Birthday! And a birthday ficlet

[osprey_archer]

I'm turning twenty today. Three cheers for me!

I would make you all cake, but alas, the culinary arts don't translate into cyberspace very well. I also considered a story, or rather a scene from a story, but I suspect cyberspace isn't ready for the transmission of my deathless genius yet.

So I can give you only good wishes and a link to a short story I found funny: The Attack of the Nazi Dustbunnies.

Also, for those of you who read Torchwood fic:



“I knew we shouldn’t have let Ianto do the baking,” said Owen.

Ianto, kneeling over the shattered remains of the chocolate mocha cake (filled with chocolate ganache and frosted with buttercream), did not reply.

“Do you think it’s dangerous?” whispered Gwen.

“Never mind the incredibly hot cake boy,” whispered Jack. “I’d be worried about the fact that he just gave Tosh a laser blaster.”

Tosh paused waltzing with the cake boy to incinerate Owen’s computer. Owen collapsed next to Ianto in an attitude of agony.

The cake chose that moment to extrude an incredibly hot cake girl, who accidentally broke Owen’s nose before joining the waltz with Tosh.

The cake girl extracted a life-size unicorn from her cleavage. Tosh and the magic love twins climbed on, Tosh cried “Hi-ho, Silver!”, and they vanished into a puff of sparkly blue smoke.

“Ianto,” said Jack. “You’re making my birthday cake, too.”

Comments

[silksieve.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one.

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

Have a very happy birthday!

(And thank you for the dust bunny story, it was fabulous.)

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! lj did not inform me of this important life event, and i don't know why. :_(

but, since it is such an important date, i was wondering if you'd like a particular icon, of any sort at all, as a small present-type-thing.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

*is inexpressibly excited* An icon! An icon of my very own!

Do you only do fandom icons, or would you branch out into stock?

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

i don't have too much experience in stock, but i'd be willing to try... i've seen some very cool stock icons on lj, just never got around to making any...

what stock-type image are you thinking?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Could you cut an icon out of this (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Missal.JPG)--the girl and the book, with the color rather stronger than it is in that picture.

Otherwise, I'm very fond of dragonflies.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

i can totally make you an icon out of that- is it ok if i take artistic liscence with textures and crops? or do you want it plain but color-enhanced?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Cropping is fine (the picture's way too big to make a good icon as-is, anyway). Textures are probably fine too, although I'm not quite sure what they do, so if you could explain them to me? I would be very grateful.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

textures are little 100x100 squares, with various patterns or images, you filter over the original icon. like in your current one, there probably were a couple textures over the image of the girl sitting to make it as rainbow-y as it is.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Oh, that should be fine then. :) Thank you for explaining.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

Of course. ; )
And now you know a little more about icon-making, even.

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

Uhh. I missed your birthday!

How dare it coincide with my away-ness?

Happy late birthday!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I'll tell my birthday to be more considerate and wait for you next year. The silly thing could stand to be less rigidly insistent on proper scheduling. :p