Avenger' s Family Portrait by Saturn-Kitty (SFW)
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fanart_recsFandom: marvel movie verse, avengers
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: avengers characters
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital
Artist on DW/LJ: not known
Artist Website/Gallery: saturn-kitty at DA and star-crossed comic
Why this piece is awesome: the expressions on their faces and the body language is so adorable and completely in character, makes me smile constantly
Link: Avenger's Family Portrait
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: avengers characters
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital
Artist on DW/LJ: not known
Artist Website/Gallery: saturn-kitty at DA and star-crossed comic
Why this piece is awesome: the expressions on their faces and the body language is so adorable and completely in character, makes me smile constantly
Link: Avenger's Family Portrait
Good Vibes by The Bodhisattva (SFW)
May. 19th, 2013 12:19 pmlucifuge5 posting in fanart_recsFandom: Bandom (MCR)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Gerard Way
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: None that I could find
Artist Website/Gallery:![[deviantart.com profile]](http://deviantart.com/favicon.ico)
thebodhisattva
Why this piece is awesome: Recently, Gerard Way ran a contest for his fans to create a version of his Twitter avatar. Tons of people submitted all kinds of arts.
Though this wasn't one of the winning pieces, it's so eye-catching that I couldn't help but rec it. I like to think that it's a manga about Gerard someone wrote in an alternate universe. It's also one of those fanarts that rewards giving it a careful study. :D!
Link: Good Vibes (DA link)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Gerard Way
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: None that I could find
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: Recently, Gerard Way ran a contest for his fans to create a version of his Twitter avatar. Tons of people submitted all kinds of arts.
Though this wasn't one of the winning pieces, it's so eye-catching that I couldn't help but rec it. I like to think that it's a manga about Gerard someone wrote in an alternate universe. It's also one of those fanarts that rewards giving it a careful study. :D!
Link: Good Vibes (DA link)
Jo Grant's Tea Party by gnasler (SFW)
May. 19th, 2013 05:46 pmturlough posting in fanart_recsFandom: Classic Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and the Master
Content Notes/Warnings: n/a
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:gnasler
Why this piece is awesome: It's a perfectly charming little work. The idea itself is both preposterous and strangely believable for these three characters and the way the artist portrays the interaction between them is just perfect.
Link: Jo Grant's Tea Party
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and the Master
Content Notes/Warnings: n/a
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: It's a perfectly charming little work. The idea itself is both preposterous and strangely believable for these three characters and the way the artist portrays the interaction between them is just perfect.
Link: Jo Grant's Tea Party
Untitled by Howl (Explicit)
May. 19th, 2013 02:51 pmacari posting in fanart_recsFandom: Teen Wolf
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Derek/Stiles
Content Notes/Warnings: nudity, blowjob
Medium: digital painting
Artist on LJ:just_howl
Artist Website/Gallery:![[tumblr.com profile]](http://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
howlart
Why this piece is awesome: I think this fanart is super sexy and intense.
Link: Tumblr link
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Derek/Stiles
Content Notes/Warnings: nudity, blowjob
Medium: digital painting
Artist on LJ:
just_howlArtist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: I think this fanart is super sexy and intense.
Link: Tumblr link
Sergeant Calhoun by ~Emuraptors
May. 19th, 2013 07:51 pmsnowynight posting in fanart_recsFandom: Disney
Characters/Pairing/Subject: Sergeant Calhoun
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: Digital
Artist on DW/LJ: unknown
Artist Website/Gallery:Emuraptors
Why this piece is awesome: She looks so fierce and powerful.
Link: Sergeant Calhoun
Characters/Pairing/Subject: Sergeant Calhoun
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: Digital
Artist on DW/LJ: unknown
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: She looks so fierce and powerful.
Link: Sergeant Calhoun
Untitled by The Big Pink Mustache (SFW)
May. 18th, 2013 11:59 pmlucifuge5 posting in fanart_recsFandom: Bandom (MCR)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Frank Iero and his Mustache of WIN!
