Art for Never Stay Buried by paopu_parachute

Title: Never Stay Buried
Author: paopu_parachute
Pairings/characters: Gwen/Lance, Arthur/Merlin, Gwaine/Eira
Word Count: 27,220
Warnings: blood, gore, violence, death, zombies
Summary:On a particularly nondescript day, Arthur comes home in a panic and drags everyone off to a base where his father works. By noon, the world they knew is gone. They are now living in an unrelenting zombie apocalypse where just surviving is the hardest thing to do.
Somehow, Gwen has to find a way to drag everyone from the blood, tears and ashes and figure out how to just stay alive.

Story link: AO3 Link

This was a great project to work on, though I wrestled a bit with how to capture the tone of the story. It inspired me to try something new, and I am pretty happy with the results.

I'm glad I got to work with you paopu_parachute!

Thanks to ac_mod for doing such a great job running this challenge.




Under the cut is a detailed account of the steps I took in making this image, with the exception of some small tweaks that I can't even remember now. Sources are also included.

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Photos from Heroes & Villains FanFest

Click on the picture to see my Flickr album of photos from the Heroes & Villains FanFest I attended in San Jose, CA, last month.



I hadn't realized until attending that this Con is organized by Stephen Amell and a friend of his. I liked that it was small enough that you could see everything and the lines weren't ridiculously long. I decided against getting pictures, but I got four autographs. I wanted to add Katie Cassidy's and Amy Gumenick's autographs to my Supernatural book and then decided to have Stephen Amell and Clark Gregg sign it, too, since I didn't have anything else I wanted them to sign.

Clark (because I call him Clark now, haha) was super sweet and I love him to pieces.

(Also, you'll note that there are a few blurry pictures of people doing pushups -- someone in the audience asked most of the panelists to do the 22 Push-up Challenge. I was impressed that so many were able to do it!)