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piratecore made something AWESOME and CUTE and now I am pimping it! You can download the PDF at her lj!Now back to getting my ass whupped by Chronin! WOO!
- I'm in the middle of the first big flashback-to-the-future sequence in Chronin, and it's actually going really well! I spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening drawing the inside of a diner and people drinking coffee, and it ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A REAL COMIC THAT SOMEONE MIGHT PAY MONEY FOR! Shocking, I know, but there you are.
- I made an Avatar AMV last week that was so sad I almost made myself cry. Oh, me. *sighs*
- This, combined with a few other recent projects of mine, has led to the decision that I am calling a MORATORIUM on the creation of sad shit for the time being. Enough is enough! Only puppydogs and butterflies from here on in. Uh, and diners? I guess.
- Speaking of which, I had lunch today in a diner that's in the lobby of a hospital (I had to get a hearing test) and it was pretty great! I love diners to begin with, and for some reason the idea of a diner INSIDE OF ANOTHER BUILDING amuses me to no end. I was like, I'm in the hospital! AND YET, CREAMER CUPS AND COLE SLAW! Then I put the cole slaw on my burger and life was pretty fucking great.
- I figured out some plot stuff that had been bugging me for months in the space of about fifteen minutes. I feel I have the burger to thank.
- My hearing is fine, FTR, despite wandering around with my iPod shuffle turned all the way up while I listen to "I2I" and plan my Avatar Vid of Destiny (which, btw, is also making me cry EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NOT YET ACTUALLY MADE IT.)
- Tonight I am going to see a band called I EAT PANDAS. What else needs to be said?
- I'm leaving for Seattle at 5AM on Thursday. My paranoia regarding sleeping through my flight again is mitigated only by the fact that Scott will also be there, and he has a hard time falling asleep in public places. WIN. (Bonus: the return flight on Sunday is also at 5AM!)
- Does this count as a bulleted list even though I was too lazy to type actual bullets? Hmm.
Seriously, this was posted TODAY and I feel it is my duty as a citizen of the internet to spread the world.
So...off the top of my head, ( it breaks down a little like this )
But enough of that -- what do YOU GUYS THINK?
Some of these are VERY VERY OLD, but I found them entertaining! Uh, and only a few of them are Avatar-related, I swear!
( A whole load of embedded crazyness behind the cut! )
It looks like I'm gonna be here for a while, and I'm sure I'll be completely exhausted when I do finally get home at like....11PM. Right now I'm struggling to make some progress on a fic I'm writing (I'm too tired to do anything more useful than that) but I'm not quite feeling it yet. Hopefully that just means it's tricky, not that it isn't working at all. We'll see, I guess!
So, to entertain us all: a meme-like thing.
I'll post bits of some unfinished fic of mine below the cut -- in the comments, paste me part of what you're working on! (Images are also good, of course <3)
( Two slashy ficbits behind the cut! )
 | VoicePost  441K 2:15 | “Hey LiveJournal so Comicon's officially over. I am walking to the Hyatt to meet up with the Comic's Bakery Folks and yeah I guess I just wanted to just sort of check in with the internet and tell you all the con was really fun and you know, I know that I was really worried about people being jerks and people not liking me and all kinds of other stuff, and I don't know if people liked me but nobody was a jerk and I went to a bunch of the Avatar group things and everybody behaved and Maiko fans and Zutarians, shippers and Slashers all sat down together in harmony and sang songs or at least participated in trivia contests which I lost horribly because my low blood sugar meant that I could not even remember that Track Team does the music for Avatar...yeah that was really embarrassing. Anyway that wasn't actually what I was gonna talk about! What I was gonna talk about is how I just finished helping Slave Labor Graphics, my publisher, break down their booth because they got me an exhibitor badge -- after after all that nonsense they apparently had an exhibitor badge for me -- and yeah I just felt like you know like I really like them and I know they're not a very big company, so I wanted to help them break down the booth and it was just really cool like I got to meet the people at the company and got to help everybody out and we all did a whiskey shot together, which is why my voice is kinda slurred because I did a whiskey shot on almost no food, and it was just really nice and I just really felt very much like this is really cool group of people and I'm really excited about working with them and had a nice meeting with my editors today and yeah so you know it was a really good day, it was a really good day. Oh and I got to see Red Fraggle which was totally awesome! I swear to God I was crying like a little bit, you know like Fraggle sing-alongs and first public appearance of Red Fraggle ever and yeah so I got a little teary eyed I felt like I was 6 again and it was very cool. So anyway this is getting really rambly 'cause I'm a little drunk but oh yeah you know I just wanted to check in with you guys and say the Comic Con was totally awesome and for those of you that I got to hang out you guys were great and for those of you that I did not get to hang out with I hope I get to hang out with you some other time, because you know hanging out with people is awesome. So I'm gonna stop this now before I say anything even more retarded. Have a good night LiveJournal I love you all. Bye” Transcribed by: multiple users |
| VoicePost 691K 3:33 | “Hey livejournal, this is Alison. I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm out of the Avatar panel. I have recovered sufficiently to actually talk about it in a vaguely coherent matter, and you know I've got a say that I had my aprehensions like you know I think I mentioned a couple things on my livejourna, and to those of you I talked to I was worried people were going to boo, I was worried people were gonna be jerks, and y'know, like, it went super-well. Like seriously, it was like really great to watch the episodes in a whole huge room with like 2,000 crazy fans - who by the way, a lot of them got there like - I sat through three panels before the actual, you know, avatar panel, although hilariously the first one that I sat through the author like randomly referenced...” Transcribed by: erinfinnegan |
| VoicePost 192K 0:59 | “Hey Livejournal, it's Alison. I'm standing in line for Scott McCloud's panel about his book Zot, which I have not read yet because I'm a bad person. However I aminterested to hear about it and I genuinely like Scott McCloud. He's a cool guy. So I'm looking forward to his channel. Anyway I'm actually having gigantic line anxiety about the Avatar panel. It isn't until 7:30 tonight and yet there's a part of me that feels like I should just sit in front of that room right now at uh ... let's see 1:30 or perhaps when panel get's out at 2:30? and just get there for 5 hours. Mostly because I'm worried that all the cool kids will be upfront and if you know I will be way in the back with the lesser nerds that would be really sad. I'm also completely convinced that no one will recognized me and I'll have to sit all by myself and cry and cry and cry. Yes. Anyway. we'll see how that goes and I'm sure I will have many stupid and retarded and squeeful(?) and ridiculous things to say about the panel later. So hope you guys are all having a good day and I'll talk to ya'll later or something else. So, yeah!” Transcribed by: emsariel |
| VoicePost 224K 1:09 | (no transcription available) |
After a lot of hemming and hawing, I've decided I'll probably go to the panel on Friday after all and just hope that no one boos (if they do, I swear to god I'll kill them with laserbeams from my eyeballs from across the room) and that only a few will be wearing shirts bearing some variant of "Fuck Canon!"
