User:	coppervale
	Date:	2010-01-08 10:08
	Subject:	Another one of the so-called "Easy Ones"
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So, yeah - still here making lots of tiny little lines. This one really was simpler in terms of composition - but it's the balance of light and dark areas that makes it work, I think. A portrait of the young Mr. Charles Williams as a Caretaker of the Imaginarium Geographica.

User:	xkcd_rss
Date:	2010-01-08 05:00
Subject:	Admin Mourning
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http://xkcd.com/686/

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2010-01-07 14:58
	Subject:	FIC : Stop and Go (White Collar, rated T)
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	Mood:	accomplished

Title : Stop and Go
Fandom : White Collar
Characters/Pairing : Neal, Peter, Elle, Kate; pre Neal/Peter
Rating : T
Warnings : **SPOILERS** for 1x07.
Word Count : 2594
Summary : Set during & after the end of 1x07, Neal finds out what Peter's been up to.
A/Ns : Part three of the 'Driven' verse, and longer than the first two put together; read parts one and two if you haven't. Written for the prompt "Peter/Neal, deductive skills" at smallfandomfest. this 'verse continues to be for laulan, who also beta'd this chapter. <3!

( In the end it was a simple enough answer. )

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2010-01-07 10:59
	Subject:	appropriate icon keyword is appropriate
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	Mood:	enraged

i am in a MOOD today. seriously, i really need an icon of toby from TWW with the caption "there is literally nothing and no one that i don't hate right now" because oh my GOD, is it possible for more people to piss me off today? okay, actually, i lie, i have had worse and more pissy days in fairly recent memory, but this is really pushing it. get the fuck out of my way, assholes. *rampages*

there will be fic later because there's nothing like rage to get the creativity flowing. but now, have a meme, stolen from speccygeekgrrl. Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

1. white collar
2. battlestar galactica
3. veronica mars
4. carnivale
5. ncis

( answers here. )


okay. that calmed my fury somewhat. i am going to eat an orange, read another short story from "geektastic" (which by the way everyone on my fucking friendslist should be reading-- it is a book of short stories about being a geek. fan conventions, doctor who, quiz bowl, and i hate cassie claire a little less for poking thinly veiled fun at milliways. pretty awesome) and then finish editing my fic to post. and then i am going to reply to LJ comments and emails. hopefully by then i will have calmed the rest of the way down. XD

also i am wearing my movie star sweater today. *puts nose in air, minces*

	User:	amused_library (posted by enygmatic1)
	Date:	2010-01-07 09:48
	Subject:	Someone's not a fan...
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	Mood:	amused

	User:	book_icons (posted by jaiyley)
	Date:	2010-01-06 19:57
	Subject:	Classic Pooh
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Icons include:

(20) Stock/Spring/Easter,
(54) Classic Winnie the Pooh drawings,
(11) Hayley Williams

Preview
 
See them here at my journal :)

	User:	brideofbeowulf
	Date:	2010-01-06 19:56
	Subject:	The Macabre
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I hereby momentarily emerge from my LJ hibernations to make two proclamations:

1) I am glad I do not live in Uganda right now. They are trying to pass a law that would make death by hanging the legal penalty for homosexual activity.

2) Is it creepy that I kind of want a Carolingian Skull for my birthday?



Its for sale from the Bone Room -- a store just north or Berkeley that I never managed to visit! But its $1000 so I don't think I'll get it. But wouldn't it be cool to own a medieval German skull???

	User:	book_icons (posted by vintagesticker)
	Date:	2010-01-06 22:33
	Subject:	Icons
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	Music:	The Presets

Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll illustrations, Logan Lerman



In my journal

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2010-01-06 16:42
	Subject:	zero hour, nine a.m.
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slowly but surely working through emails. have gotten it down from 42 to 28. *pants, wipes forehead* ugh.

also everyone should go watch theflophouse for multi-fandom recs by people who rock. it's going to be a party over there, and y'all should get a front row seat. XD

i have counseling tonight. i don't want to go. i know i need to go, but i really don't want to. i just want to go home and take a nap, wake up long enough to eat something and talk to laulan and post my white collar fic, and then go back to sleep. *crai*

time to bundle up and brave the cold. *salutes* check y'all later.

