Trailer,
If the link breaks, try this one
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I’m not sure how the universe has withstood Rich Stevens (DIESEL SWEETIES) and Ariana Osborne (SHIVERING SANDS, this site, designing various things of mine at Avatar) teaming up to produce a t-shirt, of all things… but this is the result.
Available to order now, ships in 1 - 2 weeks.
Simon Reynolds is one of my favourite writers. It’s funny, really: I agree with what he writes maybe half the time, at best, but he says it so fucking well, and in such a way that I always have to think about the subject again.
He’s now doing notes on the decade at the Guardian, beginning with a piece on "beard rock." I was, I admit, hoping for a clue as to why I find Will Oldham so inexplicably creepy, but, you know, it’s a fun piece anyway:
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)…beardedness is tantamount to a visual rhetoric, almost a form of authentication, as though the band are wearing their music on their faces…
So, one week later. Copies of SHIVERING SANDS are now starting to arrive with people — I found this on Kat Foisy’s blog this morning:
(If you want to send me a photo of you posing with SHIVERING SANDS? Email it to my dump address at warrenellis [at] gmail dot com, along with your website address or twitter ID or whatever, and I’ll run it and your link here)
A week since launch of the book. We’ve sold, I believe, a little over four hundred copies. Given that the production of the book involved 1) me culling from seven years of jabbering and sticking it all into a couple of RTF files 2) Ariana flowing all that into a single file and spending a couple months’ worth of spare moments fiddling with it 3) Ariana uploading the thing, ordering a proof and spending an hour checking it over… we were well into any definition of profit by the end of day one.
It is, of course, the long game that pays off. It’s interesting to look at the first week, but it’s not defining.
A persistent criticism of my interest in POD has been that only writers at my level of cultural awareness can make any kind of success out of it. And some of them will now be saying, well, even Warren Ellis can only move 400 copies in the first week of a POD project. But, for one thing, it is about the long game. For everybody. The book doesn’t go away. And, for another, if I’m not aware enough of you to order that POD project — whose fault is that, really? Because, I’ve got to tell you, I wasn’t born with a book deal in one hand and an exclusive comics contract wrapped around my other flipper. Hell, when I was starting out, there wasn’t even an internet.
SHIVERING SANDS is published through Lulu.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Remus/Harry (Harry is 13 so I haven't decided on the extent of the sexual content but I'm leaning towards very light)
Rating of the story: R
Spoilers/Time Line: The third book of Harry Potter
Beta Type: Grammar and spelling mostly. I would like my beta reader to clue me in if my character are out of character and why they are OOC. I like to know reason why something I'm doing is not work and ideas one what should be done about it. Since this is a what if Remus and Harry got together during the third book kind of story, I want to know how much of the actual book to put into the story without it being just repeated information that everyone knows.
Harshness: It doesn't matter to me if your harsh are not as long as it improves my story.
Find the story at adultfanfiction.
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chipper
But see, I found these two other mood themes that are just *beautiful* and I must have them.
The problem as you can see dear FList-ies, is that you can only display one mood theme at a time.
Which should I use? The Pixar Animated Mood Theme, or the Earth Animated Mood Theme.
Both mood themes are by the fabulously talented
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upsa_daisy. So, dear FListies, it's POLL TIME!
Poll #1483928 New Mood Theme
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24
Which mood theme should I use?
Stick with the Xander Mood Theme. It's who you are, really.
7 (29.2%)
Choose the Pixar Mood Theme! Pixar will rule the world and it's never too early to start sucking up to our eventual overlords. 6 (25.0%)
Choose the Earth Mood Theme! It's positively gorgeous while not being fandom specific. Plus, awesome animals! Everyone loves animals. 9 (37.5%)
Don't you have other, more important things to worry about? 2 (8.3%)
- Location:United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Mood:
confused - Music:The Clash - Ivan Meets G.I. Joe | Powered by Last.fm
Today's YU+ME page took me six hours, and I'm glad people are appreciating it this time. (The last time I spent a really long time on a page, all people could talk about was my misspelling of "resteraunt"... which I still can't spell.) Only one person decided to say "Oh, Lia's nose doesn't look right," but I'm taking that as my page being so close to perfection, that there is only one mistake, and that is it. Especially since that one comment was the only one of its kind among dozens of much better ones.
Switching to LPFOS, someone today asked me if this is based on the Odyssey, which one is Odysseus? The answer is that all of the Lesbian Pirates together take turns being Odysseus. And Jane. Except not really Jane because she died, and Odysseus only sort of dies.
I just realized I forgot a visit to the land of the dead in my script! And it's too late to add it in. That's sad. But heck, the story, especially this issue, is so jam-packed full of Odyssey references, one missing will not be so bad. I hope.
Today I plan to catch up on comics. I'm going to go do that now.
The again, the ghost of Charles Starkweather hangs over Nebraska, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised by that one.
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- Location:United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Mood:
gloomy - Music:Bruce Springsteen - Racing in the Street | Powered by Last.fm
The stains will disappear,
So never you fear.
- Mood:
sleepy
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Let us dance in the flames
And forget all their blame
And burn.
It's not my turn.
When will you learn?
Crash and burn,
But it's not my turn.
Health and happiness as always will fade with time.
Pull the trigger before it goes.
Laugh in the face of your foes.
Kill in the name of all you know
And burn.
I won't do it.
It's not my turn.
When will you learn?
Crash and burn,
But it's not my turn.
Pearly gates and angels and heaven awaits.
For all brave enough to see.
Stab and twist the knife.
Leave behind all thoughts of strife.
Face calm dark instead of life.
And burn.
This isn't Hell.
I won't do it.
It's not my turn.
When will you learn?
Crash and burn,
But it's not --
My-- it's so beautiful here.
Did I do it?
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"No longer Sorcerer Supreme of the Marvel Universe, Stephen Strange must discover a new path to fulfillment and enlightenment. Unfortunately, that path leads through a bizarre, terrifying gauntlet of magical menaces--and if the former Master of the Mystic Arts is going to survive the journey, he'll need some assistance - in the form of a brand-new student!"
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