I drew two pieces for the Avengers Big Bang:

Title: On a Hill in Asgard
Artist: zephre
Fic Author: paynesgrey
Characters: Darcy Lewis, Loki
Rating: G
Link to fic: The Flip Side: Loki/Darcy, R

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Work Title: Loki in the Study
Artist: zephre
Fic Author: paynesgrey
Characters: Darcy Lewis (Loki)
Rating: G
Link to fic: The Flip Side: Loki/Darcy, R

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my Pottermore username is SkullNox16580. How awesome is that? Totally awesome.

Wand: Vine with Unicorn core, fourteen and a half inches, solid.

and the answer I know you were all waiting for:

SLYTHERIN!

\o/

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Title: GLF Dance, 1970
Artist: zephre
Fandom: BBC Merlin
Pairing(s): Gwen/Morgana, potential Merlin/Arthur
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Medium: Photoshop and tablet. No filters are in use in this painting.
Summary: After the Stonewall Riots, the Gay Liberation Front established itself, first in New York and then in London, as an activist organization. Among their activities were regular dances.
Notes: Drawn for the 2012 Merlin Tournament of Champions, for Team Historical AU. The prompt was this image: http://i.imgur.com/QidqB.jpg.




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Drawn for the drawmelot Celtic Animal Project

Title: The Witchfinder
Artist: zephre
Rating: G
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Character: Witchfinder Aredian with the Rat



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Drawn for the drawmelot Celtic Animal Project

Title: Ygraine and the Swan
Artist: zephre
Rating: PG
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Character: Ygraine



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Title: Holding them off
Characters: Gwen, Merlin, Arthur
Rating: PG
Medium: Photoshop
Summary: Gwen, Merlin, and Arthur fight together with their backs to a wall and a closed gate. Merlin has been wounded and is bleeding.
Notes: Created for the Merlin Reverse Bang at merlinreversebb.
Fic Link: Coming Soon.



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Title: Merlin
Characters: Merlin
Rating: G
Medium: Photoshop
Summary: Merlin, older and wearing a Druid torc, holds Excalibur and weeps.
Notes: Created for the Merlin Reverse Bang at merlinreversebb.
Fic Link: The Sundered Coin by luxorien



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Hey, I did art for merlin_holidays, too.
It's pretty much Not Safe for Work (nudity! yay!), so it's posted over at Dreamwidth, where I keep the stuff with high ratings.
Go forth and see it, if you want.

I'm collecting prompts again. No guarantees anything will ever come of them, but I have some ideas and techniques that need execution. So leave a word, or a character, or whatever. If there is a specific fandom in play, might name it, too.
Thanks!

Poll #1813962 Art Prompts
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3

Leave a prompt:

Or two:

Reveal from snape_lupin's Snupin Santa holiday fest.

Title: Wolfsbane Potion
Artist: zephre
Rating: G
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape, Lupin
Content Notes: genderbending
Description: The latest advertisement for Snape's Wolfsbane Potion, featuring the Professor and her favorite werewolf. Drawn for busaikko for Snupin Santa, for her request of an Art Nouveau piece in the style of Alphonse Mucha.


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So I retweeted the following:

Jaye: I am now trying to ship train lines. Thanks

me: LOL, you're welcome! i think I ship W/7 myself.

me: unless they don't exist anymore.

Jaye: Nono, that'd be great

The 7 is pining for its lost love

me: awww. man, the h/c potential there.

Jaye: I think the shuttle would make a great rebound fuck

Yet another sentence I never thought I'd type

me: aw, man. the shuttle really gets around, though.

Jaye: maybe the transit museum sells train condoms

me: ... they probably do.

Jaye: ah, yes: http://secondavenuesagas.com/2007/01/08/condoms-a-la-nyc-subways/

me: I love this town!

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No, Tony!  Don't do it! This is a BAD IDEA. LOL.

(Marvel Comics Event: Avengers vs. X-Men poster by Adi Granov)

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Which isn't really true, I just was terribly busy this holiday season - work was crazy, then I was out and about all the freakin' time, so when I was home I didn't really want to do anything but read Avengers and Iron Man comics. (I love my Marvel Digital Subscription!)
I haven't really been doing anything creative, but I have been making plans.

Right now I'm in the lovely suburbs of Philadelphia, in the Great Valley area. My goddaughter and her parents are hosting me for a week of craftiness, cooking, game-playing, and reading excellent books. (Maya just got started on the Chronicles of Narnia, and is reading A Wrinkle in Time.) I have two volumes of the adventures of my beloved Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in my luggage, but I'm mostly rereading Iron Man fanfiction (Civil War fix-it fics - so schmoopy.)

I have been keeping up with a few fests, but not in any big way - I'll have to catch up when I get home.

So, quick fandom / genre-related hits:

• Finished S4 of Merlin, loved it. Beautiful visuals, excellent acting, and the problematic parts were not sufficient to keep me from loving it.


• Doctor Who Christmas Special - really enjoyed it. This was an amazing episode. Had a really good time with it.


• Got my parents watching my Marvel Cinematic Universe Collection. \o/ (I ♥ Phil Coulson!)


