There were some amazing scenes in Better Angels. Unfortunately it's hard to get the screen caps to show as well, but here goes.
These scenes were such eye candy that I just had to make caps!
( See the slideshow - click here (zombie free zone) )
- Screen Caps from Better Angels - The Walking Dead
-
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1)
quietfireca- March 13th, 18:51
accomplished
- Enough for Now - a Walking Dead fanfic
-
- quietfireca
- March 13th, 18:12
- accomplished
Takes place near the start of Better Angels.
Maybe she'd felt his eyes boring into her at Dale's gravesite.
Maybe it was woman's intuition.
Whatever it was, Carol took action, as she always did - just as he took action when there was a job to be done.Daryl needed to see her cry; to acknowledge the ultimate final loss of Sophia. He wanted her to grieve with tears so that he wouldn't seem such a sissy should he need to shed his own tears. The pain and frustration were that great. But nothing had moved her to that point yet. He was beginning to wonder if anything could.
( Read more... )
Thanks for reading!
- TV Realm Challenge 3x24: TVRealm Scrapbook
-
- quietfireca
- March 4th, 15:22
nostalgic
My final entry. I'd do it again in a heartbeat!
Thanks tohavers for all her help!
And a huge thanks to the organizers/mod/torturers/creative geniuses for their work. I simply loved these challenges.
Name: quietfireca
Team(s):Team Chiller
Favorite Team Icon(s)/Tag Banner(s):
Favorite Thing(s) You've Created Here (link to):
In the Scrapbook page below!
Favorite Thing(s) Other People Have Posted:
http://tvhaven.livejournal.com/296049.html
http://tvhaven.livejournal.com/292297.html
Merit Badges (optional):
Anything else you want to remember?: lol! How hard it was at first and how surprisingly ok the resulting product was. The prompts were incredible!
In one word/gif--express how you feel about your time here:AWESOME!!!!!
- TV Realm Challenge 3x23: Through the Years
-
- quietfireca
- March 1st, 22:31
- nostalgic
This was a really poignant challenge for me. As I was creating this collection of screen caps it occurred to me that I wouldn't even be doing this if I hadn't been such a rabid fan of Law & Order Criminal Intent. That fandom brought me together with a group of the most amazing women I've ever had the joy to know, one of whom is my team matehavers. She has guided me safely through the LiveJournal maze! I have had *such* a good time doing these TV Realm Challenges and I thank the organizers from the bottom of my heart for making me look at things in a whole new - usually quirky - way.
Criminal Intent came to an end and now this challenge is coming to an end. So sad!
I started a list, my Bump and Touch list, a few years ago. Goren and Eames almost never touch. So I thought I'd gather the screen caps of their bumps and touches by season. But that got side-tracked! Sometimes these two were so far apart you could hear the wind whistle between them. Sometimes the bumps and touches just weren't good caps. So here it is. I love this pairing! It's been a while since I sat down with them and it was wonderful!
- TV Realm Challenge 3x16: Challenge Redux
-
- quietfireca
- February 28th, 17:29
- accomplished
This is a mini version of last season's Big Bang Challenge. I see we *just* got an extension, but oh well. My time frame worked for creating icons. We get 2 points per icon and I did 25 icons, for a total of 50 points using the quote prompt:"Hell is empty. All of the devils are here."What else, but to use The Walking Dead! If you keep your tongue firmly planted in your cheek, it's pretty funny naming these babies! "Walkers" are zombies.Total Icon Count: 25
Teasers:
( Walkers Here! )
Maybe I should add this here...
- TV Realm Challenge 3x21: The Sorting Hat
-
- quietfireca
- February 27th, 18:10
- accomplished
Hmm, the Sorting Hat. Wow, I was scared till I realized i knew a tiny bit about chess! You can read the frightening details of the challenge here.
I assigned the characters from The Walking Dead as chess pieces, but it wasn't as straightforward as I thought it might be. When I did a bit of research I found some interesting things about the characteristics behind the pieces.In general, rooks are stronger than bishops or knights. I was originally going to make Glen and Daryl knights, but then I realized that would limit their mobility. Rooks can occupy any square on the board.
Knights have unusual moves. Yup, that about sums up Andrea and Shane.The British chose to call the piece the bishop because the projections at the top resembled a mitre. This groove was interpreted differently in different countries; in France, for example, the groove was taken to be a jester's cap, hence in France the bishop is called "fou" (the fool). In some Slavic languages (e.g. Czech/Slovak) the bishop is called "střelec/strelec", which directly translates to English as a "shooter" meaning an archer. So Daryl should then be the Bishop. But somehow I couldn't get away from Daryl as a Rook and Dale as the Bishop. He's rather preachy and also sometimes taken for a fool.
......why pawns are so important in chess strategy. The answer is simple. Pawns are very immobile, almost motionless for the majority of the game. But it is this immobility that gives the position its character. The pawn structure lays out the terrain for the coming battle, providing lines for your army. This is how Carl and Carol became pawns. I didn't think of them as sacrifical, but rather as a reason to plan the coming battle to protect them. We already have our sacrifical pawns in Sophia and Jim and maybe Merle - but we don't feel too bad about Merle!
Anyhow, here is my assignment of roles!
Better add this:
- TV Realm Challenge 3x22: What People Think I Do - Jack Landry
-
- quietfireca
- February 27th, 16:29
- accomplished
This challenge is from the perspective of the character. We needed to show
What...
his mother thinks he does, what society thinks he does, what his friends think he does, what he thinks he does and what he really does..... heh heh.
and of course:
- TV Realm Challenge 3x20: Writing Images, Iconing Words
-
- quietfireca
- February 22nd, 1:52
- accomplished
For this challenge, I chose to write a 500 word fic and this is the image prompt I used.
