ETA: Angst wins!!; & graphics I made

[verushka70]

ETA:Before I get into the graphics I made, I must note that in the DS Match challenge of ds_team_angst vs. ds_team_romance, it turns out ds_team_angst won! But just barely. avg score 15.33 to 15.19, so it must have been neck and neck for a while. There are very cool win banners & icons at this DS Match results post, and I will snag one later.

I really should have slept more than 6:30am-9:45am. I had gotten up at 3pm yesterday to get to work early last night for a meeting at 5:15pm, so I got off work at 5:15, and by the time I got home, it was after 6am, & I was in bed by 6:30am. I set my alarm for 9:25am today for an appointment t 10am but I hit the snooze and then it didn't ring a 2nd time and I woke up just barely in time to make it at 9:45am, & haven't gone back to bed since! I should have gone back to bed when I got home at 11:15am this morning, but I didn't... so now I'll be up all night baking after my dentist appointment at 5:30pm and my yoga class from 7pm-8:30pm. Sheesh. But I digress...

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While I'm not that much of a graphics person (anymore -- art school was, shit, 15 years ago, and I never did a thing with it once I finished, went straight into computer support), I made some Thank You graphics for our ds_team_angst organizer nos4a2no9 and the DS Match captains sageness and china_shop.

They're gratuitous, silly, and slashy.

Gratuitous, followed closely by silly, for nos4a2no9 can be viewed in context at
thanks, Nos!
and here








The slashy is at viewable in comments at
Thanks, Sage & china_shop!and here:




I had fun making them in spare time over the last 2 & 1/2 weeks...

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[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

On a very unrelated note, I've been to Gib and you know, the bond movie that starts with the parachute exercise? (No, I can't remember which one) The roads up the rock are just as scary as they look on film, perhaps even scarier. Besides that, it is a very weird place indeed.

[verushka70.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting! I've always wanted to go to that part of the world, for a variety of reasons. I've been to Italy and Greece, but never to any part of North Africa, and I always wanted to go to Spain and Portugal. Casablanca and Naked Lunch are -- perhaps oddly -- a couple of my favorite films (Burroughs had all that "les boys" stuff going on in Morocco); Hideous Kinky, that sleeper Kate Winslett film, further piqued my curiosity. And among German tourists (or so my German cousins told me, after they went), the Spanish island of Mallorca was quite the tourist destination for a while, probably because it was dirt cheap for them at the time (in the mid- to late-nineties).

When I was in Greece, we rented a car and drove through the Peloponnese -- sometimes along these crazy coastal roads. There were two-lane "highways" that would go from sea level to 4,000ft elevation in two miles or less, up the mountains via switchback roads with no guard rails where you could encounter anything from delivery trucks trying to pass in your lane to herds of sheep or old men on donkeys. You could look out the passenger window down into huge ravines where you would surely die should you ever lose control of the car -- with, as I say, no guard rails. (Not that guard rails ever really stop you from going off the road... they just provide an illusion of safety, I realize. However, it's an important illusion! And they do block at least part of the scary view down!)

It was, to say the least, rather nerve wracking. Sounds like Gibraltar's roads up the rock are similar, if not the same. In circumstances like that, I try not to look down... there doesn't seem to be much else you can do...!