Admin Post: Check-in #6!

[kate]

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Here we go!

✓Team Podfic: ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓mergatrude, ✓nagasvoice, ✓omens
✓Team Hyperborean: ✓amethystina, ✓cleo69, ✓jujitsuelf, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice, ✓spurious_sanity
✓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, ✓spurious_sanity, ✓nagasvoice
Team AU Movie: charybdis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team FULL ADORABLE: ✓omens, ✓maharetr, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Push-Café: ✓spurious_sanity, ✓azurian_defiant, ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓nagasvoice

Comments

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[kate]

Oooh, wow! That's a lot of awesome work!

Re: the sandpaper, I'm betting you could get it at a craft store, or, get the sandpaper itself at a hardware store and foam at a craft store and make your own.

Re: Team Push-Café

[kate]

Here's one on goodreads and Google tells me there are a fair number of sites out there though many are only mediocre.

Re: Team Push-Café

[spurious_sanity]

Well, I really just googled "chocolate quotes", and got about fifty billion hits... XD

Re: Team Hyperborean

[spurious_sanity]

I really can't wait to be done. It's starting to look pretty damn good, and we're getting close. But that also means there's basically only fiddly stuff left...

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[cleo69]

Help! I need music. I need something that evokes our boys but with that we're lost feel. I need haunting melodies that remind the person of a lost home. Some spiritual but adventuresome stuff. Preferably instrumental but if there's lyrics that give the same results I'll take it too.

I've got two songs for my writing playlist for this fic and it's not getting me further than them getting out of the jungle. *headdesk*

Re: Team Podfic

[mergatrude]

Reading the series has me on a huge Aisha kick!

Thank you!

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[nagasvoice]

This one is not pop, I may have posted it somewhere earlier in the Bang comments.
Minor-key Star-Spangled Banner.
http://youtu.be/M_PtnvVQhqA

This one is more of a crowd-rousing song.
http://youtu.be/gpDbvlAI_A0

This one reminds me of Cougar as a kid. Letting the dogs go, at the end, bothers me a lot--no solution to the stray's homeless, unless he knows somebody out there will take care of them. Bell Brigade has some other great CW-bluesy things I like too.
http://youtu.be/J0-HLG7Dxec

This is one of the best versions ever of this song. Reminds me more of Pooch, as if this is just how he's feeling, but not complaining of Jolene!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdU9gXeF7w


And of course there's just no beating a good ol' fashioned truly excellent song vid.
Bad Company. Say it with a growl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVjg-OIXIHk

This one's nuevo-flamenco in nature. Middle-eastern effects in it. Jesse Cook has a lot of this sort of mood, some of it more upbeat road-trip sounding.
http://youtu.be/P2Sg3iWGNjw

Dry ironic from Jesse Cook here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5qRn8Woc8Y


Will come back with more when I think of them.

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[busaikko]

with words:
Aisha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyyPsqRweE (in French, but so wonderful)
Find Me, Ruben Olivares: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpolJIInr2M (poignant song about traveling the world looking for the one you love)
Ca Plane Pour Moi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXknE8LOEI (in French, but great wacky hijinks BGM)
If I Could Be Where You Are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOo2QxJJKvs (so sad and wistful)

without words:
Nara: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AEU5pBxY6E (the whole of this album is good for atmospheric BGM)
Heart of Courage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKUeZQbMF0 (very cinematic)
Poetry of the Gods: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37hqA88t38
The Lake House: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNneiPJq4m8 (makes me tear up every time)

And then there's the Top 10 Epic Songs of All Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f71DWpgO9uw (it has more ES Posthumus (they did Nara) and is good for action and fights)

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[mific]

Hi hi - still working away but progress has been slower as Busaikko put me onto a site/company that prints professional decks, including tarot decks, and my images weren't quite the right size. The upside is that if anyone wants a hard copy deck of the cards we'll be able to manage that, so it was worth resizing them. All the ones in my Losers Tarot photobucket are now the new size. The border around them is wider for the printing process - the actual cards will have a fairly slim border half the width of the electronic images. It's taken a bit of trial and error and moderate tweaking to resize all the cards I'd done (was up to The Star, which is also now finished). Working on The Moon currently, but have to write 10,000 SGA words by the 13th so it'll be another slow week for the cards. I'll crank the pace back up after that. Only 4 of the Major Arcana to go now, so I reckon I'll manage the whole deck by the go-live. The 2-9 cards will just have the suit patterns like in older decks, with the aces and face cards being detailed.

