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I was trying to fins a decent reference for a drawing I have in mind and found a website selling loads of computer modelled poses. Interestingly enough, the M/M poses seem to be largely modelled on a certain couple of actors we know and love....
Look
various couples poses teris_MM4Menz14_01_LRG
See what I mean? LOL!
Website here in case you think I'm making this up ha ha ha!
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So many years, and still going strong. I haven't been here for all of those eleven years, but my love for this show, for the fandom and for all of you has been one of the best things in my life since Season 4. So grateful for the whole damn lot of you! :DImages under the cut )

Me me meme

Jan. 31st, 2015 10:41 am
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Filched from jj1564 and done because I should be doing half a dozen other things.Procrastination this way... )
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Thought I'd share a bit of present squee - herewith and heretofore I present to you - STUFF!Read more... )
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How cool is this!?

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] spnmonster at FYI: Supernatural meta conference in May

I just wanted to get the  word out there if anyone is interested. This is an academic conference, not a fan convention, at DePaul University in Chicago on May 9, and it's free! Currently looking for presenters. Check out the facebook page for more info: A Celebration of Supernatural.
Read more... )
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I had to post about this because this is so wonderful! I wish I could justify spending £40 for one of these - or maybe a Black Shuck since they are local to where I live...
Chupacabra in a can. Click on the picture to go to Etsy and see more views!
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Halfway through being happy! Ha ha ha!

Today's post is a picspam of terrible quality phone photos I took today at a truly wonderful art exhibition across the road from our house. It's of childrens' book illustrators who all have some connection with the town's art school. Strangely enough, one of the sets of artists, Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone, were among my fave artists when I was growing up. Mainly because they illustrated my books on Greek and Roman myths which I loved so much. The best thing about this exhibition was seeing these twins' working processes, using tracings of their drawings so if they made mistakes in the painting they still had the template for the picture to fall back on. Makes me wonder how often they made mistakes! I really love the beautifully confident pencil strokes they use in their work. And it's fascinating to think how the two women worked together as a team, illustrating books for decades. One sister died and the other carried on for several years alone - how weird as well as devastating must that have been?

So to the pictures:

large images under the cut )

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Whilst having this lurking feeling I've missed a day, here's Day 22. I think.
I could have used this picture yesterday - Supernatural is indeed, everywhere. Walking from Euston Station to the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall, I came across Dean Street. Which has a Warner Brothers office in it. Double whammy!

Today was more fun, lunching with my friend Mal, my cousin Michelle and her lodger Adrian. We went to a pretty little village just outside town, and it was so warm and sunny we sat outside to eat.

There was a hopeful heron flying round and I was surprised there were any carp left in this pond! I'm assuming there won't be for much longer now the heron has found them...

Michelle's fish might not have been so freshly caught, apparently it tasted weird, so that got sent back, but I'm happy to say my egg and chips were lovely jubbly. And Michelle took consolation in the magnificent chocolate melt pudding they gave her to compensate for the dodgy fish. Mal was happy because he had his pint of cider, Adrian was happy because he had people to talk to (and oh boy, does that man talk).
Dunno why Mal has that big sweater on, it was 22ºC today!
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I had a lot of photos to choose from today as we had a nice day out on the bus in the Borders where things are pretty literal - the Brick House is made of brick, and The Big House is quite large.


Possibly my favourite was the nobbly bobbly bin at Whittington Castle, though of course my parents were contributing to my happy day.

In addition, I woke up this morning from a dream about Danneel and Jensen.

I was at a fairly unconventional convention. At some point for some reason, I was talking to Jensen about Formula 1. I was showing him a set of drawings I’d done (non existent in real life I might add!) of Jensen as Paul Newman in whatever film it was Newman made about motor racing, but then got totally distracted into telling him about Rush, what a great film it was and how he and Danneel should watch it together. I think he was trying to say he wasn’t really into Formula 1 since someone whose name I didn’t catch had died, but I wasn’t really listening to him (how rude am I?), I was too excited about telling him all about Rush.

He gave me and some other fans a cardboard folder with photocopies of a cartoon he’d drawn about himself and Jared – some sort of story that was over the two sides of the paper and was really cute and well drawn. For some reason I was left holding the last few copies in the folder and was wandering around this big room where the next event was to be when I bumped into Danneel. So obviously I started chatting with her, telling her it wasn’t fair her hubby was so multitalented. Of course, she agreed.

Then this bloke came along in some sort of vehicle that was more like a mobile shed (with a corrugated asbestos roof) than anything else. He was her gardener, I think. Any how she and I and maybe a couple of other fans got into this shed on wheels which was running on tracks like a train, and he drove us off to see her allotment (must have been sparked by my Mum planting her peas yesterday). Something happened and I had to climb onto the roof of the thing and was absolutely petrified by the time we arrived. Then a bat landed on my shoulder – it was the weirdest looking bat, more like a furry puffer fish and had a mouthful of very sharp teeth, so after seeing those I stopped thinking it was cute and flicked it off into a big pond. What relevance that had to anything I have no idea.

In the meantime I was now talking to Danneel about writing and how hard it is, and telling her all about 12morimo, as a prelude to telling her how she should watch Rush. She was just offering to talk to Jensen’s publishing agent for me when O Death playing on my phone alarm woke me up.

All of which leaves me wondering - why don't I have sexy times with Jensen in my dreams? Why do I seem to want to include Danneel and not in order to have threesomes? Last time I had a dream like this Jensen was making maternity dresses for Danneel. I ask you. WTH, brain?
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I had to go to London for another meeting today at short notice, but as I arrived at Treasury a bit early, I thought I'd have a quick walk in St James' Park. Bizarrely there is a flock of pelicans who live on the lake there, and until today I've only ever seen them from a distance, over on one of the islands. But there they were on the grass right next to the path, within touching distance! So I got a couple of pics on my phone. None of them ate a pigeon this time though...


Of course, it was also tempting to make my happy photo of the day this one...

because it always makes me smile when I walk or go past Great Winchester Street. I noticed today, Adam's Close is a few yards down the road from this too. Yup, Supernatural is everywhere.
(And I just realised you can see me reflected in the display! LOL)

Edited to add the history  - Pelicans were first introduced into St James's Park in 1664 as a gift from the Russian Ambassador.
In March 2013, an additional three Great White pelicans - a gift from the City of Prague - were introduced into the park.
There are currently six pelicans in the park:
5 Eastern (or Great) White Pelicans
1 South American White Pelican which is distinguished by different colouring and a crest on its bill.
So there you go!

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