Brain Flotsam V2.007

Dec. 31st, 2012

Art Master List

Even though I have tags like wow, I am constructing a Master List as so many other folks have.

Wow, this is a long long long list. When appropriate, I have clustered by pairing rather than listing by date.

( semi-organized list of stuff )

Tags: art: !master list, illustration, making art

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Dec. 23rd, 2009

ART: A Difficult Morning (HP: Luna, G)

Title: A Difficult Morning
Artist:

zephre
Rating: G
Character: Luna Lovegood
Fandom: Harry Potter
Medium: photoshop
Notes/Summary: This is an illustration for a ficlet I haven't finished yet, involving Luna, Draco, and Harry, in the years between the end of Part 3 of Far Away as Moonshine and the Epilogue. It's the week before Christmas and she's had a month marked by personal tragedy, but has to just keep going.

( full image under cut )

Tags: art: gen, art: luna lovegood, art: rated g, fic: far away as moonshine, illustration

Dec. 5th, 2009

Drawble: Magical Baby (Merlin/Morgana, G)

I did this drawble for the Merlin/Morgana Love thread at Camelot_Fleet on Dreamwidth, for their episode 2.10 party, to answer miarrow's prompt of "Pretty. Magical. Babies."
Yeah, I used pretty much the same profile reference photos as in "Chasing a Dream", because they were, you know, there.

Title: Magical Baby
Fandom: Merlin
Characters: Merlin/Morgana, OC
Rating: G
Medium: photoshop

( full size over here )

Tags: art: het, art: merlin (bbc), art: rated g, drawbles, illustration, merlin

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Dec. 3rd, 2009

a random rant + stuff

Getting e-mail responses from my senators always makes my blood pressure skyrocket. It's not that I don't understand that they are pretty much absolutely opposed to my views on just about everything, but I still get so peeved to get these long involved letters that pretty much tell me that I am an idiot. I may be over-sensitive here, but I wish they would just skip the overly text-heavy reply and just say that they received my message, some intern made a note somewhere of the general gist, and they are going to do what they want anyway. Better that than this ridiculous response in which they pretend to relate to me when it couldn't be more obvious that it's a canned platform response. They even say that it's because of citizens like me that they will keep blocking the very legislation I wrote in to support (or vice versa). Do they have no concept of a constituent writing in to disagree?
Also, I don't appreciate the informal greeting, nor the generic "Friend". I'm not a friend of my congresspeople, I am one of their many constituents. Call me "Constituent" if you can't automate a Title and Surname off the e-mail form. Let's be real about our relationship.
One good thing I can say is that so far I haven't gotten any letters. My old rep (Democrat, not that it seems to matter) used to send those canned, patronizing responses on expensive letterhead (sometimes two pages worth!) even after I asked the folks on the phone not to send me a response.
At least the interns who answer my phone calls have so far been unfailingly polite.

Maybe I should go have a drink and relax. I am obviously overthinking today.

Can I just say, too, while I'm ranting, SNOW?! In December? In Houston? Seriously, what is that? Oh, climate change, how we love you. The birds are going to be so flipping confused. Not to mention the trees. They all still have leaves! Anyway...

Lunchtime is over. Got stuff to do today and then I'm driving to Austin in the morning. Cons... there are some events when having a smartphone with web access would be quite useful.

I'm going to add in a small squee, because I can: Merlin Series 3 got the green light from the BBC! w00t! Why must my only currently airing fandom be something none of my RL friends likes or has heard of? I need some folks to squee with... oh, well.

Also, here, in pretty font this time:

the ♥ fanart love ♥ meme

Tags: aaaaaargh, cons, downtime, life as we know it, merlin, non-fandom, politics, travel

Dec. 2nd, 2009

wednesday stuff

glockgal has started a meme for fanartists to share the love. my fanart meme entry

It's really cold here, which is weird. And I've discovered that I'm kind of unprepared, so I'd best go pick up some things before the end of the month when I go to Philadelphia.
By the way, northeast folks - I'm going to be in Philadelphia for the end of the year. I'll probably have a day or an afternoon to meet with locals if you're in the area. Give me a call or drop me a line.

