here are a bunch of sketches I did this afternoon
with my brain turned off mostly
I'm not going to bother tagging individual characters for this but it contains some dragons and some young avengers and pixie and guillo and ... idk

( drawings drawings drawings )

also this isn't spoilers or anything but holy shit
Merlin
if you keep up this whole OH HEY WE MIGHT HAVE SOME CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OR PLOT ADVANCEMENT OR ANY CHANGING OF THE STATUS QUO WHATSOEVER ...








... NO JUST KIDDING!!!
thing
I am going to have to be forced to stop watching you it's not funny any more
especially if the characters all keep on acting like there is absolutely nothing wrong with the status quo
what

The pages I'm currently working on, over at nanomango

Also: raptorix very graciously screencapped the silliness from last night's uStream, and you can see it here.

ETA: Chicherova Olga, your T-shirts were returned as "unclaimed". Please PM me with an alternate mailing address. (Sorry for posting it here, but I don't have your personal e-mail address or LJ username)

For the prompt "John Sheppard, first." John & Teyla, season 1, ~500 words.

( New )

Bet that news about ice on the moon feels a bit different now, huh?

( Mars: on which there is life, death, and exploration of all sorts of concepts )

Who Needs Mathematicians for Math, Anyway?

The panel found little if any credible evidence supporting the teaching philosophy and practices that math educators have promoted in their ed-school courses and embedded in textbooks for almost two decades.

...

The mathematics educators’ response to the panel’s report came as no surprise. The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast, a journal put out by an NCTM state affiliate, was the first to declare the party line in its July 2008 issue, which featured highly critical essays by five mathematics educators. Issue editor Greer declared in his overview that the panel’s report offered nothing useful, since it had “restricted” itself to scientific research and ignored the “rich reflections” of educators, who, in his judgment, had produced the “deepest work in the field.”

Anecdotes over data - and these people want to teach math?

gettin up in dis around 19:30 CDT

ETA: Done! Thanks to everybody who came - it was fun doing that little vignette at the end; gotta try that again. It made me write on the fly, which I don't usually do.

zats_clear asked for a bit of the Jack/Daniel backstory from Audacity; this is not exactly that, but it is at least Daniel's perspective from around the same time on the "Audacity" Jack/Daniel backstory.

"burn all the letters," SG1, Jack/Daniel, ~700 words. soldiers are coming to plunder/but there are some things they will never know

( burn all the letters )

THAT'S IT, THE NEXT RESTAURANT THE BOYS GO TO WILL HAVE NOTHING ON THE WALLS

but then again i did just get to doodle an autographed headshot of burt reynolds

eta: tonight's ustream will be around 7:30

"Reality Show," SGA, Jennifer, John, and Sam gen, set early season 4. For the prompt "Jennifer Keller, Star Trek." ~400 words.

( Reality Show )

Today I have to read this stupid book on the early history of philosophical language. The author uses the word 'deconstruction' a lot, which is kind of a giant sparkly rainbow text warning that says READING THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU A MIGRAINE. I am getting some amusement, however, out of the author's persistent use of terms like 'textualization', 'textuality', and my favourite, 'genre identity'.

...and I got my assignment. I find it amusing that I was matched on the fandom I threw in as an afterthought, in a "oh, and this I could do as well!" manner, as opposed to the fandoms I expected, but that's all for the good. It means a new challenge as I haven't written something in this particular area before, and I already have several possible ideas. Mmmmmmm.

Wow, I haven't posted since Tuesday. Craziness! Do not forget to sign up for a Christmas card!!! I wasn't kidding when I said I'd hunt you down until you do. Muahahaha.

Uh, so what have I been doing since Tuesday? Gooood question. I actually tuned in to the Remembrance Day service here in town for the first time ever, I cheered for the selection of awesomeawesome Nicole and Laura for the ANTM finale (for the first time I'm actually excited for both the finalists! whee!), I walked 5km one afternoon after doing zilch the previous two days (which is a stupid idea, by the way), I cheered wildly for the Trekkie Nerd Girl on Jeopardy's Teen Tournament, I ate more 'all you can eat' sushi and was really sick (it was worth it, right?), watched a HELL of a lot of Tenimyu and a hilarious Jrock concert (ILU KATO-SAMA) and took a lot of really terrible photos with wittyphantom which involved my Kirk dress, a purple Nazgul outfit, a plastic children's firefighter jacket, a lot of terrible wigs and cat costumes. As in costumes made for cats. That we wore ourselves. We're the coolest people I know. Hellz yeah.

So I continue to be hyper-obsessed with animated tennis (and continue to make terrible animated graphics, ahahaha), less hyperly but still decidedly obsessed with Star Trek, Supernatural, Harry Potter (damn you, bottle_of_smoke!) and anime in general, and now austere_mauve has gone and reawakened my immense love for the Star Wars EU and now I'm rereading the novels I own and spent the last couple of days reading the synopses and reviews of the New Jedi Order and DAMMIT, now I have to reread it from the beginning and actually finish it. And then read the last group of post-RotJ novels ever! ARGH. YOU KNOW HOW FRAGILE I AM WHEN IT COMES TO FANDOM. AS IN IT TAKES ONE WORD AND I'M BACK INTO IT WITH A VENGEANCE. AAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

And yet I really can't be displeased because I enjoy it so damn much. So I will continue to fill my days with fandomfandomMOARFANDOM and rant obnoxiously about it all. Aren't you excited?

