and before you know it, you are walking on air

*peeks in* Hello flist :)

I remember a time when I thought RL was just a myth D: I liked it better when I had time to do stuff other than working and stress over stupid RL stuff that I don't have to stress over :( In addition I feel like such a shitty flister, what with never leaving comments and forgetting to reply to emails /o\ I keep promising to do better but it looks to me like I'm failing to do so on every front. Why am I so faily? Ugh :(

Anyway, setting apart my faily self, there's this community you might want to check out: helpsomalia! I know there where people on my flist a couple of months ago who wanted to know if someone was going to set up a fandom auction to help fight the famine in the Horn of Africa. I'm not sure if I was just extremely distracted and completely missed the pimping of the comm or if it just flew under the radar but whatever, the offering posts are all still open so hop over there and take a look around? If you are interested, my thread is here.

And now a doodle! The lovely katie_andrew asked for a birthday doodle and prompted me with "Boys in Autumn" :)

( nothing says Autumn like skipping on fallen leaves )

Also also, a meme from my dear toodelicious :D

Comment to this entry and I'll give you a letter. List ten things, people, places, beings, thoughts, feelings, that you love that begin with that letter
and then post that list on your journal.

( She gave me the letter R :D )

So... My parents left this morning for Rimini and they'll be gone a week. This means my sister and I are going to blast music and eat all the delicious food and watch all the movies \o/ Tonight it's Tron. Yay or nay, flist? Give me all your movie recs! Smunchkin and I are pants at picking movies :\

In other news, I spent this morning doodling all the silly things. Like a Sid/Andy Regency!AU for sometimesalways (do I have to warn for really horrible art? Idk, but I AM WARNING YOU ANYWAY!). I also doodled a mystery!kid and after consulting my twitter people, we decided that he was Nathan, Brendon and Spencer's future adopted kid from eledhwenlin's (Airship) Pirates! :)

( a stroll on the pier )

What are your plans for the weekend, my lovelies?

Title: Tether
Fandom: Bandom
Pairing: Brendon/Spencer/Ryan
Rating: G
Notes: Illustration for No Mean Art by arsenicjade.
There is this scene in the story where the boys lie down in a blanketfort and keep each other anchored to one another that truly resonad with me.
Also, sources say that today is arsenicjade's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY arsenicjade! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with all of us :) *throws confetti*

( snip snip snip )

Yes you guys! Your eyes are no deceiving you! I am using the artsy icon :D

So, everyone knows how excited I am about BBB, right? Well, this year I somehow managed to snag myself a truly brilliant story (again! I can't believe how lucky I am when it comes to BBB claiming!) which is sunsetmog's Running in Slow Motion. I can't even beiging to tell you how much I love this fic, okay? There are moments in this story that just about made me tear up and others that made me grin so hard my face hurt. Drop whatever you are doing right now and go read this story!. And check out the mixes because they are brilliant!
Oh, yeah. I drew the fanart for it (which you can find here) but since it is also inline, you should just check out the story and see it in its context :)


A couple of days ago I told all the people who had a birthday I forgot about that they could ask for a special doodle.

My lovely xbeax asked for "Mark/Eduardo, Mark doing a grand gesture in order to win Eduardo's affection and Wardo being all *heart heart*".

( SitOnIt )

Dear jibrailis asked for something cute, which at the time translated to "Arthur hugging a giant mushroom".

( 1 Up )


and now I'm off to finish the art-fill for this adorable prompt, going on a comment spree and eat all the icecream I can find! And also begin my lurking experience in the x-men fandom...

I hope your weekend will be fabulous, darlings! ♥

So, one of my aunts up and went on vacation and asked me to cover her shifts at my mum's shop. WHY DID I SAY "OF COURSE, DEAR AUNT, DON'T YOU WORRY, I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT!". WHAT THE SHEEP WAS I THINKING? I am so tired, you guys /o\ I spent the mornings giving info on wigs and making appointment and taking calls and and and. Never again, flist. Never again.

Also, I found yesterday night/this morning that I'm due to post my reversebang piece on the first day of the fest. This is tragic in many ways, particularly the one where I AM POSTING ON THE FIRST DAY. ON A COMMUNITY. Why did I think signing up was a good idea? I'm blaming angelgazing.

Also also, on a TMI note, why must waxing hurt so much? Why?

