and before you know it, you are walking on air

I you follow me on twitter I apologize for the double spam... BUT OMG KITTY!

Aunt S found this little ball of fluff yesterday.



Someone had tossed her into a dumpster >:( (I know violence doesn't resolve anything... but that person better pray I never find them.)
Anyway, she called me right away and asked me if I maybe wanted to give her a home. Damn right I wanted to! So um, yes, meet Zulu :)

( meow )

I have so many feels, you guys. My sis and I are kind of smitten with her already and dad's been wipping out the camera non-stop and mum is all hearteyed and Milla is sad because Zulu doesn't want to play with her yet :(

BTW, I fell into a dateless vacuum last week so I'm superlate with these but HAPPY BIRTHDAY wethepainted and saba1789! Your cards are on the way :)

ION, there's the slight possibility that come September/October I won't be living here anymore. Here being Italy... *enigmatic smile* *is awkward* *coughs*

Also, a bunch of random links!( oh shiny! )

So, what's up lovelies? <3

Hey lovelies! Have you survived the Christmas madness? We had Christmas on the 23rd this year 'cause the parents decided to go away for the weekend (so my childhood wish of opening the presents early finally got granted \o/ I only had to wait 20 years...) Also, thank you for all the cards and pressies! You are all awesome and I wish I could group hug all of you right now! <3333

Anyway, I know you're probably all holiday-ed out, but I have awesome things to link to, so bear with me, yeah?

Thing the 1st: mfac was a complete joy this year too and if you haven't had the time to check it out before, I urge you to do so now because every door was chockfull of delightful fandom stuff! saba1789 was the best host ever and allowed me again to participate to the calendar. This year I decided to go the multifandom way, because 2011 has been the year I fell in love with all the fandoms that crossed my path. You can find the drawing here, but really, you should check out all the entries!

Thing the 2nd: dear sarahyyy wrote me the most adorable Ariadne/Yusuf ficlet :3 Go read Tea for Two and be charmed!

Thing the 3rd: OMG, you guys! I received two awesome mixes from my Santa person over at tsnsecretsanta :D I have been listening to them all day long and I keep bouncing in my seat and you should really check them out and shower thatsapplejack in praise and love!

Thing the 4th: COME PLAY OVER AT grimm_kink! We have vintage props pretty violinists him! :D

Thing the 5th: seeing as lj is on a mean track lately, you might want to consider backing up your journals on Dreamwidth. I've been crossposting since the last lj fail and while dW is not as shiny as lj (used) to be, it's still a lovely place to go play and you won't need an invite code to create an account until New Year's Eve (and if you'll need one later, I should have some to hand out :)).

And on a not-very-awesome note, I haven't been able to mail some cards yet because I fail at time management, but don't despair! I'm setting up camp in front of the post office tomorrow!

*surprise tacklehugs* Hello my lovelies :D
I've been kind of sucked into the Bottomless Work Vortex of Doom and thus completely failed at having a healthy life on the interweb shores :\ I'm slowly backreading my friendpage but it is possible that I'll throw the towel at about skip=200 /o\

Anyway! Some lovely people celebrated their birthday this past week! Happy birthday to raffie79 and my other half angelgazing and the lovely calmgravity and my precious sometimesalways! I wish all of you the very best wishes and all the sparkles and buckets of happiness ♥

As of two days ago the bids are closed over at helpsomalia! If you made an offer/bid please go check it out and act accordingly :)

Speaking of fandom stuff, I am now on pinboard, but I still wander around on delicious in the hope that they'll get their act together :(
Also, Pottermore! I just realized I never said, I was sorted into Slytherin! *fangs up* it was quite the surprise because I was really sure I'd end up in Hufflepuff. My sister cackled for a good half hour when I told her and my dad just plain laughed in my face, pointed finger and all, and my mum made a D: face, scrunched her nose and said "isn't that the bad House?". I felt so very loved right then -__- btw, my name there is DreamFeather124 :)

And now it's time for your bimonthly links dump of stuff that I findis awesome \o/

- Last week I stumbled upon this artist, Stefano Faravelli and promptly fell in love with his work. Apart from browsing his site, you should all watch this video in which he shows his cluttered studio (where I want to go live for the rest of forever OMG. I believe sunsetmog would want to come look at the delightful clutter, too!) and some of his travelling journals (which are the most gorgeous things ever). The video is in Italian, but believe me you really want to fill your eyes with his lovely work.

