[Forward dated. Also, compiling all my theme tables into one post for more convenient tracking.]

ETA: So um, if you're a classmate of mine, and you came across this site either via facebook or watching me futz about on the internet over my shoulder... I apologize in advance for everything you're about to see. (You brought this on yourself.)

Art prompt theme tables

Apollo/Midnighter (The Authority)
( Prompt table for fanart50 )

Dethklok (Metalocalypse)
( Prompt table for 20_inkspots )

The World/Sanji (One Piece)
( Prompt tables for 20_inkspots )

( Commissions )

( Misc. art requests/I.O.Us )

What should I spike this baby with? (In preparation for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince viewing tonight, see.) Rum, maybe? Where my boozahol experts at?

BUTTERBEER
Ingredients

• 1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• 1 quart apple cider

Directions

1. In a medium bowl/medium speed, beat together ice cream, butter, sugar and spices until well-combined.
2. Pour into a container and re-freeze.
3. In a medium pot, heat apple cider until just steaming hot.
4. Place 6 tall (or 12 short) glasses on counter.
5. Scoop equal amounts of ice cream mixture into each glass.
6. Pour hot cider on top and serve (with spoons for stirring).

For those who don't know, on Christmas Mom took a spill in her sister's kitchen in Utah and shattered her kneecap. We flew back home to California to get her fixed up, where they had to use some kinda squiggly wire/bolt system to bind together the pieces of her knee ("about fifteen pieces" they said). Sometime in late winter, the wire got itself loose from the bolt and started migrating through her leg, and within the last month had gotten to the point where you could see the end of it poking up at the skin of her knee, rather dangerously close to piercing through.

So yesterday she finally got the surgery to have the wire removed entirely, along with all the scar tissue that had built up. Which went well, so that's good! Though now apparently the backside of her kneecap is doing something funny to the bone behind it which.. doesn't sound so good.

I got to see her while she was recovering in the clinic, but then I had a figure drawing session to get to, so I took off down the freeway in rush hour to get there. And somewhere between Redwood City and Los Altos my uh... well, first my car listed very insistently to the left a couple times, then it started shuddering pretty hard, and then there were bits of my rear tire flying up against the driver's side window. Pulled over onto the narrow left side shoulder because there was no fucking way I'd be able to make it across traffic onto the right shoulder on that wheel. I figure it could've been worse, in that I always envisioned a busted wheel on the freeway involving a BANG and then spinning out XD Still, I wish I'd taken a photo of the damage. Basically, the sides of the wheel were still on the rims, but the tread was.. erm, everywhere, for lack of a better descriptor (some of it flew past me, m'kay). Well, everywhere but where it was supposed to be, which was attached to shit.

For a while I was lamenting never learning how to change out a tire, but then remembered that the previous owner of my car--having apparently used it for racing--had put some kind of SPESHUL RACING RIMZ on the wheels with a lock on them, requiring a key which he.. never gave over to the dealership who I bought the car from. So really I didn't have the means to get at my own tires anyway -_-

Cars in the fast lane kept getting really close to clipping my car, and I kinda wanted to stand away from it (I think you're supposed to anyway?) but there was no way I'd be able to hear the AAA operator from outside the car. Fortunately, I'd seen a patrol car a few miles up the road, and he pulled up behind me to provide a bit of a buffer from the other cars. So I got a tow, and the guy knew of a tire shop that was still open not too far from home (who would be able to bypass my rim locks), and I actually got two replacement rear tires under me in enough time to make it to figure drawing a little over an hour late. Which I think it pretty good, considering I'd pulled over onto the shoulder just ten minutes before figure drawing started ^_^;;

On the downside, figure drawing session kind of sucked.

The friends and I might be having a tea party or something vaguely resembling one in the near future. I'm not really one for cucumber sandwiches (I'm just not crazy about cucumbers, really) and I know some of you either live in the UK or are just familiar with stuff like this, so:

Rec me some tasty tea sandwiches, plz~

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My friends let me drag them to the Obon Festival yesterday (the meaning for which even the minister they brought up to talk about it before odori was like, "I don't have to--it's up on Wikipedia now lol" XD) Hopefully I'll have photos to show for it at some point in the near future!

On the upcoming The Princess and the Frog, halcyonjazz and I have been spazzing over both Prince Naveen's gorgeous (human) design/personality/animation and his hot bisexual serial killer voice (which all clips had only shown coming out of his froggie form).

WE HAVE MORE NAVEEN CLIPS. Now with voice coming out of human!Naveen :D It is more glorious than I could have hoped~

YOU GUYS HE'S DOING THINGS.


(Lead?) animator for Naveen, Randy Haycock, talks about animating the character and they splash HIS SEXY ASS MODEL SHEETS ALL OVER THE SCREEN.


1:07 I'M ALREADY SLASHING THEM IN MY HEAD. SHUT UP, OUR FIRST INTRODUCTION TO BOTH CHARACTERS STARTS WITH DR. FACILIER LURING PRINCE NAVEEN ASIDE AND TYING HIM UP. (Also mmmm, Keith David..)


Finally, a sneak peak of a scene between Tiana and Naveen. All froggy!Naveen, though it presents some great additional character tidbits. He speaks.. some language or other! His servants read to him instead of his parents! HE KNOWS HE IS A HOT PIECE! He is a slut has done a fair deal of kissing in his time! ♥♥♥♥♥


You guys, I don't know if I can wait until December T___T

Following up on what will no doubt be a much longer line of epically horrid movies viewed by my (also horrid) friends and I over the summer, the previous one featuring the battle of a prehistoric giant shark and octopus, I think we've finally capitalized on our masochistic viewings with this beauty: Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter*.

And now YOU TOO can watch it in its entirety! At your own leisure, instead of.. in one sitting like we did, while sober -_-


So, I love that Alan Moore comes crashing out of the bushes at us to... to do whatever it is that guy did.

Part 2/9: Jesus battles his first vampires on the beach. Also, a musical number.
Part 3/9: I'll need to buy some wood. For stakes.
Part 4/9: Jesus and Mary Magnum uncover the mystery of the missing Ottawan lesbians.
Part 5/9: At 1:58 features the best performance of incoherent horror you will ever behold.
Part 6/9: TALKING DESSERT
Part 7/9: Jesus isn't very adept at scatting but at least he kicks ass
Part 8/9: Watch out, Jesus! That guy has intestines!
Part 9/9: The staggeringly profound conclusion.

* Yeah, I think this even beats out Killer Drag Queens on Dope. Which you should also check out.

Thanks a ton to Emmy who's interning at San Francisco's 94.1 KPFA radio, the racefail that is the upcoming Paramount's The Last Airbender film finally hit the airwaves of a major station.

Emmy provides most of the background information on the original Nickelodeon series the film is based on, and clearly stays on top of the information that's been coming out of the Paramount production. She's joined by Dr. S.L. Lee, calligraphy and translation consultant for the original series. Sadly, due to technical issues, the president of MANAA could not be reached while they were on the air, but between the two of them Emmy and Dr. Lee made an elegant argument, referencing everything from the original TV series to historical Asian American movements to the historical and contemporary depiction of Asian characters in Hollywood.

I'll see if I can have a transcript up later (though if someone wants to take that on, I mean, be my guest!)* but for now, here's an audio rip of the interview, if you're not in the Bay Area or you didn't have access to the radio when it went on the air:

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27:53, 4.78 MB

* Edit: The full interview has been wonderfully transcribed (with additional informative links out!) by the fabulous skemono over here. Thanks for all the hard work!


Crossposted to racebending and also MUSHROOM MUSHROOM MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

HAHA we're having a grad party, watching Megashark vs Giant Octopus.



We started a betting pool on who would win/survive the longest. Well, we used Ragnarok money (zeni) to do it with, but still a betting pool. (I bet on the giant octopus.)

( Ffff spoiler, I guess )

Nothing like a glass of chilled somen noodles in cold broth with yummy toppings on a hot day ^_^ Generally speaking it should be topped with like, green onions and shit but I don't like them.



So what's your favorite summertime/stifling weather snackfood pick-me-up? :D

Seriously, hot as a mofo out there... EDIT: Oh damn it, I forgot I had some small paddies of ika tempura to slice into this. Crap.

Okay, I'm getting an early start on the Fall con circuit season and sketching up some Star Trek XI flavored merch comps. (My original plan for last year's Yaoicon had actually been to just do a Kirk and a Spock keychain thingy--TOS of course--but ran out of time, as anyone who passed by my table in the AA will easily be able to tell you.) With the influx of new Trek fans, I'm determined to capitalize on that. CAPITALISM.

The tentative plan so far is to have the entire XI bridge crew. Chibi things. I think most of y'all know how I roll on those. But long story short, I'm holding onto the possibility that if I have time, I'll do "alternate" versions of certain characters. I've got plans for regular!Spock, but that tiny sad-eyed little Spock in his learning bowl has been eating at me too, so...

Poll #1419047
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Making chibi merch again. What's more appealing:

BTW if you require context for the selat, allow mommy Amanda to explain:
Whatever Spock, you know you cuddled that thing and <3 it and named it I-chaya George.

Also, I took Dad to Star Trek yesterday as an early Father's Day gift (which makes that my fourth time seeing it, including the time I took Mom to see it for Mother's Day...) so when we got home ( we had a family round table discussion of it over dinner. )