In the meanwhile, I've tried to draw a sketchy fanart inspired by one of the best things in YAB: the Pig-Rabbit.
In the meanwhile, I've tried to draw a sketchy fanart inspired by one of the best things in YAB: the Pig-Rabbit.
Among my geeky passions there are surely Marion Zimmer Bradley's novels. During the years I've collected almost all the Darkover and Avalon books ^.^, and in the past I've often enjoyed drawing ethereal priestesses with a blue moon tattooed in their foreheads.
Lately I felt like Avalon inspired me again in drawing something, and before realizing it I was already scketching some characters from the first two books: The Fall of Atlantis and Ancestors of Avalon. I mean, the first two in the internal chronology of the whole saga, not the one of their publication. So, below there are Deoris, Domaris, Riveda, Micail and last but not least Tiriki. ^.^
Click on each picture for a larger view and for details ;).
Those characters belong to the Marion Zimmer Bradley Litterary Work Trust and Diana Paxon. No Copyright infrangment is intended. They are just a small tribute.
I'm stealing this funny meme from
- X what you saw( follow me )
- O what you haven't finished/saw sizable portions
- Bold what you loved
- Strike for what you disliked/hated
- Leave unchanged if neutral
Honestly speaking, the Tudors is a crap of a tv show. It has no historical accuracy (some facts are completely reversed or invented), the characters play at being sexy and glamorous as they were attending a fashion show, and they speak and act like nowadays people. For period drama lovers this could be hilarious, but the Tudors is one of those tv-shows one likes to watch, also to laugh about it. When I look at John Rys Meyers, I don't think that he is Henry VIII. I think "Oh, there's Bryan Slade on tv", and I wonder why his hair aren't blue, expecting him to bring out an electric guitar from nowhere saying: "I want to meet Curt Wild".
But, in some way, it's so silly that it is entertaining, intriguing, and absolutely not boring. And my inner english letterature lover is more than pleased. Who cares if it's not faithful to history? As always, I'll watch it with pleasure just to have fun. And besides, luckily its seasons are always very short (around 10 episodes), so you don't reach the point to end up tired. The first episode was a bit slow, but I know by experience that there will be an increasing rythm as long as the series proceed. And I'm looking forward for it.
Anyway, I thought this test could have been funny. A Daemon in Philip Pulmann's fictional universe is the animal counterpart of someone's soul.
The animals I've always felt more near with are hawks and dolphins. But the text result surprised me. According to it my Daemon is
Multi-Faceted Soul

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Yesterday, Korean television aired the first two episodes of their new live version of Hana Yori Dango (by now, I'm beginning to lost count of the many live actions inspired by this manga XD), and I must admit I was waiting for this.
For over an year the fandom had been in turmoil anticipating and questioning about what ifs, casting, delays and now our expectations had been fullfilled.
In my opinion this is its best dramatization produced so far. It's not cheesy like Meteor Garden, or ridicolous like the 1995 first movie, or OOC like Hanadan (I want to forget about the upcoming chinese version). Among the drama listed above Boys Before Flowers is, at least concerning the casting, the most faithful to the manga.
I like to watch a drama when the series is in hype and everybody is into it, chatting, lurking, and besides it's Hanadan, not an unknow story, so I bet the raws and the subs will be avaliable in a couple of hours.
The next three months are going to be a lot of fun. Now I stop. I'm going to lurk on the Soompi forums ^ . ^
I've decided to transfer all my fanlisting banners from my profile page to this post, they are beginning to became too many, and I think they need a place on their own. Perhaps this could been a bit childish, but I can't help it, collecting fanlists it's a guilty pleasure of mine.
I'd like to start a new post in progress, to store all my drawings and fan arts, both traditional and digital. It wil be updated little by little, as soon as I'll draw new pictures, which will feature especially themes related to fantasy and fairytales.
Click on each picture for a larger view.
The ones avaliable as items at my CafePress Shop have a redirect link below:
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Yesterday afternoon, with a delay of 20 years, I've watched for the first time what is considered a teen cult movie, "Breakfast Club". Not that I hadn't heard of it before, cause it had been quoted countless of times everywhere. But I simply missed it whenever it was aired on tv ^^.
Speaking of other Molly Ringwald's movies, I've never liked "Sixteen Candles" and "Pretty in Pink", so it was a surprise for me to be pleased at the end of the vision. I've found myself really entertained by the happenings of the Brain, the Athlet, the Basket case, the Princess and the Criminal. And when the princess and the criminal finally end up together I thought: "I KNEW IT. I KNEW IT" (I'm such a fangirl at times)
Watching this movie had been a divertissement, but a very enjoyable one.
