Wow, I just wrote 3000 words to the first part of a Buffy fan fic I wasn't expecting to go anywhere. It's only part one of the story, and it's not even finished yet-- nearly, but not. This is the most I've written for anything in a long time, and I'm so stoked!

I need a beta'er, if anyone's interested. I already asked one person, but in case she can't it'd be nice to know if anyone else is available. It's a post-Chosen, non-comic AU Xander/Larry fic. Larry, if you don't remember, was the gay football player who played a pretty small part on show before dying. Thanks to soclosesofar for reminding me he existed, lol.

But yeah, I'm really stoked on this story so far but I won't post it without it getting beta'ed. Any takers?

Also, I need a Xander icon if anyone knows of any good ones.

The latest chapter of my Psychiatric Tales book. Thirteen pages which nearly killed me. There's still some fiddling to do with the artwork here, but it's basically done. If you see any mistakes let me know. This chapter is a one-off, as it's a mixture of photos and artwork, which I think suite the subject. I don't intend to do further chapters in this style.



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Taking a break from writing because this is on my mind.

My little sister. Her name is Robyn Grace Alva. Why am I bringing this up? Because she wants to change her name. Not just in the thirteen-year-old, I hate everyone and I don't want to be myself way anymore, but because it's been a subject broached several times since she was at least six.

She's not an Alva, not by blood nor by marriage. She's a Fuentes, but the only time she ever went by that was when she was living in Oklahoma with her dad's family.

Here's what happened. My mom, a Brosan, married my dad, an Alva, and thus became an Alva herself. She bore Carissa and myself, both Alva's, before divorcing my dad. But rather than changing her name back to Brosan, she stuck with Alva. Around the same time she divorced my dad she got remarried to my late-step-dad, a Fuentes. She legally became a Fuentes, and bore Robyn. A few years later they divorced and my mom went back to Alva, and soon after he died.

The reason she went back to Alva was because she'd been an Alva longer in her life than a Brosan, and honestly Brosan is a weird name anyway. I also found out my grandma's maiden name is Neuman. WTF? Better than Robyn's grandma's maiden name which is Frachtling. And just 'cause I'm on the subject, my dad's mom's maiden name is Quintero. Horray for confusing paragraph of doom!

Carrying on.

So when my mom had Robyn-- bear in mind, I'm backtracking, so try to keep up ^_^-- she was still technically married to my dad, so to avoid certain insurance issues she listed Robyn as an Alva. This was never legally changed while my mom and step-dad were married.

So in short, Robyn was never legally a Fuentes, though she's not an Alva by blood.

What's going on is that Robyn and my mom go back and forth over the last name issue, at least once a year. Robyn has begun taking up hyphenating her name to Alva-Fuentes, though as far as her school is concerned she's just an Alva, and will be so officially until it's legally changed.

My mom is completely okay with Robyn changing her name, if she so chooses. She understands the costs, and it's been researched to death many times over. But, understandably, Robyn can't make up her mind. Does she want to remain an Alva, and carry the same last name as her siblings and mom-- my mom, mind you, has no intention of changing her last name back to Brosan-- or does she want to go full on and be a Fuentes? She's also balancing the hyphening idea, but she's worried it's going to become too troublesome down the line.

If this wasn't confusing enough, she also wants to add another name to the equation. Jessica. If she were to have her way, she'd change her name to Jessica Robyn Grace Alva-Fuentes.

My personal opinion, and I told her I respect whatever she does, is to change her last name to the hyphen and wait on the first name until she's at least eighteen. Changing your first name is too heavy of a thing for someone still in their early teens.

But, of course, there's a reason she wants to change her name to Jessica. Robyn was the compromise name. Robyn is named after two people-- my mom's best friend, and her dad's grandma who practically raised him. Her dad originally, though, wanted to name her Jessica. Incidentally, Carissa and I both liked the name before Robyn was born, for our own reasons. But Robyn became Robyn, and I prefer that myself now.

She's thirteen now, and her dad passed when she was maybe six. Every year she feels more and more distant from her dad, and it's understandable that she'd want to hold onto anything that she could-- including names. We're all very supportive of any decision she makes, we're just hoping she doesn't go over board, haha.

Begin forwarded message:

I provide completely unsolicited career advice for the three young stars of the Harry Potter franchise at MSNBC.com.

so i've made quite a bit of new stuff.

and it's up on my etsy if you want to check it out.

I suggest you do.

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can't believe that just 6 hours ago i was thinking about how lucky and happy i was.

wiener dogs are horny

http://community.livejournal.com/lasvegas/1568258.html

and they cause drama on the internet

http://community.livejournal.com/stupidpetowners/3526663.html

http://community.livejournal.com/stupid_free/1158426.html

aohfjahsdfjahhahahaahha the best part is that someone posted my IRL address and they're going to send animal control!! still waiting but animal control hasn't showed up :-/

sigh. poor wieners.

Season 5, last disc, episode 12

God this season is fucking bizarre

Joyous wishes for a happy "Fête Nationale."

Copy/pasting of lyrics to "La Marseillaise" in full.

