The only thing better than Jo Chen getting back to Comicking (instead of just Illustrating), is that she did it with Joss + Lots and Lots of Crack! = ( Rub-A, Pant! )

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UPDATED: with video commentary on "how obsessive and predatory male behavior passes for romance in too much of our pop culture."

Otherwise known as Buffy Summers Vs. Edward Cullen. Enjoy!

If anyone, anywhere, does anything nearly as cool as getting my designs tattooed on them, PLEASE share.
Stuck. Sort of speechless. In grinning power-crazed creative amusement here. And I could really get used to it.

I was stopped Wednesday morning by three teens (not kids, young adults) whilst wearing my PJ's and groggily nursing a coffee. They gigglingly asked, "Can I see your fangs?". To which I snared "What. Fangs." and sent them skittering away, knee-deep in apologies. That normally only happens to me at Conventions, not on the corner of my block.

But you really know the world is infected when your 4-year-old charge hovers at the front-door when a neighbor comes to call and asks (instead of "Who is it?") -

• "Is it Mommy?"
• "No, it's a little boy."
• "Oh. Just like The Little Vampire. Okay!"

Then bounces away wearing a pillowcase as a cape.

I'm not really minding though since it brings us this...*Trailer, as all things, Made Better by Placebo.

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Also. Happy B-Day Coco(s)!

No pun intended.

Somehow the workmen (no longer referred to as the 'repair' men) managed to bash up the phone jack in my kitchen, leaving me with no phone and no internets. Soonest they can have a technician here to make with the fixin' is Feb 10th.. of course, by then I will be in Florida. So, if anyone needs to get a hold of me, I suggest tackling me at NYComicCon or re-discovering the lost art of smoke signals.

If not, see you in two weeks.

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ART SALE
Also, to keep me busy whilst in Florida, avoiding a family wedding, I'll be doing another round of $10 Sketch Commissions. ($15 if you'd like it sent to you). I need something to keep me sane when access is limited, alcohol is few & far between and family members are a-plenty. Instead of capping off slots, I'll just be just be taking requests for one week. After that I'll praying the buffer lasts.

• saaiksr - KonohamaruXHanabi
• saaiksr - Leex1010

(FYI - outstanding commissions, of course, have priority. ^_^ Take pity on a city girl and forward/pimp/link to your friends. Please.)

I have people poking at my home. They will be doing so all week. She's been needing a facelift for some time now, it's all very exciting, in a head-achy sort of way. So, to be sure I'm not to forgetful I'll list a few things worth noting.

• NY ComicCon is a go!* Deliberating on which kid(s) to bring.**
• Leaving on the Feb 9th to Florida for ceremonious things. Back on the 17th.
• Thinking of having an art-sale to keep me busy whilst I'm away....
• ...only ali_wildgoose & pinkfinity should really get back to me with specifics, since they're my only outstanding (which I haven't heard from)***.
• Guess whats? I've got a President I can respect. Never thought I'd see the day. Also, I voted for him. Equally shocking realization, each and every single morning.
• akickinthehead? Dude. While I predicted this, I'm still greatly saddened by it.
• Sending postcards out late, but I made a variety of three kinds, so despite this image no one knows what they'll get. Stealthy!
• This year? Already masses better than the last... and its just begun!

*Might have to miss Friday due to house pokings.
**How to choose? RL should have poll options for all things.
***Outstanding Commissions is the ban of my existence. Can't sleep, can't eat, muses'll eat me.

Since I've never made a Holiday Card, this is the closest thing I could think of. Call it a Festive Warning: Regardless of the season, THIS is an idiotic way to introduce an important friend/companion to your massively judgmental Mother. Its never as funny as it seemed in your head and it will bite everyone on the ass for years to come. >_<

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*Greeting should in no way be construed to guarantee or warrant happiness or other good feelings during Greeting Period, or warrant or guarantee an acceptable holiday. By accepting Greeting, Receiver expressly agrees that he or she assumes the risk for his or her own holiday. Receiver will hold Sender harmless should Receiver's expectations for Greeting Period and wishes contained herein not coincide.

The task being 'write down 5 things about you that people might find surprising'. Not sure if 'surprising' is the right word, perhaps 'previously unknown' would better fit. It probably would have been a harder task to 'write 5 things about me that are not surprising' as I tend to offend.

1. Was expected to be a boy at birth. I was "Mathew Alexander" up until the minute of.
2. Never had a first step but had a first run - away from my Dad, screaming bloody murder when he came home from work one day. Nothing prompted this reaction.
3. Never had a first word but I had a first sentence - "Turn The Radio On!" shouted over my parents bickering in the car on the way to their house of worship one warm and shiny Sunday.
4. Was born with a Witch's lock, (a streak of gold-blond at the crown of my head). Funnily enough, not the reason I started dying my hair obscene colors but sort of the reason why I have to maintain it. I get asked 'is that your natural color' a whole lot less often now.
5. Maintain a personal best of having 30 places to call home, in the span of a year. I was 16. (The only list I carry more pride in than my 'Wife' list.)

nicked/tweaked from onezumi

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On behalf of seasonal festivities; 5 Things I'm Thankful For in no particular order:

1. People, being given as 'Presents' (Ex. Rachel to me on X-mas. Myself to Bex & Allie on b-day. Etc.)
2. High-Pain Thresholds (along with access to sealed needles and sterile ink).
3. Story-Tellers; of every background, name, shape and size.
4. Art Stuffs (the divining rod in my life)*
5. Not blood, but family... and the distance they keep.

