Heya, this is my not-dead post for this month.

I've still been writing a ton of Haven fic, which I now have 3 finished drafts and 2 fics halfway through, and to my surprise at least 3 of these are at least vaguely Nathan/Duke in focus.

I'm fairly determined that none of these are going to hang around forever unposted as so much of my fic in recent years has. So yeah. This is a fandom people actually read in, so these will get posted. Even if I have to do it without being 100% sure that the fics are as perfect as I can make them. And that's that.

Otherwise, in recent weeks I have been learning to make beeswax candles, mucking about on the allotment, and filling my flat with almost too many seedlings to actually fit in the darn flat. And being made to work extra hours. Bah.

Currently watching a Tarot video course in the background and thinking mostly that I do not own a Ryder-Waite deck.

Away this Friday-Monday at the haunted house again. Fic may get posted when I return?

Last week's fic, typed, is about 9,500 words. This week I have thus far written 7,000 words or so of fake Duke/Nathan which is actually a casefile pretending to be slashy. I don't really know how to explain that one. It's got het in it too.

Fic should probably have been finished this weekend, except. Yesterday I was transporting random stuff up to allotment and spent the afternoon listening to lectures on geology. Today I put up a small greenhouse and mucked about with tomato and cucumber seedlings. Maybe the fic will get finished tomorrow. I hate when life interrupts fanfiction!

I am gradually realising that I could happily ship almost everyone on Haven in fic. Including Nathan and his canon girlfriends that aren't Audrey, as well as Duke or Dwight, so not really so much with the OTPing. Don't actually have anything against Duke and Audrey together, either.

I have spent most of today writing 4,000 words of Haven fanfic. Yay! This is the first thing I've written since before Christmas (finishing the original NaNo novel) and the first fanfiction I've written since the War Inc. thing that I think I wrote last April. Meep. That might be the longest I've been without writing fanfic since I started writing fanfic when I was, like, 14 or whatever?

The fic thing is just a short season 1 Audrey and Nathan gen casefile. It probably won't be much more than 7,000 words in full.

I actually think I have to own up that I somewhat 'ship these two. Not usually much of a 'shipper, especially for a show's main pairings, but. They are way cuter than Mulder and Scully. Although also this show has the clearest OT3 I've seen in a while.

Possibly more fic will happen after this because certainly I find it's normally hard to write the first fic in a fandom, but if I dash something out fairly quickly, then usually it gets easy to do a few more after that. Haven't seen all the eps yet. At 2.4, but a bit spoiled from Tvtropes.

Random: This must be about the only series where a main character could walk around with his back full of nails for half an episode. Was this strictly necessary - probably not but when watching the pilot I did think they were going to play this for comedy and have him shot/stabbed/etc. every week.

What are you reading now?

Uh, there's about a dozen. One of them is Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles Hapgood and another is the infamous crop circles book Circular Evidence, which should tell you something about where my head is at generally. Then there's some book on easy Kanji learning and Teach Yourself German, a maths thing called Nature's Numbers and something vaguely new-age psychology about Buddhist teachings. Fiction? Er, I was stalled somewhere 70 pages or so into the new Dresden files ages ago and haven't gone back to it yet. And there was something by Tad Williams about angels that my sister told me I should read that is in about the same stasis. Ditto Terry Pratchett's Snuff because I was finding Vimes + The Good Ol' Common Country Folk painful. Oh, and somewhere in all that is also Wonders of the Universe, which I was given for my birthday. Does my head sound a confusing place? I think I'm confused just reading this list.

What did you just finish?

The last book I finished was The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer. It's a (legal/political) thriller. I read it while away in Edinburgh the other weekend. I have a lot of time for this author, and to be honest they're the first thrillers in ages that I've really been able to get into despite their being about things like US law and politics that I don't have much interest in, but I don't really hear his name mentioned. So consider that a recommendation. This was his first book and the dialogue seemed more stilted than usual, so probably start with a later one first, though.

What are you planning to read next?

I have another Brad Meltzer on my to-read pile and I am just about to order Charles Hapgood's Path of the Pole reprint from Amazon. My sister gave me a Warren Ellis graphic novel about Agents of H.A.T.E. or something like that? for my birthday, so that's on the list too.

Why is my first fic in ages for an inane film with no fandom that nobody will read? This is just one of those that wouldn't let itself not be written. If I was going to write a John Cusack fic someday I'd've had my money on Con Air...

