are determined to go the straight and narrow and NOT sail the pirate ship. (It catches up with you in the end, you know…)

Anyway, the point is that with MD, I could design anything! Authentic robes! Non-ho clothes for Ginny! Yay!

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This is what Reality looks like…

Posted on December 23, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Here’s a render of Ginny, NOT done by me (but by Jonasb67.) It’s an example of what can be done with Poser and Reality 3, a plugin for LuxRender, the only computer rendering engine I’ve ever seen that produces true photorealism. It can also be very painterly, which we see in this example. Again, not by me, but I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks seriously studying Reality… (very existential.) It’s very very very very very complex and difficult. 😛 But the results that you can get are almost not to be believed.

And you know, there’s a plugin called FaceRoom for Poser where you can build an amazing 3D model of a face and head from ONE photograph. Basically, we could put anyone’s face on a Draco and a Ginny, and then…

Well, then it could get very weird. But it can be done. 🙂 I’m thinking about getting FaceRoom.

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And the D/G Exchange Writing Begins!!

Posted on December 22, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Hey all,

So the picking of the prompts is CLOSED!! Well, all except for the two people haven’t sent in their picks yet, and Y’ALL KNOW WHO YOU ARE… SO SEND THEM IN. All of the prompts are sent out except for #5 and #13.

Now write, write like the wind! I’m very inspired by mine. 🙂

Anise

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LAST DAY OF PROMPT PICKING!!!

Posted on December 19, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Hey all,

This is THE VERY LAST DAY to pick your prompt for the D/G fic exchange. So if you’re one of the last holdouts (and you know who you are… well, if you’re reading this, you know who you are…)

DO EET.

See what Draco is going through? Don’t let this happen to you!!

Anise

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