• Christmas was pretty awesome - it's not really my holiday anymore, but we have a secular gift-exchange at our house since my dad likes giving us things. He apparently ransacked the BBC store for me this year - Merlin action figures and Doctor Who gear all over. We were really cute about making sure the various animals gave people gifts, too. And all five of us actually spent a good portion of the evening together and we GOT ALONG and it was beautiful. Dinner and a round of Ticket to Ride: Europe made for a fantastic family fest.


• Watched Super 8 with Sam and Keet last night, and it was really awesome. Sam described it as "The Goonies if JJ Abrams had directed," (more lens flare!). I thought that was pretty accurate. Maybe the Goonies + E.T. It surprised me, how much I really enjoyed it. It was nothing at all what I was expecting. So, yay!


• I found the elusive Iron Man / Captain America Annual 1998 in an anthology in a comics store here in King of Prussia, so I know it exists now. I did not buy the anthology (too big, too expensive - I'm an all-carry-on traveler this trip), but I will look for it or order it when I get home. \o/

I am looking forward to a New Year's season full of jigsaw puzzles (a tradition), board games (\o/), and bonus Cheesemas! Yay Cheesemas!
At some point I'll post photos, when I get them off my phone.

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So, I read my favorite fairy tale aloud to my computer.

The Enchanted Pig, a Romanian Tale (24 minutes)
from Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book

I first read this story in Cricket Magazine, with what were very likely some significant edits, and I fell in love with the illustrations and the fantastic adventuress heroine who wears out three pairs of iron shoes and blunts a steel staff while wandering the world, first pregnant and then with an infant. I mean, seriously - she must be made of STEEL.

This was my first time doing anything audio-related on the computer, and my first time using Adobe Soundbooth. Hopefully it sounds ok!

If you want to just listen, it's also on my tumblr.
And I just tried this thing:

You guys, today was awesome! Things went right! I didn't have screw-ups to deal with at work, or meetings that went pear-shaped and made me look like a moron. My project progressed REALLY WELL, I got a lot done, and I got pastries during a field trip with my officemate.
[Ok, and this is going to be meaningless for anybody who doesn't do web stuff, but I totally feel like I get a gold star for threading my way through 6 nested CSS files and the associated ASP.NET templates to figure out how to make all the necessary changes to the home page so that they don't break the interior page layouts. Go me! It feels really good to be crunching the website guts around after so long just doing minor cosmetic touches to the existing layout.]

I didn't have to comfort myself with wine and pizza and Iron Man movies after getting ridiculously depressing news. I had a couple of really good conversations, a nice dinner out with my parents, scored some great produce at the Farmers' Market, and have a coffee date to look forward to later.

I'm role-playing in a small way again, which is awesome. I went back to yoga yesterday and did probably 70% of the class to my utmost, and plan to keep going back until I am more flexible (and have lost enough weight to successfully do child's pose? Well, we'll see). Next class: probably Thursday.
In general I feel optimistic and excited and full of energy.

After the last two weeks of craziness, it felt SO GOOD to have a good day! Yay!
(For the record, Thanksgiving was awesome, too.)

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Title: Calandra, Masterweaver of Pern
Artist: zephre
Rating: G
Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern
Characters: Masterweaver Calandra and gold Vashti
Notes: Portrait of a character I played for years on Dragonsfire MOO.



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Anne McCaffrey has died. It's a sad day for the science fiction and fantasy community. She was a powerhouse of the genre, helping to pave the way for generations of women creators after her. She also created some very popular worlds, including the Dragonriders of Pern.

I started playing Pern rpgs online in MOOs in 1997, when I was in college. Through those games, I met some of my closest friends, friends I now consider family. I cannot thank Anne enough for not only creating that world, but for encouraging people to populate it themselves, through rpgs like I played, or cosplay.

I probably can't finish these tonight, but since I was in a Pern mood, reminiscing, I went back and looked at some old log files, and sketched the first two characters I played at Dragonsfire MOO.

( Calandra, a Weaver of Pern, with her gold firelizard, Vashti )

( Zephre, rider of green Miyoth )

I played some other great characters, some of whom I've already drawn. Perhaps one day I'll have a whole portfolio of alter egos from Pern.

Seriously, Dragonsfire MOO people (you know who you are), I am so so so thankful everyday to have you in my life, even long-distance. You've all made a big difference, and I'm really happy that we all liked Anne's world so much we tried to live in it.

Fly high and free, Anne. Thanks.

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Title: Size Matters Not
Artist: zephre
Rating: G
Fandom: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, if anything
Characters: A couple of awesome gnomes
Notes: There was a prompt on an art community to create characters that were AD&D style non-humans in modern world jobs. I decided to make a couple of gnomes into cute, punkish, tattooed Vespa mechanics. Because that would be totally awesome. (Thus the apparent weird scale issues. For a size chart of AD&D character races, see here (site warns for nudity).)


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So I finally watched Jane Eyre, the film with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. I have had a shit week, and today was especially full of things going wrong, so it was lovely to relax with dinner and wine and this movie.

And then I made art, in the moment after the movie when this scene was just stuck in my head.

Title: Don't Go, Jane
Artist: zephre
Rating: G
Fandom: Jane Eyre, 2011 film and book
Characters: Jane, Mr. Rochester


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