Sloths Draw

Nicked from glockgal:

1. Pick a fictional character that you like
2. Draw him/her in what you wore today on the day I did the original drawing. Wut. These things are important! X)

( Do do Ron Ron Ron do do Ron Ron )

So I was browsing the CNN news site and stumbled upon some minor headline in a sidebar which read "Students find naked images in German textbook", and made me curious as to what exactly was so outrageous, because you don't find that many naked humans outside of biology and art textbooks in my experience, and sometimes art appears as illustration elsewhere, but overall not so much.

Anyway, I wondered whether it was a statue or art or maybe they had photographed a park and overlooked someone sunbathing in the background, but it turns out they were all atwitter over the photo of a newsstand in which you could make out a magazine cover showing some breasts. What a sad state of affairs if that reduces Texan teenagers to giggles... They probably need to be careful to avoid all language exchange programs as well as holidays or they might die from shock.

When I was in eighth grade or so it took educational hand outs on sex positions and diagrams about male/female arousal curves to reduce us to a giggling mess.

Done for the hp_beholder fest, for musyc. I was originally trying to work with a Fenrir/Tonks pic, and I just couldn't pull it together. Maybe I'll try and sort it out one day, but the angle I wanted to show one thing meant that the positions of the figures were annoying me a little - not in a tricky-tricky way, but in a how-to-resolve-the-viewer's-view-with-the-character's-view way. Yeah, with all those hyphens :p.

Who: Alecto Carrow/Aurora Sinistra
Title: Light Show
Warnings: noncon or coerced consent
Rating: R
Original A/N:Re the warning - I like to think of it as coerced consent, with Alecto talking in general terms about particularly fragile-seeming Astronomy students until Aurora gets the picture and volunteers herself as a distraction.
Summary: Alecto likes the pretty sparks that Professor Sinistra makes when she loses control, and the combination of stress and arousal is impressive indeed.
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I just overlaid a couple of pictures of nebulae to get the sparklies, tweaked the layer settings a bit, that kinda thing. Nothing as involved as drawing them :D. Cheating, really.

This was mostly drawn in Open Canvas. I was very sad when my trial ran out, and will probably end up actually buying it at some point.

( Femslash ahoy! )

Discoveries of the day:

• fanlay's art. A;asdkjfa;lkfg finger knuckles. My favourite, though, is this lovely Bill/Snape. (Links = NWS.)

• Kickass whiteboard animation.

• If you eat fish 'n' chips for tea, followed by a cup of coffee (I know, heresy), then cereal for supper, the cereal tastes like cucumber.

When ridiculous ideas with a core of freakish logic result in ficlets...

Me: There should be a story where this happens and then this and this, hahahahah, so ridiculous, and laxatives, bwarharhar
Her: ~writes it orsumly-like~

What to Expect when Reno's Expecting

(Despite the title, there are no actual butt-babies)

Yes, this is another mess made by nishizono and myself - this is at her non-HP journal, because the conversation revolved around Final Fantasy VII, since that's her latest obsession. I can't pretend to be *in* that fandom - I just really really like reading it :D.

The request!

Does anyone have a secret stash of James/Sirius that's not mostly porn? Something plotty and well-written. One friend asked for someone she's trying to lure in, and there's the theory that anything too porny might be problematic. So, not the utterly delicious fic from Smutmas that had shadowy fingers getting Regulus off in the corridor while Sirius and James watched :).

It's for a little bit of text for a HP fanart I'm doing. You remember how in my previous entry I was looking for a piece of HP fanart I remember seeing, that was drawings of HP magical creatures, but faking to be excerpts from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe? Anyway, I still haven't found that again, but I've decided to do my own version of this, because I like drawing monsters and think it would be cool, and the underlying concept is general enough that I don't think it would be perceived as copying someone else's idea if I did another version.

I've decided to go not for a medieval bestiary, but a later style of the time when there were fledgling natural sciences and the first real encyclopedias like Diderot's with plates of observed plants and animals, a more 18th century feel. The necessary style is quite a challenge for me, mostly because I really never draw in b/w ink with lots of crosshatching which is pretty much non-optional if I want it to look even remotely reminiscent of copperplate engraving. So I spent much of today trying to get used to crosshatching, but then again, I guess artistic challenges are good even if you fall on your face, it's not like you can improve without trying. So I'm not too worried about that, even though the end result probably will not look authentic, there will be b/w pictures of magical beasts at least.

