This is a Christmas fangift to Jei: one of two fanwallpaper ads for her *AWESOME* Gundam Wing fanfic, "Touch the World." (Merry Christmas, Jei!)

Read "Touch the World" at Jei's Turnip Patch:

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~jchew/misc/gw.html.


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Disclaimer/Credits:

I was originally going to make this into something more like a movie poster advertisement (since reading "Touch" is like watching a *REALLY* good movie), but movie ads are more vertical than horizontal, as opposed to the normal dimensions of a desktop wallpaper. So it's a wallpaper ad.

The hand/earth picture was clipped from the "Please Save My Earth" anime using VLC. The hand was originally going to be coming from the bottom, as was its original orientation, but the result was this weird hand-thing growing from Heero's back ::shudders::. So it was flipped the other way, and now it looks more like somebody playing basketball with the earth than reaching to touch it, but you know, you do what you can.

These gorgeous images of Duo and Heero were taken with permission from The Gundam Wing "I love Bishonen" site, a great place to get Gundam Wing images, scans, and loads of other goodies: http://ilovebshonen.stormloader.com/gwindex.html.

They aren't actually accurate to how Duo & Heero appear in the fic, but I can't draw fanart and the images were too lovely to resist. Version A has Duo with this mischevious/amused look on his face & Heero looking to the side. Version B has a More!Action!Angst! feel to it, with Duo looking angry and Heero looking angsty. Version A was made first. Then I did a variation of version A with the Duo from Version B and a different quote. But Heero was still the same (he fits in well with both!) and I don't like wallpapers that are too similar to each other, so out went Heero-to-the-side and in came Angst!Heero, resulting in the final form of version B. (Personally, I prefer Version A. It fits more with the mood of the novella.)

I'm not very good at making wallpapers. For much better anime/jrock wallpapers, check out the ones by my sister desert_spyder at our site, Anirock Crackpot: www.geocities.com/anirock_crackpot.

-karma
karmadedahlia@hotmail.com