If for some crazy reason you've decided you like my fanart and have decided to stalk me, here's a masterlist of all my arts <3 I've tried to list it with newest arts at the top of each "genre". If any links or images are broken, please comment on this post and let me know! <3

Feel free to use my art for icons or communities, I just ask that you credit somewhere in case someone decides to stalk me ;) (Also, obviously, don't use the ones that say "DO NOT USE" ^^U) I'd also appreciate a comment in this entry if you wanna use art, just so I can feel speshul. XD

♥ = a personal favorite ^^

Last Update: 4/7/09

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So last night we were at Disneyland and Tiara saw a couple of twins listening to one iPod as we were standing in line. She commented that it would make a great Scamander Twins pics, and so I'm a slave to oblige her fantasies XD

After writing the above, and I panicked and realized: I am a douche. Because I must've subconsciously channeled Draykonis' twin's hair without even realizing. So I'm sitting here debating whether to even POST it but UGH I don't wanna look like an "idea stealer" because that's not my intention at ALL and. Oy. Granted, my art is mere child's scribbles on a wall compared to Dray's, but still. WTF BRAIN. I haven't looked at her Scamander twin art in MONTHS and you decide to lift from it?? REALLY, Brain??

*defeated sigh* Ok, so here's the art, with the concession that I'm a douche and inadvertently gave them similar hair to Dray's, and the that Dray's twins are lifetimes better and much more enjoyable and original.

( WTF BRAIN?!?!? )

Stolen from bryoneybrynn and others.
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02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
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I've had this one for about a year now. lillithium draws H/D in a way that makes my heart clench. In this piece, Draco's eye and supple lips make my breath catch in my throat. Can we say: Inspiration?

And yes, Erin, that FruitTree folder is YOUR FruitTree folder ;) <3<3

I'm satisfied with the Supreme Court ruling today.

Why?

Because this could've set a really scary precedent had they over-turned the ban. Do I want the court to give itself power to over turn any voter-approved initiative, however contemptible and idiotic? No. I felt as though -- however badly I want equal rights -- this wasn't the way to do it. I think that this issue should've NEVER been ALLOWED to be voted on in the FIRST place -- that's where I find the real flaw in the system. I'm glad the court decided to rule in favor of the power of voters because, frankly, if they hadn't, it could've come back to bite us in the ass. I just kept thinking: what if the roles were reversed?

And I'm tired of hearing people say today was a "loss" for gays or a "win" for conservatives. IT. WAS. NEITHER. Stop giving the decision today so much effing power. What happened today was the supreme court made a legal decision -- this could've been about ANY issue, not just gay marriage. They didn't decide that queers aren't deserving of equal rights -- we ALREADY KNOW this Supreme Court believes we deserve equal rights!! They GAVE them to us a year ago!! -- and they didn't decide that God hates fags. This wasn't a loss for us, this wasn't a win for them, and fuck the conservatives if they try and twist this day into, "the court ruled on the side of man+woman morality". THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. They decided that prop 8 -- contents aside -- didn't constitute a REVISION and they rejected to set a precedent that gives the court the power to overturn an initiative won by popular vote.

Do I think minority rights should be left to a vote? Fuck no. But they were, so we gotta deal with it and work harder.

But they gave us the best gem they could've -- they've allowed 1,800 gays to remain legally married. So next year, when this goes to vote and we're back trying to win over the majority, we can say, hey look, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED gays and lesbians are married, have been married for 2 years, will CONTINUE to be married, and the world didn't come to an end, California didn't break away into the ocean, and the institution of marriage wasn't destroyed. So why not extend the right to the rest?

And we need to STOP. BLAMING. I saw this anti-mormon sign on TV and just, they need to STOP THAT. Yeah, we were ALL angry and pissed on November 5th, we ALL wanted to blame SOMEONE, but to do so now is ridiculous and just as bad as those people holding signs saying we're burning in hell for our sins and all that shit. You think anti-religious rhetoric is gonna help our case? They already think we're all godless.

