The Immodest Lady

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPY DAAAAAAAAAAANCE!

2012-02-04T21:33:00.002-03:30

Sweet crappin' crap! You folks recal that little logo I posted a couple days back? Well I sure as shootin' got paid for. I got paid the BIG MONEY.

And what did I do with that money, you ask? Well after buying groceries of actual healthy value (fuckin' fresh fruit and veg cost a MINT in this town...) I acquired an external disc drive, because the brain-trusts behind the HP Touchsmart figured it didn't need one. Fuckers.

So now, NOW I can finally install Manga Studio on this bitch! I've only had the thing for nearly a YEAR. christ. I cannot wait to try it out properly at last. This is gonna lead to some fun-fun stuff in the art department. Hells yes.

Now I'mma dance some more.

Cheers!

Eightstar Sketch: Void

2012-02-03T21:18:00.000-03:30

Another day another doodle. And today, ladies and gents, we have another peek at one of the peoples of the Eightstar. Today's featured peoples are...

Aren't they shiny? We're coming up on the weekend now, and apparently the home town is due to be boot-stomped by our third blizzard in a week-ish, so I'm thinking I'll have the time to put together something nice and actually polished.

Cheers!

Gotta stop last-minute blogging.

2012-02-03T00:10:00.001-03:30

Technically... it's Friday. But just barely, and I haven't gone to bed yet so this still counts as a Thursday blog post dammit!

Alright then... didn't really draw anything new today, but I've found a lot of oldish but still good things on my hard drive that are worth tossing up somewhere, so... INCOMING PICSPAM!

A... Possessed Goth-Loli of some sort? I dunno.

Drew this while watching Constantine. Kinda shows.

This lady is the star of a short story that I should revive sometime.

Here we have a sketch of a half-snake contortionist mocking a Tauren grunt worker. This was relevant to something. I just forget what exactly.

Random details for a random character.

Parrot boy! Lookit his plumage!

Sometimes I paint shit. This one was painted for the director of the local production of "Redwall" I was in.

Some kinda ninja fox? Looks kickass anyway.

Hey it's that snake lady again! It was some kind of super-freaky sideshow circus thing. I'm sure I'll recall all the details at some random time.

Doodled while watching my brother play one of the many Final Fantasy games. Definitely shows.

This was going to be some kind of tinker creature... never got around to polishing the concept.

Feral poison demon. HUG HIM!

It took WAY too long to draw the frames for this tiny bit of animation. That shit be complicated, yo.

Some are super old... some are kinda new. I think they're all worth showing off.

Cheers!

Makin' Logos!

2012-02-01T23:33:00.002-03:30

Alright, so, posting under the wire of Wednesday to keep my challenge to myself successful at least for a day or two...

As promised in the previous post, I have a shiny logo to share. It's been given the go ahead, which rocks my socks to their happy little core.

Behold it's glory!

BEHOLD IIIIIIIIIIIT.

I am extra high levels of stupid proud of this thing. It's sleek, it's professional... and an honest to Jeebus organisation wants it to show off to all! HELLLLLLLL YES!

It just fills me with GLEE!

....

Why yes, that picspam IS a horrible pun in this context. I like puns. I'm allowed.

Cheers!

Eightstar Sketch: Air

2012-01-31T00:22:00.000-03:30

Hello folks! Welcome to the first official "Something every damn day" post. Have a silly hat!

You WILL have a silly hat.

Annnywho... Today we also have a first in that this is the first publicly shared glimpse into the world of The Eightstar. I find sketching out my thoughts on a potential character/race helps my wheels turn about deeper details, so I tend to take notes on the side as I draw. As I don't feel like submitting you to my sloppy-ass jot-notes, said notes have been typed up more coherently on the scanned image.

With that said, enjoy this doodle:

Also today I worked on finalising a swank little logo for one of the local University's official resource centres. I'll be presenting it to committee tomorrow and posting pics once they've given a yae or nay, so tune in for that! It'll be shiny!

Cheers!

Existence Fail

2012-01-30T02:01:00.000-03:30

Hooooooly shit I haven't written since last YEAR. Hoo-ray.

Okay... so... Hi. I'm still alive. I'm still doing stuff. I'm just failing at updating my stuff in any kind of publicly visible fashion. Blarghle.

Been stretching those artistic legs again. A lot of my gifts for others this Christmas were made on the cheap... one of which reminded me how much I enjoy a bit of painting.

Is nice, yes? I think so...

