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Because you all need way more Slash and Gilby in your lives.


I want to draw but have no inspiration.

Fuck.

I got today the little badger totem critter I commissioned from creaturesfromel. She'd told me the photos she took don't do it justice, and she's right, but I can't get better ones. The detail and color are incredibly subtle and beautiful. Also! Little painted pawprints under the feet. ^^ Also I have to assume from the photos that Ellen's hands are rather smaller than mine, hee. The badger's size is actually perfect.

She lives now in a leather pouch I wear around my neck always, with a real badger's claw and two fossilized spiralshells -- one to keep, to symbolize my love of the sea, and one to leave as an offering if I should ever find anything else I wish to keep with me in my pouch. I usually also keep in there a stone from the stream where I was when Mouse's daughter was born, and a tiny bottle of oil with disinfecting/healing properties that an alchemist my mother knows made, but the bottle is nearly empty and the stone is actually a little large and rough, so both are going into my purse until I can replace them.

GO LOOK GO LOOK GO LOOK. RIGHT NOW.

This thing took me FOREVER. I am so tired omg. *collapse*

GO BE IMPRESSED BY MY ENDLESS HOURS OF JEWELRY-MAKING EFFORT.

AllSeeingSalmon (3:43:39 AM): A penis is being waved at you. How do you respond?

If anyone has ever been hit by the hat bot, you know the concept behind this. A while ago, there was a bot going around (it may still be, but it was pretty common about a year or two ago), where you'd get IMed by an unfamiliar screenname -- often with a literary reference -- with the message "I say, old bean, have you seen my hat?"

This is a similar bot. A bot apparently generating random names pertaining to fish will IM you with the quoted text above. If you respond, you will be speaking to a person you've never IMed before, whose real screen name you cannot see, and who has just been IMed with the same question from a botted name.

I was actually fortunate enough to get bot-connected to a person who is made of awesome and I've since made friends with. The two times I was hat-botted, the people on the other end were incoherent chatspeak morons.

So... just be aware, ladies and gentlemen, if a screen name pertaining to fish asks you that question, it's a bot-initiated conversation. It's not a virus and cannot hurt your computer or steal your info, it just connects you to another person you've never spoken to.


To be honest, I think this is awesome and wholeheartedly endorse the idea of these bots, so long as they continue to plague me only once every few months or so.

So, they've lifted the gun ban on DC.

Things I suspect this will ultimately change: None.

Why?

( I will tell you why... )

Ann-Hari's Bodice.

Linked to DevArt because I can't be buggered to copy the description and stuff here.

Lazybutt is me! :P

WANT.

My drawing muse woke up.

WITH A VENGEANCE.

Messy, yet prolific.

( I'll spare you. )

( Rainbow photos! )

Iron Council is probably my new favourite book, ranking equal to The Left Hand of Darkness. And I'm only 1/5 through it.

I want to draw Ori throwing horns and yelling TORO TORO! with a little :3 anime face.

I want to draw Cutter humping a potted plant.

I want to draw Drogon running away from Elves yelling I'M NOT ARAGORN GUYS REALLY LOOK I HAVE A COWBOY HAT GO AWAAAAAAY *BAWWWW* omg where's my horse :( :( :( :( :(

Judah Low is my fucking soulmate.

EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK.

Key phrases from Amazon.com: iron council, cacotopic stain, perpetual train, light golem, militia tower, punishment factories, time golem, dangling man, iron road



I am so excited about this book, there are no words. Seriously. OMFG.


EDIT: 25 pages into this book and I'm hooked. Holy crap I want to draw the fReemade. That is so intensely awesome there are no words for it.

Soup That Pwnz:

~3 cups* of random fresh mushrooms chopped up (I bought two variety packs and used those, containing portabella, shiitake, oyster, alba clamshell, and trumpet royale)

~Some butter.

~Herbs Wot Tastes Gud (I used chives and parsley, because we have both in the garden and they don't like the heat so they're about at the end of their lives)

~1 vegetable bullion cube

~2/3 cup* of white wine

~3 cups* Water

~1 large can of chicken or turkey (the equivalent of two tunacan-sized ones)

*NOTE: Amounts are guessed at, I don't cook with recipes. Use however much looks like it will result in tastiness. Before the mushrooms cooked down, I had about as much liquid as fungus in the pot, maybe a bit more. Let that serve as a guide.

So like, you chop up the shrooms, and stir 'em in your pot over low heat with the herbs and however little butter you need to coat them. Tiny bit. Put salt in. Let 'em get mooshy or whatever, then add the other stuff. Proceed to boil it until you're darn well ready to eat it.

Veggie folks: The can o' chicken is obviously optional, but I put it in there to add a little flavor, since straight-up mushroom broth is kind of... subtle. So if you don't use canned chicken, you might want to replace it with something to make the broth a little richer.

Behold!

Choker made with some of the beads I got from my trade with alryssa. The colors are a little washed out, alas! It's really shiny though. :)

I got a deck of Animal-Wise Tarot. I haven't tried reading with it yet, but I like it. It feels right in my hands.

Also, the deck had a blank card with it.

Naturally, I therefor added my own.

The cards are all set up with the name at the top, and a short description at the bottom, with a picture in an oval frame in the center.

My card, unnumbered, has left the place for the picture blank.

The name of the card is POOKA.

The description is "And how are you, Mister Wilson?" (If you don't get it, go watch the movie Harvey. RIGHT NOW.)

What it means in reading:

Upright - To feel comfortable and safe with your environment and the people in it is a great thing -- you are certain of yourself and your own perceptions, but you may be showing too much of yourself to others. Keep in mind that genuine and lasting interpersonal connections are developed over time, in slow and shallow steps. Are you giving too much trust to people who aren't ready to accept it? You need to build walls before you can break them down.