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[mumblemutter]

Sorry, I don't have a download, but the whole "Another Happy Day" soundtrack by Ólafur Arnalds should have you covered for haunting and wistful. My favourite is Autumn Day.

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[kate]

Holy shit, that's amazing! SIGN ME UP! And I will take two, as my sister collects decks, and I'm betting this one is going to be pretty rare. :)

Go you for being so fannishly productive, WOW!

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[litsasecret]

I like Covenant for my Losers writing (also Toby Keith but that's... not what you're looking for here)

Try We Stand Alone and if that suits, the entire album Northern Light is just amazing for that mood, in my opinion. It's a bit more lyric heavy than their other stuff, but lyric heavy for Covenant is... not.

I also like Celldweller's instrumental only tracks for general lost boys feels. Try So Long Sentiment, which is actually pretty good in my opinion.

Re: Team Hyperborean

[jujitsuelf]

Here! Sorry for the delay. Knitting will commence soon :)

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[spurious_sanity]

Hmmmm... Well, being lost/looking for a home is probably one of the most common themes in songs, and there's a WIDE variety of stuff, so I'm not sure how well this will fit (seeing as some of these are more about being home ROMANTICALLY. Depends on how picky you are about lyrics), but:

Are We There Yet - Ingrid Michaelson
Home - Barenaked Ladies
Everything Had Changed - Barenaked Ladies (the arrangement is very much NOT Losers to me, but the lyrics are at least 90% terrifyingly fitting)
Keep Falling Down - Sissel (this is one of my favourite songs for characters with nightmares)
How You Survived The War - The Weepies

Also, for instrumental stuff, there are some pretty damn cool music box covers of pop and rock classics, and a lot of them are almost creepily haunting. I don't think I have too many links, but you could check out Rockabye Baby), or do a youtube search for "music box cover", or "オルゴール" (Japanese for music box. they love that stuff. vocaloid musicbox stuff might be a good bet, because jfc, there is a lot of haunting and sad vocaloid music out there.)

Bonus: ultimate captivity/torture song: If I Burn - Emilie Autumn. (the basic sentiment is: "Give it your best shot, I will HAUNT you. You're going down with me.")

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[cleo69]

Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions. I'm aware of E.S. Posthumus and I've got a few of the suggestions downloaded and those all scream Pooch missing Jolene to me. Some scream Clay being an ass to me. So we'll see what comes of them. Thanks and now I've got some new artists to explore and experience at leisure in the future.

THANKS EVERYONE.

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[mific]

Problem is the art's a tempting way to procrastinate about the writing!
Sure, we can sort out the logistics of how people can order the decks once I've finished them and done a test.

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[maharetr]

Belated, but here!

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[maharetr]

Things seem excellently in hand, but to add to the recs: The Children of Dune miniseries (delightfully terrible) produced a swelling, instrumental soundtrack that goes from Dramatic to peaceful and back again. I'm not sure about pining for home, but it toally evokes "woha, where are we?" vibes and then "maybe... maybe things will be okay?" if that helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGYiX1beDlk

Good luck with the words!

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[maharetr]

Here!

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[maharetr]

Man, the idea of a printed decks is the most awesome thing! Go you on the resizing and Making It Work \o/!

Re: Team FULL ADORABLE

[maharetr]

YAY drawing! That's exciting, regardless :D

Re: Team FULL ADORABLE

[maharetr]

Here! ;)

Re: Team Hyperborean

[kate]

Yay knitting! :D :D :D

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[kate]

<33333

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[mific]

Yeah, fingers crossed they'll print out okay!