Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Toy Tuesday

Today started out grumpy with Tim Horton's debit being down and my not having any cash. I know, such a trivial thing shouldn't bother me so much but it did. Well to make myself feel better I decided that we should have a Toy Tuesday.

As some of you know I'm a collector of Dolls and Toys and some other collectible things. I am not the kind of person to keep the items in a box, nor do I usually care if my kids touch them. I believe that some toys are meant to be played with and some toys are just fun on my shelves. Most of my Doll collection range in styles from Bleeding Edge Goth Dolls to Bratz, Monster High Dolls to Pullip.

If you haven't seen Pullip here's one:

Found HERE

I love Pullip's. They can be pricey but really they aren't any worst than other collectibles. My favourite part are that they are full ball joint dolls, so they are fully poseable. I love that they look like little anime characters. The one I have is in an older style outfit. I keep debating on making her new clothes but I can't get myself to change her from the pretty original outfit.

I have read a few reviews of some of the different Hot Toys collectibles that are out there at the moment. I know a few have been disappointed with the Age Of Ultron Artist Mix ones but as someone who loves Chibi and Anime styled toys I actually think they are rather cute.

Found HERE
What do you think?

Being I'm not a huge fan of the realistic toys a lot of mine tend to be slightly cute or cartoon-y. I'm in awe of toys that look realistic beyond belief. Like this one:
Found HERE
I think it's amazing what they can do know. I wouldn't turn down having one of these beauties on my shelf but I actually tend ones more like the first Captain.

We can't talk about cute geeky toys unless we bring up Funko. Funko is a new ever growing fad of ADORABLE geeky characters. My personal love for them is they remind me of Baby versions of my favourite characters. I have a Baby Venom ('cause he's the only character that I ever truly enjoyed in Spider Man when I was a kid lol), Baby Loki ('cause every girl needs a Loki LOL) and a Baby Baby Groot LOL.

Yesterday (March 30th) Funko announced their Star Wars Celebration toys. This is supposedly a first announcement of 3 for items that will be available at the Star Wars Celebration 2015 in Anaheim CA. Although there will be no way that I am going to the convention there I thought I'd share with you the cutest C3PO Ever:
From HERE
I don't know about you but I think he's adorable all in Silver. He would look so cute with my other Funko's. I am not the biggest Star Wars Fan in the world (far from it) but I can appreciate all geekdom... and he's totally one for the shelf .

Today Funko announced Sesame Street Pop! Figures. I think my daughters would love them. I have a fondness for Super Grover:
Found with others HERE
I kinda hope they make an Abby Caddaby (who is a favourite in my household).


Well I hope you had fun with Toy Tuesday today. Maybe I'll do more of these.
Who doesn't want to look at all the toys!!

Until Next Time.
Keep on Geekin' on.
Angie

Monday, March 30, 2015

Home and a Funko

I know you missed me. I was off on Friday for dental stuff that didn't work out as plan. Instead of getting a wisdom tooth removed I just got fully frozen then had a bad reaction and almost passed out. What this means is that I've been laying on my couch all weekend in achy pain from the multiple needles in the side of my face. The nice thing about being down all weekend is I decided to MEDICATE and take my oldest monkey to see HOME. (there may be some SPOILERS below so just be aware)

Found HERE
My daughter really really wanted to see it but wasn't too sure about it at the beginning. We really enjoyed it but it wasn't what I thought it was about at first. I thought (from Previews) it was another alien on earth who does funny things and feel good kinda movie. I wasn't expecting them to ACTUALLY take over the Earth in the few 20 minutes of the movie. Yup I said it right. The premise of the movie is an alien race (called the Boov) "relocates" all humans to a "human habitat" and then proceeds to take over the planet. In doing so they accidentally miss a little girl, who later on befriends an alien while forcing him to help her find her mom. The alien is "Oh" a bumbling little guy who seems to do things "hilariously wrong" (as they say in the movie).

From the 4 year old. Her review of the movie was that it was cute. She liked Oh and she thought it was funny. She was sad that the girl's mom was missing. She also wasn't to sure about the "evil" aliens hunting the Boov. It is 4 appropriate, unlike the new Annie which she fell asleep during due to boredom. She got bored at parts but the dancing and the silliness of the Boov seemed to make up for it. It is one we will watch again, maybe not the 5 Baymax's that she gave Big Hero 6, but definitely 3 Baymax's and a Fist. LOL I will definitely be buying it in time.

On another note I was a good little PenPal and actually managed to send out a bunch of letters!! YAY!

On Friday I got something an AWESOME twitter friend sent me. Being I'm in Canada (if you haven't figured that out yet I'm sure you would in time) I can't get some of the Exclusive geeky things that I see online. So one of my cool twitter peeps actually went to a store and got me my new Venom addition to my Funko Shelf.


I call them my Baby Groot, Baby Venom and Baby Loki (who I got at Toronto Comic Con the weekend before). Aren't they adorable!! Behind them you can see some of my book collection and some stickers my awesome brother sent me from Korea a few years ago. I think the stickers are adorable but I can't get myself to actually use them LOL.


So lately I have been writing children's stories with my daughter. I'm new at this but I've been writing down the stories I tell her at bedtime. (at least the ones that I can remember or that are fun).

I'm wondering if I should share some?? I'm also wondering if I should see if someone wants to illustrate them for me? I have a degree in art and do some of my own drawing but I've never been strong at cartooning. I may try my hand at it for a while but I just can't seem to get what I see in my head on paper. If anyone wants to try or has an opinion or anything I would love to hear it. Please leave me a message in the comments!!

But for now....
Keep On Geekin' On.
Angie

Thursday, March 26, 2015

MARVEL-ous Pretties.

I have discovered some amazing boots from Hot Topic this week... Now I'm trying to decide if I want to buy them or not. Seriously, how cute would these look with a Comic book themed outfit??
Found HERE
Aren't they adorable. I think these would make a good start to a cosplay outfit, or just an outfit. I think Striped socks with a skirt or shorts and a comic shirt would be rocking!

A friend also shared with me this neat tutorial to make your own Comic book bracelets. Being I have an issue cutting up perfectly harmless comic books. (Yes I admit I'm a Weirdo at times) I would probably print off images from the Internets. You can do a General search for most comic's and find a few pages, this way I can print them at the size I would like instead of being limited to comic print. This is what I did for my shoes I made so that the image is smaller or bigger to fit into different spots on the shoes. (In case you forget they were featured on my very first post on this blog Awwww )

From HERE
Aren't these cute?? I think I'm going to make some with small pop bottles for my kids :). If you have any other cool crafty things that you find share them in the comments and I'm going to try to post more of them over time on here... I'm actually thinking of making a Links page to different Geeky Crafts or Blogs and stuff.

Here's something else cute:
Found on Pinterest
Now who wouldn't want to be seen driving around in this. I don't think my Rogue could pull off a cute car wrap like this... but someday I'll have a cool truck or little go go car and maybe a bunch of money that I can throw onto one. For now I will drool in awe at the awesome geeky car decals and wraps and mods that people keep doing... like this one:

So Pretty: HERE
Maybe for now I should just get a window sticker or something LOL.

Well I'm hoping to have something posted tomorrow but I'm not sure if that will happen with me going in for Dental yuck.

Either way :)
Keep on Geekin' on!
Angie

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Superman, Harley Quinn, Lex... Oh My!

OMG have you seen this... it totally made me snarff this morning.
Found HERE
Hehehe... Here's a pic of the costumes they were referring too (I have discussed the awesomeness of Wonder Woman's costume in a previous post.

Found HERE as well
I'm actually liking Superman's costume too... How many people will dress like Superman at con's now?? EVERYONE??? lol. This Superman version makes being a superhero a lot more comfortable.

On more DC News.... which is actually rare for me being I am a self-proclaimed Marvel enthusiast. Here is a Pic that they just released of Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luther.

