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Write out the names of your characters and explain
1) how you thought of their name
2) what made you create the character in the first place
3) how the character has changed over time (if they have changed)
4) any random fun fact about that character

Maddox
1) I have no idea, really. It just...came to me.
2) I *think* it was for my flatmate-at-the-time Heather's world she was building - it had started out of a club in our Shadowrun game called Glitterfall, and has now become the behemoth she's calling disUrbe now. She's really into world-building, but I hope she actually does something with this one! Anyhow. Maddox was made to be the 'Hound' of the 'Hunter', which means there was this chick who was given the title of Hunter and she was a leader, and he was her diplomat and ambassador, as well as handling the things that needed a bit more...delicacy than the Hunter was generally known for. So yeah. He killed people, I guess...but kept it classy?
3) Oh MAN has he changed. Strangely enough, he's come fill-circle in many ways. He started off as a stylish, introverted, brutal servant of this woman, and then he became a character for my friend Mo's world in LA. He was her girl Di's lover, and he was sensitive, compassionate, loving...a really nice guy! WHAT HAPPENED, MADDOX?
I think the next place he really showed up was in Fractured. He's a thief and runner now, and he's ruthless, manipulative, still stylish and introverted, and entirely selfish. Oh, and he likes to torment his best friend, Roy G. Biv. He isn't exactly what anyone could call a nice guy.
4) He once killed his lover's friend and left the fellow to die on the tiled floor of a restaurant kitchen. Geex, Maddox!

Kürten
1) My character Kürten shared the surname of Peter Kürten, an extremely...uh, *prolific* mass killer dubbed 'The Dusseldorf Vampire'. His story is fascinating, and he is my favourite mass killer. I mean, you know, if I had one.
2) The Baroque needed a villain to do Newton's dirty work!
3) He's become deeper and more conflicted, and perhaps, in only three cases I know of, doubted the sanctity of his work as God's (Bloody) Soldier. One of these was due to a small boy, the other to an angel, the third to a whore.
4) He likes to strangle girls! FUN TIMES YOU GUYS!

Write out the names of your characters and explain
1) how you thought of their name
2) what made you create the character in the first place
3) how the character has changed over time (if they have changed)
4) any random fun fact about that character

]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/26337668/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/26337668/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:51:07 PDT
So, yes. Have muffins to bake tomorrow, and have dishsoap to scrub kitchen with, and and poison to fight off any new infiltrations of the Evil Insect Army. I WILL defeat them, I will! *intense looks* And tonight I'm taking my sissers TooLa and Pieka out for dinners, even though I really cannot afford it. But I did promise, so!

What I need most is to hear from all of you! I miss you lots, and you should come and say hullo to me and such. I doing a good job of being active! I'm posting stuff, see? See? Yay for me? *bounce*

]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/25796991/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/25796991/ Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:23:05 PDT
A creative Project of SOME MAGNITUDE is battering at my brain, and I should vermuch like you to help complete it! To quote old Andronicus: "If you love me, as I think you do, go hence:" - anyone who has a webcam, a camera with enough memory for just a few minutes of video...hell, even still shots! This is going into a collaborative project, Hopefully!
Oh. You do NOT have to be near my [link] close to me or anyone else to participate. This can be done pretty much all over the internets, as I'm planning it now - though of course if you and your friends feel like getting creative, that's so much the better! It involves screaming and being crazy and, if you are VERY awesome, (fake) bloodiness. Corn syrup and food colouring, my lovemuffins. And, uh...capturing yourself/your friends in all your bloody insane glory in some way, whether in photograph, video, webcam, what-have-you.

also helpful to the cause:
- sound mixing/computery magic/industrially-music-stuffs
- simple website magicianry
- advice for me on video editing, if you would like to share some
- spreading the word

But REALLY all I need are lots of clips of everyone being all bloody and crazy and running from zee germans xombies. Let us make some magic, lumplings. Uh, I should probably mention that this is not being made to be sold in any way, shape, or form. You're not likely to make any money and I'm sure as hell not going to. It's just for fun, for art, and to put something wild and beautiful into the world.

]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/25204786/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/25204786/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:23:35 PDT
Promise.

(uh, and, poke me if I disappear again, yeah?)

