I misunderstood the point of this ride

My family's getting ready to head across state to visit my grandmother in her nursing home, rather than our usual cozy lingering over presents in our PJs. (My mother is worried about the weather tomorrow. IDK. It's a good thing to do anyway. :)) So I must be brief.

Merry Christmas, darling flisters, to those of you who celebrate it! (And to the rest of you - I hope you have a really awesome day. ♥)

Check out what I found in my stocking: Glories Stream, a delightfully sexy and irreverent look at Heaven, based on Dar Williams's "Alleluia." I am absolutely thrilled with it! The tags list alone almost made me crack up out loud (which would have caused awkward questions from my family) .

Also, I see that someone else has written for the same prompt I did, which is also exciting - it's a fandom/pairing that I'd really like to read, you know? :D Man, I can't wait to dive into the archive later, in general. Also, I need to catch up on my yuletart commenting. (Still can't get over the incredible quality and variety of the work there!)

Must dash. Love!

I've posted a poll on my LJ to try and gauge what everyone is/wants to be doing with their Dreamwidth accounts. I decided against crossposting because a fair chunk of my flist is still mostly LJ-based. If you're DW-centric, though, I'd appreciate your input over there as well. :)

As for me, I think I'll be crossposting for the forseeable future, although I think I may start maintaining permanent (sticky?) posts for fanart links and recs at Dreamwidth only, if I do wind up getting rid of my website. I'm undecided on the primary journal issue.

Really should be working on my BBB about now.

My mother sent me the most hilarious email this afternoon, entitled "I need art!!!!!"

I need some of your newer art to post in my office. Where can I download online and print to office color printer! Need now!! Need, need, need—arghhhh!

WTF, how is she so adorable (and kind of nuts)? ♥ (I really ought to draw something suitable for public consumption this year.)

On a mostly different note, you should all IMMEDIATELY go check out guinsky's Unholyverse fanart here. It's beautiful, and the level of detail is absolutely astonishing, and she is generally kind of my favorite. SO. :D

So last week I read The Old Straight Track by jjtaylor, in which Frank is a ghost and Gerard is his apartment's next occupant. There are hauntings and seances and metaphors and pining. Highly recommended, though beware the abrupt ending (she's working on the sequel :DDDD).

I love that fic, man.

Also, it was jjtaylor's birthday last week! So I drew this: ( Frank/Gerard, completely SFW )

All I have done this weekend is sit on my bed and draw MCR. (Well, practically.) I suppose I shouldn't do that.

Also, I have developed a stupid craving for obscenely sugary cereal (something I pretty much never eat). Damn you, Gerard Way! Pegwarming. I will never get tired of this fandom.

(This week I keep getting intrusive, personal IMs from people whose SNs I do not recognize. WTF?)

I finally got my go_exchange piece in (one down, two to go), and now I'm at my parents' house trying to get Thanksgiving dinner ready before the guests arrive. (We usually don't have any, and we also usually wind up eating rather late, so it's a challenge.)

Whether it's the holiday or MCR a-twittering, I'm kind of feeling full of wellbeing right now, so I thought I'd share a couple of seasonal things with the flist.

First of all, if you don't already have it, Alice's Restaurant. (Ahaha. I was in Stockbridge this summer and there were all these people going to peer at the location of the restaurant. "That's where Alice lived!" "No no, she lived in a church - inside the bell tower!")

Secondly, here's the recipe for the soup I make every year: ( ginger-carrot bisque )

I got it out of a magazine years ago, but I really don't remember which one. Anyway, happy Thanksgiving to my countryfolks, and I hope the rest of you are having a lovely day also. ♥

I'm probably going to be posting a holiday card poll soon.

I'm having a difficult time with my yuletart assignment; I'm really pleased with the fandom, etc, but having brainstorming issues. I think I might make a locked post later asking for prompting . . . in fact, I might go back to using a filter for talking about the details of my various holiday exchange projects. Is there anyone who would want to be left off that? I don't know if anyone is actually invested in being surprised/unspoiled about their flisters' exchange contributions (personally, I'm sort of fond of sneak peeks), but just in case.

Speaking of my flist, there's nothing like internet drama to take your mind off the real thing. Ugh, I'm so sorry, guys. No matter how bitchy bandflesh could be sometimes, I'm deeply unimpressed that someone put in that much effort to prove that s/he could do (much) worse.

The first comic I drew in almost a year was inspired by bandflesh.

♥

Life continues to distract me away from fandom lately! I've been lingering around the edges, so I've caught all the exciting Fall Out Boy material (oh fandom, where is all the Pete/Patrick/Ashlee? ♥), but between the presidential debates and family/penguinkye visits, distracting reading material (Perdido Street Station and a whole lot of blog coverage of the Minx imprint cancellation), and creating fictional band merch, I've been pretty gone. But!

