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What the heck, am I actually writing?
(Also, what the heck am I actually writing?)
I'm just going to give in and do a progress bar, so I can stare at it in crogglement:
...that's a little over 10,000 words since this time last week. Nearly all of that was on the same fic: folks, the anon fill-of-shame I am currently working on over on That Kink Meme is about to hit 10,000 words on its last part, which will make it the longest fic I have ever finished, by about twice again. Why must something like this happen with a fill-of-shame?
And while I'm at it, does anyone know a good way to get a Word Count option into the right-click context menu for .txt files in Windows XP? I swear I got it working once, but then I had to re-install windows, and I never made it work again. The issue is that all the simple wordcount programs I can find are command-line dos, and when windows explorer pulls up a DOS window from a context menu command, it won't keep it open long enough for me to read the freaking output. Help?
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And now it is time for a fanart dump! Here is a dresdenfiles kink meme fill I de-anoned on already, so might as well post it here:
(Links to a bigger image on my dA account.)
That is, of course, a re-working of the design (and a few actual graphical elements) of the movie poster from the 2002 movie version of the musical Chicago, with Maggie Dresden and Leanansidhe as Roxy and Velma. (You can read the rest of my discussion of the Chicago the Musical Dresden Files AU on the kinkmeme.
I think Maggie/Lea may be the epic girlslash pairing I have been trying to find for years. It's like Sirius/Remus, only more ambiguously evil and way more hot! It's like Xena/Gabrielle only without enough canon to have the stuff that annoys me about Xena/Gabrielle. Decades of backstory! Adventure! Tragedy! Scandal! The two of us against the world! Lea still keeping promises to Maggie 40 years later! Playing with forces with which one should not play! Utter confidence that would read as arrogance except they're just that good! Lots of comments about having one's mother's eyes! If only there were more actual canon for it. And more than, like, one short kinkmeme fill worth of pairing fic. And no deep abiding suspicion that canon will inevitably ruin it all.
Anyway I am also really, really liking this method I have developed of tracing faux-vector art over a collection of reference photos. I am liking it so much that I know I am getting really lazy about working on my actual freehand drawing ability. But as I work more with direct reference photos - I am starting to realize that a lot of the fanartists I really like do more-or-less the same thing. And as long as you make it your own in the process, and don't claim to be doing something you aren't, there's nothing wrong with that. I think concentrating on making comics so long has given me odd expectations: in comics, overusing reference images is often seen as lazy and/or spoilt. In comics, one is expected to be able to freehand dozens of drawings by the day out of nothing but a few model sheets, experience and skill. But, like, artist artists? Who aren't getting paid by the page and working on monthly deadlines? They use models and photos and references all the time, right? So I should not feel so guilty about it!
I am still so lazy with my art.
Anyway, the other neat thing about the faux-vector style is that it makes it really easy to move elements around to create new designs. So here is an alternate girls-only design based on that poster art (because have I mentioned that I ship Maggie and Lea like anything now?:
(Also, what the heck am I actually writing?)
I'm just going to give in and do a progress bar, so I can stare at it in crogglement:
33146 / 75000 (44.19%)
...that's a little over 10,000 words since this time last week. Nearly all of that was on the same fic: folks, the anon fill-of-shame I am currently working on over on That Kink Meme is about to hit 10,000 words on its last part, which will make it the longest fic I have ever finished, by about twice again. Why must something like this happen with a fill-of-shame?
And while I'm at it, does anyone know a good way to get a Word Count option into the right-click context menu for .txt files in Windows XP? I swear I got it working once, but then I had to re-install windows, and I never made it work again. The issue is that all the simple wordcount programs I can find are command-line dos, and when windows explorer pulls up a DOS window from a context menu command, it won't keep it open long enough for me to read the freaking output. Help?
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And now it is time for a fanart dump! Here is a dresdenfiles kink meme fill I de-anoned on already, so might as well post it here:
(Links to a bigger image on my dA account.)
That is, of course, a re-working of the design (and a few actual graphical elements) of the movie poster from the 2002 movie version of the musical Chicago, with Maggie Dresden and Leanansidhe as Roxy and Velma. (You can read the rest of my discussion of the Chicago the Musical Dresden Files AU on the kinkmeme.
I think Maggie/Lea may be the epic girlslash pairing I have been trying to find for years. It's like Sirius/Remus, only more ambiguously evil and way more hot! It's like Xena/Gabrielle only without enough canon to have the stuff that annoys me about Xena/Gabrielle. Decades of backstory! Adventure! Tragedy! Scandal! The two of us against the world! Lea still keeping promises to Maggie 40 years later! Playing with forces with which one should not play! Utter confidence that would read as arrogance except they're just that good! Lots of comments about having one's mother's eyes! If only there were more actual canon for it. And more than, like, one short kinkmeme fill worth of pairing fic. And no deep abiding suspicion that canon will inevitably ruin it all.
Anyway I am also really, really liking this method I have developed of tracing faux-vector art over a collection of reference photos. I am liking it so much that I know I am getting really lazy about working on my actual freehand drawing ability. But as I work more with direct reference photos - I am starting to realize that a lot of the fanartists I really like do more-or-less the same thing. And as long as you make it your own in the process, and don't claim to be doing something you aren't, there's nothing wrong with that. I think concentrating on making comics so long has given me odd expectations: in comics, overusing reference images is often seen as lazy and/or spoilt. In comics, one is expected to be able to freehand dozens of drawings by the day out of nothing but a few model sheets, experience and skill. But, like, artist artists? Who aren't getting paid by the page and working on monthly deadlines? They use models and photos and references all the time, right? So I should not feel so guilty about it!
Anyway, the other neat thing about the faux-vector style is that it makes it really easy to move elements around to create new designs. So here is an alternate girls-only design based on that poster art (because have I mentioned that I ship Maggie and Lea like anything now?:
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But they all end up saved as either plain-ascii .txt files (if I'm planning to post to the web) or sometimes rich text .rtf files. So I end up with all these .txt files scattered on the desktop. And I want to be able to just right click on the file anywhere in Windows and get the word count without *having* to open it in a text editor. (partly because I'm often skating along on my last two megs of RAM, so I want to use the smallest program possible for any given job.)
It's pretty easy to put new commands into the context menus, but like I said, all the simple just-do-a-word-count programs I've been able to find are command-line based (XP even has a built in command-line wc for ascii files), and XP does not seem to behave nicely with command line programs anywhere except in the DOS emulator. Basically it opens the command line window, prints the output, and then closes the window immediately without giving one an opportunity to *read* the output. So I've been making do by just using wc.exe in the DOS emulater when I want to word count a bunch of files, but I would rather be able to do it right from the Windows file management system.
And I know I made it work once! I ought to be able to figure it out again, unless there was an automatic XP update that broke the command-line handling, which would not surprise me. So what I need is either a version of wc.exe that pops the output into a Windows dialog box instead of at command line, or a way to get Windows to pause on the command line output, and I can't seem to figure out how to do either one. (I could probably program it myself in visual basic, but it's not worth downloading & setting up visual basic just for that.)