http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Sir-Talen&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Sir-Talen en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:56:02 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/28443495/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/28443495/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:46:09 PST
Therefore, my dear readers (both of you), if you've enjoyed reading my stories or laughing at my silly LOLCat pictures, I ask you to show you appreciation by donating. I'm not asking for a whole year's subscription from you, but I figure if I can convince twelve people to blow $5 each, I'd be set for another year.

In return... Well, I'm not a visual artist, so I can't make each donor a sketch. And my fandoms (Terinu, Bujold, obscure SF authors and so forth) really don't square with most other folks' fandoms, so I can't guarantee a drabble for each of you either. But if you've enjoyed some of what I've written in the past, and are looking forward to seeing what I do in the future (in between my working on an actual commercial novel), I ask that you at least think about showing your appreciation.

Thanks.

Update: Many, many thanks to and the other anonymous deviant who both gave me a three month subscription!

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/28365121/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/28365121/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:08:59 PST fight crime, and watch him booze, smoke and pill pop his way across the galaxy fighting interstellar evil.

Review: Another series that shows it age in certain ways (a female criminal in the 330th century? Shocking!) but overall holds together as good adventures.

Note, I said "adventure", not "comedy". There's a tendency to view the SSR books as a funny series, but I think that's a mistake. It's POV is certainly humorous. Jim DiGriz makes for an amusing companion, as he cheerily and egotisticaly dissects the boring, peaceful inhabitants of the planets he robs blind, but the situations he finds himself in are deadly serious, and he never forgets the consequences of failure.

Consider the three short novels in this collection:

The Stainless Steel Rat: DiGriz is recruited in the Special Corps, the galaxy's secret peacekeeping arm, and almost immediately goes on the hunt for a psychologicaly damaged mass murderess.

The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge: He has to stop a group of mysterious grey men who use their finely honed techniques of psycological torture (as in, making you believe you just had your hands cut off and reattached) to wage interstellar war.

The Stainless Steel Rat Save the World DiGriz has to stop a time travelling madmen from destroying the Special Corps by erasing the past, and along the way journeys to a nightmarish post-apocalypse Earth 20,000 years into our future.

Laugh a minute concepts they are, I tell ya.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/27915977/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/27915977/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:52:42 PDT did for me [link] of them sitting at a bar with a Galapagos about to get into a fight in the reflection of the mirror in the background.

That was enough to get the story going again as I maneuvered the characters to that point so I could right the scene. [link] Heaven knows what I'm going to do afterward though. Because at this point I really can't afford to buy another illo from her for inspiration.

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Overall I had a good time, but man my legs were starting to hurt by the end of Day One. The Baltimore Convention center is huge, and I walked from one to the other at lease ten times Friday and Saturday. Sunday I just stayed home since there weren't any panels or videos I wanted to see.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/25988310/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/25988310/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:10:20 PDT
[/Sarcasm Mode Self-Check Complete]

Okay, here's a meme challenge for the weekend. Let's assume Nixon actually did something admirable during his presidency and had Congress declare Apollo Day a real national holiday. On Monday, why don't you post about how you celebrated it (watching fireworks, launching model rockets, decorating the house, having little Neil Armstrong cosplayers trick or treating...) Use your imagination!

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/25592419/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/25592419/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:17:32 PDT [link] the past couple of days at work. The concept is simple: Like Order of the Stick it's a fantasy story set in a world using rules mechanics that the characters are aware of (a computer turned based fantasy war game in this case, not a tabletop RPG.) Unlike OOTS it plays the concept mostly straight.

"I won't be a game piece. You hear me? I'm a player! FUCK YOU!"

Anyway, Parson Gotti (an anagram of "Protagonist") is an overweight, twenty-something gaming obsessed geek out of college and stuck with a car that's half dead and a lousy job at Kinkos. Until he gets pulled into Erfworld and is made "Lord Hamster", after being summoned by Overlord Stanley's minions who were seeking the Perfect Warlord to defend their city. It would seem they're really short on troops and hope, since the Royal Crown Coalition, led by Prince Ansom, is on the verge of taking their last city.

Mild problem: They also happen to be the bad guys.