Anyway, DOODLE TIME. Two quick doodles I did during my lunchbreak!

laria_gwyn got into a bit of road trouble the other day and she was feeling down and so I pfered to doodle her something quick. ( These mofos write their own road rules! )

This morning Ryan Ross used his twitter and tried to make me coo over his adorableness once again. I may have or may have not capitulated under his ruthless attack, but that is not important. What is important is that I had the sudden urge to draw Ryan as a faily spy (because we all know he would be the failiest spy ever) and then the Cult of the Yodel ganged up on me and ( we all know how this story ends. )


Oh, and speaking of doodles. I've seen this "fic commentary meme" around, but where is the "fanart commentary meme"? I want to know things about people's art, too! :(

You guuuuuys! ARE YOU LISTENING? ARE YOU? ASDFGHJKLJHGFDS I am so very excited! Those boys made us wait for a very long time but omg, it is finally here \o/ I have yet to listen to the whole album properly and form an opinion that is not, like, just excited flailing and dolphin noises, but I'm hoping to get around to that this WE :)

In the meantime, what better way to celebrate than to post Panic! art? With, uh, a DoctorWho twist? :D? (Question: should maybe invest in a "DW!AU" tag?)

Title: Inside the TARDIS
Fandom: Bandom
Characters: Doctor!Brendon, Companion!Spencer
Rating: G
Notes: ohohstarryeyed, who is a fount of love and cheer and should be awarded a Nobel for being so rad scones, was the other person who won my offer for qldfloodauction. She requested "Brendon and Spencer inside the TARDIS". I am one of those poor souls who have only the vaguest notions of what the DW universe entails (yes, yes. I know. How drab my life must be), so I apologize in advance for every glaring errors and also all the minuscule ones, but not for the medium ones :P
Many, many, many thanks to L for the beta, kisses to wethepainted for the handholding and a shower of chocolate cookies to devilswhore_x for helping me out with the ever-so-elusive reference pictures. You girls are the bestest ♥

( Inside the TARDIS )

Speaking of fandom being awesome and helpful, if you haven't done it already, please check out help_japan!

Happy Valentine's Day flist!
I hope it's as delightful for you as it was for me :)

If you have love to spare and share, hop over here for the multifandom V-Day meme, go read the chav!fic that is now complete, go back to the Inception Love Meme to spread more love!

ILU flist! <333

Hello flist.
Welcome to another doodle-dump post. Today's show features silly, crackish, AUish appearances from Arthur, Eames and Ariadne and the Panic! boys travelling through time and space aboard a blue police box. Do not judge me! I was prompted!

( Last week JGL unknowingly approved of these cupid shenanigans )

I tried to bribe angelgazing into writing a drabble for this, but not even ( Surfer!Eames did the trick )


Also, also. Someone should stop me from ( perpetrating this nonsense right now! )


Anyway, enough with the Inception blabbering. Let's move onto the Panic! boys who appear to have raided The Doctor's wardrobe! wethepainted agreed with me and then we decided to have an art exchange and she prompted me with ( Doctor!Brendon and Amy!Spencer )


Speaking of art exchange, would anyone be interested in one? The walls beside my desk are half empty (yes, I'm going the negative route here) and I'd love to clutter them up with doodles from my flist :3 They wouldn't be too elaborated or anything, just a simple doodle/sketch on the back of a postcard or something like that. So, um, idk, let me know?



I feel guilty about clogging your flist page with silly doodles so have some art recs that are actually worthy of your attention:

- This Sherlock-inspired drawing by wethepainted. I love love love Ace's style and this drawing is just precious. Look at all those curls! Look at the shading! Look at the draping of the skarf! ♥

- ordinaryink continues to bring artsy sparkle in my life. This week she did so with this gorgeous Goblin. I am utterly speechless and also a lot in love. ordinaryink has a way with colours that makes me want to weep in awe. Click on the link and come be amazed with me.

- I have this habit of strolling around DA (as in DeviantART, not DoodlersAnonymous) for hours and a while ago I stumbled over this brilliant brief explanation of colour theory by Purplekecleon (if flash doesn't work for you, you can see it here. Et si vous êtes français, il y a aussi une version française). I'm not sure how many people would be interested in this, but I thought I'd share anyway :)


In other news, I need to get my act together and finish my assignment for the eames_arthur exchange, resolve the stupid problems in my IBB piece, do the one for ReverseBang and turn the sketches for bandomvalentine into actual drawings. Deadlines, why must you breathe down my neck? Also, did I miss the BBB artists sign-up?

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I MISSED YOU SO EFFING MUCH! SO MUUUUUCH! Never leave me again, okay? Okay. Btw, the move went surprising well (except for the part where I can't find my sketchbook anymore D:) and we are slowly getting used to the new place and making it home :) I'll probably post some pictures later on when the house won't look like a storage space from hell.

A-hem. Before I start babbling about other stuff, let me thank saba1789 (we're gonna meet for sure! It is my goal for 2011!), coreopsis (omg the gnome! <333) and squashbee (kitty!Spok and puppy!Kirk ♥___♥ and the candycane :9 Also, it's February 28th ;)) for the lovely cards! They're so adorable <333 *smooches you forever*

Okay, so. I missed all the "end of year" memes which is, in fact, a good thing since nobody needs me to list all the silly stuff I did in 2010. There are, though, two things I didn't get to post last year.

The first one is the exclusive art I did for mfac. I love this fandom calendar like burning and being able to contribute to it for the second time was a true joy ♥ You can find Santa's Little Killjoys right here together with coreopsis's adorable story Lucky Thirteen.

