paper faces on parade

__serpensortia @ 2004-12-21T01:36:00

2004-12-21T06:36:17Z

all icons to be posted to regular journal of cupcakery, since I have almost zero time.

__serpensortia @ 2004-10-17T15:21:00

2004-10-17T19:20:50Z

As always, comment, credit in keywords, no hot-linking or stealing

phantom of the opera
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.

wicked
16. 17. 18. 19.

jekyll & hyde
20. 21. 22. 23.
24.

harry potter/alias/moulin rouge
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30.

__serpensortia @ 2004-10-14T11:06:00

2004-10-14T15:06:06Z

Phantom wallpaper. :D

800x600 // 1024x768

__serpensortia @ 2004-10-12T00:43:00

2004-10-12T04:43:18Z

Comment, credit in keywords, no stealing, no direct-linking, etc. Good night.

phantom of the opera
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09.

star wars
10. 11. 12. 13.
14. 15.

alias
16. 17. 18. 19.
20.

hayden christensen
21. 22. 23.

x-files/sandman/buffy/orlando bloom/kill bill
24. 25. 26. 27.
28.

__serpensortia @ 2004-09-29T19:30:00

2004-09-30T02:32:02Z

So, the new Alias promo pictures are out. There's no Sark. So what do you do if you're me? You make creepy incestuous implicating wallpaper of Sloane and Nadia.

1024x768 // 800x600

[wallpaper] hayden christensen

2004-09-28T02:52:31Z

Because Hayden Christensen makes everyone feel better when they're sick.

1024x768 // 800x600

Lyrics from Garbage, "You Look so Fine". Brushes by crumblingwalls. Pictures from Desiring Hayden.

[icons] angel & star wars

2004-09-25T16:02:36Z

- comment when taking
- credit __serpensortia or cupcakery in keywords
- no direct-linking or stealing
- feel free to nominate for award communities.

Angel
[Season Four]
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.

Star Wars
[A New Hope]
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

[Phantom Menace comic>
21.

[Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]
22. 23. 24.

Buffyverse caps are from Faith's Solace.

A New Hope caps and ones from the Episode III featurette on the SW DVD set are by me.

Phantom Menace comic scan courtesy of spaced_oddity

Random lyric stuff:
02, 04. Garbage - A Stroke of Luck
03. Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
05. Nightwish - Two for Tragedy
07. play on a line that everyone's done.
08. Buffy quote
11. play on a line from Love Actually
17. Weird Al - Star Wars Cantina [one day, I shall icon all this song]
19. Les Miserables - I Dreamed a Dream

All others are random text.

[fic] break the chain

2004-09-21T02:34:27Z

Title: Break the Chain
Fandom: Harry Potter [Ginny/Tom-ish]
Rating: PG
Category: General
Summary: "They found the diaries one cold day."
Warnings: bizarre-ness.
Spoilers: Through OotP

They found the diaries one cold day. It was the day after Christmas vacation and Molly Weasley was continuing her crusade to keep 12 Grimmauld Place as clean as she could. It was bordering on almost obsessive now, but gave her something to do. It was preferrable to Harry's locking himself in his room and coming down only on Christmas and, even then, moping around.

The summer before, when Sirius had died, she had started it again.

Ginny Weasley liked collecting things; bits and pieces of one certain type of object. Before her first year, she had collected notebooks. There was something oddly comforting about the blank page of a book, lined or unlined, simply sitting there in a colour that was beckoning for ink to spill onto it in word-shaped blots.

Then, there had come that diary. The black leather-bound, parchment paged diary that housed a soul in it. Ginny Weasley's peculiar habit of stocking up on blank paged books, never to be used ceased and she flung the collection into the back of her closet. Except for the ones that she burned. She burned the black-covered ones, even if they had designs upon them.

There had been no collecting of blank books for nearly four years.

Then, one week before the beginning of her fifth year, Ginny Weasley did something unexpected. She walked into Flourish and Blotts, over to where the rolls of parchment stood, pristine and ready to be bought. Beside them was a small shelf that was almost like an afterthought. It held books with no names upon their spines, with blank pages inside.

Diaries. A few dozen, at least.

She picked one up. It had a colourful cover, a gold impression of the sky imprited upon dark blue. The constellations moved in time with the ones above, in the ceiling of the northern hemisphere. She turned it over in her hands, then put it back.

The next one she picked up was plain, simple and black. The leather felt old beneath her fingertips and she turned it over and over, memorizing the creases with her fingertips. She studied it as a blind person would.