Review: This is a story that digs its claws into you. It's easy to sympathize with Gotti. He might be (bluntly) overweight and unattractive, but he's smart and he does his research as he tries to figure out the world's rules, compelled by the loyalty spell that Stanley slapped on him as part of the summoning ritual. And it's a real war being fought, with real casualties, and real horrors. Which are made all the worse by the damned cutesy names and creatures (you don't die, you "croak", dragons are "dwagons", Ansom's main flying steeds are dried out Peeps, and his second in command is a cross between a vampire and The Fonz) It isn't long before Lord Hamster starts to figure out that maybe gaming the system isn't going to be as fun as he wants it to be.

It also didn't help that I heard about Micheal Jackson dying just before I got to this page. [link]

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24966317/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24966317/ Tue, 26 May 2009 17:46:59 PDT Unexpected Diversions to be made available for sale at Amazon [link] . I haven't the faintest idea why, but I'm not going to argue about the free marketing.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24559076/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24559076/ Sun, 03 May 2009 03:36:26 PDT had sent me the pdf for the wraparound cover. After some minor corrections (a couple of goofs on the back cover cp[y on my part and some argument with Lulu's automated system about the size) I successfully uploaded and completed the publishing process.

Now Unexpected Diversions [link] is available for purchase Lulu.com! Just $15.15 for the trade paperback, or a cheap $6.25 for a PDF download!

From the back cover.

The Elf and the Beast

Betrayed, enslaved, and stripped of everything he owned, including the shirt on his back, the ancient elf called Tez finds himself bought by Maria the Beast-Kin, a woman who looks mostly human, but is really the product of a wizard's alchemy. While trying to discover what his eventual fate is to be, Tez finds himself drawn to the mystery of this wizard's familiar turned landed lady. What does she want with him, and why does she act far younger than she appears?

Together these two outcasts form a tentative alliance, and then a deep partnership. By turns erotic, adventurous, and philosophical,
Unexpected Diversions explores Tez and Maria's deepening relationship, as one of them tries to atone for the evils he has done, and the other pays a steep price to obtain the only true form of immortality.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24231048/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24231048/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:34:58 PDT
This plainly ridiculous for a number of reasons. Never mind the idea of NASA actually having enough restorable Apollo equipment or the institutional memory to put it back together and pull off such a mission. My Dad, at the time I thought the flight was, would be older than John Glenn and suffering from emphysema after smoking for sixty+ years. Hardly astronaut material. Nevertheless, I was on the verge of Googling "Apollo 18" to convince myself it had happened when I first woke up. Because there was so much stuff my dad had done in his life that he hadn't told me about until he was close to dying*, that flying to the Moon and then not bothering to talk much about it would have been entirely in character with him.


*I had know, vaguely, that he had been in the OSS during WWII, and done one or two semi-impressive investigations with the FCC after the war, but until close to the end he'd never mentioned he flew on a blimp up and down the California coast looking for illegal radio transmitters. Or for that matter, most of his romance with my mom, which was sweet all of itself.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24193910/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/24193910/ Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:08:17 PDT was seeking commission work, to be paid for in goodies. So for the price of a Zelda hoodie I got two nice color pictures.

The first is "Her New Cabin Boy" [link] featuring an alternate universe version of 's Melika and my character Rolas.

The second is "Space Bar" [link] an AU version of Rufus and my OC Hazel. Give them both the love they deserve!

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/23893285/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/23893285/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:04:56 PDT go squeee!, make her head explode, or get her into model railroading. [link]layer_embedded

On another note:

Dear Japanese CGI animation house,

I'm sure doing an series that's basically "The Gulf Wars With Funny Animals", with badass bunny rabbits as the Americans and camels as the Iraqis/Iranians/Generic r/a/g/h/e/a/d/s Terrorists seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Teal'c]It was not. [/Teal'c}

No, I'm not going to add a link to the trailer. It's that offensive to me

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/23185108/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/23185108/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:20:33 PST Summary: The brave and powerful kung fu warrior, Tai Lung, finally escapes from a most cruel captivity, where he was held for twenty years after his senile turtle master, aided by his spineless trainer, cheated him out of his rightful destiny of becoming the Dragon Warrior. Will he be able to fight past his master's minions, the Furious Five, to reclaim the birthright he trained his whole life for? Or will the fat and lazy panda they have acquired as a false "Dragon Warrior" prove his undoing?

Review: Hey, you saw the movie you saw, I saw the one I saw... Poor bastard.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/22836306/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/22836306/ Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:16:41 PST 's help) put the manuscript together for publication on Lulu.

