For my second piece for paintedspires, I had the prompt:
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
from Auguries of Innocence by William Blake.

I love a bit of Blake, so I made a graphic book using favourite lines from this poem. Featuring team Shep, Caldwell, Sam, Carson and others. Beware of spoilers for season 4!

Here it is, my first entry for the utterly fabulous paintedspires fanart fest. My prompt was "Rodney as The Doctor (old skool), John as the hot Companion."
David Hewlett was talking about Who again, I couldn't resist!
I tried Rodney as Four first (because Rodney's definitely a Tom Baker fan!), but he looks very, very silly with curly hair. And he's too young to be Three, so I went with my other favourite Doctor, Ten.

I have not spent the day listening to John Barrowman's unspeakably cheesy album. I certainly have not been singing along and dancing round my room. YOU'LL NEVER PROVE IT.
Here, let me distract you with some pretty.

1. My new house is very spiffy indeed. However, we have no internet. :( And Glastonbury tickets are on sale today, so my housemates and I have trekked out to uni, at 7AM ON A SUNDAY. UNIMPRESSED, MICHAEL EAVIS, UNIMPRESSED. And it's snowing outside! Not just a little bit, but seriously heavy snow fall. Urgh.

2. I have been yabbering on about how great it would be to have a dirigible in London since I moved here. Certainly the best way to beat the traffic - and so much more stylish than the tube. I watched Rise of the Cybermen last night, and there they are, beautiful air ships floating over London. AWESOME. I'm formulating a plan.

3. I finally watched the end of Doctor Who season 3, and I was most impressed. Doctor/Master is clearly the ship of winners! Also, I Can't Decide by the Scissor Sisters is my new evil overlord theme tune. I am bitterly jealous of those with TVs who have already seen the start of season 4 and the Torchwood finale.

4. What I really need for my paintedspires piece are large, high quality and bright caps from the first scene of Doppelganger. Can anyone share?
ETA: I got one that I needed from SG caps, so now all I need is this shot in HQ. Anyone got one?

5. Mmm, pretty Tennant. Lyrics from Across the Universe (I was listening to the Rufus Wainwright version, but it's originally a Beatles song). Textures from ownthesunshine and apod.

I'm a massive fan of Darren Aronofsky, and I saw his new(ish) film The Fountain for the first time recently. It was beautifully made although not as dark or as subtle as his earlier work. So I went and rewatched Pi, which I love more every time I see it; it has so many intricate details and layers of meaning that it's a different experience each time.

So I felt compelled to make some pretty. It's SGA/Pi, possibly the most pretentious thing ever? But I think Rodney would appriciate Pi, he has that sort of mind.

After my babbling about Tochwood, shewalksonroses kindly directed me to the utterly fabulous Out of Joint by honorh, a Firefly/Doctor Who crossover story.

I did not stay up til 5am reading it. I absolutely did not spend all day making Captain Mal/Captain Jack art.




Alright, alright, yes I did. They're so shiny, how could I resist?

incidental_fire was kind enough to point me to some McShep wing!fic. Hurrah for pretty feathery wings!

And so, I thought I would make a wing!McShep wallpaper. BECAUSE I LIKE WING!FIC AND I'M NOT ASHAMED. >:P