....Hello!
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Welp! Back to business then!
I believe this was where I left off, right? Only with better looking, less urine-esque jizz (okay, let's face it, the jizz probably looked like urine then too).
THAT'S THAT THEN. I'M BACK.
Okay, so, as a disclaimer I am suddenly dying of headaches and a weirdly sore nose. I'd blame allergies, only I never get allergies, so I'm forced to assume that my solo foray outside the house (the first in a long, long while!) has exposed me to all the airborne viruses looking for someone nice and softened up to chew on. SO IF I AM INCOHERENT, don't blame me, blame my rapid onset death sniffles.
...So, this is an art blog. I won't deny it also has begun to function as a sort of pseudo-journal, but really, I doubt most of you are here for my life story. If you clicked the tl;dr cut by accident or out of hope for something interesting...I would skip down to where I start posting some backlogged art and recs to various things. I regret to inform that my absence has been neither exciting nor interesting. It started with a night of MUCH EXCITEMENT, involving my mother and brother in a midnight race to St. Mary's General Hospital in Baltimore and my aforementioned brother throwing all my stuff into the car while I made variations on this face = ._. . All the day before I was scheduled to be safely and sanely driven back by
ladysisyphus ,
drmoonpants , and
hunterandhunted .
...But after that rush of drama, everything settled down pretty quick. Just a bunch of me making the same face (this time it was ;~;) and crying into ______'s bosoms [fill that blank with either
drmoonpants ,
ladysisyphus , or
hunterandhunted 's name. Or all three of them at once. It was decidedly less mindblowingly sexy than it sounds] every once in a while. I exchanged at least 7 million emails with
divide (that number isn't an exaggeration, unfortunately). I must have dwindled away hundreds of
mushiestnation 's hours either online, or on the phone, or just in how much she worried. I spent some nights in the park by my house on a rock until getting scared by a hobo on the train tracks and making a dash for my house. My dog nearly died...and then lived and is now perfectly fine! I reached a few serious lows. I cut off ALL MY HAIR with a pair of office scissors (again, this should be exciting, but really wasn't). I stopped drawing entirely. It was a very boring existence. My day was mostly taken up by sulking, sleeping, whining, and then sleeping some more. This going crazy stuff is dull as paste. :/
...But, then, last weekend, things got exciting again! After a really delicious and eyeopening lunch with
ladysisyphus and a huge talk with my girlfriend last Saturday...I wrote a note for myself. This is the note (included is a picture of me with a buzz cut, because it's hilarious looking)
...You'll excuse the handwriting of course, it was VERY late and my hand wasn't exactly...steady...um...
BUT, back to the exciting part of the story.
Anyway, this happened. And then I started calling counselors, applied for a job, had an awesome and hope-inspiring appointment my new ~hypnotherapist~ (just today!), have plans to FINALLY speak to my father again, and...I'm drawing a picture! It's not done and probably will still take me a long time to finish, despite it being unremarkable (no seriously, if you think it's taking me a while because of time spent...uhhhhhhhhhhhhh....), but I have a picture in my queue! And that's something!
And...aw hell, honestly, I missed you guys. <3
And that's that! Sure it's not very detailed, but...who needs details?
THIS IS THE POINT WHERE STUFF ABOUT MY LIFE STOPS (okay, let's face it, there will probably be tidbits down here to -- I'm a chatterbox) AND ACTUAL STUFF THAT IS RELEVANT TO YOUR INTERESTS BEGINS.
Okay, so, remember way back when? How excited I was for a certain s2b2 story (by
ladysisyphus , with significant contribution of
beeblebabe ) to show up? WELL IT SHOWED UP. A...LONG TIME AGO. AND I HAD DONE ART FOR IT. A....LONG TIME AGO.
First and foremost, let me link to
ladysisyphus and
beeblebabe 's contributions to that late, late, late food issue. Unsurprisingly, theirs were my favorite. WHO KNEW.
Natural and Artificial Flavorings by
beeblebabe Terlingua by
ladysisyphus ~*~*~*BUSTED*~*~*~ (part
I and
II) by
ladysisyphus and
beeblebabe Seriously, you guys. Read them. Love them. DRINK THEM IN. Never will you find more wonderful, unique, wonderful, fun, wonderful, great, WONDERFUL homotouchings. And might I just say, and this is really a general rule for the written word (but especially when I'm competitive and like ladies I like to get lots of comments)...if you enjoy them, leave a comment! It's a nice gesture, duders!
And as far as my illustrations for Busted (and you might be able to guess the not-so-thinly-veiled-inspiration)...
I will admit, as much I feel a little ehh about the splodey kiss (except I don't, because as much as I feel I could have pushed that drawing, the scene is SO GOOD I DON'T EVEN CARE IF THE ART DOESN'T LIVE UP TO IT. NOTHING COULD), ...I really like that second pitcher. A lot.
And...of course, no post of mine is complete without gay cowboys
I have not drawn anything for this (BUT OH, HOW I WANT TO), because it was only just posted today! But for that one person on my watch list who likes Alias Smith & Jones (er, I guess it's more than one now) -- oh, but do I have a story for you!
Some Tall, Stable Girl by
drmoonpants AND SINCE SHE JUST DECIDED TO POST IT WHILE I WROTE THIS...here's
drmoonpants 's b-side to
ladysisyphus 's original AS&J FST! I have yet to listen to it, but, c'mon. You know it's going to be amazing.
Besides: AS&J FST and I really feel I must add...the fact that so many people have started loving a show that I pretty much thought I would be alone in obsessing about forever? IT HAS BEEN A SURPRISING SOURCE OF LIGHT IN EXTREMELY DARK TIMES FOR ME. SO...THANK YOU. A LOT. K-KEEP WATCHING IT AND LOVING IT. My twelve year old self, sighing with her brother over Pete Duel's smile, salutes you.
..and that's it! I'm back! I'm back and I want to just thank a few people whose sheer refusal to let me succumb to myself saved my life. And I'm not even being melodramatic! O-okay, well maybe a little. No, wait, I'm not.
Thank you so much
ladysisyphus ,
drmoonpants ,
hunterandhunted ,
divide , and (of course)
mushiestnation . I hope I've communicated privately just how grateful I am, so I'll just leave it at 'thank you' -- which could never, ever be enough.
And thank you as well to everyone else who reached out to me while I was withdrawing from things.
revenus ,
strangestquiet ,
mumumugen ,
fouenpassant , and so many others! I apologize for being...well, mute, most of the time. I hope to make up for that now with clogging up your entries with my tomfoolery. I REALLY KINDA MISSED COMMENTING ON STUFF. HUH.