Late-lee:

- Still run Clockabye. Still all the love there is.
- In a lovely flat, I can believe myself happy if I never go out the door.
- Trading body travel for head travel. Adventures galore!
- Words, Words, Words. Lots of them coming lately, joy!
- Generally just being a rockstar.
- All you lovelies still want to play?

]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/18453955/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/18453955/ Thu, 22 May 2008 19:56:25 PDT brill to paint to, there's a song by
Hercules and Love Affair that's pretty much become my new obsession. And not to mention they're all of them clubby and dancy and catchy ad HELL. Wheeee.

Right. So I have three paintings that are all hovering somewhere around part-way done. But I've been getting distracted with old school Doctor Who episodes (One and so on) and I spent about three days watching the War Machines from beginning to end. Wheee. And I still haven't seen fourth series of the new set! Only a few eps, and I was done with Poisoned Sky when I realised that...UMM. It's a two parter! OH MY. You would think I would have onedered about the completely lack of build-up (not to mention reintroduction of UNIT, and *thank you* for not shoving Torchwood into every single ep, argh) but...apparently not! HEE.

SO I have about three television series I haven't seen yet. I could keep watching Battlestar Galactica and see how long it takes before the soap opera starts to make my teeth turn to honeycomb again...or I could watch Deadwood, Moonlight, or Blackpool. Any suggestions?

So!


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Now playing: The Presets - This Boy's In Love
via FoxyTunes

]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/17801960/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/17801960/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:12:17 PDT
He said we tend to think a Vocation is a choice, that we've chosen to be a priest, an artist, a teacher, a mother.

He said this isn't so at all. He said that a true Vocation is something we're given, a charge, a gift, a calling, a blessing. The only *choice* that's ours is whether or not to accept it.

My Grandmother had her Vocations . That of a teacher, a wife, mother, grandmother, and that of a devoted woman of Faith, he said. She was given that Vocation, he said, and embraced it joyfully and with devotion. Strange, that although I diverged from her path, I find myself teaching, loving, nurturing. Strange that all the little things she likes, I'm finally discovering I like too. I want to bake, to sew, to paint saws!

Makes me think about art. My grandmothers, both of them - one Anglican, the other devoted Catholic - have always told me that 'your art is God's gift'. They told me that the drawings I always took for granted were a blessing, something the God they loved had given me, presumably out of that same love.

Makes me wonder if I've been taking it for granted too long.

General -

- Yes, I'm still a moderator on the Victorious [link] and yes, it still takes up the bulk of my freetime. JOY.
- Lindsey has gotten me into Battlestar Galactica. Oh, dear. I'll have to take a break from Blackadder fan art for a while... *sigh*
- I am working on getting an art site together! It's been hit and miss, but I'm really hoping it's going to start coming together. However, I really need to meet someone with web skills, who wants to take my ideas and make an awesome site out of them. Do you know any-one like that?
- I am putting a LOT into scraps. Stuff that I love but it just so old, stuff that I can't be arsed to clean up, stuff that I scribbled but that really gets something across. So! Pleasepleaseplease, if you watch me, watch my scraps as well. Otherwise you may miss the best stuff!
- I am slowly but surely working on Ganglands again! We're taking the character away from the setting they were born in and giving them a new, slightly more dystopian world. This is a pretty intense process for me and , while indubitably rewarding in a way I can't express, is terribly exhausting so it's slow going. But never fear. They shall live again!
- Of course, the new beloved baby that's taking up most of my time nowadays is Clockabye. It's a world, it's a community, it's a writing project, it's a companion to the Victorious, it's all of those things. But what it is mostly is just starting up, so now is the time to get your fingers dirty if you care to. [link] . And here is the blog: [link]

FRIENDS and CONFEDERATES!


~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/17500099/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/17500099/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:35:30 PDT Including tea.

"Thank you so much for coming to tea, Vicar! Would you like something to drink? Perhaps some...HAM?"


Other things:

Steampulp has opened! Created by me, made awesome by
Anyone who wants to, or even doesn't, please please please! Visit [link] and become acquainted with the awesomeness of what Lindsey has done with the place. She'd put in SO much hard work, thought up some awesome characters and world stuff and history stuff and...just go there. Now.