TITLE: War & P.R.
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: R
LENGTH: 13,700 words approx.
GENRE: mostly gen, some Hauser/Natalie, absurdist humour, crack.
SUMMARY: One month ago, their plane was downed in Ugikistan hours before war broke out. Hauser reassesses his role in the world while dodging Tamerlane forces and and trying to keep his new family together.
NOTES: A what-happened-after-the-credits-roll for the movie War, Inc. starring John Cusack, Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei, with a general warning that if you were offended by the movie, chances are you will be offended by this.
DISCLAIMER: War, Inc. belongs to Lionsgate etc. Not mine, no profit, yadda, yadda, yadda.


( War & P.R. )

Away for the next few days, fic to post when I get back!! Was planning to do so today to mark my birthday (thinking at least if I do this then that's one old story that gets posted per year... although actually there are 2 almost-edited at the mo.) but never had time. Ah well.

Fics are for the movie War Inc and another that's in 3x3 Eyes anime/manga fandom.

35... damn, I feel old. LOL. :D

Had a power-cut last night from around 11pm to midnight. From less than halfway down the long main street that I live on to as far as I could see into town. It never ceases to amaze me how little people seem to care or pay attention because once again, I was the only one out with a torch to investigate why the lights had gone out... same case with the earthquake late at night some years back. Heh. (Although at that time, I seriously thought a lamppost had fallen and hit the block, because it was a wildly windy night that that happened on.)

Anyway, yeah. Candles for half an hour or so, until I couldn't be bothered anymore and went to sleep. Then all the power came back and everyone's alarms blared out for about 15 minutes, so I woke up again at that point.

The weird thing is I was sat attempting to meditate and mainly dozing off just before the power went down. I had the strong impression of a voice or perhaps just a very clear thought saying "it's going to go dark", then I opened my eyes and a moment later all the lights went out.

More arts that I forgot to cross-post this last week!

Clicky little pic to get normal size version.



Bigger version: http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/0048b01f

From the Yuzo Takada manga Little Jumper. ( SPOILERS FOLLOW )

And this one is the big 3x3 Eyes pencil drawing that's been taking up my table for the past 2-3 months, finally finished!!!

http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/00488w9d

Slightly bigger version, depending on screen size this one might be too big though, but it looked all right on my screen at home:

http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/00489cgy

I really wanted an image of Ling-Ling in there from that moment of awesome when the rest of humanity is basically screwed but she's wallpapered herself with protective talismans, but in the end I think that's the bit that didn't quite work.

If I'd thought about this project in advance, Kali wouldn't have been on this and I'd have had Fei-oh the big monster because it deserves it, being awesome, darnit! But instead it came together rather piecemeal and unplanned, and I'd just re-read book 34 and really wanted to draw Kali's outfit at the time. And so.

This might get lined and coloured on Photoshop, if I have the patience.

I guess I may as well cross-post recent drawings here. I think I've got better at this, but unfortunately, since I seem to be drawing little-known manga series that aren't available in English, I've not got much in the way of input from others on that. The obscure mangas in question are 3x3 Eyes and Tsukumo Nemuru Shizume ( 九十九眠る しずめ ) by Yuzo Takada. Mostly Shizume because I have been putting my creative energies for 3x3 Eyes into writing fanfic like crazy instead, and also because I really like playing with the striking visual of Toragen's/Kogenta Inui's later character design.

Big 3x3 Eyes pic still in progress: http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/0047h10d

Scruffy demon!Yakumo: http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/0047e9eg

Shizume & Toragen: http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/0047safk
Here's a really enormous one, because this thing is A3 size and the smaller version seems to lose the details: http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/0047thhq

first effort at 'inking' on the new table: http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/0047w53q

Please ignore the dragon... (I think they're interviewing someone for an investigation, but Shizume is distracted and probably Toragen is a bit, too...)

And three in progressing mediums:
"NOT a Ninja...!" (pencils)
"NOT a Ninja...!" (lined using photoshop)
"NOT a Ninja...!" (UNFINISHED coloured using photoshop)

Lastly, big black & white thing that I am pissed off with because I spent 4 days on it and I'm not happy how it turned out: http://pics.livejournal.com/roseveare/pic/004825g3

Curiously, the warning about cruelty to animals and small children that I stuck on the header of Toy Soldier? Will also be needed on the long FMA fic that I'm in the process of editing right now.

Funny, that.

I'm sure that's not any kind of reflection on me...