Good morning, Starshine

[cleolinda]

More brilliant sunshine today; feeling good, except weirdly queasy, not sure why. Fortunately, I have an eight-pack (they make them in eights now?) of Coke in little bottles, so that should help.

Got a good bit done yesterday--outlined that new story idea I had in mind, and a possible book series arc for it. (This is how these things work with me--I suddenly come up with an idea, go to town with it, and then set it aside for later, occasionally picking it back up now and then. That's life on the Story Farm.) I'm going to have to do a good bit of anecdotal research into the paranormal (yay! reading books!), but I can't really tell you what or that'd give away the story.

Think I'm getting very close with the Harry Potter e-book thing--we're mostly down to the most tedious aspects: proofreading, checking links, filling in last-minute holes, and syncing up footnote cross-referencing. (That is to say, if I say "See note #89," note #89 better actually be the one I'm talking about. You have a new thought and add a new footnote, and you've fucked up every single instance of "See note ##" for the whole document. So I'm also going through and making it less specific if I can--"See the note about blah blah blah on the blibbity blee scene"--if I think you can find it without a number.) It's still a significant amount of work, but each round of revision is shorter and more technical. You can see the end coming.

(And then once we're done, it'll be time to start the vampire set! OH GOD.)

Also: It looks like I'm scheduled to do another episode of Made of Fail, huzzah!

Also-also: What the hell, y'all. What the hell. As Unlucky Bear put it, the werewolf fanservice poster looks like a boy band called All Fur One, and I don't even KNOW what's going on in the main one. I didn't even notice The Demon Jasper up top at first. BAD PHOTOSHOP. BAD. NO BISCUIT.

Comments

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

As Unlucky Bear put it, the werewolf fanservice poster looks like a boy band called All Fur One

Ahahahaha! I was just about to post about those new posters, but you beat me to it.

Yeah, def. bad photoshopping.

[bexone.livejournal.com]

the fact that the werewolves have uniformly hairless arms while edward's sporting a full pelt is kind of upsetting to me and i don't really know why.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, it's ironic, to say the least. I'm actually completely okay with normal amounts of hair on guys (it's hilarious to me when all the teenage Twihards clutch their pearls every time HAIR IS IN EVIDENCE EW WHAT IS THAT), but a little freaked by totally hairless ones, in that "You were up all night waxing that, weren't you?" way.

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

ALL FUR ONE. YES. Oh my God, I needed that laugh today.

[divadeanna.livejournal.com]

As Unlucky Bear put it, the werewolf fanservice poster looks like a boy band called All Fur One.

My eyes are watering from laughing so hard.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE, Y/Y?

[cherrysakura5.livejournal.com]

All Fur One - LOL
It totally looks like a cover for a beefed up boy band.
Edward's hand on Bella's back looks possessive and creepy.
At least Alice looks better in this poster than other NM Promotional pictures.

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

You noticed Edward's Death Grip of Dooooooom then?

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Oh god, why did you make me notice Edward's gorilla arms? SOBBITY.

[bexone.livejournal.com]

um, sorry?

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

Wow. Awful Photoshop job is awful. Seriously. Not only is the airbrushing extremely obvious, but the different colored eyes? They could at least try to make it look like the actors are wearing contacts or something.

Fail.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Okay, yeah, the red eyes on the vampire babe look like Potato-Head eyes stuck onto the front of her face.

[starr234.livejournal.com]

That footnote match-up thing was the most tedious, pain-in-the-ass part of the gigantic law review article I had to write last year. I think it took me longer than the actual writing did. People kept telling me there was a way to make Word do it for me, but I never figured out how.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

THAT'S THEIR DUMBLYVAMP ARO?!

God, I am *so* glad I gave up on this whole movie business a long time ago.

[elysian-dreams.livejournal.com]

I love Demon Jasper! He's all "This shit is really screwed up, but I'm going with it." Or else he's fresh off the Criminal Minds set and still feeling all psycho. I'm far more concerned about surgically-attached Bella and Edward. I read an article about him leaving nail marks in her back in this pic, and they're not kidding!

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. "Crap. Am I Adam or Amanda right now? Where's Spencer Reid?"