( Pictures under the cut )
As I already said before, I've always liked The Adventures of Sinbad, an old fantasy series created by Ed Naha. It was full of wonder and magic (at least in its first season) and every episode had plenty of "enchanted moments".
Among them, I still remember a song sang by Maeve (the sorceress apprentice) and Doubar (Sinbad's brother) in episode 6. I've always wondered about this melody, and wether if it already existed or was expressly crated for the show. Surely, it had a celtic sound as you can notice in the video below:
( And celtic it was... )
Lately I've been playing with photoshop in doing icons. I'm a beginner, and I still learning basis, graphic trics and rules, but it has been fun. So, below there is my very first attempt with a multifandom post. Be patient and enjoy ^ . ^.
PS. I've made too many icons, and I had to split my entry in two because it was too large for LJ.
The second part ca be found HERE
Preview
[11] Lost in Austen
[35] Adventures of Sinbad
[35] Iljimae
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If you want to watch a longer version of this CM click HERE
Their two countries, despite the geographical proximity, the common culture, history and language are divided by a political, economical and phisical wall since 1945, which prevent almost every contact between them. For this reason, nowadays they couldn't be more different. Quite the opposite. As a matter of fact, while South Korea is a rich, free, relatively democratic country, in the North people are starving, living as prisoners of their own tirannic nation, where even the most elementary human rights aren't allowed. They cannot either use cell phones (except for people very close to the "Dear Leader"), which is a crime punished with detention, torture, and even death.
Anycall's basic idea is that their company will allow people to make calls also to the most secret and forbidden country in the world. Even if by an advertising point of view this is genial, humanely it's very cynical. The company used a burning, painful, delicate theme just to make money, and Myung-ae will never be able to use the cell phone she had been promoting when she'll be back home (she had been given a special permission to shoot this CM in Seoul). But despite all this, it's a touching, tearing, heartbreaking video, which suggest to a nation broken in two that there's still hope, and that perhaps, someday they will be unite again.
( A COUPLE OF PICTURES UNDER THE CUT )
This is the first time I'm trying to do a meme. I've taken it from
rules:
1: Comment on this post.
2. I'll tell you a letter.
3. Think of 5 (o more if you want) book or movie characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
I've been given letter L.
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I'd like to report a news I've read on Bronteana's blog. It seems that Stephenie Meyer recently said that to create her character Edward Cullen, leading male role on the Twilight series, she took inspiration from three definite literary heroes: Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, Rochester from Jane Eyre, and Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables.
This is a lucky moment for period drama lovers. Every year, among movies, tv shows and mini-series we have a lot of stuff to watch and about what to discuss. However, between those project still in production, It’s impossible not to count the new “Anne of Green gables’ prequel.
( Hong Gil Dong )
A couple of years ago I fall for a new obsession: Asian Dramas. I was a child in the eighties, and I watched a lot of Anime at the time. As a consequence since 1990, I keep on reading mangas, and I liked them a lot. Or at least, I liked them for a long time, but lately I begin to get bored. There was simply no longer something able to capture my attention. I still read them randomly, and with pleasure, but I've lost the passion.
However, recently, by chance, I ran into a new kind of internet trend. The dramas as I was just saying, and I've found myself totally hooked again about oriental things. ^^' There is so much stuff to watch that you are spoilt for choice. I've started some series without finishing them, but usually I can't stop until the final episode, (I've even watched a 16-episodes-long-show in 2 days).
The reason is that those dramas, even if full of clichés and melodramatic elements, are basically passionate and exciting. There's Love, Humour, Nonsense, Angst, just all the things that other tv-shows are beginning to lack.
Then, I'll use this post to quote all the dramas I've watched or I'm going to watch in the future, with a rating vote and some random opinions. I prefer korean dramas above the others, followed by j-dramas. I don't like that much t-dramas, even if sometimes i choose to watch them.
This one will be a Work in Progress Post, and I'll update it each time I'll finish a new drama.
I've always jumped into this kind of quizzes here and there. But I never though to try or post them myself. But now....I think I'm going to have a new obsession :D. LJ really is a land of wonder and marvellous toys. And I don't care if I'm too grown up for this. Quizzilla is so funny. eheh

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