TITLE: Max Mix Minimum
ARTIST: Echi5ya
RATING: PG-13
PAGES: 74

These scans are RAW...meaning they need a loving translator, who I'm looking for. If you're able to help, please let me know. I'm willing to pay for translations.

- Rachel

- Inu-Ears and Darkchibishadow made a TJ and Amal club over at DeviantArt! That was a very nice surprise this morning.

- I think my friendslist is seeping into my subconscious - a couple days ago, I dreamed I had to cook a chicken dish for a potluck at notrafficlights' place (it had some sort of thyme cream sauce), and last night I dreamed dmarling was renting our guest room (and was checking his mohawk in the bathroom mirror).

Brett and I are heading out to Georgia for Thanksgiving - I'll likely have no internets until the 1st or 2nd of December, so if you need to make sure I read something, either e-mail me (I'll read it when I get home) or if it's time-sensitive, send a direct message to my "tjandamal" account on Twitter (it'll transfer to my phone).

Everyone have a good weekend. Retail folks, I am sending you good vibes and telepathic bourbon.

Not much progress on the comic this weekend. My computer got mumps or rubella or something on Saturday and decided to start running super-slow; Sunday, I had a bad reaction to some medication and couldn't focus my eyes or my brain, so overall, a pretty big pile of nothin'.

Still kinda woozy today. Not much to say.

Lol hey guys anybody else remember this

uStreaming 9ish, 9:30ish, probably. It's been a weird day.

Should it be taking DropBox 30 hours to upload 4.5GB of Photoshop files?

I know it's a big load, but the wait seems excessive.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/let-s-try-this-thing-out

uStreaming in about 15 minutes (22:10 CDT). I can't concentrate on paper-drawing tonight, so digital work it is.

Rainy, chilly day. Got soaked on the way into work. The veggies are loving it, though.

Miscellany:
- A nerdy Firefox easter egg of sorts. Hee!

- hamlet_machine's Starfighter now available in full color print!

- Clients From Hell. This is a big part of why I didn't actively pursue larger freelance work. I've also gotten this one at two of my fulltime jobs.

Back to grinding away at Final Fantasy IV. I do not like moon critters :I

Winter is finally settling in, and that means STEW and CURRY and STOUT BEER. Hoorah! On that last front, sadly, the Left Hand Imperial (my favorite stout) isn't as good as I remembered it. We've got a bomber of Avery Czar Imperial Stout in the fridge, but it's 10.8% ABV, so I'm not tackling it alone... or if I must do so (read: if Brett doesn't like it), not tackling it in less than 2 hours. I wish some of these would come in 12 or 16 oz. sizes rather than only 22 or 24. Mmmm stouty stout stout beer with a bowl of stew and a hunk of bread, num num num~

Will likely be doing late evening uStreams this weekend.

ETA: OMG YOU GUYS THE AVERY IS SOOO GOOD
It's like, solid black with gorgeous khaki head, with the perfect balance of chocolate, smoke, coffee, and even a little fruit nectar. NUMMM.

It's been a wringer of a day, so how about a little uStream action

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/let-s-try-this-thing-out

I posted a preview of Spider Sign up on the doujinshi community. Hope you all enjoy it. Tell me what you think of the preview. I would have had MANY posted by now, but my translator baled on the project. I need a translator. If you can help, please say so. :)

Go here for the preview: bebopdoujinshi

- Rachel

These are little ficlets I've had in Notepad for months; I know they're not going to grow or go anywhere, so here they are - a peek into TJ's life from other angles.

( Yusef )

( Michael )

( Kazuo )

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Uhm, images...
- Yusef's info sheet
- TJ and Michael in 2008 (all the sketches of Mike in his lawyering days or with Norm are too messy to bother scanning)
- Kazuo is down in the middle of this one, to the right

none of these guys even show up in the book why do i do this to myself

There's a few things i've been curious about lately,so hopefully some of you can help with that.

1. Do you think Spike ever had feelings for Faye other than that brotherly/sisterly love?

2. This is probably a silly question and, i know its quite obvious that Spike loved Julia but, was it ever really mentioned that she loved him back?

