4/6 line arts done. 2 more and then I can start coloring them. So far, temeraire + laurence, arthur/eames, amy/rory, and now kurt/blaine.

Next is still a little fuzzy -- Sherlock and Watson? Kakashi/Iruka? Team SGA or H50? -- but I'll get there. Then again, I already have sketches for Clex and for Thor and Charles/Erik. We'll see. :)

I forgot how amazingly slow I am at inking things (nicely) in photoshop. 2/6 inked. ;_;

3 more things:

1.


From a prompt by eliyes, which was basically anyone + umbrella, though I especially liked the one with Joe and Methos. In the sketch, Methos was labeled with an arrow as "NOT Castiel. METHOS," but then his bitchface kind of cleared up any identity issues. :P

2. Last day for my shirt. :)


3. Give me some prompts for art?

Three more things:
1. Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, again


A companion to the one with the elephant. In my defense, the logic behind this picture is a lot more obvious.

Also, totally unrelated, Dominic Cobbs crew definitely needs to try to incept Charles Xavier. Or they need to pull jobs on other people and spend months trying to figure out which of them this Xavier projection belongs to. I'm just saying.


2. Also, please vote for my Threadless shirt? :)


3. (Unless you want me to keep drawing Charles and Erik and large mammals), would you give me some other prompts that I might draw without added exotic creatures, please? :D

Title: Rebellion (Lies)
Author: starsandgraces
Artist: pentapus
Characters: Uhura, Sulu, ensemble (background Spock/Uhura, implied Kirk/Sulu)

Summary: When the Enterprise is sent to negotiate a planet's urgent entrance into the Federation, it seems like just another mission. But things are never quite that simple, and there are things that the Federation doesn't know.

Notes: For trekreversebang. I hadn't met starsandgraces before this challenge, but I totally lj-stalked her afterwards, and I highly recommend checking out the rest of her fic. She whips out the action political plot here with some great ideas for an alien civilization AND she's good at the more classic character/relationship focused fic -- I know, I checked. I have been very lucky with this challenge both times I did it, guys. Fun times.



( Rock beats scissors. )

Mary. ♥

I finally straight up went looking for the episodes with this fabled Mary McGarrett in them instead of just waiting for her to show up, and now I love her with a love that is true. And I want pairing fic with Chin Ho Kelly, who only dates nice girls. Come on, there would be chemistry.

Chin would need something (for his man angst) or Steve (for his man angst), but instead of Steve, he finds Mary, who is all "Well, okay," on the surface but who is a startlingly effective partner. Mary would be all slightly hoarse and kind of a mess and a baller but a little worried about Chin Ho Kelly's nice girls. Also, she doesn't want to admit that as a teen, she was so cliche as to secretly like the nice boy quarterback. Chin Ho Kelly would be all confused and guilty, "You are a valued colleague, Steve's Sister. You work well and smell nice -- I mean."

AND NOW, PICTURES:



( HAWAII 5-O, Danny/Steve, because Danny talks. A lot. )




( DOCTOR WHO, Ten and Eleven, because when you've got a contrary time machine, why not? )




( LEVERAGE, Parker, Hardison, Eliot, raising the bar for OT3 everywhere. )

AND NOW, PART II:



( SGA, John/Rodney, because the point of SGA is alien monsters. )




( SPN, Dean and Castiel, because I'm a sap. )




( HIGHLANDER, Methos and Duncan, because Methos is hilarious and knows it, don't deny it. )

I'm 5/6 on inking the Escapadecon pictures, so here's the first half. These will be colored, printed (~4x6"), and matted (after roughly a geologic age, based on current speed). Then I'll have some sort of moral attack about selling fan art and keep them in a drawer.


AND NOW, PICTURES:



( HAWAII 5-O, Danny/Steve, because Danny talks. A lot. )




( DOCTOR WHO, Ten and Eleven, because when you've got a contrary time machine, why not? )




( LEVERAGE, Parker, Hardison, Eliot, raising the bar for OT3 everywhere. )

So, I sort of disappeared off the face of the planet there for a while. School has been, it turns out, really time consuming -- who knew!

