My mind is just wandering about today not really settling on much. I slept really heavily last night which I haven't done in a while so I prolonged it as long as I could and got up in time to see the sunny part of the day fade away which was also nice because that's my favourite part. :)
Yesterday I was pretty dejected about it being November now, but now I'm feeling fine about it.

( Just because I feel like making a post, here are two videos and a few pictures for you. )

The heat is on and my windows are open so I should go fix that.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!

( + Pumpkins! )

( + Music! )

( + Art! )

Also -- because I forgot to post about it the day of -- zombie walk this year was awesomee. I never take along my camera so I don't have any pictures except one very quickly snapped by my sister before I left (I was running late). But I'll post a few the other people took just for fun. :D

( Undead picspam behind the cut )

Halloween cards were sent out to everyone last week. Those of you geographically closest to me have already received yours, but to those farfaraway just know they are on their way to you and I hope they get there before the 31st. :) I'll be posting the art used for both verities of card ON Halloween so even if you didn't request me to send you one or you couldn't get me your address for whatever reason, you will be getting a digital version. Damn, I wish I had taken pictures of the finished cards. Dur.

Now, as I was coming up with designs for these cards I got all grandiose and wanted to send along with the cards things like candy, a Halloween mix, and other various spooky treats. But I realised quickly that I am far too lazy and far too poor to send what would basically be small packages to upwards 30 people. SO, insteaddddddddddddd - LET'S MAKE A MIX TOGETHER.

Here are some links to the Halloween-themed songs I could think of off the top of my head. Everyone comment with links to songs YOU can think of, I'll probably comment to this entry myself whenever I can think of more songs, and everyone can join musical forces and come up with a fantastically awesome megaplaylist. :D Please, let's all be patient with LameTube and link the best we can lol.

+ This is Halloween, by Danny Elfman
+ The Tale Of Solomon Snell, by Duncan Sheik
+ Nobody Likes You When Your Dead, by Zombina And The Skeletones
+ I Love Brains, by ALL CAPS
+ The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen cover), by Nouvelle Vague
+ Gettin' Dirty in the Afterlife, by The Got To Get Got
+ People Are Strange, by The Doors
+ Hunting for Witches, by Bloc Party
+ Every Day is Halloween (Ministry cover), by The Postmarks
+ They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhhh!, by Sufjan Stevens
+ Science Fiction Double Feature (Rocky Horror cover), by The Dresden Dolls
+ Chrissy Kiss the Corpse, by Of Montreal
+ Underworld (Eva Eden cover), by Patrick Wolf
+ Talk Like That, by The Presets
+ Jack the Ripper (Morrissey cover), by Colin Meloy
+ Don't Fear The Reaper, by Blue Oyster Cult
+ My Beloved Monster, by Eels
+ My Boy Builds Coffins (version one) and (version two), by Florence And The Machine
+ Walk Like A Zombie, by The Horrorpops
+ Wolf Like Me, by TV on the Radio
+ Kids Will Be Skeletons, by Mogwai
+ Zombie Prostitute, by Voltaire
+ Is There a Ghost, by Band of Horses
+ Tuff Ghost, by The Unicorns
+ Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), by David Bowie
+ Walking With a Ghost, by Tegan and Sara
+ A Gorey Demise, by Creature Feature
+ Boris the Spider, by The Who
+ Cemeteries of London, by Coldplay
+ I Think I’ll Be a Good Ghost, by Say Hi to Your Mom
+ The Ghost of You Lingers , by Spoon
+ Night Terror, by Laura Marling
+ Dear Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts, by Wolf Parade
+ Dead Man's Will, by Calexico & Iron and Wine
+ Basement Ghost Singing, by Armor For Sleep
+ It Came From The Ground, by Badly Drawn Boy
+ Cobwebs, by Ryan Adams
+ Edward Scissorhands theme, by Danny Elfman


Fast, upbeat dance music or slow and melancholy ghostly ballads, any genre, any decade, anything you can think of - link in comments to share the Halloweeny love.

My family was not demonstrating enough Halloween spirit so I forced them to help me create an infantry of tiny green sugar cookie zombies. :D They are gory and delicious.

( meet the hoard and get the recipe )

So long, wisdom teeth. Hello puffyface.

The puff isn't that terrible, I expected to be much more chipmunkfaced than I am but still, puffffff.