However there is another problem, and that is the text. I guess I could do just illustration plate pages on their own, but I'd rather have a little bit of text beneath. My idea was to just change the small basic information texts from "Fantastic Beast & Where to Find Them" into a more old fashioned style and remove or change the concepts cropping up that would be anachronistic for the 18th century, e.g. mentions of allergies, but I have really no clue what style and words were common in the 18th century, much less 18th century English.

Thus I wanted to ask whether there would be anyone willing collaborate with me in this, and to edit a couple of these texts to transform them into something that could be from the 18th century. Or write different ones that would work as something from an 18th century work, I'm not picky. Based on the length of the entries in FB I'm thinking that the final page layout would be the illustration plate with the bit of text beneath because the typical text there is under 100 words, but if someone wanted to write longer 18th century style articles on magical beasts, I can also imagine posting this as a true fanart/fanfic collaboration, though I'd probably still only format the first bit of text in the art itself, and then we'd post the whole as actual text along with it or something, because I think longer texts formatted as graphics are not reader friendly.

The drawing I'm currently working on is the Bowtruckle, and I might do more if this one goes well, though I haven't decided which ones, and am open to suggestions.

So, does anyone want to help create excerpts from a 18th century reference work on magical beasts?

At least I'm fairly sure that I didn't just imagine its existence. It was drawings of HP magical creatures, but done in a style of an old bestiary, i.e. the art was faking to be excerpts from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe. The art looked like old vintage prints and there might have been bits of text too, though I'm not sure about that. At first I suspected it might have been one of gnatkip's pieces, but I haven't found it there, so that doesn't seem to be the case.

Does anyone know which fanart I'm taking about? For all I know there could be several with this premise, as it seems a really obvious thing to do, and in that case I'd like to see any variations on this theme too, but mainly I want to look at the cool fake-bestiary again that I seem to remember... And if I somehow hallucinated this and it doesn't exist, why on earth not?? Really there should exist HP bestiaries with vintage pictures.

This is what happens if you don't tag compulsively, you never find things again. I really should start again to tag all art I look at, just like I do with fic.

Also, and this is a totally random topic shift, I got a tiny tomato plant yesterday. Not that I have a garden or anything, but I thought that maybe I could attempt to grow one in a largish flower pot in my kitchen, which is really sunny and there is a good spot for it near the window where it isn't in the way. I suspect that even with the large pot I choose to put it in it probably won't grow as well or as large as it would in a garden, but I thought it'd be nice to see something grow, and I'm not really a flower person. I mean, if it does lead to some fresh tomatoes that would be great, but it wouldn't be a big loss of an investment if it turned out that tomatoes really need an actual garden with real beds, after all it was only 60 cents for the plant, plus the 80 cent for the bamboo stick I also got with the optimistic anticipation that it might grow successfully and I'd have to bind it to something, like all the tomato plants I've seen in gardens are. I guess I'll see how it goes soon enough.

Another scribbled drawble. I shall coin the term "scrawble", perhaps. This is basically a fan-scrawble for the delectably hot codpiece-ripper porn of pingrid, who has so far slain me twice with porny H/D that's so wonderfully made that it makes me very happy in both the knicker region *and* the brain. And that's important, yo. Seriously, the description strikes me as being some of the tastiest I've read. Full range of senses, deliciously described, not the least bit dull or technical.

Bedfellow is the most recent, and it's the sequel to some ;lakjsdflj fellatio. Go. Read. Delight in it. Squirm happily.

The story really deserves better than a drawble, but apparently that's all I'm capable of at the moment - if I can't do it fast and rough, it's not happening tonight.

For Bedfellow, H/D, pic rated R for rimming.

( wee pic )

Aaaah, I was so squicked by this ep, ( spoilers for SPN 3x15 )

A Teddy/James scribble, because all these pervy_werewolf folk are making me drawble-jealous! Not that all of them images should have that appellation, cos some of those pics are pretty darned developed for something that has to be done daily. Never, ever would I be able to do something like the LMOM.

Yeah, they have some metal in their faces. Wot?

Flirt: Teddy, James Jr, G.

