Category: Babylon 5

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight

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…Because sometimes you have to do a crazy crossover between Frozen and Babylon 5 and share it with everyone.

Babylon 5’s Susan Ivanova singing Let it Go.
“A station of isolation, and it looks like I’m captain…”
“Your thoughts never bothered me anyway.”
 

Here’s the Official YouTube video of the song:

 Don’t forget my 2014 Trick-Or-Treat Giveaway! 
 Send in your Halloween costumes and decorations! Want to see what I’ll be wearing?

Attack on Titan!

I have yet to figure out what pants I’m going to wear. The official Attack on Titan uniforms involve white pants, but mixing me and white pants is like dipping double sided tape into an army of dust bunnies.

Post A Day Roundup!

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Day 30, and this means my Post A Day challenge has finally come to an end. I did a lot better than I thought I would: 25 out of 30 posts! I’ve posted my thoughts, feelings, and rodeo roundup of the challenge.

It was certainly a challenge to post every day. I work a full time job, and when I get home, I’m not always wide eyed, bushy tailed, and full of creativity. There’s also the fact that I have other things I need to get done–that is not to say that I don’t like blogging! I do. I enjoy it!

Tripping Over Hurdles
The initial hurdle for me was to find things to write about. If you go back to the beginning of the month, you’ll see that I was using writing/blogging prompts. As the days went on, and the more I posted, I found that it was easier to come up with things on my own.

The second hurdle was actually posting every day.  When the creativity wasn’t there, I  had to fight the lazy urges within. On those days, I tended to post a lot of pictures and, in one case, videos. As I stated above, I missed five days. There is a strong correlation to exhaustion and not writing (at least for me). My blog and my characters do not want to meet an exhausted me. Trust me on this. *wink*

I felt terribly guilty for the days I missed…you can also trust me on that! 

Tick, Tick, Tock!
One of the things I noticed was that I neglected a few of my other nightly rituals in order to make sure I stuck to my guns about posting. My nightly rituals include drawing, creating photo manipulations in photoshop, and other stuff that I’m too lazy to think of and write on the spot like this. 😛 The two that were most effected were the two I just mentioned.

Want to see some of my photomanips? Here you go! They are all Babylon 5 related (naturally):

The Cliche “What Did I Learn?” Part
I love blogging, but I don’t want to do it every day (if I had a little bonsai tree that was a never ending source of blooming money so that I didn’t have to work, it would be different!).

I want to blog more often than I used to. My initial plan is to do it at least two or three times a week; that way I am posting a lot, but not to the point where I feel overworked and that my posts lack substance. …Not only that, but I missed doing my photomanips and random sketches.

Tripping on Art

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For those who missed my last post, The Year is Now is out and available on Lulu.com! You can read about it here.

Aside from getting everything ready for last week’s debut, here is what I’ve been up to lately in the realm of art! I’ve been experimenting with my anime roots.

Babylon 5 meets The Slayers 
Psi Cop Xellos is working with the Shadows *gasp!* 
Elly from The Year is Now as an anime character. 
Alfred Bester from Babylon 5
 
 I redrew an old self-insert Slayers character I had created 10 years ago, and this was the result. 
 Oh my! Bester and Talia, what are you two doing!?
 
Wooden peg doll Xellos is ready to beam up.

A Quick Post

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I have some good news!
The deadline for the contest has been extended to 25 May!

The cover is waiting patiently for 31 May. I am excited about all of this! Part of me is tempted to post the evolution of the cover from the first sketches, to the first design, and finally to the final image. It is crazy to think that the idea I had in 2010 has turned into a full length novel!

Well, enough cryptic words about the cover! Here is what I’ve been up to lately in the world of art:

If Babylon 5 was an anime…and had a spin off series dedicated to the Psi Corps! 
** NOTE ** I used google translate for the words “Psi” and “Corps,” so the translation might not be 100% accurate. 

I periodically run drawings for free commissions on Facbook! This was for the winner of my St. Patrick’s Day drawing.

 More Babylon 5 fanart. This is one of the advantages of painting, if you want to decorate your walls with something obscure, you can!
Sparkly space hipster kitty!  
Coming soon: Animated Gifs – DIY!

Gather Around the Watercooler

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Today’s update is a pic spam sort of post with a dash of what’s been going on in my neck of the woods. I’ve been working on March’s issue of The Outlanders, editing The Year is Now, and working on short stories. “The Moon Colony” has a real title now, but I’m putting it aside to let it sit for a while. It may end up being a severe writer’s case of kill your darlings.

In the meantime, I’ve finished an outline and started a new short story. “The Moon Colony” didn’t have an outline, and that was part of the problem! If you want to write a solid story, create an outline first. Always create an outline. Always.

Here is some art I’ve done over the past few weeks:

Based off of a colored pencil drawing I did in 2011
Babylon 5 fanart of Talia Winters and Jason Ironheart 
More Babylon 5 fanart! This one is actually a redo. I was never happy with the original picture. It finally dawned on me one day that it was the eyes. I gave Bester a set of new eyes and tweaked a few minor things. I love this picture now.