I'm pondering challenging myself to work on art every day from here on this year. Posting SOMETHING to the blog every day as well, even if it's just a half-finished doodle. (Fuck you, January 1st, I'll make my resolutions when I FEEL like it, bitch.)

I have actually been sketching more lately, and getting some really good brain-babies when it comes to fleshing out my eight element world, which I will henceforth refer to as Eightstar. If you think that is a cheesey fantasy-nerd name for a setting, well... don't care.

Cheers, lovelies.
Hope to post again tomorrow.

Shiny toys!

2011-11-09T21:58:00.001-03:30

Hooray! The folks at NaNoWriMo got their widgets online! See that shiny little progress thingy there on the sidebar? That tells how many words I've written on my way to the 50k goal.

So now you all have permission to poke me with sticks if my count is lagging! Yaaaay!

Once more into the breach of madness

2011-10-30T16:17:00.000-02:30

November looms, the days grow short and chilly, and how do I arm myself against the frigid dark?

Why, by committing to a herculean task of novelling! Wouldn't you?

I've dabbled in the Lands of Nano a time or two before. It's always been interesting, though rarely successful. At the very least it has never been like the crushing spectacle of ScriptFrenzy. So why the hell not roll up my sleeves and give it another go? I have some half-deep world building kicking around that I just might be able to squeeze 50k words worth of plot out of... so we'll see how it all goes.

If any of you crazies out there are taking up the mantle of high-speed noveller as well this year, feel free to come be my buddy!

This is why we can't have nice things

2011-10-18T22:32:00.000-02:30

A friend tweeted a link to this Fox Boston article, where parents of a transgendered child fall under rather a lot of criticism. A little in the article. A LOT in the comments.

Go ahead, take a moment, browse through the sludge of humanity. I'll wait.

...

Back? Okay.

WHAT THE SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK?? Are we seriously still this backward as a society of sentient beings? They aren't even saying "We're going to make our 11 year-old a girl now." They're buying him time to sort it all out and be sure. They're giving him the best way they can think of to be sure if this is the right thing for him before doing anything permanent. In response to this we scream "abuse"? And "This is why Lesbians shouldn't have kids"?

Excuse me while I sum this rant up with a meme:

A glorious rant indeed

2011-09-18T21:27:00.000-02:30

This? The thing -> Right Here <- This is why my princess is awesome. Behold her wonderful disability and kink blog. Behold the eloquent post putting all linear thinking potential partners- with IQs on par with bags of wet hair- squarely in their place.

I am terribly proud of how this endeavour of hers is going. It's off to a roaringly wonderful start and I can't wait to watch it grow and kick ass.

But hey, why are you still here reading my ramblings? Go! Go read my girls blog! DO EEEEEET!

Feeling like an actual Graphic Artist!

2011-09-16T20:00:00.000-02:30

My project for this evening involves finishing a cover image for on of the brilliant writings of Prudence MacLeod.

Yesterday? I dove head first into swankifying my princess' sexy new blog. A friend of ours, upon seeing it, immediately asked if I would do similar work for her blog.

Hot diggity but do I feel shiny and skilled and hardcore. I'mma do a proud dance. I've always been an artsy dabbler, but this whole having people wanting to acquire and publicly use my work? That's a glorious kind of new.

I like this feeling. I'm gonna work to keep it coming ^_^

Cheers!
Immodest

Wooooooo!!

2011-06-29T00:15:00.000-02:30

Excuse me, fair friends of the internet, whilst I strip to the buff and do a little happy dance...

Guess who's employed bitches? Awwww yeeeah! I'M EMPLOYED! Summer job for me! Fuck yes!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

...

Thank you.

That is all.

An Open Letter to a Faceless Asshat

2011-06-21T22:45:00.000-02:30

Dear whomever keeps stealing the newspapers in my apartment building...

Seriously? Newspapers? Seriously?! Are you making the worlds most epic papier maché EVAR or what? There cannot possibly be any inherent monetary profit in newspaper theft... This is baffling, and epicly dickish. But not just because you're causing a random inconvenience and costing me about a fiver a week...

No. No see what makes you the worlds BIGGEST dick is the following little tale:

All this paper-stealing had us thinking the local paper had fucked up our subscription when we signed up two weeks ago. So we called them, and they were crazy sorry and promised not to charge us... and then they called the delivery boy for our area and got pissy.

Correction, they got pissy at his mom. Because I doubt he answers the phone in his household. She then called us to try and sort out why we weren't getting the papers she knew her son had delivered, and to arrange some way to make sure we got our papers henceforth.

