Well, last night was an interesting stream. Kaz and friends playing TF2 while Cider drew commissions. I got a couple. One of Quill and Katia getting married, the other of a crying Quill-Weave.
I had thought to end my last fanfiction with this, so I color-ated it. Cider’s sketch:
First with flat colors…
A bit of shade:
But as much as I adore it, the words… well, no offense but…
I thought about putting a background in, but I kinda like it like this. So yeah, I’m going to put this in as an image in my most recent Katia/Quill/Rajirra story.
This probably isn’t the final version. Someone else may be adding a vocal-bass track. It’s awe-full. Be sure to listen all the way to the bridge – duo meomers!
I started writing a new story today. I thought I’d try and tackle Katia backstory including the cult she was in and the Razor Incident. Should fun right? I was even going to make it NSFW, though not graphic.
I even did some Hammerfell research. But the more I wrote, the more I didn’t like it. It simply wasn’t entertaining. It just made me feel worse for Katia than ever. Of course there is no ‘canon’ for that period of her life, but as I wrote it I felt like it probably would be very close to canon – but I couldn’t continue and ended up deleting what I wrote.
Some things just really don’t need to be explored. It reminded me of the story Pet Semetary. I used to be a big Steven King fan and really liked the book. Then they made a movie of it. I came out of the movie thinking, “That was a very true-to-the-story movie. And I wish I’d never seen it.”
That’s kind of how the story was going. I’m afraid it probably was pretty accurate to whatever Kaz has in mind for her backstory, vague as that might be. But it’s not something fun to explore. I think I’ll do another Evil Quill Weave instead or something.
Okay, first I really should give credit where it’s due. The concept behind this was IkkyKrrk’s idea. I just ran with it.
On the Prequel Fanart site, if you put a QUESTIONABLE tag on an image, it will superimpose a pineapple and the word “Questionable” over the top. Kaz doesn’t accept anything REALLY porny, but a few risque images do pop up there regularly.
So there was a discussion (I think on Kaz’s inactive Picarto chat actually!) where we were talking about how the Questionable tag probably gets you significantly higher views than without it. A long time ago I put it on a non-questionable image for just that reason an got a little hand slap for it. Deserved.
So somewhere along the line we talked about how that could be hacked a bit. The idea we came up with was putting the overlay on the original graphic directly – so it would be part of the image without the Questionable tag at all. An interesting idea, but with little point. You click the supposedly ‘questionable’ icon and the image has the pineapple on it anyway. Cute for a second, then eh…
But then the idea came up of doing a .gif with the Questionable as the first frame. From there, the rest became obvious. Most places you put an animated .gif file, the first frame is all that shows up unless you hover or click it. I took it upon myself to see this idea brought to fruition.
First step – nab a screenshot of the Booru and splice out a single Questionable image. Then, painstakingly delete everything behind the pineapple and words so that it’s essentially a transparent image with just the words and pineapple:
Next, put a naughty katia pic behind it. That took about 2 seconds to find. No, I won’t post or link to it, though it is kinda cute in a lewdy way. I probably should credit the artist – but I’m at work right now and it’s not a good place to look for that again. I’ll amend this post once I find the artist’s name.
Now, for the fun part. I needed an animated gif to put “behind” it. I use Paint.net for a lot of basic stuff, but for what I planned to do I really needed to use photoshop as I wasn’t just going to paste a rickroll .gif behind this. No, I had more in mind. I found this:
I had to resize and crop it, but Photoshop handled that fine. It needed to be the same dimensions as the little Questionable frame to work properly. But if I posted it like that, it would get a snigger or two and then be taken down. No, I needed a Katia head. This has 27 frames, so I had to paste a Katia head on top of Rick 27 times. I did that, but then I realized that the microphone needs to be in front of her head – so I cut and pasted the microphone 27 times. And if you notice, that microphone MOVES in the video.
Okay, I had that. Cheezy but works. And yet I still felt it was missing something. It needed words:
“Meowmer Meowma Meow Mew Meoup”
“Meowmer Meowma Meow Mew Meown”
“Meowmer Meowma Meow Me-ound Meown Me Oun Mewwww”
I had to crop it a bit more which cut the words off, but they’re practically unreadable anyway. So, I ended up with this. Yes, the “fake” frame has to come once per loop – but without it the whole point would be lost.
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