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Another
Not quite as happy with the face, though he's looking a bit more Skaven now which isn't a bad thing
brushes from .
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Reminds me of Mignola's Hellboy, but more realistic, detailed and heavy gloomy aura about it ... and I used to think rodents are cute animals^^
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these Demon designs are so cool, and I love the style their in. It makes me want to try and draw like this.
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no problem,
PS. I enjoyed reading your "Spotlight" on Babe Lab. Great work on the "Ambition" piece.
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wow so many! this one looks sort of like a distorted demon dog-slave
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Thats pretty metal. The arm is pretty cool too, with the crossed white chunks. Makes him feel like a mummy or something similar.
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haha 
Yeah, that was the sort of feel I was going for
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I see you're enjoying to work with those brushes - they are awesome indeed!)
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I like the face. In fact, I think I like this one the best of the series - he looks so tired, and sore, and sad...
Or that could just be me projecting - when in fact he's baying for blood!
I'm also fascinated by the pseudo-armour on this one, like skeleton/crustacea skin, kind of organic cyborg - not sure what's a retromod and what he was orginally born (died?) with.
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(you need to get yourself a more recognisable avatar! I keep seeing a comment and thinking 'wow, that's more insightful and interesting than the usual ooooh, that'd be why; not that that's a bad thing I guess, but anyway!)
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p.s. "I quite like the idea as well that some of the bigger skulls come from creatures that have been bred specifically for the purpose, so they're all actual bone, rather than just carved to look like such."
That's really messed me up. I mean, it's a fabulous idea (really, really fabulous, and spooky, and horrible, and entirely feasible, and perfect), but I just...yeah...zombie overload tonight, I'm feeling a little queasy, and that's just the bloody cherry on top of the "mangled body pile" flavour ice-cream. *chomp chomp*
Hmm, that reminds me... must go see "Zombieland"...
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Zombies Zombies Zombies
I've heard nothing but good things about it, it's true; it's probably something I should do as well
A guy at work had actually gotten a ticket for me on the day I got over here a couple of months ago, except I'd been on the plane for however many hours then arrived at seven in the morning and spent the whole day up and about, so I don't think I'd've been in a very good state as far as staying awake would've been concerned.
(I'm not usually one for those fancy gourmet ice-cream flavours but that one has me interested
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p.s. Kings of Pastry!
Aaaaaand... layer_embedded"speaking of zombies... You should totally go work for, er, Valve (?) next, or Ubisoft (because the Assassin's Creed II trailer? YOWZA. YES PLEASE.)
(I just had to get in my daily overdose of hyperlinks, y'know?)
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He doesn't look that impressed . . . (for some reason; frick!)
And . . . Hell yeah!
(Haha; that's actually the first game I've bought in quite a while, and it's fricking awesome fun, I have to say (especially when it's not censored to fit Australia's bloody lack of an R rating for games), though I haven't played it that much yet since I can't install it at home yet as I haven't gotten around to getting the PC side of my computer up and running yet. (So I'm limited to matches at lunchtime at work
Supposed to be better than the first one, too, so might be a bit of fun. (Ass-Creed-2).
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I know! Isn't it horrifying! (For a terrible moment there I thought that was going to be a link to a pic of Eli Roth: which I wouldn't have been able to to handle this early in the morning. Dead devil eyes!)
As for games, I'm pretty lame... my favourite is Legacy of Kain: Defiance - which requires absolutely no. skill. whatsoever *buttonsmash! buttonsmash!* - I'm just completely and irrevocably in love with Kain and Raziel, and the whole thing is very pretty, and I could (and do) listen to Kain say "Cadaverous Laceration" all day, mmm... (and don't you get some super spooky looking videoclips if you try and find *that* phrase on youtube! Brrr.)
All of which is to say: I'm sure I could ignore everything bad about ACII and just be happy jumping about the rooftops in glorious misty sunsoaked haze! And... I haven't ever actually played L4D much at all. I don't want to supersaturate, because I'm having a fit of the girlishness and don't want nightmares: I did play it a bit when I was working at the High School though, my thirteen year old sociopathic (yes, really clinically diagnosed) little charge brought it in and we had a few goes and I'm wondering how much it had to do with his extreme antisocial narcissistic personality disorder :/ Oh, wow, shouldn't joke, but it was pretty much the only thing I could get him interested in. That, and chocolate. Sugar-highed zombie (and classmate) killer!