( d'awww )

Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard & Steampunk!Puddlejumper
Media used: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint
Rating/warnings: G
Notes/comments: I did this for the prompt "Victorian steampunk AU" for the SGA fanart fest Painted Spires. Admittedly mechanical pterodactyls aren't the most efficient way for a flying machine, Steampunk or otherwise, and not a very likely or even possible path technology would take from an SF standpoint, but this way was much cooler visually than merely changing the puddlejumpers with pipes or gauges or whatever. I mean, they more or less look like flying lunch boxes. Not really realistic technology, but this is Stargate after all, and I'm pretty sure John would think that mechanical, flying dinosaurs were cool.

The original is 30x40cm, so unfortunately I had to scan it in two parts, and you can see a slight line where I merged, because I fail at digital manipulation and didn't know how to make the two parts fit completely seamless.

Preview:
( The image and a higher resolution detail are behind the cut. )

Phew! After last month's epic fail for daily_deviant, I've finished this month's picture well in advance. It wasn't that I ran out of time for April - it's that I drew blank after blank when trying to come up with an image for any of the prompts.

This month, though, I've used two of them. Take that, uselessness! Now I just have to wait a fortnight before I can post it. Sighs.

This content-free post was brought to you by the letter D, for dammit, I forgot to go and watch the tv programme I said I was "just coming" to three quarters of an hour ago. Gah!

When people link to their journal posts containing stories or art, some link not the "plain" entry, but to the "reply mode" version, i.e. you get an URL with "?mode=reply" at the end, a comment form below, and don't see any previous comments. Also, and that is the main reason why I hate the practice, the title of the browser window will be "Post Comment" rather than the subject line of the entry, which commonly is the LJ name plus the title of the work. I get the idea behind linking to the reply form-- people think it encourages comments to have the comment field right there, but the downside is, one, that if you open links in tabs (like when you click several potentially interesting links on your f-list while scrolling down) you can't see in your tab what you have open to easily click the tab to pick it to read, and two, even more annoying for me, if you bookmark the page you won't get the subject line as link text but will have to edit that link text line manually, and edit the URL manually to get the plain one, though that is quicker as you just have to delete a bit.

I bookmark almost every story I finish reading and tag them. Normally I can highlight the summary, click the bookmark button and get the right link text (provided the author didn't put "yay! fic" or something random in their fanfic subject line, which is another annoyance) plus the highlighted summary as description, and just add the tags, whereas with the reply mode link, I highlight the summary, click the bookmark button, then get the wrong link text, have to edit the URL to get a plain bookmark, click back to the window itself to copy the subject line, click back to the tagging dialog, delete the "Post Comment" link text and paste in the right subject. So it is two clicks, two deletions and one c&p action more effort, which, unless the story or art was very nice, puts me in a frame of mind to skip the commenting this was meant to encourage.

Is anyone else annoyed every time they land on a reply page when clicking a link rather than the journal entry proper?

I did some hump_day_smut this last week! The theme was Woodcut.

"With the use of a Freezing Charm, however, the flames were rendered harmless, creating only a gentle tickling sensation." That would explain the "being burnt at the stake 47 times in various disguises", then. ;D

( Wendelyn the Weird: 'Ticklish', plus process )

This is a half-arsed teenyfic about Ron and Draco sharing an office, because a while back I got all squeeful about going out for curry (look, it'd been a while, and I like curry) and dashed off something silly and emailed it to nishizono, because she tends to be the person who suffers when I'm silly.

I'm posting it today because I'm sad about not being able to eat chocolate - I have a sore throat, and the only chocolate in the house is some chilli-chocolate fudge I made last week. It's delicious, but it burns, precious, it burns us. And I can't eat Vindaloo, ever, for the same reason, because I am a wuss :). I. Er. I like Korma >_>.

Title: Vindaloo
Word count: 535
Summary:( Malfoy is an arse. )

For the May Darkfest on lupin_snape :). It's not actually that dark. It does have cheesy dialogue in it :).

Everything's achey. I may be getting some kind of flu, though the sniffles haven't launched a full attack yet. There've been border skirmishes, but the full invasion is perhaps holding off for now...

Also f-locked on bymoonlight.

Title: Nine tenths
Rating: R
Pairing(s)/character(s): Snupin. Implied Sirius/Remus.
Challenge: Darkfest
Summary: Going one year with Wolfsbane made the next year without so much harder - with access to Snape's skills again, Remus is willing to strike any deal.
Disclaimer: Not my characters.
Warnings: Coerced consent/informal prostitution - set during OotP at Grimmauld.
Notes: Bit rough and ready, this one. I was playing with something slightly different, but got sidetracked.

( Not work-safe. )