No, we need to stop blaming churches and blacks and whoever else we wanna point fingers at and start TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OURSELVES, for our CAUSE. We had a lot of money for the 2008 election, but everything was done so WRONG, and these protests? This energy? This should've been happening BEFORE the vote. Instead of having straight allies on TV pleading our case, WE need to be visible on TV, WE need to make ads and show people the real human impact. We need to reach OUT to those religious organizations that are willing to give us a chance and make ALLIES, not run around holding anti-religious signs. We need to make sure we mobilize the apathetic youth into voting -- my 18 year old brother and his boyfriend didn't vote on the issue, despite our PRESSING them, and I have a feeling they represent a LOT of other voting-age youth, gay and straight.

And when we go to the ballot again, we need to make sure the wording of the proposition is PERFECT, we need to make sure it's absolutely positively irrevocably clear that religious organizations that refuse to hold gay marriages will not loose tax exemption. We can't give the other side wiggle room to lie. The ball is in our court now. We gotta do this RIGHT. We know what they're gonna try, what lies they'll pull, and we gotta be one step ahead of them.

I'm disabling comments. I'll probably piss people off, and frankly, I'm not in the mood to argue or debate, I'm done debating. I'm so so tired of it all.

I'll start off by saying IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!! I only have a few gripes, but they're fairly minor. This movie was visually stunning and unlike anything we've seen in Trek before. I LOVED LOVED LOVED the way the battle scenes were shot, how you get into the disturbing guts of the battle -- like seeing the hull blasting apart and a person being sucked into the vaccum. Normally it's some small explosion off to the side and a crew member falls against a wall, but this was... graphic in a non-gory way, not afraid at all to depict space battle. It was EXACTLY what I'd want to see if the Honor Harrington novels ever became movies. Gritty space battle. Good stuff.

I also loved the sense of the Enterprise being a working vessel with extensive engine rooms and people running about, somewhat chaotic, and even what seemed to be a water filtration system! It's a far cry from the clean, stream-lined engine room and warp core that Geordi LaForge took care of. And the ship itself was GORGEOUS -- I'm nerding ALL over how beautiful the nacelles were -- they were opalescent and glowy and UNG. And the technology updates were superb. I LOVED that new view screen <3

I have to say this movie made me fall madly in love with Spock. And the guy playing him? Stole the show hardcore <3 You'll totally understand why Kirk/Spock is THE original slash OTP when you see this XD The guy playing McCoy did a pretty damn good job too, imo.

I was never as big a fan of TOS as I was of TNG and Voyager, but this movie is, like, what I WANT TOS to be, as far as visuals and character development go.

( Things I Didn't Like And A Nit-Picky Trek Detail )


But yeah, really good, and I'm already excited about the next one. It seriously makes me wanna pull out my Voyager tapes and watch season 5 <3

Ooooo, I'm getting my Trek nerd on again!

Did I mention I also ordered a copy of New X-Men? I'm getting my nerd on HARD these days, lemme tell ya'. I would've ordered Essential X-men, but I'm a jerk and want color and I can only find Essential X-Men in B&W.

Which makes me a hippocrite since I enjoy manga XD

If anyone has been able to follow this post... you have my profound respect <3

So. A long time ago I was about 12 and did not have the internet. About this time I started reading a military sci-fi series called Honor Harrington which was about, oh, a good 7 years above my reading level, but I didn't have to understand the big words to love the books and absolutely ADORE Honor and her treecat, Nimitz. I was so in love with this strong female character that, at my mother's suggestion, I tried watching an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, because there was a female captain and it might be something I'd like.

THIS was the turning point in my life, where I utterly gave up on trying to be "cool" and fully embraced the fact that I was a nerd and there was no getting around it.