/clogging up your comments page, yo!
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Hmmm. well I would venture to point out that the point of having an R rating to get uncensored zombie-games is not to give them to sociopathic 13-year-olds. Who'll no doubt probably get their hands on it anyway, but . . . which is a worry as far as parenting goes, but I guess ending up clinically diagnosed that's not really a surprise.
(Midday? Bah! early in the morning my ass - I was awake at SEVEN! Wow! except then I sat around for an hour because the pool in our apartment complex doesn't open till then, and you can't do any of those normal morning things like showering or eating breakfast before swimming... I did have a coffee, though, so I can't complain.)
And I can't think of many people who's comments I'd prefer to have flooding my inbox, gotta admit
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I know, but anyone who really wants to get it - well, it ain't hard. I don't need to tell you that. You just need a credit card, or parents with credit cards who are afraid you'll kill them while they sleep if you don't have pixelated undead to slay instead.
Even if you're not nuts - you can even get this one from interstate, I think (Queensland?) not even having to bother with overseas! Banning it is utterly unenforceable, and really, all the brouhaha is just a pain in the ass.
Anyway! You've turned into such a yuppie! "Yeah, yeah, the pool doesn't open 'til eight, and it wasn't heated to *exactly* 75 degrees (you're in fahrenheit land now, lovey!) and the bloody servants left a greasy smudge on my Benz windshield, they'll have to be deported, obviously."
What do you mean by "a" coffee though? As in, singular? One coffee? ONE?! I may wake up late, but boy, I make up for it with my awesome coffee-fu. *sips eighth espresso of the day. twitches slightly. possible caffeine induced heart-attack. brb. must find defibrillators*
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Also!
Lovely little avatar
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Thankyou!
(And finally, no?)
I think she's definitely my favourite. As iconic as the Tenniel is, I'm rather absurdly fond of Rackham, and have been since I read his "The Sleeping Beauty" when I was tiny.
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Well who couldn't be, really?
(and about time, certainly!)
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Well that entire thing's frickin' being driven by one South Australian senator who (apparently) has made it his crusade to keep games like that banned, and it's so ridiculous.
I think it is all-Australia, though I'm not entirely certain - though with Steam games you can just get someone from the US to buy it online and gift it to you . . . though I guess then you've got to play on US servers, which is a bit painful internet-speed-wise. But yes, it doesn't change the fact that it's entirely stupid.
Turned into? Ha! I've always been a yuppie at heart, have to admit. (I'll send you some photos of the place, actually, it's rather nice 
I've actually been getting on surprisingly well with not-that-many-coffees - I even managed to go the whole first week after just having moved apartments without one at all, with no ill effects! I'm a bit shocked, since I was used to two or three a day while I was in Australia, so . . .
But I did just buy an espresso machine, so I'm sure I'll get back into it again
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I bet he's being mentored by Tony Abbott who, obviously, is Satan in a really crappy and transparent disguise. Ohmygod, Australia is totally cracked. TONY ABBOTT?! SO. FRIGHTENING. Urgh, I should just move overseas too.
Y'know, I suspect I'm a yuppie too. Well, in theory. I'm a yuppie without a job.
So, yeah, "at heart" - I guess me too. Damn.
Okay. Will you forgive me one more hyperlink? Just one? (For this reply anyway. Because this clip is both bird and yuppie related! Very tenuously...
I really must stop drinking so much coffee, I'm almost certain my heart beats at a different pace than it used to. That said, oh...wait...I'll be right back in a different reply post hittin'yo up with a link, okay?
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GAH! I wrote out a whole massive reply and then accidentally navigated away from the page
The problem with dA over gmail, right there!
Just to recap, GAH! again to Tony Abbott, and also this , on that note.
Stonking great oceans of bullion? You really do never fail to make me grin madly
You could swim around in your solid gold dress, perhaps? Or maybe go for some contrast and wear some nice white fox-furs
(No, I have to admit I haven't seen it, I'm afraid...)
And, now while I like coffee as much as (or more so, for the most part, except when I'm in your company) the next person, it does seem you might be going just a little overboard, perhaps?
Haha
No worries on the hyperlinking front by the way, it's always fun
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Waaah, I've completely lost track of where the hell these multiple conversations are! So I'll just join you there is the angst. Only I don't know how to do the smiley. So I'll just type *Edward Cullen* instead.