Good lord, I have less than a month before I leave. Eek eek eek.

Art is proceeding well, but as usual my list of projects keeps growing ahead of my ability to finish anything.

Writing not proceeding so well, but slow is ok as long as it gets done.

Austin this weekend for SMOFCon, then next weekend is the election and then the next weekend is meeting and parties and when exactly was I hoping to get anything done again? Hmm.

Still making my way through Doctor Who, although I took some time to listen to the three episode commentaries on the Volume 1 DVD of Merlin Series 2. Interesting. I wish those DVDs could include deleted scenes, even (perhaps especially) ones played out against CGI stand-ins or greenscreen. It would be so interesting. Plus we might see some of the characters that appear to have gotten pretty short shrift in the show as aired. (Hi, Morgana!)

Right, gotta make art now.

Tags: cons, fandom, life as we know it, meme, merlin, non-fandom, travel, writing

Nov. 21st, 2009

having a life

IMG_3845
Originally uploaded by zephrene.

It's me, doing things and having culture and stuff!
that is the entrance to Jones Hall from the underground parking garage that spans the underbelly of the entire Theater District. Cool art, for an underground lair. :D

Brahms was excellent. Mahler was odd. It was a great night.

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Nov. 11th, 2009

it all happened again and again and again and again

On this Day of Remembrance, two songs by Eric Bogle about the First World War, lest we forget...

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (YouTube)

The Green Fields of France (YouTube) (performed by the Dropkick Murphys; video is historic photos)

And now some concerns for the servicemembers and veterans alive today, from Democracy Now! Because a 'thank you' means more when it's backed up by decent support and care:

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance

Sexual Assaults, Inadequate Healthcare Among Spate of Issues Facing Women Servicemembers

And my usual barrage of quotes for the day:

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
~Theodore Roosevelt

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~John F. Kennedy

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.
~George McGovern

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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Tags: non-fandom, politics

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Nov. 6th, 2009

evening out

This evening the lovely

alisanne was in town, so we met up for dinner and tea and much chatter of fandom and other topics. It was quite a nice time.
Now I must prepare for my weekend adventure in Austin, plus try to make some progress on my art coming due.

Tags: buddies, fandom, life as we know it

Oct. 25th, 2009

ART: The Duellist (Godric, Salazar, PG)

Title: The Duellist
Artist:

zephre
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Godric, Salazar, unknown wizard.
Rating: PG
Warnings: implied mild violence
Genres: friendship, could be romance
Artist's Notes: Drawn for vega_pandanina for the Founders' Gifts exchange. I went with a Norse-looking Godric as per the request.
Summary: Godric always won. Soon there would be no one in Alba but Salazar willing to duel him.

( full image under cut )

Tags: art: gen, art: godric gryffindor, art: rated pg, art: salazar slytherin, exchanges, illustration

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At the Faire

Keri and Donna
Originally uploaded by zephrene.

I ran away to the circus.. er, Renaissance Festival today!
It was pirate weekend, so I got into a pseudo-costume (I wore jeans), and met Donna, Jon, Lando and some friends.
It was a long drive, by the way. Geez. It seems so much shorter when there is another person in the car.
This is us in front of the waterwheel by the carousel, which was the designated "let's all meet here" location.

Tags: buddies, cosplay, life as we know it, non-fandom, photos

Oct. 24th, 2009

ART: His Father's Throne (Arthur/Merlin, NC-17)

More quick meme art...