From HERE
I'm still not sure exactly how I feel about the Batman/Superman (prequel to the Justice League movies) franchise. I do like the current Superman and I think Momoa as Aquaman could be really interesting. I guess I'll just have to wait and see how it goes when we start getting actual trailers.

If I'm sticking with my DC theme today I thought I'd share these awesome sneakers:
From HERE
All I can think about after seeing these is "will Fan Expo let me wear Roller Skates in the Con??" Derby characters would be an AWESOME theme to do with some friends and would probably be really comfortable compared to other costumes I'm planning. As much as I want to buy the shoes the costume ideas are endless! Oooooo Now I want to go home and draw a series of Comic Girls in Derby style. How cute would Rogue or bad ass would Storm be in Derby costumes.... I would totally mix the DC and Marvel Girls!!! (If this inspiration sticks through the night I may post some progress drawings in the morning lol ).

Well, for now.
Keep on Geekin' on!
Angie

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Gender Inclusion in Kids and Geekdom

So I have recently discovered the truth that when it comes to inclusion and differences kids do not care. At least not unless a parent make a deal about it and trains the kid to care. I have an awesome example:

My daughter loves My Little Pony. Most of you know them as the ponies on TV:
IMAGE
As standard understanding all the ponies are girls. From Apple Jack to Rarity. It's a show about a bunch of girl ponies doing things together and helping each other. Well my daughter believes differently. As a four year old experiencing the world she has decided that Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash are boys. I don't know what made her decide this but she will argue till she is blue in the face that the two characters are definitely boys.

Now comes the cool part.

We have a new obsession with My Little Pony: Equestrian Girls. Here is a Pic of them:
Found HERE
As you can see the girls are all in skirts and makeup and fancy hair. What does my daughter say?? "Wow Rainbow Dash is cool, He has an awesome outfit." Yup you heard that right. She still believes that Apple and Rainbow are just boys who like to dress up in the same clothes as the girls.

I think this is totally amazing. I love the fact that she isn't even fazed by the idea at all. There is no "boy's clothes", "girl clothes" attitude. Mind you I do buy "boy clothes" for my girls because seriously what little geeky girl doesn't want to wear avengers and marvel stuff! lol :)

Even cooler she now wants a Rainbow dress... just as she has a Spider-man outfit... too her it doesn't matter the gender of the character. She could be Pym from Next Avengers or Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony. She wants the costume of the character she likes the most despite the gender.

I think I've had a major Mom win with this little one.

Until Next Time.
Keep on Geekin' On.
Angie

Monday, March 23, 2015

Monday Awesome.

I had a rather Geekily eventful weekend. On Saturday we joined thousands(?) at Toronto Comic Con in their expressions of Geekdom. I have a list of amazing artists that I will be sharing soon, but today I sucked cause I forgot all their cards with their info at home. So hopefully you'll get to see and I'll link all their sites over so that you can revel in their awesomeness as well.


I had decided that this Cosplay won TCC... There were some amazing and beautiful costumes (which I suck and totally failed to take pictures of) but Baymax was AWESOME. He was even letting kids give him hugs and everything. Two thumbs up to Baymax!

So we went to see Kingsmen... if you haven't seen the trailer here you go:

(I hope the trailer works. I'm just figuring out this linking from You Tube thing LOL)

Anywho.... when you watch the trailer you almost think it may be a little Teen Spy Like.... it is SO NOT! I mean. I really really liked it. Who knew that Colin Firth could actually be a fighter in a movie. SERIOUSLY. After movies like the King's Speech and Bridget Jones and Mama Mia and Nanny McPhee... you assume the actor will be more serious but fun. But he TRULY kicks but.

I warn you, because it took me off guard. It was quite visual, more so than I was expecting. Lots of dead bodies and blood and such. Here I am going in expecting some silly spy flick and leave going "OMG that was Awesome!". I'm not going to hype it too much for you though because I'm sure someone will go and say it was horrible. And if you are looking for a serious boring blah blah blah kind of movie then it was. Actually it had that amazing B movie quality where in one point you are thinking this might be an absolute wash but at the same time realize you would re-watch every Sunday for a month without blinking an eye.