- Draw a stickman. Run don't walk! This is the best way to waste time on the internet :D

- Two videos for you! A dog puppeteer that will blow your mind and the most adorable vid I saw this week featuring singing small potatoes

- Everything I ever wanted in a fairy book everrrr! No really, it is the most gorgeous book about fairies I've seen lately and I want everything featured in the shop and I might just die if I don't get my hands on the organizer *____*

- In conclusion, everyone should write me fic in every fandom (but especially TSN!) based on this ANIMAL TALKING IN ALL CAPS post. You know you want to! :D?
ETA OMG chaoticallyclev is THE VERY BESTEST TO EVER BEST! Click and read and tell her how awesome she is omgggg!

Hey flist, welcome to yet another entry full of links to awesome things!

Before I get to the linkage, though, let me wish a happy belated birthday to all the August babies! I 've been extremely flakey re:bday cards this year /o\ If you are inclined to make me feel less guilty about forgetting your birthday, you could leave me a prompt and I'll draw you a quick doodle :)

Okay, on to the linkage.

Lately I've been dipping my toes into all kinds of new fandoms and while I love the rush of reading all the back cathalogs, the fact remains that there's little to no long fics :( The good news, though, is that someone, somewhere, had a stroke of genius and opened smallfandombang :D This is your chance to write me all the longish fics in all the tiny fandoms :D Go forth and check smallfandombang out!

Speaking of small fandoms, South Park has eaten my brain and now I want to read Stan/Kyle 24/7. If you, like me, can't dedicate that much time to that most happy task, be sure to read at least these two gems:

Touch Me, I'm Invincible by delires
Stan and Kyle dress up as glam rockers and bring all the joy to your heart.
(incidentally, I also drew a little doodle for it which you can find there)

Right Here Waiting by sometimesalways
I prompt sometimesalways with "new hat, 300 words" and she write the most perfect vignette ever. Go and tell her how awesome she (and it) is!

I've already pointed this out on twitter, but I think this initiative is pretty neat, so you get to hear it again :P
The lovely saba1789, who is a well of awesome fandom (and non-fandom) related ideas, came up with this neat project, The Postcard Challenge. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who is kind of a lot in love with receiving cards in the mail, so why not join the party and get some glee from across the sea into your mailboxes?


In other news, Panic! continues to bring all the fuzzy sparkly feelings to my heart, William Beckett is hell bent on making me love him, and I want every single outfit featured in this video omg!.

Hello hello flist! :D *hugs you all* how is everyone?
I'm afraid I've managed to fall into the dreaded RL Black Hole these past two weeks, and everything can be summed up with work work work blah blah blah house got flooded blah blaa cleaning all the things blah out with uni friends blah blah blah more work blah blah. Exciting, yes? Right.

Anyway, in between all that blah blah blah I was able to cram some reading and browsing while manning the front desk and so I come bearing links and stuff for you :D

The lovely airgiodslv offered to write a bunch of one-year-after timestamp ficlets to celebrate Inception first anniversary and I asked one for the Kissing Meme Ficlet (because I want all the timestamps from that 'verse) and of course she wrote the most awesome timestamp ever and everyone should go read it and tell her how great she is! Oh, I also made a doodle for it! Just scroll down the thread :)

In more fandom art news, time has come to reveal what the fifth card I drew for ohohstarryeyed as part of my help_nz offer :D
It is a tiny illustration for her story Be on the Stars (all of you should check it out!) which she wrote for BBB, so that's why we had to wait a bit before making this one public :)

( Spoilerish doodle under the cut )


In case you're not aware, Bandom has a Golden Trio of its own! ohohstarryeyed, sunsetmog, and hermette have been writing the most delightful of hogwarts!AU chatfics! What are you doing still here? Off you go to read Roar and What are these feelings. Go go go!

