Category Archives: Stream of Thought

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As it’s now over halfway through December (so decidedly not NaNo) I figured I should change my icon.

Fitting John, James and Helen on it would have been difficult and choosing between them? Ehhh I couldn’t. So I made them my on-dashboard header instead. Which meant for the icon I could go with Nikola Tesla instead. Single-handedly redeeming vampires since 2008.

This show man. Sometimes I wonder how I went from starting season one a bit dubiously, as I wasn’t positive I’d like it, to being this damn obsessed.

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I was feeling very bummed about my drawing. Everytime I looked at it I could just see everything that was wrong with it and I thought it was the most shit thing EVER. I decided that today had to be the last day I fiddled with it as I want to post on Tuesday and I have plans tomorrow.

Well I called it done and was feeling as I said bummed … and then I moved the folder into my drawing folder. I decided to organise the folder a bit better and oh merlin. I’m actually embarrassed I shared some of those older drawings on the internet – I subjected you guys to them and they are BAAAAD.

This drawing that was bumming me out? Mega leap forward in comparison. Like yeah it still sucks but it doesn’t suck anywhere near as bad as those older ones!

I guess we always only see how far we still have to go.

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Ok having thoroughly spoiled myself for the Mandalorian I’m going to go watch it.

Not going to lie, present feeling is a bit sad that it wasn’t Ezra Bridger.

I just want my Rebels family back.

I will ramble later with actual impressions once I’ve seen it.

Bloody hell.

Gifs did not do that justice. I was thoroughly spoiled and damn that was still intense. The tension with the pacing and the music was incredible. Huge kudos to the production team.

Seriously that segment with Luke Skywalker taking out the Dark Troopers was AMAZING. Like pure Jedi badassary very cool.

I wish he had introduced himself though as it didn’t look like Cara recognised him offhand, but I bet she’d know the name of the Red Pilot that blew up the Death Star!

Grogu looked so afraid when the Dark Troopers came back and Mando swore to get him to safety, like he knew they were all going to die. Then he perked right up when Luke got there. The two of them about broke my heart though with Grogu’s little hand reaching for Mando’s face and Mando taking his helmet off and tearing up a bit and promising to see him again.

It was right that Grogu went and he wanted to go but it’s still heart rending.

What the hell was that teaser at the end with Boba and Fennec taking over Jabba’s old palace? Like are they being the new crime lords of Tattooine now? It was cool but weird. Wasn’t expecting it. But I guess they’d teased as much as they wanted about season 3 with the ? about Mando having the dark saber and Bo-Katan needing to earn it back.

I still kinda wish it had been Ezra because we still don’t know what happened to him, also it wouldn’t have required any kind of CGI as it would have been a new actor. Having it be Luke was hella cool for the general audience though who wouldn’t necessarily otherwise have known who Ezra was.

I’m hoping if they are doing more of Mandalore in season 3 we might get Sabine Wren. Please, pretty please.

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I had to pick out clothes for John and James to wear to the club in my fic. Now John was easy, I went with what he wore for a hot minute after he got out of the infirmary in Hollow Men I think it was.

For James I had to resort to google for ideas. I picked out a ‘casual suit’ for him and now I have this urge to draw him wearing it. But seriously self I haven’t finished my last drawing yet (it always takes me a ridiculously long time).

Maybe I will though. Could be January’s project.

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I’ve reached the point in my Sanctuary obsession where I’m actively trying to give myself ideas.

I was working on my third fic today. It’s a oneshot, will be maybe 10k when it’s done, not sure. I’ll hopefully finish it in the next few days.

There’s an event on 4thewords and so I was thinking to myself “I need a project to make me write everyday so I can complete the quests” and so then I went looking through fanfic AU’s and tropes trying to spark something /facepalm.

You see the problem I have is that 1/3rd of my ship dies at the end of season one. So I can’t easily branch off after that in terms of canon-divergence.
– My first fic (the long one) I branched off from that episode (yay fix-it hehe).
– the second fic (little fluffy oneshot) branched a long time before the show started, during the backstory (in 1888).
– the one I’m writing now probably is set in the same verse as my long fic (a year after it ends).