It was quite the adventure with laughing gas, an IV, then waking up in a little room where I proceeded to mumble through gauze at my dad asking him over and over again if my tongue was in my mouth and was he positive. Now I'm on antibiotics and pain killers that make me feel really drowsy all the time but all four of those damn teeth are gone at once and for good. :D I'd grin if I could, but I'm stuck in Perpetual Pout for the next few days.

Dos cosas:

Uno - I get my wisdom teeth removed next Friday, the 16th. AnxiousHannah is anxious but just because, while I'm totally fine with other needles, medical needles freak me ouuuutt and I'll have to have an IV placed. Nooot looking forward to it. HOWEVER. You all can expect a photograph to be posted to document my swollen chipmonkface for the entire internet to lol at. XD

Dos - If you missed my post about it, I am making Halloween cards this year! If you haven't already requested one, please do so, I'm happy to send them out to whomever is interested.
There will be two different designs, given to people basically at random. I haven't finished yet but I know one will be slightly sweeter while the other will be slightly more wicked. Both may very likely contain rot, though, lol, because I am trying to keep the spirit of the holiday alive. It's all still in the works, who knows what the finished products will be.
( sneak peek! )
So comment here or send me an email with your address if you'd like one! The time approaches.

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Because we are always changing and looking to improve, FandomCommerce now has an APPLICATION PROCESS, as opposed to our open membership policy of the past. Do not feel intimidated, this exchange is about giving, not nit-picking, we just want to make sure everyone receives an appropriate gift. :)

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We here at FandomCommerce look forward to another season of holiday cheer and great gifts and we hope you'll come join us for the ride!

Holy crap I made it just in time didn't I. XDD I have had family over all day so I am late in the game posting this bu-ut:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAYTAR! You are still muy young but lookit you slowly catching up.

xdinowhore you've been one of my closest friends for so many years now and I wouldn't be the same person without your influence, your free spirit, your charm, your insanity, your wonderful words, creativity, honesty, and trust. I wouldn't trade your friendship for anything. Thanks for always being so YOU, I know I can always trust you with anything no matter what and I count myself lucky to be someone you can rely on too. :D

SOGGY BAKED YOU A CAKE.
( + BUT HE ATE IT. ZombieRegulus, G, pencil )

ART:

( + 'Uninvited Guest', Sirius + part of a Jamesface, G, pencil )

( + 'all these places have their moments', Ted and Nymphadora Tonks, G, pencil )


RECS:

+ I would like to direct you all to this post where my dear friend and the very talented artist mizzmoonyluver has finally updated her long-neglected LJ and posted a beautifully rendered painting of Regulus, post-Cave. To anyone on my flist who hasn't already seen it, I encourage you all to go take a look and leave a comment, she deserves kind words and I know she'd appreciate them. :)

+ Anyone who is interested in seeing all the great stuff turned in for this most recent round of fandomcommerce, go take a look! We'll be accepting applications for the next round quite soon and always welcome new members. Or if you'd prefer to just bask in the benefits and see what other people post, everyone there would SO appreciate any comments with love or concrit that you might be able to offer. There really is something for everyone there.

September has arrived, the end of Summer and (for most of us) the end of Summer holidays. I am personally glad the worst of the heatwaves are long gone by now but I know most people will miss them desperately. Cold weather aside, to keep my enthusiasm up for this rather sad time of the year, as soon as September arrives I start getting excited for one of my favourite holidays that is now officially on it's way: Halloween.

Such a beautiful, thrilling time of year with similar celebrations in every corner of the world and - sadly - damn near as commercialized as poor Christmas, Halloweentime is my favourite time of year. From the smell of the air to the pumpkin carving to the ghost stories to the costumes to the excuse to pass my interests off as merely holiday cheer, I love it all. I suppose every flist must have at least one good natured creep, and I am willing to volunteer for that position. :D

In the spirit of the coming season, I have decided to do something I have wanted to do for several years now - Halloween cards! As most of you know, every year I ask everyone on my lj friends list if they would like to be sent a Christmas card but Halloween deserves some love too. I realise this is rather early on but they are my cards and I shall do as I please lol.

Friends new and old, any part of the world, email me your mailing address at madestatic@gmail.com if you would like a spooky, friendly Halloween greeting sent to you this year.

