February 2012
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hi hello I am in Northampton until Friday because ~adverse weather conditions~ also semi-officially a double major in Graphic Design and Biology also MHC is the best of ever and there is a neuron in the floor of the science building and a giant sloth skeleton and convinced the girl interviewing me to watch Laws of Attraction
in other news I have a pet mouse and may apply to work at a comic book...
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omg Eirabella you are so much fun to write
“I can’t even use being alien as a metaphor because I’m literally an alien. I am of extraterrestrial extraction. There is nothing in your language to describe it. My entire existence is a double negative.”
kfdsjldsfkdfsdfsdf perf
okay going to NoHo now see you next week
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okay goodnight denizens of the Internet your public awaits and by public I mean REM sleep and by you I mean me in the second person
unnecessarily convoluted syntax!!1! expect ~~comix forthcoming in the next two months or so but I have best-friend-public-nuisance plans and college interviews and zipping up and down the East coast with alarming frequency and sister-visiting and possibly...
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fact: Peyton’s text tone on my phone is ‘dead people’ followed by Gilly’s maniacal cackle-snort
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“But often now this body she wore… this body, with all its capacities, seemed...”
– V.Woolf (via prettymessyboho)
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“I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life.”
– Virginia Woolf, “The Waves” (via joelcrary)
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Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey: Letters →
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andromedalogic replied to your post: aaand this is why you don’t brush your hair
omfg
once I teased it and measured the circumference
it was 40 inches
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aaand this is why you don’t brush your hair
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wahhh we don’t have a color printer and it costs a dollar per page to print at the ~local library~
first world mixed media comic problems
welp can’t do it until next week anyway
also packing for Northampton needs to happen
since we leave at 9.30 tomorrow morning l o l
SEEING BEST FRIEND IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS CANNOT CONTAIN THE FLAILS
spent this afternoon painting, eating all the...
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Minor character development:
Andromeda Osedax is Myria and Bella’s mother; she is a second-generation Sokoran immigrant whose parents fled after the foreign minister’s kidnapping led to a coup d’etat. Extremely affectionate with her husband; frequently chided by her daughters for being too overtly sensual and not assimilating human social norms. Lives at the Osedax family estate...
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Character development:
Eirabella Osedax (14) attends the Biotechnic Institute for entomology; she has a particular passion for Lepidoptera. She wears a preserved death’s head moth in her hair most days, but will wear other species for special occasions. Instead of a jewelry box, she keeps a natural history cabinet with pinned insects. Bella is more flirtatious and feminine than her sister,...
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plan:
blood test wooo
mainline energy drinks
buy comic supplies
pack for Northampton
read Jacob’s Room
read The Turn of the Screw
read new issue of Science
draw Eirabella and detail of her cybernetic implant
draw interior of KBI (it’s a space station with Edwardian decor…deal with it)
draw Rory and his stupid floppy hair and do a few panels of him passive-aggressively...
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“I don’t want someone to worship me, I want someone to love me. Well, a...”
– Sorryll
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cheia:
When you went to Antarctica to save Agent...
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gazza-ladra replied to your post: Are you available for Skype/phone call later? Not even one of epic proportions, necessarily…
Yeah. I’m free after 2, so anytime. Le telephone works better for me, but do you have a preference?
gwuhhh I’m stuck in town till 5, so shall we say le telephone at 5.30?
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Full-face drawing of Einmyria Osedax from the ~untitled comic I’m working on. She got the gene-vision goggles—actually a cybernetic implant of her own invention—installed for her 16th birthday. She has a talent for biotechnology and neural networks; her implant allows her to scan a person’s genetic and epigenetic makeup, then build a virtual model of that person’s...
gazza-ladra asked: Are you available for Skype/phone call later? Not even one of epic proportions, necessarily...
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andromedalogic replied to your post
INCEST
ESSENTIALLY
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“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)
#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley...
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overboarddd:
Eet - Regina Spektor
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plan for tomorrow:
guitar lesson
pop paracetamol like I’m on Tylenol’s payroll
go to the fucking gym (JUST DO IT)
take sketchbook to town (just do it)
sketch Hazel in school uniform
sketch Hazel playing cello
actually just work on drawing cellos
sketch Myria with steampunk gene-vision goggles
sketch detail of gene-vision goggles because they’re AWESOME
sketch Eirabella...
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Literally
me: ...and so I literally died of laughter!
Alex: You mean figuratively, otherwise you would be dead.
me: No, I was using ‘literally’ to hyperbolically intensify my statement. It's a usage that dates back for centuries.
Alex: But then the original meaning of the word disappears.
me: Many words have more than one meaning while still retaining their original ones.
Alex:
me:
Alex:
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Alex: (under breath) Damn descriptivists.
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THERE IS A THREE-HOUR SPECIAL ABOUT MARINE MAMMALS TONIGHT CALLED ‘THE SCIENCE OF THE SEA.’ FUQ ALL Y’ALL I WILL BE CURLED ON A COUCH FROM 8-11 WATCHING WHALES.
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woooooo BMC ~legacy waives application fee wooooo
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andromedalogic replied to your post: sometimes I question both my judgement and right…
WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT OWFGHJKWEJKLRGHLWAEFHLWKERGHJAT
I just…
it’s the Internet
I have no shame. I don’t even remember what shame feels like.