and before you know it, you are walking on air

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO devils_whore AND laria_gwyn!

Because of RL being less than cooperative I missed Shannen's actual birthday so here's a special picspam of stuff that I know she'll like :D

( cool stuff! )

hello hello! How have you been my lovelies? I have sort of fallen into the canyon of deep despair that is pre-finals month + RL being less that decent + me being more spazzy than usual. Whatever.

What I wanted to say is that today is Monday, but it's a very awsome one because it is chaotically_clev's birthday :D Here is the faily Hunger Games inspired birthday card I drew for her.
And speaking of Hunger Games (I hinaled the whole trilogy the past weekend and I AM HAVING ALL THE FEELINGS HOW SHALL I EVER RECOVER ;___;) my most dearest angelgazing wrote this utterly perfect ficlet, which wrenched my heart in all the best ways and I urge you to go read it and tell her how amazing she is and that she needs to write more! This Is the World We Wanted, run don't walk!

What else, what else... Oh yeah, remember the Epiphany doodles? They are all posted :D We had two TSN doodles, two Clint/Darcy and a bb!Thor, three Arthur/Merlin being silly and four Brendon/Spencer being adorable :) Ah, that was fun *twirls* I might do it again for the next festivity... what are your thoughts on Valentine powerdoodling?

And here, have some miscellaneous recs:

• first up, two TSN fics: Dreaming the Shades of Dawn and Dusk by smiles1777 is a Sleeping Beauty inspired story and it wrenched my heart right out of my chest. I was quite the teary mess when I finished it but don't let the image of my blotchy red face stop you from reading it because it truly is beautiful. Brushstrokes by hitlikehammers is another piece of utter charm: Eduardo hasn’t always been a painter, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t art inside his soul the whole time, nonetheless. It might just be that any story in which a character struggles with and talks about the creative process makes me feel a little less alone in the world and therefore makes me kinda biased, but believe me when I say that this story is lovely and you won't be disappointed.

• Pretty music from this faraway land I inhabit: Elisa's Love is requited (link goes to official video, here is a live performance and here is an mp3 download)

• Nerds and male privilege, definitely worth a read :)

• The Hunger Games Ponies! I can die happy now :D

• Animation Concept Art Tumblr. What the tin says! This is quite the delightful little blog and it has a lovely background music (if I'm not mistaken, it's the Peter Pan soundtrack - the one with Jason Isaac, not the Disney cartoon)

And now excuse me, but I have loads of things to do... like finding a decent hairdresser to buzz off half of my hair. Or convice my mum to wield an electric rasor. Whichever. *skips away into the webz*

My lovelies! Do you know what time it is? It's HOLIDAY CARDS TIME \O/
You know the drill: you fill the poll, you get a handmade card from me come December :)

[Poll #1787605]

If you want a card leave me your snail mail address in the comments (which are screened!) or send me a PM or email or a homing pidgeon :)

HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY, photoclerk!!!
I wish you the very best birthday ever, bb! May it be full of delicious cake and pretty presents and all the love you deserve (which is a lot!) ♥

( come see your bday card! )

I also promised unaccompanied_g a doodle for missing her birthday! She asked for Tangled fluff :D

( Swing my hair back and forth )


In other news, I am super behind on everything! I keep meaning to do stuff and then something happens and my fannish plans get derailed :(
Anyway, assorted drive-by recs for you!

Thanks to ohohstarryeyed and her reccing ways I managed to read two BBB today: Cute Girls (Just Wanna Have Fun) and I'd Hate to See You Frown. Both really enjoyable! Check them out :)

This BBB fanart by undeny is gorgeous! The textures in this are so beautiful, you should all click on the link and leave the artist buckets of praises!

themostepotente wrote a bandom ficlet! Go read it now because it is lovely!

A truly gifted anonymous person wrote a fill for a "Hipster!Eduardo" prompt over at the TSNkinkmeme. When I say I want to wrap myself in this fic and never let it go I'm being extremely serious. To be honest, I want to print it and paste it into my notebook and then read it forever and ever.

Pixar released the first trailer for Brave. YOU COULDN'T BELIEVE THE HANDFLAPPING I'M DOING RIGHT NOW :DDD Everyone should watch it and then come here so we can flail together about how gorgeous Merida's hair is!


And now, a question for you, my dear flist: is there a "The Mentalist" fandom? If yes, where could I find all the words about Agent Cho being his amazing kickass self?

A-hem.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY saba1789! HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY wethepainted!
I wish you both the most wonderful of birthday! You are amazing people and you deserve all the happiness and cake in the world! *smooches you both*


So. PersonalLife-wise, this week has been the worst I've had in years... I apologise if I somehow managed to make your twitter feed look like a whiny-palooza (from now on there will only be cheery things, I promise!). All the while, though, fandom at large and you in particular, my dear flist, were a neverending party of happy-making things! I'll never be able to thank you enough or write a coherent enough sentence to express how much awesome I think you all are *hugs you all breathless* I♥U ALL!

And speaking of fandom being the kindest entity ever, here is what came out of my offer for the first round at help_japan :)

Title: Tea at dawn + One-Sided Conversation
Fandom: Inception
Characters/Paring: Arthur/Eames + Edie the kitty <3
Rating: G (One day, G. One day I'l grow a pair and I'll ban you into oblivion!)
Notes: Soooo... The worderful zeto has a heart full of love and kindness and sparkling cupcakes. No really, I'll never understand how fandom can be so full of amazing, loving people and not explode in a mushroom cloud of glittering, unicorn-shaped confetti. Anyway! zeto won my offering over at help_japan and asked me to illustrate a scene from her delightful story Near Perfect, wherin Arthur is owned by a cat ♥ Also, since zeto offered way more than I was expecting, I felt just one drawing wasn't enough... so I drew her an extra doodle of another scene from her fic :)
Thanks to Smunchkin for the superquick beta <333

( Purr purr meow )

And now, off to leave some love all over the places! I am so behind on reading and commenting and replying to emails omg! If you are waiting for a reply for me I AM NOT IGNORING YOU! I AM JUST AWFUL AT MANAGING TIME! I'll do my best to do all the things in the shortest time possible! Cross my heart! *runs off*

*runs back* If you think I should absolutely know/read/see something, please to be telling me here, okay? Okay! See you soon :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BB!



I WISH YOU THE RADSCONES-EST BIRTHDAY EVER BB, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU DESERVE AND SO YOU SHALL HAVE IT! :DDD MAY IT BE FULL OF CAKE AND SWEETS, SPARKLING CONFETTI AND LOVE, ADVENTUROUS DINOSAURS AND THEIR INTREPID COMPANIONS AND MOST OF ALL, MAY IT BE FULL OF JOY!

*smooches you breathless*