two completely unrelated subjects...

Like my new icon? It's from Apache Skies, which you can check out here: 1 2 3 4.

I made a bunch of caps from the series, which is gorgeous. So many that I don't know what to do with them all. More here.



I'm reading Scalped, trying to put together a good post series for scans_daily.

And let me just say - these things involve waaaaay more effort than I thought. My Ms. Marvel series, which I really need to get back to, is nearing three hundred posted scans. And I still haven't hit the Rogue/Carol years. Obviously not all of those scans are mine, but even assembling the posts and doing commentary when you're working from a downloaded comic, takes at least an hour. Oh internet hobby, how skillfully you steal my time. Of course, the same could be said for blogging, or posting regularly on a message board - neither involves an insignificant investment of time.

Anyway, Scalped. I'm thinking of likening it to Preacher, in the sense that it works with Western tropes, but draws from a lot of other genres as well. I'm getting some hardboiled, noir-ish vibes from Scalped, and not just because the protagonist is named Dashiel. *g* Is Preacher a turn on, or a turn off?

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Fic update. ( cut for dullness )

I really need to apply some discipline and punishment, and get these things wrapped up. I also need to start finding betas, which I HATE doing. It's not that I think I'm such an amazing writer that I don't need a beta. Seriously - ha! Ha ha ha! *sigh* No, it's more that I'm painfully, socially retarded about these things, and don't even know where to begin looking.

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Fan fiction occupies a zone of taboo somewhere below cosplay and slightly above really aggressive S&M. In fact, I think the average lonely heart crafting Zelda in Ganon’s Clutches: Alone and Afraid closes his laptop a little faster than the guys leering at Tramps in Clamps upon parental incursion into A Room of One’s Pwn. It’s just hard to imagine a non-convention social setting where anyone would cop to Expanded Universe prolificacy. I don’t think the language necessary to frame the act of fan fic writing in terms that don’t sound crazy even exists. Maybe I just don’t know the right people, or words.
Joe Bernstein, in a review of Final Fantasy VII for PSP.

Just, wow. It's a total drive-by on some random fan-thing he hates - fic has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand.

Maybe I just don’t know the right people, or words.

Ding, ding, ding.