Fun fact: I once played C-3PO for an improv in high school.

I got all wrapped up in a shimmery gold shawl and did my best nervous British butler accent/stiff walk.  A classmate (I completely forget who) actually put the room’s trashcan on over her head and stumbled around blindly, beeping and booping and whistling.

It was the best.

Fun fact #2: Due to unexplained and highly convoluted phenomena, I am actually the basis for Threepio’s programming and the bumbling, over-eager nature of all protocol droids.

Posted 22 hours ago

Star Wars Puzzles

I started on these puzzles today:

Did the small Vader puzzle in about 3 hours while rewatching some Season 1 DS9.  A little wary of the big guy though, because it’s a foil puzzle, and they’re so much harder to do when you get nothing but glare off of the pieces.

I was so interested in this set because of the art nouveau imitation in the main piece, and because I enjoyed the first set so much (even the foil puzzle).  But whichever splendid artist worked on this seems to be under the impression that Padmé was played by the lovely Rachel Weisz, not Natalie Portman.

Posted 23 hours ago

Cashed in some serious thrift store karma today.

Found the above shirt (out of print, cost about 26-30 USD new, has it’s own page on Polyvore) in green today.  Like new, Very snug and sexy.

Also found two pairs of jeans that fit beautifully, including a pair of refuge jeans (my absolute favorite, but they stopped making them a while ago).  These didn’t have the tag I was used to, so I looked up Charlotte Russe and HOLY SHIT GUESS WHAT.  Refuge jeans are back!  These are a total must for girls with a lot of hip and ass.

Along with four tank tops, a blouse-y summer babydoll shirt, another snug t-shirt and a hat (even though I never wear hats) for about $30?  Not bad.

OH, and last but certainly not least, Gene Wilder’s autobiography.  Can’t wait to start reading.

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Posted 1 day ago

DK Books Ultimate X-Men

When I was in middle school, my usual haunt was the art section of the library (which was one shelf, about two feet long, stacked with how to draw books and one beat-up art history textbook with censored classics) and the table right next to it.  I went through all of the how to draw books, but even then, I knew that “draw to circles and then use the exact same lines that I did to make it into a horse face” wasn’t art, it was practice.  My absolute favorite book was the DK Ultimate X-Men encyclopedia.

Unlike the school’s anatomy books, it had escaped the black construction paper and scotch tape censoring committee, AND it had poses!  Dynamic poses, featuring mostly competent artists overblown, but educated, portrayals of muscles and how skin (and paper thin vinyl costumes) stretched over them.  It was also a goldmine of inspired clothing and costumes from all eras and cultures, with absolutely no regard for what someone would actually wear out of the house.  I’ve never been much of a costume designer, and I’m still not great at basic cloth, but piecing together bits of what I liked made character designing a breeze.  I generally had this book all year, I doubt anyone else in the school knew it existed, let alone wanted to borrow it.

My mom, who has always been very encouraging of my art, saw me looking through it constantly.  She had introduced me to the world of X-Men, as a former reader, and loved that I had taken an interest.  Before I began high school, she ordered me my own copy as a graduation present, and I still flip through it very frequently, and I find it’s influence in a lot of my work.  I’m constantly thinking, “Isn’t that how Wolfsbane wore her hair?” or “Are those the sleeves from Psylocke’s early costume?”  Sure enough.

I’m still no expert on the X-Men, but I flip through this book and my mom’s somewhat extensive 80’s and early 90’s comic collection (bagged and backed in a giant, very heavy Sterilite under my bed) whenever I feel stumped or art blocked. Thanks, Stan Lee, Peter Sanderson, and the 40 years worth of artists who’ve contributed to the X-Men Universe as I’ve known it.  You’ve kept this not-quite-artist afloat through a lot of struggles, blocks and just plain droughts.

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Ahh, my blog is back to it’s messy, geeky self.

Now that I’ve had my personal WWIII, let’s hope that I don’t step onto a tumblr landmine again for a LONG bloody time.

Posted 2 days ago

Condensed “Rape Joke” Controversy Master Post

I’m done with getting notifications from people who hit reblog and continue to go off on me.  I’m putting everything that was said on my tumblr in a single, giant post as they appeared, in the order that they appeared, so that it can be read without clogging my blog up.

My edits are marked in parenthetical italics with (EDIT: …)

TRIGGER WARNING: rape, sexual abuse, rape jokes, threatening language

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Posted 2 days ago