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I forgot to post this up here: The Eye of... well, drugged-out-ness. Done in pastel on red paper. Love colored paper :D

And I FINALLY FINISHED THE FELLOWSHIP. All of my comments are noted in the link, but in short:

*I found myself greatly disliking hobbits.
*Frodo has garnered my deep hate.
*I can't draw chain mail to save my life.
*I really liked Boromir's picture.
*Aragorn is still hawt. Not just hot, but hawt.
*Gandalf was surprisingly easy. Gimli took forever, but wasn't very challenging.
*Merry's photo ref made him look incredibly odd.
*Legolas' lack of looking-like-Orli is made up by the fact that he looks awesome.


On a completely and utterly unrelated note, my Mom and Dad are Made of Awesome. More awesome than you :o :D

I love life. Heart it, even. *nod* Cheerio people! Less than two weeks to the Con!

Good News:

The schedule is up! I'll be looking at it and talking with my friend about it tonight.
Edit: Only Thursday is up right now. The rest will likely come this weekend. San Diego people, expect messages from me around Monday.

Bad News:

The TORn panel is at Thursday at 10:30. The house we're staying out won't be available Wed night. I'm going to have to leave home at 5 am to get there on time. *headdesk* Oh life, why oh why...

... anyone know someone who has a floor to offer for (likely) allinthecookies and I for one night within a 20 mi radius of the convention center? XD

This is brilliant: Everything is amazing, nobody is happy. Hilariously delivered and so true!

Monty Python and Lord of the Rings.

Thank you, oh great deity of humor.

(I don't know why I never saw this before- read it! It helps if you've at least seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail.. but even then it's still hilarious). Best part is is that it's based off both the books and the films- the author is very knowledgeable about both. And there are fun screencaps!

FOTR: http://www.utterpants.co.uk/parody/mplotr/mpfotr.htm
TTT: http://www.utterpants.co.uk/parody/mplotr/mpttt.htm
ROTK: http://www.utterpants.co.uk/parody/mplotr/mprotk.htm


LOTRO (which I started up again after a few month break) has been down for 12 hours. The turmoil on the forums is absolutely hilarious to watch. Some gamers have no lives.


No big news yet on the Hobbit front, but I highly, highly suspect that something will be announced at Comic Con. I'd be surprised if it weren't, frankly put.


My writing muses are dead for the moment. If something happens to them... well, we'll see.

Check out this cartoon I just finished! (PG rating, slight mocking of Twilight, but with complete respect to its fans *bows*).

Like it XD Feel free to link it to others- I'm proud of this one, especially since I couldn't find any other picture parodying the name and this scene xD I also am figuring out how to color better in Photoshop, which is always a plus :D

:does a little boogie:

Still more pictures to complete...

Because I am Lazy, I'm posting links to my art. The links themselves are family friendly (though the site, in general, does allow mature content under a filter).

Jack Sparrow: http://ainulaire.deviantart.com/art/Captain-Jack-125180832

Commission: http://ainulaire.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Violin-124820600

And.. I thought you'd guys would be interested in seeing this, it really cracked me up... I put my two Jack Sparrow pictures up for comparison. One is from 05, the other from 09: http://ainulaire.deviantart.com/art/Kick-Your-Own-Arse-Entry-No-3-125181408

Yea. Wow. 4 years and what it does.

Cheers,
Me

PS. I had a dream. About Obama.

... WHY ARE POLITICS INVADING MY DREAMS?!?! :o I want to dream about Middle-earth again, not politics! >_>

2 months later, a birthday fic for silivren_tinu. Next up... *glances at LJ's birthday thing*. Blah. Two more already! *headdesk* This is totally the last year I do this. I'm terrible at remembering birthdays and actually writing a fic. Granted, it doesn't help that when it comes to writing them I'm usually drawing a blank... my muses are completely useless. *glares at them*.

This uses some 'canon' established in my Tales of Life series. For those unacquainted with it, I made Aragorn and Halbarad close in age and Sarnhold is where the chieftains have resided for many years (and is Halbarad's home, as well).

Unbetaed. Apologies for any mistakes in advance. It's the muses' fault.

( Dum dee doo... )

PETER FRIGGIN JACKSON IS COMING TO THE COMIC CON.

YES.

*bounces around the room in a hyper spin*

First TORn confirmation at the Comic Con, then GDT signing, then offer to display my art at the Comic Con, now THIS. THIS SUMMER IS GONNA KICK ARSE.

Speaking of GDT signing, here is the picture and his signature.

YES!!!!!!

Camp Out in Hall H, here I come... hopefully I can arrange something with the dude who wants to display my art to not coincide with the Peter Jackson panel and the TORn panel. Hopefully TORn will have some private party again this year and PJ will be there.

