MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

I hope you all have a lovely day with friends and/or family, eat lots of good food and get lots of great presents! ;-)

An interesting site I found on the internet: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheQueensThief

Thoughts?

Oh yeah and the winners for the superlatives..will be announced (winners based on whoever got the most votes in the category!) So if you haven't already put in your two-cents do so now! The post is somewhere down the page! :]

Oh, I've been asked to put this on record: Dite will not be having 8 or 5 children when anyone for a while.. ;)

[01-21] stock/art: Christmas
[22-32] Leona Lewis
[33-45] Chronicles of Narnia
[46-55] The Island
[56-57] Scarlett Johansson
[58-64] Gabrielle Union
[65-72] Tinker Bell
[73-75] Full House
[76-79] Candace Cameron



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1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Took a full-time job and became the mother of a teenager. Attended the Continuing Education session at Ambassador Bible Center.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I can't remember whether I meant to do anything specific this year or not. I usually don't resolve much, but I usually have goals. I'm sure I'll make goals, but God being how He is and life being what it is, everything will probably go pear-shaped before I can accomplish them!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth or get pregnant?
Hmmm...several Live Journal friends, though now my head's getting all mushy and I'm having trouble remembering anyone besides ladygoat and butterbobbin.

4. Did anyone close to you get married?

Again, primarily LJ friends...looks in wistfulmaid's direction...

5. Did anyone close to you die?

I don't think so...

6. Travel?

Oooh, twice to Georgia, once to Wisconsin Dells and environs, one road trip up to New York and back along the Lincoln Highway. I think that's it--surprisingly little, for us.
( Lots more behind here! )

1-3 Fashion
4-5 Arsène Lupin
6-6 Becoming Jane
7-10 The Tudors
11-14 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
15-18 Stock/Travel
19-24 Tamna, the island
25-27 Narnia
28-33 HP: The HalfBlood Prince



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I've just been assimilated into the lovers of Megan Whalen Turner's world of Attolia. She created a completely new world, where men dressed as Romans and Greeks use guns and have pocket watches. Very creative. It's hard to tell what might be historically accurate from what patently isn't. I'd love to live in Attolia or Eddis.

On the other hand, I'm trying to read a book called Magyk by Angie Sage. Not going so well. I glanced ahead in the book and saw the word, "boggart". Those of you who read Harry Potter know that a boggart is a creature created by Rowling; it takes the shape of whatever it thinks the viewer fears most. Seeing the word "boggart" in the work of someone other than Rowling made me not want to read the book any more.

But it's not just the word "boggart". In this world Angie Sage created, all wizards and witches develop green eyes as they mature. The Heap family consists of 6 boys and one little girl (sound familiar?). Combined with the green eyes, I keep expecting Ms. Sage to describe the Heaps as all having red hair, too. Then the little girl received a pet rock and named it "Petroc Trelawney." That was about the last straw for this book. Honestly, how many more little homages to Rowling can we shove into one book before it can be called plagiarism? Why didn't an editor or proofreader stop and say, "You know, that sounds a little too much like Rowling. What if their eyes turn a brilliant blue, or an unnaturally deep brown? Instead of 'boggart', let's create a completely new word". Magyk was published in 2005. It isn't like Ms. Sage can try to say that she was unaware of Harry Potter or boggarts.

Writing is hard. Writing fantasy is, in some ways, harder. Writing completely original fantasy, wherein the world and situations resemble nothing seen in fiction before, is, obviously, beyond some published writers and their editors.

Mopping and washing walls: surprisingly, LESS fun than they sound.

I finally have time to sit and upload pictures, so you get to see one of the trips we made this summer. We ditched the kids at camp and then drove on the Lincoln Highway to New York. Or maybe we took the Lincoln Highway on the way back. Anyway, we drove some part of the trip on the Lincoln Highway, thus satisfying reubeneater's Road Geekiness.

You can see the whole set by clicking through any photo...this is just a taste.



Finally: krikketgirl and greenhornet meet. He was fantastic, funny, and thoughtful (he brought a gift for my kids, y'all, and told me they were awesome). We had a wonderful lunch and wished we could have had more time to spend. All this to say, I don't know why I look like an idiot in the pic.



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6 ] Can he love her? Can the soul be really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

I have made icons of the first two episodes and I will icon the other two as well.

Teasers:


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6 ] Can he love her? Can the soul be really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

I have made icons of the first two episodes and I will icon the other two as well.

Teasers:


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Subject: Coraline (general movie)
Batch: Batch #4, icons 66-80
Themes: Stop Helping Me, Meant to Be, Bad Habits, Always, White Innocence, Black
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Set I [100 icons]


Set II [50 icons]

Hokay, folks, I'm back.

I've finished KoA, finally, and good lord, it was amazing. It was a thousand kinds of amazing. It was the kind of amazing that made me want to read it again, and that made me disappointed with the next book I picked up simply because the lack of amazing blend of tone, style, and secrecy.* I am very excited! It was a good book! :D

I've been thinking of fanart, but what's frustrating is, I have such certain images of a few characters (Eugenides, Attolia, Eddis), and none at all of certain others (Costis, Teleus), that it makes it very difficult to art for these folks.

I compromised for my first fanart. Gen, minus face.



Also at Deviantart!

Bit of a rush job - this couldn't taken 20 minutes - and the anatomy's a little wonky - I kind of want to draw him a little thinner, next time, like I imagine. Also, next time he'll be clothed.** But the basic concept is there.

(Need to research clothes of the time period, and also the kinds of gymnastics you can do with one hand.)

So yeah! There you have it. Hopefully I'll be back periodically with some other characters - also, faces. Faces are nice.





*This is not to say Francis Mary Hendry's Quest for a Maid is not good (my childhood!), only that it is ... not KoA.

**I have an excuse for the lack of shirt. That is because he is someplace where shirts are not necessary. Like in his rooms. Or Attolia's. Not because of gratuitous muscle-drawing. Totally not.

"Not true, Miss Day. Tis broken and will remain so until the day you fix it."

I've had to correct the poll for missing a few icons-if you've already voted please revote. Thanks! Please view all the icons in each category and then vote-don't just vote for an icon because you nominated it or its an icon that a friend made.

Voting for December 2009 is under the cut and will last until Tuesday, December 29th, Midnight EST.

Again when voting, please do not vote for an icon because you nominated it or because you like the maker or the maker is a friend. Take into consideration the category the icon is nominated in and vote accordingly. For example best coloring, vote for the icon with the best use of color.

Remember don't vote for yourself or get others to vote for you and if your icon is nominated you don't have to vote in that category. Good luck! ( We'll all grow up one day, Meg. We might as well know what we want. )

Here's a bit of British humor for Christmas!



OK, I must run! Lots of work to do before Christmas Eve -- Happy Holidays, everyone, and tell all your friends to listen to the podcast, because Megan Whalen Turner and her books are awesome!

I was hunting for a song last night and discovered it on Lala.com. It looks a lot like Napster, but the songs are cheaper (only $.89 for most of them) and there's a queue you can put up to 25 songs into and listen to them online for free. It costs to download them.

Has anyone heard anything good, bad, or indifferent about lala.com?

Today feels like Christmas Eve to me. :)

(Also, I HAI I CAN HAZ ORANGE.)

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