( Just me being a boring, whiney Ranty McRantsworth. Names and things are irking me. And yes, YOU KNOW why... )

So... I guess it all boils down to "I'm throwing my toys out of the pram because the powers that be have decided to name a popular character by a very common, well-known word that I just happen to have used to name an older OC of mine, and I'm just a stroppy, opinionated, retarded fan with an overblown opinion of her writing, and it's not really a big deal anyway because it's not like they're going to CHANGE it, but I wanted to rant about it! So I have!"

*rar rar boring stressy noises*

Edit: Wow, that turned out longer than I thought it would.

Uuuugh I hate you IE.

Now, don't all faint at once (I don't have enough soft landings for you), but I was trying to do some work on my website. I'm crap at websites, and I do ALL my coding in Notepad, but I mostly understand the code I'm using (at least, know how to edit it, even if I can't write it), so it's never been much of an issue. Until IE refuses to do something, and I can't work out WHY. *raeg*

I had two pages that were identical - and I mean identical, all the coding on page 2 was exactly the same as on page 1 as I'd literally just copied it and renamed it - and on the original version? No problemo. The links all worked, were fine, etc.

On the second one? No dice. I could click them all I liked, it'd just... ignore that they were supposed to be links, and laugh at me.

Needless to say, both worked fine in Firefox.

*headdesk*

I'll go reply to LJ comments and things in a bit. I need to feed my brain, cuz it tiiiired.

Lots and lots of art under here. I had a scanning spree!

( Dumping in progress! I'll make this entry more coherent once I'm done uploading, I just need a link for devART. Warning: THIS WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR MY NANO! )

Title (chapter): Warped (25)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And finally, here we are in Amarna. And what's that you say? STILL no desert hugs? Aw, darn. Maybe next time!
Notes: I think little Seemy is going to have made himself a bit of an enemy-for-life, here. :shifty eyes:

Thank you all again for your reviews. :) Sorry it's got slow between updates, again - but I promise not to drop the ball! ;)

Sorry Ex. Still no desert hugs! I ran out of room. Next one, I promise! ;)

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-five )

Evening Star article about the storminess!
(And from the BBC News)

In all honesty, it was quite exciting. :D I have some nice photos of the cloudiness to upload later, and I had another go at photographing the lightning. Ye-ess. ¬_¬

ANNND THE BILLYWITCHES HAVE ARRIVED AUGH

I was watching out of my window the other night going "hmm those seagulls are going a bit crazy" and realised that yes, the trees were full of billywitches flying about. Yick.

Once again I have a selection of random plants (and I have NO IDEA what they are) growing in my tubs on my balcony wall - I'm letting them flower to see what they are. I think they're some sort of cultivated perennial, not a weed, because they seem to have come up in the middle of the lavender plants I bought as seedlings.

You know it's a British summer when the first severe weather warning of the year is the week before Wimbledon. ¬_¬ And now it's thundering. Gragh.

Oh well. Maybe it'll actually RAIN this time.

Edit@18:56
Whoa crap sky is green. And lightningy. See yous later! :(

Just some quotes I want to squiggle down on some of my art :) Some are Lara's, some Seem's, one is Wen's (but I already put that one up on a previous entry, slightly reworded) I want to find a couple for the others too (essentially: Mirii, Fred, Firewire).

Slipstream
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
“There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.”

Celerity
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."
Tony Robbins
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
Jack Welch
"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."
Ogden Nash

Wen
"What counts is not what we are made of, but what we choose to make of ourselves."

Firewire
"I learned so much from my mistakes, I'm thinking of making a few more."

O_O

Thunder!

Edit@18:16
Thunder is gone. We now have suuuunshine :)

I'm glad we had some rain, though. It pleases my plantbabies on the balcony. And! I was out there in the rain at 6:30 am, picking rocket to go in my sandwiches for lunch. X) The beans are growing merrily as well, so I can pretend I'm self-sufficient! I need some sticks for the tomatoes, though. And (I know it's not edible, BUT) I can see flowers on the clematis. Woo! The tree out the front has been eaten to buggery by a plague of caterpillars again, though - last year I didn't really notice them until "whoa where's all the leaves gone, and whoa, why's there a million billion caterpillars running around on the pavement?"

Now to go play more with my tablet. I've had the thing for about 2 years, but only actually installed it yesterday/day before. ¬_¬ I had a cheapo nasty Serif thing since Uni, which wasn't the greatest quality (and I was always losing the stylus), but I want to practice with creating art purely digitally, not be restricted just to real media.

