Art, mostly

I have not been diligent about LiveJournal. I should probably update on some current events, so here are some things that have happened/will happen soon!

• The Library of Congress thing went well! Thank you again to the people who showed up to show support, you are all wonderful. I hear there is going to be a webcast of the thing going online some time, but I haven't heard any news of it. Maybe that is for the best!

• I am going to be in Japan from June 4th to June 15th! I'm probably going to have sporadic internet access, so apologies in advance if I'm super slow to reply during that time. There will be Johnny Wander updates as usual. I'm sorry, but this is going to be an extremely tightly-scheduled trip (I'm mostly visiting family), and I won't be able to go out of my way to meet up with anyone.

• We're moving right after I come back from Japan. This summer is going to be so hectic... I've realized, I haven't lived any place for longer than a year since high school. And my book collection is now significantly larger than it was while I was in high school. =_=

• I keep on forgetting, so I'll do it now. My pal (and yours) sheepyrai is doing an excellent recap blog of the Twilight series. As a person who has been trying to keep the series at an arm's length, it is both hilarious and mystifying.

I do not have so much art scanned, but I'll share a bit! I'll try to scan in more things before I leave!

( Pictures and variations of a girl and cats. Stupid Star Trek fanart. What have I become. )

We have this totally awesome paper monster face taped on our front door from Halloween. We put it there just before Halloween as a hopeful invitation to trick-or-treaters to knock on our door. Unfortunately, there is a Real Neighborhood with Real Houses right next to our shoddy apartment complex, and all of the kids went over there.

Perfect transcription of neighbor's comments directly outside our door from Just Now:

"And like, check out our neighbor's door. It's like, what's the point."

Whatever, ladies. Just wait until we have our construction paper hand-turkeys out there, then you'll see.

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In any case.

I had this silly idea for an easy artistic/writing meme today. Character Post Secret. Write/draw out secrets from your characters in a Post Secret style. It doesn't really matter if it entirely touches the heart at whatever they're feeling, you can't get the whole story with a real Post Secret message, either. Just, y'know, make it as though they'd made it.

( and you don't have to feel bad because they're not real secrets! )

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( also, I drew a thing today. )

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And to further implicate me of SHAMING NERDLYNESS, Ananth recently picked up the first volume of Tezuka's Black Jack and I'm hooked. The guy was House before House was House and probably a good majority of the inspiration for Ginko from Mushishi. I've been spending my evenings trying to find episodes of the many animes that were based on the books. If you like really silly medical dramas about badass dudes who can't dress themselves properly, this may be the series for you.

OH MAN HI PEOPLE WHO WERE AT CONNECTICON IT WAS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU! :D Sorry if you were looking for me, I was holed up in the hotel room doing work for most of the con. S--sorry I didn't put anything up publicly about my going, I mostly helped at Ananth's table when I was at the convention, and I knew I wasn't going to have much of a presence. I will be at Otakon though! And for some reason I have a table, that's suprising!

On a selling-things-at-Otakon note, we've been watching Battlestar Galactica lately at the apartment, and we're up to the beginning of the third season. (p-please don't spoil anything in the comments ;_; ) I've finally put those buttons together that I've been itching to do. Feel like helpin' a gal out?



( some variations )

I'll do a post with the prints I'm doing for Otakon later. XD I can't promise much. :/

I finished finally reading the last Harry Potter book today. Admittedly, mostly so I could go back and finally read buttfacemakani's backlogs.

I Very Badly need to update my Flickr account. I have photos from four conventions from this year that people have been bugging me about as well as lots of Homemade Food photos and Doing Dumb/Mildly Illegal Shit With Roommates photos. But spending the better part of an afternoon resizing pictures is not my bag. I guess I will just have to bite the bullet and do it eventually. But not now.

In the meantime, here are a few assorted photos and scattered art. (warning: image-heavy)

( THIS SUMMER WAS CRAFT SUMMER )

( AT SOME POINT WE WENT TO TORONTO? )

( BLUEBERRY PICKING AND THE SUBSEQUENT PIE THAT FOLLOWED )

( CATS!!! !!! !!! !!! !!! )

( AND SOME OTHER THINGS? )