Moonstone Inn

Ugh, having a "once in a blue moon" girly day.

I can!  I finished paying off Malinda for her Breakaway head with the Buff faceup.  He is officially mine!

I think he might be a Feeple Breakaway (Malinda wasn't sure when I asked her about it).  I looked inside his head and it says "Breakaway Custom" on one side and "FP71017GO" on the other.  He's also a type two head.  I can't remember if the Bloody Valentine Breakaway was a type two.  I almost want to say he was, but I'm not 100%.  But I'm pretty sure he's a Feeple.  I should pop him on Tag's body and show him off.  Maybe tomorrow if I have enough time before I go to work.

No idea who he's going to be.  There are no humans I'm currently in need of.  I suppose I could make him Arn, but I'm not sure if such an NPC, however entertaining, deserves to be a Breakaway.  It might be funny if I make him Walter, then his son (Alaric) would be an El.  Not sure if this faceup, while beautiful, works for Walter.  Or Arn.  I suppose he could be Prettygorgeoussnuggleboy and just be my doll - no real character beyond personality.  All mine.  Malinda's got one - Jake.  He's not a character or even a non-character concept.  He's just Jake, cuddlemuffin.  It's a thought.  Not that it matters too much who he is at the moment as he has no body.  But he does have a faceup and access to a body, so that means I should at least work on it a bit.  (Not that I don't have enough tough dolly name issues.)

Speaking of which.  I finally named my PKF Ante - his name is Jaemysson; Jaemie or Jaemys for short.  I'm still finalizing the spelling of the name.  I also think I've come up with the shortened name of the dragon - Xu.  I saw it, and while the name is more Chinese than Tibetan, it kind of rang nicely for me.  I think I want to come up with a fuller name for him (he is a dragon after all, and they do tend to have long names), but I kind of like Xu for short.  I prefer the Chinese pronunciation for it, with the soft 'z', but Malinda said that either she'll be calling him Shoe or Zoo and it was up to me which I preferred.  Ultimately, I'd prefer she called him Zoo, but I'll be calling hm Xu (I can hear the difference).

Well, fuck me.  After talking with my parents about Awake, as they had watched the last few episodes last night while I was at Alissa's, we were wondering if the last episode was the season finale.  So I went on line to take a look and see what they were saying.

It was the fucking series finale.  NBC seems to be deciding not to renew the series for next season.  This really pisses me off.  It was unique and creative!  Honestly, I think that these people hate unique and creative.  Sometimes I don't know how the hell some of these shows even make it to multiple seasons anymore. *sigh* Piss me off...

I'm still buying the complete series when it comes out on DVD.

Had a lot of fun last night - we spent a good time playing Warcraft and harassing a Worgen in in Furbog form.



The guy must have wondered what the heck was up with us.  We kept seeing him all night and I could just imagine that every time he saw us he though "Oh no, not them again!"  We kept swarming him. lol We're so weird.

Finally saw the Avengers.  OMG, it was even more fantastic than I even imagined.  Who would have guessed that the Hulk would have had snarky, witty moments!  I swear, I was dying the whole movie.  That end scene after the credits didn't help, either. lol I totally want to see it again.  Malinda and I are contemplating seeing if they have a good time for next Tuesday's Free Movie night at Clearview.  I'm working until 9, so if it has even a 9:20 showing I should be able to make it to the theater before the actual movie starts (though I might miss previews).  But the movie is so awesome I think it would be worth it to be a bit hectic.  I think this is a movie I could happily see three times.

Next Thursday we should be going to see the midnight showing of Snow White and the Huntsmen.  Oh, more Chris Hemsworth prettiness. *drool*

( Steampunk World's Faire )

In other news, I bought some fun new things for my MNFs.  I'll show them off when I get them all in.

And unfortunately I work tonight; so much for Memorial Day.  But since I didn't work this morning, I stayed out until nearly 3 last night at Alissa's.  Lost of Warcrafting.  We totally need to do more level appropriate stuff, though.  I wanna do more level appropriate dungeons.  Tonght History has the Hatfields & McCoys mini series starting and although I won't be home until probably after 10 (what with picking up Malinda and her laundry), it'll be on again at 11:06 (odd time), so while Mom is going to see about taping it for me, I should still be able to see it tonight. *dance* Sorry, looks really good.  Hopefully Mom can tape the other two episodes as well.

So now I'll go back to working on Kilian's story.  Blah, I still need to sew. *sigh* Too much to try to do at once.

Oh, and anyone watch Awake?  My parents do, but they're missing the last few episodes and this last week's totally took me down the rabbit hole and I have no one to talk to about it.  It was fucking awesome!  I often can't watch TV without doing something else (like being on the computer; I like to keep my hands busy) but this episode had my entire attention.  Love this show!