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Pencil
Artist on DW/LJ: None that I could find
Artist Website/Gallery:the-big-pink-mustache
Why this piece is awesome: It's a really detailed rendition of a self-portrait Frank tweeted about a few weeks ago (ftr, that was his exact facial expression in the photo.) The artist had a really delicate hand when it came to defining Frank's eyebrows and loopy 'stache. I tend to giggle a lot whenever I look at this piece.
Link: Untitled (Tumblr link)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Frank Iero and his Mustache of WIN!
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Pencil
Artist on DW/LJ: None that I could find
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: It's a really detailed rendition of a self-portrait Frank tweeted about a few weeks ago (ftr, that was his exact facial expression in the photo.) The artist had a really delicate hand when it came to defining Frank's eyebrows and loopy 'stache. I tend to giggle a lot whenever I look at this piece.
Link: Untitled (Tumblr link)
there's nothing in this world that can stop me, no
May. 18th, 2013 10:50 pmerikaI'm seriously tempted to declare Dreamwidth bankruptcy and just try and keep up on everyone's entries from now on. I'm so sorry. =x
I'm thinking about doing a fundraiser. I'll definitely explain why when I do it, but before then...
I'm curious, out of the following, which would be most interesting to you and which would you be willing to donate money to see:
If you have ANY other ideas for things you'd like to see me do, please do comment, and please do respond because I'm very interested. I want to be MUCH more involved in the DW community but dear lord I have to clean up my own shit life first.
I'm thinking about doing a fundraiser. I'll definitely explain why when I do it, but before then...
I'm curious, out of the following, which would be most interesting to you and which would you be willing to donate money to see:
- write drabbles
- do tarot readings (i am a RANK amateur)
- make any number of origami cranes (and either send them to you or take a picture of them here)
- write journal entries
- if journal entries, a specified number per week on no particular topic
OR an entry on a specific topic
If you have ANY other ideas for things you'd like to see me do, please do comment, and please do respond because I'm very interested. I want to be MUCH more involved in the DW community but dear lord I have to clean up my own shit life first.
Outlined: Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
May. 18th, 2013 06:42 pmothercat posting in books
Dreamsnake is an expansion of Vonda McIntyre’s award winning novella, “Of Mist and Grass and Sand.” It’s a post-apocalyptic story about a healer named “SNAKE,” who uses snakes as part of her work. (She is not a faith healer or “snake handler.” She uses genetically engineered snakes as a kind of living hypodermic needle for chemotherapy, and uses their venom to create medicines and vaccines.) When one of her snakes is killed, a rare, alien snake whose venom acts as a kind of sedative, she goes on a quest of sorts to get a new one. Read this Outline on Rena's Hub of Random on WordPress.
Star Trek: Into Darkness
May. 18th, 2013 11:20 amowlmooseI saw it. I liked it. Fun, with lots of appropriately whiz-bang fights and explosions and some great character moments as well. I'd say it was about on par with the first movie -- a fun sci-fi films, some good nods to classic Trek while remaining clearly rooted in the J.J. Abrams 'verse. Good acting. Let's not talk about the plot.
About the Benedict Cumberbatch thing...
( Cut for spoilers. )
( Other spoilery thoughts. )
So, in conclusion: fun, just don't think too hard about the plot holes. I would watch it again. Two thumbs tentatively up.
About the Benedict Cumberbatch thing...
( Cut for spoilers. )
( Other spoilery thoughts. )
So, in conclusion: fun, just don't think too hard about the plot holes. I would watch it again. Two thumbs tentatively up.
Four years of grace by Bestrice (SFW)
May. 18th, 2013 12:37 pmomens posting in fanart_recsFandom: Person of Interest
Characters/Pairing/Subject: Harold (Wren?)/Grace Hendricks
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital illustration
Artist on DW/LJ: unknown
Artist Website/Gallery:Bestrice
Why this piece is awesome: Adorable picture - Harold had some happy times, once. *__*
Link: Four years of grace (DA)
Characters/Pairing/Subject: Harold (Wren?)/Grace Hendricks
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital illustration
Artist on DW/LJ: unknown
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: Adorable picture - Harold had some happy times, once. *__*
Link: Four years of grace (DA)
Anything Goes (on your "becoming a tradition to be late" weekend)!
