schmevil

stubbleupdate tagged me to do this one. I'm not sure that I have any icons that could really be called esoteric, but let's give it a go.

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Quote from Lafayette of True Blood. Doesn't need more explaining, does it?

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Quote from a satiric blog post about the TOSing of Scans Daily, that praised LJ for moving against our 'homo-gay agenda'.

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Little Miss Hotsauce, herself. Kristen Kreuk + Fleetwood Mac. Listen, it makes sense to me. "Did she make you cry, make you break you down, shatter your illusions of love." Get it? Get it? idek

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Frankie says relax: Nietzsche is nucking futs. Nietzsche is quite possibly the nuttiest, most tied-up-in-knots-of-wangst philosopher of them all. Oh Nietzsche.

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From Fantastic Four: Isla De Muerta. Ben has secret things to do, and places to be. This is Johnny's response. Thus neatly skewering Batman, all of the X-people and goodly number of heroic figures in classic literature and contemporary pop culture.

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.

I heart my new icon. Read - then share in the hearting.

So having realized that I still have quite a few free icon slots, I thought I'd tool around looking for likely images. I have no idea how to make pretty icons, but I ended up with a few that don't totally suck. Also more than I really need. I'm not sure which ones I want to use at this point.

Oh the humanity!

4 Catwoman
5 Madonna
2 M.I.A
1 Michelle Rodriguez
7 Kill Bill
2 Misc Comics
9 House
1 Gorillaz

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"Happy early birthday MHC."

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[It's not like, actually my birthday. Thank you, drive through.]