Tomorrow is the Steampunk Faire!  I am so beyond excited!  My outfit is all ready.  I know where my bunny ears are (we're doing steampunk Alice in Wonderland and I'm the March Hare - Effie's the Doormouse).  Can't find my jewelry that I bought at the Wicked Faire last year.  No idea what the heck I did with it.  I'm sure it's somewhere in my room.  I might pick up another set at the faire (probably a different color for whenever I find the one I own) although oddly I have no idea what the heck it looks like.  How stupid is that?  I don't even seem to have any pictures of it from last year.  My camera sucks mightily and the pictures of me (possibly wearing the jewelry, hard to tell) are too crappy to see the jewelry well.

However, Malinda took pity on me and made me some pretty, steampuny/neo-victorian jewelry - hairpins, necklace, and earrings.  I am so excited to wear them, they are gorgeous.  Hopefully this year I can get a good picture of everything.  Don't have much from last year - mostly just the videos from the end of the world party.  (Best.  Party.  EVER!!!)

I have to take a look at the schedule of events to see what's going on, but Malinda did say that C.S. Henderson will be there again.  I was afraid of that. *guilty* We think we're going to try and hide from him.  I don't wanna buy any more of his books! *weep* His writing style is so boring! *whimper* And I feel bad that it is, but I can't read anymore of it - and I can't tell him I didn't like his book.  So we're going to sneak around, hoping not to see him.  Cowardly, maybe, but whatever.

Been reading some new interesting books lately.  Partially reading them because of them being turned into movies in the near future.  The first was The Host by Stephanie Myer.  No sparkling vampires here.  Say what you want about Twilight, but this book was really really good.  It really shows human nature at its best and worst.  The main character might be a bit on the reactive side, instead of proactive, but I think it doesn't matter so much.  She does eventually become more proactive.  I'm looking forward to the movie, wondering what they might take out (as they always do) and how they're going to work some of the story.  The only trailer I've seen has had no actual actors in the trailer, so I don't even know who's going to be in it.  It's not coming out until next March.

The other one that I just finished is Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.  Yes, yes, let the chuckling commence.  I know I looked at the title and giggled as well.  But the concept - come on!  Who wouldn't want to see Abe Lincoln totally decimated vampires?  (BTW, I've also seen pictures of George Washington fighting zombies and Teddy Roosevelt shooting what I think might have been a werewolf.  I'd be willing to read those stories as well.) This one is coming out next month and the previews I've seen looks just fricken fantastic!  The book ended up being not what I was expecting, but that didn't make it any less awesome.  This was the most researched paranormal fiction ever.  The writer seamlessly inserted vampires into Abraham Lincoln's real life - and if the vampire parts were the only thing fabricated, and I think it was, then Abraham Lincoln was seriously one of the coolest men in history.  He really did have an interesting life.  Although I must admit, the book has now made me think that Abe was merely a fictional character in a book, as opposed to a real person. lol I have to remind myself that only the vampire bits were made up, not the whole character. lol And you know, I bet if Abe could read this book, he'd find it vastly amusing.  And now I want to read his biography, to know what parts were real (I did read the online wiki a bit, and practically everything was real).

Speaking about wanting to read someone's biography, I want to read Edgar Allen Poe's, too.  Went to see The Raven and it was so fantastic that I want to read his stories and his biography to know more about him (he also shows up in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter).  We also went to see Dark Shadows on Sunday.  My dad apparently saw the show when he was a kid and loved it.  I bought him the DVD of the fan favorite episodes of Dark Shadows for his birthday and I'm very curious about it.

One of the best movies I saw recently was The Cabin in the Woods.  OMG, I saw it twice because it was so awesome.  It killed me.  Killed me!  Joss Whedon is a strange, weird little man and I love him for it.  I'm not normally into horror movies, but I went to see this because Malinda wanted to.  Didn't know it was a Joss Whedon movie.  Maybe if I had, I would have been more interested.  I can't write too much about it without giving away the movie's awesomeness, suffice to say I need to own this movie in the worst way.

We haven't seen Avengers yet, but we hope to in the next two weeks or so.  Can't see it this weekend because of the Steampunk Faire.  But we will be going to see Snow White and the Huntsman at the midnight showing in two weeks (we're also planning on seeing Abe Lincoln at the midnight showing as well).  Mmmm, Chris Hemsworth.  Damn he's sexy.  How the hell is that gorgeous hunk of man two months younger than my little brother!?  He looks so much older and sexier than my brother.  (Well, obviously sexier - a boulder is sexier. To me, anyway. lol)

And finally, I've been trying to be a good girl and do more writing.  After finally getting passed the horrors of the flashback (which ended up being longer than I ever intended), I struggled to get passed the battle with the metal golem.  But I did it, I finished another chapter.  Not sure if I'm happy about the end of the chapter, but it works well enough for the time being.  It's a much shorter chapter than the last.



