It was WONDERFUL.
SOOOOOOOO WONDERFUL. And fabulous. And horrible. And fabulously awesome, and I wonder how long it will take me to recover enough that I stop screaming in joy and bursting into tears at odd moments. So good. So joyful and full of amazing moments. I was crying and laughing and whooping, generally at the same time.
So many moments. So many things I had hoped to see but never thought I would. So many I never would have expected. So many things I was curious about but never expected to be addressed. But were. Quite a few things I definitely did NOT want to happen.
I keep bawling. But it was so wonderful.
Thank you, so much, so very much, Joanne K. Rowling, for such a wonderful gift as is the gift of these books, this world, and these characters. And thank you for the philosophies of love, family, and what’s really important that runs underneath them, and through them. Thank you.
And now, SPOILERS.
Initial impressions, Harry Potter 7 SPOILERS
I am cloistered and sequestered.
I have “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in my hands.
Yesterday I finished rereading books 5 and 6, and napped.
I will reemerge into the world after I have read the tale that Rowling has wrought.
Then I will put forward my thoughts and scour for the thoughts of others.
And I hope to be as happy with the entirety of Harry’s saga as I am with its parts.
I’m very excited.
Hope everybody had a lovely Easter!
Last Thursday I went with my best friend Junebug and her sister to see WICKED in Houston.
Oh, so fabulous. XDDDDÂ DeFYing GRAVITY!
After hearing about it all over livej, I picked up a copy of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” last week. I usually avoid anything of the “Teen Vampire Romance” genre (3 novels of Amelia Atwater Rhodes’ Mary Sue glorifications having finally pushed me over the edge of disgust with anything with the word ‘vampire’ in it), but all the fangirling and some very warm recommendations got me curious. After visiting Stephenie Meyer’s website and discovering that she is an LDS mom who graduated from BYU (whoohoo!), that she also pays warm and friendly attention to her fanbase, and is a-round adorable and fabulous, I just had to read it.
Bella, awkward, shy, angsty and depressive, is a very sympathetic character midst all the angst and I quite love her. Edward, as I expected, is too perfect, and I wasn’t entirely convinced as to why he would fall in love with Bella, (me being one who has lost all credulity when it comes to beings with an almost incontrollable urge eat something ever being able to be sexually or romantically attracted to that thing, and also being one who doesn’t find wanting to be eaten a turn on. :} ) We WANT Edward to fall in love with her, however, and he does everything to show that he is in love, so, like with all happy shippy fanfiction, we go with it.
The Cullens rock in general, Alice in particular, and I want more of all of their characters. Twilight is wonderfully written, a fun, enjoyable ride, with many scenes that fill my heart with girly glee. At the end I felt it was great stuff, but not fandom (or fangirl) inducing to myself. I had had plenty of spoiler warnings about the 2nd book from a friend who despises it, so I was going to wait for the library copy to become available before I would read New Moon.
After two days I caved and went out and bought it.
Yep, I’ve been caught.
Having been so warned and spoiled about most of the plot of New Moon (reading the 3rd book summary teaser spoils one of the major mysteries of book 2), I was able to take its turns in stride and actually enjoy it. It is quite wonderful. After reading through all the online info available about why Stephenie did what she did, I think the major plot weakness of the book was…[New Moon SPOILERS] » Continue Reading
This is totally not to make anybody jealous, but, WHEEEEEE!
It arrived yesterday.
Merimask made this Kohaku mask for me. Happy BIRTHDAY to me! More pics in her entry for it here.
A few weeks ago, Merimask asked me if I wanted to barter: a painting by me of Sesshoumaru for one of her leather masks. She makes the most gorgeous masks.
I said “HECK YEAH!” and before I could start on my half, she’d finished this beautiful mask and sent it to me. ^__^
I finished the painting today, hopefully I can manage to scan it tomorrow. It’s bigger then the scanner.
(For the curious, that’s my bedroom wall, and the prints are paintings by Kinuko Craft, Mucha, and Waterhouse. :)
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The pretty Kohaku on my wall inspired me to finish one of my fanart100 pieces I’ve had sitting on my harddrive waiting to be colored for over a year.
Thunder.
You would think it would be easy to find reference pics of people with under-lit faces, and of models striding forward. But when you try to search for them, they’re almost impossible to find! Gwah! I must be using the wrong search words.
I found some, but it took longer then I wanted. XP
—Dogwood Blossoms, Inuyasha Fancomic, Chapter 2, p. 1-7, posted: here
Another quick blog to say:
Noein. Noein, Noein, noein, noein, noein, noein,noein,noein,noein! (Don’t read the wiki, you’ll spoil yourself rotten. Like I have.)
I’m on episode 15, and it is so wonderful Fabulous Wonderful loveLOVElove.
Quantum physics, and obsessive transdimensional timewarping love. Wack ugly chara designs, wild awesome fights with choral soundtracks (yes!), mindbending juxtapositions of bizarre scifi action and sweet home-town childhood life. LOVE, so much LOVE.
And of course, I’m a shipper. Yuu is such an everlasting angst-muffin.
WHOO! NOEIN!!
I have my life back!
My job has gone back down from 84 hours/week, to 48 h/w (four 12’s). whooph. I have time for things again, hallelujah. And I paid off my car, which is good. :)
Thanksgiving was lovely, with everyone home, plus my brother Tim’s new wife and her parents. 11 people in the house for two nights, 5 on air mattresses, including myself.
We had another reception here in Texas for the newlyweds. That’s a common custom among LDS people when a couple from two different states get married, though usually the 2nd reception isn’t a month after the wedding. It was a lovely reception. I was in charge of the music; I gathered together 3 hours of love songs for it–UknowUloveit. ;)
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Okay, is there mayhap anyone among my friends who would be interested in being a proofreader/idea bouncer on an Inuyasha Sess/reincarnated!Rin fan comic/doujinshi/fanfic I’ve been working on?
Yes, I know I should be spending my time on something less frivolous, but its a story I’ve been wanting to see told, but since no one has written it, so of course I have to. And once I started writing, I started wanting to draw it too, so now there are already 7 pages inked.
So, anyone interested in at least looking over it before I post it for the world to see and likely get flamed out of my mind because of all the OCs I’m incorporating and the fact that Sess doesn’t even show up in the 1st chapter?
I’m getting over my art block! Yay!
My computer time is limited, so all non-digital media. I have a hard time calling markers and colored pencils ‘traditional’ or ‘natural’ media, since they aren’t natural at all, and not that traditional, unless we are only looking at 50 years of art history. Hehheh.
Y’all thought perhaps I had abandoned my Fanart100 goal? Nope!
Spirited Away fanart: (click)
1. Beginnings.
Here’s some sketch compilations from my blocked period, when this was as much as I could get out:
X-men Comics
There’s this absolutely wonderful though not greatly ethical becausetheartistsaren’tgettingpaid run of torrents called Chronological X-men, through which you can immerse yourself in 30+ years of X-men storylines, in as close to chronological order as possible, and get some idea of all the wacky things American comic characters go through in multiple decades. The original X-men comics were really cheesy. XD I like the later stuff better. I’ve only really read 2004 through 2005 so far (but there’s a LOT of that), and here’s some opinions: » Continue Reading
