Ever Bethany

So my dad's filled up a digital photo frame for my grandmother's room, including some, uh, real throwbacks.

"Bethany is so ageless," says mom, "I have to see what stuff is around her to tell when it is."

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I can usually tell by what horrible thing I am doing to my bangs, but I can see her point.

Evidence:


I am about 14 in these.

Yesterday, I went to a gun show, played Lego Indiana Jones with a Nintendo-style controller (a first ever), beat the level, and made chicken stock.

Today just couldn't win with that kind of competition...

Day 27 of the Month of Images was next, many moons ago, and demands a glamor shot. My favorite is still this one I took of myself while traveling in Panama with my exchange sister:



Tonight I watched The Order of the Phoenix, which I actually found quite good, especially toward the end.
It was kind of startling at some points, though, when Daniel Radcliffe-as-Harry is holding forth, how much he looks like my brother, in the way he talks. Since they're both short, dark-haired, blue-eyed guys, one wonders... Welsh genes?

The randomness of this is brought to you by the desire to post something without having any burning passion to post a *specific* thing....

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Oh. And I think I need to completely rewrite Vol 5 of Aolon, not just Vol 1. Which, being a NaNo vet, is 50,000 some words long! Sadly, I'm getting the feeling that if every volume, and every 200,000 of the words needed to be gone over to make this book presentable, I would need to do it. The stories in it are too important to me, I tried to give them up but I couldn't shake them...

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.

I would like those of you not on any of my other networking interfaces to meet--Pheonix Spiral. This yarn actually goes from void-black, into ashy tones, to the pearly white of an egg, up into flame and then to the red of a Phoenix–and then after another third of the yarn has passed, it burst back into flame, settling down into smoke and ash, and a black void.

If you click the photo, you will be magically conveyed to a blog post that goes on at too much length for the subject, but can be skipped for the pictures. Your choice.

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.



And for a study in contrasts, here is Bethany, aged barely 14:



Okay, so I'm showing off. I'm on a long-term project to create a file of photos to print out from our digital camera archives of these years, though, and stumble across things that tickle me.
This was one of those Experiences in ForeignLand where it was a blur and a long walk in tzori so I had very gross blisters...and yet, the photos were worth it.
(I was still at the stunned gratification point of being a media event wherever I was.)




Now. very important!
fabricalchemist  has made me a Mr. Poisson picture. Since it's a friends-locked post, I'm hoping it's okay to show you it. Here:

He now has a Facebook, too. (Her version was bigger, so you can click it to see better, I think. The reputed blood on his hands is apparently also a henna job. ^_^)

I know such a picture heavy post should be behind a cut, but...meh. Too many topics, too little motive...