Grizzle Bazzle!

Have you ever seen a great userpic, and gone to someone's journal expressly for the purpose of looking at their icons? It's a weird little pasttime of mine. When you look at the collections of really great iconners for example, like awmp - the ones they have in active service, mind you, not their "hey look icons!" sets - you really get a taste of their style and personality. And interests. It's fun.

Anyway, I've been out of the loop for awhile - sorry, folks. I haven't vanished, just... gone into hiding for a little bit. I've missed almost too many birthdays to mention, but I will anyway: Happy Belated Birthday to tepintzin, rainkatt, boschette, and calliopes_pen!!

By way of at least not showing up empty handed, I offer this Mythbusters parody on Robot Chicken (even though I have to sort of call shenanigans on it, since this is not what Adam and Jamie would do; they'd be far more likely to build a robot to wank continuously or get the Build Team to conduct clincal trials - wow, now there's a picture).

And just because I'm already on the Adult Swim page, here's the Stroker and Hoop Christmas episode, which includes time travel, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and Santa dying from slow-acting poison. It's totally sick, and I laughed myself near into a rupture when Toys and I originally saw it. Grizzle Bazzle!

LJ and Other Journals
I'm still feeling very uncomfortable with LJ. Yes, yes, I know, more important things in this world, BUT... And yet I'm not sure how well this multiple journaling thing is going to work for me. I have four accounts right now - GreatestJournal, InsaneJournal, JournalFen, and LiveJournal. I'll probably be cross-posting with LJ and IJ, at least at first; don't know about moving old LJ entries over to IJ (yikes, what a job, but it's possible I will), and I haven't had time to look around JF yet. GJ I'm regarding as a sort of last line of defense emergency bolthole. I'm not wild about a lot of aspects of GJ - it seems chilly to me, impersonal, like a service run by robots.

But, in between other things (there's also some RL activity happening right now which might be promising in the long term - some more freelance work, among other things), I've been reading fic, and more importantly, thinking about fic. I've got a seasonal_spuffy posting date that needs planning for (although I don't think I'm gonna be writing a prose story for that one - I've set my heart on drawing a comic!) and my god-I-suck-I-haven't-updated-it-in-too-long WIP for the Welcome Back to the Hellmouth ficathon on the front burner. So I've been... thinking. Sampling. Re-reading some old favorites, backing up a lot of them on my hard drive in pdf format (thank you, rusty_halo, for that plain print version on All About Spike - such a godsend!), and also trying out new stories that are a little more off my normal track.

A lot of this impulse was kicked off by the Lynnevitational challenge I set myself, to write some Buffy/Angel (and I still owe practically everyone comments on their stories there--god, I've been sucking at commenting lately), and the way a whole new universe of plot bunnies opened up once I did that, because all it took was the one little twist, and then I had something new. God, I love that. I love finding something new.

On that note, speaking of new (at least to me), I'd love to hear some Spike/Xander recs, as I'm finding that relationship an interesting counterpoint to S/B. Any favorites?

[cross-posted to Insane Journal]