I do believe I would love a solid gold dress! Yes I do believe so! Guh, just, the delivery on that gets me every time. Every goddamn time. He's just awesome. Almost as awesome as... (you know what's coming, right?) HYPERLINK! - I think that is pretty much my favourite line from any movie ever. EVER.
White and gold are gorgeous, very kind of Grecian (proper ancient stuff - no Visionary Writer Frank "whores whores whores" Miller allowed!
What was I going overboard in? *lost track of conversations* Short attention span theatre, that's me! Was I going overboard... a boat?
(I'M SORRY I JUST CAN'T STOP. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BREAK MY INTERWEBS, LIKE, 50 CRAPPY LINKS AGO.)
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you didn't just link that, did you?
wow.
just for that you get this
(and okay, so multiple conversations at once were almost okay, but having some of them updated before I've even had a chance to reply to them all might get a little too much)
Not a Miller fan then, eh? fair enough, I guess
Ah, scarface (: (Goes nicely with our ornithological theme and everything!)
Pretty fantastic, I've got to admit.
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Bahahaha! What the hell was that? "I drive a Chevrolet" - wee-eeel, as long as we're on the Supernatural theme, hmmm....? WATCH THE WHOLE THING. I DON'T CARE IF YOU DON'T WATCH SPN. WATCH THE WHOLE THING.
No no no, I love Frank Miller! "Whores whores whores" is just his unofficial nickname
Joe got me the Scarface xbox game for my birthday! I'm still working through The Godfather one (one more compound to blow up....grrrr... and are you sensing a theme here?) which is heaps of fun, but this one task is taking me forever. I had a quick go of Scarface though, and the guy who does the Tony Montana voice is actually pretty good - and it even continues the running joke of making poor tiny Pacino dance in every movie he's ever done, even though he may be the one person on the planet who dances worse than me! And they even make his pixelated version dance oh-so-badly - it glorious!
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that link wasn't a link! (lack-of-coffee's getting even worse, obviously!)
so none of that, I'm afraid.
And no, I've watched any Supernatural but hey. (is it really abbreviated to SPN?)
(from one of the comments on the other vid
my friends have convinced me it sounds like 'sexy fish'
; even better!)
I'd be happy to help with your tablet issues (mum + dad still get tech support from me across the Pacific
(Glad to hear that about Miller, too
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Oh no! And I'm still so lost down the DA hole that I don't know what I was trying to link to!
And Supernatural certainly is abbreviated to SPN in the circles I classic-rock in. Why?
Sexy fish! Well! Funny you should say that because... this is a manip I did ages and ages ago to illustrate a running gag some of us had going about, well, never mind. Point is - it's Castiel: in fish form! I don't think I agree about Cas being sexy (in aqautic form or no) but he's definitely fishy.
I'm reading some Neil Gaiman at the moment too (never mix drinks, or graphic novels? Might explain my weird dreams of late...) I'm about halfway through the Sandman series at the moment - is that what you're reading too? You could do some awesome art of Morpheus with those brushes you're so enamored of at the moment!
I'll try to remember the iChat - I'm supposed to be making Christmas cakes and puddings tomorrow (meant to have been done today, but I got slack) so it's entirely probably I'll get so fed up with the whole horrible annual ritual that I'll stick my head in the oven instead of the cake batter. Hurm....
p.s. Imagine how much coffee I'd drink if I could get my hot little hands on some of this.
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That's just too weirdly appropriate. . . Well it's just that Supernatural should really only be S, or SN if you were pushing it a bit. (Or, on the other hand, you could go all hip and get all the way to SPRNTRL, which rolls off the tongue quite nicely. I guess you've settled for a middling compromise)
Only 10,000 tins of it? I guess they're all already in the caring hands of obsessive fans everywhere by now unfortunately. Could you actually bring yourself to drink it, do you think? (And how terrible would it be if the coffee actually sucked? Heartbreaking! But hardly a surprise, probably, and all the more fitting, perhaps)
I haven't (and aren't) read(ing) the Sandman series I'm afraid, though I'm definitely going to have to; I'm reading American Gods at the moment, and really enjoying itβI've read Neverwhere and Anansi Boys and they were both fantastic; he has such a fantastic turn of phrase, tis just wonderful to read. Neverwhere has some really great interesting characters that I'd love to try my hand at illustrating, though I think I should read it again to get the gist of it nicely. (He's dating Amanda Palmer currently (that's about as close as I've ever come to 'celebrity gossip' ), and that seems to me to be a pretty fricking fantastic match-up there
(so something to look out for there
Hope the baking's going well and you've not succumbed to that temptation just yet; Hanna's going to be doing the Christmas baking pretty soon too I'd imagine; now there's something I'm looking forwards to, most certainly!