The first episode I saw was where Janeway and her first officer Chakotay are stranded on a planet for a year or something and almost, ALMOST get together. This immediately led to my first ship and my first real fandom. I was a HUGE Janeway/Chakotay fan and watched episode after episode hoping they'd get together. In the mean time, I came to really enjoy Star Trek and started watching TNG (although I could never quite get into DS9, although now I think it'd be exactly what I want in Trek). Sitting in my garage I have tapes upon tapes of Voyager episodes, all carefully labeled with seasons and episode titles. I have a suitcase filled with any and all TV Guides that had even a tiny little bit dedicated to Voyager. I have mint-condition Janeway/Chakotay barbie-sized dolls (GOD How I wanted to take them outta their boxes and make them make out. Ugh.), mint Star Trek pogs (remember those??), and even a replica of Voyagers dedication plaque (all of the ships display dedication plaques on the bridge). I bought the Voyager novels and fell IN LOVE with one of the authors, Christie Golden, because she clearly wrote with a Janeway/Chakotay slant to her work. My best friend had the internet before anyone I knew did, and I think we logged through AOL on a 26k modem on an oooold MacTV, but it was enough for me to find that people actually WROTE THINGS, imaginary things about Janeway/Chakotay (we called ourselves JetCers) and I remember coming across a fan poem that melted me. Here we find my first experience with fan fic. I sent Christie Golden some thing called an email and she responded!! and she was so nice and wonderful. Somewhere, on our old Performa Mac, I have that email saved.

My grandparents took me on a trip for my 13th birthday to go to the Star Trek experience in Las Vegas and I spent at least an hour reading the time line that stretches throughout the line area of the attraction -- and there was NO line. I was a Trekker, guys -- not a get-my-ears-surgically-changed-to-Vulcan-ears Trekkie, but a Trekker. I remember driving once and at stop light I noticed the guy in front of me had a license plate holder that said, "Live Long And Prosper" and I held up my hand in the Vulcan greeting until they saw me in their rear view mirror and flashed it back at me. Still one of the coolest things EVAR.

But in 1998/1999 I started to get into two new awesome things. I would dig through boxes in the back of our local American comic book store for single-issue Sailormoon comic books and even a few of the single-issue Neon Genisis Evangelion comics that were starting to pop up (*cough* This was BEFORE you could waltz into a Borders and find a huge comic selection.) and I would suffer the disparaging looks of the 40-year-old shop owners that would roll their eyes at some girl picking up Japanese comic books with frilly pictures of big-eyes girls on the covers; it wasn't Marvel, it wasn't DC, it wasn't even Dark Horse, it was... pink. Every month I was in the comic shop to get the newest issues, religiously, until they started printing them as "PocketMixx", which then became the graphic novel manga as we know them now.

Also around this time, I worked as a library aide at my high school and kept shelving and re-shelving that Harry Potter book I kept seeing. It would literally be gone the next day after I shelved it and, finally, I decided not to shelve it and checked it out for myself. Thus began an era.

As I eagerly awaited The Order of the Phoenix (and God bless any of you on my flist who were unlucky enough to experience the wait between GoF and OotP), Voyager came to an end. A really fucking disappointing end. They could've have a whole season of really awesome story lines if the crew had gotten back to earth at the beginning of the season, but instead they did exactly what I didn't want them to do -- the last scene of the last episode was Voyager pulling in to Earth. The. fucking. end.

I was so pissed and disillusioned by this ending -- and by the 7th season as a whole -- that I fell out of step with Star Trek, but I've never NOT considered myself a Trek fan. I loved Trek when it was not cool and I know a lot of useless Star Trek bullshit that no one really needs to know. I've always taken pride in the fact that slash originated with Trek, like, 40 years ago, that we have cell phones because geeks were inspired by the TOS communicators, and that it's a fandom that has endured and quite honestly puts all other fandoms to shame (it went through a 10 year hiatus where there were was no movie, no TV show, and no internet to keep the fandom alive). And Trek fans are USED to getting so much shit from the Star Wars fans. See, Star Trek fans generally just LOVE science fiction in any and all it's forms. We love Star Wars, we embrace it even though the title is a bit too similar to ours. But Star Wars fans will have a fucking conniption if you mistake "Wars" with "Trek", because Star WARS is "cool" and, frankly, Trek is for ACTUAL nerds with NO lives and who play D&D in their mothers basements and don't get laid (Nevermind that James Tiberius was the original ladies man of space *rolls eyes at Han Solo*). Star Wars is trendy. Star Trek has never been trendy.