Which leaves pure AU which I don’t like because the canon is so much part of it for me, with the source blood and the sanctuary, that I don’t feel any inspiration for writing a story without it.

BUT! My browsing today gave me an idea for a potential AU that would still work with canon. In canon they met at Oxford. They took classes together, bonded over science, became friends and then more. However, what if they met differently? I’m thinking something using the arranged marriage trope.

I will have to think on it.

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I have been screaming about Mando picking up his damn jet pack. Like seriously! It’s driving me mad. He could have flown to get the Child so I guess that’s why he didn’t have it. But seriously did he pick it up afterwards? It’s driving me mad.

Also Fennec is so badass and Boba. Like I particularly like how badass Boba was because he started life as a clone. I like the feeling that Cody and Rex and the rest of the 501st and other clone troopers would have made mince meat of the stormtroopers. I know technically clones were the first stormtroopers but training and armour got a lot worse over time. I remember Rex complaining in Rebels about it when he stole stormtrooper armour for a mission.

Also hilarious that Mando tried to force his way through the force field 3x. Like you got thrown back twice, why did you think that would work? Such a supportive dad though, wanting to find his son’s people who will take good care of him.

That damn jet pack though. It bugs me.

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I’ve just finished putting together all the pictures and quotes for Calendar 2021. It is Sanctuary (sorry Bering and Wells 😉)

What just struck me though is anyone unfamiliar with the show would be forgiven for thinking the main characters are: Helen, John, James and Nikola as there is barely a mention of anyone else (a couple of quotes to Will and Henry, and I think Henry is in one group shot).

When in actual fact Nikola was in about a third of the episodes, John as himself perhaps about the same (I’ve not counted) and James was only in four.

What can I say. When you don’t have much, you make it count. Screen time might have been limited but impact was huge. Gotta love The Five 🙂

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Ok it’s been four days.

I’ve been working on my OT3 Christmas illustration. I have the pose down now. I’m currently toying with the lineart. I think this is where it starts to go wrong usually as I rush it (despite me always taking far too long on every drawing I do). I’ve been studying this art I really admire, looking for tips on how to do it better. We’ll see. I have a couple of weeks before I want to post.

I know I said last January that this year was the year of Killjoys (for my calendar) and that next year would be Warehouse 13 (aka mostly Bering and Wells) but I’m just too mad on Sanctuary right now. So I’ve been putting together quotes and pictures for it. It is taking longer than normal as I’m getting all the pics myself rather than accepting whatever google throws back.

So yeah 4 days and it’s still been a very Sanctuary week 🙂 aaaand now I have another fic idea. It came to me as a crossover (with CSI) but I don’t know whether I’ll write it like that. It’s mostly James and John centric in a fluffy future where the OT3 are happy together.

It’s New Moon Madness on the 14th (WriYe) I think so I could wait until then to start, or I could just start heh. I don’t want to resist. If I have the idea why not have fun with it? Let me indulge this Sanctuary passion while it feels good 🙂

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Watched Star Trek Discovery 3×03 tonight.

I know I should have proper thoughts and I kinda do but my overwhelming thought is to laugh because Christopher Heyerdahl guest-starred. (I think it’s a rule he has to be in all sci-fi to be honest) and I just really enjoyed the thought that Titan was the new Sanctuary, and that John made it to the 32nd century.

What can I say. If I can make it Sanctuary then I will 🙂

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Tried to start the christmas drawing today and sweet merlin could I have picked a more complicated pose?

It’s not going well.

Kinda want to quit already 🙁

I just have the image in my head and that’s what I want but it’s not what’s coming out on paper (it looks so bad).

Usually I make up a reference in Poser but I think I’ve forgotten how to use it again, or it’s had an update – or both. Either way I gave up really quickly with it. So instead I went old school and pulled my wooden mannequin out. Trouble is a) I only have one and this is a three-person scene and b) the proportions are kinda weird and c) doesn’t rotate at the hips how people do.

I’m now crawling google to see if I can find some kind of photo reference to at least help me out a bit. This is whole new territory for me to be honest as usually I only work with very specific references. If I don’t have something I can basically copy then not happening, so this trying to draw from instinct I guess, is new.

Ehhh I’ll try again tomorrow. I guess I have my daily quota of frustration and I’ve reached it.