May. 18th, 2013 05:41 pmseventhbard posting in interested_in_that
Okay everyone let's mingle! :D
This week I:
Crocheted my first shawl
Made relative peace with the idea I might get to not live in the country I call home anymore, and applied for some jobs back the other direction as well, just in case
Bathed the foster rats in oatmeal to hopefully soothe some of their itching after finally being rid of their parasites (they found this unpleasant but they are asleep now and I hear no furious scratching sounds!)
How was your week?
Downtime this morning
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dw_maintenance(For some California local definition of 'morning'!)
About 30 minutes ago one of our databases (sb-db03) locked up and stopped serving traffic. This was an active database, so the site quickly stopped when it could no longer serve requests. Alas.
I have failed us over to a backup database and now everything should be working again.
I'm not sure yet what happened to db03, but am currently investigating and will update this post if I come up with a root cause for the problem. Edit: It's back up and doesn't have any visible problems. Disks are fine, data's intact, etc. The graphs and logs show nothing. We'll have to keep an eye on it and see if it manifests further issues.
Sorry for the trouble, please let me know if you still see any problems!
Trope Bingo: The Wrap-up
May. 18th, 2013 12:19 amowlmooseMy trope_bingo is all done! My completed card, under the cut:
( Bingo! )
And a list of all the stories, with links, here.
This was a fun project, although I wish it hadn't overlapped so closely with DOINK! and the Dragon Age Big Bang (a large part of why I didn't finish on time). But it got me working with ideas I don't usually play with, even if it was several of the usual suspects as far as characters were concerned. And it also lured me into starting that Iron Man/Sherlock Holmes thing, which was a lot of fun and will certainly continue. Would I sign up for this project again? Definitely! And I actually think choosing the double line worked well, since trying to work two tropes together acts as a stronger prompt for me than any one trope by itself. One thing I'd change for next time, though, is trying to write in more fandoms. A good goal, I think.
trope_bingo is all done! My completed card, under the cut:( Bingo! )
And a list of all the stories, with links, here.
This was a fun project, although I wish it hadn't overlapped so closely with DOINK! and the Dragon Age Big Bang (a large part of why I didn't finish on time). But it got me working with ideas I don't usually play with, even if it was several of the usual suspects as far as characters were concerned. And it also lured me into starting that Iron Man/Sherlock Holmes thing, which was a lot of fun and will certainly continue. Would I sign up for this project again? Definitely! And I actually think choosing the double line worked well, since trying to work two tropes together acts as a stronger prompt for me than any one trope by itself. One thing I'd change for next time, though, is trying to write in more fandoms. A good goal, I think.
a high percentage of my favorite songs are because I watched a fanvid
May. 17th, 2013 06:26 pmrenayWhat I'm reading: I am currently buried in John Scalzi's Old Man's War series (finished the first book, just dived into the second) preparing for Scalzi's Memphis stop on his tour for The Human Division. I had a moment of pure brain-melting glee in the form of excessive amount of capslock on Twitter when I found out about this. One of my favorite authors is coming somewhere I can access. YES. DEAR TOR, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH.
I am also wandering through Cold Steel, which comes out next month. I'm having serious feelings about this series. I spent most of my time with my fist in my mouth, freaking out about the high tension, abrupt, soul-destroying/enriching developments in Cold Fire. I'm sure my review of both these titles is going to be coherent and professional. OH WAIT.
I'm also reading the first Dresden Files book, sochaosraven and spindizzy and I can get together and discuss it and the five after it. By "discuss" I mean, "yell" and "laugh so hard we're unable to breathe" and "weep until we choke". I expect editing that episode to take at least a week.
