popefelix

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My Twitter tweets for the day.

Read them or not at your leisure. There may be some new stuff in there, so if interested, check ( behind the LJ cut. )

Fascinating, fun blog at the NY Times. Check out the latest installment, "Back to the Land".

TITLE: Aromatherapy 1/1
AUTHOR: juliet316
FANDOM: Doctor Who (Ten, Donna)
RATING: PG
CONTENT: ANGST
CATEGORY: VIGNETTE, ADULT, DRAMA
SPOILERS: Season Four. No spoilers for the specials.
SUMMARY: The Doctor is put into a deathlike sleep by an alien banana. With no cure in sight, Donna tries to take her mind of her troubles. Written for comment_fic with this prompt: Ten/Donna, brownies.
DISCLAIMER: BBC owns Doctor Who. The characters featured in this story were created by Russell T. Davies. No profit is made off of them for this story. I only own the pesky alien banana.

But in the department of real content, there's not much "collective" action unless tired. Hasn't been for quite some time.

... EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT:

The Friday Night Project: "David, have you seen any of the ... let's call it, 'Who porn,' that's on the Internet?"

You can actually spot the exact second that his innocence is shattered forever.

My friend and awesome!twin unbrokensky and I have been sadly muse-less for months, so we decided to have an icon battle to jumpstart ourselves into making icons again. We picked five fandoms to work with and Doctor Who was one of them...

[8] Doctor Who - various episodes
[32] Other fandoms (Bones, Glee, Life on Mars (UK), Merlin)
[40] Total

Teasers:
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See them all at my icon journal!

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Saturday, 0200: http://qdb.us/118241
• Saturday, 0223: @ladyofthelog It is.
• Saturday, 0237: NSFW: DoS attack! http://qdb.us/262095 (humor)
• Saturday, 1134: I do not feel well.
• Saturday, 1136: @fairlight777 Oh sweet Eris.
( read the other 17 )

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[1-18] Various
6 - Being Human, 1 - Billie Piper, 2 - Brad Pitt, 3 - Harry Potter, 3 - David Tennant, 17 - Doctor Who, 3 Gallows, 1 - Quentin Tarantino, 1 - Merlin, 1 - Robert Englund, 1 - Torchwood

No spoilers past the end of S4



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Since I've finally gotten a proper TV and a more visitor-friendly layout for my den, I'm inviting some friends over for an MST3K party next month. Just a couple of shorts ("Cheating" and "A Date With Your Family"), the main feature "Space Mutiny," and the "Cloverfield" Rifftrax if anyone wants to stick around. I'm not gonna' get too fancy with the refreshments because I really don't have the money for it, but I would like to make some kind of gift bags for my guests. Haven't had time to browse the dollar stores to see what they have, so I thought I'd come to y'all for ideas. I'm passing the buck to you. Any input is much appreciated.

This was my third year at the Bizarre Bazaar, and the first time I didn't sell out by the end of the day. It was also the first time I wasn't selling anything I'd made. However, I blame my table location. To get to my booth, customers had to find the somewhat hidden stairwell (there were signs, but in my experience no one reads signs), then take a non-intuitive right turn into a strange little back room (again, there were signs, but). By the time the customers got to me, they'd already made their impulse buys. :/

This year, a bunch of people showed up with knitwear to sell, and the weather outside was warm and bright. On warm winter days, the big glass front of the Art Center turns the whole place into a greenhouse. I thought my little back room was crowded until I went out into the main hallways, where I was forced to navigate eddies of movement in the crowd if I wanted to get anywhere at all. Still, I did some holiday shopping -- I only bought one thing for myself: A miniature tree made of twisted silver wire. I think I have her business card around here somewhere -- ah, yes. Kathy Horniman, of Coppertree. Go look at those trees; they're gorgeous.

Other things... I saw some people from work, which ranged from cool to embarrassing. Dave stopped by and helped me sell stuff. He gets... um. Dave is consummate salesman, with one quirk: the longer he does sales, the more southern he gets.

Then there was the woman who looked up from writing a check and said, "You're a furry!" Now, it is my custom to attend the Bizarre Bazaar in tail and ears, so this really wasn't much of a stretch. Still. I said, "yes." Turned out she'd been one of the artists at Jay's Fursuit Paint-off, and seen me doing my thing as Teto. So that was cool.

Another custom of the Bizarre Bazaar is trading among artists. I swapped some critters for a lovely wreath, which wouldn't have been my first choice but the critters were for the artist's daughter, who is a huge anime fan and planning to go to Naka-kon this year, and... yeah. Anyway, my mother likes wreaths.

But then... there was the other lady. Just around that odd corner was a booth selling wooden drums. Eurgh, the drumming. Pounding, really. Anyway, she wanted to swap something for some critters. I maintained that I had no use for a wooden drum, but I checked out the other stuff. There were some magnets with cliches and clipart on them, and some strange magnetic dolls. They looked like they were made of lumpy paper mache with string joints and photographs for heads. I ended up swapping a critter for a strange but sparkly sun-face magnet. I passed her booth at the end of the show, and heard her telling someone that one of the dolls was made of "genuine white shih tsu hair".

In conclusion, I don't like the smell of catnip very much, but sometimes it's better than the alternative.

Here's a character design for a different situation entirely. All pieces were rendered strictly digitally from start to finish, using Corel Painter X, with no utilization of photos for textures or any other aspect in their development. Also, as rough concept art pieces, these aren't really supposed to represent finished works on any level.

During 2007-2008, I was doing various conceptual design work on and off for Red Juggernaut. One of the things I was involved with behind the scenes was fleshing out bits and pieces of their world setting. In this case they wanted a different take on a dwarven race, under the auspice of being evolved from the Australopithecus robustus. Or, as they were referred to in their setting of Terris, "Thulean Dwarves". Short, hairy, and not nearly as much facial diversity as a human would have. Initially it was suggested that they have a touch of similarity to the orcs from LotR, but that was scrapped.

First, I sketched up some basic options for body type, hair coverage, and head shape:


The preferred versions of each were picked, giving me a rough guideline of where to start.

The description of them puts them as a race living in the cold north, sharing some similarities to viking culture, that's resorted to scavenging to to having fallen on desperate times. While seemingly savage to many outsiders, they're actually fairly civilized. Here's the initial 5-10 minute rough speedpaint that sent off, just to have somewhere ot start:

(This image is low res all around, so I've opted not to post the full sized version. If you really want to see it, click on the RJ Concept Art page link below.)

After the initial bit of feedback, I opted to experiment, and created a digital "paper doll" version, much like the ones that kids would have various different clothing options they could slap on. With this, I had the core template for the stance and body shape of the Thulean Dwarf, with extra detail put into the face, but the rest left open to be detailed with each iteration. This is the result:

( Several more images below, progressively better, with details. Cut for length and bandwidth consideration on your friends pages... )

Wow, I'm online a surprising amount this weekend. *clings to internets* Going back to work on Monday and having to work is going to suck.

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
Update your journal with the answers to the questions
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

I got my questions from tenacious_err.

( You can read all about me and fandom and shipping and things, if you want. )

Has anyone ever purchased anything from The Celestial Toystore? I was looking into purchasing the fob watch, but £120.00 is pricy for an American, even for the holidays... so any word from you all would be appreciated in helping make the decision.