Speaking of HP, MY SISTER IS THE BEST SISTER AND GOT ME A POTTERMORE ACCOUNT WHILE I WAS STRANDED IN A 10 HOURS LONG SHIFT AT WORK! I am DreamFeather124 :) what is your magical username?
(Also, Smunchkin just run into the room to tell me that "Fuuuuu! Ovid rocks! OMG Nas! He's a BAMF and Metamorphoses is going to give me effing nightmares :D!" So there, that's your book rec from Smunchkin)

Once your done reading all the things I linked above, you should watch this video! Dad practically sat me down to make me watch it and I can't tell you how much I loved it. (Did I ever tell you how much I adore TED? A whole lot!)

In TSN news, errandgrrl and I want fic of this video like burning. Universe, get on it!

Tumblr keeps being a source of pretty awesome stuff, like this fantastic playlist! I've been listening to it in loop for days now and I can't get enough of it <333 Also also, Beirut's new album, The Rip Tide, is amazing! Check it out!

Oh! I've seen everyone is pointing out what their usernames are on all the other places, which is pretty nice :) So, anyway, in case you were wondering I use this same username everywhere (meaning DW, Twitter, and Tumblr), so I'm pretty easy to find :)

And now excuse me, but I have flist page to go check <333

Today we celebrate Epiphany, which means that la Befana flew on her broomstick yesterday night and filled stockings with candies and sugar charcoal.

Since my broomstick does not fly, I wasn't able to bring sweets to any of you, dear flist. But don't worry! I bring gifts in the form of links and icons! :D?

( La Befana vien di notte.... )

Well, that was fun :) It's extremely cold today so I'm off to make myself a cup of tea and then put on some Disney classics while I knit myself this hat :)

because "Cover Songs Meme" was not as cool

So, saba1789 and I are cover songs worshippers and decided to make a meme to GET MOAR spread the love :)

Saba managed to keep the linkage under control... Me, not so much.

( Cover songs are <3 )

Anyway, while I was browsing my cover songs folder, I came up with a game that I call "From Beatles to Bandom". The aim of this game is to connect the Beatles to someone in Bandom by means of cover songs and without using the obvious Ealeanor Rigby cover by Panic in less than 6 steps (because with Bandom, 6 degrees are too many).

I managed to win twice \o/

one. The Beatles' song "Something In The Way She Moves" has been covered by Radiohead (1), whose song "Creep" has been reworked by Bob Dylan (2), authour of the song "Desolation Row" recently covered by My Chemical Romance (3).

two. Bono and The Edge of U2 covered "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (1), U2's song "With Or Without You" got covered by Keane (2) whose song "Everybody's Changing" has been reworked by Lily Allen (3) who also covered "Womanizer" by Britney Spears (4), whose song "Baby One More Time" got covered by Panic! (5).

:D?

If you've managed to reach this point without gnawing on your wrist, GOOD JOB! As a prize for your resiliance to my faily spazzing, I'll give you some goodies!

a. The .zip with all the songs mentioned above
b. Across the Universe OST (Complete with "All You Need is Love" that wasn't in the original cd)
c. The link to download "They Just Howl" cd, an Empires' songs cover project
d. The link to the most wonderful site The Covers Project

Ok, your turn to join the fun!

I'm trying to gear myself up enough to get down to business with these sketches and there's no better way to do that than share some music with my dear flist :D (so you can join me in the ancient and lost art of "head-swaying, hands-flapping, foot-stomping and air-shredding to loud music" and I won't feel like a total loser, ok? Ok.)

One! Coldplay set up a free download of their live album "LeftRightLeftRightLeft". Click on the link or, if you don't want to give your e-mail address to Chris and his friends, download it HERE (where I uploaded it ;D)

Two! JWalk latest twitters linking pics of adorable babies made me think of bb!JWalk... If you are feeling nostalgic like me, a listening or two of 5o4 Plan's Minutia EP" and "Treehouse Talk" might cheer you up :D (speaking of JWalk, I'm convinced he owns these shoes)

Three! I got my hands on The Cab's Glitz and Glamour EP". (I can't even say bb!Cabbabies because they're all still babies >:()

Four! If you're looking for new, nice, neat music, TEAM LOVE is the answer to your needs, as is Freeindie.com

Completely urelated, THIS BLOG is amazing!