Mostly copy/pasted from my report on the message boards of TheOneRing.net, only with pictures! Because I can put pics on my LJ, mwuhaha.

My friend allinthecookies (N) and I went down to the Borders in Westwood in Los Angeles for GDT's book signing of The Strain. In case you aren't keeping up with "The Hobbit" news, this is the guy that will be directing it :D

We woke up about 6AM to first go to her school (summer school is fun!) and made it to Westwood a little before 1. They were still giving out priority wristbands for the event which was a relief to the both of us- we were afraid they would all be gone XD We got a bite to eat at a good Italian restaurant down the street and then spent the next few hours hanging around (I tried not to fall asleep; I was really exhausted).

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All in all, an awesome day. I'll scan my drawing (and his cartoon) a bit later, but for now I am going to finish a commission XD

BTW, if you ever get the opportunity, GDT is a very approachable and nice guy- and very much a geek. I hope that I will have the opportunity to meet him again.

Cheers!

I wrote an article about how to not write fiction, but with some focus on fantasy writing. In doing so I took a piece of fiction that is really, really terrible: something I wrote when I was 13 years old.

As can be expected, there is snark, but I hope it is slightly helpful as well as entertaining. Tell all your friends! Oh, and the webpage that it's on is completely worksafe (other parts of the site may not be, but even then you have to turn off the mature filter, so... yea).

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In other news, limited wristbands are involved in the GDT signing. Since TORn didn't keep it a secret (oh darn), we'll see if I get to it on time. I'll be in there about 12:30ish. Wish me luck!

You can be sued!

Gotta love America. So, fellow LJers... from what I understand of the article, some famous people sued 53-year-old Harrington for defamation (basically she was spreading rumors and trying to spice things up). Her computer was subpeoned, and then (perhaps supposedly, depending on who you believe) less than a week after the subpeona, it was stolen. Officer testified that he thought the burglary was set up, and since she did not turn in the computer, was jailed. She will face it again if she doesn't give it up by July 2nd.

The article goes on to say that quite a few people don't realize that they can be sued for what they publish in their blogs (and yea, it would include LJ)- while the majority of bloggers are unprofessional, their work, if available to the masses, is still *published work* in the eyes of the law, and if you word something wrongly, you can be sued for libel. I doubt that this law covers private blogs and emails, but I am not sure- perhaps someone here more law-savvy than I can confirm something.

Edit: Apparently Harrington is being sued as well as more famous names such as Howard Stern by the late Ms Smith's mother. I also checked out the blog and it does receive a fair amount of traffic. And also Harrington seems to know Stern and others more well-known than her on a more personal level than just blogging about them. This, of course, paints a very different light on the whole case, and my opinion below this edit doesn't reflect this knowledge. So I don't think you have to worry too much about saying you don't like someone- just make sure your blog isn't heavily watched and you don't know anyone related to them :P

Anyways, now for the opinion time!

Poll #1409057
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

In the article above, did Harrington deserve to be jailed?

My opinion? Burglary less than a week after a subpeona is a long shot (and frankly put, if I had a subpeona on my laptop I'd first back it up and then turn it in ASAP, not wait O.o), so I am a little hesitant to believing her.

As for sueing for libel, I haven't read the actual content she posted, but unless she was extremely popular with thousands and thousands of readers who took her word for fact, the plaintiff is being... picky. THIS IS OPINION ONLY AND NOT FACT PLEASE DON'T SUE I'M POOR.

What this says for free speech, though, I do worry. Granted, she was jailed because of the missing computer, not the libel itself, so there is little need to jump the gun on worrying about the first amendment. The more common these lawsuits (especially by celebrities, heh) come, though, I wonder if blogging about people will become less prevalent?

On the other hand, if I found a blogger with quite a few 100 hits posting straight-out lies about myself, I would be tempted to sue for libel, as well. With this individual case I cannot say if the celebrities were overreacting or not because I don't know the original content, but I may search it up just for the heck of it. Or wait until someone who is Made of Awesome to do it for me XD

Cheers,
Me

PS. Pretty much OT, but... I don't know what I hate more: those tabloid celebrities, politicians, or when the media treats politicians like tabloid celebrities (let's see what they ATE! Wow, talk about lack of privacy...)

Because I haven't done it in at least a week. No good, eh? *whistles*

First. Writing! Because I have been spending all my writing efforts on Epic Unnamed Story (131 pages and counting...), my Stories of Arda account has been looking bare. So I put stuff up on it.