I first caught wind of this book in December. It was billed to me a bit inaccurately. I was expecting lesbian demon-hunting nuns. It was mostly right, except that they weren't nuns. That was actually the part I was anticipating most. So, let down right there. (Made better by the fact that a few weeks after hearing about this book, I discovered Sister Claire, which has the nuns hunting demons, with a fair amount of lesbian subtext.)

The book is short. There is a hasty exposition before it gets right into the action. The action was fine, but with no context to it, I didn't really care about the characters, nor was I surprised when "good" guys did bad things. I hadn't come to expect anything from them either way, and characters were introduced and killed off before I knew what was going on.

It had great potential, but didn't live up to it. Still, it was a great mindless, bedtime read.

http://community.livejournal.com/lasvegas/1568258.html?thread=10514690#t10514690

Someone is going to call animal control on me
What do I do

I've been going through the archives of this journal today. And I've come to realize a few things.

-Time does not go at the same pace all the time; it speeds up and slows down and my memory puts things out of order.

-I have been trying to buy a house for a lot longer than I thought. My journal is a "little black book" of houses I have courted.

-I have become more and more attached to writing every single thing that pops into my head.


And last, but not least:

-I have gotten angrier lately. My rants have gotten longer and more plentiful since around November. I'd really like this journal to be dedicated to fun, happy stuff. At the very least, not scary, angry stuff. I want it to be about art and comics and jokes and cat macros.

And so, I created a second livejournal, specifically for posting rants to. From now on, rantalarian is where I shall be posting my long, rambling rants and essays. I took down the old rants from this journal, and re-posted them in the new one. I wish I could have brought the comments with it, but I couldn't. It is fresh and new.

This journal will continue to be about my life, my art, and various announcements for the comics and publishing stuff.

If you like reading my rants and essays (which aren't always angry, mind you. Some are actually funny), feel free to friend me at rantalarian. If you'd rather just see art and stuff, then don't.


I worry that I'm going to develop a split personality from this. rosalarian will become nice and sweet and funny, and her dark personality, rantalarian, will be a ravenous baby murderer.

I did post a new rant in honor of this occasion. Homophone Marriage. (This is one of the funny ones.)

Ah, LOL speak. How I love thee. Anyway, I felt like doing a meme, and luckily sheryden had one ready for me!

( Here are the six icons she picked for me to talk about. )


1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

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homophone hom⋅o⋅phone  /ˈhɒməˌfoʊn –noun
1. A word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, and differing in spelling, such as wood and would.

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Opponents of same sex marriage say they don't wish for the definition of the word "marriage" to change. But many gay people don't want "civil unions", both for the fact that they are legally different, and also because they don't carry the same emotional and social weight as the word "marriage".

I don't want people to say "Are you married?" and respond with "No, but I'm civil unionized."

"Marriage" sounds like an emotional, love-filled ceremony. Images of tall cakes come to mind. "Civil union" sounds like a business contract between two business executives. There is no cake that comes to mind from this term, though "power lunch" is perhaps served.

But, ladies and gentlemen (and everyone else), I have found a way around that.

We won't ask for gay marriage. We'll ask for gay meirrage.

The two words are spelled different, though they are pronounced the same, so we can make the definition of "merriage" be whatever we wish. We can talk about how we got meirried last summer, and are loving our meirrage so far.

Instead of working to change the definition of marriage, we'll work to get meirrage recognized by the state. Our opponents can sleep safe in their beds, knowing their most holy of books, the dictionary, is still safe and unchanged (though parts have been added).

And we'll sleep safe in our beds next to our huzbands and whyves, our bellies full of wheding cake, looking forward to our years of meirital bliss.

I got tired of having so much anger in my other journal. Really, it's supposed to be dedicated mostly to my art. The vitriol was scaring people. I don't want that.

All the entries before now were actually re-posted here today, and backdated. I wish I could have taken all the comments over from the old journal, but you can always add new ones.

From here on, I shall post rants as I think of them.

I spend five hours on a page, meticulously drawing little details, but what are people talking about? I misspelled "restaurant."* 50 different people pointing it out. Yes, my patience is going to wear thin, and I'm going to yell at the 51st person to point it out.

Does a misspelled word really take you that far out of a story that it's all you can remark on?

And another thing. Saying "Hey, you misspelled this word," isn't so bad in itself. What makes me see red is "Jeez, you can't spell for shit! This comic is full of spelling errors!"

So yeah, I'm going to respond a little bit crankily to that.



*I always spell it the French way. It's a problem word for me.

So, I know these labels aren't gonna work for everyone, but I have been trying to come up with a way to explain the difference between "bisexual" and "bi-curious" to people. I said a while ago that I've been on Yahoo Answers a lot, and there's a lot of confused people on there, wondering what they are. I know labels don't work for everyone, but for some, it is comforting, and gives people a way to find like-minded people.

This is how I've been tending to explain it as:

Bisexual: Enjoys sex with both sexes, as well as relationships. Would be perfectly happy settling down with a male or female in the longterm.

Bi-Curious: Enjoys sex/making out with both sexes, but would only think to settle down with one or the other.


So how are my definitions? Anything to add? I don't want them to be too complicated, and I'd like to keep them somewhat broad. If they want to be in a box, that's fine, but let's not make the box too tiny.