I will admit, the reason I got Antony when it's one of the more definitely masculine scents on BPALs list (most being gender-neutral) was because it sounded like it would be great to wear for crossplay. Not that people would likely be able to smell it much, but it would help put me in the frame of mind needed to strut around a Con like a conqueror ( Read more... )

Dwarf
Iron filings and chips of stone, Styrian Golding hops, and soot-covered leather.

In the Imp: Stone and metal. Not really smelling the leather or hops at all.
On skin: Whoa. Whoa. This is... this is stone and leather, with a sharp, bright undercurrent of iron. The hops aren't really there, but I can't say I'm complaining when I have this. The ( Read more... )

Soooo, this is my first time experimenting with BPAL, and really with perfumes in general. I had never really tried them before because although I kinda wanted to, the good one always seemed so darn expensive, and there was nothing really drawing me to them. Cue bumbling around on ThinkGeek one day and finding BPAL's RPG line, which immediately ( Read more... )

Rideback, episode 10.

Holy shit.

Holy SHIT.

So at the last Con I saw some AMVs that intrigued me, and two that looked like they might be animes that I might enjoy - Rideback and Fate/Zero. Rideback has been pretty awesome so far. Girl loses ballet-dream, girl finds mecha-motorcycle club, due to ballet-skills is actually believably awesome on this machine that requires precision balance, and ( Read more... )

So, the last time I went home and picked up all the mail that was sent to me there, I had, over the course of two months, received not one, not two, but three recruitment letters from the US Navy. Not my brother, me. Before I went off to college for a science degree I was (rather secretly in the back of my mind) considering ROTC instead.

Is the ( Read more... )

So I've been sewing in preparation for Crown Tourney - I needed more colour variation in my garb, since right now most of what I have is rather monochromatic or makes me look like a very odd OSU fan (not that scarlet and grey aren't rather pretty together!), so I've gone the green and brown route (for kosode and hakama respectively). It should look ( Read more... )

So my birthday is tomorrow. Happy 23rd birthday to me! This promises to be a happy event if just for the fact that for the first time in the past four years, I won't have to brush it off due to impending year-end projects and upcoming finals studying? I mean, one year I was in class for the entirety of the 14th, and then immediately after classes ( Read more... )

Part II of Against the Sky: The Gravity of Choice, picking up directly from where the first part left off at the break.

( The Gravity of Choice, Part II )

Title: Against The Sky
Author: nightblink
Rating: T
Warnings: Violence, some minor gore, and crossover material. No America in Chapter 3, alas.
Notes: Posted in two parts due to LJ's character limit. Can also be found on FF.net.
Summary: Hetalia/Temeraire crossover. Chapter three - first update in about a year.

"“What are you?”

Kirkland’s gaze bored into his own, ( Read more... )