a++ would smuggle into space again

( BEHOLD )

Things I like best about this sketch of Anna Eichel that I purchased from the inimitable thundercake at deviantart:

1) She produced this out of sheer alchemy and magic. I mean, seriously, this is the ref I sent her. I don't know how she figured out from my garbled description and badly-photographed sketch the exact Eichel face of baffled distaste, how she figured out exactly what eyebrow position she has inherited from her father and exactly what fashion sense she's inherited from the alternate spy version of her mother, but I love it.
2) There is so much blood. It is like a patient just exploded in front of her, and now she is inconvenienced because this is before dry-cleaning was invented and those gloves do not grow on trees, okay! Meanwhile, the patient: like that inside-out pig from Galaxy Quest. If only anyone knew who this was, I would need fic for this.
3) The little belt. The apron. The sensible gloves.
4) It was ten bucks. That is as much as I paid in Starbucks this morning.
5) It is amazing.

Seriously: thundercake is holding a sale, and she's doing $5 busts too. It's epic. You should go buy things from her if you haven't tied up your disposable income in con_or_bust. Now I have to stop typing, before I buy a Peter Eichel to go with it, or an Angela Rogers to pin up on my bedroom wall.

The current thing-I'm-writing-that-four-people-ever-will-understand is driving me up the wall. It seems like the more obscure the thing I'm writing is, the more I care about how it works, although this might be because when I write for reaaaaally tiny audiences it's always a really tiny audience of people who I really like and respect, so. But -- you know -- it's already got theoretical sections with German subtitles and varying text alignments and very few periods and many, many run-on sentences, and three POVs in less than a thousand words, and I keep thinking of more weird shit I want to do to it. Like: add another POV. Or font colors. Or a soundtrack.

schiarire asked for let me through, paper and fist, which is funny because for a fic I didn't initially want anyone to read I think it's some of my better writing.

( paper and fist, the Big Gay Love Dissertation edition )

I would do that "where characters come from" même, but I'm sure everybody's seen Juilliard in half a dozen movies before, Ji has shamed me with her literary references (oh god felix comes from pulp fiction and stereotypes ji screw you), and nobody really cares. So I will just say that I think Josh came from the fluffy pink lagoon and leave it at that.

Today I discovered that one can watch ( three separate episodes of Coupling and not get bored. )

Also, courtesy of newredshoes, there's this other meme where you can turn your subject lines into cat macros. The beauty of this is that all my subject lines are song lyrics and quotes. I present to you the best three cat macros, ever:

( Josh Ritter is a kitten? )

Harrowdown fic. 665 words, which makes me think the wordcount on the last one got fucked up, because Felix is definitely wordier than expected.

zurich.

( Why Switzerland insists on holding out, Felix is not paid to understand. )

*sings along to Ruddigore* My eyes are fully open to my awful situation! I shall go at once to Roderick and make him an oration -- I shall tell him I've recovered my forgotten moral senses and I don't care tuppence ha'penny for any consequences... (I needs the ha'penny!)

( musings on the past week or two )

For the Storycircle, Radmyr dies! For the Femgenficathon, Antigone and Iphigenia die (to be rewritten so it doesn't suck as much!)

For Harrowdown, not written by me in any way, just heavily fangirled: Paul not-slash Ian, That Caleb In Drag Drabble. Therefore two-thirds of my soul goes to Heidi and the other third to Sares.

Harrowdown Hill: up and running. My dear lord, I am terrified. How very exciting. *grins rather hysterically* Er, to do list, to do list, oh right, the first log and the apps and talking to people about it and making a profile for Ada and secret-character-#1 and redoing secret-character-#2 and enjoying being a sphinx without a secret in general. pushingmetaphor, you own my soul so much right now.

sandanzuki, ariastar, polaris_starz, metaphor, evil_overlords ahahaha oh god, possibly parcae and kentraine and demonic9yearold and winterwolfsong at some point.

[/oblique crazy]

Um, yes. I forget why I was actually posting! Which is a theme for me lately. Possibly the above. Er.

*does a little dance, sidles off into the niiiiight*

Also, fun new default icon. Because the citygirl was boring and the Always One Step Closer not well enough made. Bets on how long this one will last?