Manip - Chauhura

[prue84]

Title: Chauhura
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: Star Trek (TOS)
Pairing: Chapel/Uhura
Characters: Nyota Uhura, Christine Chapel
Rating: PG-13
Tagline: The ladies of the USS Enterprise finally have some time for themselves.
Notes: The original is a 90's poster/ad for safe sex. When I saw it on my dashboard, some months ago, I heard it tell me "Chapel/

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[prue84]

Ah yes, it's impossible to follow people on Tumblr. Either you have nothing do to in life, of you'll likely miss many awesome posts because the dash is just too cluttered.
I miss the tracking feature of LJ, especially when you picked the tag so you didn't have to deal with the rest of crap people might've posted.

13 years? Then more than me! I started with Paint Shop Pro 7 in... 2004 I guess? At the time I started with PSP when we decided to get involved with Fanlistings, which meant create headers.
But I started to get serious some years later when a friend talked me into switch to Photoshop. It took me MONTHS to get used (creature of habit here) and two years too see that yes, perhaps PS was better than my copy of Paint Shop Pro.

Some months ago I was talking about the lack of reblogs on manips with Wolfi-sama on Tumblr (if you don't follow her, run to do it and make sure to watch her every Trek manips: she's into Spirk but also ChaUhura too) and she spoke about the whole "uncomfortable" thing. I'm old (1984 baby here) and I don't care about others anymore, so it never occurred to me that there might be Tumblers who feel bad at reblogging something.

(Tumblr. I was tempted to make one when Cannedabonbon, just to name a "big one" in the Spirk fandom, moved mostly there, but I'm a creature of habit and I tend to move only at the very last moment. I don't even remember why, in the end, I relented. XD)

[on_earth]

It's nice to know someone understands that struggle! Now I just go into that person's tumblr itself and look through the posts if I feel I've missed something. It works but not preferred but it's better than thinking I missed something a friend of mine wrote while I was off tumblr.

I liked the tracking feature of LJ too! Though I never got to use it, I heard how useful it was. I didn't know you could use it for tags too? That's pretty awesome. I know you can filter your friends page using your own post filters, and that makes it easy to read things on your own time. I wish there could be a similar feature on tumblr, because it would be easy to group "users" into "filters".

The reason I've been using Photoshop for a long time is when my dad was working in Russia, he bought a lot of computer programs cheap, and one of them was Photoshop 5. I loved that thing.
I knew people who used PSP, especially a lot of artists! And then them shifting over to Corel Painter and all sorts of other programs... But yeah PSP is more like Photoshop Lite in a lot of ways? It was a good program but nothing like Photoshop back then and even now. I can understand how it would be hard to transition into Photoshop. All the free, online photo editors try to mimic photoshop now.

Oh fanlistings... Those were wonderful things. My friend ran a couple of them and hosted it on her domain. My friend was amazing at graphics though back in the day. Some the stuff she made back then would hold up now. She was one of my inspirations for graphics and helped me a lot in understanding photoshop even though I'm sure she ALSO used PSP. The online world is less rich in amazing graphics because she backed away but I supported her 100% on that. Fandom treated her like SHIT despite the amazing stuff she put out and drifted into smaller, more accepting fandoms. Now she just does photography for said fandom and puts it online. She's great at it but it's just one of those things you know?

I've seen her stuff being reblogged on my dash but not her manips! I didn't know she made some. I'll be sure to check it out. And that's interesting she mentioned about the "uncomfortable" thing too. Was this in a chat or did she actually make a post? That would be interesting to read! I love meta and discussions of that kind of nature (I made a friend on tumblr because of it, it's quite awesome). I'm also old, or at least, older than most of tumblr (you're actually my sister's age, so it's not that old but we're old compared to like... 90% of tumblr?).

But even when I was making and participating in fandom in 2004 I didn't give much about others' opinions either. I paid attention on how I could use myself as a representative of a fansite my friend (that I mentioned above) and our other mutuals were running at the time, but on my own personal time, I don't care. I am highly aware of how others are feeling though, so I can sense how it could make people "uncomfortable". But I think it's how the manip is also portrayed too, like if you're using the actor's faces that are recognizable in their character's form (like Spock with his ears or Rand with her crazy hair) then it's easy for people to go "Oh that's a manip" than if it's more realistic (say using their real life pictures outside of their character). Still would be interesting hearing other people's opinions on it!

Yeah, I didn't move over when people were migrating out. But I was also in a long time lurkerdom stage, so as long as I could see where people were going, it was good. It wasn't until 2014 that I started to really see people stop using LJ for good (I swear Into Darkness must've killed fandom for awhile) or at least the start of it, and I ended up joining other places that weren't tumblr for fandom. I think I only relented this year because that's where my fandom was AT and no where else and I wanted to be in it. So it's sad we gotta do these things but if you don't adapt, you'll be left out of fandom! *sigh*

[prue84]

Do you happen to remember in which years your friend was active, the fanlistings she run and/or the domain and her name? Curious. :D

<< I've seen her stuff being reblogged on my dash but not her manips! I didn't know she made some. I'll be sure to check it out. And that's interesting she mentioned about the "uncomfortable" thing too. Was this in a chat or did she actually make a post? >>
I don't remember, but I think it was via chat (the IM Tumblr feature). Probably prompted by a post in which I was "whining" because I felt bad and depressed and I had just posted a manip that hadn't got any attention and I felt that I was useless.

I admit that it irks me the whole "uncomfortable" thing, though. In the fandom are accepted NC-17 fanarts made by (amazing) artists who are able to capture the likeness of the actors, so sometimes it's just like seeing the two actors doing ""stuff"", but then the same fandom is... dubious about a manip of the two character holding a hand? Bah. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, though, so I won't complain. It's just that, sometimes, it feels like your screaming in a void.

[Into Darkness split the fandom. People I adored that complained so much of the movie. It was far from perfect but not as faulty as part of the fandom cried. Ah!]

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