Note - If you have any religious/cultural/other preferences you may like included (e.g. Samhain/All Saints' Day/etc instead of 'Halloween'), feel free to mention it in your email, it's no trouble. :)

Went to walkandchewgum's birthday celebrations yesterday out at Silver Falls State Park. It was great seeing Krystal because her and I really don't see enough of each other and it was so beautiful out there, we saw bats. :3 It was space themed (how awesome is THAT) and I wore my tinfoil hat. Simple? Yes. But quite the Hannah costume.
I had a good time and I hope you did toooo, Krystal, thanks for having me up there even though I am the odd one out who hasn't known you for all that long lol. I hope no one minded the friendinsrusion or anything, I know things can get odd when there is one newfriend with lots of oldfriends but everyone was really nice about it and forgiving of my wobbly digressions XD.

On one of the windowsills at the lodge we stayed at I found a pencil left behind by previous guests and drew this on the back of my notebook.

( + 'Resilience', Barty Crouch Jr, G, pencil )

Drawn really quickly for mizzmoonyluver because she was working on a painting and Photoshop crashed and dfjhdsjfsdjhfsd I know that pain so well. D: So to console her I drew - surprise surprise - Regulus.

He's not dead this time, though. Lmao.

( + 'Chin Up', Regulus Black, PG for artistic nudity, pencil )

+ I have new a new email address and a new msn! To everyone who has or would like me in their email/msn contacts, you can now contact me at: madestatic@gmail.com.

+ Thanks to LJ's recent issues I was unable to post or leave any comments for several days so if you have been waiting for a reply from me, I'm sorry for the delay. But I'm back now!

( + (NWS!) 'Even If He's Just Skin And Bone', zombie!Regulus Black and Barty Crouch Jr, NC-17 )

One day I will have like... four people tops left on my flist because of these two, lmao. ♥

The other day I mentioned offhandedly that I really needed paper.
Today my mom brought me some. But it's a 9"x12" sketchpad.
Parents are so cute sometimes. But they really aren't helpful for when you've been reduced to newsprint. Working with charcoal and chalk, for me at least, is not something best done small.

In other news, it's my sister's birthday today. I know that often birthdays of kids you don't know aren't all that thrilling lol, but she's thirteen and that is so close to the fourteen that I was when I got this lj. Fourteen! I am just wowed that I managed to meet so many of you so long ago and then stay friends with a good chunk all the way until now. If I was half as ridiculous as my sister is now when I was around her age, I just have to say THANK YOU to everyone on my flist who stuck our younger years out together with me.

Also, unrelatedly, how cute are baby frogs? :3

+ This man is so wildly, unabashedly human. He takes things that other people might write about in the same old way and reminds us of the gritty magic that's in the parts of our lives that drag us down.


+ Went to the beach with friends the other night. Stayed in a yurt, almost got blown away by wind on the beach, I climbed a cliff, we talked about our lives and HPB, looked at stars, and I scared Clair, it was fun. Our car broke down on the way home and we were stuck in a field while the sun gave it's all to roast us alive as we waited for the tow truck. But I'm actually really glad the car broke down because there is something about being stranded miles from home passing out water and reapplying sunscreen in a shared crisis that makes people really bond and be able to share the experience fully.

It was such a great trip for really subtle reasons. It made me realise so distinctly how much better this year has proven to be than last year. The last time I went to the beach was August 08 with my family and I was horrible company because of terrible events that happened the night before we left. I spent the entire trip being snappish and morose. But there were goodthoughts about certain people and things and ideas that held me through and have kept holding me up almost exactly an entire year later. I've grown a lot and there are still problems and imperfections and still hardships to come but I feel I can face them and get something out of them, I didn't feel like that twelve months ago.

[ETA: KAYTAR YOU ARE FANTASTIC LMAO ♥ ]

I AM SO WEAK LMAO. Sorry guys, I know this meme is everywhere on everyone's flists, they spread like colds after all. But they can be very fun and Katie convinced me lol.

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HAPPY 21st, emo_wicca!

IF I COULD, I'D TRY TO MAKE YOU THESE BECAUSE LOOK HOW ADORABLE AND DELICIOUS THEY LOOK:


I sent your birthday package a couple days ago so if it didn't get there today it should be getting there - well, not tomorrow because tomorrow is Sunday - but sometime within the next week!

You are one of my oldest LJ friends (lmao in the sense that I have known you for a long time, don't worry, you are not an old maid, I promise) and one of my absolute dearest. Having you for a friend has brightened my flist and my life for years now, thank you for being so terrific and fun and real and giving. I hope you have a spectacular day. ♥