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[09 Feb 2010|05:37pm] [ mood | energetic ] Just watched the Olympic Torch pass hands. Had to chase it for a couple blocks first - me and a dozen other people half-running behind the massed spectators. Okay, so it does make you feel a bit a part of something. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[08 Feb 2010|12:35am] [ mood | accomplished ] The tenth Monte Carlo Doctrine is ready! That is almost an anniversary or something! -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[06 Feb 2010|07:09pm] [ mood | amused ] My flist could be usefully re-titled People vs. Snow, which I am finding hilarious. Because, hey, is anyone over next week for the Winter Olympics? Here are some things you might want to pack: -Running shoes -One of:      -A sweater      -A light jacket -Sunglasses -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

Every Star a Dragon's Eye [06 Feb 2010|05:55pm] [ mood | thoughtful ] This was written for katarik, who asked for Amanda Waller and Kara Zor-El. It's supposed to be a gen shower ficlet, although it's a bit long for a ficlet and there's only metaphorically a shower. (And there's a brief continuity glitch. Sorry, Amanda.) ( Every Star a Dragon's Eye ) -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[06 Feb 2010|02:20pm] [ mood | frustrated ] So apparently Amanda Waller made an appearance in the Smallville/JSA ep? Damn it, now I may have to give it another shot. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[04 Feb 2010|12:15am] [ mood | pleased ] It is Thursday, and Thursday's Monte Carlo Doctrine is up! -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

I'm sorry, Betty. A tiny bit. [03 Feb 2010|05:30am] [ mood | no comment ] As an experiment, as I needed a bridge to another experiment, I tried making a piece of reduction poetry. I used brownbetty's story Clad in Other Guise as my base text for... no particular reason, except maybe that I'm testing out her creative commons license. I will see if we are still friends after, I guess, and write up a summary of my observations! So basically what I did was take my delete key to brownbetty's story, and then stop before I had an entirely blank page. The resulting poem was... far more disturbing than I first intended, so I am putting it behind a cut. You should probably take that as a content warning. If this is what happens when I tear the flesh from your words, Betty, no wonder people have nightmares of skeletons. ( in Guise )   -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

African Fractals, in buildings and braids [02 Feb 2010|03:07pm] [ mood | impressed ] This is a brief introduction to an aspect of history I've never been made aware of, concepts I've only seen as science fiction. Things like social fractals, and ancient pseudo-random number generators, and computers made of sand. "Every digital circuit in the world started in Africa. I know Brian Eno says there's not enough Africa in computers, but I don't think there's enough African history in Brian Eno." (It's especially blowing my mind at the moment because I've been pondering on and off an alien society based pretty strongly in something like fractals. I thought I was starting from scratch.) -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[28 Jan 2010|12:07am] [ mood | tired ] It is Thursday, and Monte Carlo Doctrine 7 is up! -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

Everything ridiculous is more ridiculous in list format. [27 Jan 2010|02:35am] [ mood | accomplished ] You know what I haven't talked about yet? Holiday fic! For Yuletide, I got an absolutely wonderful Polly and the Pirates story. It's the story of how Polly's parents met, and I would recommend it even if you haven't read the mini-series, because it is a slightly AU historical romance between a Dandy and a Pirate Queen. If that doesn't pique your interest I don't even want to know you.* *lies. -   I wrote Five Reasons, a Sarah Connor Chronicles story. It got a pretty good response! I was fairly panicked when I wrote it, but I can't really say I wish I'd started writing it earlier, because earlier I was busy writing another, much more boring yuletide story. Plus, writing it helped me answer some questions in my mind, like how it is John Connor exists in the first place. (And it is gen, because apparently the prize for writing an incest prompt for Yuletide is getting a *new* incest prompt the next time you sign up, and you guys, I am so okay with someone else winning this year.) -   But I also signed up for fandom_stocking! And I got presents! daegaer wrote me a cracky Good Omens snippet! lilacsigil wrote me a hilarious DCU/Sarah Jane Adventures story where Clyde meets Oracle! And totally prevents a lengthy crossover Event in Gotham. I can *tell*. enigel wrote Before and Again, a poetic, softly sad bit of Starbuck/Anders. trialia made me a Laura Roslin graphic out of the pretty, pretty colours of dreaming. And then I got two Alan Scott fics! wabbitseason wrote me Willpower, a brief retrospective on the fabulousness of my favourite Green Lantern over the decades. And isilweth wrote Golden Age Alan through the perspective of Doiby Dickles. Made me sad for Doiby, which is just about the first time that's been true. -   Is that all? No! That is not all! Because also I made some stuff for fandom_stocking! I didn't keep very good track of where I put it, though, so there might be some I'm forgetting. Okay, so I made an mpreg macro comic! From Merlin, a show I am so familiar with I'd worried I'd been accidentally telling a story about random guest stars! Is it glorious or what? (For auroraprimavera.) And then! I wrote Sarah Jane Smith/Mr. Smith cybersex for stunt_muppet. And it is PRETTY PORNY, as things I write go. And for those who haven't been watching the Sarah Jane Adventures, Sarah Jane is a human woman and Mr. Smith is a *giant computer*. And I am so amazing sometimes I amaze MYSELF. A Kon and Tim snippet. (For marag, who specifically asked for happy-fic only. Um. I'm sorry.) Grey's Anatomy porns! Mark Sloan/Lexie Grey, for evyllynn. For madripoor_rose, a Savannah Weaver scene that didn't quite fit into a longer Sarah Connor Chronicles WIP. A Kirk/Sulu/Uhura haiku. YES. For jain. Or how about a Dick Grayson/Kara Zor-El/Koriand'r limerick? For wiccabuffy. A Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog haiku. For recrudescence.   Plus some random 30 second macros. Breaking news, everyone: I crack myself up. Martha Jones (Doctor Who) Starbuck and Anders (BSG) Parker (Leverage) Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi (Star Trek: TNG) This one was more of a 3 minute Photoshop, 'though if I did my job you can't tell. A tribble. Aziraphale and Crowley. (Good Omens) I dunno either I may have been on CRACK. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[25 Jan 2010|12:37am] [ mood | pleased ] Monday's Monte Carlo Doctrine is up! I'm still deciding what I want the format to *do*, but I think the visuals are more successful than the last couple. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

