Because I'm procastinating over my to-do list and Death Games, that's why. >_< Warnings: the images below are quite large. Okay, so the list includes something that really freaks me out, so give me chance to recover my senses before I attempt that. XD

( Saint Seiya, HP, and my attempt at coloring kakyou024's art under the cut! )

Title: Come spring
Pairing/Characters: Deathmask, Aphrodite
Series: Saint Seiya 30 Themes "Hope"
Warnings: Gen, a smidgen of sadness here and there
Wordcount: 580
Disclaimer: Masami Kurumada created Saint Seiya, so that means he owns the pretty boys and the shinies. ^^;

( The winter comes, with frigid winds that leaves frost on the bare branches. )

The bad part is I've come up with a terrible rock band!AU and a fantasy AU for the twenty themes I did not pick for the main story. I tried to piece together a coherent "Oh, this is how they fell in love and fell apart" story for Deathmask and Aphrodite, and somehow smuttiness had worked its way in. I have breathplay and semi-public frottage listed down, and then there's bondage, threesome, and noncon over at the rockband!AU. I'm dreading what'll come up for the fantasy one. Crossdressing's sure to be there, at least. The thought of 'Dite in a ruffled ball gown gathered around his waist is the only reason I'm rereading bodice rippers. *coughs* Yes, I'm just educating myself over how you're supposed to throw someone over the field of heather when you want to have your dastardly way with them. I'm not thinking of making a crossdressing!romance novel Snupin, oh no, someone else have done it before!

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*headdesks* Puppies. I hate puppies.

Demian Syndrome is bad for my health. I was attempting to draw young Snape, and a few lines into the sketch I realized the boy wearing the Anarchy shirt was Sirius Black. Damn, blast, hell and damnation! so went I, so I opted to finish off the set with mischievous!James, tired!Remus, and a rather ambiguous Peter. I never could draw him right - he just doesn't register in my radar. So to appease my Snape muse I tried drawing him again - and this time Regulus insisted to be drawn beside him. Regulus looks way too pretty for my taste, which is strange, since his brother looks manly. Apparently, in my world, MWPP era Snape was Regulus's tutor for a few subjects, and Regulus treats him like a cross between confidante and cousin. Regulus was the one who insisted Snape has to tie his hair back during their tutoring sessions, and Snape reluctantly complied. O_o;

So, here I am, with a freaky MWPP era fic where Sirius hates Severus for influencing (I think the word "corrupting" was bandied about) Regulus, Regulus is a funny, sweet and slightly unhinged version of his brother, Peter is a neurotic twit, and Lily is Loved By All. And did I say Regulus and Severus have the weirdest OOC conversations in my head?

Regulus: Severus, I have a canker sore again! It hurts!
Severus: Here. *hands over a bottle* Drink this.
Regulus: All right. *drinks* Fuck that stings! What the hell is it?!
Severus: Extract of Citrus sinensis mixed with two parts of the universal solvent. In short, orange juice. The muggles believe that Vitamin C deficiency leads to an increase in canker sores.
Regulus: That is so not true! I just need something for this sore. Don't you have some canker sore healer potion or anything like it?
Severus: If I did, I would sell it to the muggles. Just gargle with the usual concoction I made. And stop biting the inside of your cheek when you see your brother.
Regulus: But he's such an ass sometimes!
Severus: I know. But I don't worry myself sick about it.

*headdesks* I'm supposed to be writing DEATH GAMES, for Chrissakes, not a screwed up version of HP in the seventies. >_< And I still have those two bunnies o' doom I mentioned to osmalic a while back.

( Because they're pretty painful )

Random bit #1: I saw a K2 doujinshi of Gankutsuou over at yaoi_daily and can't help thinking of El Fili's Simoun and Basilio, which is not my pairing for said Rizal book. *headdesks*

Random bit #2: team7 just posted an inspiring set of August 2006 themes over at 31_days. I'm dancing with glee over some of them, they're beautiful and they make me want to stop drawing and start writing again. ^^;

But as I said today's theme is scratchwork, so here are my messy sketches again. O_o; No HP, one TS, and a lot of Saint Seiya.

( My first attempt at Truthseekers chibi )

( a Saint Seiya special )

( What happens when you get off one crossover (YGO/VS) )

And the only finished picture in the bunch.
( Which is a girl with a rabbit. )

DeathGames I still haven't sent the reply to said review, Ariri-nee. X_x; When our counter hits 1,000 or the closest to it I'll have an open virtual coffee bar.
last random bit: Paper Eleven : the complete collection can be dl-ed in a 10.5mb zip file from Clone Army. Which is exactly what I'm doing right now.