While her mother was occupied with picking up Harry's books. She did that now, since Harry rarely ventured outside the house. Last summer, he had been loud and seemed like he was making up for it now, sitting quietly, staring off into space. Ginny wondered what he was thinking sometimes.

She picked up a bottle of ink and walked to the counter, holding both the ink bottle and diary in one hand and digging in the pocket of her robes with the other. She had some pocket money, a little, but still enough for her to buy what she wanted.

At the house, in her room (Hermione spent more and more time in the boys' room, talking to Ron and Harry), Ginny pulled out her purchases and opened the diary. She smoothed down the first page and dipped her quill in the ink.

Her hand seemed to move of her own accord.

Dear Tom,

Simple words seem best in this case. In an odd way, I miss you.

And that was how it began.

It became something of an addiction, really. Seeing the words spill out of the quill, in black and red ink onto parchment pages of the black books - always black, never any other colour, always black and leather and creased like it was fifty years old.

She began to store them under a loose floorboard in her room at Grimmauld Place. There wasn't room for them in the dormitory and in there, with four other girls, nothing was sacred and everything was found no matter if you wanted it to be or not.

She wrote in the diaries late at night, by flickering candlelight or dim wandlight.

Dear Tom,

Dear Tom,

Dear Tom,

Dear Tom,

Dear Tom,

I miss you . . .

. . . do you miss me?

today, we started discussing Basilisks in Care of Magical Creatures. Hagrid caught my eye in the middle of a sentence and then his eyes widened, he felt he had made a blunder. He stumbled over his words and then didn't look at me for the rest of the class . . .

Tom, I'm not loosing my memory this time, but this is beginning to feel like a farce. But I'm not kidding you or myself, ~~this is a farce. This is a normal diary, normal pages, no magic dwelling within~~, I do miss you.

At some point, Ginny stopped sleeping. She wasn't sure when, but it became a habit for her to crawl into bed, dressed in pyjamas and begin to write in her diaries. She wrote until her wrist became sore and the ink was almost gone in the bottles. Then the sun would rise and she would shake herself, as if she had been in some deep trance.

Molly Weasley tripped over the loose floorboard one day after Christmas vacation and nearly went flying. Her foot had wrenched it up more out of its space and she could see something beneath it. She reached a hand in cautiously (because you never knew what happened in Grimmauld Place) and pulled out a half dozen black leather bound books. A prickling went up her spine and she opened the first.

They were all the same. Accounts of the day, always opening with Dear Tom.

Molly Weasley began to shake and the diaries fell out of her hands, hitting the floor with pages splayed open, the red and black handwriting starkly visible against the parchment papers.

__serpensortia @ 2004-09-20T21:27:00

2004-09-21T01:27:05Z

Comment, credit in keywords, no direct-linking, no stealing. As in, all the common sense stuff that everyone should know by now.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

[icons] multiple

2004-09-14T01:43:24Z

[2] Whedonverse
[7] Harry Potter
[8] Raiders of the Lost Ark
[12] Kill Bill vol 1
[5] Emperor's New Groove
[4] X-Files
[1] Star Wars
[1] Yuugiou
[1] Alias
[1] 10 Things I Hate About You

RULES
comment when taking an icon
share the icons
credit in keywords (kaiba or __serpensortia)
no direct linking!
no stealing!
the icons without text are not blanks. Don't modify any of the icons.

Whedonverse

01. 02.

Harry Potter

03. 04. 05. 06. 07.
08. 09.

Indiana Jones

10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
15. 16. 17.

Kill Bill

18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
23. 24. 25. 26. 27.
28. 29.

Emperor's New Groove

30. 31. 32. 33. 34.

The X-Files

35. 36. 37. 38.

Miscelleaneous TV/Movies

39. 40. 41. 42.

__serpensortia @ 2004-08-31T23:15:00

2004-09-01T03:26:46Z

Rules
Comment when taking.
Credit 'kaiba' or '__serpensortia' in keywords. Yes, that's two underscores.
Textless icons are not blanks; don't modify any icons.
No direct-linking.
No stealing.

Chamber of Secrets

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22.

Queen of the Damned

23. 24. 25. 26.
27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34.
35. 36. 37. 38.

Labyrinth

39. 40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45. 46.
47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54.
55. 56. 57. 58.
59. 60. 61. 62.
63. 64. 65. 66.
67. 68.

__serpensortia @ 2004-08-19T21:26:00

2004-08-20T01:26:51Z

Tools: Staedler 0.7 mechanical pencil, 0.005, 0.01, 0.03 Sakura Micron pens, Prismacolour markers.

