The Authors,The Fics and The Bad Wallpaper Maniacs - FINALE!

[tarebear]

i'm staking my claim!

dibs!

ETA: i'm back with a couple of late feedbacks... sorry guys... i had a tough week.

val -- wonderful job with this wallpaper! i can just see the amount of time and the sweat and tears you exhausted to finish something as wonderful as this! fantastic!

willow -- it must have been hard for you to juggle school, home and to tackle this collaboration with us, but you pulled through with a wonderful wallpaper! great job willow!

rosey -- what else can i say about this wallpaper of yours but brilliant! it's a really cool idea to shape the mug around the wonderful pictures of our favorite girls enjoying a drink and each other's company! wonderful wonderful!

one more to go guys! congratulations to all of us!



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[Spighy]

Second dibs!

Well, Rosey, Willow+Tara+Coffee= HOT!! I love the caps in the cup (heh), you chose the perfect expressions... and I love the background too! Great job as always

[FineyMcFine]

I love it! What's it called when you write a poem that is the same shape as what you're describing? I think it applies to wallpapers too. Great job - and I love those coffee scenes you chose.

[watty]

Spighy / Fire good - I was also thinking it'd be Fire based on the teaser, but you've picked another Cam gem. The intensity of the colours and the closed-in quality of the forest matched the background mood of the fic so well. And, I want to know about the flamey font too, but I understand ... you "professional" graphics people have to stick together. Oh, this is one instance where there medievel dresses actually felt right. Love also the fanatic crowds and how can I not mention smug Giles in his ridiculous magician's outfit. A fun wallpaper!


Willow / Lessons Learnt - an exquisite wallpaper. The layers blend so very well into each other. The colour scheme and lighting is just right too. Nice touch with the hand-drawn hearts at the side too.

I want to read terra's fic, 'cause I can't remember that one, and you're still linking to Fire Good

It's one of Car's first Fic Challenges, the one with 22 entries! Here's Lessons Learned.


petal of roses / Coffee Moods - gulp. It's me. Thank You! And the wallpaper is sooooo cute!!! Love the imagery -- it almost feels like you've blown a giant coffee mug shaped 3-D metallic soap bubble around scenes of the lovebirds either having coffee or arranging to have coffee. The scene selection fits the vignetteness of the series perfectly. The scene at the Espresso Pump is reminiscent of CM3, where they meet at exactly the Pump and later on have a bit of fun with body paint. Plus the sultry "unofficially?" look is one of my favourites. Outstanding, Rosey!
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[Auburn]

Very nice wallpaper, Rosey. I especially love the 'unofficially' face of Tara. I have never read coffee moods, but the wp does give me a sense of what the story would be about.... what with the big cup and all.

Gem xxxx

[Kaia]

Willow / "Lesson learned": Great wp!! I love the scene you chose to make your wp, and the way you blended is awesome. I'm afraid the link to the fic doesn't work, though...I got Cam's "Fire Good" when I clicked on it.

Petal of roses / "Coffee moods": Very ingenious, and excelent choice in scenes. It'll be on my desktop for a while. Thank you!


Karinna

[Thianne]

i love the big purple cup and the tara-smile, how can we forget the tara-smile? that one is actually one of my favourites
i want to print it, frame it and put it on my desk...*sigh*....what a nice desk it will be.....

[JustSkipIt]

That wallpaper is so awesome. I love the way you picked such adorable pics and framed them the coffee cup. It's not obtrusive but it's very thematic. So very well done.

[SJ]

The coffee moods wallpaper is lovely,like the purple coffee cup.

[Renee85]

Okay, I’ve missed some updates. Not a good thing.

Spighy/Fire Good – I have not read this story yet, though by the looks of this wallpaper, I know that I am missing out on something very interesting and entertaining. I love how Giles looks, he has this amusing smile. I’m also curious to what role Tara and Willow play in the story. I love how you made the background, with fire effects and the crown in the bottom. Looks like a mysterious and supernatural place. Very cool and I think you did a wonderful job.

Willow/Lesson Learned- Like some people have already mentioned, I love the layering of images. Especially *those* images, it was definitely a happy time. I like the little touches you put on the wallpaper. I love the hearts, the sparkles around the title, and the textures around the edges. They all add something special to the wallpaper which makes it that much more beautiful. Love it! Very nice job indeed.

Petal of Roses/Coffee Moods- I have not read this story either, but I will really soon. Especially since now there’s a link there. I don’t really know what the story is about, but considering the title, I think its pretty spot on. I love how you created the shape of a coffee cup and a picture of our girls sipping coffee, and how you encompassed all the other perfect pictures into the figure. I also love the color and the glossy look and feel of it. It’s really nice, you did a fantastic job. I’m already loving it. Great job!

