HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY SAS!!!

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You are one of the most awesome people I have met through fandom. I love you dearly to bits and pieces! *hugs tightly* Happy 19th, darling!!

And a little present for you...





Hope you like it! *smishes*

Comments

[theaeblackthorn.livejournal.com]

*jumps on and smishes you to death*

eee, jensen! thank you! I heart you so much!!

[lady-shain.livejournal.com]

Wow...gorgeous artwork there. Just lovely.

And a wonderful day to the birthday gal.

[burns-my-skin.livejournal.com]

oh that's beautiful

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you so much!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

*is dead, so sends huggles from beyond the grave* I'm so glad you like it darling :) I heart you too!! ♥

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[theaeblackthorn.livejournal.com]

sitting here staring, uh, stairing, um, you know what I mean, at it I love it so much.

The two main picturees are so perfect, and the font! and the colours!

and just, yes, all the bestest images and well, yes.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Hee! I picked them with you in mind! A promo pic of Alec and then Dean! :D I'm so glad you like it! ♥

[theaeblackthorn.livejournal.com]

I know! I recognise the pics and omg they're my most heartable jensens, the bestest and so similar, and, well, you know my thoughts on dean and alec. :)

[dodger-winslow.livejournal.com]

Sweet.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

*whimper* I totally love it except for the cowboy picture, which I always want to burn. But god, the rest-- you picked some of my faves, including the dinerDean with the sidelights.

Guh. I so need some Supernatural Wallpaper so I can split my journal fic page between PrisonBreak and Supernatural. It's HUGE now. :0

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

The cowboy picture just makes me laugh, 'cause honestly Jensen, didn't you relize it would make you look super uber gay?? Hee. But I do get what you mean ^_^

If you wanted, I could swap out that picture for something else, if it does bother you that much. It would be no trouble :)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

The cowboy picture just makes me laugh, 'cause honestly Jensen, didn't you relize it would make you look super uber gay?? Hee.
Totally! It's so geeky-bad, and SO gay. I'll be he just wants to kill the agent that got him into that one. ;)

If you wanted, I could swap out that picture for something else, if it does bother you that much. It would be no trouble :)
*Sigh* In all honesty, I would just gaze at it and think of the ultimate prettiness. But what I really, truly need is a Supernatural wallpaper or "header". I could probably use a Gen one and a Slash one, even.

Do you know anyplace I could put out a request for that? Is there a community suited to that kind of begging?

Would you be interested at all? Your work here is gorgeous-- the photo selection, the layout, the theme. It's awesome!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

If you were willing to wait a week, then yes I would be interested in doing that for you :) Right now I have finals though. I'll be done on Friday. If not, you can probably put a request in at super_graphics, though I would check the rules first to see that that's legal.

Thank you so much, you're so sweet ♥

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I can definitely wait. Because it would be so much sooner than any cracked-out example of badness I would ever foist off on the world. ;)

Everyone seems to have finals right now, so not at all unexpected.

Please, let me know.

Thanks, and good luck with all of it!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Okay, I am home now with WAY too much time on my hands, so... hit me! What pictures would you like? Any style in mind? Text? colors? The more specific you are, the easier it is for me, I think :) But just tell me whatever you have in mind!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Hi-- been out of town!

I've been searching the web, saving off images. Can I get back to you tomorrow? Also, you can email me at halfshellvenus@livejournal.com too. Thanks so much!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Okay-- I've spent the entire day tracking stuff down, uploading it to my gallery, and deciding which to put in Gen, which in Slash, which in a half-banner.

So... what I would love is for you to do the "HalfshellVenus' Supernatural Gen Fanfiction" header (so I can divide my fic page into four parts). The photos that seem to work best in color are a grouping similar to the Diner Dean photo. I think the color scheme should be of your choosing, so long as I can get it to look good on my light blue journal (perhaps I could change the backround color of the fic pages for this bunch, in which case it wouldn't matter).

Phrases to work in, if they fit-- "searching" "broken" "brothers" "haunted" "warriors"

Pictures-- must have Diner Dean (http://pics.livejournal.com/halfshellvenus/pic/0000z90k/g19), Faith Window (http://pics.livejournal.com/halfshellvenus/pic/0001ttgb/g19), Family Conflict (http://pics.livejournal.com/halfshellvenus/pic/0001c735/g19).

Would also love to have, if it works in well, Pensive Lakeside Brothers (http://pics.livejournal.com/halfshellvenus/pic/0001ykrr/g19), and Phone Call (http://pics.livejournal.com/halfshellvenus/pic/0001483d/g19).

This would be easier if I weren't so in love with Diner Dean, because the sunlit tones in there are so different from the blue/black/overexposed tones of most of the screencaps.

If it can be rather spooky on top of it, that would be great too.

Please, go nuts! Let the creativity reign! And could you please put your credit in it-- up the left side, or on the left bottom?

