A Safe Space for Moogles

What with the s_d debacle, I've been thinking about how integral fandom communities are to their chosen worlds.

( On intellectual property rights, censorship, dreams, and Han Solo. )

Cracked 20,000 words! YES!!!

And it only took me a year and a half, good god. I would choke on NaNoWriMo. XP But this is only the beginning! I'm not gonna stop here!

Also, if I ruled the world, homophobes would be subjected to this daily until either they Got Over It or their heads exploded. Or at the very least there would be a video of that incident up on YouTube.

And there would also be an Annual International Big Damn Hero Award. Any nominations? Give me faith in the human race again, people! :D

- Cracked 15,000 words in my novel last night. Stayed up 'til midnight to do it, of course, but sometimes you have to sacrifice things in order to pursue more important goals.

- I broke my A/V class's collective brain this morning. Says my professor: "I had a dream I was watching the last Bob Barker episode of The Price Is Right, where he brought out Drew Carey." I piped up thus: "And then they brought out the whipped cream." Good luck scrubbing that image out of your heads, boys! >D (Ultimately, I blame the lack of sleep.)

- Speaking of A/V class, anyone in the Dayton-ish area want to help me out with a script reading on Saturday? (Since, y'know, I actually have weekends back.) Not sure what I'm doing yet, but I'll probably bang out a quick Shakespeare spoof or something. Er... I'll feed you! :D

- Re: the Iron Man movie trailer - am I supposed to sympathize with the main character? I dunno, I'm used to the Spider-Man type, dorky Everyman and all that, but good lord that guy does not make me want to sit in a theater and watch him for two hours. And the suit looks like it came out of one of the cheesier sentai shows. ...Hm. Iron Man vs. Power Rangers? A battle for the ages!

Three quarters from graduation and I have this sinking feeling I'm going to get my ass kicked. Illustration Techniques seems straightforward enough, but the prof's already talking about portfolio work in Advanced Design and I'm already behind in Audio/Video thanks to an administrative mishap. Eek. (Fortunately, my first homework in that class gives me an excuse to watch Beast Wars again.) Between that, looking for a job, and Renfest... *checks springkink claims list* ...yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be posting some stuff late, since all of my upcoming fics are refusing to be drabblefied. (Tomorrow, Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday... what was I thinking?)

( A little flowerverse blather, too. Why not? )

Friday night - despite having had only six hours of sleep the night before, I got together with ravynfyre, poptartodoom, and lunatron to go see Transformers in Imax. ...or in this case, "slightly larger screen." And in case you were wondering, the extra footage was disappointing. Just more squishies. -_- Still! The "Autobots Descend" scene was just as squeak-inducing the second time around, and I got to hang out with my friends and make a fannish fool of myself! And crash and burn at the arcade. Racing games, like every other game that doesn't involve extensive menus, are not my forte.

And instead of going right to bed like I should have afterwards, I stayed up and kicked genocidal ass in FFVII. Didn't even need KotR. ^_^

Saturday - ravynfyre and me at the Renfest! Ravyn was smashing in her shieldmaiden dress and she got to do parade with me. ^_^ Also also also, I was actually funny! Granted, most of that was because of a prop one of the food-booth dudes gave me (my "stool sample." Draw your own conclusions) but I also told a girl that the fake ears, toes and fingers in the Viking booth "make good soup." I thought she was going to throw up all over me. XD Of course, the highlight of my day was when the queen asked me to bring her a pretzel. I must have run around half the fair looking for a stupid pretzel dude, before I finally cheated and got one at the source. Of course, not ten minutes later I saw both pretzel dudes. Gah!

Sunday morning, of course, I woke up feeling like death warmed over, tried to snap out of it by eating breakfast, gave up, went back to bed and slept 'til noon. A light lunch and a three-hour nap later I finally watched Advent Children, which nearly made me 'splode from shiny. And now I'm more or less back to normal, energy-wise.

...I don't have any excuse for not working on my Fluffiroth fic now, do I? CURSES. (Except, you know, springkink.)

Today's my first day at my new job! EEEEE!

EDIT: My final project in Advanced Photoshop, a.k.a. Briar and Laramie being fluffy at each other. It's as done as it's gonna get. *hides*

Yep, the meme just won't die. From apprentice_lurk:

( Set 1 )

From fluffymormegil:

( Set 2 )

And from seiberwing:

( Set 3 )

And, this is the preliminary sketch for my final project in Advanced Photoshop: Laramie, Briar, sappiness.

Not much on content, but it sure is purdy.

Oh, WebDev class. You may be boring and slow, but you let me play in Photoshop. And since this is basically my final project and I'm three weeks ahead of schedule, I'm tempted to make a home page for Flowerverse. (It has a fandom before it's even written! You can't imagine how much this warms my heart.) Or maybe I'll make a web page for my wingthing. She's already got her own tag on LJ, it's only a matter of time before she meta's anyway. XD

Also... the Five Questions meme! It's baaaaaa-aaack! >D These are from my dear navigatorsghost. ( Muahahahaha! )

Issa Rose Bearer book cover!

Advertising can go screw itself; this is hella fun. ^_^

(Now I just have to go write the dratted book.)

As if 50kinkyways wasn't enough... XD Anyway, this from 50originals and I'm using it for my original fic, The Rose Bearer.

( Follow the bouncing link! )