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See now, the problem with abbreviating Supernatural to SPRNTRL is it kinda looks like "SPRiNT [away from] Real Life" which, really, we Supers do way too much of already. And yeah I'm aware that's a really sketchy abbr. but hey, it's the first thing that came into my head when I saw it, which I'm sure any amateur psychoanalyists out there would have a field day with.
(And I think "S" and "SN" were either already taken or looked too much like "SM" (Smallville) and I think maybe a couple of times some people wrote SNM by mistake which led to al sorts of strange misunderstandings with the alternative lifestyle folks who came looking for tips and stockists and ended up in the midst of Clark/Lex fanfiction archives instead.
I suppose illustrating The Sandman would be kind of.... redundant. I mean, given that it's a graphic novel already. And yet... I still reckon you could do some awesome character portraits, for as much as I love comics, the individual panels usually aren't that dynamic - even your sketchiest sketchy sketches are usually more polished! I read Neverwhere, gads, years ago - and the only characters I can really remember are Door (yay) and the lady with the wasp waist (just because I thought that was such a fabulous description - because I've sure he meant, literally, that disfigured, not just "petite") and, of course, The Angel! (I have a bit of a love affair with angels - fallen especially, I suppose, though that sounds so trite. Can I say Scheming Angels instead? Mmmm. I think a lot of it's to do with the whole cream/gold colour scheme that we were talking about before, ha!) I've never read American Gods, I started (like, two pages) but... couldn't get into it unfortunately. Bad head space at the time I think. I have since, however, read a short story starring the man who was apparently the lead character in American Gods and I loved that (set in Scotland! with Grendel!) so I really should give it another go. I really need to listen to some Amanda Palmer too! - what would you recommend I try first?
OMGOMGOMG JAMES GURNEY HAS A NEW BOOK WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS ALREADY?!!? AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOME!
Btw, Imaginative Realism = Speculative Fiction's new name? I like it.
Eight fruit cakes later and I am still alive and (mostly) intact *applies ice to saucepan burns* - you've got me curious about what your Christmas baking traditions are now though - Panettone? Panforte? Plum Pudding? ('Tis the season to begin with a P apparently!)
p.s. JAMES GURNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amateur Psychoanalysis ftw! Or something like that
SPNTRL might be slightly better since it doesn't imply the fleeing that you get with the sprint (appropriate though that is, as you pointed out), though I guess once you get over 4 letters it stops really being a convenient contractionβ¦
(I'm sure there's at least a bit (or more?) of cross-over somewhere in all that fan-fiction to satisfy anyone, don't you think, whatever their steel-and-latex tastes might run to? (satisfy mightn't be quite the right word there either, though))
Yeah, I think some Neverwhere art would be lovely; I have something of a fear of not doing it justice, but we shall see. The 'bad guys' are wonderful, definitely got a strong image of them right off the bat, and of course Islington is fantastic as well (I've got a paladin in D2 called Islington who's a lot of fun 
Yes, I rather think a re-read is in order. Richard's a lovely Arthur Dent-type character, which is always fun I think; I guess Gaiman's style's got a lot in common with Douglas Adams', certainly with the humour that he has, which is no doubt one of the reasons I like it so muchβnow there's something I'm going to have to read againβhave you read the Dirk Gently books? The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul has to be pretty close to the best title for a book ever (though the Salmon of Doubt's must be up there as well).
So I'm a bit further through American Gods now, and continuing to enjoy it quite thoroughly, though I'm not sure if it's quite grabbing me as much as the others just yet⦠Still, tis quite lovely nonetheless.