I'm still really needing commissions if you can manage it, mostly because my boy is so hard up he's being horrid to live with *grin*. So if there's something you'd like me to draw, let me know!

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Keeping me whole: Johnny Cash - The Ballad of Ira Hayes
via FoxyTunes
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]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/17168225/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/17168225/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:46:52 PST
But yes, this is a "Please, commission me" post.
I'm not saying I'm a good enough artist to get commissions. I'm not even saying you should like my art, and I'm certainly not about to say that I should get monies for it. However.

My flatmate and I are hard up. Really, really hard up. It's been a shitty winter, we moved into a more expensive place, there were some totally unexpected expenses, and some of the problem is that he wasn't really fully aware of our situation until very recently. And I don't want anything for me, but this boy is a really, really fantastic person, and I hate hate HATE seeing him stressed about something like monies.

...not to mention, being the selfish pixie I am him being all bad-moody rather inconveniences me. Boo.

Like I said, I don't really think I want to solicit for my art like this, but I feel like it's something I can do and...I really have to try to help out in any little way I can.
SO! If you have ever thought "oh, she should draw me something!" please ask! Please please please! Obvy I will try really hard to give you something actually properly set up and all that, and even with background! I could even *try* to do a certain style (art nouveau, art deco, froud-ian) if you asked, though I'm shite at anime. As far as subject matter, it's obvious I'm best at human-ish figures, better at females, and comfortable with fantasy. Things like big armour-suits or cars or animals are just...not my strong point, but if that's all you like you wouldn't be here! So. Pinup, porn, static, involved, don't care, I'll do my best. Hell, I'll write you a story if you want! High-res digital images would likely get to you the quickest, but traditional, digital, I'll do my best to get you what you would like best.

I know nothing about money, so I'm not going so say "this is this much". Just..whatever you can do, and we'll work from there. Thank you SO much for not being mean to me about this! I hate asking at all, but...sometimes one has to suck up and sell out.


General -

- I am putting a LOT into scraps. Stuff that I love but it just so old, stuff that I can't be arsed to clean up, stuff that I scribbled but that really gets something across. So! Pleasepleaseplease, if you watch me, watch my scraps as well. Otherwise you may miss the best stuff!
- I am working on getting an art site together! It's been hit and miss, but I'm really hoping it's going to start coming together. So! I'll let you all know.
- Yes, I'm still a moderator on the Victorious [link] and yes, it still takes up the bulk of my freetime. JOY.
- I am slowly but surely working on Ganglands again! We're taking the character away from the setting they were born in and giving them a new, slightly more dystopian world. This is a pretty intense process for me and , while indubitably rewarding in a way I can't express, is terribly exhausting so it's slow going. But never fear. They shall live again!
- Of course, the new beloved baby that's taking up most of my time nowadays is Clockabye. It's a world, it's a community, it's a writing project, it's a companion to the Victorious, it's all of those things. But what it is mostly is just starting up, so now is the time to get your fingers dirty if you care to. [link] . And here is the blog: [link]

FRIENDS and CONFEDERATES!

~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/16859747/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/16859747/ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:02:07 PST
And because I like lists, I'm going to do this in list form! With little headings!

ART
- I was not drawing. For a LONG time. And I hated everthing I did. And this was very, very, very bad. And then one day (after a few fitful starts and stops) I started drawing again. And it was onederful. So here we are.
- I have huge amounts of really old stuff that I still like but that isn't reflective at ALL of where I want to go next. So I'll likely upload a lot of that up here and then put it into scraps later. Or leave it. Seeing the progression of a gallery is always nice...opinions on this are welcome and asked for!
- I am putting a LOT into scraps. Stuff that I love but it just so old, stuff that I can't be arsed to clean up, stuff that I scribbled but that really gets something across. So! Pleasepleaseplease, if you watch me, watch my scraps as well. Otherwise you may miss the best stuff!
- I am working on getting an art site together! It's been hit and miss, but I'm really hoping it's going to start coming together. So! I'll let you all know.

MUSIC
- I have been listening to Sweeney Todd (three different versions) constantly for about the last five days. It has yet to be seen if this will have any long-lasting effect on my psyche, but it doesn't bode well for mental stability, does it?
- I think I'll update my journal whenever I get infatuated with a different new (old) musical! This happens pretty often. No doubt some of you remember the two week long run of Chess...

