azurite | Call out fanart request

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guardian_kysra, I'm thinking of creating some new holiday skins for Dragonfayth, and I'm wondering if I could use your fanart for some of the imagery (e.g. the header banner). Let me know if you're okay with this, or if you want to know more, etc.

Anyone else interested in contributing fanart or manips for Dragonfayth, I have a BUNCH of holidays that need translation into graphical form. Of course, there's no written rule that they have to have Seto x Anzu or even Yu-Gi-Oh characters in them, but I'd especially love it if they could. So what follows is a list of the holidays I'm thinking of doing...
* New Year's (I'm thinking a white and blue scheme would be nice, e.g. snow?)
* Valentine's Day (pink, maybe browns and reds- there's a fanart of what looks like Anzu confessing to Seto --both are in their school uniforms-- that might be good for this, but I don't know who did it)
* Doll Festival (lots of bright colors, especially red. Images of what the traditional Japanese dolls for Hina Matsuri look like can be found here. Also pink, since this is cherry blossom season)
* White Day (white, duh. But also browns, since this is the holiday when boys give chocolate and marshmallow confections to the girls they like. It's like reverse-Valentine's Day; in Japan, girls give boys treats on Valentine's Day, and boys reciprocate on White Day)
* St. Patrick's Day (green. Need I say more? I only want this included because it's a fun, "lucky" holiday. Maybe Jounouchi would go well with this one?)
* April Fool's (if Jounouchi's not on the St. Patty's layout, he's got to be playing some sort of prank in this one)
* Children's Day (again, bright colors, but especially blue, orange, red, and yellow. The theme of this day is those colorful "carp" kites)
* Mother's Day (lots of flowers?)
* Father's Day (who the heck knows?)
* Star Festival (this one begs for fanart. Some of Kysra's might be manipulated for it, but I wanted to ask first. It's a pretty romantic holiday, if you know the story behind it. Google "Tanabata" for more info)
* Ocean Day (blue, blue, and more blue. And if you want to be funny, toss Mako Tsunami/Ryouta Kajiki in there)
* Christmas (red, green, white, silver, gold, whatever... I'm also open to a general "Winter" theme with blue and white)

In case anyone's wondering why Halloween isn't on there, it's because I already have a skin for it! It's not the coolest-looking, but it was great in a pinch when tonight, I realized that Dragonfayth and Epiphany were both going to appear as super-ugly ALL DAY LONG unless I a) removed the holiday module (too much work) or b) got a Halloween skin and uploaded it. Well, b) turned out to be more trouble than I thought, but I finally got it working. Maybe next year I'll have something more Seto x Anzu. There is a cute fanart of chibi-Seto in a pumpkin costume...

Check out the Halloween skin if you happen to be reading this on 10/31. If not, so sorry-- wait till next year! All the holiday skins are secret until the day of the holiday in question.

I've chosen not to include too many American-specific holidays (e.g. President's Day, Independence Day). But I did want to include Mother and Father's Day, because WHY THE HECK NOT!? Even if we don't see mothers or fathers much in YGO, that's no reason not to celebrate them in real life. Besides, I read a lot of good fic where Seto and Anzu make a great father and mother. :)

Even if you don't have fanart to donate, people that might be interested that you know, or ideas that you have would be greatly appreciated. Mostly this is a graphical job-- I can handle things like styling skins and changing the CSS, though if people are interested in that, I'm more than happy to show you the templates I've got.

Speaking of Samhain/All Hallow's Eve, I'm going as a witch (again). And yes, I'm well-aware of the irony. I wanted to go as Snow White, but I just didn't have time to get to a costume shop in time. 'Sides, I'm about broke, anyway, so I might as well make use of what I have. So I'll be wearing an all-black skirt and top combo with my purple-spiderweb witch hat and some garish makeup (that is, purple lip gloss and super-heavy eyeliner). Chances are I'll have to take my hat off in class, but other than that... <|:D

I wish I could go to a Halloween party, though... :P

Though I spent today at home (gotta love my stomach-- it likes to stage mutinies), there is ONE good thing about it all-- I'm like... 99.9% done with WDKY25. No, seriously. I'm just unhappy with some "tell instead of show" in the end scene, but I think I can fix that. I'm breaking out the writing kits and other tools I have, perhaps in time for NaNoWriMo. Actually, I've never successfully participated in NaNoWriMo, and I'm not sure if this month will be any different, what with all the various projects I have on my plate. But if I can finish more of WDKY in November, that'll be enough to keep me satisfied.

I wonder if tomorrow will signal finally seeing my vanishing-act boyfriend (rdrr) again. This top-sekrit video game project of his means I haven't seen him online, heard from him via phone, let alone seen him in person. It's been something like 7 weeks... o_o Baba thinks I ought to forget about him.

Speaking of the B&G, Grandpa tripped on his walk with Mokie (that would be the mini poodle we have, in case you didn't know) and got his face all scraped up-- he's okay now, but earlier he looked a bit like the mummy with his face bandaged up in so many places. He'll have more bruises than ever (and he's already got a lot because he takes blood thinners), but at least he's okay and in decent spirits. But when I came out of the house earlier when Baba called me (he'd been lying in the street and a driver walked him back to the house. If Mokie hadn't sat in the street right next to Grandpa, the driver might not have noticed Grandpa. So for once, I actually appreciate the fuzzbutt), I was pretty freaked out-- he was pretty bloody (but laughing about it!). I guess I'm just glad it wasn't worse. Though my dad knows about it and he didn't go off on a tirade about getting them into a home or getting a personal nurse, it does have me worried about all the What Ifs: what if I hadn't been there, what if Baba wasn't outside to see him, etc.? I'm here to take care of them, but there's only so much I can do, and I rely on them, too! /.\

Ugh, it's a constant to-do list with me! Every time I think of one thing I have to do, another five spring up. Just typing them here might get me more stressed out, and though I spent most of today in bed (because moving HURT), I do have to get to sleep... I figure putting on all that makeup will take a while, so I might as well get enough sleep to wake up early and get all gussied up. :P