Second Post - Manip

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Title: Didn't have time to come up with anything proper. Suggestions are more than welcome!
Rating: Worksafe
Medium: Manip
Other pairings: None
Resources: listed on my profile page
A/N: I made this really really fast and am not exactly sure if I like it or not, but I wanted to make something to go with the theme of this round and this is my attempt at manipping comedy Spuffy. It's Buffy and Spike in the world where Spike indeed works at Wolfram and Heart. You'll know what I mean when you see his outfit... :)



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Comments

[musicbitch.livejournal.com]

Another amazing masterpiece, I love the expression on his face. Oh, to wake up to that every morning;)

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. You're so very kind. *blushes* Thank you so very much and then some!
I'm really glad you like it and find his expression fitting.

Oh, to wake up to that every morning;)

Amen to that! :D

[randi2204]

Mrrow. Suits are sexy. Is she "helping" put that tie on or taking it off? *grin* Lovely work!

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, suits can be seriously sexy, no question! Especially if Spike's the one who's wearing them. ;)

Is she "helping" put that tie on or taking it off? *grin*

Hee, that is such a good question. Been wondering it myself, too. Judging by their expressions I'd put my money on the latter one... *g*

Many thanks for the lovely feedback! I really appreciate it.

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

Very nice! A job well done.

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the lovely feedback! I truly appreciate it. :)

[dark-amia.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Really? Yay! :D I'm so glad you think so. Many thanks and a bunch of hugs on top! Oh and by the way I just love your icon! :)

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Meow! Delicious!

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Hee, delicious is good! Delicious is great! After all that's pretty much what I was striving for with this one.

Many thanks for the lovely comment!

[botias.livejournal.com]

Awww!! Very cool. :)

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you think so. :)

[winsomeone.livejournal.com]

I love it when people put a suit on our guy. He looks yummy. Good job.

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Well, this was the first time I ever tried to put a suit on him and I really didn't know what to think of the results. So it feels super extra good to hear it ended up working alright.

Many thanks for the lovely comment! I truly appreciate it.

[jerusha]

Oh, that's adorable! I love it!

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! I'm really happy to hear you like it. I was busting my brain trying to come up with a manipping idea that would go with this round's theme, but for a long time it just seemed like a mission impossible. Then, at the very last minute, I realized I'd been looking at it from the wrong angle. I didn't need to find me a comical base pic - I needed a story to tell because if I had that I could then try and find a fitting base pic and turn it to something funny. And so I sort of thought up something that might've been a ficlet was a better writer and transformed it into a, er, piclet? And that's pretty much how this came to. :)

[jerusha]

Hee! I love the idea of a "piclet!" That's awesome.

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks a million! *beams* I'm almost embarrassingly happy having been able to come up with that silly-ass term... :D

As for the idea in itself, I really try to put it into practice with my manips. See, I couldn't write fanfiction for the life of me. I'm just not skilled enough writer - not even in my own language. And yet I have this will - need even - to participate in keeping the Spuffy story alive, and so I tell my stories with manips. Or that's what I keep telling myself, anyway. Not that there was always a story behind my stuff, but more often than not there is.

[darynthe.livejournal.com]

Squee! That is so beautiful. You are amazing.

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. *blushes* What a lovely compliment - thank you ever so much and then some! I'm really happy to hear you like it. :)

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Wow -- Spike is totally like, "I ate the canary last night!" And Buffy's like, don't go to work for the evol!lawyers! Stay in bed with me!"

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Hee, I just love these comments of yours! They're absolutely wonderful - I'm grinning like never before here! And so I say: Thank you so much for the ever so lovely and utterly hilarious feedback! I really appreciate it.

[laimelady.livejournal.com]

Love the coloring!

...like they're bathe in light from a stained glass window

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Awww. Thank you so very much! I'm really happy to hear you think the colors are working. I was on such a tight schedule with this one (stayed up most of the night from Sunday evening to Monday morning doing it) and when I got to the textures and coloring part of it I felt kinda lost for a good while. I tried so many things and nothing seemed to work. Until after a whole lot of swearing and sweating this happened. ;)

...like they're bathe in light from a stained glass window

Wow, what a beautiful way to describe it! Many thanks!

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

Hee! Definitely looking smug - I love the expressions for both of them. Mechanically seamless and very nice coloring, too.

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Mechanically seamless and very nice coloring, too.

Oh wow, what a wonderful compliment - thank you ever so much and then some!

As for their expressions, I just knew I needed to make them work no matter how hard the base made it for me. (And it truly gave me a hard time!) I'm so glad you find them to be fitting, too. After all, this is a particularly expression driven manip, and so it means a great deal to me hearing that the idea I was trying to convey truly translates. :)