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anghraine tagged me in a 5 favourite characters poll, and I thought it would be fun to crosspost at tumblr and dreamwidth and compare.


These are not the same as my top 5 characters for fic or fanart, just the first 5 I thought of that make me go ahhhhhhh my faaaaave, limiting myself to one per canon. If it was 6 I'd have included Toph Beifong.

Tumblr version

I'm very happy with my original works so they're above the cut!


Feathered Dinosaurs


Fire Pigs

I also drew a rather gory original picture I won't post a preview for.

( Yuri on Ice, Dragon Age, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Hatoful Boyfriend, Rogue One, MCU and DC, Mass Effect/Homestuck )

My tl;dr review: this is a profoundly mediocre game that I mostly enjoyed. I wanted a mostly upbeat game where I got to play a queer woman exploring planets, shooting bad guys, and and kissing cute girl aliens, and that's what I got. If there were any other games that let me do all that I might have been more dissappointed with the quality of the experience, but there basically aren't, so. Also I had a health downswing so bad I'd normally have to lie in bed playing hidden object games for a week, which made the drawn out, simplistic nature of the game kind of a plus. My enjoyment fell pretty drastically once I got better haha.

Many people have gone into the game's flaws, and they are all absolutely correct! So I'm going to use them to structure my review. The reasons these flaws didn't ruin the game for me are all very subjective, this is definitely not a game for everyone.

I'm assuming you've played a Mass Effect game before, if you haven't: play one of the other Mass Effect games instead. They are all much better games. This game is for people who have run out of good Mass Effect games and want more badly enough to lower their standards.
( No major spoilers )

Sewing!??:
Finally cleared off some space for my sewing machine and started on some of the projects that have been sadly staring at me from boxes for 2 years. Specifically, a waistcoat and a science dress. Neither turned out perfectly but I achieved my goals.

Meme:

Art vs Artist
( And now we return you to your regularly scheduled fanart. And some fanfic and even a filk! Including Original works, Dragon Age, Star Wars, Voltron, Ghostbusters, Mass Effect, Guardians of the Galaxy, King Arthur, Pride and Prejudice, Homestuck, Avatar the Last Airbender, Long Live The Queen, Stardew Valley, Babylon 5, Discworld/Buffy, .hack//sign, Parhelion. )

Phew! Left it a bit long this time! Image descriptions for art at each link.

So fred_mouse asked me to write about my headcanons for romances I've played and I was so UTTERLY BAFFLED by the idea that anyone actually enjoys me talking about this kind of thing I stalled for like a month.

So I'm just going to go through relationships my PCs have had and see if I have anything to say about each.
( Read more... )

Wrote some semi original fiction omg! One for the Jukebox "write a story about a song" exchange, another for a writing meme I made up myself. Also did some art for that limited palette meme that's been going around tumblr, which was super fun.

Spare Change (1393 words), The Man Who Sold the World, Teen And Up, Horror, Fantasy, Original Fiction, Fanfiction, Inspired by Music, Genderqueer Character
Summary:Two friends meet by chance long after both have died.

The Most Talked About Night Of The Season (5355 words) G, No Warnings, Fantasy, Regency, Happy Ending, Fae & Fairies, Non-Graphic Violence
Summary: Maisie was in no mood for a ball. She always felt like a fool in formal wear. The ball was full of Pixies and Slyphs looking lovely in ensembles much like hers, but delicate ringlets and a ruffled dress were far less flattering on a seven foot tall Lob covered in hair.

A colouring tutorial

Literally every comment on Spare Change has used the word "creepy" :D On one hand I'm quite happy with the story, on the other hand want to stop thinking about it so I can GET THAT SONG OUT OF MY HEAD.

And now....art!
( Edward Scissorhands, Iron Man,Bastion, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fresh Pretty Cure )

Feeling tired and grumpy with the after effects of what I think was very mild food poisoning. And it turns out I haven't done one of these since April!

My new fannish infatuation is Welcome to Night Vale, and I actually got like 100 tumblr notes on my comic, which is about 95 more than I usually get (and about 95 more than I got on DeviantArt, it's not a big fandom over there I guess) The Dragon Age reverse bang comes out in a week, I'm quite proud of my art and the story I've seen is lots of fun, but you'll have to wait for that :)

Two original pics I'm especially happy with:


Algebra vs Geometry


Me in green
( Fic! Art! Cosplay! Image descriptions at link )

First: I did some tshirt designs! They came out pretty well, imo, lilysea and I have been wearing them around and gotten lots of positive (or at least interesting...) feedback.

and More Machine than Man

Action shots!

And now, fanfic, including what is basically an argument for why the Doctor could (and imo should) have disabled companions.
( Mass Effect and Doctor Who, Mass Effect, Dragon Age Origins, The Royal Trap )

Having drawn Fenris in the style of Klee and an AT-AT in the style of Escher (to be scanned when I have the energy to walk to the scanner), I need one more "X in the style of Y" for this meme. I want some variety, so not anyone I've already drawn or tend to draw like eg Mucha, Klee, Escher, typical manga. Noone too abstract either :P EDIT: Done!

Went to emma_in_dream's house today and had a lovely time. The day was only marred by me getting the address wrong and spending 15 minutes driving around lost before giving up and ringing lilysea. It made me too tired and jittery to stay as long as I'd have liked, and now I have sunburn in a perfect line around where I applied sunscreen on my arms :/

I visited fred_mouse a little while before that, this whole visiting people thing is great! Must make more plans to visit people in the future.

I've been playing Mass Effect 2 with my renegadey femShep Sal, it's been such fun. She tends to make the relatively moral choice on big questions like killing Wrex but is quite happy to murder individuals who get in her way. I've been taking Jack and Kasumi, they have fun dialogue and do their cool glowing/sneaking thing while I hide in the shadows and snipe. I'm not too fussed about romance at this stage, I just finished Horizon and while pissed at Kaidan she's only very slightly heartbroken, I'll probably end up flirting with Jacob then dump him for Garrus (THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR CHEATING) but the only character she finds very attractive is Miranda of all people. I have trouble imaging her choosing anything but destroy in ME3 but we'll see. I actually HAVEN'T USED ANY CHEATS so far. (Yes, on easy, hush)

Still playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, too. It's pretty good! The combat isn't very exciting but the world is huge and engaging and some of the problems can be solved with maths :D I learned a MASSIVE spoiler about my character which has actually made the game a little more interesting and I'm curious to see how it all plays out. The universe feels bigger than the Mass Effect universe somehow.

Octopus Dress at deviantART Octopus Dress at tumblr

( Monster girls, fanart for Portal 2, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect )