So I've been busy with classes, dramatic family stuff has happened (...which I will probably post about, later. It involves my brother; if you know him and want to know what's up, you should look him up on facebook. He'd probably appreciate it) and so I haven't really posted in a while. I also haven't updated Märchen in weeks, which is just because I do not have the time to actually get pages finished right now. I have a lot of sketched pages, though, more than I've ever had at one time before, and I'm still working on the script. Not that probably anyone except me cares about that, at this point.

Anyway. I wasn't going to post anymore Star Trek fanfiction, because, uh, I wasn't, but I've decided to post this, because it's silly and makes me happy and I'm pretty proud of it.

Because it's in French.

:D

It's actually for my French 2 class - my teacher doesn't really care what we write, and so I started writing nonsense about a hedgehog, and, well...
( The Morbidly Curious should click here )

I am an impatient duck.
Which is why I'm posting this, even though it's not really much and doesn't do much to communicate any of the intention behind my Fem!Trekverse that is in progress. (Which I haven't actually talked about here! Basically (almost) all the characters are genderswapped. That's all you really need to know.) This bit would work just as well non-genderswapped, and although that is part of my point, it doesn't make for a great introduction.
But it's the only bit I'm really happy with right now (odd, since it's a pretty non-happy bit), and as I said, I am an impatient duck.
So here it is.

( Kirk/Bones (but not really) and swears under the cut. )

I did a Deviantart meme. For Heroes. I thought I'd post the link here, since I think I am incredibly funny since there are people here who watch Heroes.
it's here:
http://Selesen.deviantart.com/art/Heroes-Meme-153781660
yup.
I have three comics sketched, but none of them are in the process of being inked. I'll try to fix that this weekend, since I have Mon. and Tues. off. It's pretty nice to have more than one comic sketched ahead of time, though.

to sleeeep

I'm sort of addicted to this song right now, this song "We Are Golden" by Mika. I know I've heard it before, but I stumbled across it, and now I can't stop listening to it. Which is really bizarre, because it's so pop, and I don't REALLY like it. It's just the bit where he says, "We are not what you think we are: we are golden," etc. that makes me happy. I am addicted to those five seconds.
I also like the idea of the music video. (Someone on the internet (can't remember where) was saying something about how great it is that it's just Mika dancing around in his underwear, and that there aren't any girls, because the activity is a really boy-type thing to do. I wanted to write him a really nasty reply. Like, excuse me, do you know how many times I have done exactly that. I am pretty sure I am a lady. Besides, there's no girls in the video because there isn't anyone else in the video, it's just him, which is part of the point of the vid. Anyway. I didn't. Because, really, why get into an argument on the internet when I can just rant about it on my lj. ...wait.)

ANYWAY So there's that. I've just been to see a play. Literally, in between typing "I've" and "just been", I went to see a play. OoooOOooo meta.
(It was a couple short stories by Barbara Kingsolver. Really crazy good. Go and read Rose-Johnny.)

Anyway (for reals this time), about that, uh, comic thing I do. It's getting done at a significantly slower pace than normal this semester (which, I know, is saying a lot). It will still be updated as often as possible, but the "updates on sundays" will apply even more loosely than usual until June or so.

Also, if I actually were to post bits of my writing up here like I've been talking about, would people be interested? I need assurance that this is the case, because you guys have no idea how bruised my fragile ego will be if I post stuff and no one says anything. I'm a delicate flower, is what I'm saying.

My default icon is completely unrelated to anything in this post, but I'm going to use it anywaaaayyy

spoooock i loove yooooooou

DO YOU LIKE MY NEW DEFAULT ICON I LIKE MY NEW DEFAULT ICON. I LIKE IT A LOT. IT IS PRETTY.
There are actually a shit-ton of hilarious icons I want to put up that are just sitting on my hard drive but it's not like I use LJ enough to justify paying for it. Also I have no money. I have sort of made a deal with myself that if I start posting in my LJ, like, more than once a month, AND have money, I will gets myself moar icon space. We'll see how that works out.

in other news I kind of failed to put up the second part of that sims picture spam I put up, um, ages ago, because I stopped caring about Sims again. This is generally a healthier state for me to be living in, so I'm not really fussed, but if you wanted to see the pictures, there's a bunch up on my photobucket. Here and Here. There's kidlets and all that good stuff.

in other other news STAR TREK IS THE BEST THING
and actually has me contemplating writing fanfiction for it (which, I would just like to clarify, I have never sunk to before; no, not even Harry Potter fanfiction. well, okay, that's a lie, but those were pr0nz and don't count, imo. plus they only took like 10 minutes of my life which was crushed like a dead insect on a windshield to write. anyway. OTHER THAN THAT ONE TIME, I have never sunk to the depths that is writing fanfiction.)
In anycase I am contemplating writing fanfiction for it because it seems like so much fun and full of excellent excellent potential; plus I would like to try writing something longer-ish with non-mine characters for once. Or I may just be utterly lazy and do one-shots. Who knows.
The other reason is that Kirk/Spock is the truth and must be preached
yes

I am being really ridiculous right now, and am contemplating explaining my entire life right now, in this entry, but you guys probably don't want to read that, really. Especially when I am caps/lapslocking like crazy. I've noticed I've gotten a lot sillier with my grammar and punctuation and shit on the internet world lately, which is odd, because I used to be all GRAMMAR PRESENTATION FIRST IMPRESSIONS RESPECT RAAGE. I blame it on turning 18. I turned 18 and went MAD
MAD I TELL YOU
Also, maybe I have gotten over the crazy teenager "everything is serious business" thing, too. Might be.