So to that end, I now open the floor to artists who have enjoyed my Tez and Maria stories and would like a copy of the Unexpected Diversions omnibus for themselves. I'm estimating that the book's value will be $15 before shipping costs, but for those who participate, it'll be free.

Rules are as follows:

1. Make a reply below saying you'd like to draw something for it.

2. If I think your art style would be suitable, I'll send a private note to you to get your address and other shipping info.

3. I'm looking for inked or clean pencil illustrations that can be used for interior art. Color or shaded art would be nice, but would drive up the printing costs too high for anyone else to be really interested in buying it (this is, essentially, a vanity publishing deal after all).

4. Illustrations should be sized for a trade paperback (6" x 9"). Half sized (6 x 4 1/2) would also be welcome.

5. Preferably the illo should be of a scene from one of the stories. But if you just want to do a generic character picture or "off-screen" scene, then I can probably find a place for it, either in the main text or a separate gallery in an appendix.

6. To prevent artists from duplicating scenes, if it comes to that, I'll open a forum thread on my home page for everyone to discuss things openly.

7. One book will be shipped to the artist per every one to two illustrations provided.

8. Please try to keep any illustrations PG-13. IE: No naughty bits hanging out, and scenes of violence (if any) can be a bit bloody but not covered in gore.

9. Full credit to all artists, whether your real names or a preferred pseudonym, will be given at the front of the book

9. This solicitation will remain open until I start the final editing process. For now, I'm shooting to complete that within 60 days. Books will be shipped the the artists ASAP once I publish on Lulu.

Links to the individual stories that will be in this books:

Unexpected Diversions, Part One: [link]
Unexpected Diversions, Part Two: [link]

Unforeseen Consequences, Part One: [link]
Unforeseen Consequences, Part Two: [link]

The Island Lord: [link]

Stride: [link]

Failure Mode: [link]

Open Canvas: [link]

Shopping Expedition: [link]

Andrea's Story, Part One (note: ignore all the present day scenes in the current posted version. That's all going to be pulled): [link]
Andrea's Story, Part Two: [link]
Andrea's Story, Part Three: [link]
Andrea's Story, Part Four: [link]

Dungeon Crawl: [link]

Old Tools: [link]

The Last Story: [link]

Boy Trouble (very non-canon, but if I get a picture that's cute enough I'll include it): [link]

There's one further story, but its not likely that anyone could possibly draw it as a PG-13 illo. If anyone wants to take a shot at it, they're welcome to PM me and I'll e-mail it to you.

Thanks to everyone who reads this and chooses t... ]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/22510999/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/22510999/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:34:53 PST Andrea's Story, but I've finally come to the decision to just edit it wit ha chainsaw and reduce it to a series of vignettes without the present day incidents and ditching my attempt to shoehorn in her romance with her eventual husband.

As I mentioned over a year ago, once I get the stories finalized, anyone offering to do artwork for the book (clean pencil or B&W inked preferred) will get a free copy.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/22157510/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/22157510/ Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:51:14 PST [link] to the first photograph of the Earth rising above the moon, taken by the crew of Apollo 8, on Christmas Eve 1968.

Merry Christmas everyone, and goodwill to all.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21812778/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21812778/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:21:19 PST [link] in one of my livejournal entries about the probable parentage of the Winter Warlock from Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Cold Miser from The Year Without Santa Claus.

I live for fanfic ideas.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21549624/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21549624/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:09 PST not to look at any hint or walkthrough sites, just so I'll be able to explore the DC Wastelands on my own and not spoil the joy of discovery.

I wonder if the Air and Space Museum is still standing?

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21406551/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21406551/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:26:51 PST [link]

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21124820/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/21124820/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:16:23 PDT has submitted a cute picture [link] of the teenagers in her webcomic's cast grown up in their twenties. Give it much love, for it is cute.