I KNOW! That's what I thought! I couldn't believe it'd been out for years (apparently)! I'd definitely definitely definitely recommend it, as if somehow the mere fact of its existence wasn't enough to do that
Amanda Palmer eh? I'm not sure where to start, actually; the first (self titled) Dresden Dolls album is probably as good a place as any to begin; I think I prefer it over the second (Yes, Virginia, though I certainly don't not like it so . . . ); her solo stuff (the 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer' one) is wonderful as well, and carries on being as energetic and bitter as ever, so. . .
I don't know if Hanna's started the baking yet; they were tentatively thinking today, except with the heat I don't know if that was such a feasible idea⦠The Finnish baking mostly consists of gingerbread and lovely lovely rye + rice pastries called piirakka ( another P! ), and Mum does the fruit cakes; I don't think there's anything particularly Italian that gets done. I sort of feel like I'm leaving something out though so there might be...
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Hell. That link is of course supposed to say "Speaking of zombies". Sorry. Got distracted by the sugarcraft winners, and missers out....
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Hahahaha, oh dear, suddenly the reasoning behind my favourite ice cream flavour (amarena) is very very obvious: splatterfest! (sometimes it's got whole cherries, I mean bloodclots!, in it too. Mmm...Eli Roth would approve.)
I tell you what though - I'm actually watching something far scarier than even zombies at the moment - these guys in France trying out for some incredibly prestigious MOF title, in pastry/chocolate/sugar craft - they've been working for four years to get there, but the humidity is high, and they're all stressed, and trembling, and their insanely structured and artistic sugar sculptures keep breaking/being dropped, and the fear and shame and horror on their faces, ohmygod............ they're all so quiet, and I mean *deathly silent*, but you can see they just want to stick their heads in the below 80 industrial freezers and shatter their brains. (Into zombie semifreddo!)
Frigging SBS. I should have been in bed hours ago.
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Sure you should've...
Hmm...subtle (or not so subtle?) disturbing psychological nuances manifesting themselves through choice of ice-cream, eh? Perfect
(And golly! Sounds pretty dramatic and painful! so much stress certainly does not make for a good time)
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Just woke up. And it's practically midday. Wireless internet in bed - the one perk of city living. (And the height of laziness.) Going back to sleep now. Some of don't have awesome one-in-a-billion jobs to get to, y'know?
And amarena ice-cream probably just goes to prove that I never really had a chance and really did sell my soul at the tender age of eight, because it's been my favourite for *years*.
Maybe I could spit in old Freudy's talking cure, set up an avant-garde Gelateria/psychiatry studio, and discreetly diagnose people via the patented Mancini Tastebud Cure instead! Genius!
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Now all I have to do is patent it! It's a sure winner!
Haha. Ah well, might as well accept it, hmm?
(City-living, you say?)
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Er, city-slacking? I was crashing at my aunt's place for a night. Which turned into four nights: busy doing Christmas shopping. Aaaand mooching all her download allocation. *whistles innocently*
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You know I don't even think it's possible to whistle innocently.
Haha! We don't have allocations over here, it's all just speed based which is rather lovely (though I haven't been downloading much truth be told, which is neither here nor there there I guess).
(Christmas shopping? shit! . . . gah... and all those other grumble-sounds that accompany it)
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Do you mean I haven't been fooling anyone with my whistling all these long years? Goddamn. And here I was, always thinking I was the sneakiest conartist to ever sneakily con!
You should download some 'True Blood'. Because it's awesome. Well, trash. Trashtastic. Just watch it! You've got two whole seasons to watch up on before Summer
As for Christmas shopping - I'm sure everyone will just be satisfied and delighted to just have you in the country for a little while! Goodness, don't stress yourself out!
Random sneaky link! : Is this not, quite simply, the most perfect espresso machine you have ever seen in your entire life? <3
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not a soul, I'm afraid! though... You, sneakily con? Hehe; I think you'd probably get away with it without the whistling anyways, what with your grace and seeming innocence
and
HA! Well I've seen the first . . . seven, or so episodesβI watched them all in one sitting at a friend's place in Bendigo, and did rather enjoy it, for the most part
Hehe
(Need something else to get addicted to, perchance?)
And... I wasn't quite sure what I was expecting with that last link but WOW!. Fricking brilliant, and then some!