This whole entry barely says anything, I'm basically just being entertaining about myself at this point. Maybe only too myself, as well. WE'LL SEE byyyye

This post kind of makes me a lying lier who lies, about the "I'm not really playing sims anymore" thing. I still can't promise I'll stick with it for long, because I really do have better things to do, and I get bored with it SO FAST.

but whatevs I am doing this, so DEAL

I started a new legacy. I know, my attention span. It's over before you can say "attention span". In order to sort of deal with this, I actually started TWO new legacies. In the same neighborhood. Named, rather arbitrarily, Marshmere. I've decided to just post these legacies together. Unfortunately, I have... 80 photos, all told, for both legacies, and I believe that's rather too many for one post. So I'll post 40 of them now and then in a couple days I'll get around to the rest. So - we begin!


( 40-ish pics under cut + general silliness )

Firstly, yesterday I was going to *cough* "buy" Sims 2 Free Time. (Only because I really wanted the secondary aspirations! Their personality are annoyingly non-complex without it; it bores me.) I spent about an hour searching for it only to realise that the Mac version still hadn't come out.
I cursed Aspyr, and moved on to my second idea: "buying" Sims 3. (I was just curious, I swear. I wasn't gonna keep it. An hour in CAS, that was all I wanted. Honest.) This was much easier to find, as the game works for both PC and Mac, and this morning it had finished downloading. Except the when I tried to open it, it told me that I couldn't use that application on this OS.
"Oh," I said. "Right. Because I'm still using 10.4. Damn."
So I deleted it and the hacks I had downloaded for it (clearing up a lot of disk space, I might add).

Also, it's raining, and this defeats my plans of statueing today.

I have a feeling today is a day for writing and drawing. That's what usually happens when event conspire against me.
And possibly some hot chocolate, because of the rain.

I LURNED A BIG THING DRAWING THE LAST COMIK PAEG
IT IS A REALLY ESSENSHUL THING WEN DRAWING THE FACE
HEER IT IS I AM SHARING MY NOLEGE

WEN DRAWING A FACE, MAKE SURE THAT YOU PUT TEH EYES IN HTE RITE PLAEC
THEY GO NEXT TO THE NOES
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omgomgomgomgomgomgomg

NOT ON TEH CHIN!!!!


THAT IS YOU'RE AMAZING PROFESHUNAL ART TIP FOR THE DAAAAAAAY
NOW YOUR A PROFESHUNAL ARTEEEST YAAAY











(Don't ask.)

Sooo I have put up the color version of the latest Märchen page. There may not be a new page this week, because, I have to be honest with you guys, it is not even sketched yet. So I may go ahead and finish/fix one of the old pages instead. Or maybe I'll get the cover done. Anyway, there'll be something.

Also I have to tell you - the last panel of that page making any sort of anatomical sense is all due to my friend Alina, because I was at her house and whining to her about it, so she basically drew the legs for me. Because she is a much much much better artist than I. So yes, credit for that totally goes to her.

In other news, I have now been a living statue twice now and made pretty decent amounts of money both times, and both times I finished and felt really happy about myself and the world, even though some people are silly/annoying/drunk. (The thing about doing it... um, where I live... is that you're about twice as likely to have slightly or even very drunk people walk by you as you are in some other places, because of all the wineries. So hopefully that won't be too much of a problem...)
So there it is. It makes me happy, and it makes me money. It's sort of hard, but not that hard; the main thing is motivating myself to do it on a consistent basis. I'm thinking pretty much every weekend, unless it gets really cold. (how much do I wish I'd started in the summer? Sooo much.)

In ending, everyone should go watch this music video. I am so obsessed with both that video and that song. I figured out how to play it on guitar, but if I keep playing is as much as I am I may forget how to play any other chords.

and now: FOOD

Here are a couple of memes that I stole from alleliua. I am posting them together because I feel like it okay.

( Click here to receive a box of metaphorical chocolate! It's metaphorically tasty. )

So after doing that book meme, I went and tried to put the Lirael audiobook on hold at my library. It really is excellent, Tim Curry is amazing reading it and I adore it. Anyway, they had removed it from the system, probably because it was on tape, and they were hissy and echoey and had problems in general. Rewinding the tapes to try and get the volume to snap back to a listen-able level was part of the experience for me. When I realized that it just wasn't there anymore, I think I cried.
But then I just went and bought the book on itunes. So now I have it. Except I'll probably have to buy Abhorsen as well, because they're really just one book; the ending of Lirael is almost physically painful to me because I always forget that it ends halfway through.
(I probably exaggerate, but still.)
My point is, Lirael, for all that I can't stand Prince Sammeth (he's a whiny brat - at least Lirael has a reason to be whiny, and shapes up as soon as she starts being an EPIC LIBRARIAN ADVENTURER. Sammeth is just like, "Uggh, I'm too wimpy to tell my parents that the dead creep me out, meeeh, my sister is slightly bossy and sensible, siiiigh, the life of a Prince is hard." And he takes forEVER to get over it.) ...yes, anyway, for all that, it is probably one of my favorite books ever.
...might have something to do with Tim Curry reading it, too. Maybe.

Oh, and I probably am not going to post it on the site because I'm a bad person, but there probably will not be a Märchen update for the next couple weeks.

Back to cleaning my room while Mr. Curry narrates Lirael's journey into epicness.