Marauders, circa 5th year-ish. Pettigrew's face looks fux0red up. x.x

Bizarre post-Hogwarts fic-idea with Hermione with guns. Yes, guns. And Draco as her sort of dectective-partner thing. I told you it was bizarre.

The evolution of sketching, involving Julian and Ana. And more guns.

A little creature-thing named Tu. He belongs in The Dreamscape Hypothesis. He's going to be Ivy's servant-thing.

[wallpaper] phantom of the opera

2004-08-19T23:56:15Z

Another wallpaper, whee. I personally cannot wait for this movie to come out. :D

1024x768 // 800x600

[wallpaper] kill bill

2004-08-19T19:54:47Z

1024 x 768 // 800x600

[brushes] set 01

2004-08-19T15:14:41Z

ETA: switched servers.

download brushes [right-click & save] // download image pack [right-click & save]

These are brushes made in Photoshop 7.0 and using various scanned media and some of the old wallpapers that I made.

Rules: comment if taking, credit when using, don't claim you made them.

__serpensortia @ 2004-08-19T00:20:00

2004-08-19T04:20:59Z

Brush credits are here.
Rules are: comment when taking, credit 'kaiba' in keywords, no direct-linking, no icon thievery, no modifying textless icons.

I call this set the 'cupcakery has too much fun with the blue/yellow gradient' set. That aside, here we go.

Harry Potter [Chamber of Secrets]
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07.

Pirates of the Caribbean [Mostly Johnny Depp]
08. 09. 10. 11.
12. 13. 14. 15.
16.

Lord of the Rings [Hobbitses!]
17. 18. 19. 20.

Interview With the Vampire [yay Lestat]
21.

Hellsing [Alucard, the bad-ass motherfucker of a vampire]
22. 23. 24.

Sarah Michelle Gellar [old magazine photos]
25. 26.

Angelina Jolie [more old magazine photos]
27. 28. 29. 30.
31.

Random [Gettyone image, Melissa George, Brian Molko]
32. 33. 34.

Textless [Textless versions of icons with text from this post. Not blanks. Don't modify]
35. 36. 37. 38.
39. 40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45. 46.

[icons] movies

2004-08-16T01:27:34Z

RULES & IMAGE/BRUSH CREDIT HERE <--read first. thanks.

[01 & 02] Josie & the Pussycats
[03 & 04] Alias
[05 & 06] Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[07 & 08] The Bourne Supremacy
[09 - 14] Harry Potter
[15 & 16] Ocean's Eleven
[17 - 28] Interview With the Vampire

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.

[icons] multifandom

2004-08-09T06:41:02Z

rules
[!!] comment in here when taking
[!!] credit in keywords
[!!] DON'T DIRECT LINK MY ICONS
[!!] don't claim you made the icons. Instead, direct people here.
[!!] no modifying the textless icons

icons
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.

lyrics
01. Lush - The Invisible Man
03. Poe - Spanish Doll
05. Vertical Horizon - Shackled
07. Something Corporate - Break Myself
09. Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
11. Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
13. Bis - The End Starts Today
15. Guster - Airport Song
17. Depeche Mode - Dream On
19. Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes
21. Nine Inch Nails - Sin
23. Weezer - El Scorcho

images/brushes
See here.

Feel free to nominate me at alias_awards, btvs_awards, hp_awards, etc.

[wallpaper] alias

2004-07-15T03:08:58Z

Because it's aaaaaallllllll about the Sarkney. Don't deny it. >D

And the bizarre-ness with using the Ghost filter and Vertical Horizon lyrics.

1024x768 // 800x600.

[welcome] read-me

2004-07-15T01:00:53Z

Welcome to burning horoscope, the icon journal of cupcakery. This is what would commonly be known as the introductory post, even though this journal has been active for quite awhile. Here's the rules, credits and all of that good stuff.

RULES
Yes, there are rules when using my icons.

1] Comment when you're taking an icon. I like to keep track of them and I live on feedback.
2] Credit 'kaiba' or '__serpensortia' in the keywords of the icon. Yes, that's two underscores before serpensortia.
3] Textless icons are not bases. There is no modifying of my icons ever.
4] Don't direct link. It pisses me off greatly and sucks the bandwidth which ends up equalling no viewing on the icon front.
5] Don't claim you made an icon of mine. Link people here instead.