On another note have you seen this amazing house?


GeekxGirls did an article ( HERE ) about house done up in the theme of avengers. My issue? I would totally own it but I love too many types of Geekdom to have my house limited to one genre. I have an eclectic mess for my Geeky abode of my dreams LOL.

I leave you with a Pon and Zi image:
Why? Because they are Adorables! I love Pon and Zi!! You should love them too :)

Until Next Time.
Keep on Geekin' on!!
Angie

Saturday, March 21, 2015

All the things... To the CON!

This is my first scheduled blog post... and my first attempt with Twitterfeed.com .
From HERE
I know this sounds funny but for the last few months I have been doing "ALL THE THINGS". I'm getting penpals, joining Con groups, making crafts... I've sewn my daughter a dress, started on cosplay costuming for myself. I've started this blog and revisited my profile on twitter, finding new people and new things. I've rekindled my love of dolls and crafts and toys and collectibles. I've started reading Manga and debated on getting into comic books again.

I have done all this stuff and more and I'm actually quite happy. Part of me keeps feeling like I'm looking for something. That I'm on the right path to get where I want to go or find what it is I'm looking for but I haven't really gotten there yet. I feel like I'm looking for the WOW, the excitement, the insane exuberance in finding that thing. I have found somethings that I will continue. Some people that I have now decided to keep as new friends. I'm feeling like I'm on a path that there is something just out of reach. Something that I'm starting to aim towards but haven't discovered yet.

This is a journey... and I'm quite thrilled to be on it at the moment and even more happy with all those who are joining me on it through this blog.

Okay Okay,... enough with the deep. I'm off to a Con today so I'm hoping that this posts properly and links up to ALL THE ACCOUNTS. (I guess today is a Hyperbole and a Half kinda day)

Actually what's kinda funny is this:
This a a pic from Hyperbole and a Half talking about power of being in a Dino Costume.


This is my 18 month old in her Dino outfit. She goes around Roaring LOL. Maybe I should be afraid! LOL

Well, hopefully I'll get some pics of other amazing costumes this weekend and maybe meet some new friends in the process.

Until Next Time!
Keep on Geekin' on.
Angie

Friday, March 20, 2015

Fun Fridays!

So today, for spring I decided to post some Cool Geeky finds... Ideas for penpal stuff. Tutorials. Toys. Things like that. Here we go...
Found Here
I have been looking for some fun stuff for Pen pals and found this Tutorial Site by Omiyaga Blogs.

What I really liked was a Washi Tape tutorial for Script Cards. I keep wondering what to do with some of the awesome Washi tape I've been buying (mostly 'cause they are adorable) and then I found this! It gives me all sorts of ideas to make stickers for Pen Pals and swaps out of Washi Tape.

So I was wondering around GeekxGirls and found through them this awesome site by Mari Kasurinen and look what I found:

Isn't it cute???? I'm not usually big on starwars but I SO WANT a storm trooper pony!

Also have you seen the preview for PIXELS???


My 80's kid gamer geek self is in love with this. I am a fan of most of the cast too... looks hilariously amazing!

Last but not least.... Baymax as other Disney Characters.

I found this on Fashionably Geek. I want to hug him and squeeze him and call him George.... He's SO CUTE. I think I need Baymax dolls in all the costumes for my shelves. (If I could keep my kids from stealing them, not that I'd blame them)

So I'm off to the awesome Toronto Comic Con tomorrow to see all the cool things. I love cons. This will be like a prequel to Fan Expo this summer.

Until Next Time.
Keep On Geekin' On
Angie

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Soul Eater

(Sorry about the delay, I had this post prepared 2 days ago then my house was hit with the PLAGUE lol... so I was unable to go online!)

I have watched all of Soul Eater not too long ago and have recently decided that I should read the Manga. As a Manga-newbie it took me a few pages to read it properly. I knew I was to start at the back of the book and read the right page first... but what I forgot was to read Right to Left across the page.

