Admin Post: Check-in #4!

[kate]

Please respond to the top-level comments, even if you don't have any progress yet, just so we know you're here. Jump in with cheerleading anywhere you like, even if you're not technically on the team! And if you decide you *do* want to be on the team, go ahead an put up a comment at the sign-up post.

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Please reply to everything you're signed up for. If you've got a bang and two complements, please post something on each thread so your teammates can track your progress and cheer you on! If you only comment on one thread, that's the only one that will be checked off.

Last week's check-in we were missing omens and maharetr, both of whom I will gently poke. :)

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Here we go!

✓Team Podfic: ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓mergatrude, ✓nagasvoice, ✓omens
✓Team Hyperborean: ✓amethystina, ✓cleo69, ✓jujitsuelf, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team Losers Tarot: ✓mific, ✓maharetr, ✓cleo69, ✓nagasvoice, ✓sperrywink
✓Team Lotsa Bunnies: ✓cleo69, ✓maharetr, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team Cosplay in Resin: ✓nagasvoice, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin
✓Team Sniperknife!: ✓lunesque, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lady_krysis, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Gym Rat: ✓scheherezhad, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lunesque, ✓nagasvoice
Team AU Movie: charybdis, ✓kisahawklin, omens, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team FULL ADORABLE: ✓omens, ✓maharetr, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad

Comments

Team Podfic

[kate]

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Re: Team Podfic

[kate]

Okay, so turns out NewYorkReload's epic has been recorded by seussian, so I didn't want to re-record (it's a solid podfic, if you're looking for NINE HOURS of good podfic to listen to). So I decided to do storm_petrel's By daybreak we'll be gone, and I recorded it in two sessions this weekend. Now all I have left is to edit! \o/

Team Hyperborean

[kate]

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Re: Team Hyperborean

[nagasvoice]

Waving hi! Considering what sort of animals you'd have surviving in a post-apocalyptic frozen environment. A lot of arctic animals either live off the sea, or off grazing in the summer and migrating. Do we still have reindeer, for example, or did the people eat them all while starving?

Re: Team Hyperborean

[cleo69]

Am here. Have been thinking of landscape ideas to go searching for. I know that in Alaska there are images of towns long abandoned after the whale trade died out and have been reclaimed by the snow and ice. So will be looking for pics of that. So it's progressing.

Re: Team Hyperborean

[jujitsuelf]

I'm still alive! no progress yet, but there will be at some point :)

Re: Team Hyperborean

[amethystina]

I'm here!

I've started writing (only 1200 words so far though) and given my team mates a summary so they have something to go on when they plan their complements.

Team Losers Tarot

[kate]

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Re: Team Losers Tarot

[nagasvoice]

Well, not getting much writing done, but the prompts help remind me to turn over ideas, such as how I'm going to use these cards!

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[mific]

Reporting in! Still working on the Major Arcana, but hopeful I'll get the whole deck done. Currently working on cards 11 & 14 - am up to 14. I have an AO3 draft running and am adding them as I go, so it won't be a posting nightmare at the end. Have to redo the draft tomorrow then when it expires again I'll post it as it'll be seekrit until the challenge goes live anyway. Over and out.

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[sperrywink]

Still working like crazy, so no progress, but also still crazy-excited about our primary artwork!

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[cleo69]

Adding the artwork as it's finalized to the file, awaiting printing. Then when it's all done I'll be good to go. This week I'll be able to finally get the materials I'll need. So it's all good here.

Team Lotsa Bunnies

[kate]

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Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[nagasvoice]

I do like having the weekly prompts as a place to put things that struck me as appropriate for a particular bang, during the week, whenever when I run across them.

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[kate]

Present! Offering cheerleading and general squee! *\o/*

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[cleo69]

I'll take any prompts you like naga. As for me I think I need to do a marathon to see which jumps out more to finally figure out which bunnies really want to talk. I've been staring at the ideas and nothing more than I've already gotten down has come. *pouts*

Team Cosplay in Resin

[kate]

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Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[nagasvoice]

There was a great deal of unrelated pulling and hauling and cleaning over the weekend, alongside regular chores, but no direct dollwerks as yet.
I started lists on separate cards for what each character needs by way of gear and artwerks to be done, part of the comparison between what I have, what I need to do or get, and what I can afford to do. Knowing I need to get that green pants thing going, I've been looking diligently for all the sizes.
Y'all may be interested to know that the last few years had an over-the-top fiercely ridiculous fad for camoflage and khaki and army green clothes, but there's little sign of it washing through the secondhand market now. That has sharply passed in the doll world, they're on to other things I don't entirely understand yet, such as pumpkin pants and long-tailed frilly shirts. A great deal of this is heavily influenced by the fashion walking around the Harajuku district in Tokyo. It's not even considered camp, either.
I found out where we've got the Dremel, and went through some of my art supplies, and should be getting the wig glues I wanted in a few days. Curly locks for Clay's wig and furs for Jensen should be showing up any day now.
Blew a horrendous amount of homework time looking up doll bodies and figured out I was right in the first place.
Knowing exactly what I like for Roque's bod (wonder why, gee, I kept saying we need to take another look at Idris Alba??) but I can't currently afford...
These are not my pix, they're shots from the flickr account of the Granado doll company.
These are okay, but some of their other shots in that Flickr account are definitely NSFW, just an FYI there.
Well, here's one idea that'd be perfect for Pooch.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/doll-granado/8530637786/


This is more like the effect I'm looking to get with Jensen.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/doll-granado/8096625365/

I may end up doubling up by swapping heads around for different shots.

Also ended up wandering around looking at Losers song vids, reminding myself what the guys are wearing in different scenes so I can try to approach it.
Oh yes, and I played with bokeh test runs to get lil hearts around the lights. Finding a way to get bokeh fx at all is difficult around here--I may need to pull out little xmas lights, though I just saw someone do it with a coarse plaid fabric by shifting the focus.
I was just trying it out tiny on my cell phone camera, which may be doing it the hard way. For a few minutes thought I had it working, but ehhh, not sure about that. I wasn't shifting the focus on my cell camera the way I can on the big camera.

Team Sniperknife!

[kate]

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Re: Team Sniperknife!

[scheherezhad]

Present.

Re: Team Sniperknife!

[nagasvoice]

Waving hi!

Re: Team Sniperknife!

[lunesque]

Present, and intent on getting writing done tonight and tomorrow! \o/

Team Gym Rat

[kate]

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Re: Team Gym Rat

[scheherezhad]

Here, but no progress made. Last week was ridic, and I accomplished absolutely nothing across all sectors of my life that were not my job.

Team AU Movie

[kate]

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Re: Team AU Movie

[nagasvoice]

Present!

Team FULL ADORABLE

[kate]

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Re: Team FULL ADORABLE

[omens]

POKE RECEIVED! :D Sorry about that! I'm here with no real progress to report.