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A letter to my children on the eve of my 35th birthday
Dear Harrison and Colin,
While I was working today, I watched "Deep Impact" on Netflix. It's not what one would call a good movie, per se; movies in which all mankind is threatened by a fast moving space rock on a collision course with Earth tend to be categorically terrible due to overly earnest dialogue, bad science, and repetitive deus ex ( Read more... ) -
"Narratives, Neophytes, and the Language of Division" (or: "How Labels Make Us All Awful People")
My scholarly writing hasn't gotten much of a workout in a long while, so warnings in advance if this is a little clunky ( Read more... ) -
Reunited and it feeeeels so goooooood!
Not quite sure how to introduce this without writing a novel and keymashing about half of it. So I'm counting on your curiosity. :)
Click:
In which Reallycorking and Mudblood428 reunite to make H/G art.
Also, hp_reunion. See you there!
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Seven Years Ago Today.
Seven years ago today, I was volunteering as a face painter at my favorite Borders bookstore - the one that had given me a spot in their cafe to draw every weekend and rewarded my attempts at artistic legitimacy by hosting my very first (and only) art show featuring my Harry Potter artwork. It was the midnight release party for Harry Potter and the ( Read more... ) -
Setbacks and such.
First off, thank you so much to the following people who backed the Starflyer John Jackson Kickstarter Campaign: lunalovepotter, major_dallas, geezer_also, elka78, lewlinx, hedwig5221, star54kar, lnalvgd, yaaronet, Pili204 and other friends and family on Facebook (whose LJ handles either elude me or do not exist). I am so truly touched by your outpouring of support ( Read more... ) -
More about Starflyer John Jackson
A couple nights ago, I dropped a bit of info about an upcoming illustration project I'm hopefully going to embark on this summer. It's a children's book called "Starflyer John Jackson" - a picture book about a very special pilot (special, because he's five years old) and his adventures around the universe with his crew as they travel to distant ( Read more... ) -
It's the night before my 33rd birthday...
...and I don't need anything. No presents. No cake. I have everything I could possibly want. This makes me both nervous (as though the universe has some unhappy tricks in store, so I'd better enjoy this while it lasts), and incredulous, because it feels a little like winning the lottery after so many years of beginning private entries with the ( Read more... )