And now, with this new movie, I think it's gonna get trendy.

And it's pissing me off.

Now, like most Trek fans I'm going to go see it and, fuck, I'm excited about it! What I'm NOT excited about is the fandom that will pop up about THIS Trek incarnation that very deliberately deviates from what Trek originally was and will claim it is THE Trek fandom when actually it isn't REALLY Trek at all. And while I'd love to see a revival of the franchise and, specifically, for character driven-scripts that don't showcase an alien-of-the-week but have on-going, meaningful character development, I don't wanna be lumped in with the noobs, the people who are suddenly Trek fans because a shiny new cool movie with hot guys and awesome special effects makes it cool. I was happy with the revolving "star fields" that moved past the sets of the TV shows and the Bajoran dangle earrings and Quarks ears and The Doctor's EMH Transmitter and the fate of Redshirts. I STILL can't hear "Amazing Grace" on the bag pipes without shedding a tear for Spock. Rwarg.

But I will go to the movie, and I will wear my communicator pin, and if someone comes up to me and says, "That's not even remotely TOS era," I'll know I'm among my people.

Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.

I haven't been around the LJ-mill lately, but what began as "I wanna read laerwen's LJ" ended up being, "ohwaow, lookie my flistie" and then, "I must comment in the world!"

First off, MY HD_WORLD CUP ART POSTED!!!!! The feedback has been so wonderful thus far, and I intend on responding to every single one, because they fill me with squee. ^_^ The general idea behind the piece is first, how Harry and Draco hurt one another emotionally, then, physically, then how they come to mend the wounds inflicted between them until they come together <3 And lemme just say, this thing would NOT have been submitted in time if not for Tiara. I mean, srsly, she weathered my crazed storm and really helped me in those last few hours, so she is so much win.

If you'd like to view the bigger version (that i prefer), you can check it out below:
PART 1
PART 2

That said, I've also been collab-ing art-wise with the lovely, beautiful, and talented bryoneybrynn and can only hope that I'm doing her wonderful writing justice <3 I'm trying to draw a bit more mature to match the tone of her writing <3

Work is going well. I think I'm about to be eligible for an incentive/bonus program, so the prospect of extra money is VERY exciting. I just hope it's a decent amount!

In the weight-loss world... I think I'm mentally back on track. Earlier this year it was more of a "I SHOULD be doing this" rather than a "I NEED to be doing this" mentality. I'm not 100% there, but I'm much more motivated. We've been eating out WAY too much and we're all tired of feeling like crap, so now the fridge is filled with veggies and fruit and tofu and good stuff! Now, my BIG obstacle has been exercise, as in, no me gusta. But today Tiara and I bought the Biggest Loser Boot Camp and Yoga DVDs (shutup we really like Biggest Loser, or "Biggest Fatty" as we call it around here. We try not to take ourselves too seriously ;) ) and we both did the beginning level of boot camp and it kicked. our. BUTTS. It was a GREAT workout! It was a good mix of cardio and strength training and HOW MUCH DO I LOVE BOB??? :D! I'm actually looking forward to doing it again and am looking forward to doing the weight loss Yoga tomorrow. Yes. Me. I'm LOOKING FORWARD TO EXERCISE. Wow. Is there any way to bottle this feeling? I also read an article today that basically said combinations of fat and sugar release dopamine in your brain that, essentially, is like a druggie looking for a fix. Cravings = addiction. ACK. And when I saw pics of cookies and fries today I SWEAR I felt the dopamine release and my brain jonesing for a fix. It's insane when you realize what's happening. Kinda scary, too. I don't smoke, never done any drugs, hardly drink, and yet I'm not free from a life-threatening addiction -- it's just that the food industry would never ever EVER want me to think of it as an addiction like smoking or heroine. It's a good kick in the pants, and nice to think that when I feel that whole jonesing for crap food thing going on, I KNOW it's my brain working against me, so I can control that.