(Sure beats out my one
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You're such a charmer - you almost had me conned! *hands over solid gold con trophy - shaped, of course, like a fancy dress*
Yay! True Blood! I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a big part of why I want to get to New Orleans (certainly not the *only* reason, that'd just be nuts - though pretty much the only reason I want to go to New York is to play-stalk Al "Fly Pelican!" Pacino on Broadway! Aaand get a coffee in one of those too cute for life "We Are Happy To Serve You" cups!)
I used to feel bad about watching things and chillaxing (can't believe I just wrote that) out - but, meh, I don't really care what people think anymore. No one (who isn't a completely grabbing narcissist) is ever really going to be happy if they pick up that you're doing stuff for/with them just because you feel like you *should* - and that doesn't have to be as disagreeable and dishonest as it sounds, it can simply be when you feel like you have to do something out of a sense of duty, or habit, or whatever, but if you don't really feel it (whether at that moment, or ever) well, just... don't do it! Does that make sense? My last coffee was hours ago, the old brain isn't working like it should.
Do Blizzard have, um... bumper stickers? They'd be easy to carry back
The Elektra is, yes, pretty much the most stunning piece of hardware I've ever seen in my life. I think perhaps I'm a Steampunk at heart. Oh, the commercial version, the "Belle Epoque" is ridiculously gorgeous as well - though a little more like a Dalek than the home version. Oh!!! Do you watch Doctor Who??
*cough* Anywho, your hand turned tamper is beautiful - very Alice-y mushroom. Is it rose or cherry wood - or is that just a quirk of the ruby hued California sun? I do like your coffee machine too - DeLonghi is meant to be very good, no? I've just got a silly old Breville (called Metatron!) - which is actually mach II. They're so cheap the first one (called Castiel ) gave up the angelic host after about a month and had to go back to the big ole Harvey Norman in the Sky. *crosses self*
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You can keep the trophy for now then, though I've yet to see an example of your conning abilities. (Though that's quite possibly because of your skills as a con-woman, so I guess I can't rule it out entirely, and considering your way with words I'd hardly be surprised
I am getting back into drinking coffee now, and I think I've gotten a nice routine down now with one before a swim in the morning and then one with breakfast; though I haven't gotten into the regular filter-coffee at work so that's it for the most part. I don't remember what sort of wood the tamper is, but Mountain Ash rings a bell; I'll have to check, but it feels just as lovely as it looksβit's a fantastic little thing to fiddle with, since I'm the sort of person who needs something to do so with for the most part, if I'm not doing anything else. (Not that that happens often, really.)
We've come to a pretty good situation now too; I make the coffees in the morning and Chris (my housemate) makes the cups of tea at night; seems to work.
(I was quite surprised to find the DeLonghi actually, we were shopping in Macy's and I was rather happy to see that while they didn't have that many options this little one was just what I was looking for. I hope Metatron lasts well for you! (Ha! I always have to catch myself from thinking he's a transformer))
Speaking of Angelsβthe reason I've been doing most of these demon pics is 'cause a friend at work wanted some concepts to start a 3d model of as a personal project, which he's hoping to get 3d-printed out in the endβand he rather like the idea of a creature caught and bound to the demon's arm, and suggested perhaps going even further and having it an angel who's been unlucky enough to be caught up there
Doctor Who? Hell yes! I actually just watched the latest special the other night (someone'd thoughtfully uploaded the whole lot to youtube), and boy was that dramatic! (A lot better than the last one, I might add) Tis great stuff! And I have to say, David Tennant really is quite wonderful. It was fantastic, too, when they started playing them right from the start on the ABC in the evenings while I was in High School, they were so fun to watch, especially when he was carting around not just a companion but a whole bunch of followers. The first Doctor was awesome, I must say, with his big flowing white hair
Don't worry; I've never played WoW either, and I can't quite make up my mind as to whether I actually want to or not... It definitely doesn't seem like the sort of game where you can just get in and play a little bit, so I'm not sure if I really want to devote that much time into it
I don't have any plans for this weekend, after the Christmas Party tomorrow night (
(wow. I'm sort of relieved that you didn't reply to all of the messages I sent over last night... things were getting a little hectic there, I have to admit)
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I'm not surprised you're a fiddler (why does that sound so wrong?
Could you explain to me in a little more detail what 3D-printed out is? Because anything with crazy angels in it is bound (no pun intended, sorry little crow's casge angel creature) to pique my interest...