People who are not wrong: ME. [23 Jan 2010|08:50pm] [ mood | optimistic ] Greatest thing about a potential Green Lantern movie: The inevitable vid to Beyoncé's Put a Ring on it. YES. YES, I KNOW. IT TOTALLY IS. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

The internet was simpler without deadlines. [21 Jan 2010|12:36am] [ mood | worried ] Huh. My site is down. I will have to look into that. In the meantime: ( Monte Carlo Doctrine #5. ) -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

And also to eat more salads. [20 Jan 2010|11:55pm] [ mood | cynical ] Solicit Monday Tuesday time! ( What are *your* New Year's Resolutions, comic book characters? ) -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

I am totally a reliable source! [20 Jan 2010|03:22am] [ mood | excited ] A few months ago, my reworked Legion of Super-heroes issues were spotlighted in a lecture by Francesca Coppa. The talk - titled Things We Don't Have In The Future...and How Fan Arts Can Help - was required viewing for first year students at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. (If the embedded file gives you trouble: Streaming on Blip.tv.) My work's featured from about 15 minutes to 20 minutes in, but it's worth watching the whole thing. Plus lots of it is vids! There's a very interesting bit (to me) when she moves from the animated Legion pic I recoloured to the original, and there is a audible sigh or gasp from the audience. *That* is why I use photoshop so often to make my point; it is almost impossible to recreate that "Oh!" moment with text, as human beings are extremely good at filtering out arguments they don't agree with. But images get sent to your brain with little red alert flags: what does this mean is it important is it a bear? I do have a couple issues with the details (about me). Firstly, you might take away that *I* was around in the 1950's and 60's, but this is not the case! You guys, I am not secretly a grandmother here, although "70 year old woman learns Photoshop for great justice!" would have been a pretty awesome story. And more importantly, I have problems with the context in which she uses "albino" as a descriptor. This actually turned into a several paragraph rant, which I'll probably post in the near future. But the short version: she is either using "albino" as a synonym for "pale white person" which, no; or she is honestly reading the character as having albinism and suggesting erasing that is a pretty cool thing I managed, which again, no; and PS, in a formal situation, "woman with albinism" is better. At least she's using it as an adjective rather than a noun? But in a lecture celebrating how fans are working against the racism or sexism or homophobia in their culture, that little moment of Fail was pretty annoying. That is the short version (with most of the How Dare You Impugn My Honour excised). But other than that momentary lapse, it's a pretty interesting introduction to fan arts as conversation. Worth your time, even the bits that aren't about me!   -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[18 Jan 2010|01:26am] [ mood | pleased ] Monday's Monte Carlo Doctrine is up! And happydork has set up a dreamwidth feed - montecarlodoctrine_feed - if you'd like to follow that way. Yay! -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

[14 Jan 2010|05:39pm] [ mood | concerned ] In addition to anti-whitewashing services, I'm also offering sets of three drabbles for help_haiti. That is right, one bid gets you three stories! Thread is here. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

Breaking news! [14 Jan 2010|02:23am] [ mood | pleased ] It is Thursday! That means Monte Carlo Doctrine #3 is up! I'm pretty happy with this one, so maybe you will like it too. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

It was the only thing I could think of. [13 Jan 2010|03:25pm] [ mood | concerned ] If anyone's interested, I've put myself up for help_haiti. I'm offering photoshop services - I'll take one panelled comics page or two splash pages and rework them to include CoC's. Like I did with The Legion of Super-heroes. Thread is here. -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

WOOOOOO! IT WORKED! [11 Jan 2010|01:01am] [ mood | accomplished ]   Everyone! Come quick! I have started a webcomic! It's called Monte Carlo Doctrine, and I'm pretty excited. There are two strips up so far, and there'll be a new one added every Monday and Thursday for the next six months. (I decided to sign myself up for a close-ended commitment.) It's kinda experimental, so if it's not your thing (and there's a couple of my bestest internet friends for whom I can pretty much guess it is not) I totally understand and still love you. But if it *is* your thing, I hope you'll check it out every so often and tell me if it worked or - please! - didn't quite work for you. Or, you know, just read it! I am sure I'll get the statcounter figured out eventually, and then every hitcount will be a smiley face on my soul. :D -------- Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are comments. post comment

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