The fact that I'm actually awake right now is a testament to good food + exercise, I think. The past few weeks I've been crawling into bed by 10pm. On Tuesday I was passed out around 9. I'm gonna wait a couple weeks before I get into heavy calorie counting and scales. Right now the focus is really to get exercise in and portion control. I'm also taking lunch to work; I figured I spent $85 on lunches last month. $85!! I could really use that toward other things. Like not food.

In the world of hypochondria, panic attacks about cancer have subsided, but worry is definitely still there. I called the gay-friendly woman's hospital and the little lesbian that I spoke to was SO EFFING NICE. ;_; I ended up calling back today (a week later) because i realized my original appointment landed right in the middle of where my period should be, so not a good time for Mr. Speculum. New appointment is May 5th. I'm actually fairly non-freaking out about the whole thing. I mean, yeah, I know it's gonna be uncomfortable but I'm more worried about not being able to relax my muscles (it's kinda hard for me not to have a Vice Clamp of Doom down there. anyone have any good relaxation tips?) than having another person going excavating down there. It's a WOMAN'S clinic and not only do these women doctors have their own vaginas, but they look at vaginas all day. And I'm almost looking forward to talking about myself with a doctor. Yes. Hypochondriac. I r has it.

What else... New Tori Amos album coming out!!! :D!!! EXCITEMENT!!!! I enjoyed American Girl Posse <3

Ok, it's midnight and it's a school night. Time for sleep. G'nite ya'll!

Alright, so who nominated me for smutasticawards?? :D!! I LUFF YOU GUIZE!!!! :D!!!

I got an email today saying The Locker Room was nominated and, OMG I've never been nominated for anything fannish before!! :D <3<3<3<3 So, to whoever did that, YOU ARE MY NEW BFF!!! It's an honour just to be nominated ^________^

Aaaaaaannd! CALLING ALL AZKATRAZ-ATTENDEES ON MY FLIST!!

So, if you're going to Azkatraz, AND you're on my flist, AND you luff me, I want you to respond to this post with your favorite pairing <3<3

It's only my second day and I already feel like I'm getting into the swing of things at my new job. I was left on my own to create auctions most of the day and overall I did well. A couple times I forgot one or two things, but not too bad for day one ;) I have a HUGE awesome cubicle but, regrettably, no windows :( I really want Ministry of Magic windows, yo. Everyone seems nice and I'm looking forward to really settling in. I keep freaking out about getting the flu, though. The LAST thing I want is to get the flu RIGHT when I started a new job. I wanna get some hand sanitizer and I bought 1000mg vitamin C tablets (*knocks on wood* vit C seems to work well for me. Never got sick while living in dorms full of germs and sick.)

I'm really glad I work close to my house -- today I came home and ate. My cats just can't figure out why I'm gone, and it breaks my heart a little in the morning when I leave because they're both running back upstairs and looking at me from the steps, not understanding why we're not gonna have upstairs comfy time ;_; I'm glad I got to give them (especially Pickle) a year of near-constant people time. It really made him more lovey <3

I had just forgotten how much it sucks when you come home and feel like you have no time for yourself in the evening after an 8 hour day. My body is also protesting getting up early, and I think it's gonna be a struggle to readjust my internal clock.

This weekend I hope to start on my HD_Worldcup submission and, HOPEFULLY, get a good chunk of it done. On top of that I have ONE more commish to do (I haven't forgotten about you, eerisedda!) and I need to finish the HP scarves that people bought from me. One is almost done, one is half-way done, and the other, well, it'll be started soon and (hopefully!) finished within the 3-6month time frame I promised ^^U (thank Merlin for my roomie, who's been helping me <3<3). I don't think I'm going to be offering scarves for a very, very long time @_____@ After the WorldCup is NextGen BigBang... I'm such a baby, that isn't even that much compared to some of you crazy fandom people out there. ;) It's just been a while since I've had to, y'know, DO stuff. With a DEADLINE D:

I must be off -- Nagini wants to play fetch with her mousey, Rupert, and I can't deny her Rupert!Fetch <3<3

So, about 35 years ago accioslash commissioned art from me on hpequality and last night I finally finished! She really wanted Snarry and was specific about how she wanted them, and I can only hope that I got close to what she wanted. For some reason I had such a hard time with this pic and went through quite a few revisions. Even still there are some things that bother me... :(

That said, here you go, accioslash! Go ahead and link away :)

And as a general warning, it's Snarry mpreg, (pg, pg-13) so don't cry to me if you look at it and it upsets you ;) /warning.