Otherwise Grown Up Joleen will shake you down for your lunch money.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20754382/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20754382/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:09:20 PDT
Subscription ran out yesterday. Back to the ads and elephant slow load times. Wah.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20707786/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20707786/ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:21:30 PDT
Didn't stay as long as I would have liked, Georgia was antsy after staying an hour in line to sign in, and she wanted OUT by the time we got to the Dealer's Room/Artist's Alley, so I didn't really get a chance to look around. I did pick up volumes 1 and 2 of DC's New Frontier, even if I didn't get them signed by Darwin Cooke like I wanted. I passed on the Alex Ross Obama shirt too, alas. I did get a couple of semi-famous artists to sign my convention book though.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20690858/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20690858/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:55 PDT [link] t-shirt with the cute Chinese girl by his side.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20310511/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20310511/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:09:24 PDT
Gacked this from

Forgive the lack of thumbnails. I don't know how to set those up in DA

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"Annoyance" [link] - Okay, admittedly I commissioned her to create this for me, but it's still an insane amount of detail work on that dragon.

"Dear Me" [link] - Fanart this time of one my characters. Nice simply lines on this one and a lovely expression on the mermaid as she ponders the puzzle of Tez entering her world like this.

"Pickle Jar" [link] - This is a simple enough gag comic, but the setup is lovely and the sheer Wile E. Coyote level of insanity of Dart's determination always makes me laugh.

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"One Question" [link] - Just look at the freakin' detail work in the margins, would ya?

"The Happy Couple" [link] - More insane levels of details in the carvings, complementing the front and center characters.

"Children of Fate" [link] - Another One Question fan art that makes me smile, just for the expressions one both their faces, not to mention the invocation of the playing card theme.

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"Laughing Man: Gordon Freeman" [link] - A perfect mashup of Ghost in the Shell: SAC and Half-Life's favorite mute protagonist.

"Perfect World - Alyx + Gordon" [link] - You may not care for it, Jade, but I like it!

"Anthro: I Like Robin Hood" [link] - And I like Jade's cute smile too.

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"Test Subject" (NSFW) [link] - A commission for me, of my character Marty. A nice invocation of his horrid fate.

"Wuv-My-Teddy" [link] - Cute but dangerous.

"Sushi Akira" [link] - Random wierd cuteness.

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"Maria" [link] - Absolutely marvelous portrait of the character shared by myself and . It makes her so elegant and beautiful.

"Daughter of Tez and Maria 2" [link] - So cute she's deadly.

"Willy and Evita Portraits" [link] - Tamara has a real gift for capturing a child's open, cheerful expressions. I just love Willy's gap toothed smile.

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]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20218215/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/20218215/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:21:59 PDT Raise the Titanic and Disney's Kim Possible.

The sheer surrealism of the concept makes me delerious.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/19487873/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/19487873/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:04:58 PDT Dude....

Some simple rules:

Thou shall not tell Avatar Aang what to do, even if you are him in a past life.

Thou shall not question Avatar Aang's badassery.

Thou shall not question Kitara's levels of badassery either.

Uncle Iroh might not have demonstrated much badassery in the final episodes, but then again he's Uncle Iroh. He doesn't need to prove anything to anyone.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/19121462/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/19121462/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:14:45 PDT
We have her. she seems to be having some stomach upset (diarhea) and has been pretty miserable because of it. (at least we think that is most of the problem...) we did get a few smiles and laughs out of her at one point....but then she will screw up her face and bawl...then she will be calm...and play..then bawl... a few times she has reached for me to be held. Right now Mom is holding her and she is mostly calm.

and shes like Thom in that she prefers to be walking outside. Her next favorite thing seems to be looking at the picture book I sent in the care package...and the doll baby.

Wierd Factoid: Talking to my mom last night she mentioned little Georgia was found by the police on the same day that her namesake, my grandmother Georgia Easton, was born. By the orphanage's best estimate she was actually born on March 23rd, which just happens to be my birthday. I'm not sure I believe in destiny but WOW.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/19052810/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/19052810/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:07:13 PDT
2. I've passed the 10,000 word mark on my novel and haven't stalled out yet. Go me. At my current rate of progress it should be finished some time in July...

...of 2009.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/18632521/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/18632521/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:54:36 PDT produced of my RPG character Marty Greycoat, sitting in his tank in the villian's lab. [link] (Warning: Mature Content)

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/18488087/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/18488087/ Sun, 25 May 2008 01:55:06 PDT But to everyone else, thank you for visiting!

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/18433556/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/18433556/ Wed, 21 May 2008 15:36:10 PDT too many journal entries, charting my progress as I try to complete my first original novel.

Goal: 100,000+ words
Words Today: 586
Words Total: 586
Words to Go: 99,414

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So to whomever gets that magic screenshot, I'm sorry I won't be able to reward you for it. But please know that I thank you and everyone else who was kind enough to view and read my works.

