Ever Bethany

Kami-no Yo by kunoichi-san

fabricalchemist has already commented on this
("....Those colors are very you")

but I still want to show it off. It feels like a place where things happen--but they aren't happening yet. And the figure is transient, much more so than the lantern, as well as the trees. I start wondering who else has been there, who might come later...

Beauty and the Beast by IriusAbellatrix
saw this per charismitaine, but on Tumblr and from there it's even more complicated, because her friend reblogged it from Sarah Cross's Fairy Tale Mood blog.

While I don't like being conditioned about certain fairy tales by Disney, the monster composite they came up with always seems the most right to me. This one deviates just enough to be fun without being distracting to me...

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I dropped by the chat room on the neo-pro writers forum I'm part of, and found people there! This was oddly exciting and revitalizing to me, just chatting nonsense with the people there.

Of course, it's October, and I'm just pumped in general. Heh.

28. Cold weather day -- Go out and play and take a picture of you all bundled up.



29. What makes you happy!

siblings? Bekah's playing Indiana Jones...

30. Take a picture of your Thanksgiving -- what are you thankful for?



I'm thankful that we get to have Christmas, and that at the darkest point of the year we celebrate with lights.
I just put those up--they're kind of garish LED net-lights, but accessories to the band equipment in the Living Room is the PERFECT fate for them. ^_^

25. What's your favorite piece of art? Top three! Google time!

Right now, it's this photograph, in the running for the Natl. Geo photography contest. It's not the most striking as far as art goes, but when I look at it, I feel myself begin to breathe again--as if I've gotten back home. As if the rain were on my own skin, in the warm typhoon season. (I'm not able/not trying to hotlink it, but it's really worth seeing!)


Another is Spirited Away. The images themselves are my favorites from film, especially this scene, though it may not be my favorite film as far as story. That's something I haven't tried to decide on...



I almost put Waterhouse next here, because I adore his use of colors and open spaces in his backgrounds, but THEN I remembered the only classic portrait artist I have geeked out over.

John Singer Sargent.

His ability to paint personalities, rather than just people, is astounding. Seeing his work at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this spring was a revelation to me...



Even children he captured as living beings with expressions all their own and interesting thoughts in their heads.
This was rare for his time, and is still pretty rare in any given art form.

Was finishing reading aloud Letters to My Nemesis with my sister when I discovered I never finished typing it in! I hadn't reread over the last pages, in result, though I clearly remembered the last few lines.

Ahaha, I like this book so much.

47595 is the final word-count, and I'm not sure even the part I want to add in is going to boost it up to a word-count I can round to 50,000...

eta: scene written. 48,000 on the money almost. Yes to rounding, but also yes to "desperate much?"

DAY 23
whatever you wanna post day:



I've actually commenced a Rouen Cathedral project of my own, taking photos of the sky every day if I remember, to work on my skill and just because the clouds are so beautiful here...no doubt I will eventually get bored of it, because who wants to see photos of the sky from an amateur
BUT WAIT
why did I not think of this before? Is this a perfect excuse to get a Tumblr account or what's the story?
I heart new blog-things. X]

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there was something else I just know it.

But maybe that was K-drama blogging?

This is my Google-Game, Sherlock edition for dear fabricalchemist 



I so love action scenes like this now I've taken care of my anxiety with the essential oils XD

19. Show us a shot of nature where you are



This is my very favoritest tree on our land. Not an ancient willow, by any means, but decidedly middle-age. A bit battle-scarred, from serious trimmings, but that's part of his charm...

17. COSTUME DAY! Dress up as anything (bonus points if you wear it all day)

HELLO COPOUT

but today I wasn't in the mood, and I dressed up only 5 days ago...
Half-birthday tradition!
Since half-birthdays are not holidays anyone else celebrates I get to do it however I want. I always try to wear a costume, usually because I've missed Halloween, and eat something tasty, because I am a Hobbit.

I haven't done a drama post in a while, I've been thinking about some, but maybe I can work one in at the bottom here... (see second point for details)

13. What are you working on? Reading a book? Making something? POST PROGRESS SHOTS

I'm making a Harry Potter yarn, on my spindle for once, just for novelty:



It's themed on the Dark Mark, the Death Eater insignia they put up in the sky with green stars. I never learn my lesson about working with black BECAUSE IT IS SO PRETTY, but this is going to be a pain to photograph, if you were curious. T_T Much pain.



14. Who do you have a crush on? We promise not to tell -- post some hotness today!

Like we need a special day to hear me admiring some random crush of mine. :scoff: But I don't think I've posted much about this one:



Mike He, Taiwanese drama star!
He's the hero in about half the Taiwanese drama's I've *really* liked (so far). I am not qualified to comment on acting, but he's extremely watchable. I believe him as characters who cause trouble, but inside are really nice, which is a rare combination, really.
His adorable smile goes a long way toward that...I'd show you, but apparently in English searches we only have him looking *intense* or something. Maybe he only smiles in action, and not for photographs?

He and I have the same affliction--the only difference between us is he makes a killing off of not looking his age.
I just get treated very kindly.



(I can see for myself I do *not* look 22 in this picture. Tho' the swing helps. Photo courtesy my Panamanian exchange sister Sofia...)




I don't actually have a crush on Mike He himself, strictly, more on the characters he plays, like Ahmon in the Taiwanese version of Akuma De Sorou (Devil Beside You).

Unlike Alan Rickman, who only got about 5 minutes of screentime in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but managed to make my little heart go pitter-patter with the way he flicked back his sleeves during the study hall scene. How does he manage to make Snape so...classy? It's ridiculous.



...this post is all over the place. Rather than edit it I will just POST IT BEFORE THE WHOLE INTERNET bwahaha.

11. Moustache day



I have a couple more, which may be cuter, but unfortunately I had to cut off Photobucket before it loaded them. I was LEAVING. Alas, perhaps later. Under a cut.

12. Take a picture of your favorite food and drink (or restaurant)

Likewise, didn't load 'em. PFFFT. However: apple crisp and coffee. What else?



Now I have to go write a poem.