There are nearly eighty sign-ups at yuletart right now, and we have a week to go. That is amazing. :D We seem to be skewing pretty heavily towards anime fandoms, which really isn't all that surprising, but there's a fair amount of variety in there. And it looks like we're practically guaranteed some Avatar art, whee. (Conversation over in glockgal's journal has me pondering the ending of the show again. Also pairings, so many pairings!)

Randomly (and belatedly), I'm getting kind of excited about Razia's Shadow. I hadn't really heard of Forgive Durden before (I'm thinking I should check out some of their older music?), but I love concept albums and musicals, and this one sounds intriguing. Also, anything that features Greta . . . (You can hear one whole preview track here, briefly featuring Brendon. Click on "Forgive Durden - The Exit," under "Exclusive Streams.")

Am feeling strangely torn between my love of October and my highly unusual impatience for November, though if the election goes the way I don't want, I might regret the latter. (At least I'll have good comics and music to console me.) Meanwhile, I have a sae starting on Friday! Comics and holiday-times will abound (and I'll probably be pretty scarce for awhile). :D

Pete Wentz, I love your face, but I am way too tired for any more of these viral marketing shenanigans. (I see that cfob and all those various myspaces have been updated again, with further crypticness.) Please to be getting to 60xxx already.

Had a fantastic time at the Hush/Cab show last night! The Cab were kind of adorable, though their music isn't really my thing. Cash was totally subtle with his flashing of the CFOB address, someone in the audience apparently wanted to fight Singer, and after a bout of shredding from Ian, greendreaming leaned over and whispered "Bauer Toro!" *g* Steel Train was fun (I should really get my hands on some of their music), and the Hushies were fucking fantastic, as always. fuschia, greendreaming and I spent the opening acts hanging out in the 21+ area, but we came down to the floor and danced like crazy people during the Hush Sound's set. ♥ I hope someone puts a better version of the Obama song up on youtube at some point, because that was amaaaazing.

I definitely approve of the bands coming out and playing with each other, also. :) Singer did Brendon's bit of "Don't Wake Me Up," Ian played some snazzy harmonica (I thought of you, inkjunket ;)), and the Tom Petty cover was particularly lovely! (So many intra-band hugs, awww.)

(olivia_circe and I have agreed, however, that we need to send the younger generation of fans to Beatles boot camp. Maybe Panic would help us out with that.)

Met a bunch more of the internet, also, which was lovely. :) Sorry for being so shy, bbs.

Ugh, I'm exhausted. I can't wait to go to sleep on the bus back to Boston. I will probably have comicky crack to share with you all (finally) tomorrow or so, however.

PS: The reports I'm hearing about last night's Leathermouth show have me totally excited for the Cambridge show now. Which is mildly alarming. AHAHA FRANK, I CAN'T WAIT.

Today could really have been pretty awful, with my boss out again, my floor almost empty (and silent as the grave, tempting me to play really inappropriate music), and my most obnoxious of coworkers occasionally breathing down my neck. (She is the queen of trivial details.) However! Several excellent reasons why it was not:

-The fact that I sketched out almost the entire second half of the coffee comic, in the morning before my coworker had a chance to start with the hovering. Apparently I should do big projects in halves more often; seeing the completely-finished first bit in front of me while I work is seriously encouraging.

-chmclfairytales's Baby!Ways picspam. It reduced me to RL giggles (and includes a shot of artist!Gerard that I hadn't seen before; I will be strong and not tape it to the cover of my sketchbook).

-My band. ♥ You can read all about Intensity Boat, our first album (Here, Have Some Poncho), and our upcoming tour right here in our sexy bassist and spokeswoman's journal. I, of course, am the pretentious artiste guitarist (& occasional keyboardist) with not one but two stage names, and a look vaguely reminiscent of Two Face (without the actual facial scarring). Twee-core is here to stay, sister! I wish it were real, I'd be out of this office-bound life so fast . . . thanks to olivia_circe and jjtaylor for enlivening my afternoon. Did someone mention liner notes?

[ETA:] intensityboat ♥

My friendslist is really hopping now! I want to respond to all the intro posts and stuff, but it is late and I think I'm getting sick, so I should really sleep. Just wanted to say that ILU all already.

My artbunny list is already a mile long, and I'm going to get distracted by Avatar in a couple of days, but . . . someone mentioned Gerard and Lyn-Z dressed in each others' stage clothes the other day, and um. *_* That is a really good idea. I might have to do multiple shots of Lyn-Z, though . . . at least the Black Parade outfit & the iconic Revenge-era black suit/red tie.