IMAGES

Television
cap_it
Alias (promo pics)
Alias (season three caps)
Alias (all seasons caps)
Alias - (season one/two caps)
Angel the Series (all seasons)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (all seasons)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series (all seasons)
Veronica Mars (all)

Movies
cap_it
Chicago
Dracula - deadbetty
Interview With the Vampire: my own
Harry Potter (movie 1&2 caps)
Harry Potter (promo pics)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - teh_indy
Jesus Christ Superstar: my own
Phantom of the Opera (trailer caps)
Phantom of the Opera (high quality)
Queen of the Damned: my own
Star Wars (original trilogy): my own
Star Wars

Musicals
Wicked
Jekyll & Hyde

High Quality Pictures
Last Beautiful Girl
Scantastic
Outnow.ch

BRUSHES

crumblingwalls
crushedviolet
dactyliotheca
dtissagirl

gegenschein
inexorablyhere
merlyn_temple
oxoniensis
pekeana
policeloveyou
hecatesknickers
quebelly
saava
teh_indy
100x100_brushes

FONTS

Da Font
Larabie Fonts

[icons] [wallpapers] ALIAS

2004-07-13T21:33:18Z

rules
[!!] comment in here when taking
[!!] credit in keywords
[!!] DON'T DIRECT LINK MY ICONS
[!!] don't claim you made the icons. Instead, direct people here.
[!!] no modifying the textless icons
[!!] as well, I'd appreciate if you'd comment if you're using the wallpapers.

icons
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.

wallpapers

1024 x 768 // 800 x 600

1024 x 768 // 800 x 600

Brushes used are by crumblingwalls in both the wallpapers and the icons. As well, brushes found through 100x100_brushes were used in the icons. Images are from Alias Media or Two Evil Monks

[icons] alias, tomXginny

2004-07-09T21:20:03Z

rules
[!!] comment in here when taking
[!!] credit in keywords
[!!] DON'T DIRECT LINK MY ICONS
[!!] don't claim you made the icons. Instead, direct people here.
[!!] no modifying the textless icons

icons
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30.

images/brushes
Images are from Two Evil Monks and Blugeon This. Brushes are crumblingwalls, crushedviolet, dtissagirl and inexorablyhere, oxoniensis, teh_indy, dtissagirl, hecatesknickers, .

lyrics
05. Incubus - Megalomaniac
07. Vertical Horizon - Shackled
09. Eve 6 - Inside Out
11. Poe - Trigger Happy Jack
13. Goo Goo Dolls - Big Machine
15, 27. Jekyll & Hyde - Alive
17. Jekyll & Hyde - Transformation
19. Jekyll & Hyde - Dangerous Game
21. Jekyll & Hyde - Lucy Meets Hyde
23, 29. Jekyll & Hyde - Board of Governors
25. Jekyll & Hyde - I Need to Know

[icons] a plethora of

2004-07-07T00:50:00Z

rules
[!!] comment in here when taking
[!!] credit in keywords
[!!] DON'T DIRECT LINK MY ICONS I cannot stress this enough. You direct link, you use up my bandwidth and then, no icons. *scowls grumpily*
[!!] don't claim you made the icons. Instead, direct people here.
[!!] no modifying the textless icons

icons
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. ETA: 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.

images/brushes
QotD caps by myself, HP caps from BunnySneezes, Indy caps from myself, Buffy caps from buffyscreenshots, Alias pictures from AliasMedia. Brushes are crumblingwalls, crushedviolet and inexorablyhere.

lyrics
01, 07. Coldplay - Clocks
03. The Juliana Theory - Music Box Superhero
05. Goo Goo Dolls - Big Machine
09. Incubus - Megalomaniac
11. David Usher - Forestfire
13. Something Corporate - Break Myself
15. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
17. Radiohead - Creep
19. Live - I Alone
23. Deftones - Change (In the House of Flies)
24. David Bowie - Underground
31. Eve 6 - Open Road Song
33. David Usher - St Lawrence River
35. Matchbox 20 - Bent

[icons] hp, poto, lotr

2004-07-02T05:53:50Z

*cracks knuckles*

rules
[!!] comment in here when taking
[!!] credit in keywords
[!!] DON'T DIRECT LINK MY ICONS I cannot stress this enough. You direct link, you use up my bandwidth and then, no icons. *scowls grumpily*
[!!] don't claim you made the icons. Instead, direct people here.
[!!] no modifying the textless icons

icons
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29.

images/brushes/lyrics
Harry Potter screencaps found through cap_it. Phantom of the Opera trailer screencaps & Return of the King screencaps taken by myself. Brushes are crumblingwalls, crushedviolet and inexorablyhere. Lyrics are all from Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical or from Phantom of the Opera.

[icons] misc

2004-06-23T20:14:28Z

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21.