I WON AN AWARD AT SLAYERSTILLNESS! (And, I have things to say about Buffy and Faith - buckle up)

[red_satin_doll]

Thank you to the moderators at slayerstillness for giving me my very first award for an icon in Challenge #18 "Faith Lehane" ! Kudos to all the winners in this round : iconsoleander, spikesredqueen and delta_dawn_rose - but all the submissions were creative and wonderful, so please go check them out if you haven't had the chance already.

And to make it even sweeter, comlodge made the gorgeous banners:

Comments

[velvetwhip]

Excellent icons, thought-provoking thinkiness, and rec'ing Snowy will never go out of style. Brava!

Gabrielle

[red_satin_doll]

rec'ing Snowy will never go out of style.

Oh indeed!

I'm just hoping this coming year in award nominations to see her newer stuff get nominated - Innocence and Fractured are justly famous but "Who Am I?" "Amazon"...and so many more wonderful stories deserve to be read and celebrated. IMO

Oh, do you know when the next Absence of Light awards will be? (there will be one, won't there?)

[velvetwhip]

Absence of Light is kind of a maybe and that's mostly my fault. I'm trying to get my schedule sorted out so that I can handle another round.

BTW, kudos on your very well-deserved award! (I cannot believe I forgot to say that in the first place. Kick me please.)

Gabrielle

[red_satin_doll]

1) Need any help with AoL? (this weekend I'm off to NYC and next weekend probably moving back into the old apartment, but after that I should have free time to spare.)

2) I didn't notice a lack of kudos hon, but thank you anyway! Your support is understood and always, always appreciated.

3) Oh woman I don't want to kick you! Hug you, tickle you with a feather, give you a backrub, even nip you maybe...well, I can think of a LOT of things to do more fun than kick you. Unless that's your thing.

Not that I'm suggesting anything.

Unless you want me to suggest something? :)

Friday February 28, 2014

[livejournal]

User audela referenced to your post from Friday February 28, 2014 saying: [...] has icons and thoughts about Buffy & Faith [...]

[comlodge]

Lovely icons. Big stories in such a little space. I love that you've got the print size spot on. Easy to read the message and still allows the images centre stage.

Thanks for the vid recs. Excellent. :D

[red_satin_doll]

Big stories in such a little space.

Oh THANK YOU! That is exactly what I was going for, so your observation really makes me very happy.

I forgot to thank you for encouraging me to write about the icons, though - next time I'll give due credit.

I love that you've got the print size spot on. Easy to read the message and still allows the images centre stage.Again, this makes me so happy because that is one of my goals - I'll even resize them to 75 square, because that's how this template shrinks them. If it's still legible at that size, I'm satisfied. It really is one of the hardest things to get right for me

[kikimay]

I knew that icon ("Promise to a lady") was yours. :D Pretty icons, especially the one who won. It's really intense

[itsnotmymind]

Those are interesting icons. I remember the first time I watched Buffy I couldn't get into Buffy/Faith, and I couldn't figure out why, because it seemed like just the kind of relationship I should like. I always liked Faith, but I couldn't get into the relationship. It was actually watching vids (heresluck's especially) that helped me to come around.

[red_satin_doll]

Do you have a link to heresluck's vids or should I just go to their journal and root around? Any particular recs?

I remember the first time I watched Buffy I couldn't get into Buffy/Faith, I wasn't as "in love" with Buffy at that point as I am now, and I remember thinking that Faith was dynamic enough a personality to nearly take over the whole show when she was onscreen; but at the same time I missed the subtext completely. I think after so many decades of wanting to see subtext or seeing it only to have it used as a joke or tease, I was actually resisting it entirely when watching Buffy and Faith. (now it's like, well, duh, how did I miss that

[itsnotmymind]

heresluck's vids are here. She has two Faith vids, "Come On" and "Superstar" which introduced me to Tegan and Sara music as well as the wonders of Buffy/Faith. She also has a Spike vid, "Glorious #1", that is excellent. Her other vids are good, too, but those three are my favorites.

but at the same time I missed the subtext completely.Yeah, it's hard for me to imagine missing the subtext in Buffy/Faith (although they have the implication of a sisterly relationship, too...they contain multiplicities, I guess). When I was younger I used hate the idea of subtext because I liked platonic relationships so much (I also hated it that in almost every story I read, anytime a guy and girl became friends they ended up a couple). Also, not being gay, I wasn't suffering from a shortage of images of people of my sexuality. It took me a long time to figure out that you can value platonic friendships *and* like subtext. I had definitely figured that out by the time I met Buffy and Faith, so there was nothing keeping me from seeing the possibility of them as

[red_satin_doll]

It was actually watching vids (heresluck's especially) that helped me to come around.

I finally got around to watching Superstar and Come On (I liked Superstar better but they are both excellent.) Thank you very much for the rec!