But my fannishness will have to go on hiatus starting Monday for the epic New York vacation!! YAY! I fly to Calgary and my parents on Monday, then to New York Wednesday! Thursday is 'run around obnoxiously and be tourists' day with the NY Philharmonic Orchestra in the evening (PROKOFIEV'S ROMEO & JULIET :D), Friday we watch mum give her paper at the conference then run amok buying nerdly things in Chinatown and continue being obnoxious tourists, Saturday is SHOOOOOPPING, Sunday is MOAR SHOPPING with the possibility of a show in the evening, Monday is 'find something to amuse myself while the parents take the stupid Staten Island Ferry and walk across Brooklyn Bridge' day capped off with THE OPERA, and Tuesday we fly back to Calgary. It is going to be an intense few days, and I'm super excited. I have noooo idea what I'm going to do while the parents are off doing their terrifying large body of water-associated activities (I DON'T HAVE TO BE RATIONAL), but it will probably either involve going to Chinatown if we don't get to go on Friday or walking 5th Ave and drooling over all the beautiful fashion that I cannot afford (and possibly stalking Emmett McCarthy, eeheeheeeeee). It will be an EXCELLENT TIME.

So I will probably be totally out of touch for much of the next two weeksish, but I will be back with a vengeance and lots of terrible photos. WHEE. <3

Since I often get asked "hey, what song is this?" while hosting a uStream session, I've made a last.fm account so you guys can find out right away (and so I don't have to switch out of Photoshop and back into iTunes to check)

Username is "tjandamal".

I went and hung out with otilu for a little while this afternoon! I HAVE MISSED HER she is a swank, swank human

( ALSO SHE GOT ME AN AWESOME GIFT )


also here a meme

the SUPER POWER meme !



also also how cool is this icon pura made for me? It is so so cool. I am using it for everything forever now.

Hey 9goodfingers, last night at HighBall I saw a guy who looked exactly like West (except he had all his fingers) and it freaked me right out. UNCANNY.

I have this increasing desire for new clothes lately. Been so focused on work that I haven't bought anything in a long, long time, and even then it was dull stuff for work. I wanna wear something girly and cute and not boring!
I smell a Goodwill raid coming up.

ETA: oh, and speaking of clothes, I'm working on that second run of T-shirts. The main obstacle now is finding a shirt that is: 1. non-sweatshop, 2. the right color, and 3. under $12 a pop before printing. American Apparel is the only one to fit the bill so far, but they're out of the question until Dov Charney either goes to jail or falls in a vat of hot molasses. :/

Okay now I'm getting back to work. Comments disabled so I'm not tempted to check back. :3

Question! I am trying to get more stories uploaded to the Archive of Our Own, now that it's in Open Beta.

The archive has a required "Major Character Death" warning. The story I'm about to upload does involve a major character dying, but it's not either character in the story's main pairing.

My question is, would you assume from just that warning that it is one of the characters in the story's main pairing who dies? Should I say something about this this in the story summary/notes? This is a story with a happy ending, and I don't want readers to assume I'm dropping rocks on one of the two main characters at the end.

ETA: Okay, so I'm thinking about either using the "Choose Not to Warn" tag and adding "contains character death, but neither character in the story's main pairing" to the summary, or using the "Major Character Death" tag and adding "the character death isn't either character in the story's main pairing" to the summary. Which sounds better to y'all?

Anybody interested in the whole bizarre 'meep' thing needs to see ( this )

How on earth this story is supposed to be compatible with the Fourth Doctor classic City of Death - wherein among other things we find out the Mona Lisa currently residing in the Louvre is ( spoilers for City of Death ) - is anyone's guess, but I'm looking forward to fanfic explaining it.

( Also, Phil Ford likes to quote Billy Wilder )

In other news, waiting for a certain comic is still torture.

- Doing Photoshop work on some Christmas photos of a friend's 9 month old twins. I have come to the solid scientific conclusion that babies are exponentially more hilarious after exposure to cameras. SO MUCH MACRO POTENTIAL

- Miles Edgeworth DS game demo. The dumber it gets, THE MORE I WANT IT. Seconding halyconjazz's "keep it in your pants, Gumshoe." Also: LOGIC! Snerk.

- The Fake AP Stylebook is amusing.

- TJandAmal.com is updated.

- I have decided that the hotel rooms the boys get in western CO and northeast TN will be modeled on these two because oh lord

D___ was home from Baghdad for a few days, and we hung like bros who hang. I gotta get back to work, though. Tonight and Monday are full, so Saturday and Sunday are solid work days. Probably uStreaming late Saturday and/or Sunday evening.

( Offhand doodles )

The sad thing is, I'm not sure my students are old enough to get the reference.