It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

I got black curtains and put them up so I could finally say goodbye to the pink ones. Ness can have her curtains back! Though really we should wash those...

But YAY BLACK CURTAINS! They are JUST long enough to reach the windowsill but hush! I love them :D And they look amazing with my purple lights over them. I also bought a very cheap but very nice shirt (we were at the warehouse, this entire purchase was pretty darn cheap) and the shirt not only suits me, but I look hot in it.

SO HAH! THINGS ARE AWESOME!

Other things in the list of awesome that is today? Watching movies with my Leah, and Dirty Life coming back. I am going to write some Nicholas and Hannah SO hardcore! Eeeiiiii!

I am watching an episode of Doctor Who which started in the 20s in New York. The teaser didn't have the Doctor in it so I was confused. And I was like "Dude, this is the 20s, this can't be Doctor Who." Three minutes later: "...oh right, he's a time lord." I've just been watching this show since I was like 5. It's fine. I've just lost my mind, it's all good. I have no problem understanding him visiting the Earth in the year 5 million, but the 20s? DOES NOT COMPUTE.

And then his girl was dressed in a sparkly outfit and she put on angel wings and I was like "LOL she thinks she's Iz."

A memory ~ In roleplay? Hmm. Well I remember the creation of father_peter vividly, but I have talked about it a million times. I wanted a character who knew about supernatural things to guide Deirdre the demon through her...demonness. And after having listened to the commentary on The Amityville Horror where Hans Holzer (♥) was talking about priests who do exorcism, I created the character of Peter who was originally a monk and in one scene (which seems SO insignificant, but it really isn't). Then I decided to flesh him out. And the bastard never shut up. The moment I decided to write him, I sat down and planned out the next several months and then wrote 30 pages of stuff over a weekend. It was...like a freaking mind-meld. And I have since gone back to fix up that scene since he became a priest instead of a monk and...such.

Now I have posted over 1,500 scenes with him in darker_london and I did this 100 things about Peter Kemp (which I added a bunch of shit too, but it's all written in a notebook somewhere. That is SO out of date!) and then I did another 100 things as well. Because I CAN. I fleshed out his family too. Most of them are arseholes :D

Uhm. That's all, really.

A graphic you’re proud of

Uh...long story. But I typo a lot and Peter was my second character. Deirdre was my first and I had written her for nearly a year before Peter came along. I was so used to writing 'she' and 'her' I kept typing that for Peter as well. I think it was Scout or someone in the conversation window who dubbed him Mother Peter. And then there was a cracky conversation on the OOC community for Dirty Life which involved Mother Peter being a lesbian though I can't remember why...

Anyway, years later IN GAME Deirdre joined an online 'roleplay' set in Melbourne (where I was at the time) and she played a nun while using her Peter as the PB. Why? Because I think I'm hilarious.

So I made this... and this: mother_peter

It's supposed to be badly done. And every time I see it, I laugh my arse off.

The only character muse I have left in FG is Saint Patrick. Fucksticks. Memetime.

favorite character you’ve ever made ~ Since I already answered this by saying Flynn myeyesarehollow I guess I should talk about someone else. My second and third favourite characters are Peter Kemp and Thomas Littleton, in order. Peter father_peter pretty much made himself (and I have talked him to BITS in this journal because he's my main character. Just follow the tag if you care) and Thomas suave_thomas was an accident. I'll talk about him since I love him to bits and he's Hugh Jackman. Actually he is why I love Hugh Jackman...

He was a plot point in dirty_life to make Peter sad in the beginning and then later to make him happy, and Thomas didn't even have a journal (and was never supposed to since he was...like..dead!) but then I played him in a scene with Scout's Claire (how that is possible is a question for the Dirty Wiki (which is so handy!) and we all loved him. We decided he needed him to be a full character, despite being dead so I made him a journal and I needed a PB. Scout had just seen the 3rd X-Men movie (I had not) and kept showing me pictures of Hugh Jackman who (WAIT FOR IT) I didn't care about at that point. At all. I had seen him in the X-Men movies and just thought he was a hairy git (THAT HURT ME TO TYPE OMFG!). I am actually serious. And so as a JOKE I suggested I use Hugh for Thomas since the character was for Claire (and Peter. Oooooh Cletermas. The smut!) and it would make Scout happy. They convinced me to do it so I did. Without that, I never would have had my Thomas (SO, THANK YOU!). His backstory has changed significantly, as well as the reason he came back AND how because of moving games. He's alive now because I couldn't stand having him dead because I love writing him too much. AND I finally realised if I write the novel with Peter in it, one of the almost everything ever that has to be different is that Thomas HAS to be alive (because bringing people back in the novel will not happen. That's so Buffy/Supernatural). The death in the beginning that starts Peter's emo wangst (this is not true, Peter's emo wangst started when his sister died, but shhh) has to be someone else's.

Sorry, Stuart everscrumptious I love you SO MUCH. You are adorable and silly and Daisy Wenham. But I love Thomas more. He made me love Hugh Jackman. Who I now cannot get enough of. And who does pained acting better than I think anyone does. So you're being sacrificed in novel form. Live on in darker_london

favorite gender to play ~ Male. I love them so much more. Short answer!

I have been SO productive today! I went to the store before it even opened and ended up waiting outside for ten minutes until they unlocked the doors. And then I got a bunch of writing done. Weehaw!

And Leah just yelped and then said "MY SHOULDER IS REALLY SOFT" and it was quite amusing... And now she's rubbing her shoulder with her face. Okay then!

Journal layout bored me so I changed it. It's been the same for...6 years? Anyway, since I SUCK at changing them, I just changed it to the Darker London layout and switched headers (one MIGHT be under the impression that I like the bridge or something...). How's that for lazy?! I also don't like change, so changing ti to something I know is probably for the best... And now I am adding links to fricking EVERYTHING because it's AWESOME. Wheeeee!

Anyway, I Mark Reads Harry Potter has gotten me hooked on re-watching the old movies. I just finished one (SEAN BIGGERSTAFF! I love watching my Julian) and after I feed the Simba-kitty (Landlord's cat, we did not get another feline) I will watch two. And...hopefully...write something Darker Londoney. I've had a blank window open for me all day. May give up and write Nicholas/Hannah again instead. I had a scene for tomorrow but I might do it tonight and to hell with it! They're taking over my brain with their inability to communicate. It's awesome.

Mostly? Loving the fact that whatever I do to piddle my time away, it doesn't matter. I am on VACATION so suck it, deadlines!