Faith on your feet!

Whirlwind couple of days here, folks. dizzyditz visited from Berkeley, which was fantastic, as I haven't seen her in over a year. (*boggles* How is that even possible?) She looked great, and it was terrific getting to meet her BF and give them a somewhat spastic tour of Dublin.

( A trio of goofy photos )

dizzyditz also brought lovely gifts from nenar and lordelessar (thanks, guys!) and four pounds of Skittles. Yes, four pounds. FOUR POUNDS. If that doesn't last me through June, I will be very worried about myself.

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Now, some fannish stuff I keep wanting to mention, but have been too busy/tired/crazy to get around to:

1. I was really pleased and touched by the response to DADT, Damyata, Dayadhvam. There's more I want to say about this story and about politics in fanfic and literature, but as I am less with the coherence right now, it's gonna have to wait. But right now, in response to a couple of comments that are more about me and writing in general:

a) Yes, I read every single comment, and I appreciate them all, and if I were a better person, I would respond. But I want everyone to know that reader response does mean a lot to me, and the fact that you are all so wonderful and receptive is, while not the reason I keep writing (it's kind of compulsive--I don't think I would be able to stop), almost certainly the reason I keep writing so much. Which I enjoy, too, so thank you.

b) Yeah, I don't know how I'm writing so much and still working to get a degree, either. Crap. *waits for house of cards to tumble*

Finally, slodwick made an amazing cover for DDD. ( It gives me serious chills )

I don't know if I've said this before, but slodwick: if I ever write a decent original novel, and it gets published, I totally want you to do the cover for me. It'll be in the contract!

2. Everyone should check out Empty (Te Deum) which is a remix of my story The Hollow Men and which takes a lot of stuff I only scraped, only hinted at, and goes so much farther with it, to places so much deeper, so much more complex. It's a brutal story, and I mean that in the best possible way. You are awesome, anonymous person!

3. lillyjk wrote me monolith porn, which is based on this entry's icon which was made by slodwick based on something my brother said regarding European exit signs. Which is...probably the weirdest genesis of any story ever, but the result is smokin' hot.

4. Still working on the comment drabbles from the other day. Am very tired and have three essays due Monday (fuck.), but I will finish them. Fear not!

5. Er, something important, which I am no doubt forgetting. Ow, brain!

6. Oh yes, and excuse me for being a bit late jumping on this particular bandwagon, but indeed: Grant Jansky is officially the most adorable character ever. Just... *wants to hug him*

The trees for all the forest

I am completely in awe of the stuff that's coming out of the current artword challenge, and only partly because it's all based on Realm of Dryads. ;-) But, bias aside, you absolutely must check out:

1. The beautiful cover and incredibly intense trailer gambits_rogue made;

and 2. The poster, collage, and icons by newkidfan. I...I don't have words to describe how amazing these are. But the icon on this post is just a small taste of the incredible work newkidfan did; go check out the rest.

gambits_rogue also made the point that "Realm of Dryads" was inspired by slodwick's picfor1000 challenge, and so it came from an image, and has since been used as inspiration for more images via artword, which makes this a wonderful cycle of creative energy. It's just so cool!

And to top it all off: I got the story's title from one of the Patrick O'Brian books (I no longer remember which), from Stephen Maturin's description of St. Stephen's Green in which he calls it a "realm of dryads." And today I went walking there with dizzyditz.