Snowflake Storms

I've been back from Rome since friday night and since then I haven't done much except drawing and hanging around like a bum. Apart from lots of pictures, art and amazing memories I brought home 79 mosquito bites (I counted them yesterday in a fit of morbid curiosity), at least 1/4th of which are on my already sore feet (nasssty_slyth and I walked A LOT). I'm surprised that I haven't accidentally scratched myself to death in my sleep or had my feet fall off in spite, though it would have been totally worth it for the BEST VACATION EVER! I can't thank nasssty_slyth and her family enough for letting me stay with them ♥

Now, some more prompt doodles!

( Colored version of the curtain!art doodle )

for harriet_vane who asked for: Brendon and Spencer at that 50's themed wedding
( Gettin ready for a vintage wedding )

for wethepainted who asked for: Spencer and Brendon at the prom!
( Slow dancing - beware of excessive schmoop )

I finished the first two prompts!

For anoneknewmoose who gave me MCR werewolves:
( Werewolf!Frank )

For nasssty_slyth who gave me Joe, the mighty knight in search of his phone:
( An unlikely hiding place )

More to follow! Probably after the bandom_hc deadline though, unless I grow another set of arms.

( Top five (made-up) Ray/Mikey moments )

( Top Five Songs Brendon sang to Spencer )

( Top five people that Brendon wants to invite for a threesome with him and Spencer )

( Top five AU's you love to read  )

I had a whole bunch of cauliflower left over that I needed to use up and wanted to make soup out of it. I was out of veggie broth though and not in the mood to make up a new batch so I tried to make up for the lack with lots of spices. The results were pretty awesome so I think this one's a keeper.

( Cauliflower curry soup )

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH FLAIL IN THE WORLD FOR THIS VIDEO! Those two and a half minutes pretty much sum up all of my feelings about new!Panic and that song ♥_______♥

Yesterday I spent way too much time refreshing all of the internet trying to find a rip of the What a Catch video and then ashlein wrote Brendon/Spencer commentfic as a distraction and it was so awesome it made me break out my pencil. I said I'd try to do better than a five-minute sketch so that's what I spent my evening doing.

( Brendon wraps his legs around Spencer's waist and Spencer is stumbling backwards, trying to kiss Brendon and stay standing )

This morning while I was rooting around in boxes trying to find my scanner I also found my mini stereo system and since my parents are on vacation and unable to complain about me moving stuff around I installed it in the kitchen. I can finally cook and clean while singing along to music at the top of my lungs again as it should be \o/

Every time I think I'm ok with the Panic split something else comes along and makes me upset all over again. When did I become such an oversensitive little snowflake? D:

I'm feeling restless this week too. I worked out the last two days and I have the urge to bust out the yoga mat today too. The only problem is that I'm already feeling sore and I don't have an actualfax yoga mat (parquet floors and a towel just don't cut it, the bruise on my back is proof).

The one awesome thing I did this week is finally figuring out a good approximation of the thai curry I liked so much. I think the secret was the right kind of curry paste and adding fish sauce. OMNOMNOM!

( Curry picture and recipe )

I don't know what it is about staying with my parents that does it, but I always feel like I have nothing at all to say and fall into a black whole of not updating.

My brother's birthday came and went and he liked his present, yay! Also, because I'm an awesome big sister I made him a sort of additional late present and installed Sims 3 on his computer after I managed to get my hands on it. It's even vaguely educational since it's an English version! And I feel better now that I'm not the only one in the family who is addicted to it and glued to her pc all the time.

I've been playing way too much myself. There were a couple of days were I didn't read a single fic because I was busy trying to get all my Panic sims to live in a tiny house together and getting Greta and Cassadee to fall in love.

In the meantime, both fics I did big bang art for got posted on the same day last week and they are both awesome and everyone should read them:

There's Nowhere to Move On by delicatelight (Brendon/Spencer, AU)

Death of a Musician by woollysocks (Spencer/Jon, AU)

Of course, now that everything's been posted and for once in my life I was still happy with what was posted, I notice that I forgot to paint Brendon's eyebrows in one picture /o\

Right now I should probably go back to working on my latest WIP because I've taken over my parents' entire kitchen table with art supplies.

ETA: OMG, LULLABY!!! *____________________*

Apparently Dirty Dancing was on TV yesterday and saba1789 and nasssty_slyth were talking about it and are also bring filthy enablers and I started doodling.

The picture doesn't exactly scream Dirty Dancing AU, but I thought the general idea was ridiculous enough without putting anyone in a frilly white dress. Also the timing couldn't have been better, since the pictures from the Blink 182 thingy just confirmed again that silly prom picture poses are canon :D

( Have another dance )

The one bit of this AU that I want so bad that I can taste it is the scene where they practice lifts. Spencer is seriously scared that he'll drop Brendon on his head and keeps clutching him to his chest instead of doing any actual lifting. Brendon really needs to teach him to get this right, but surely it won't hurt to stay cuddled up to Spencer just a little longer, right?
And then they go practice in the lake and there's wet boys, with almost see-through shirts clinging to them, splashing around in the water.

Brendon/Spencer, rated G
The Bodyguard AU

( Every step of the way )

Pose shamelessly copied from the movie poster, faily anatomy courtesy of yours truly :)
And sorry, but I couldn't not quote that song. The cheesiness was too much to resist!

I'm back home from my field trip and I'm so tempted to just fall into bed now! The visit to SDL itself wasn't even that tiring, but the car trip involved was kinda exhausting. The entire autobahn between Heidelberg and Stuttgart seemed to be riddled with construction sites and then there was an accident somewhere as well and it took forever to get there.

In addition to that, our professor was riding with me, since I have the biggest car and could fit the taller people in our group more comfortably than the others. He's a really nice guy, and definitely my favorite out of all my professors, but I'm already bad at casual conversation and particularly not very talkative when I'm driving so it was a bit awkward to have him in the passenger seat for almost three hours!

I dropped all my passengers off at the parking lot right next to the turkish grocery store and took the chance to have a look around. They always have different interesting produce on sale. Since the vegetable compartment of my fridge is already bursting at the seams I restricted myself to a fresh artichoke. The last time I tried one was so long ago I couldn't remember anything about it at all.

The artichoke ended up in my thermomix and got steamed with some lemon and garlic in the water. I wasn't very impressed with the results though. The meat from the leaves was very bitter. I had a dip made from yogurt and vinaigrette that didn't go well with it at all. Just the plain meat tasted fairly bad too. It turned out to be ok salted and with a bit of my radish pesto though. The one part that was super tasty was the bottom of the artichoke, but if I ever want to have that again I think I'll go for the canned version instead of bothering with the rest.

Now, I feel like I haven't said a single fannish thing in weeks and that's just not on. Time for a couple of recs I think! Here's the last three things I saved to my delicious:

Weekend Wars by icyanahita Bandom, ensemble with various pairings, AU, ~25,000 words

For the Public Good by blamebrampton Harry Potter, Harry/Draco, 23,500 words

And Maybe by reni_days Bandom, Brendon/Spencer, 6,500 words

One more thing...splitting commenting between LJ and DW is annoying me more than I thought it would, so I'm switching to disabling comments on LJ and redirecting everything to DW for now. I figure pretty much everyone I talk to regularly has a DW account by now so it shouldn't be a problem.