[Artemis]

Eeep, I'm behind on feedback! Bad me

Willow: Truly outstanding layering of images, with just the right level of transparency to make the overlaid images clear without obscuring the base of Willow/Tara snuggly goodness. And the positioning of the overlaid images is excellent as well - the transparent Tara seems to have her arm around Willow in the primary pic, mirroring main-Willow's hugging of main-Tara, and the transparent Willow on the other side is positioned so that the whiter colour of the sheets adds to the air of worry in her face. And I do like the letterboxing effect too, with the main title straddling the divide at the top.

petal of roses: Great design, having all the 'moods' appearing in the coffee cup outline like that. And it was a good choice to have that primary pic appear very clearly at the base, it sort of grounds the whole image (not coffee grounds, no pun intended), which is fitting - there's something warmingly solid and real about having coffee together, as opposed to more ethereal couple-y type activities like ice skating or serenading each other, or what have you. Everyone had coffee, it's a common denominator kind of thing. Well, I'm not a coffee person, but the experience of having coffee, at least, is common. And that's what you captured - without in any way producing a 'common' wallpaper, because it's very much vibrant and rich to look at.

[ambercissism]

Sorry maniacs for the delay. RL is really not good to me lately. But I'm so happy with the new WPs

Spighy (Fire Good): I know this is super late now, but I just wanna greet you first a "belated happy birthday!"

Wow! That's just one "extra flamey" WP you got there. As what the others have mentioned, it's "glowing". It looks almost like real fire. Giles looks funny standing in the middle, and WT are "glowing" too. The fonts for the text look really "hot and fiery". Another great job!

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Willow (Lesson Learned): Hi Willow! At last, I finally saw your work! I've been waiting for you to post, and I kept on wondering when would it be and when you finally did, I missed it (the first day, I mean). I'm so sorry to have missed giving FB on the first day... So, on with the fb.

YAY! I really love that scene! and the way the two scenes overlapped, it's really great! And the font's very sassy! I also like the blurry image of

Looking forward for your next work. I'm so to see it.

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petal of roses (Coffee Moods): Hiya Rosella!

WOW another beautiful WP from you! I really like the violet cup that you used for the background, and the scene from the Espresso Pump really fits the title. I love how you captured the "flirty" Tara on the left and the one smiling. I think I'm again. Oh, and cool font, it looks kinda familiar though Coke?

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[JustSkipIt]

Wow, that wallpaper is just absolutely beautiful. Every cap of W/T are just adorable and I love the way you blended them.

The end? It can't be the end (pouting). This series has been great. Also, I'm going to go read that story now because the wp looks so cute.

[SithLordWiccan]

Love the wallpaper. Can't go wrong with goofy Aly.

The end?! NO!!!!!!

[tarebear]

hey willow!

fabulous job you did on that wallpaper... i really liked it a lot too!

thanks for your valuable wallpaper contributions to this project...




so the end has finally come! i will miss working with you guys... 'til the next project!




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[ambercissism]

Hi Willow!

Wow! Another lovely WP from you!

You've caught a very unusual, and yet cute facial expressions from WT. It's really awesome, and you have blended each scenes nicely so that they looked like it's just in one place, very clean and very artistic!

Thanks for sharing!

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The end?!

It can't be!!!!! :sob

[SJ]

Great images in that wallpaper.

[Thianne]

the thing i loved most about this last one are the colors. it's lovely, really.

[Thianne]

the thing i loved most about this last one are the colors. it's lovely, really.

ETA: ok, so i accidentaly double posted. i don't know how to fix it?

[Willow]

Thank ya'll guys, you're too cool!

And thanks to all WP maniacs! It was amazing work with you guys

[FineyMcFine]

Willow, that's a great wallpaper! The colors are so bright and cheerful and it really matches up with the expressions on their faces. Lovely!

[Renee85]

Willow, what a beautiful wallpaper you created. I especially like all the pictures, the expressions on the girls faces are pretty darn cute, and with the warm color you used to shade them all, I think it turned out great. Ah! Another story I haven’t read it, but seeing this wallpaper makes me want to read it. Oh and I also like the swirly effect on the left had corner, it’s definitely a nice touch. Too bad the end is near, can’t wait to see the finale.

[binky]

I wanted to give public props to Spighy for resizing and sending me widescreen versions of many of the WPs. Thanks Spighy! That was extremely nice of you.

Thanks for doing this, WPM team. It was wonderful that you promoted some great fics that newer readers such as myself might never have dug through the completed archives to find. Plus, they look great! You guys got skillz. Great job all around.

binky

[notl33t]

Whoo!

Thanks so much for all the awesome wallpapers, you guys. I can't pick a favorite because they all reminded me of some of the best W/T fanfic I've ever read. This was a great project overall.

Oh, wait, there's a finale! Wooohoo!

[Artemis]

The End? I'll be hunkered down waiting for the finale, but it'll be with a sense of melancholy, just like the end of a beloved story.

Willow: Wonderful wallpaper - wonderful use of colour, the whole thing felt warm and cozy, like being dipped in coffee (except without the scalding ouchies). It was really neat the way the Willows and Taras looked identical, even though they weren't all from the same scene with the same lighting and so on - there was a real sense of them as distinct from their surroundings, like a continuous Willow/Tara 'presence' that moved through the backgrounds.

[tarebear]

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[SithLordWiccan]

Thanks, guys and gals.

[Spighy]

But wait!! That's not all! Did you miss a wp? Want to look at them again, cos they're so great? Now you can do that here!! The Maniacs' spankin' new site!

Enjoy!