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]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/17127469/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/17127469/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:26:59 PST ! She's gets a paid one years subscription to DA and my eternal thanks for all the lovely pics!

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/17037409/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/17037409/ Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:34:32 PST [link]

Enter now for the chance to win a free year's subscription to DA! Second and Third prize are a six and three month subscription!

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16958379/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16958379/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:20:55 PST

1 . YOUR REAL NAME:
Royce Easton Day (sounds horribly pretentious, I know.)

2 . YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)
Royizzle (ew!)

3 . YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal)
Green Cat (um, no. Just no.)

4. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Dayro (yep, just as dorky as some the ones you hear in the movies)

5. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and favorite drink)
The Blue Dr. Pepper! (er, maybe not)

6. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first two letters of your middle name, last two letters of your first name then last three letters of your last name)
Oyeaceday (Gezunteit!)

7.YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (both parents middle name)
Leroy Easton. (LEEEEEROOOOOY!)

8. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets)
Black Salem (Very Goth, but slightly less ridiculous than "Black Rascal")

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16955363/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16955363/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:21:12 PST Spin Recovery, Part Six to my deviations while I was at work. When I got home it had disappeared. I had edited it a couple of times after I posted it, mostly to correct formatting goofs, and figured that I'd accidentally hit "Delete" instead of "submit".

But this morning it was back up again. I'm not what's going on, unless it got temporaily pulled because I'd listed "Drugs" in the tags and no marked it Mature Content.

Hrm.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16880389/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16880389/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:01:19 PST [link] Submit now for the chance for a free year's subscription to DA! Second and third place winners (if any) receive a six month and three month subscription respectively!

Contest Details: [link]

Links to Character Profiles: [link]

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16509828/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16509828/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:11:56 PST
Link to contest info: [link]

Tez: [link]

Maria: [link]

Marty: [link]

Tevzi and Abisha: Image: [link]

And Background: [link]

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16499455/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16499455/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:50:13 PST
The Contest: Create a piece of art using characters I either created (Mark Wilson, Ari Suhayar, Rachel Namitjira, Marty Greycoat, Tevzi & Abisha) or jointly share with (Tez and Maria).

First Prize: One year's subscription to DA.

Second Prize: Six months subscription.

Third Prize: Three months subscription

(assuming I actually get more than one entry, of course.)

Contest begins today, and acceptance of entries ends on February 28th. After that I'll post a poll where everyone can vote for their favorites and hold it open for two weeks to decide the winners.

Links to character information and sample images will be in my next journal entry.

UPDATE: It's February first, which means you have exactly one month to send your entries in!

Cricket chirp

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16297907/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16297907/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:33:09 PST 1776, translated into Arabic, running through my head. Which is bizarre, because this is probably the last play that would ever succeed in SA. Never mind the subject matter, I don't know if Saudi Arabia even has a history of musical theater.

Though the idea of translating the opening number's line "For God's sake, John, sit down!" to "All Merciful God, John..." does have a certain appeal.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16121860/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/16121860/ Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:19:09 PST -Barraryar, Lois McMaster-Bujold

I knew that line I had 's General Orson say in "Games Without Frontiers" sounded familiar to me. Sorry Ms. Bujold!

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]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/15947303/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/15947303/ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:05:58 PST has released her 2008 Terinu calendar for purchase on Lulu [link] . Show your support and buy a copy. There are twelve full color images, including the color versions of her B&W pieces "Evil Twin" [link] and "School Uniforms" [link]

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Though an evil part of me wants to get the Sceintologist version when it's released...

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-Royce

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It's difficult to describe how note perfect this is. Just look at it (below the article about Gorey becoming a Trekkie)

[link]

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Thanks again for this, !!

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The librarians have dubbed him "Edgar Allan Crow".

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Which still doesn't stop my head from wanting to explode over the concept of them covering an Anime con.

It's a bigger world than I realize sometimes.

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Tracy: I decided to draw pirates for the mural in China Girl's nursery. But then I couldn't figure out how to include stuff for girls, until I decided to put in mermaids.

Royce: Girls can be pirates too.

Tracy: Well yeah, but I still want to draw mermaids.

Royce: Will they be Ninja Mermaids?