Recent reads: Old Man's War. Also, Cold Fire See: mouth, fist in. Related to: glee, literary orgasmic. I also read The Other Half of the Sky by Athena Andreadis, which is an anthology featuring ladies in space! It's also extremely smart — I felt so out of my depth when reading it and writing about it that I psyched myself out. So I scrapped my original review and am now rereading it, hoping that a second pass will make me smarter and this time when I talk about it I will sound less like a massive, ignorant ass that misses all the points? One can only hope.
Reading next: The Last Colony and Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi, followed by The Human Division. In non-mainlining news, I will also probably be getting serious about Hugo reading, since the voter's packet will be out soon. So that means I'll be reading quite a few novels (except Bujold, which is too deep in a series, and Redshirts, which I've already read).
( OTW )
( Life. )
Five Guys for dinner and then OTW work! That's an exciting Friday night ahead for me. :P
I am also wandering through Cold Steel, which comes out next month. I'm having serious feelings about this series. I spent most of my time with my fist in my mouth, freaking out about the high tension, abrupt, soul-destroying/enriching developments in Cold Fire. I'm sure my review of both these titles is going to be coherent and professional. OH WAIT.
I'm also reading the first Dresden Files book, so
chaosraven and spindizzy and I can get together and discuss it and the five after it. By "discuss" I mean, "yell" and "laugh so hard we're unable to breathe" and "weep until we choke". I expect editing that episode to take at least a week.Recent reads: Old Man's War. Also, Cold Fire See: mouth, fist in. Related to: glee, literary orgasmic. I also read The Other Half of the Sky by Athena Andreadis, which is an anthology featuring ladies in space! It's also extremely smart — I felt so out of my depth when reading it and writing about it that I psyched myself out. So I scrapped my original review and am now rereading it, hoping that a second pass will make me smarter and this time when I talk about it I will sound less like a massive, ignorant ass that misses all the points? One can only hope.
Reading next: The Last Colony and Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi, followed by The Human Division. In non-mainlining news, I will also probably be getting serious about Hugo reading, since the voter's packet will be out soon. So that means I'll be reading quite a few novels (except Bujold, which is too deep in a series, and Redshirts, which I've already read).
( OTW )
( Life. )
Five Guys for dinner and then OTW work! That's an exciting Friday night ahead for me. :P
DOINK! 2013 Exit Poll
May. 17th, 2013 03:26 pmffexchange_mod posting in ff_exchangeAfter every round, the mod team likes to hear from our participants - how did we do? Did you have fun, did you enjoy your assignment, did you like your gift? We consider all the feedback we get and work through the off-season on the overarching question: how can we tweak our process next year to make things even more awesome?
We'd appreciate it if you took a couple minutes to tell us how you felt about DOINK! 2013. The poll is completely anonymous and confidential, so please be honest. The poll will be open for three weeks -- we'll give you a reminder before we close it. Thanks!
Take the DOINK! 2013 Exit Poll
Thanks so much for an awesome round. We'll see you soon with information on the 2013 round of Chocobo Racing. Until then, check out all the amazing work in our DOINK! 2012 AO3 Collection.
We'd appreciate it if you took a couple minutes to tell us how you felt about DOINK! 2013. The poll is completely anonymous and confidential, so please be honest. The poll will be open for three weeks -- we'll give you a reminder before we close it. Thanks!
Take the DOINK! 2013 Exit Poll
Thanks so much for an awesome round. We'll see you soon with information on the 2013 round of Chocobo Racing. Until then, check out all the amazing work in our DOINK! 2012 AO3 Collection.
Joss Carter by wandering-paperheart (SFW)
May. 17th, 2013 03:12 pmomens posting in fanart_recsFandom: Person of Interest
Characters/Pairing/Subject: Joss Carter
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital graphics (wallpaper)
Artist on DW/LJ: unknown
Artist Website/Gallery:wandering-paperheart
Why this piece is awesome: Carter is a badass cop and she is gorgeous.
Link: Joss Carter wallpaper (DA)
Characters/Pairing/Subject: Joss Carter
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital graphics (wallpaper)
Artist on DW/LJ: unknown
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: Carter is a badass cop and she is gorgeous.
Link: Joss Carter wallpaper (DA)