CREATIVE JOY
- Yes, I'm still a moderator on the Victorious ([link]) and yes, it still takes up the bulk of my freetime. JOY.
- I am slowly but surely working on Ganglands again! We're taking the character away from the setting they were born in and giving them a new, slightly more dystopian world. This is a pretty intense process for me and , while indubitably rewarding in a way I can't express, is terribly exhausting so it's slow going. But never fear. They shall live again!
- Of course, the new beloved baby that's taking up most of my time nowadays is Clockabye. It's a world, it's a community, it's a writing project, it's a companion to the Victorious, it's all of those things. But what it is mostly is just starting up, so now is the time to get your fingers dirty if you care to. ([link]). And here is the blog: [link]

FRIENDS and CONFEDERATES!
http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/16817158/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:57:26 PST
So...I'll get used to it. But I still will scowl at all the newbiefans. (unless you're my friend)*scowl*

Edit: Oh, and cutting out the Ballad? WHY? WHY WOULD YOU? *sob*

PostEdit: And why is half the music that actually made it in the film not on the soundtrack? Like pretty much all of the Beadle?
And why in heavens was Mrs. L wearing her underwear (corset) OVER her dress?

PostPost: On the other hand I'm totally drawing a bajillion pages of ST art....EEEEeeeeEEE!

Meanwhile, I'm working hard on this: [link]
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Keeping me whole: Stephen Sondheim - Johanna
via FoxyTunes

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Keeping me whole: Sweeny Todd - Pretty Women
via FoxyTunes

]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/16739984/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/16739984/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:21:23 PST
But I've recently been gifted a new tablet to replace the old (literally) falling apart one, so it only feels proper to put it to some use. I have some pencil drawings, too (that being my oldest and dearest medium) but for now I shall try this whole 'digital art'...thing. Eeep.

I think I'll start by re-upping some of these ooold pics, and give them new life! OH MY GOSH. That means TRACING. I'm such a cheater. *sob*

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Keeping me whole: The Beta Band - Gone
via FoxyTunes

]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/8621646/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/8621646/ Thu, 04 May 2006 07:39:45 PDT
[link]

Nibblekat? THIS is what I was talking about.

STEAMPUNK
HORROR
CORRUPTION
SECRETS
FUTILITY
SUPERNATURAL
SECRET AGENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.....plus, this just in: some (apparent) criminal named Valentine. What more could you want? ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/6397451/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/6397451/ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:12:04 PDT
yes, it's exiting and scary but hey, I can't seem to stop. I am not sure when I will have teh inarweb again, but when I do, I will bury you in an ART DELUGE! A positive deluge it shall be, verily.

Oh, and the call ius stil lout for GL fanart. Please give us some new stuff, fur the new website!!!!!!

thanks much! ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/6212104/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/6212104/ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:57:05 PDT
1. I desire paintchat. Most beloved thing!

2. Også, I must needs beg , , , and , to make me some Ganglands fanart/fanfic for the new website. is exempt on account og that the fajita has been much the adoring already., although anything made will of course be Happily recieved.

3. I started watching A Fistful of Dollars. I do much adore it. I've been listening to Ennio Morricone and reading Westerns. I want a cowboy now...

I have decided to start drawing more Ganglands people, and also to send out the call for GL fanart, esp people who are already in the club. Thou dost know who thou art!!! This is in preparation for the biggest thing evar!!!!! You can go to [link] (the Ganglands mailing list) to keep updated.

Well, at least I'm drawing again. If you are here:
[link]
you can see my work, as I have a table there. Anyone who is coming to GenCon, let me know and you must come and say hallo!


Anywayses. I must say to people who like my stuff at all - pop into scraps! I put a lot of stuff there that I like just as much, only it is more...falltopeices. So go seeeeeeeeee.......... (also there is a gothpoppet there. Die of the joy)

Here are people I love today:


, and , new here and a really fun writer, check her out!

And also, I want to thank and for always commenting on all my pics and being so supportive and awesome. The ROCKness is of YOU!!!!!