Tracy: Why would they be... Pauses, then glares at me. There's no such thing as Ninja Mermaids.

Royce: Well how would you know, have you ever seen a mermaid?

Tracy: No.

Royce: Of course not. Hello! Ninjas!

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Fortunately she was laughing too hard to hit me.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13898024/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13898024/ Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:41:34 PDT Star Blazers Series One still running through my brain, I put "Final Yamato" the last Space Battleship Yamato (the original Japanese name for Star Blazers) theatrical movie in my Netflix queue. I shouldn't be surprised that the ship sinks in this one because at two hours and forty-five minutes the damned thing is almost as long as "Titantic". I'm only about 40 minutes in and already have had my suspension of disbelief not merely stretched, but pulled to the breaking point and then tied into a pretzel knot.

Events of note in more or less plot order that I've seen:

1) Bad guy turned good guy Dessler (Deslock in Star Blazers) is killed offscreen when his re-built empire is destroyed by a completely unexpected galaxy colliding with the Milky Way. Captain Kodai (Wildstar in SB), investigating this event, mourns his passing by tossing a bouquet of lillies from the deck of Yamato down to the planet below. Presumably in the future all warships will be equipped with a flower shop just in case this sort of thing is needed.

2) Aquarius, a planet completely composed of water, floods the Dungali homeworld.

3) The Dungali (sp), looking for a new planet to settle, decide to space warp Aquarius to Earth in order to flood it... to get rid of the Earthlings... so they can settle it... Despite it being flooded and everything.

3A) So if they could do that, wouldn't have been simpler to divert Aquarius away from their own homeworld in the first place?

4) The Yamato, her crew all either unconcious or dead from multiple hits by Dungali "Ultra-radiation missles" flies herself back to Earth.

5) Situation: You're Yuki/Nova, a trained nurse. You find your long-term fiance Kodai lying seemingly dead on the Yamato's bridge along with a pile of other bodies. Do you A) Check his vitals to see if he's alive? or B) Pull out his pistol and try to commit suicide in dispair?

I've got about two hours to go before this is over. I'm not sure my brain is going to make it.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13885098/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13885098/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:40:11 PDT [link] that created based on a bunch of silly alt-universe drabbles that I've been posting on her Terinu [link] webcomic forums. In her main character bumps into his evil AU self. Unlike Evil Spock he doesn't have a goatee, but he makes up for it with nifty razor piercings on his tail.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13836039/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13836039/ Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:22:12 PDT [link] Please forgive the two misplaced title cards. I thought I'd fixed them...

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13792125/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13792125/ Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:01:30 PDT , who has already made a wonderful cover image [link] and who intends (time permitting) to do several interior illustrations.

Now, even with that, this is likely to be a very slim volume. When I recently edited the current draft of the story I'm working to remove spaces between the paragraphs and justify them, I managed to lower my page count on one story from 65 to 50! In the end, the total page count will likely just squeeze by at around 120 pages, even with Peta's illos.

So, I was thinking that I might try to fill the page count with an "Other Visions" gallery, using (with permission) other artists images of Tez and Maria that I've managed to accumulate over the years. I've got at least three or four, and I hoping to persuade some artists to get more.

So to that end, I make the following public offer. Anyone who wishes to produce art for the book, I promise I will provide you a free copy of the finished book after I make it availible for sale. I will not ask you to produce anything until after I've finished writing my text. If you do request to provide an illustration in exchange for a copy of the book, I reserve the right to turn down your offer if your skills don't appear to be in the same league as the other illustrators providing work (I'm not asking you to match or 's quality, but I'm not looking for ten minute pencil sketches or stick figures either)

Does this sound reasonable? Anyone interested?

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Copy of A Miracle of Science to be signed by Jon and Marc: CHECK!

Issues of Terinu to show off to anyone who asks about my t-shirt: CHECK!

Homemade t-shirt with the website address to wear in front of 22,000 potential new Terinu recruits: CHECK!

Guess I'm ready to go. Look for the thirty-something guy with balding red hair wearing a t-shirt that says: "Most teenagers only THINK the whole universe is against them" on the back.

]]> *Sir-Talen http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13747042/ http://Sir-Talen.deviantart.com/journal/13747042/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:15:16 PDT for apparently getting the 6000th pageview!

I shall gift you with absolutely nothing for this, unless you have a yen for a [i]Terinu/Gargoyles[/i] crossover.

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