And I shall flail again...

We have the first "official" Iron Man 2 pic:



Courtesy of USA Today.

ARMOR. BEDHAIR. MONITOR. ZOMG.

Why, yes, I made wallpaper. But it kind of sucks (or maybe it's "artistic"--hell, I don't know), so have a link instead of the actual wallpaper. I'll give you a preview, I guess:


Yeah, like I said. Basic. I meant to add a quote and then never did. Lazy wallpaper-maker is lazy. Quote added, go me.

In writing news, yeah, wordcount continues apace. Nearly 7600. Poor Ben. He's kind of channelling Rorschach right now--short, choppy sentence fragments and a very "don't touch me, dammit" vibe. But at least he hasn't said "Hurm" yet, or dropped anyone down an elevator shaft. His sarcasm circuits are still firing, albeit weakly.

Writing it is giving me the shakes. That's good, right? That means my conscience is still working and maybe, just maybe, I won't go too far?

Hopefully, my betas will tell me if I've gone too far. Because, yeah.

In other news, in fandomsecrets today, there was a KKBB secret that made me go OMG YES. And then we got into a whole tag-team "quote from the movie" comment thread that was awesome.

And I shall flail again...

We have the first "official" Iron Man 2 pic:



Courtesy of USA Today.

ARMOR. BEDHAIR. MONITOR. ZOMG.

Why, yes, I made wallpaper. But it kind of sucks (or maybe it's "artistic"--hell, I don't know), so have a link instead of the actual wallpaper. I'll give you a preview, I guess:


Yeah, like I said. Basic. I meant to add a quote and then never did. Lazy wallpaper-maker is lazy. Quote added, go me.

In writing news, yeah, wordcount continues apace. Nearly 7600. Poor Ben. He's kind of channelling Rorschach right now--short, choppy sentence fragments and a very "don't touch me, dammit" vibe. But at least he hasn't said "Hurm" yet, or dropped anyone down an elevator shaft. His sarcasm circuits are still firing, albeit weakly.

Writing it is giving me the shakes. That's good, right? That means my conscience is still working and maybe, just maybe, I won't go too far?

Hopefully, my betas will tell me if I've gone too far. Because, yeah.

In other news, in fandomsecrets today, there was a KKBB secret that made me go OMG YES. And then we got into a whole tag-team "quote from the movie" comment thread that was awesome.

Oh, boy.

Ben has gone from channelling Rorschach to turning loose his inner smartass.

This...will not end well.

I'm wondering if the Lady!Vamp is going to feel the need to deliver a beatdown.

And how well that will go for her.

Because Ben, while not one to hit a lady, might not feel the same about hitting a vampire, or at least defending himself against one.

And then she'll kiss him.

And he'll hit her again. "NO TOUCHY."

Poor Ben. This is a guy who thrives on contact (Janni's always got a hand on some part of his anatomy if they're in the room together), and yet the only person around him who wants to touch him has ulterior motives. He's told the Lady!Vamp not to touch him at least three times in 8000 words so far.

I'll have to remember to seed that in the beginning (when I finally write the opening scenes of this thing), that he and Janni are always touching each other. It's a subtlety, but if anyone notices it'll bring his isolation just that much more home.

Oh, boy.

Ben has gone from channelling Rorschach to turning loose his inner smartass.

This...will not end well.

I'm wondering if the Lady!Vamp is going to feel the need to deliver a beatdown.

And how well that will go for her.

Because Ben, while not one to hit a lady, might not feel the same about hitting a vampire, or at least defending himself against one.

And then she'll kiss him.

And he'll hit her again. "NO TOUCHY."

Poor Ben. This is a guy who thrives on contact (Janni's always got a hand on some part of his anatomy if they're in the room together), and yet the only person around him who wants to touch him has ulterior motives. He's told the Lady!Vamp not to touch him at least three times in 8000 words so far.

I'll have to remember to seed that in the beginning (when I finally write the opening scenes of this thing), that he and Janni are always touching each other. It's a subtlety, but if anyone notices it'll bring his isolation just that much more home.