	User:	book_icons (posted by estasmuriendote)
	Date:	2010-01-06 15:52
	Subject:	Harry Potter
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	Mood:	energetic

# 46 icons


Here ^^

	User:	book_icons (posted by writinchica2k)
	Date:	2010-01-06 10:09
	Subject:	California Diaries
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10 California Diaries (BabySitters Club spinoff) illustration icons :)
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User:	xkcd_rss
Date:	2010-01-06 05:00
Subject:	G-Spot
Security:	Public

http://xkcd.com/685/

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2010-01-05 11:59
	Subject:	On the Drawing of Dragons
	Security:	Public

Lots of people (and especially kids) ask me if I've always enjoyed drawing Dragons. The truth is, I was never really a Dragon guy until I tripped over them in writing the Imaginarium Geographica books. I wanted to reference the old mariner's map with the warning "Here, there be Dragons", and because of that, I felt there needed to be Dragons in the story itself. And since the books would be illustrated, I needed to sit down and figure out how someone who'd never drawn a Dragon actually draws a Dragon. So I did.

I think it's possible that four years in, I may finally be getting the hang of it.  Below, the Black Dragon, from the book in progress.

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2010-01-05 11:03
	Subject:
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	Mood:	morose

newsflash : i am an *asshole*. the latest round of trek_exchange, the one i exhorted everyone to sign up for, the one i was so excited about writing? was due yesterday. aaaaaaand guess who didn't even start it yet. FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. i asked for an extension, but dear god, i feel like a dick. *facepalms forever*

right now i'm stressing about the next placement i'll potentially be taking with the temp agency. it's doing phone calls and customer service, which is annoying b/c it means i'll likely not have access to the internet, unless the company is way cool and the job is way easy-- which is good for getting writing done, as i tend to write quite productively longhand, but it sucks b/c it means i'll basically never have the time to check my flist and stuff the way i want to-- but they require a fucking drug test, which means i might not get the placement anyway. thank you new year's eve shenanigans. *salutes* it's just funny-- before last weekend the last time i'd smoked was the middle of september, and before that was the fourth of july. i'm not exactly a pothead here, lol. and i'm just really getting sick of this temping thing. but part of me wonders if i shouldn't look for a real job because i'm seriously planning to move in september. nine months isn't a terribly long time to work at a job, and i don't want to screw a place over, you know? ugh. UGH I SAY.

anyway. ( writing to-do list, totally skippable )

i owe so many people so many emails and comments and tags, oh my god, it's so fucking daunting i don't even know where to start. i need a vacation. again. :( please, if i've been owing you something, or if you made a post you think i need to see, or anything, drop me a comment here. ilu guys.

♥

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2010-01-04 11:16
	Subject:	Ghostly Moon
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Here are some decent scans of those last two pieces - the Pirate Ghost, and the Moon (in a frock coat, in someone else's attic).

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2010-01-04 12:01
	Subject:
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	Mood:	sick

this is going to be short because over the past three hours i have progressed from feeling vaguely muzzy to flat-out congested and nauseous. this was SUPPOSED to be a "hooray holidays are over and i can finally get back to things like writing and actually checking my flist once in a while" but, fail. i just can't get a break-- real post will come tomorrow, hopefully.

but one thing i will do is ask if any of you lovely folks have a used spain-spanish rosetta stone that you might be willing to sell-- my dear peregrina is going to spain in the summer and would like to be able to ask where the library is and tell people that the pen of her uncle is in the red basket. XD

i have to close at lush tonight. i would like to put mondays in a corner, or have the bear jew do it for me. (oh right, i saw IB finally and fucking adored the shit out of it. review forthcoming when i'm not dying.)

--eta--
holy fuck i love the internet. because sherlockkink is definitely the thing i never knew i was missing from my monday. .....also anyone looking at my browser history would be extremely confused as to why i'm researching names of high schools in ritzy north-shore long island. laulan i hope you're happy. :P

User:	xkcd_rss
Date:	2010-01-04 05:00
Subject:	We Get It
Security:	Public

http://xkcd.com/684/

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2010-01-03 19:12
	Subject:	So
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Based on the last two illustrations I just posted here, I've come to the conclusion that I am obviously Out Of My Mind. Logically, I know it's pen and ink - but emotionally, I seem to be going for tonal paintings... :/

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2010-01-03 15:14
	Subject:	One More
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The Moon in a frock coat and fingerless gloves.

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2010-01-03 10:57
	Subject:	Lots of tiny little lines....
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Our scanmaster is off for the day, so here's a digital photo of one of the current pieces. It's either a ghost pirate or a pirate ghost. I forget which.  ;)