Bonus points for slipping something geeky in there every once in a while. I tend to watch a lot of Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Doctor Who, lots of other dorky shows and read a lot of comics.
Well I have a great love for Firefly (a series that lived far to short a life!). The problem of course is that there really isn't much TG in Firefly (save for the movie Serenity). So instead of making the cap about the firefly universe, I figured I could throw in some quotes from the series including my favorite... "I'm a leaf on the wind... watch how I soar!"
I checked out several Firefly fan sites to see if I could shoehorn any other quotes in and found many memorable quotes that could fit. I liked the back and forth of the 'I never thought for a second that you'd be stupid enough to try' and 'Well that makes you kind of a tease'. So I based the story around that. To make it a little more obvious I used the character names from Firefly (Mal and Inara). I wrote up the story and it gave me a major case of the giggles. I now needed an image. I know, I know... I shouldn't have made a cap story without an image, but I was to caught up to care.
I started searching for an image. I figured I would just need a woman in a field of leaves. I didn't find many good images, but this one would do. As the image was rather boring, I added the leaf background to the text just to jazz it up a bit.
And the end result? Meh. If you take out the (rather obvious) Firefly references, this is just a subpar cap, with a subpar photo. Another lesson learned... make a great story and then you can pepper in pop culture references, instead of making a pop culture reference and base a story around it.
have to say I still enjoyed the references and the concept of body change through meditation. Can never complain when I see firefly references.
ReplyDeleteAww, I was hopin' you would work in the "by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you," quote ;)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty cap and you are correct that Firefly ended far too soon.