Thanks so much! *all excited now*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Lovely picture choices :)

I just want to clarify a bit - this is just ONE header, right? And you want it to say "HalfshellVenus' Supernatural Gen Fanfiction" on it somewhere, big, right? And then the words can just be located anywhere, yes?

Also, what kind of size are you looking for in this?

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

this is just ONE header, right? And you want it to say "HalfshellVenus' Supernatural Gen Fanfiction" on it somewhere, big, right? And then the words can just be located anywhere, yes?
Yes to each of those. And because it's just theh one header, you may only be able to fit a few of those pictures in. Just depends where your art takes you. :D Which I so envy.

Also, what kind of size are you looking for in this?
*cringe* This is where I go all stupid on you. Looking at my "UserInfo" page vs. my main Fic page... Looks like a good size would be approximately 300-400 pixels high and about 700 pixels wide. I think. :(

That's what would seem to fit between the borders on the 2-column display. But the individual posts seem to have 3 columns, where the fic portion is approx. 600 (?) pixels wide. That might be the better thing to shoot for. I'll see if I can mess around with it in the next few days to see whether the side on the right can be suppressed.

*Squee of total excitement!*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Eep, I hope I don't let you down! It may be a few days before I can get it done, I just found out today I'm staying at my friend's house for two days, so we'll see when I can do this.

Not stupid :) We'll work out the size, no worries!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Well, here it is! I didn't put the words on it cause I thought they would clutter them up, but if you really want them added just let me know :) Any other changes, just ask!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just... incredible. I have no idea how you do this, with all the pictures overlapping so beautifully. I suck at just the basic icon-making.

So, hmmm, colors-- could it possibly be more pastel in nature, e.g., peach, soft-yellow and pastel-green? Wish I could get a bluer tint in there, but the Diner Dean sets the whole tone, and I can't imagine that peach color looking good next to anything blue-ish. And is there any way to tone down the orange of Sam's face in the phone picture and the Faith window picture? His makeup was really overdone in both of those (and several others I saved off).

I _love_ that you used the Supernatural-style text for the word itself. I really like its slight unevenness in the letter heights, etc.

For the "HalfshellVenus'" and "Gen Fiction" perhaps a different font? This is such an interesting style you chose here-- it speaks to me more for my Prison Break fiction for some reason. Like grainy brick desperation or something. Could it be perhaps wider than the Supernatural, but less fat and grainy? Maybe even a bold version of the same text style as the "Supernatural"? I have no idea what that is, but I tried out some samples in Microsoft Word, and "Calligraph421 BT" came kind of close. Just a suggestion, though.

God, all the overlaying and the conflicting parts of the picture are so well covered or displaced or obscured. Your skills just absolutely amaze me.

*bows in veneration and mystification* Thank you so much!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

All those changes are definitely easy to make! Right now I'm at a friend's house, so the earliest I'll be able to do anything is tomorrow, if that's okay. I can definitely make it blueish if you want, I can alter the color of the entire thing and therefore diner!Dean won't throw anything off. I'll try a few things and see what works out. I'll also see what I can do about Sam's insane orange makeup, lol.

The font I used for Supernatural is "Sell Your Soul," which I had to download from dafont.com (if you want to find it yourself). I'm not sure if I have a bold version of it, but again, I'll play around with it and see what I come up with :)

I'm glad you like it! *hugs* It was no problem, I had fun :) I wonder if you'd mind if I shared it, just without your text on it? It's totally cool if you just want to keep it to yourself, just thought I'd ask :)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Here we go, I lightened it up considerably. Hope this works for you! Any other tweaks, just let me know, really :)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

*Gasp* I'm... in LOVE with it. Oh my God!

It's gorgeous! The colors, the composition. Guh. I'll just be over here flailing for a bit...

I think only one more tweak, if possible-- can the shading on the words reclaim the "H" in HalfshellVenus' and the "S" in Supernatural and also the "n" at the end of Fanfiction?

Now I need to run over to my journal and spaz over this for a bit.

Thank you! *huggles of unimaginable rib-crushing size*

[staceey.livejournal.com]

Thats gorgeous!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Isn't it incredible? *ded from the overwhelming beauty of it*

[strifechaos.livejournal.com]

Pretty! The last one is just *is speechless* beyond guh.

Happy birthday lucky girl! *smiles* *waves*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Here you go, I hope this is better?



I'm so pleased you like it! *hugs back* :)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Guh. It is so incredibly good. Saving it off now, and up to my gallery. And then guess what I'll be starting on this weekend?

Thank you SO MUCH! *chocolate and praises and flailing like there is no tomorrow, because OMG-- you rock!*

♥ ♥ ♥

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

*grins* You're welcome! I'm so glad I could help out :) *munches happily on chocolate, even if it is virtual ;)*