Honestly, I'm not as awful as that last one comes off. (Family understands that, blood not so much.)

If I were to list a thing 6. it'd be that my fever just broke. Now I'd like to finally get back to my lovely commissions.

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*Speaking of them 'lovely commissions' & 'Art Stuff being the divining in rod in my life', nothing personifies this better than meeting Neil Gaiman last month and having these one hand for him to sign. Alas, I only got to keep one. The others were lovingly traded for board & event tickets. Such is the life.



♥ Hope everybody is keeping safe, I'll see you on the other side.

< Off-Radar as of Now >

It has been a while, hasn't it. I'll be booking a flight in a couple of hours, but I need the extra $200 to cover taxes. Its insane that taxes is nearly as much as the flight.. I suppose that because its so last minute.

In any case; this means EMERGENCY Art-Sale. I can do twenty $10 sketches... or something of that variety.

Color would be minimal. Traditional media only (meaning pencils, pens and whatever copics I can fit into the overhead) since I can do those on the road and when I get back for MangaNEXT.

If anyone is crazed enough to still want chibi's, I can work that but it'd have to wait till next month when I'm near my computer.

Pay Pal only, (to bhanesidhe @ ohshush . com) since time is of the essence. Any takers? Really, only have three hours to sort these finances out ^^;
( Slots Have All Been Filled. Thanks for the interest! )

Regrettably I'm a patient person. I take a lot of hits to the chin before I rant... and then I rant and rant and rant tirelessly until things are resolved. And honestly if I'm pushed to the point to ranting, dear world, you deserve what's coming.

But I realize now, I post more often the rants than the resolutions. So, concerning my previously subject rant, I'm (happily) obliged to report on Con Anti-Harassment Project!

This isn't to say 'oh, something is being done, so I can sit back and feel secure'. Exactly the opposite! Something is being done because we're doing it!

So, Go, Poke-Prod, Contribute, RePost. Inform the masses... thanks for reading and for the little peace of mind that's granted me. ^_^

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Comics oughta be fun. Comic book conventions ought to, as well. But as long as harassment goes on and there is no clear-cut official written rules on convention behavior and what to do in circumstances or physical or mental assault, our hobby runs the risk of alienating and endangering those within it.

By John DiBello, and crossposted from his friend Bully's own site:

( In My Own Experience... )

There has to be an even medium. Turning a blind-eye isn't an option...neither is going into a blind rage. This isn't a feminist thing, it's a humanist thing. Because we are human first. We should start acting like it. Cross Post. ReBlog. Do Something. please.

from http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/?p=202

Just finished the last in the Not : OZ series. My brother, tier_luren... the Lounging Monkey? (because he can't be arsed to fly ^^;)

1. He does make for a good monkey.
2. He does own wings that tiny... tinier actually, if I recall, they're one inch big.
3. This was meant to be a welcome home gift, only he's left again.
4. He may never see this.
5. 

In Other News: I've discovered what's really wrong with the New Doctor Who ( ... )

A bit of a belated b-day present, a bit of a thank you note and bit of something magic I can't quite capture; I bring you Pixie!Mel (as Glinda the Good Witch, only the Val-Version).

There is one more "Version : Not OZ" portrait in the works, well, that I know of. It will be a 'Welcome Home' & a Flying Monkey! Glee!

The Previous 5 being.

• Our Muses Three
• My s'Elf
• The Wicked - Rachie

*watermarks sure are hideous aren't they.

( Spoilers (in as vague a sense as possible for the film but) en mass for everything Else HULK )

Now, mind you, if you've read that and you're fine with it, you're in for a treat. If you're not a fan of smashing and bashing violence I don't know what would incline you to see the Hulk. 'Cuz as we all know "Hulk, SMASH!!"





( FOR ALISON )

As I replied elsewhere is a significantly less eloquent manner, this whole Orphan Works Act thingum has brings out the petty in me. Which is of course the best way to get me to produce works, piss me the fuck off and I'll create a world in which to martyr your kind.
Portfolio fodder is hard and never fun, but like most vengeful, petty and utterly self-flagellatiing things, the end is ever so satisfying. ^_^

So, my response to (even the concept of) the act, Big Hideous watermarks on Everything. The End.

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Meanwhile: MoCCA Art-Festival is this weekend! ( Skip the Rigmarole: Times, Tables, etc. )
There's a handful of people here I know are going. I wonder how many others will be scuttling under my radar?

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Lastly: I want to do nanomango soooo bad, it's shaming. I've just got this itch, to do everything and to Do It NOW! Maybe I'll just lose my mind before day's end, how neat would that be ^_^

- cross posted to far_eviler

*I'm not talking hormones here. I'm talking concept and execution.