Hello Livejournal! Long time no see!

[mab]

Hey all!

I really have been away for a while and I'm sorry for that. I've been engrossed by the PJO/HoO (Percy Jackson and the Olymians / Heroes of Olympus) fandom and they're all on tumblr. - If ever you're looking for me, you can find me there as mab-speaks. I also run a ship blog for the fandom's ultimate bromance to romance duo - jercyjuice and I've taken up Arting in an effort to grow my skills and have a creative outlet when the words just aren't coming. My art blog is mabscribbles.

I've been writing up a storm the past several months. I counted my words made so far in that fandom starting 7 months ago and it's: 190,365 ... so yeah, a lot. I've also made a few podfics and started a PJO writer/artist 18+ chat room. It's keeping me very busy.

In the world of HP, the third annual HP Horror Fest just posted reveals at hp_darkarts and it was a blast to mod. I made art for it. Disturbing art. I kept with my tradition of torturing poor Teddy Lupin. (I only torture my favorite characters)

I'll stick it under a spoiler tag if you'd rather not see. TW: blood, self harm.

Summary: As a Metamorphmagus, Teddy Lupin has always struggled with what he "actually" looks like. In a moment of insanity he decides to find out for himself.







See it on Ao3

It was my first attempt ever at using a tablet to color - and my tablet is obsolete. Still, I think it effectively got the horror message I was going for across. *wry smile*

In other news related to art, there's a new daily drawing community on dreamwidth started by a local writing buddy of mine and I'm having fun participating and drawing for the prompts. All doodles are PG-13 and under and can be from any fandom. There's no limit to how often or infrequent members participate either.

So check it out if you're interested. I see a lot of improvement in my ability in just the past month from drawing something every day.



Here was my doodle for today:

This is Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, just waking up. He's normally pretty brooding and not a morning person. Just figures that the only clean mug he can find was left by Will Solace, son of Apollo. Maybe after he's had his morning coffee, Nico will be in more of a sunshine mood. :P



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I've booked my tickets for my summer fangirl trip to London! I'll be staying with writcraft and have plans to meet up with some other UK-rs too! Can't wait. I'll be flying out on 30 July and coming home on 7 August.

All right. I think that's enough for an update right now. I have to run my daughter's friend home in a sec. I miss you f-list, and I promise I'm not going to be away forever. I'm just following where my muse is leading and I trust that eventually it will return me to HP. Hogwarts will always be home. XD

Comments

[gracerene]

Yay Mab! LOL, I feel like I've lucked out, since I get to see you on tumblr and in the chat all the time. :)

That's so exciting about your UK trip, though! So much fun meeting fandom people. :D

[kitty_fic]

*hugs*

I always love to see your posts

[celestlyn.livejournal.com]

Glad you have not given up on us forever. Enjoy your 2nd fandom, 3rd or whatever it is. :)

[citrus-lime.livejournal.com]

HIIII Omg how nice to have a new fandom! And I wish I could go on Tumblr as frequent as I would like, but limited internet connection made me unable to do it. ):

And that sketch is looking dang good! <3

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

*glomps* you are back!!! Happy happy happy!

[notearchiver.livejournal.com]

It's so nice to see you post! I completely understand about the getting caught up in Tumblr syndrome as a new fandom takes over for quite a bit; it happened to me with hockey for a while.

And that's a shitload of words. I'm jealous of all the time you have.

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

So good to hear from you!

That sketch is totally adorable (as opposed to your Teddy piece which was so awesomely terrifying!!). And congrats on all the word-making! <3 <3

[slr2moons.livejournal.com]

*megahugs* XD