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

Well, at least they look more vampire-like now?

Seriously, Jasper? I think you need some Zyprexa.

[anonymeet.livejournal.com]

Wow, they went whole hog with the sleeveless T shirt and cut off jeans thing on the wolves, didn't they? I mean, whoa. They haven't been faithful to Edrward's penchant for beige, but they're following that description to the T, aren't they? Brings me back to the "leader of the pack" reference in your commentary, Cleo. Missing only the motorcycle.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I just kind of love that Chris Weitz has embraced the needs of the fanbase for this movie. Like he is just completely shameless about the fanservice. He knows what the ladies are here for and by God, he's going to give them their money's worth. There's a point where the effort is so calculated that I just come to respect it.

[fading-october.livejournal.com]

nah, jasper is just trying to rock the Blue Magnum/steel look.

[onceinspired.livejournal.com]

I feel like I missed something important somewhere. What's this ebook of which you speak?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Quick version:

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/805381.html

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're feeling (mostly) better and that things are progressing!

Also, RPattz looks more photoshopped in that new poster than he does in the shirtless fan art. He has no neck.

[zikade.livejournal.com]

numbering of footnotes- smart software know how to do this. I don't know what program you are using, though. It's called references.

[goblin-dae.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or does it look like they Photoshopped Jacob's shirt ON? Especially around the arms? He doesnt actually wear a real shirt EVER, does he?

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Excellent post! You're feeling better, you're almost ready to harvest that wheat crop, and you've got another story idea percolating. Will you be doing NaNoWriMo this year? I know you have a bunch of other projects going, so that might not be feasible.

Thanks for posting the link to the terribly funny posters. I probably shouldn't be doing this at work, but reading the comments is causing me to have giggle fits.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I love the concept of NaNoWriMo, but the surest way for me to not get anything done is to sign up for it. I know, because I have, like two different times.

[neko-chan.livejournal.com]

Ahh, god... you and all the comments are making me laugh... But seriously, Demon Jasper? Unnerving. And anyone else think that the guy's arm behind Jacob looks a little..... creepy? Seriously... the two guys in the way back... they're at the same level of each other... yet the hand behind Jake is hanging lower. It's like his arm grew, and is now hanging disembodied there...

[elbales]

It's like his arm grew, and is now hanging disembodied there...

*dies* I didn't look closely enough to this at first, but hells to the yes. Hilarious.

[lunylucy.livejournal.com]

Why is there so much photoshop fail? ;_; Aside from the horrible touch-ups, Edward's head is ridiculously large.

Also, no girl werewolf? (Lea?) Or is she not in the second book?

[ravenofthejade.livejournal.com]

And Bella's head looks too small for her body. =/

[corinnethewise.livejournal.com]

If you are working in Microsoft Word, you can highlight all of your footnotes and hit F9 and it updates your cross references if you entered them as cross references (rather than just manually typing the numbers). This is one of the most useful things for footnoted citations ever.

Also, yay more Cleo on MoF!!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I just typed in "note ##" at any given point, no actual numbers, so there'd be no way for that to work. I didn't even know there was an actual cross-reference function.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

BAD PHOTOSHOP. BAD. NO BISCUIT.

Yes, agreed, although I have to admit that the Volturi poster is actually pretty cool, for all it's photoshopness.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one with the least fail.

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

Cripes that little vampire girl is scary as hell! We're talking Claudia levels of squick here!

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

That's Dakota Fanning for ya.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

*splorfle* That second one is one of the most fucking hilarious movie posters I have EVER seen. EVER. XDDD

[elbales]

I am completely mesmerized by your icon. What is that? Aside from awesome, I mean.

[lalumena.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether it's a good or a bad thing that the vamps actually look creepy now? (DEAR DIRECTOR: These are the GOOD vamps. Those ones are the BAD ones. They should probably not BOTH look creepy...)

[iluvbroadway06.livejournal.com]

Agreed. The Cullens look really kind of psycho, and they shouldn't. I think it's the combination of weird photoshopped eye color and their facial expressions. Especially Jasper. He looks like he wants to eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti