I'm seriously thinking about removing bottom_draco and hpstoryfinders from my friend list and de-friending them.

For Bottom_D, every single story is H/D, without fail. I thought it was supposed to be about variety and creativity! Sure, it's a popular pairing. Sure there's no accounting for the people that join posting what they just happen to like. But Jesus, it's like nobody wants to post a thing that isn't H/D. There are plenty of other pairings to resort to, my OTP (Ron Draco forever, a-ha-men) excluded. Oliver/Draco? Percy/Draco? Twins/Draco! Snape/Draco, even! Where the fuck is the Snape/Draco? Oh, right- coupled with H/D.

( And on and on... )

The Fandom's stagnating. All that'll be left in a few years will be SS/HP, SS/HG, and R/HR. How I miss the golden days of fanfiction.

But I'm just being pessimistic and annoyed. There are still plenty of communities out there where the same old is not permitted. I just have to find it.

Four food related blogs:

EpiCute for Cute food
Of the Princess Manifesto
Pioneer Woman Cooks
Less is More for eating food for under a dollar a day without resorting to junk or skipping meals.

Someone on ontd_hp posted this website yesterday. After visiting it, I decided to try a mirror picture. It's not perfect. That's ok!

Couldn't figure out how to draw the sink, so I converted the room into the bedroom. After that, I had to forget the original idea, which ought to be left up to people with a less cartoon-y style anyway because it's supposed to be serious.
You can tell it's serious because it's not spelled s-r-s.

Think I'll put a warning here, though, because it's a touchy subject.
Crossposted to harpsiccord with different words.

( Who put that there? Someone who cares about you. )

My old room mate, Benny, told me about a website that wanted t-shirt designs. It would be fun to send this one in, but it needs something. If I had the talent to draw bubbles, I'd make letter shaped bubbles and music note bubbles.

If someone has an idea for creative coloring, please do it (permission) or tell me.



( More Art Here )

Looked up Yaoi games. From Yaoi games to Yaoi fangirls. From Yaoi fagirls to youtube videos of Yaoi fangirls at conventions. It made me smile, and it made me remember the old days.

*Gets crotchety*

I liked boy on boy action before it was cool. This I know to be true. You fangirls these days have it soo-ooo-ooo easy. Back in my day, we had to draw our own pictures of gay love. By candle light. Uphill both ways. Now you've got your yaoi sites and your manga right in the book store and your internet trading communities! Back in my day, all we had James from Pokemon, with only a few hints of his homosexuality and nobody to ship him with and we were greatful to have him.

Get off my lawn!




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Discuss:
Your own crotchety moments
Kids these days
The good ol' days
GET OFF MY LAWN

Wish that I'd gotten online sooner, but I've been getting up at 6:40 for work. You've probably already seen this in some form or heard of it somehow, but in the off chance that this is new to someone, I post this up. New drawings next post, I promise.

Bolded is mine because I didn't like how accusatory it sounded. My addition didn't do much, but I know that most of you (if not all), despite the fact that you are aware of the bad things you're going through, already know how fortunate you are on the whole. You're good people that don't need to be reminded of that and that don't need guilt trips.












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PICTURES:
here and here
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
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Do I use drawings as an excuse to update, or updates as a excuse for the drawings?

Are you a fan of Avatar? ... No? Me either. Doesn't matter; you ought to check out racebending and aang_aint_white anyway. This BS over the casting of the movie has me very upset as well.

( For a Community event )

One of my ship-mates on F.A.P, though not a troll, has a habit of making borderline inflammatory and generalizing remarks on the boards regarding slashers and slash fanfiction. He sent me an owl.

So, to use your analogy, I'm going to go to your sushi restaurant, and I'm going to try it. If ANY of those fics is any good, I'll give up on generalizations. And you'd better respect my judgement if I don't like it. It's a matter of taste, and isn't that what VENOM is all about?

Seems like an awful lot of work just to get him to say things like "some slashers" and "a few things I've seen", but I see this as one step towards understanding and ship unity.

Help me out here- this is a call for the finest that slash fanfiction has to offer. I've got four days and I want to make this good. So far I have Two-
Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have and More Than Books but I don't trust myself not to give him something that's completely off-putting. If you have any suggestions and links, I'd love to hear them.

To keep in mind
-Nothing with graphic sex. If you can, make it a pg-16 at the highest rating.
-He isn't too fond of Draco, so no Harry/Draco
- I'm trying to show him that not all slash fanfiction turns one or both men "femme-y" (a generalization he loves to make about both fictional and real life gay/bisexual men). Fics that prove his idea wrong are best.

Also in this post: Drabble planning with one of the mods from Draco/Ron. Ignore the umber of comments and send me your fics, everyone.

My name change went though today. I couldn't stop smiling. I am now legal. Still, much more to do today and I'm already sleepy, so only a quick sketch.

Hello, ONTDers! I see you've come to answer my question. It's easy, but I'd love it if you expanded on your answer. Share a story, too, if you want.

What scene(s)/Part(s) in Up made you/your movie watching companion cry?

Go nuts, BBs.

Four hours on this one, but once I got started, I just went with it.

The death scene from our Rokugan game, Kemari Practice 3- Return of the Bog Hag. We're finishing up tonight with Kemari Practice 4: The Final Insult (Or Duchi's Day Out because that's what it's been, non-stop since Kemari Practice 2; Electric Boogaloo).


Original file is huge, so I'll put the preview here. The full picture is located here

( What he didn't express through tears, he communicated in urine. )

It was worth it to stay up.

In this entry:
1)Snip of a piece of art for my friend Christopher Doll.
Scroll down a little and you'll see
2)Stuff White People Like (The Audio Book). Comment if you're taking it, please and thanks.

( When God created a woman for me/ He must have been in a beautiful mood/ To show the world what a woman could be/ When he created a woman like you )

Fifteen minute concept sketches from Townhouse four. Perception is off.

The only thing that makes my pictures worse is when I find appropriate music to go with them.

Title: "Batman's Boggart"
Perpetrator: Harpsi_Fizz; featuring Paul Anka
Characters: Batman, Joker-shaped boggart, Mini Stranger
Warnings: It's just a boggart.
Notes: For androgyneninja, Red, and also my big brother.

( The need inside you I see it showin' Whoa, the seed inside ya Baby, do you feel it growin' )

Bruce and the Joker sharing a cell in Arkham. Those shadows still look off to me.

(  <3 )

Here's the poster for the alliance's program on Homosexuality in Children's Literature. I want to re-do his eyes to make them look more lively and nice. Guess my biggest disadvantage in art is that I'm just not bloody patient enough.

Have you seen this show? It's brilliant and I love it. Here ya go- have two episodes on me. They're in mp4 format so you can put them on your iPod nanos.

Moss and the German: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ATWSMDPH
Aunt Irma Visits: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SN6UFYFG

The boys up there, they're Moss and Roy. Not a couple, but what kinda slasher would I be if I didn't try?

Comment if you're taking, but please take 'em.

( 100 Great Books (1/10) )

This isn't a happy post; please skip.

For E-Mutt-Dogfish, who wanted more of these picture-posts.
The next one will be more happy (with pirate stuff).

( This isn't a happy post )

Inspired by the good people on B_Lulz, specifically my dearest muse androgyneninja. I'LL DRAW BATMAN/JOKER PORN MYSELF BEFORE I LOOK AT HET! WITH BIRTHDAY CANDLES!



This took for-flipping-ever, but even so, constructive crit is always welcome. So glad I'm back to drawing.

Show me your battle scars, bishes! Share!

Did you participate in the Harry Potter Civil Fandom Wars? Of course I did!

What were your tour dates? I joined during the OotP releases, when there were still spoiler tags on pictures and information on Sirius being dead. From what I understand (or what I saw) at that point, there was still just a lot of speculation and hope and many essays on why this side or that side was right.
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The first time I encountered Harley Quinn was during the animated series. I don't know how old I was, but I do remember it was the explanation episode where she went into her background. I watched up until the flashback ended and someone came in and told me to switch it off (I wasn't allowed to watch violent-ish cartoons).

So I'm not claiming to have a Batman background in this post, but damnit it's not difficult to see fandom trends. Internet fandom dynamics is easy to figure out. They all have the same sub-caves.

The fangirls have noticed that people will leave their stories alone if they don't contain the letters O,F, and C next to the Joker's name. They then noticed Harley Quinn. Then, they figured out that with that body suit and face paint, just about anyone can be Harley, if you get what I'm saying. I love reading sporked Joker fanfics, though. So for Chrissake people, can we establish some rules for Nolanverse? I'll start:

-Nolanverse is more realistic. Penguin isn't showing up. Poison Ivy is doubtful (sad, 'cause I know it could be epic and groundbreaking, on par with TDK).
-NV Joker is different, too. He's got more things going on upstairs. He doesn't work with a Harley Quinn, or any person, really. Gonna go out on a limb here and say that the guy is more or less asexual. Definitely a-romantic, but asexual definitely.
- I take it back. NV Harley-Joker could work, but it'd be so brutal, so abusive, so... nasty that the directors would have to slap it with an R-rating. I'm talking making her mute by ripping her tongue out.
- NV Joker could benefit greatly from a shower

The makers of these lists always have the risk of epic backlash. I'm expecting it, and that's alright. If I have to modify it, I will,because I'm quite the internet coward diplomatic and word weasly.

So here's some Twilight hater art.

I'd like to adopt a more serious style.