So next delivery time her son rang the doorbell and waited and handed the paper to me personally.

Do you know, Mr. Asshattus Maximus, that our delivery boy is, like, NINE tops? And has AUTISM? Did you know that thanks to you we completely unintentionally got a little autistic boy bitched out by the paper for something he didn't even do wrong?

That is some SERIOUS bad karma you are gathering up there mister.

I truly hope something vile and bitey crawls DIRECTLY up your ass.

No love,
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lady

PS: Bald guy across the hall who has beer-gut like whoah and NEVER wears a shirt? Your creepy ass is my prime suspect. I'm watching you creep-machine... but not too closely because ew dude. Seriously.

NSFW Wishlist: Kinky Steampunk!

2011-06-15T22:42:00.000-02:30

So... apropos of nothing at all, I have elected to begin a weekly feature, (perhaps bi-weekly, we'll see how my ADD and libido get along) showcasing something I have found on the world wide interwebs that makes my happy places go squee and yell WANT!

Said feature will always occur on a Wednesday. Because Wednesday is hump-day... and in truth I am a twelve year old boy :P

With that being said... our first feature that has Lady jumping up and down like a child at a candy shop window yelling "Gimmegimmegimme!" is brought to us by the glorious love-child of adult fun and steampunk. Be still my kinky nerd heart. ^_^

Behold! Lady Clankington's Little Death Ray!

Is it not glorious? Don't you want THREE? I do. :3

This and many other wonders can be found at Lady Clankington's Cabinet of Carnal Curiosities including a simply GORGEOUS paddle that leaves a gear-shaped mark on they who would be paddled...

So much want, oh my yes. Clearly this is a site to keep an eye on if one enjoys some bedroom spice and nerdy Victorian sci-fi. WHICH I DO :D

Toe chasing nutter!

2011-05-18T19:58:00.000-02:30

Because it is adorable, I would like to now share a little video of Duffy's adventure on the apartment floor.

In Duffy's world, my toes are delicious and must be pursued. :P

First of May!

2011-05-01T17:21:00.000-02:30

I like this month, rather a lot. Things start working on looking like spring, and my birthday comes to pass, woo!

In celebration of the beginning of May, I present an ASL video for a gloriously fun (and NSFW) Jonathan Coulton song written for exactly this occasion.

So, cuddle up with your special someone (or current friend with benefits ^_~) and enjoy this little ditty.

I'm surely not the only one...

2011-04-12T14:23:00.003-02:30

And now... a brief comic interlude concerning the first week of April...

With thanks to internet memes for the cathartic glory that is Rage Guy

Existing, World Building, and other Sports

2011-03-31T01:35:00.001-02:30

Hey Internet Land! How the hell are ya?

A shiny random meeting on the busy streets of social networking happened to remind me that I have a blog, and said blog is gathering dust. So here we are! *Exists*

Time has been marching along regardless of my getting off my ass and joining in or not, though I do get off my ass on occasion :P

Our happy home has a new addition in the form of roughly 30 ounces of pure feathery biteyness. In proper nerd tradition, he has been named to match our current naming theme. In a house where the wireless network is identified as 'Dunsinane' and the beloved cat is MacBeth, we now happily introduce...

MacDuff!

(Pictured here giving serious thought to biting someone's face)

He's a tiny breed of parrot who will remain tiny all his many days, while thinking he's huge and behaving to match. Cute little fucker... Loves him yes I do.

In other news, I'm stretching my creative muscles in a few ways over the next while. Firstly I've been poking at defining and detailing a high-fantasy setting that's been itching my brain some ages. Based off a concept of an eight-point elemental compass designed thusly:

Featuring the basic Earth, Air, Fire, Water combo as well as the addition of Void, Light, Chaos, and Darkness. As I build more details and back-story I'll post snippets here to share.

Creativity stretch number two starts this Friday when I join many other crazy people in taking a crack at Script Frenzy. A challenge from the fine people who brought you NaNoWriMo, Script Frenzy is an attempt to write a 100 page script within the month of April. Woo! Time to roll up my sleeves and type like a mother fucker! Wheeee!

Wish me luck folks!

Best. Birthday. Ever.

2011-01-09T15:16:00.000-03:30

And it wasn't even mine ^_^ lol

My pop turned 80 this weekend, so the family took a two-hour-ish drive to go help celebrate. We were joined by One-hundred-and-freakin'-TWENTY other relatives and well-wishers. It was an amazing get together, the best part of it being how happy it all made pop.

