Day in the Life of an Idiot

Just a quick note for any fans of my Garnet Lacey series.  My friend empty_mirrors has been listening to the audio books of the series and felt moved to write some fan fic.  You should check it out: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1159841

I'm sorry I've been missing in action again.  I had a bit of a computer trauma, as in, somehow, once again, I managed to completely and utterly destroy a computer.  This time I took out a Mac Book Pro.  In fact, it was so badly corrupted that when Genius Nick at the Genius Bar took it to the back room to plug it into their diagnostic machine, my computer FROZE their console.  To which, I said, as I patted the Mac Book, "Well done, you!"  Because, you know, if you're going to go out, go out with a BANG, I say!

But so I kind of have a new computer.  It's a brand new hard drive in the old case, so, you know, that kind of counts.  I had to reinstall all the things and reset all the preferences, so it feels new.  I gave it a new name and installed CrashPlan right away, but I tell you, if it keeps being stupid, I'm going to nickname it "Moon Moon." Of course, I might do that anyway, just because it gives me such perverse pleasure to shout out, "Damn it, Moon Moon!" (also I adore that there's a hashtag on Tumblr devoted to Moon Moon.)

Oh, and for those of you wondering what I did to kill this Mac Book, the answer is "exerted my mysterious superpower."  Because, unlike, say, the time known in certain circles as "the turkey incident" or even the "dropped it on its hard drive" moment, I actually only attempted to hard boot the Pro.  This, I was told by Genius Nick was simply "a Thing That Happens."

I did loose some stuff.  I hadn't gotten around to installing CrashPlan, so I lost a chapter of the sequel to Precinct 13 that I was working on, but, surprisingly that was all.  The rest of the stuff I had shared on Google Docs, so it was sitting there in the cloud, waiting for me.  :-)

I'll have more tomorrow, hopefully some pictures (finally) of me eating the fruit cake sent by empty_mirrors and the other yummy treats from the UK that we've been slowly devouring.

So, the problem with art, like writing, is that sometimes the good one gets away.  There are some characters I CAN NOT DRAW no matter how many times I try.  I struggle with Byakuya.  His cold beauty eludes me.  However, I wrote a scene in which a couple of images of him kept sticking in my brain, so I gave it a go.

I'm not happy with these, thus they remain sketches.  Also, I have to apologize for the quality of the photo.  The camera I usually use is off for "First Day of Fourth Grade" pictures, so I had to try us the iPad's camera feature to somewhat dubious affect. 


Here is Byakuya and Yachiru as they sit on the bridge at the Kuchiki estate discussing the fact that Byakuya's life has been rather friendless and sad. I kind of like Byakuya here, and his expression.  Yachiru looks too old, alas.  She's surprisingly difficult to draw, though I think I got her hair.  (She's wearing kitty ears, and doesn't come with them.  This is a reference to a Bleach omake in which she is clearly stealing the carp from the Kuchiki estate dressed in a kitty costume.)

Below is a later moment when she talks him into trying to go to a party.



I'd really wanted to include Byakuya's muddy feet, because that figures so strongly into the story (which, btw, you can read at: http://archiveofourown.org/works/501531.)  But, apparently I suck at getting the whole body onto the page.  Ah well. I think sometimes it's good to share our failures as well.  I hope you enjoy seeing these attempts.