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Made it back from the cottage alive.
( Here is a list of the good things about the trip, so I don't just focus on the bad. Less said about the bad, the better, really. )
Unrelated to vacation: Lufwood made me start rereading the Edge Chronicles and now I have a stupid amount of feelings. Pretty sure I read the first books before they were released in the States at all, and there was no English-speaking fandom. Now there is one, small of course. But (probably because all my fannishness was conducted in isolation, with IRL friends) my opinions and ships seem to be vastly different to everybody else's. Why do I never seem to want fic of things there actually is fic of?

So last night, as is traditional, myself, chavamara, and lufwood_emilius watched as many movies as physically possible. This year we reached our goal of staying up 'til seven in the morning (last year we only made it to about three, because we were drinking. This year we were just drinking tea, so it all worked out.)
( Blather about the things we saw )

You know the drill, I'm sure. Comment and I'll ask you five questions!

( In which I have a truly ridiculous amount of feelings about Tim Burton, among other things. )

I am trying to get into the habit of posting more, instead of being like "Oh, you have nothing interesting to say, shut up until you have some pictures scanned or something, you useless boring human." Shut up, brain, this is not a helpful train of thought to have!

What have I been doing lately? Well, for one, Fan Expo happened and it was awesome. chavamara bought me the Eggplant Batgirl figure! I convinced Lufwood to buy Xena comics! I bought a Toon-Timmy shirt and a Red Hood shirt, so I can be Even-Robins-tastic, which is totally a real word! And I finally got the missing pieces of Villains United, so now I have every Secret Six comic. So then uh, I reread the series straight through. (Of course I did.) And let me tell you, it caught my brain something terrible, as anyone who has talked to me in the last week or so has probably noticed! I feel like more people need to be reading this book. More people I know, I mean. And/or more people willing to create fanworks.

Not that I haven't done that; I think it's a result of my brain rebelling against working in childcare. I have several pages of various not-child-friendly-at-all Secret Six sketches in the back of my sketchbook, and I sort of started a ridiculous project along the lines of amandeo's Tiny Secret Six combined with that All-Ages Watchmen thing that was floating around last year. It is fucking hard to translate Secret Six stories into hilariously kid-friendly versions, I don't know why I do these things to myself.

While looking for this year's Fan Expo pictures to post I instead found pics from last year. Which I don't think I ever posted. So I put them on my tumblr. (I have a tumblr now! This is Exciting News, okay, and you all care very much.) So if you want to see me be Sally Jupiter, that is the place to go! I will get this year's pictures off Lufwood uh, at some point soon, and hopefully not post them a year late this time.

Yay, got.... 20% of the way through without missing a day! Better than I had expected, okay.

Favourite Nonmasked Character

( The Entire Gotham City MCU is not an acceptable answer, self. )

This is all feverbeats's fault. For the record. LET'S SEE IF WE CAN MAKE IT A MEME.

( My Top Ten Musicals, some considerably less surprising than others. )

I have not forgotten to do this! It's just that the beginning of May is stupid-busy, what with Free Comic Book Day and all.

( A Wizard of Mars, Diane Duane )( Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy and the History of Comic Book Heroines, Mike Madrid )( Callahan's Lady, Spider Robinson )
Not on the list due to Paypal problems that can't be resolved until my mom gets back from B.C.: The Wolf House: Fair Game, Mary Borsellino.

And now, for something completely different: The meme where people pick icons for you to talk about is going around!
Via mrs_laugh_track:
( four icons + blather )So, yeah! Comment if you want me to pick some icons!

(This is the last day I have free until after Fan Expo. So I need to get this stuff out before I forget about it in the haze of working-at-the-convention.)

( Cut for blather. )