( Cut to teh Snarry commish! )

Here's a little something I drew for Tiara because the LOVELY woman sent me a BOUQUET OF CHOCOLATE COVERED STRAWBERRIES. How much better than flowers is THAT!? D:

<3 We don't normally do ANYTHING for V-Day, but since she did something special for me, I simply HAD to return the favor (plus, she's been begging me for art XD)

So, happy Valentine's Day everyone, whether you celebrate it or not, give a hug (or chocolate strawberry!) to someone you love <3<3

( Scorpius Loves Strawberries! )

I
GOT
THE
JOB
!!!!!

More later once I've made a zillion calls and processed this info.

I'm gonna lawl so hard if it's him. I'm watching this stupid LA car chase ONLY because I think it's Chris Brown and I wanna laugh so much *pops popcorn* They've been chasing a BENTLEY, so it's SOMEONE, and there're a ton of paparazzi around the car and they said who ever it is is wanted for assault with a deadly weapon against his girlfriend and no one seems to know who the driver or GF are...

If you're as bored as I am, they have a live video at abc7.com. He's just been chillin in his car for a while now.

I SO hope it's Chris Brown *giggles all over self*

Hey all!

First of all, happy late birthday, Cam! *huuuugs* I hope you had your cake and ate it, too XD /lame

So this weekend has been interesting. Friday I had one of those all-day allergy attacks that had me in sneezing fits and shoving kleenex up my nose. Nice visual, right? It's been wonderful and rainy all weekend -- but it's been bitter sweet. Because Deana's (our roommate) room has been leaking. And when I say leaking, I mean buckets of water. For some reason her window is spewing water into her room whenever the rain starts to downpour. I think it's because the window frame itself isn't properly draining the water that collects in the frame (the window slides open from side to side, so it rests inside a U-shaped frame. The window slides on the INSIDE, leaving a quarter inch gap of frame on the OUTSIDE that can easily collect water), and when it downpours it can't drain the water fast enough, so it pours inside the house. On Friday night Deana started shouting and when I got up to her room a sheet of water -- literally, it looked like a wall fountain, I'm so not exaggerating -- was pouring from the window and into her room. We've had towels there all weekend and, this time, were managing to keep the carpet from getting anything more than just damp, but we have to keep changing the towels. Last night it started coming down AGAIN around 4:30 am and Deana said the towels were soaked within minutes. We can't, like, put down anything to catch the water because it cascades down the wall at about 1.5 feet wide.

Deana's been talking with our landlady, and she says it's the HOAs fault and THEY need to come and fix it. What *I* think is going to happen is the HOA is going to come in and see that the lock is broken on that window and say THAT'S why it's leaking and that they're not doing anything until we can say the window is still leaking DESPITE the lock. (luckily, we have it in on our move in inspection that the lock was broken when we moved in, so she can't try and plant that on us. I honestly don't trust her not to make us pay to fix up her house when we leave and say it's all our fault...) And then it'll be a problem because *gasp!* Joani is going to have to pay to get the lock fixed.

It needs to get fixed though. Technically it's illegal for her to rent to us knowing there aren't locks on the windows. I just HATE having people in the house. And If I get my job I can't be here.

And speaking of the job... They called Tiara for a reference, but I have no idea if they called the people the REALLY need to talk to for references. *sigh* I'm so afraid I'm gonna loose this job because of my references. Prepare for Emotionally Broken!Adriann if I don't get this job.