Yes, osmalic, I will accept all blame for anything, even the loss of hair upon Jaime Fabregas's pate and the sudden depreciation of the peso, as long as you keep drawing! See her awesome Legolas/Gimli here! My cheerleaders hide in shame compared to that beauty.

I feel obligated to say you'd better spare your eyes from the madness. I have almost all of the preliminary sketches for everything I listed down in my Long List of Fanart to Do, all I need is the patience to redo the linework. Anyway, here's a few things I managed to finish.

( What new idea regarding Seto Kaiba Krimi has brought me! )

( RL/SS Cheerleaders for OSmalic )

( TS fanart: But he'll never be back )

( Saint Seiya color and pose study (Deathmask Angelo/Aphrodite) )

Most fanart involving Snape in various states of crossdressing and/or anything even remotely related to the Aurally-inspired challenge I'm saving for a quiet weekday when no one can see what torture I'm inflicting to the poor Potions Master. While listening to Kimeru sing about Being Shiny, no less.

I won't be attaching the penkeyboard after this weekend, as I have a brilliant idea on why the Mayan Codex was stolen. XD

I had to type this with the onscreen keyboard, since my penkeyboard is probably the worse thing created by man for typing. The shift key doesn't work, the letter L gets stuck at the oddest moments, but anyway, I come bearing art, so all's well with the world. XD I was planning to finish all the RL/SS fanart in one go, but my patiently suffering Figaro is in public view, and I have no plans of scandalizing the groundlings.

I'm going to hate July 7, it's packed with birthdays. XD And I still haven't finished Shirakawa's and Neji's. Today is Garuda Aiakos's birthday, and because I just heard that he originally came from Nepal -



I ended up drawing him with a juzu. Though I'm pretty sure the mala over there is different - a full complement of 108 beads, to hang around the neck, with a larger bead to weigh it down at the back. But then I could be wrong. XD Oh, right, I should x-post this at the saint seiya comm.

SAGA, where are you?

*rattles in my tiny white box for a brain* Feedback, nee? I am seriously considering returning Touya to the world of the living to be reincarnated as the next Athena if you say nothing. See? I even have a list of the next Gold Saints. >_<

Aries - Watanuki (XXXHolic)
Taurus - Conan Edogawa
Gemini - Yugi (oooh, so perfect!)
Cancer - Mokuba (err...maybe not?)
Leo - Shindou
Virgo - Bakura
Libra - Yuushi-kun
Scorpio - Seto-kun
Sagittarius- Rock Lee
Capricorn- Echizen Ryoma (so sue me, Wankage killed me)
Aquarius - the puppy.
Pisces - Fuji-ko (Hm, Kabuto and he share birthdays....)

:)

- How many times can they show Toriyama-sensei's musclebound Super-Saiyans beat the crap out of aliens/androids/I-don't-want-to-think-what-the-hell-those-are anyway?
- So cosplayers who specialize armors can wear outlandish wigs and make shiny gold Saint armor (or shiny purple Surplices, if those rock their worlds)
- Everyone should share in the variations of niisan love. ^_-
- So I can gawk at Aphrodite before he became a servant of Hades.
- So I can finally learn if Radamanthys did have "Effeminate" as an attack, or if I heard it wrong. O_o;;;
- One word: MU.

Refuse thy fate (YGO/St Seiya)

"No," Kaiba refused, adamant. The golden creature glittered and radiated unmitigated _joy_ at finding him at last.

"But it's so cool, niisama!" Mokuba grinned, already busy dismantling his statue. The bonkotsu strutted around, an overblown Christmas decoration in tawdry gold.

"Egyptian artifacts, shadow games, Atlantis, and now this," Kaiba muttered, still refusing to accept his fate.

The pharaoh contemplated his own with a frown. "Though it's heretical, I wouldn't mind trying it out for a change. Afraid, Kaiba?"

"I will not be a servant of a fucking Greek goddess," Kaiba grumbled, even as he started taking apart his gold armor.

I learned a new word today: defloration. My original thought when I saw this: ah, must be a thing about florists?. Close, but no dice. And I thought I've seen them all. :P Who wouldn't think it was about florists? The line was : The defloration had gone well. (From a YGO fanfic that will remain nameless)

( [St Seiya] Routine and Begging for Rain )

The reason why I'm posting these (again, I think? I'm certain I posted these before) is I'm finally happy with them, and will post these on ff.net today.

( Hikaru no Go: The Simplest Reason in the World )

Holmes, PoT, Hikaru no Go and Yu-Gi-Oh! scheduled next. Lots of Kabaji lovin', terribly trite Victorians, bone-crunching hollows, and the unexpected switch from MalikxRyou to OtogixMalik. There must be a god in heaven to stop me. The god of organization sent me Treepad, a 0.5mb app, to help me keep my fanfic ideas arranged in different tabs. Now I know what fic ideas I should be working on. ^_^