My assorted short stories and drabbles (nothing longer than 1000 words). A couple you may recognize from LJ from last year. But, well, I just wanted to say that I'm not quite dead... from writing fandom.

My beta (I'm not sure if she wants to be identified so no whistles from me until I get something) has been completely made of awesomesauce with this. This is the first story I have ever had betaed, and it's really a delight. A slightly painful delight, but nonetheless a delight.

And now... a drawing! Colored pencils, to be precise:



Click here for a larger version!

I'm very happy with how the prismacolor pencils worked for me, so rather than mess with digital (yet) I'm going to do my next colored piece in prismacolor. And it will be "The Hobbit" themed.

Pencil wise I'm working on an actual commission (squee), a small drawing of Guillermo del Toro (the director of the Hobbit, and who I'm meeting next week! SQUEE!), another random portrait, and then, then... my ambitious 9-portrait Fellowship drawing. Ahmigah.

But more later. In a mere few hours I'll be meeting with periantari, and I have more stories to tell at a later time. I'm also going to put up some Sini pics in my locked entries (so if you want to see those and for some reason I haven't friended you and you're reading this and have known me for a while, comment :D).

Cheers,
Suvi

PS. Perian, if I'm half asleep when we meet, you know why :P

This was my final for Illustration; draw something of a promotional card (I'd put my info below the hand). It could be of anything, so I went to my beloved portraiture. It was done on illustration board, thus the rough blending. I'm never using illustration board again for pencil, to say the least! I also used some charcoal pencils for the first time in a portrait. For something a bit more accurate on how my blending with normal art paper usually works, see this older portrait of Aragorn.



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Since this is supposed to be promotional... *cough* I'm looking to raise funds for, well, stuff. Mostly travel and studying abroad funds, because when I do study abroad I'll need to eat :)

At the advice of my awesome art professor, I charge about $15 per hour, and how long the piece takes completely depends on size and the amount of detail. They usually vary between 4 to 10 hours- and you would not be charged for the time I work on a piece that I end up starting over on ;) Any piece over $100 comes with free shipping in the continental US; for overseas shipping it will vary by case. I would use something reliable, like FedEx or UPS, and each piece would come with shipping insurance and you'd be told the tracking number and whatnot. You would receive an estimate amount of time the piece should take before I begin so we can agree on a price beforehand.

I work best in pencil and charcoal, but I also know how to use colored pencil and pastel (though those would take longer than pencil). My painting skills are mediocre at best, but if you insist I can do paintings in inkwash and watercolor.

If anyone is interested (or knows someone who is interested) in a portrait of a loved one, a celebrity, their cute pet, their awesome house, or anything of the sort that comes with a reference picture, please contact me.

Public, because I'd like everyone to know that I am completely out of my mind.

12 PM, Sunday: I wake up from a dream concerning odd beings that I cannot recall at this moment. I realize that this lingering cold-allergies-nasty stuff well, lingers still. Fall to despair. Push despair away by procrastinating on the internet.

2 PM: I realize that I have wasted at least two hours doing nothing productive on the internet. I argue with myself that chatting on forum boards and LJ is very productive. Slap that self away and fall to despair. Cleanse despair with Envigorating Shower (TM).

3 PM: Time is passing quickly and I have a ridiculous amount of work to do; it's finals crunch time. I wear a skirt at Sini's request and spend the next hour digging through Legos for lego people. Quest ends in failure.

4 PM: Remember it's Mother's Day and leave my room to seek out Mother. She is in predictable spot: Living room, couch. I do daughterful greetings and explain my quest concerning lego people to Mother. She does not quite understand what lego people have to do with art, but allows me to continue my quest.

4:30: It is about this time that I am side-tracked from the quest on a tale most hideous. Gnash teeth and ask Aragorn to borrow sword. He just looked at me. I realize that he is a cardboard cut out. Despair.

5 PM: Go on the long, mile and half journey to Target. Sini begs to come. The Lord of the Home requests I do. I cannot refuse, despite the perils we may face on this perilous journey of peril.

6 PM: Learn that "Target" does not mean "target practice on the customers". Am happy that Sini will not witness her older sister's tragic death. Buy lego people. To utter delight, find "Apples to Apples", the most magical, wonderful game on the planet. Buy without hesitation.

7 PM: We come home in time for dinner. Mother's Day steak. I thank the cow that so bravely sacrificed itself for our meal and eat more than I should. Was necessary; all parts of the cow had to be used... because. Large bone given to German Shepherd by Lord of the Home. Rarely see dog so proud in my life.

8 PM: Finish constructing a heart-breaking scene with lego people and proceed to draw them.

8:30 PM: Idly wonder why Dad is "Lord of the Home" when Mom obviously has all power. Push thoughts away before they lead somewhere dangerous.