- Going to the doctor today for my first general physical since the layoff in 2007. [Insert thoughtful and generally upbeat post about body acceptance here; no time to write it.]

- Nnnnnmmmm the weather is SO BEAUTIFUL this week. Highs in the lower 60's, upper 30's/lower 40's at night. Sunny. Windy.

- Anybody want a cucumber? Our vine is giving us more than we can eat.

- Brett's birthday was yesterday. We celebrated by cooking together. It seems like such a small thing, but I get so much happiness out of it. (Oh, and anybody want some butternut squash pie? Our vine... you get the picture. It made for two pies. And that's terrible.)

- Backstory/side-character ficbits coming later tonight if I remember to turn on my laptop.

This has got to be one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had. Not sure I'm getting all the parts in order, exactly.

I was playing an old PS2 game I had bought used. I can't remember the title, but it started with a W. The game had a very cutesy anime look -- very close to chibi, but not quite -- and lots of cutscenes, but was very short. Actually, I think the part I played was just one "chapter" or whatever. Anyway, it had Holmes and Watson in it (yes, as adorable chibis). I was playing an original character who was the main character in the game, but I guess I lived with them at Baker Street (except that "Baker Street" looked just like Southland Mall in Portage.) I don't remember the complete details, except that there was some kind of mystery at my old high school, and that I was kind of in love with Holmes, but so was Watson, so I sorta helped hook them up even though it made me feel a little sad. (Picture an anime-style chibi Watson in a bowler hat. Is that not the cutest thing ever? XD )

Then I dreamt I was playing World of Warcraft and was on this quest to destroy these orc warlords. Their names were Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda. Even though they were both burly manly orcs. Wha? Anyway, I had to kill them and a bunch of their followers, destroy their fortresses, and then build playgrounds where the fortresses used to be.

Then, I was at work, and everyone was asking me if I was going to watch the new Willy Wonka TV movie that was airing that night. Apparently it had Bill Cosby in it. (I think he played Charlie's grandpa, haha.) I did watch it, but it sort of turned into Warcraft again and stopped being anything like Willy Wonka because the "Willy Wonka" character turned into a blood elf and me and some other people were helping him battle demons in front of an apartment complex. I think he'd somehow accidentally summoned the demons, and he was going to run away but ended up coming back to save my life.

Then, I found him riding a hawkstrider around a huge cavernous building on a lake. The lake contained a giant candy monster he had inadvertantly created, but that's not what he was going after: there was a giant chicken in the building. I somehow had a quest to help him defeat the chicken. So I did, and he was really grateful, and then suddenly he embraced me and the screen faded to black. (Implied sex in WoW! Crazy!) After the screen faded back in, I had some buffs that were basically like the Moodlet buffs from Sims 3. It was something about how I felt great
now. XD

The last thing I remember doing in the dream was getting slightly lost trying to walk back from the lake to the apartment complex where I lived. Except that I woke up around then, and then fell back asleep, and was dreaming about doing the Henry Fonda questline over again.

The pages I'm currently working on, over at nanomango

Also: raptorix very graciously screencapped the silliness from last night's uStream, and you can see it here.

ETA: Chicherova Olga, your T-shirts were returned as "unclaimed". Please PM me with an alternate mailing address. (Sorry for posting it here, but I don't have your personal e-mail address or LJ username)

gettin up in dis around 19:30 CDT

ETA: Done! Thanks to everybody who came - it was fun doing that little vignette at the end; gotta try that again. It made me write on the fly, which I don't usually do.

Title: On a Scale of 1 to 10
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Characters: Spike, Faye, Ed
Rating: PG
Summary: Sometimes they talk. Sometimes they are quiet. Sometimes, only one is quiet. Edward listens to Spike and Faye.


"Never say I didn’t try to help," Spike said, and then fell silent. The deep throbbing agony in his arm was as good a reason as any to let the subject go and keep quiet.

THAT'S IT, THE NEXT RESTAURANT THE BOYS GO TO WILL HAVE NOTHING ON THE WALLS

but then again i did just get to doodle an autographed headshot of burt reynolds

eta: tonight's ustream will be around 7:30