It's Monday! Whoohoo! Of course, I wouldn't be so happy about it if I hadn't decided to call in sick this morning. Went back to bed and slept until 10:30. *feels much better* And I have a whole day at home alone in the quiet, so yay!

I wanted to post a few larger graphics that have been at different coms and challenge sites, but I've not posted directly here yet. Click on the thumbnails to see the full sized piece.

Art made for sgabigbang to accompany aesc's story The Qualities of Silk



Art made for sgabigbang to accompany zaganthi and perryvic's's story Cage for Gods


Rodney McKay wallpaper done for sga_lwms contest:


And finally, a repost. Some of you have noticed that I've changed my LJ header again. (I'm thinking of doing this to celebrate seasons, premieres, special events, etc.) The current one is a manip I made last year called Samhain Eve. You can see the full sized piece here.

I had a request to turn this icon into a wallpaper, so I futzed around with it tonight. Here it be in two three sizes. Click on the thumbnail to go to the full size image.



I think the 800x600 and 1024x819 sizes look pretty good. I don't think the quality of the original screencap isn't quite good enough for 1280x1024, but it didn't turn out too bad, really. Feel free to snag any of 'em. Oh, the icon is sharable, too. :)

Universe: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: John Sheppard, with special appearances by Ronon and Rodney. :)
Setting: S2 post Allies
Created for artword's Wooden Horse Team Challenge 05
Accompanying Story: Touching The Sun by ts5000 (Go read! It's fantastic and exciting and full of action, danger, and snark! *g*)

(click on the thumbnail below for full size)




ts5000 and I teamed up on the current challenge at artword. Details of the challenge can be found here. Basically, she wrote a story, and I created a wallpaper/collage using the song "Wooden Horse" by Suzanne Vega as inspiration. We were each to work separately, giving each other a glimpse of what we were doing half way through.

We agreed that this song was all about John, and that Ronon would play a part. Then we went off to our separate corners of the globe and got busy. ;) I heard lots of angst in this song. It was like this part of John that he keeps to himself, where the world weighs heavily on him. He's responsible for the lives of his team, his friends, and he takes that very seriously. And some days, he's afraid he might fail. He loves being a pilot, loves his job...but he doesn't expect to survive it.

So, at the midpoint of the challenge, I had a partially-completed collage/wallpaper, which I sent to ts5000, and she sent me a glimpse of her story. (Both glimpses can be found here). And it seemed we were both on the same track! That piece of her story gave me all the ideas I needed to finish the graphic - and interestingly, we both felt compelled to bring Rodney into the story, too. (Rodney simply refuses to be denied.) *g* She had set her fic immediately following Allies, and that fit in perfectly with the graphic story I was creating.

Day 14: Harlequin Week (Sleeping with the Enemy) by beeej
Title: Enemy Mine

thumbnail links to wallpaper in two sizes:

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