9 PM: Realise the futility of drawing lego people. Draw a plain lego instead. Fail miserably. Move to Sini portrait, which was easier than the former two. I ponder ironies of life.

11 PM: By this time Sini drawing is progressing well. Not exact to picture, but do not have the patience to care.

12 AM, Monday morning: Finish chatting in dA chatroom. Realize that I should not be chatting and should be working since I have a persistent case of insomnia.

1:30 AM: Finish online theatre quizzes. Call it a night.

4 AM: I give up trying to fall asleep the old fashioned way and find the most boring book on my bed that I have to read for school- a play book. Boring books for school 99% of the time send me to sleep.

5 AM: Curse the fact that The Glass Menagerine was that fickle 1%. Finished play. Ponder the meaning of life. Think about throwing pillow across room, but Aragorn-the-cardboard-cutout talks me out of it. Telepathically.

5:30 AM: Lord of- ehhh... Dad awakens for early day. Turns off the light I left on. Realize that I shall surely get sleep now.

6 AM: Give up on finding sleep and turn on laptop once more. Entertain self with Cracked.com and Fandom Wank for the remaining time.

8:30 AM: No sleep yet. At this time I take Sini to preschool and stop by Starbucks, for I know I will not last the day without some serious caffeine intake.

10 AM: My classmates realize that I am not myself when I start giggling like a mad lady. Explain lack of sleep. Sudden realization. Expect that the caffeine rush will be done by lunchtime.

12 PM, lunch: Guestamite failed. Caffeine still there, surprisingly. Buy egg salad sandwich from cafeteria. Work more on Sini portrait.

2 PM: Early release from class; free to go home and finally sleep! Rejoice.

3 PM: I give up on finding sleep. Turn on laptop once more to entertain self with Fandom Wank. Thank God that I never grew interested in Twilight. Feel sorry for Robert Pattinson. Wonder about the sanity of people in fandoms in general. Realize that most wank comes from women. Adult women who are usually over 30. Wonder if when I grow up, I will be crazy. Look to LOTR fandom friends, gain comfort from their relative sanity, and come to a conclusion that crazies are everywhere.

4 PM: Stomach does not feel well. Indigestion is normal; ignore.

4:30 PM: Should not have ignored. Stomach hurts; wonder if this is what having a really fussy baby inside stomach is like. If so, one more reason to swear off of childbirth and go adoption route. Stomach reminds me of hurting self and I leave my laptop to go to a darker place.

5 PM: Discover I have food poisoning. Curse the egg salad served in college cafeteria. Wonder why if this is rare occurrence in cafeteria, or if I have just been really lucky with the dozen-something egg salad sandwiches I've eaten in there over the semester.

6 PM: Finally return to laptop in bed. Limit self to one Hawaiian role and tons of liquid for dinner. Not happy; still hungry.

8 PM: Realize I should really write essay. Start on it half an hour later.

9:30 PM: Write nearly 1000 words of an essay in an hour. Pride self for being awesome at the art of BSing.

10 PM: Start once more on Sini drawing. Nearly complete.

11 PM: Hope to lord that my stomach won't rebel on me and make self a hot dog. Don't want to repeat quest that started at 4. Not Fun Quest.

11:30: Stop Sini drawing for the night and explore the world wide web once more.

12 AM, Tuesday: Realize I've been writing this entry for about 20 minutes. Anticipated 36 hour mark. Will do no more; head is dizzy. Wonder where this came from, and realize that it's all inzilbeth_3319's fault. Plan swift retribution with whatever ideas Aragorn gives me.

12:15 AM: Cardboard-Aragorn useless at ideas. Just stares at me blankly. Will plan Evil Plan of Evil later, but the 36 hours has finally caught up and I'm not in the mood for evil plotting. Would rather sleep......

... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

The Hunt for Gollum is a professionally made, completely non-profit fan film that I've been following for over a year. It's world premiere was today! Go and watch!

http://www.thehuntforgollum.com

My own thoughts on the film, with spoilers, under the cut.

( Spoilers )

What are you still doing here? Go watch it! :D

( Ganked meme from dA... )

Anyways. I just had a crazy idea.

I was flipping through dA's art section, looking for some depictions of Beren (and finding a few). There were not many pics with Beren and Finrod Felagund, though, so I started thinking of scenes with them. And then I remembered that they were trapped in Sauron's tower, but before then Finrod and Sauron had some sort of sing off with words of power and the like.

As much as I love Beren's and Luthien's tale, I couldn't help but snerk and start drawing a comic about the situation, because, well, it's funny XD And then I thought of other weird situations in the tale of Beren and Luthien...