Was the Doctor Who special that you just saw "The Waters Of Mars"? Because that was on recently here too - and yes, I was pleasantly surprised too! I actually really really liked it (psycho power-trip darkside Doctor whooooo! Even if he only went badass for a few minutes
I really meant to tape all of those old Who's but, hmm, yes, funnily enough that didn't happen. The first guy was great, though he looked like the perfect mix of Hoggle and my Nana, so that was always kind of distracting. Four's epic grab-assery was always pretty funny too. I think Six was the only one I could never really stand - so creepy! Kind of Evil Clown Childhood Circus Nightmares embodied, y'know? Brrrr.
Anywho, the most exciting thing about The Waters of Mars though was - the trailer for the next one! MISTER MASTER! I love The Master, he's so fucking nuts, and I love John Simm, and that was just the best casting ever and even if it's not the real Mister Master and just some space'n'time glitch I don't care because he's blonde, and it's going to be oh so wrong, which, of course, means oh so right, and Russell T Davies loves the Master even mroe than I do so he always gets the good lines and, yeah, I'm....fairly excited for the Christmas special.
I hope your Christmas party was good - and that there was much eggnog to be had! Mmm, only 30 sweet egnoggy days....
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Yep, that's pretty much the one. Bits of blu-tack, paper or foil chocolate wrappers, they all get turned into something or other⦠Easter time tends to always leave a bunch of little sculptures around the place
'creative ichor residue' I guess you could call it, though I don't think that improves the general feel of the metaphor very much⦠(And I think it's a good thing I can manage to do so, since I like all my essential extremities just where they are.)
Doctor Who! Yes indeed, Waters of Mars it was
(I do have to admit I rather love Tennant, so that will be quite a shame, but all good things must come to an end at some point
But hells yeah, the final special is going to be epic! So much fan that shall be, and so much more poignant 'cause you know that he's going to change! It's funny how knowing that sort of dramatic thing that could in some cases be a total spoiler can add so much tension to a story. One of the best examples of that I've come across was John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany (which I really loved); it's a pretty long sort of epic book and the whole way along you're pretty much trying to work out how it leads up the final scene⦠(On a John Irving note I came across this 'recurring themes' table which stood out to me as being a pretty good mix of topics
Christmas Christmas! Only just over a week away⦠FECK!
The Christmas party was a lot of fun, overall, but MAN! do a lot of people work at Blizzard! Got to see Samwise doing Karaoke which was frisking awesome, and I won the last round of poker at the table I was at with one of the Presidents, so that was good
(No eggnog though, I'm afraid).
Oh, and on that Amanda Palmer note, here's one of the pics from that little Butterfly Club gig I was at, and also a pic of one of the many bizarre (though this probably took the cake) little ornaments that filled the place; I know Christmas time is probably enormously busy for you but would be lovely to go while I'm in the country, if you'd like.
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I've just noticed something potentially horrifying (but I have just been watching the finale of 'Dead Set' so I might just be in a kind of morbid mood) - the ropes/bandages on his arm...it almost looks like...well, up near is elbow, that looks like a little skull - and next to that a tender grasping little arm: and ohmygod it's like the demon (or his sergeant - because I still like to think of this fellow as somewhat "misunderstood") has bound up some little creature, alive, to his arm, and left it there to slowly starve and form it's own kind of bizarre and grotesque sculptural form in its death throes. Y'know, like those guys that got locked in whatsits, crow's cages .
Messed up? Me? No!
Anywho, on a lighter note, the skull on his lower left shoulder looks like its smoking a huge cigar
Maybe demons have malleable skeletons/hides? I mean, being dead/supernaturally charged, the normal laws obviously don't apply, and perhaps the gruesome collection of trophies is actually a kind of biological imperative: they get injured and, rather than drinking blood or whatever like a vampire, they capture something, rend it, steal its bones, and kind of sew them into itself? That also allows the potential for hilarious misunderstandings!
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Now that is a fantastic idea - thanks indeed!
('tender little grasping arm'? You're mad!)
Haha; I can't see the cigar, I'm afraid, but that's probably because I know for the most part what I intended all the shapes to be β I can definitely understand that there's room for interpretation in some of the scribbles!
I definitely like that idea, too, of the taking of trophy bones for protective purposes β he shouldn't walk along a rubbish-filled beach, then, I rather imagine he'd be somewhat less impressive with a bunch of plastic bottles and left thongs attached allover.
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