I've always known him to be a bit of a gruff man, tough around the edges and the most intimidating of my grandparents. But the night of his party, which ran from 7 to past 11 in the evening, every time I looked his way he was smiling bright and just having a hell of a time.

He broke out, just for the occasion, a bottle of whiskey he bought back when he worked "on the ships". A Seagram's VO half-gallon bottle of the type we used to brew just to import to the states. It was a whiskey that didn't arse around. Government supervised and approved, it was the single most popular import during prohibition. Hah ;)

If he knew these puppies were going for several hundreds a pop on e-bay? He miiiiight not have dished it out so freely. Shh. don't tell him any different folks.

The morning after the party we sorted through his mountain of cards and presents, and finished off the Seagram's.

Happy Birthday, pop. Here's to 80 more.

Festive times and countdowns to AWESOME :D

2010-12-29T16:25:00.001-03:30

Various seasons greetings to all and sundry! Hope that the holiday times have some nice helpings of joy and good cheer amongst the hectic and holy-crap ;)

Christmas this year has been wonderful to my Princess and I. The family cheer was abundant and, miracle of miracles, my mother was inclusive up to the point of having a small gift and stocking for Princess to open when she joined us Christmas morning. It blew our MINDS.

Mother's previous track record when it comes to our five-year and growing relationship has been... poor. Steeped in denial and passive aggression. With the occasional rip-your-hair-out-frustrating stint of blaming my beloved for anything that might be amiss in my life.

So to have her suddenly being kind to this amazing degree? It's just... mind boggling. We spent the whole day at the parental's house and not once did mom do anything that made either of us feel awkward or upset. It truly was a Christmas miracle.

In other delightful news we're getting closer every day to an trip that promises to be amazing! Orlando Blogger retreat! Wooooooo! ^_^ We get to meet all kinds of awesome ladies who we've only known through their blogs before and just rock out and bond and have a kickin' good time. The excitement level is climbing high as we draw close. I can't wait.

Not only is the idea of such a fantastic retreat brilliant to me, but neither Princess nor myself have ever been to the states before in our lives. And we'll be sharing a villa with a dear dear friend from Georgia who I will hug for HOURS when I finally see her. :D *bounces with excitement*

Life is pretty awesome right now, folks. I hope yours are rocking as hard as mine.

Winter Solstice and Other Awesome Things

2010-12-22T16:18:00.001-03:30

Good morning, Oak King, how's day one of your round in the world's life-cycle? Mind if I join you in celebratory rebirth and merriment? Awesome.

We had a small gathering of dear friends over last night to observe the Solstice and generally enjoy each other's company. It was truly lovely. The energy in the room was wonderful and the potluck that followed the circle was delish! Pasta with home-made marinara sauce... partridge-berry cobbler... om-nom-nom :)

Until this year, my love and I have been rather lax little pagans. A common phrase in our household was "It's Solstice(or Equinox etc.) we should care..." then we'd shrug and continue on as if normal. New friends we've made this year, however, have drawn us out into a more active celebration of faith and the energies around us. Last night's circle just felt... right. My love and I cuddled together, joined the group in a visualization for the coming light and positive influence it could bring to our lives. There was singing and laughter and no matter how loud the wind howled outside (and boy did it ever howl) it never ceased being warm and safe and cozy in our little space.

After Circle everyone just lounged about, enjoying good food and good company. Two lovely ladies who are swiftly becoming our most favorite people in the universe, stayed later than the others as we were all grooving on the conversation and relaxed mood. So content were we four sharing each others energy and space, that a quarter past twelve snuck right up on us without any trouble.

It was glorious. :)

Christmas is making it's way towards us and I'm beyond excited. why? Because for the first time in the history of ever, my Princess and I will spend our Christmas Eve and Morning together, under the roof, our roof. We will curl up together on one of the year's most festive nights and wake together to exchange a few small presents and just... be. every year previous we have spent the Eve night and most of the day after at our respective family homes. Which is all well and good and such, but it's time to make the day ours. time to bring the holiday into our space. I am so happy and excited for this I have no words to describe the feeling. :)

In continuing news of fun things that make me feel accomplished and proud... I apparently have a general air of respect/knowledge/something in our local BDSM group ^_^ I've been nominated onto a committee and contacted by other members for advice. Squee! People think I'm cool! :D

Now... to plan how to pull my academic career out of the crapper and become an employable adult! Wish me luck! I'm off to kick ass and chew gum! And I sure ain't packin' much gum :P