Since my Hobbit coord is so unexpectedly popular I decided to take a swing at an Elvish one. It was definitely harder, but also a fun challenge! I ended up with a coord that I think Arwen would wear for traveling; elegant but practical. Once again, everything is offbrand/thrifted. I hope you like it :)
this is very relevant to my interests
Today In History
‘Dr.Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman astronaut on this date June 5, 1987.’
(photo: Dr.Mae Carol)
-CARTER Magazine
I was looking her up recently because she was in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation directed by LeVar Burton, and Nichelle Nichols visited the set! So awesome. First real astronaut on Star Trek.
swoon
First poster and pictures from new Hayao Miyazaki’s “Kaze Tachinu” animated feature film (Studio Ghibli).
Those mustaches excite me.
christ.
me: Is this too inappropriate to reblog?
Alli: no way.
me: What if I don’t get hired somewhere because they know I looked at boys kissing?
Alli: You don’t want to work for a place like that.
ITS NOT ABOUT THE MEN KISSING ITS ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS THIRD, POSSIBLY FOURTH ARM THAT IT TOOK ME TO FIGURE OUT.
I didn’t even notice that. This just gets better and better!
christ.
me: Is this too inappropriate to reblog?
Alli: no way.
me: What if I don’t get hired somewhere because they know I looked at boys kissing?
Alli: You don’t want to work for a place like that.
Lonely Island and Weird Al for GQ
I never knew I needed this until now. My life is complete.
I’ve forgotten all the words to the original version but I just confirmed that I do indeed remember all the words to “Amish Paradise.”
When I was a wee girl growing up in Lancaster County, PA “Amish Paradise” came out and was a monster hit locally, as you would expect. The song was so popular that the local radio station would play it every half an hour. Once the backlash started, the local “wacky” evening dj went legitimately crazy and locked himself in the booth and played “Amish Paradise” on air for at least 6 hours. Even the local cop who would do the traffic updates on the morning show called in and tried to talk him down. I went to bed and the song was on repeat, and when I woke up the next morning the dj was in jail. That’s my Amish Paradise story, enjoy.
But that bird’s hair
that Amish Paradise story is my favorite story ever probably
hmmmmm
I did a comic called Style for some website that i can’t remember the name of back in maybe 1999-2000. It only lasted for a few weeks and was really bad. I was pretty young.
It was about 3 high school girls. The main character was Lauren Wood and the other two girls were Lisa Miller and Kim Pine. The title “Style” was just meaningless — I was really into this Orbital song called Style, and I liked the word. The comic wasn’t about fashion, it wasn’t really about anything. I was trying to be just like Paul Pope and my art was very derivative of his work at the time.
A few years later I resurrected the title and characters for 3 really goofy comedy strips on the Oni Press website. I think it was one per month, and those months were November 2002, December 2002 and January 2003.
I did these strips just before starting work on Lost at Sea, but they are more of a precursor to Scott Pilgrim (which I had already been doing notes and sketches for since around March 2002).
Obviously, Kim Pine would be a major Scott Pilgrim character; the high school backdrop became the basis for Scott’s high school memories; and Lisa Miller is involved in the Scott Pilgrim books too. (Lauren became just a cameo in SP.)
In these strips the characters don’t really have much of a personality. Since I only did three, I didn’t develop it very much beyond silly jokes. The third strip was done when I was sick with a cold, so it kinda sucks, but whatever.
There you have it!