Personally, I'll be wearing my homemade "Flameo and The Hotmen" shirt (red on black) that's become my customary attire for Avatar panels. Because....I'm a giant nerd? And because tradition must be respected.
I will also be doing plenty of non-Avatar-related things and hopefully sneaking into various industry parties. If you've got a booth or a panel you're on, let me know in the comments? I've been trying to keep track of what people have been talking about on my flist, but I'm sure I missed plenty!
jlh today, I decided my personal summary for the Avatar finale, at this moment, is as such:"IN WHICH THERE IS HUGGING, AND EVERYONE SAVES EVERYONE ELSE."
I mean...some other stuff happened I GUESS but who cares?
HUGGING.
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I rewatched the first season of Avatar recently -- I hadn't seen some of those episodes since 2006 -- and decided to write a series of 100 word drabbles inspired by it, one for each chapter. I think it turned out pretty well, and there is a minimum of the shippiness I know some of you have no time for, so! You can read it here, if you're curious. <3
ALSO, WHILE I'M POSTING!
I have not been watching any new anime lately. Like...really, for the past year or two. But I've had a hankering, and miss the good old days of stalking AnimeSuki. So: Do you guys have recommendations for recent series I should check out? I've watched Gurrenn Lagann but that's about it! :)
heidi8, I now actually have a pass to SDCC!Someday, I will be a functioning adult who doesn't have these kinds of ridiculous problems.
In the meantime, Chronining continues, and so does a lot of nerdy shit.
First, let me continue today's trend on my flist and remind you all that Avatar Week starts on Nickelodeon today. A new episode will air every day at eight, starting tonight! "The Southern Raiders," the first episode that hasn't already leaked onto the internet, airs Thursday, followed by "The Ember Island Players" on Friday and the Series Finale on Saturday!
First, the official trailer, which is pretty awesome:
And since I'm a huge dork who has a great, GREAT love for cheesetastic over-the-top fan trailers of awesomeness, I highly recommend the "Back from the hiatus" trailer Ravenhlptc24 made! It doesn't contain new footage, and is from when we all thought the series would wrap up in May, but it's a lot of fun and always gets me jazzed up!
Also, while I'm reminding people of things: bidding on my
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livelongnmarry auction (in which I will write WHATEVER RIDICIULOUS FANFIC YOUR HEART DESIRES for charity) closes tonight at 12:01AM PST! It says "1000+ words" but if bidding goes any higher than it is right now, you can be assured my guilt will result in it being considerably longer. Auction is here, good times good times. <3
yaytime and crew out with the second all-Avatar issue of Nick Magazine. It was probably the most satisfying work-for-hire I've ever done, and I think the magazine turned out pretty damn awesome!One of the things I did was to write a "School Time Shipping"-style chibicomic, which was then drawn by Ethan Spaulding. Except it wasn't so much a script as thumbnails-with-dialog, since it's hard to get gags across with just text. It's pretty cool how the whole thing evolved, so I thought I'd post the various steps here!
First, I drew the whole thing out as a series of quick sketches, which I just put in a huge, long column because I like to put off paneling as long as humanly possible apparently.
Then, after getting notes from the editors, I refined the sketches, made some tweaks, and turned the whole thing into two pages of comics: thus and thus.
Then the whole thing was handed off to Ethan, who made it look all PRETTY and PROFESSIONAL and AWESOME. Here's a side-by-side, for the sake of my amusement (click to see the larger version, of course)
(DUDES. PEOPLE ACTUALLY PAID ME TO DO THIS.)
If you want to see the full, finished comic with text and everything, it just went up on the NickMag website! Which was what reminded me to do this post, incidentally, after a year or so of putting it off for no reason ;3
Now if I can manage to actually email my editor tomorrow and beg her to scrounge up a pro pass for me, life will be just DANDY.
In any case, HAY
catiechu! I EXPECT TARO YOGURT, WOMAN!This was a pretty good weekend, actually. I think I wrote about 4000 words total on various projects in the past two days (most of it in the company of
jlh), and the fourth was totally rad thanks to my friend's parents' fabulous pool party and delicious BBQing! The only drawback is that I STILL have water in my ear. -_-Ah well. Back to writing! And then, tomorrow, back to Chronin!
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