In other news we saw He's Just Not That In To You this weekend and it was very cute. It definitely reaffirmed my lesbian nature when Scarlett Johanssen was being practically thrown across a desk, breasts and ass looking DEVINE. If I were a guy, the crotch in my pants would've been tight, that's all I'm saying XD Seriously though, I LOVE HER BODY. She's not too skinny and has a full chest and hips and just a hint of a feminine tummy. NGH. I want her body, both in my bed and... with my head on it. That's a bit odd. Although while drying Rain!Towels! this weekend I caught a glimpse of my ass in the mirror... and and... it's not a thass!!! It's definitely been a "thass" for a while -- you know, where thigh and ass are like one being instead of two separate entities -- but the Pilates is doing it's job and my butt looked good and damn near perky! I grabbed my own ass, then went and did some Pilates, LOL! Im starting to have fantasies of going to the beach this summer and looking CUTE. When I think of my weight loss in terms of pounds, it's far less daunting than when I think of it in terms of dress size. Like, thinking I wanna drop a dress size sounds impossible, but thinking about seeing a 160 on the scale seems like it's brushing my finger tips.

I bought myself some new GOOD shampoo last night and decided to look up Shit I Can Do With Long-Ass Hair. Basically, every other week I'm convinced I need to chop it all off, but really I just need to STYLE it. I could have long hair and make it look AWESOME, I just don't. Then, my dear Scarlett in the movie we watched demonstrated how long can can be so sexy and she had that sexy, wavy, tousled, beachy look. Last night I decided I wanted to try for that look, so at, like, 2am I was putting product in my hair and curling it up to try and achieve said look. ( I think I definitely got tousled.... not so sure about the sexy. ) That said, at least it has SOME kind of body to it @_@ I think what I wanna do is cut it to just above my waist and then add in a couple of layers on the top so I can curl or tousle it. I also want long side bangs. Also, this week, I think I'm gonna soak it in olive oil. It's really damaged and has no shine and I've just stopped caring about it, but I was reading about using olive oil as a sort of hot oil treatment and I wanna give it a try. Any one done this? Some sites say to add a beaten egg to the olive oil... I don't wanna go to the roots, really, I don't even condition my scalp, but from the nape of the neck, down...

This was a ridiculously random post. I need to go grab some lunch.

'Ello! snarkyscorp is co-modding a new community, harryscorp100, a comm dedicated to drabbles and drawbles focused on Harry/Scorpius. She asked me to draw up a banner, and while I'm not a fan of the pairing (I'm all about my OTPs: H/D and AS/S FTW), I quite liked the way it turned out, so I'm posting it here ^_^ I took from the pic I did a while ago of Scorpius in a beret and did something similar. I always liked that beret!Scorp pic and wanna do a series of pics like that in the near future <3

Anyway, here's a very G-rated Harry/Scorp pic! <3<3

( I'm QUITE happy with this Scorpius ;) )

Well, reveals are up for the hp_nextgen_fest! I drew The Locker Room for the fest and was damn-near horrified when they posted my entry FIRST D: This was my first ever fest and I can only hope the smutty pic was a good addition and that the recipient, teshara, liked it XD It's colored quite a bit differently than I normally go for, but overall I liked the effect even if I'm not sure how much I'll pursue that particular style. I'm afraid it was a bit... disjointed, and didn't go together, like I had a couple of good ideas ad couldn't get them to merge, but overall I'm satisfied with it ^^U

And I present you with smut! Be forewarned that it's a hard R -- there's sex happening, but no visible peen >D

Anyway, thank you so much for all the awesome feedback! <3 My flist is SO MUCH WIN. And I know that love_stoned0_0 guessed it was me, and I think abusing_sarcasm did as well XD

( On to the AS/S smuts!! )

Here's a bit of quick fanart I did tonight <3 I was watching OotP and was inspired by my lovely Harry and the piece turned into somewhat of an H/D bit. I was really inspired by lillithium and wanted simple lines, black and white. Her art just, ugh MOVES me (I've had one of her pieces as my desktop for damn-near a year) and her style is... so unique <3

For once, Photoshop was only used for some touch up. This was all done with Copic Multiliners. I always LOVED that bit in the book where Harry is forced to scar the back of his hand with Umbridge's pen. UNG. I wish more fic would incorporate those scars more often -- they're so, so dark.