And I thought I would write a comic about the whole tale. I already have ideas for a good three scenes, because man, that tale is so completely spoof-able.

Yea. First I need to learn about photoshop, because my first attempt sucks XD I basically gave up with the stone...

I'm feeling a bit better today, so time from a meme ganked from... people.

Fan Fic Meme

1. Which is your favourite fic?
Uhh... *looks through list* It's difficult to choose. One shot would probably be Elven Light. Multiple chapter fic, uh... I don't know XD I like them for different reasons.

2. Which is your best-received fic?
Hahah! A long time ago I wrote this rather poorly-written parody that ended up with 700+ reviews but was taken off due to script format. Otherwise, on ff.net it would be my recently-revisioned Pirates of the Ring and on SoA it would be Tales of Life, where the rule-breaking on the prompts became worse and worse... *whistles*

3. Which is your worst-received fic?
Nothing was ever flamed, but the one with the least reviews on both sites is A Most Modest Proposition, which isn't surprising. It's a really, really odd fic. Fun to write, though.

4. Which is your angsty-est fic?
Hahah! Blood of a Brother. It's a nice and dark one-shot AU.

5. Which is your funniest fic?
I think quite a few of them are pretty funny; Just a Cold, The Better Huntsman, Stuck in the Book, Rendezvous. But the one that tickled me quite a bit was How to Raise an Orc. The only reason I can get away with the FOC is because, well, there are orcs involved. An older one that I love is An Elf-lord's Patience which is, IMHO, one of the best Council of Elrond Mary Sue parodies ever ;) Readddd itttt. *cough*

6. Smuttiest?
Uhm. I don't really do smut- or much romance, for that matter.

7. Fluffiest?
I'd have to say Early Morning Awakenings. Cuteness ahead.

8. Have you ever made someone cry with your fic?
Really cry? I don't think so. I've been called mean for killing people in my old, dark AU oneshots though.

9. Which fanfic frustrates you the most?
Hahaha, my Epic Untitled Fic. Chapters 1-2 are complete, 3 is nearly done, and 4-7 WILL NOT WRITE ITSELF. Afterwards I have it sketched out pretty well. Thankfully I have an awesome beta who I may end up bugging for ideas if 4-7 keep on ending up, well, not writing themselves. I need to stop jumping to writing the climax (which is almost now done, thanks to my avoidence of earlier chapters...)

10. Which fic was the most fun to write?
Elven Light, definitely, though my Epic Untitled Fic is quite fun in a few areas.

11. Which of the OCs you created is your favorite?
Oh, easy question! My new OC, the Dunadan Meluion. I don't know where he came from, but I love him to pieces. He has a large role in this new fic. I'm also fond of the frequent player Galdir, the captain of the Royal Guard, and I love at least two of my antagonists in my new fic.

12. Are you better at oneshot or multipart?
I am certainly a lot faster with one-shots, and find them easier to write. "Better", though, well, it depends.

13. Which character portrayal do you think is your best?
Aragorn :D Or, well, so I would hope, considering I write him so often. I am trying to get better at Faramir, too, and hope I am achieving it. I definitely think he lost his formalness around Aragorn as they got to know each other better.

14. What character is the most difficult to portray?
Hmm.. Gandalf was at first challenging, but I think I'm getting the hang of him. Sam is difficult, too.

One character that I want to flesh out but I am not quite sure how to would be Halbarad. I'll admit that meckinock was a huge inspiration for him, and I like how both shirebound and cairistiona have portrayed him, but I am still not quite sure where to go with him. He'll likely end up like some mix of all three of theirs, if I ever get to writing something large with him.

Hello folks! I basically need help deciding between two photos. Which one is more aesthetically pleasing; or, in other words, which one do you like better?

Photo 1: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/ainulaire/ocean1.jpg

Photo 2: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/ainulaire/ocean2.jpg

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Poll #1388421 Which one?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Well....?

Thanks for the help in advance :)

I have insomnia. So I'm doing what I meant to do earlier but, well, didn't XD



Yea, it's Luthien. I have entered cliche-Tolkien-artist land. Larger drawing can be found at my dA account here, as well as all of the stock references I used to help make this.

I made the picture into a print through dA- get 10-20% of the profit XD Make a little over 2 bucks per 13 dollar print sold. Granted, I don't expect to actually sell anything (look through the brilliant prints on dA and you'll see why), but I like to amuse myself ^^

And dude, you can buy a mouse pad XD That's pretty awesome. I get less than 10% profit there o.o No wonder they are called "starving artists".

Next Tolkien project: the Fellowship. All flipping 9 of them. *dead*