( Ancient Magicks, Chapter 15 )

Besides my writing, I've also been working on Dustbunnie's commission.  I've got the shirt cut out and pinned together.  Part of it is already sewn, and the body of the shirt has been gathered and pinned to the yoke.  I need to work on the collar, making sure the neck hole will be big enough.  No idea if this shirt will have a large enough hole to slip over the head or if it'd be easier to take off the head.  Still working on that.  Perhaps I should ask Dusbunnie what she's prefer...  I am happy with how it's coming so far, though.

I'm getting this nice, big, extra tax refund check from the government for some extra thingy or other.  They sent me an application to see if I qualified, I did, and I qualified.  So I figured it was about time that I got some of my heads bodies and high on that list is my poor Soony head, Eilonwy.  At least Akari and Zevra can borrow the body, but Eilonwy is WS and needs her own body.  (My Luna tamer head is gray and can't borrow a body, either, but currently is low on the priority list.)  Plus, I have exactly one SD girl, I've only ever had one SD girl in the 6 1/2 years I've been in the hobby, and I have all this fricken girl clothes that my one SD girl can't possibly go through (I bought a lot of clothes for Akari that first year in the hobby).

So I'm going to do it.  Can't afford a Delf body, and like I can find one on the marketplace right now, what with Delfs being out of commission (fucking Luts - just give Delf back to Fairyland, you putz!) so I'd figured on getting an AoD body for her.  The WS of Delf and AoD is pretty close (and no, my Soony is not Beauty Green) and is much cheaper.  Plus, the possibility looks nice.

Unfortunately, I thought Mint On Card sold AoD and had layaway.  I thought that would be nice.  Sadly, they don't and I've been scouring the net for the last 40 minutes trying to find someplace that does sell AoD (other than the company site, in hopes of better shipping).  Seems they're sold on Ebay (I seem to recall seeing them there a lot), although their shipping isn't any better than what the company site probably is.  But it's an SD; it is what it is.

I know that AoD has had some issues with illegal recasts, so I'm going to make sure the ebay seller is legit.  They're certainly stating on their sale post that they're official dealers of AoD.  Might check some of the feedback posts.

I was really hoping not to have to plunk down the entire amount of the doll all at once, but I do technically have the money, it just would have made life easier.  If I buy it soon, though, I can have her all put together in a month or so.  Not too bad.  I'm really excited about the prospect of taking pictures of Eilonwy!  The Delf thread has been having a Soony kick lately, and it'd be nice to be able to join in on the spammage.

Then I'll have to make her an outfit!

(Which reminds me, I'm doing my second commission - for a mini boy this time.  Dollzone, which of course I don't have, and am using Young Konnel as a model as the Kid Delf seems to be the closest in size.)

So of course this chapter is too large for one post.  Here goes again, part two.




( Chapter 14 part 2 )

I've been kind of out of it lately.  Kind of meh.  I don't seem to be getting a whole lot accomplished lately and I don't even think I'm trying much anymore.  Not sure where my motivation went, but I'm trying to find it.  Trying to do something.  I know it's been ages since I last posted something of my writing, but I just seem to be failing lately.  I read a new writing book "Character, Emotion, and Viewpoint" and it made me want to write again, which is good, but my brain had a hard time coming up with the actual words to the images in my head.  I think that's the hardest part.  I have all these pictures swimming around in my head, I know what's going on, but to describe it accurately and interestingly is sometimes a challenge.  Sometimes it comes like I'm just some sort of vessel for my characters and it all flows easily, but others, like recently (like the last few months), it's been tortuously slow.  And getting involved in a new book that completely kidnaps my attention doesn't help (I think this newest one makes the fourth in the last few months that I couldn't put down to write).

But I did it.  Despite all the distractions and laziness and writer's block I finally finished the damn flashback!  I swear, sometimes I'm going to strangle my characters for being so annoying and not telling me how to tell their story.  Unfortunately, I'm now at another road block (I think I really hate writing fight scenes), but at least I'm moving forward again.  I missed my present time characters, although writing Kilian's past had been kind of fun.  Anyway, enough of my tired babbling (it's probably because I'm hungry and my stomach has been gurgling actual words...).  Finally, my next chapter in Ancient Magicks.



( Ancient Magicks - Chapter 14 )

I'd posted this on my DA, since that's where I'd originally seen it, but I figured I'd post it again here.



( new meme questions )

Definitely not a good thing when you start wondering if a commercial is selling Snickers just moments before you realize it's a drug commercial.

Apparently, as Malinda said, we now can't tell if someone is hungry for a Snickers or on drugs.