OotP still is and always will be my FAVE HP book. CapsLock!Harry FTW!

( I Must Not Tell Lies... )

I swear I'm getting a stress headache *pops pills* So David (my brother's boyfriend) just called to tell me that when he tried to ask Ray (manager/reference who is evidentially here today) about calling for my reference Ray said he couldn't do it, that corporate has to do it. WHY WOULD CORPORATE GIVE ME A REFERENCE WHEN THEY'VE NEVER WORKED WITH ME OR SEEN ME IN THEIR LIVES??? David is pretty sure that Ray misunderstood, which knowing Ray, is absolutely what happened. He probably heard the words, "Could you do..." and completely shut down and said no. He kinda jumps the gun like that. But I'm gonna pretend like I never heard about any of this and leave Sara with the last email I sent her, telling her to call tomorrow after 11:30 and Ray should be there. If Ray wants to tell her crazy shit, I don't feel like that's on me. And even if Ray ISN'T crazy and Sara SHOULD call corporate, when faced with the woman Ray will probably be like, "Oh, I'm not SUPPOSED to, but well, ok, I guess I could...". He'll make it sound like a big hassle and then do it anyway. I worked with him for six years, so I know how he is @_@

But omfg, huge fecking headache. I think I wanna call my mom and whine to her. Yes, that sounds good.

In other news, I TOTALLY just remembered that I dreamed I was reading this AWESOME, published book about gay boys and, randomly, after I read it I realized it was by betelin_notecor. Raaaaandom! But I was totally impressed with her mad writing skillz XD

Ok. Calling mom for Freak Out Time.

UPDATE 3:07PM: OMG SHE'S CALLED TIARA!!!!!!!! She told Tiara it was her first time calling for references so either she's JUST started calling references or she's ONLY CALLING MY REFERENCES BECAUSE THEY WANT ME AND JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I'M LIKED OMGOMGOMGOMG.

o.m.g. And MOM ISN'T HOME WTF!?!?

So, I got this email this morning:

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Hi Adriann,
We are in the process of checking references I have contacted 2 of yours and have yet to receive a call back. Do you think you could inform them that we are trying to get a hold of them (you can have one of them call me if you like) to check references. We can possibly make a decision tomorrow or Monday on this position if I can get a hold one of them.


Thanks,
Sara Sauser
Global Account Manager

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OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luckily Tiara works for one of my professional references and my brother and his boyfriend work at the movie theater -- where my other reference is. So it was easy for me to find out THEY ARE BOTH OUT OF TOWN UNTIL TOMORROW. I sent Sara an apologetic email and contacted Amy (Tiara's boss) via email to see if, by any chance, she can either call Sara or I can give Sara her cell number.

Ugh. UGH. What if this costs me my job??

I'm asking my brother's BF if they can leave a huge note at the box office for Ray (manager at movie theater who likes me) to see tomorrow.

Ugh, it gives me a headache, so I'll leave you with Simon and Garfunkle, because they make me HAPPY, damnit, and I'm sure I had a past life in the 60's because I SO connect with the music. And no Scarborough Faire or Boxer here...

Look at how freaking SMALL and YOUNNG they were...


I've been downloading music from their live 1967 concert at Carnegie Hall...

New favorite!


I LOVE folksy singer-songwriter music <3 Nick Drake, Moody Blues, John Denver... *NOMS ON THEM* Tiara always makes fun of me but, man, they sang about Stuff in the 60's and it Meant Something and there was this over-arching optimism and... they were gonna change the world. They kinda failed us, didn't they? But their intentions had been good...

Although the first time I typed in my name I got -- and I kid you not -- "Albus Dumbledore and Rubeus Hagrid". I was like OMG THE UNIVERSE HATES ME, then I realized I omitted an "s". The new results = ABSOLUTE WIN XD