Reversed - There is some person or situation you have been taking at face value, possibly causing misunderstanding, miscommunication, or enimosity. If not, there may be a person in your life who has the potential to be a much closer friend than you realize. Try opening your mind and your communication channels, and look deeper.

I did a trade over the forum! :D

Lookie, reviews:


Crossroads: Fruity vanilla fades to sweet sandalwood. A very pleasant, androgynous scent.

Fortunato: .....oh but by the gods this is DISGUSTING. This? This is fruity frathouse booze someone tried to spike with tobacco leaves then left to rot somewhere. UGH.

Pink Moon 2007: Really nice! Grapefruit glittering unexpectedly over warmth and smokiness and a hint of spice. It's lovely.


I have another two from this swap to review but I need to go take a shower before Fortunato makes me ill. X____x good GOD that's nasty.

"Brave"

I have dared to say that I am beautiful.
I say so again and again in the corners of songs and behind
the walls that rhymes build, and I say so
in the voices of my personal angels
and with the promise of distant lands I absolve myself,
and with the apology of love I lay myself to rest,
and with the surreal breath of the bottle I become a solid ghost.

I have dared to laugh at my reflection and ask its name,
though it has not answered me.
I have dared and I dare now to say
that I am the form of my own envisioning
purse-lipped tilt-headed mulberries and grapes losing hope to
the dead vine in the sun.

I sing a song with no resolution:
and it goes

I have dared to be.

Trading:
Drop a reply if you're interested in any of these. I'll trade for stuff that isn't perfume, too -- tell me what you've got and we'll discuss it. I likes me a strong barter economy!

Hairy Toad Lily -- First application smells like an energy drink. It fades quickly to something more soapy but not very pleasant on me.

Burial -- Sharp, geranium-planty, dirt.... not a bad smell, but not me. On hold!

Juke Joint -- My favourite smell I can't wear myself. I love it, but it makes ME smell like a skeezy bar. It's charcoaly and dim and rich and I wish I COULD wear it but alas, it doesn't like me.

Dirty -- LAUNDRY SOAP ARGH.

Fortunato -- HOLY FRUITY BOOZE, BATMAN. GTFO. This literally makes me feel ill. Nauseating, violently unpleasant.

The Masque -- 1/2 imp.... meh. Toned-down "Love Me" with more florals. Freebie?

King of Hearts -- Fruity but masculine and a bit musky. Seems to fade quickly. Nice, but unremarkable.

The Antikythera Mechanism -- Sugar and musk. Meh.

Lucy's Kiss -- Pure roses. Nice, but boring.

The Girls Love Clubbing -- I initially couldn't smell this. With trying, I got a faint, FAINT hint of something... sort of faintly bakery and bathroom-smelling? Ew.

Iambe -- superfloral soapy. Ubergirl.

Black Forest -- SEXY. Got one as a freebie, though, so up for trade!

Lampades -- Kool-Aide-ish, but not as gross as Fortunato (NOTHING COULD BE).

Black Tower -- Sangria. Ick.

Verdandi -- Melonlicious! Watermelon? Fresh, very pleasant, but not really me.







( Ones I'm keeping )



( Given away )

After cleaning out the birdbath a few times (an arduous [lol] task that involves tipping it over and refilling it with the hose), I've figured out what the grackles are doing.

They're dunking the peanuts in water to remove that papery stuff that sometimes coats the meat of the nut.

DID I NOT SAY BEFORE THAT THESE BIRDS ARE SMART???

This is so cool. ^^

I've decided to make friends with the grackles now. I like them. A lot. I've done a little reading on them and have left them other foods they might like on the edge of the birdbath -- which I have yet to see anything but a grackle use. I haven't seen the sly little buggers take anything I've left them while I'm watching, but sure enough, it disappears, so SOMETHING is taking it.

I need to find my Animal Speak book and read up on them, to see if they're totem-birds or just some cool critters I'm adopting.

Since we put the birdfeeder in, it's been really fun watching what the critters who come to it do. We have tons of sparrows, doves who come to pick stuff off the ground, starlings who are DUMB AS BRICKS, and grackles.

I love the grackles. They're such gorgeous birds. Also? SMART. Though they're about the same size as the starlings, which is JUST light enough to be able to perch on the squirrelproof feeder perches without falling off, the starlings are idiots and can't do it, but the grackles have figured it out. It seems as if one of them got it and the others followed suit -- a girl one who learned to surf down the pole then gingerly jump to the perch and cling. The perch, which would tilt down and knock a squirrel off, only tilts half way with a grackle's weight. The other ones will wander around it to find the best jumping point if they don't surf the pole. Either way, they're fun to watch.

The starlings haven't gotten it yet. They smack into the lilac tree and leave looking offended. Hee!

One thing I've seen the grackles do that FASCINATES me is they seem to play with their food. They take peanuts and sunflower seeds and put them in the birdbath. At first I thought they were softening them, but it doesn't seem that way -- they have no shells, and the birds don't always do it. I now suspect they are just playing. They take their seeds into the birdbath and splash around, then take them away to eat them on a roof or in a tree.

For those who don't know already, my primary AIM screen name is "Ven badger".

For those who knew that, could y'all add to your lists "LightOutCorbeau" -- that name is being integrated as the name I use on my mobile devices. The reason for having a different name is that I'm going to inevitably be slower to respond on my two mobile devices that support AIM, and may disappear without warning -- so HOPEFULLY being on a second name will avoid peoiple getting annoyed with me for being slow or disappearing out of the blue once the folks I talk to usually get used to the difference. I'll have that info on my profilethingy on that name so. Yeah.

Also anyone I don't have feel free to reply here with your AIM names... I'm horrid at adding people and need to prune my list like heck anyway. Comments are screened!