Living in Darkness

Has Cambyses' army been found at long last? Pretty incredible, if so, and the evidence is compelling.

Also, utterly awesome new jacket has been acquired. So awesome my sister got one, too.

The Neme is broke, but needs dinero to go in Japan with her Aunt. so:

Commissions are Open/Si fanno disegni su commissione,

Prices are for individual/personal use only. But they DO vary according to specific requests, so don’t be surprised if your piece costs less (or more) than listed below. Chibi Cyber Elf X looking all bashful and pretty in his robes is obviously NOT going to cost as much as a painted portrait of Absolute Zero and Omega in full battle regalia battling-it-on in an apocaliptic setting...

Character Illustrations

1.Sketch (pencil, raw lines)
   €10 - €15

3. Lineart (pencil or inks)
    €20-30

4. Monocrhome and simple colour (minimal shading and/or photomanipulated BKG)
     €25 - €40

5. Complex colour (digital, finely rendered)
   €40 - depends.

*NOTICE: the rates for chibies and Nemesi's Bamboline are lower than those for normal characters


Accepted fandoms:

Rockman, Rockman X, Rockman Zero, Rockman X Command Mission, Rockman ZX, Rockman ZXAdvent, Megamix, Saint Seiya, Vampire Knight, Casshern, Casshern SINs, Wraeththu, Lord of the Rings, Wild ARMs, Wild ARMs Advanced 3rd, Vampires, Dark Stalkers, et more.

Obviously, if you request sketches you're going to receive the pic faster. Also, sketches are love because I can accept more commissions at once, and they'd allow me to raise the needed money quicker.

The downtown streets of the small town outside of which I grew up and where my parents still live have been recently repaved (much needed, according to my parents; there were potholes you could swim in, my daughter said) with stimulus monies. A local small phone company/internet provider for a relatively isolated rural/small town area north of here is applying for stimulus money to improve his internet access from dialup to high speed so that rural residents can have better internet connectivity. We hear about bailouts for the banks, and not so much (it seems to me) about these smaller local and regional projects.

Meanwhile, a 4 month old kitten was dumped roadside by my parents' house and has been allowed to take up residency in their garage: I am not a cat person, but this kitten is full of charm, very affectionate, and very attached to people. Oh, there he is, mewing outside. Alas, he is not allowed in the house. I think we all hope we can find a loving home for him as he is an absolute sweetheart. He needs a name, as the one my dad came up with is Not Acceptable. He's a tabby (I think), and very handsome.

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Nicholas Kristof on why, yes, we do need health care reform. Gacked from suricattus

From Tehran Bureau, Fariba Pajooh--Still in Jail, lest we forget. You know, the more I think about it, the more I reflect on how condescending toward the Iranian people those early "reports" and suppositions were that the whole post election protest (and its subsequent manifestations, which I try to follow) was merely a CIA deep cover operation, as if Iranians are some kind of dupes rather than educated, civilized, sophisticated people perfectly capable of speaking out at last on their own behalf. Their courage is astonishing, heart-rending, and a lesson for us all.


Now for something completely different:

I love this review of the first two books of the Gate trilogy and can't wait to see what the reviewer makes of book three. (There are mild spoilers.) (The reviewer totally "gets" Mai, to which I say: "Squee!")

Grinding to Valhalla interviews Katharine Kerr about her shady past as a gamer.

I do have one more deverry15 post, but for the last few days I've been unable to access my laptop, which is where the post resides, so I hope to post it tonight, perhaps, or else tomorrow.

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I post over on deverry15: Which Deverry Hero is the Hottest?

Your STRONG opinions are solicited. Because I mean, really, who can have a lukewarm opinion on such a crucial topic?

I won't make a long list of names of people I hung out with, although they were utterly fabulous, or the people I met for the first time, although they were utterly fabulous (you see the trend here). This WFC had a very different and interesting vibe from other WFC's I've attended and I'm not quite sure what it was (besides the dry air that made many people get scratchy throats and which certainly sent me spiraling into some kind of allergic or cold reaction) except that people seemed very present, panels and readings seemed unusually well attended, and all in all it felt like people were paying attention to each other and connecting. Not that the latter doesn't always happen, but this felt focused in a different way to me, perhaps the presence of more serious newer (younger sometimes but not always) writers approaching writing with a clearly pragmatic attitude. I dunno. If I figure it out, I'll tell you.

The Scholes and I had a good event at the utterly fabulous San Diego bookstore Mysterious Galaxy, which I am too lazy to link to because I am really exhausted but which you can google if you are one of those who might like signed copies of books (they can ship them, and do). Tomorrow: Dark Delicacies in Burbank at 7 pm. This event will probably be just a signing, so we'll probably be there for about an hour or so, I would guess, or thereabouts. If you are in the area, please come by.

Ken and I decided on all our stops to read from each other's work rather than from our own, which worked out well: I get rather self conscious reading from my own work, but I enjoy reading someone else's work so, lacking self consciousness, read it better than I would my own, if that makes sense. I think Ken enjoyed reading from my novel as well, and at all three stops where we performed this feat, it seemed to go over well.

As for conversations at WFC: If I can remember anything, I'll let you know.

I do remember distinctly having a short but intense conversation with WFC-winner (for short story) Kij Johnson about being women of a certain age engaged in rather intense athletic regimens (she's a rock climber; as all of you ought to know by now, I paddle outrigger canoes). That's a whole topic of itself.

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Exhausted. Air is so dry that my throat and sinuses are now in full revolt. I slept horribly last night. Headed down for breakfast now.

What I really want to say is:

I love the sff community. What an awesome fabulous wonderful group of people.

More later. If I have the energy.

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