The Sinking of the Laconia Slash Manip

[nanuk_dain]

Title: Comfort
Fandom: The Sinking of the Laconia
Pairing: Junior Third Officer Thomas Mortimer/ Commander Werner Hartenstein
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Comment: Oh my, I'm so in love with this pairing! I finally got my DVDs shipped today, so I can take high quality screenshots and make better manips - yay! ^_^ I should get back to working on my paper for uni. I really should. Really, really, really... but fandom is so much more fun! XD

Another gift for clonesgirl, because I know she'll appreciate the love ^_^

Summary: Hartenstein and Mortimer enjoy a moment of comfort in each other's arms.





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Comments

[clonesgirl]

The captain comforting Mortimer... *faints* ...and it's not with the awful heat here! OMG! This is so downright gorgeous it's making me cry. I haven't the foggiest notion how you did it but WOW this is amazing!!!

A {{{BIG HUG}}} to you from the other Hartenstein/Mortimer fan. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my slashy heart. :)

[nanuk-dain.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I had an inkling that you might like this one ^^ How did I guess..? XD *gets out her fan* Maybe that helps? At least with the weather-induced heat, I don't know if It'll help with the other kind of heat XD

I'm really happy about your response to this one. It took quite a lot of tweaking for it being a generally simple scene, and I wanted it to give off the right vibe. Seems I managed, and that's a good feeling. But I didn't intend to make you cry, hon! Here's a tissue *holds is out* And let me hug you to make it better ^_^

How I did this? Hmmm, tons of screencaps, a quite decent knowledge of Photoshop, a lot of patience, years of practise and a good imagination (understand this as 'dirty/naughty mind that sees slash everywhere and wants to realise it in a picture' XD). I've been manipping since 2009, and compared to my first attempts this is high art XD If you ever feel like it, check out my Masterlist (http://manor-archives.livejournal.com/354.html) and then you'll get an idea what I'm talking about (hint: the Lotr ones were the first ones, and wow, when I look at them today, I think they're quite bad... But I vowed to never return and change a manip once posted, because it would keep me from seeing a development. And it's a bit like cheating. And it would be a never-ending task XD)

Ohhh, did the other Hartenstein/Mortimer fan get pulled back in the fandom? Send a hug back from me ^^ It seems I might be able to interest a few people in the fandom too. I'm working on it. Spread the Hartenstein/Mortimer love. Maybe I should post the manips to rare_slash too, it might get the Laconia fandom a bit of interest?

PS: I really want to make you curious now: I've finished the next manip. This one's juicy. Prepare for some steamy-hot-sexy times XD

[clonesgirl]

To answer your question, the other Hartenstein/Mortimer fan disappeared when she ceased to beta for me ages ago. I swear I didn't overwork her! There was also yorkshirewench who made a bunch of TSOTL icons. I just checked her journal but everything seems to be gone. Same at Dreamwidth. I tried PMing her a couple of times but no response. Don't know what's happened to her. She had lots of icons from different fandoms on her journal.

Can't hurt to post a link to your manips to rareslash. You never know. After all, you found my fic there. Somebody else is bound to fall in love with your manips and hopefully their curiosity will be aroused! ;)

I had a look at your archives and they're wonderful. Fabulous manips! :)

[nanuk-dain.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, pity that the few active fans disappeared... But that happens a lot in small fandoms, especially because there's not that much activity. I've seen it happen time and again (I#m in wa too many small fandoms... -_-V). We just have to make the fandom mroe attractive by providing even more amazing fanworks, don't we? ^_^ I shall make that rare_slash post, then. Whatever helps.

Oh, thanks a lot, my dear! Manipping is my form of creative outlet when I really really want to actually see something and not just imagine it ^^ And sharing it is part of the fun.