Title: Dream Catcher
Series: The Walking Dead
Characters: Daryl Dixon, Carol Peletier
Word Count: 689
A/N: Takes place within days of Triggerfinger S2E9From the corner of his eye, Daryl watched Carol’s fingers gently caress the feathers dangling from the elaborate dream catcher hanging in the barn. Some lame fool must have left it there during another lifetime. He was pretty sure horses didn’t have nightmares.
Caress. There was a word Merle would know nothing about. Just one of the differences between the brothers, a difference he celebrated and was ashamed of at the same time. He continued grooming the horse. Brush, stroke, brush, stroke.
“What are you doin’?”
( Read more... )
- The Walking Dead - Daryl & Carol - Untouchable
-
- quietfireca
- February 20th, 18:41
- thoughtful
This video has been brewing for quite some time. I really didn't care much for The Walking Dead the first season. I'm not a big fan of gore however talented the "costume" crew is. But when that wild man Daryl (if he was a person I met in real life he would scare me to death) brought the Cherokee Rose to Carol with such a beautifully eloquent presentation of the story behind it, I sat up straight and wanted to know more about him. Why does he care, why does he want to share and how does he know how to tell a story so well?
We know far more about Daryl than Carol, but an amazing bond developed there, initiated by him. We know from his conversation with Andrea that he understands being lost, as Sophia was lost, but in his case no one was looking for him. So he is an abused kid. And if you don't get it from that, you get it from his flinch when Carol leans over to kiss him. It's such a foreign concept to be touched with affection.
All we really know about Carol is that she lives with an abusive husband and has a loving healthy relationship with her daughter. She has faith, she often appears impassive, but tears will roll down her cheeks giving away the emotion inside. She is the total opposite of Daryl whose feelings boil under the surface and he will lash out and move into "attack mode" in an instant.
We get insight into his life and relationship with his brother Merle when he is hallucinating in pain, an arrow piercing his side. Their whole culture is based on contempt. I was left with the impression that Daryl tried hard to live up to Merle's reputation, but also wanted and needed to be unique.
So when I really listened to all of My Skin by Natalie Merchant, I knew this was a match that would work.
"Untouchable" was a repeated lyric. I knew that was perfect for Carol and Daryl, but Sophia became untouchable after she was bitten - that didn't occur to me until I was making the vid.
"Slow dying flower". Both Daryl and Carol are slow dying flowers who need saving. I hope they are sufficiently different in their needs that they can save each other. Unexpectedly, the Cherokee Rose, which represents hope in Daryl's story, can parallel the slow dying flower. Carol is ripping them out of the ground after Sophia's death.
"Contempt loves the silence, It thrives in the dark, with fine winding tendrils that strangle the heart" perfectly describes Daryl, especially now that he has isolated himself away from the group as he grieves the loss of Sophia. I hope Carol gets through to him and draws him back. She seems determined to do so.
"Angel sweet love of my life" of course was Sophia. Without her, this song would not have worked so well for these two. i.e. I would have had to do some fancy interpretation!
"Is it dark enough? Can you see me? Do you want me? Can you reach me? Or, I'm leaving" I have only once worked with clips that were so "fresh" and that was a instrumental piece of music (Loyalty), so it was stunning that these new clips just slipped perfectly into place after Sophia's death.
There are three clips included from last night's episode S2E9 and well, that's a whole 'nother subject. In the meantime....
My Skin - Natalie Merchant
Take a look at my body
Look at my hands
There's so much here that I don't understand
Your face saving promises
Whispered like prayers
I don't need them
I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
Well contempt loves the silence
It thrives in the dark
With fine winding tendrils
That strangle the heart
They say that promises sweeten the blow
But I don't need them, no I don't need them
I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
I'm a slow dying flower
Frost killing hour
The sweet turning sour and untouchable
O, I need the darkness
The sweetness
The sadness
The weakness
O, I need this
I need a lullaby
A kiss good night
Angel sweet love of my life
O, I need this
I'm the slow dying flower
frost killing hour
The sweet turning sour and untouchable
Do you remember the way that you touched me before
All the trembling sweetness I loved and adored
Your face saving promises whispered like prayers
I don't need them
No, I don't need them
I need the darkness
The sweetness
The sadness
The weakness
Oh, I need this
I need a lullaby
A kiss good night
Angel sweet love of my life
Oh, I need this
Well is it dark enough?
Can you see me?
Do you want me?
Can you reach me?
Or I'm leaving
You better shut your mouth
And hold your breath
kiss me now
And catch your death
Oh, I mean this
- All the Way / 4 U Valentine Video Collab
-
- quietfireca
- February 14th, 19:08
happy
Happy Valentine's Day!
I was lucky enough to catch a part in this awesome vid collab hosted by TatyanaOracle.
Here is my part with the blurb I wrote on YouTube and below is the full vid:
I chose Daryl and Carol from the Walking Dead for this Valentine's Day collab. What an unlikely pairing! Or is it?
He brings her a flower with a story about mothers' tears. He almost loses his life to find her lost daughter. It's a wonderful layer to a character that outwardly projects something much harder and uncaring. And she has her eyes open enough to see it.
The complete collab can be seen here:
http://youtu.be/I7DhXBWopaA?hd=1
Thanks to Tatyana for hosting and letting me play!! I loved my little piano interlude!
The full vid