Title: His Father's Throne
Artist:

zephre
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Characters: Arthur/Merlin
Summary/Notes: Er, I suppose after all my kinky HP art saying this one kinda squicked me seems bizarre, but I surely hesitated before posting. Drawn fast for

cherrybina's Merlin Rimming Meme Also, the throne is based on the super fancy one in the S2 trailer images from episode 2x07, I think? The Witchfinder one. It may have been featured before, but I don't recall.
Kinks/Warnings: Rimming, magical bondage

( explicit art under the cut )

Tags: art: merlin (bbc), art: rated nc-17, art: slash, illustration, meme, merlin

ART: Morgana's Maid (Gwen/Morgana, NC-17)

Got some quick meme art...

Title: Morgana's Maid
Artist:

zephre
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Characters: Morgana/Gwen
Summary/Notes: Er, I suppose after all my kinky HP art saying this one kinda squicked me seems bizarre, but I surely hesitated before posting. Drawn fast for

cherrybina's Merlin Rimming Meme, and also posted as a kink meme fill.
Kinks/Warnings: Rimming

( explicit art under cut )

Tags: art: femmeslash, art: merlin (bbc), art: rated nc-17, illustration, meme, merlin

Oct. 18th, 2009

Quilt Show Day 2 + politics

Oct. 16th, 2009

Quilt Festival Day 1

International Quilt Festival, Day 1:

Totally awesome!
I blew half my festival budget on amber jewelry, but the highlight of the show was still the quilts.

This one is pieced, not painted - I swear. It's huge, taller than I am, and gorgeous in person. "Medea Escaping".
My flickr set for the show includes the card for this one, and some detail shots.

Tags: crafts, non-fandom

ART: Chasing a Dream (Merlin/Morgana, PG-13)

More Merlin art, because most of that is not under anonymous posting rules for fests. :P
I've been thinking about this pairing since 2x03 aired, but there are no actual spoilers in the pic.

Title: Chasing a Dream
Artist:

zephre
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Characters: Morgana/Merlin
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Medium: photoshop

( image under cut )

Tags: art: het, art: merlin (bbc), art: rated pg-13, illustration

Oct. 15th, 2009

ART: Embrace (Arthur/Merlin, PG)

Title: Embrace
Artist:

zephre
Rating: PG
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Characters: Merlin/Arthur
Notes: For the Merlin/Arthur Hug Meme

( image below )

Tags: art: merlin (bbc), art: rated pg, art: slash, illustration, merlin

Oct. 11th, 2009

ART: Recovery (Hermione/Lucius/Severus, PG)

Title: Recovery
Artist:

zephre
Rating: PG
Characters: Hermione Granger/Lucius Malfoy/Severus Snape
Note: for

hermionebigbang

( image under cut )

Tags: art: hermione granger, art: het, art: lucius malfoy, art: rated pg, art: severus snape, art: slash, art: threesome, illustration

ART: In the Kitchen (Hermione, Narcissa, G)

Title: In the Kitchen
Artist:

zephre
Rating: G
Characters: Hermione Granger, Narcissa Malfoy
Note: for

hermionebigbang

( image under cut )

Tags: art: gen, art: hermione granger, art: narcissa malfoy, art: rated g, illustration

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Oct. 10th, 2009

ART: Confrontation (Draco/Hermione, PG-13)

Title: Confrontation
Artist:

zephre
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Draco/Hermione
Notes: for the

hermionebigbang

( large image under cut )

Tags: art: draco malfoy, art: hermione granger, art: het, art: rated pg-13, illustration

Art: Sanctuary (Snarry, PG-13)

My art for the gold-medal-winning Team Snitch in this year's mixed Snarry Games:

Title: Sanctuary
Artist:

zephre
Team: Snitch
Genre(s): Literary/Historical
Prompt(s): Man in Uniform, Sanctuary
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG13; Highlight if you wish to know: * *mild battlefield gore**
Artist's Notes/Disclaimers/Thank you to Special thanks to K who probably won't ever see this, but helped break my block. The Literary and Historical influence for this piece is the "Sharpe" series by Bernard Cornwell, about a British rifleman during the Napoleonic Wars (thus the green uniforms).
Media used: photoshop.

( very large image )

Tags: art: harry potter, art: rated pg-13, art: severus snape, art: slash, illustration

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