Hey there, Beaky prefers to f-lock her entries as she likes to believe in the facade of internet privacy.  Fandom related entries wouldn't be friends only.

This post shall be more elaborate later and may even include some sort of fancy graphic.

Toodles now~
DragonBeak

P.S.  Eventually!  This spot shall be populated with organizational links to my different things... everything following this is in preparation of that.

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Crack Shipper!  A forewarning, I'm still working out names.

Name: Mary J.
Online Handle: SecretKeeper
Nationality: Blank
Shipper Type: Cracky PWP Generalist
Time in Fandom: Five or more years
Favorite Ships: Never stays with one too long
Energy Choice: Canon is for the unimaginative


Again, more info on the character at DeviantArt!  But for the nutshell version, I'm hoping that Mary will be a lesson in not judging others based soley their appearances and interests as she actually turns out to be quite the friendly lady.  Even if she's kind of scary.

P.S.  For additional fandom research, I decided to pay a visit over at fandomsecrets .  I was a little worried the last few days that maybe this whole shipper premise wouldn't fly because it's not like people take shipping that seriously.

Five minutes and one secret post read later, I remember no, they do.  People really do think it's that serious.  Which is great!  I'll be honest in that I miss having that kind of fannish passion, but I guess that's why I'm doing this instead.  Shipping probably was my favorite fandom activity, lol.  Shame it's so looked down upon.

I should be getting back to school work, but I'm hoping my next shipper will be the BNF!  Unlike the other two so far, I haven't quite committed to her looks just yet.  In particular I'm still debating in my head if she should have more of a glamorous celebrity or roman goddess look.  There will be a forum though... or something forum like I guess.

I present to you, the Slasher!

Name: Alexis McRay
Online Handle: samuraigurl-chan
Nationality: American
Shipper Type: Slashing fanfic writer
Time in Fandom: Two to three years
Favorite Ships: Tends to favor the villains. The more twisted the ship, the better. Slash or femslash, it's good as long as it's not het. Because that's gross.
Energy Choice: Prefers canon but flexible


Got more of a description on DeviantArt.

Puns, I love puns!

Hopefully a start to my shipper project, which unfortunately, I realized might take more time to finish than I originally anticipated.  I might have to postpone heavy duty work until summer, but for now I can at least conceptualize and world build.

For a semi-change of pace and the fact that I can't get over how awesome Assassin's Creed 2: Brotherhood is... is f-ing awesome, okay?
( Assassin's Creed BrotherhoodCollapse )

( Golden Sun: Dark DawnCollapse ) 

Well, it's occurred to me since I've really been more of a lurker for most of my internet career I actually lack a lot of the stereotypical shipper experiences.  Which makes my whole Shipper Handbook project a lot more difficult.  This isn't really a project I'd be working on that much until December, but I thought it'd be really helpful if I could hear what other people's fangirl/shipper experiences  and observations of others have been like with their times in fandom.

Some things I've been wondering off the top of my head perhaps, hrm...

• What are shipping wars actually like?  I've never actually seen one at all, especially ones that have broken into "civil wars" and require "treaties" though TVTropes tell me these have happened.
• Personally, I think it'd be more fun to focus that energy on finding fellow shippers of similar ships!  What's that like anyway?  Having lots of shippers with the same ship in one place and fitting in and getting all excited? ... I wish I knew what this was like xD; Or, used to anyway.
• Are most people OTP types, where they only have one pairing, or is it more common for people to have multiple ships?
• Have you ever thought about finding a friend and cosplaying together as the ship?  (Honestly, unless the two were dating in real life, I don't see how this couldn't be at least remotely awkward).
• What do you think the ultimate goal for a shipper is? Or what is your ultimate goal, or is there any ultimate goal to be had at all?  Would it be for the ship to become canon?  To prove the rival ship false with canon?  For the fangirl to become a BNF?  A promoted fan?  To simply convert others to the ship?  Or simply to have fun?

Granted, I know half of my flist aren't shippers anyway, hrm... I should probably post about this on DA as well.  Oh, I also wanted to share this pic I found while traveling TVTropes during my research.  I need to be careful not to have too much fun with this, it's so much fun coming up with puns.  Thanks in advance guys!

There's not much on the blog now, but I'll hopefully have more and more to post as I get further along this project...

I'm feeling like my days on LJ are numbered, since I no longer talk about the things I used to talk about that drew most of my flist to me in the first place. *cough* fandom *cough*  And in the past, whenever I start a new blog I tend to abandon another.  

Oh, I will put up an extensive post about AWA eventually.  Documenting con trips helps me evaluate my progress as an amateur entrepreneur.  *nodnod*

There's this meme that's been going around Deviantart for the last couple of weeks where you put together a collage of any of your major influences.  I decided to focus mine on my "style", since it was something I've been thinking about a lot lately and I can definitely point out when I saw certain things in my life time that you can later see me emulating >o>  The way it works is that the bigger the influence, the bigger the pic!  Here we go!

So I'm still playing around with my cintiq, getting the hang of it, so I took a break from con stuff (when will I actually start working?) and worked on some gift art that I had promised for dybji a while ago!  Ta-da!  The end result was meant to be icons, but I thought it'd be fun to post up the full pics online.


The requests were tap-dancing Kaistern, overworked Alfeegi, and something coffee related with Ruwalk that I think I had gotten wrong, but barbistas are hilarious!  The last one was a wildcard, and of course since there was going to be a set of four, had to include Tetheus somehow!  Kaistern's definitely my favorite though, of this set.

Anyway, back to work on some badges, hopefully these will be the last ones.

Wow, I wasn't actually expecting for onemanga and other scanlation sites to be taken down so quickly, hrm... I'm not really too mad about it, because it was illegal to begin with, but now I'm more like "well, that makes it even harder for me to be in the loop with anime now."

What I didn't realize (but I'm not sure if this is true, since I only heard it from my sister) was that apparently while scanlators themselves weren't making any money from scanlating and it was all more a labor of love, the scanlation hosting websites were making lots of money from advertisements simply from the huge volumes of traffic... which, isn't so okay.  It's becoming harder not to see this from the publishing houses' point of view, really.

At the same time though, I can't really imagine what sort of effect this is going to have on the anime community.  Maybe a big one, maybe none at all, hrm... I don't know! xD;; I do feel like... this might be a too little too late sort of solution on the part of the publishers though.  Because lots of fans are used to getting their stuff for free now, and they may feel bitter and angry that they can't have it that way anymore.  And come on, would the hype for anime be nearly as huge if it weren't available for free on the net?

So I don't know, I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not sure if this move would necessarily help the publishing houses' falling sales.  But we'll just have to wait and see.  Maybe not everybody is as cheap as I think they are.

Well, at any rate, I'll no longer be able to keep up with Bleach and Naruto.... yes, I do read mainstream series, is that so bad?  I also kept up with Soul Eater, D. Gray-Man, and... I think that's it.  I used to read Skip Beat and Ouran High School, but the scanlation teams had such bad clean up staff that I couldn't stand looking at the pages after a while xD;; Oops.