...well, once Windoze has finished buggering about. It wants to automatically update, which always ALWAYS crashes the machine. Stupid thing.

Edit@19:13
Spoke too soon! That beautiful blue sky outside? There's a veeeeery black patch rolling in from the south. ¬_¬ So I think we might yet have a storm. Gonna offline again and maybe do some art instead.

Unrelated, but I wish "tizharpn" and "hutral" would stop keep adding one of my accounts on here (the one I don't use much with just my website updates on it) as a friend. They add, un-add, add, un-add, add, un-add, about once a week. Just... make up your mind, already. Look kinda like a spambot, but... ehhhh. MAKES ME GRUMPY. ¬_¬

OK getting darkish, storm coming. Off I go.

NaNoWriMo 2009
Adverse Camber
Robots and aliens and monsters, oh my!

“We are not what we are made of, but what we choose to make of ourselves.”
                                             ~ Wen
( Plotty bumpf )

*is lolling*

I was flicking back over some of my old references for things (I'm cleaning all the crud off my HD, but there's a few things I'm saving to CD) and I found this pic, from before Lara took over my brain and said she wanted a bigger role than just a voice in the background. This is what my brain said she used to look like, pre-promotion:
Inspector Celerity

*lol* Yeah, dream on, girl.

Title (chapter): Warped (24)
Series: Transformers, G1-based (“Blue” AU)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And we're off to Egypt!
Notes: Thank you again to my reviewers. :) Sorry I'm making you wait so long between these things, I seem to end up doing about nine things at once these days and keep going off-track. :hrms: I did have a smidge more for this chapter (and I wanted to give TC some more airtime) but I found a good place to stop it. Hopefully that means it won't take so long to get the next chapter up.

Anyway. Hope this chapter is a bit better, even if it is another "talker". :shifty eyes:

( ‘‘Warped’’, Chapter Twenty-four )

SILLY DOODLES

( Telluvia! Art under cut )
This is Telluvia - more specifically, Telluvia One, T. Two is the "moon" - although it's actually a binary system, and the "moon" is only fractionally smaller than the "planet". It's a planet that did have a small but global native population; the natives have been boxed away into the south of the primary continent, and can't/won't cross the volcanic zone because they're superstitious and see it as like the gateway to the underworld. The "colonised" areas are occupied by a huge variety of different species; Telluvia markets itself as the galaxy's entertainment hotspot, the number one place for the fashion-conscious up-and-coming young superstars, a planet where anything goes and so long as you have the money, you can buy pretty much whatever you want.

"You'll love us so much, you'll never leave!" (And yeah, that slogan's intentionally a bit creepy.)

Stupid on-call. -_- To start with it was busy as heck in the dispensary all day. And now Somersham ward just called, they want "Nutriflex Peri 1875 PLUS". I have no idea wtf this is. :\ I've checked the PRS, no dice. The OOH TPN sheet just mentions "Nutriflex Peri". I didn't even know this stuff EXISTED. So I'm going to have to beg Penny AGAIN for information on what the heck "Nutriflex Peri Plus" is. :\

Typical bank holiday. *headdesk* And I'm STILL coughing.

Edit: Oh! And Pabishka's changed a bit. She's part of a tri-gendered species, and she's a "high female" (who make up the bulk of the ruling class). Yeah, I swiped the idea a bit from some published sci-fi (...which I have NO IDEA where, I just heard "three genders" and went "ooh I try" and forgot the author. ¬_¬) , but eh. We'll see if I can get it to work.

Just a quick thing to mention before I forget it:
Volcanoes (like Erta Ale (Ethiopia) or Mauna Loa (Hawai'i) ) have been added to the geography of NaNoWorld.

- Yes, I know they'd be present on any seismically active world; I mean this in a "they're now part of the storyline" kind of way. They're part of the reason the natives won't cross the desert; there's a line of mountains blocking the way, and the only "clear" path through is the "entrance to {Hell}". I'll draw it up in a bit.

So, because she wanted to join TC's bandwagon, Sad'lerity had a bad dream, and told me to write it down so she can emo over it. :P (Although this might be a lie*) All about babies and hospitals and general weirdness.

* - yeah, actually I decided to work it into my NaNo, eventually; it's "cheating" in that I've written it down, but I'm not going to count it towards my word count. So... yeah. ;)

Edit: BAH out of time. I'll upload it later.

Mine owns Jill's :P



*sings DEADLY BRAINBREAKING MELODIIIIES*

Hm, rainbow sparkly. Thinking harder about it... this is Whitesides as a seeker, isn't it?