I misunderstood the point of this ride

Holiday reveals post! (Does this feel spammy to you? Last New Years-y item, I swear.)

So this year for yuletide, I wrote Turn, a Gunnerkrigg Court fic. nextian requested Kat/Annie, which happened to be exactly what I'd been hoping to write. :D I had a lot of fun reviewing the comic, and trying to invent some new crazy Forest stuff that fit with the occasion, without interfering too much with any of the unsolved mysteries in canon. I am . . . not the most dynamic ficcer ever? But I'm pretty happy, overall, with how this came out.

And since yuletart reveals are today, here's my contribution: a Middleman/Umbrella Academy fancomic. bluelittlepig and I matched on four fandoms, so it was a little hard to pick. ;) I went with this combination because I love wacky fanart crossovers, and because there is no Middleman fanart out there. I'm super proud of the piece: I spent two solid weeks on it! (So much Photoshop, oh my god. I barely noticed the bus crawling home at half-speed, the day before Thanksgiving.) I think I may need to start reigning in the background detail a bit, though; that large panel is kind of, er, cluttered.

I had some awesome fannish holidays . . . I'll think of them fondly while I'm wallowing through admissions season at work. /o\ I'm going to try and get those yuletart recs up tonight, but you should really go poke through the whole comm if you get the chance. What an amazing year.

( roundup of this past year's fanart )

Oh, thank you, hometown radio station. This song will never again make me think of anything but Saved!. Not that it's really a bad thing.

Life suddenly looks ridiculously busy for the foreseeable future. October is full of visiting friends, not to mention Halloween. (I need to come up with a jack'o'lantern design! Also, I am now considering going as Wendy Watson. Maybe I can have multiple costumes.) November will have the election (WAUGH), any number of exciting new media releases. (Folie A Deux! Umbrella Academy! And, as I discovered on a routine check of the Oni Press website . . . new Blue Monday. Finally. :D), and Amanda Palmer. ♥ December has holiday exchanges galore, and also hopefully a trip to Europe to see the little brother, olivia_circe, and maybe sweetvalleyslut.

I really have to resist joining in on atla_slash_swap, don't I. :( Oh god, I'm so tempted. There isn't nearly enough Avatar slash around. (It's not a holiday exchange, but I have to get everything done early somehow if I'm flying to Strasbourg on December 22.)

Speaking of holiday exchanges, yuletart nominations end Monday, so if there are any fanartists out there who might want to contribute, get going! And there are finally signs of life from yuletide (I was getting a little worried). Cue sudden (and oddly unexpected, even after all this time) floods of excitement. I need to be much more conservative in my offerings this year, hmmm. And what should I ask for? I'm thinking The Middleman, although I don't know what characters/pairing (I would like to see some Wendy/Lacey, of course, but I'm oddly compelled by Middleman/Lacey, and honestly I could go for some gen).

And I'm babbling already. Life's . . . not as productive as it should be right now (hello, steps toward networking that I'm avoiding, original comics that I'm not drawing), but it's really fun. The I Don't Care video is amaaazing and would probably deserve a post of its own if I had the time. (Nuns! Naked Joe! Gabe! Alarming ending! Paaaatrick. ♥ Tiny Pete is tiny! I know that's nothing new, but still!) Also I'm on a steampunk kick thanks to _audrey and blondiusmaximus (see amazing fanart), just reread the entire Girl Genius archive, and keep doodling steampunk versions of old original characters. I've been working on intensityboat merch (coming soon to a cafepress near you). And work's kind of crazy right now, too.

Ahaha, yeah. Things are definitely going to get noticeably more multifannish around here for awhile, though there are definitely bits of bandom fanart in the works as well.