12 Mar 2011
by Nikkiin comics Tags: manga studio, photoshop, speech bubbles, tutorial
I’ve made a couple speech bubble tutorials over the past few days – apparently I feel like sharing my (lack of) wisdom recently? They’re for Photoshop and Manga Studio – the former being a product over years of fiddling in Photoshop and the latter being simply just pictures and words of what Zar told me to do over twitter sometime… last year?
Anyway, under a cut cuz the images are fucking massive pngs. And please ignore the inevitable CSS fail – I can’t be assed to fix that.
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02 Mar 2011
by Nikkiin tech Tags: 4 replies, entry 1, football, i really do hate that dome, twitter game
So Travis has this game going on, and, to sum it up, basically the trick is to see how many spam @replies you can generate from one tweet. Obviously, I probably win forever due to my 60+ mentions a few months back, but, hey, I have no record of it anymore.
I do, however, have a new entry! One tweet, four spam replies!
And here’s my proof!
And, yes, I really do hate that dome.
20 Feb 2011
by Nikkiin life Tags: drinking, free drinks, holy shit punched in the face, holy shit stop hitting on us, o'hans, pub, saturday night, weird
My night started in a fairly standard way – I was lazing about in my room, watching British TV and tweeting about it. On Friday, I had agreed to going out to O’Hans with Gerda, Miranda and Laura on Saturday, and I had talked to Gerda in the afternoon, so I was mostly just killing time before Gerda got off work. Shortly after 9:30, I got a call, talked to Gerda for about two minutes, put on my fedora, my leather jacket and left for the city.
I wasn’t in the mood for alcohol, so I abstained at the predrinking party at Ray’s and, by 11:15, we were off to O’Hans.
O’Hans is the bar of choice for my friends and I. While I do not know why they prefer it, I’m fond of the place due to the relaxed atmosphere, the decent, and varied, music and the fact that it’s the bar most twenty something non-STI ridden Reginans end up at. Plus, there’s no cover charge and they have only asked for my ID twice in the past three years. I’m legal (even in America), but it’s just an annoying hassle to get IDed – I always get double takes as my hair is… inconsistent.
I should have known from the start that that the night was going to be weird. Within five minutes of getting into the door, some random guy came up to me and asked about my hat – for some reason, he thought that there was a cool story behind it. There’s not. Unless, of course, you consider shopping in the men’s department at Winners cool and exciting. And the place was absolutely packed – I had never seen that many people crammed onto the dance floor. Again, I should have seen this coming – the first Saturday of Reading Week in a university bar?
It took awhile – a lot longer than usual, in fact – but we eventually settled in on the dance floor and marked out a spot for our circle. It’s smaller than usual and people keep crashing into us but, hey, still fun, right?
And then came a strange guy.
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15 Feb 2011
by Nikkiin writing Tags: fanfic, gen, helen magnus, james watson, john druitt, nigel griffin, nikola tesla, one-shot, sanctuary
To The Moon
Fandom: Sanctuary
Genre: Gen
Characters: The Five
Word Count: ~650
Rating: G
Summary: The Five contemplate the distance to the moon on the cold night of a lunar eclipse.
A/N: So apparently it can take me nearly two months to write 700 words. Good to know. Thanks are greatly owed to jackwabbit – without her, the ending would have been quite weak indeed. Though this fic would have been posted before Christmas….
“I wonder,” John mused as The Five formed a lopsided star in the snow and lay back to observe the cloudless heavens. They had determined that, after missing the lunar eclipse in April, they would get prime seats for the one on the fourth of October.
It was a decision that had been in no small part influenced by Doctor Edward Moreau, the man declaring himself Helen’s rival, who had spent much of the spring months regaling anyone who would listen, and even those who would not, about how absolutely marvellous the April eclipse was. For her part, Helen was quick to deride the barbaric doctor; despite her own experiments, which often pressed the boundaries of ethical science, she abhorred her colleague’s techniques. Vivisection on abnormals, Helen had heatedly argued on many occasions, was an unnecessarily cruel procedure.
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11 Feb 2011
by Nikkiin tv Tags: criminal minds, emily prentiss, oh god is she going to die, paget brewster
A bit of backstory: if you’ve missed the whole internet freakout (and a lot of people have), AJ Cook (JJ), as we all know, got the boot and AJ recently tweeted that she was back for Paget Brewster’s (Emily Prentiss) final episode. Paget has expressed that it’s all due to money, not a creative decision as is officially on the record, and I’m inclined to believe her. Unsurprisingly, I am super pissed about this casting change – one, sexist and two, Emily is my absolute favourite character on the show and JJ isn’t far behind. This isn’t like the previous casting changes on Criminal Minds – Lola Glaudini and Mandy Patinkin left of their own free will.
However, it is looking like they’re going to send Prentiss out with a bang – a crazy story arc starring her is brewing. And anything involving Prentiss is likely to get me to squiggle in my seat with joy and not just because she’s my favourite – she’s also one of the under utilised characters as she doesn’t have a dick is not A) Reid, B) Hotch, C) Morgan or even D) Rossi. So an entire arc devoted to Prentiss? Involving her untouched past (other than the abortion-in-Rome-at-fifteen thing) and why the polyglot daughter of an ambassador is working for the FBI (other than to spite her mother)? I am so in.
Because, honestly? Why is a polyglot who grew up in international politics working for the BAU? She is way overqualified – she could be working in any of the other, cooler, policing agencies. So it makes a hell of a lot more sense that used to work undercover for Interpol. And a guy she helped catch? Well, he’s free. And he’s out to get her so, at the end of this week’s episode, she grabbed her cat and is on the run. But where did she run to?
But the bigger question remains – is Emily going to survive the season? I’m unbelievably excited (and terrified) about it – I think this is the first time when I’ve been watching a show where I don’t know the character’s fate. Either it’s obvious that they’re going to live – plot armour is a wonderful thing – or I’m catching up on old tv and have accidentally spoiled myself (every. single. time).
And Criminal Minds is the sort of show that would cheerfully murder off one of the main characters, and now it’s hit the six season and, well, the quality of the scripts has been declining.
So, yeah, I’m both pumped and terrified of the rest of the season – especially since Joe Mantegna tweeted that episode 618 is even more mindblowing than the 100th episode – you know, the one where Haley, the ex-wife, gets murdered while the son is in the house? And Hotch has his epic breakdown over Haley’s body? Yeah. (Or maybe he was talking about episode 500, where Hotch gets stabbed and probably raped by the unsub mentioned above – either way, intense!)
Unrelated, but Emily got a cat! A black cat named Sergio! So adorable – and, hee, way to play up on the Emily the Strange connection. My inner teen goth appreciates it.
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