The second drawing is the piece I did for yuletart :)

Title: Aim and Fire
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Rating: G
Warning: um. Guns.
Summary: Love means never having to watch your own back.
Notes: Originally posted here. This was drawn for xenakis_, who was my assigned giftee for yuletart. xenakis_'s prompt was "Arthur and Eames being kickass in a dream (and so in love)". I have to confess I angsted over this piece because I wasn't sure I could draw something good enough to make justice to this prompt. That's not to say I didn't have loads of fun when I decided what to draw, though <3
Also, uh, I need to credit the reference pictures I used because they were a big help. Drawing action poses is not one of my skills so the Way brothers were a true manna for figuring out Arthur and Eames' pose. fuckyeahghosttowns is a mine of stunning pictures and provided me with the one I selected as reference: an abandoned aquapark in Moscow. I cleaned it up and renovated the place to give the boys a setting where to show us that covering each other's back means I love you in kickass speak.
Also, also! Many, many, many thanks to L for the tireless beta and a shower of chocolate kisses to angelgazing who held my hand when I was ready to pencil-stab my sketchbook and brainstormed with me <3

( Love means never having to watch your own back )


Okay, now that that is taken care of, make way for the first doodle of 2011! Just before the holidays, delires had a Spread the Happy fest where people could ask her for ficlet/recs/pictures/whatyouhave that would make them happy. I asked for lit recs (because I'm always starving for them) and not only she delivered delightful recs, delires also wrote me an utterly charming original ficlet I spazzed over like a demented windmill (and that everyone should read because it is so freaking adorable I don't have words for it, okay?). I was so overjoyed with all these awesome gifts that I offered to draw something for her in exchange and since delires and I share a burning love for Perrault's Donkeyskin, she asked for a drawing of one of Donkeyskin's dresses. I am so very late in delivering this drawing (damn rl), but it is finally here.

Rating: G for Garments! one day, I'll tire of these lame puns...
Fandom: Is there a fandom for Perrault? I want one.
Notes: This is "the dress as bright as the Sun", the second dress Donkeyskin ask her father for. Dear delires, it is very clear that I would be a crappy stylist, but I hope you'll like this dress anyway ♥

( Tim Gunn would be appalled )


And now... WHO IS EXCITED FOR inception_bang? I AM SO VERY EXCITED \:D/ And I have internet back which means I won't miss anything :DDD (and, ahah, I'll be able to send in the fanart I did for it *sighs in relief*) Also! I'm sure everyone already knows about this but I am starry-eyed over it so bear with me! harlequincepted opened up shop \o/ You wouldn't believe the hearteyes I made when I found out about it! I am so very excited about it too \o/ \o/ \o/

Oh! Speaking of harlequins! Does anyone know if bandomvalentine will run again this year? It was such a lovely excuse to doodle/read teethrotting fluff without feeling guilty about it <3

Off to find that blasted sketchbook. Feel free to leave me a comment with all the things I missed during my forced hiatus! *hugs you all very tight* *never lets go*

All my books are packed away and this house has never felt so empty :( I can't believe we're leaving this house in two weeks and we are all getting kind of bummed. The funny thing is that the house itself seems to be sad we are leaving and during the past two weeks it has started channeling Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (thank god we didn't get mouldy walls, only stuff breaking down... usually on my head /o\).

Anyway! Things that have distracted me from the mountains of boxes that took over every single room:

- mfac! I love this advent calendar so much! Every day I get to open a door and find something from one of my fandoms or open a door and find something from an old fandom (oh the memories!) or open a door and BAM! NEW FANDOM! :DDD

- The Multi-Fandom Cuddling Meme! This meme keeps being awesome! Remember the Brendon/Spencer cuddle I doodled for it? A LOVELY ANON WROTE A FICLET FOR IT It is so freaking adorable! Everyone click on the link and bask in the adorable and tell my anon how awesome they are <333

Also, I doodled some more cuddles: Cuddlejoys! Post-apocalyptic cuddles FTW!

- The lovely delires gave me a bucketful of happiness in the form of amazing Lit recs! ♥

- The Killjoy Art Meme I don't know how I missed this... or, okay, I know how (boxes and boxes and more boxes to fill and tape shut), but still. Anyway, you should all wander over there and dl the ray gun lineart and make your very own killjoy weapon! And also draw yourselves as a Killjoy!

- This Multifandom dance moves reel video! I am particularly in love wih the Bowie bits (Jareth! ♥____♥)

- The fact that yuletart started posting \o/ I love all the art! ALL OF IT! Pssss... Inception people! Check out the latest post! It is so freaking good!

- The fact that tomorrow is draft claiming day over at inception_bang (how stupid I was to sign up as an artist? A LOT! What was I thinking? I CLEARLY WASN'T THINKING!)

What distracted you from the frenzy that is the holiday season?