My Sister
March 27, 2002 - a while back, the lyrics to this song (Juliana Hatfield Three's "I miss my sister") came to me out of the blue; I don't know why, I don't even have a copy of it, and haven't heard it in ages. But it just seemed very àpropos for the Buffy/Dawn relationship, especially
this season. So I filed it away in my "ideas for future collages" and there it sat until yesterday when I
decided that the future was now. It was ornery though. I tinkered with and scrapped 3 or 4 completely different layouts and sets of images before finally managing to decide on this one, inspiration striking this morning. The coloring is mainly the product of putting a turqoise layer set to exclusion over everything, and masking out certain parts. Also adjustment layer with the neutral colors tweaked a bit to give it this rosy look. I also blurred the masks on the individual images a lot more than I usual do, resulting in a lot more translucency. The little corner accent shapes and the brush I used to degrade the outer border come from aircrash.nu. Vered's watercolor brush (veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush) makes a light guest appearance over the top of the image area. The lyric font is Bradly Hand, the script font Palace Script. The quote at the bottom if from Normal Again, when Dawn is trying to convince Buffy that Sunnydale (herself included) is real.
Complete lyrics (ones used in bold)
My sister...
My sister...
My sister
I hate my sister; she's such a b_tch
She acts as if she doesn't even know that I exist
But I would do anything to let her know I care
But I am only talking to myself 'cause she isn't there
My sister...
I love my sister, she's the best
She's cooler than any other girl that I have ever met
She had the greatest band, she had the greatest guy
She's good at everything and doesn't even try
She's got a wall around her nobody can climb
She lets her ladder down for those who really shine
I tried to scale it, but to me she's blind
So I lit a firecracker; went off in my eye
I miss my sister; why'd she go?
She's the one who would have taken me
To my first all-ages show
It was the Violent Femmes and the Del Fuegos
Before they had a record out, before they went gold
And started to grow
I miss my sister.
I miss my sister.
I miss my sister.
I really miss her.