That is all now. Thank you. Collapse. ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/5857648/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/5857648/ Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:10:02 PDT should get those lyrics, and if she doesn't I shall cry. And kill as well. Yes.
Second, I'm still reeling with glee (yes, GLEE!!!) over my tablet finally working nicely, so yes, can expect more puter art. Yay. O, if only I had someone to paintchat with!
Også, in the I have found someone who draws Changeling art, and as well has a nocker boy perhaps as adorable as my Tad!!! But not like Toomy. *loves Toomy* So go see her and bask in the beautifulnessessssssss.

I've been listening to Ennio Morricone and reading Westerns. I want a cowboy now...

I have decided to start drawing more Ganglands people, and also to send out the call for GL fanart, esp people who are already in the club. Thou dost know who thou art!!!

Well, at least I'm drawing again. If you are here:
[link]
you can see my work, as I have a table there.

THE SUN IS UP!

Anywayses. I must say to people who like my stuff at all - pop into scraps! I put a lot of stuff there that I like just as much, only it is more...falltopeices. So go seeeeeeeeee.......... (also there is a gothpoppet there. Die of the joy)

Here are people I love today:




And also, I want to thank and for always commenting on all my pics and being so supportive and awesome. The ROCKness is of YOU!!!!!

That is all now. Thank you. Collapse. ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/5538737/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/5538737/ Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:51:14 PDT
Ok. First of all, it is sad that I don't draw enough Ganglands characters anymore. *smacks senf* Naughty pixie! Sloth is the enemy, three or four toed.

Well, at least I'm drawing again. If you are here:

[link]

you can see stuff!
THE SUN IS UP!!!

Ok. the other news is that I finally (finally!) have been getting a driver for my wee pretty tablet. REVELATION! (not, not that kind). So for the first time, it works and I like to draw on the puter. Nw I have Opencanves and it is nice. O, if only I had someone to paintchat with! Anywayses.

The point is I am making tonnes of puterpaint pics, and you shall see one! As per the request of . OK!

Here are people I love today:


One of them is my little sisterbrother, one of them is my darlingest slashy, one of them my best inernet lover, and one of them has a char that tried to kill mine, also who I've known the longest. How loverly! Also that one should recognise the subject lyrics. Yes. ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/4877505/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/4877505/ Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:53:02 PDT
Do you have one you could lend me for a while? Just until I get on my feet, mate, I swear.... *grin*

Well, at least I'm drawing again. If you are here:

[link]

you can see stuff!

THE SUN IS UP!!! ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/4710127/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/4710127/ Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:35:04 PST I am writing....OH, SHOCK!

But I have a question - should I put some art up? I have lots. Umm...yes. I am having indecision about this. Hoor, your opinion would be wonderful, as would yours, fajita and jojo! All this new stuff is none of it 'finished' or proper looking, but what else is so new?

Now I shall go and listen to more glam rock.... ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/2359135/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/2359135/ Tue, 04 May 2004 14:41:10 PDT
Sometime in the next month I hope to update on elfwood. A Rather Massive update, I do believe. Please do e-mail me if you would like to be informed.
Also, when I have them finished, here I shall post:
Some computer-painted pikechurs,
my Puppetland chara, Tansy Patchknees,
some Shadowrun-type pics
and some other stuffs.

If there is anything especial you would much like to see, you need simply to inform me! ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/1644692/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/1644692/ Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:06:14 PST
But the reason I'm writing this is to let everyone know that right now we're working on the Ganglands website, and it should be up again soon! Just a simple one, but hopefully more workable than the last. Moeanwhile, you can still find info and other cool stuf at the Groupsite:
[link]

Oh, and there should be some more watercolours coming up soon. Whee! ]]> ~shoepixie http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/565039/ http://shoepixie.deviantart.com/journal/565039/ Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:15:53 PST

So today is gonna be a cleaning day...hopefully I can find all those old character profiles that I misplaced somewhere in the black hole that is my room. I really should work on them...and my series notes, because monday's a Talknight! I have to finish that chalk of Thalia at her dancing pole, and I wanna do a matching one of Kalem, teehee. Also, I am thinking to start that series of famous-inspired pics soon...I think it will be really exiting! Umm...I prolly won't get nearly as much done as I want to, hehe.

Scooza Amootz Meep,
your friendly neighbourhood Pixie ]]> ~shoepixie