erin_c_1978

This is a screenshot of Haruka Kaminogi, from the anime Noein.

This is Haruka Kamipony, in the style of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

I created this using Photoshop's vector tools. NOT recommended if you have access to better vector drawing software.

Another Noein fanfic.

Title: Shattered
Fandom: Noein
Word Count: ~1450
Characters: Karasu, Haruka
Genre: hurt/comfort, angst, friendship
Rating: PG-13 (flashbacks to violence)

Summary: Picking up the pieces. Once again, thanks to thecert/certs_up for the beta and moral support!

On AO3 / DW / LJ / FF.net

1) Secretariat, both the horse and the movie. Everyone knows how the story turns out, but I still had tears in my eyes at the end. What a magnificent horse -- a magnificent ATHLETE. I haven't added to the collection of Breyer horses standing atop my bookshelves since high school, but now I feel like I kind of need a Secretariat model.

2) This all-natural spray-on mosquito repellent I've been getting from the beeswax guy at our local farmers market. It doesn't just not reek and feel awful on my skin like some of the commercial products; it actively smells nice, kind of lemony, and doesn't cling at all, later. And most importantly, it seems to work just as well!

3) Washable cloth maxi pads from Lunapads and Fuzzibunz. (Another thing that is awesome: the name "Fuzzibunz".) They have taken chafing off the list of things I hate about my period, the "overnight" size Lunapads give me better coverage than any disposable pad I've tried, in the long run they're saving me money, and unless I'm traveling, I don't have to worry about not having restocked my supply.

I'm trying to puzzle out what on earth I could have gotten into my hair that a thorough shampooing hasn't gotten rid of. I've got at least three separate stuck-together locks of hair on the back of my head, and whenever I try to get hold of a bit of what's sticking them together to figure out what it is, I just succeed in pulling out more of my hair. My brush just catches on the sticky bits. This shit, whatever it is, is really, REALLY sticky.

So let's see:

* I haven't been crafting or otherwise using glue or craft adhesive.
* I haven't been chewing gum.
* I have been working with artists tape, which isn't that sticky anyway.
* I pulled a sticker off my new portfolio, but 1) it wasn't that sticky, and 2) I don't remember it catching in my hair.
* I could theoretically have been crapped on by a bird while I was out walking, but 1) in my experience, I notice the splat and 2) bird crap doesn't act like this.
* A possibility that just occurred to me -- tree sap? We do have a lot of broken branches down after the storm, so it's not beyond the realm of possibilities that one of the many broken-off branch stumps leaked sap onto me.

Whatever it is, I hope it washes out tomorrow night. *grump*

From several recent walks.

( photos ahoy )

I finally managed to go through all the blurry pictures I took of my finished (and hung, finally!) wall art to dig out the ones that were something resembling clear. And here they are!

The full effect (I should clarify that the wall scroll on the right side of the full-wall photo is NOT my own work):


Wall Art -- Full Effect by ~erin-c-1978 on deviantART

( Some closer views )

I started a botanical drawing tonight that is actually, finally, going well. It's admittedly a very small drawing (like 2" x 2"), but it would make me very happy indeed if I manage not to make a hash of it, because every plant drawing I've started over the past two weeks (at the least) has pretty much (sorry) died on the vine. Which has been depressing as hell.

I had to stop tonight because it's getting too dark to see -- it's a tiny sample of a plant called "million bells" from one of my mom's outdoor hanging baskets, and those don't come inside unless you want all sorts of insect life to come in with them -- but I'm holding out hope that tomorrow night I'll be able to finish it off to my satisfaction. Please, universe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdmd5fenroU

I love how the first kitty is startled anew with each tick, while the second kitty is just mesmerized.

( vague spoilers for the ending of Katanagatari )

Am bummed that we couldn't see Occult Academy because Mike brought the wrong episode, but I'm really starting to like Gosick (what a name). I had a nice conversation with both Mike (our club pres), and Mary (the only other woman at anime club), which was both nice in and of itself and something of a confidence booster.

Summaries of the aforementioned anime:

• In Katanagatari, the shogun's strategist (can't recall the precise time period) searches out the heir to the swordless school of swordfighting to help her seek out the lost Deviant Blades of master swordsmith Shikizaki Kiki, but all is not as it seems. Beautiful computer-enhanced animation that's NOT 3-D, but has a bit of a paper cut-out effect.
• Occult Academy is about an academy of the occult run by its deceased headmaster's daughter, a tsundere who is trying to stop doomsday with a time-traveling twerp. It's really silly, really nicely animated (Studio Bones, I think), and I've gotten very fond indeed of the cast, even Bunmei, the aforementioned time-traveling twerp.
• Gosick takes place in 1924 at a boarding school in the made-up European country of Sauville, in which a young Japanese exchange student whose classmates think he's the grim reaper or something meets the "Golden Fairy of the Library", a young girl locked on the top floor who is basically Sherlock Holmes. I didn't think I'd like this, but it's turning out to be enjoyable, and I quite like its art nouveau sensibilities.

At Willowbrook Nature Center, I took some photos of the critters in care.

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