I've been spending a lot of time searching for My Next True Fandom after Stargate: Atlantis, and to be honest, I haven't had much success.

1. Leverage -- I came for Parker (Best Parker Moments - youtube) and stayed for Parker, Hardison (character intro -- youtube), and most importantly: Eliot (Eliot on knives and people - youtube). Parker is honestly weird in way that's not supposed to make her sexy, and is given a lot of the comedy in the show -- 2 big pros for me in a female character. Hardison is gorgeous, ridiculous, sweet, super nerdy -- the writers know their stuff too (unlike SGA's attempts to make a WoW reference) -- and very good at what he does. He has unresolved Romantic Tension with Parker that will make your heart melt.

I recommend Season 1 and Season 2, and the parts of season 3 with Parker/Hardison. ( Season 3 - not my happy place. But at least it has Parker. )



2. Inception - I loved this movie, and I loved this fic -- for about a week, until Arthur/Eames bored me beyond reason. In canon, Eames objects to Arthur on a fundamental philosophical level. In short: Arthur is a technician; Eames is an artist. From what we see of Arthur, this is not a wrongful accusation. Hardly an obstacle to a slash pairing, but inception fic never addresses it -- fic!Eames finds Arthur irresistible. Also, good luck finding anything about Ariadne, Saito, Dom, or Yusuf. Sigh. ETA: I don't really think Eames hates Arthur's guts, but I did feel like Arthur was this guy he'd worked with before who rubbed him the wrong way.

That said, do go read the two inception fics by rageprufrock. Presque Vu is temporarily down from Ao3, but it's the fandom's best piece of world-building, backstory, and portrayal of Mal, Dom, Arthur, and a really endearing, ridiculous Eames. The second is just funny.

So long, Inception, it was a deeply enjoyable, whirlwind affair.

3. Naruto - The bad: too long, weak girls, bad animation. BUT --
1) It's about ninja!
2) It successfully creates a huge, interconnected, varied cast of characters that reaches across generations. And while the girls don't win the big battles, I do like them a lot. But my favorite character is, of course --

3)Kakashi!



( Kakashi shows up late for his first day as Team 7's teacher -- and gets hit by the eraser Naruto's wedged above the door )

4) As a side note, I sort of feel like every Naruto fan has to have their personal vote for next Hokage (aka the Ninja Mayor). My vote is Nara Shikamaru. Laziest grumpy genius ever. The most annoying moment of his life was when he got promoted. And then it turned out he was good at it. So troublesome. :)



How to Read Naruto Fic:
1. Use Delicious tags, a recs list/comm, or a good favorites page on ff.net. Read fic until you realize you have been on ff.net for two hours looking for someone who knows the difference between "lose" and "loose" or who at least doesn't refer to Naruto as "Sasuke's little whore".

2. Read one of these stories to regain faith:
rageprufrock: Telephone, White Wedding
thehoyden, Opening the Roads, Spies Like Us, How to File Form 39-B
Megyal is also a good author and Paxnirvana.

They're all Kakashi/Iruka, which seems to rise to the top when reading Kakashi fic. (I don't think you need much Naruto to read these. All you need to know is that Naruto is the host to a demon that almost destroyed the village and killed many people the year he was born. Iruka lost both his parents to the demon fox. He was Naruto's teacher, and while initially cold towards him, eventually caved and is now Naruto's main source of parental affection. Say Aww.)

3. Return to Step 1. Repeat as needed. I think I'm a few weeks away from memorizing Telephone and Spies Like Us in their entirety.



And that's where I've been. What are you guys watching/reading these days?

I'm back home, jet-lagged and with a head cold. So: natural outcome.

The last trip's humidity ate my very basic phone, ergo my free time is currently divided between reading inception fic, convincing myself I don't want a Droid, and convincing myself I do. How was your summer?