From Here
It made for the first few pages to be rather confusing but now that I've gotten the hang of it it's actually pretty awesome. The funniest part of reading a Manga at work is the looks you get in the lunchroom when people see you flipping from back to front as you read. I've gotten a few comments of "Oh are you looking for something?" when I change the page backwards. The cool part is I think I may have convinced some of the less geeky in my lunchroom that they should try and read a Manga. It's definitely a different experience and I think I'm falling in love with it almost as much as reading standard comics.

I do love comics, but with the price and the speed I read through them, I've been having a hard time getting back into reading them regularly. I've recently been given a few by an awesome penpal so I really need to get onto reading them. Hopefully before my foray to Toronto Comic Con this weekend. That way if I have discovered a new love I can look for the next ones in the series for myself.

I totally recommend Soul Eater to anyone who is thinking of getting into Manga's. I love the story... the mixture of Light and Dark, Serious and Humour is perfect for me. I have never been into the really dark Anime's but I do enjoy a good story. I particularly love the characters. I think I like most of the them from the book/show so I don't mind reading any of the "stories" in the Manga.

I have been also debating on Cosplaying one of the characters for Fan Expo this summer. I'm not sure if I want to do Maka or go for a cross play like Kid-Death.

Any ideas? Opinions??

Well until next time.
Keep on Geekin' on.
Angie

Monday, March 16, 2015

It's Monday... Lets talk Costumes.

So I've been reading this big discussion on the Mary Sue today about Mr. Erik Larsen's views on some of the new costumes for Female superhero's. How he feels they lack sex appeal and are built specifically to make it less sexy.

It also continues to talk about the different artists weighing in on the discussion. If you want to read it in full find it here!

Found HERE
So as a female, how likes comics, and likes to cosplay I would like to call BULLSHIT on all the arguments about the changes being due to a minority, due to fans or due to any of that crap. Sometimes things change, sometimes costumes and characters change. I will give you an example:
found HERE
Here is Wolverine... we all love and hate and at times love to hate wolverine's costumes. The have been variations of his costume where he is fully clothed, long sleeves, short sleeves, ripped pants, and shirtless. With each variation have we had an upheaval with people shouting from the rafters that the change was due to fan critiques?? No. Have we had people saying that by giving Wolverine longer sleeves or Jeans and a jacket he in no longer to move because it is too constricting?? Well I guess it's different for men and female characters as Mr. Larsen says:

... because bulky clothes actually hinder movement). And in any case--these are lines on paper. People can't fly in the real world...


Well I guess women are more delicate or lack some sort of ability to move... when they have clothing on. I also guess a woman in a leather jacket lacks some sort of sex appeal needed for comic.

What I don't understand is why sex appeal is needed. Do we need the female characters to portray a Sex Appeal that the male characters seldom require. Yes male characters are exaggerated as well, but they are not exaggerated to appease to the sex appeal of women. They are exaggerated in a sense to appeal to the ideal that the artist/fan/whatever had of the male form.

Skin is not needed for the character to fly better, fight better, or save the world any easier. Clothing reduces chafing and rug burns and marks from the fight... I like the new versions.

Look how awesome Batgirl's costume is:
Found Here
Or Spidergirl:
Found Here
See clothing can still make for an awesome character.

If you have an opinion, as I'm sure you do, feel free to comment. I love a good discussion. As an artist I like all sorts of art on my characters and have drawn them fully clothed and very little. It doesn't change how my character acts, only how they dress.

Until Next Time
Keep On, Geekin' On
Angie

Friday, March 13, 2015

Geekiness and Disney

So I'm debating if I should have posts prepared so that they post on the weekend. Even if it's just something small.

found HERE


What do you think?? Good idea??

Anyway, I've been pretty busy with people and friends and pocket letters and everything. I really am trying to figure out if I want to try and expand my blog... being it's at baby blog level... into intermediate level. How to do this I really don't quite know but it would be neat to have a slightly bigger audience I think. It would also give me a reason to actually prepare more than my daily rants (not that there's anything wrong with my daily rants). LOL.

If you have any suggestions or want to share this blog with a larger audience I would be thrilled. I'm just not quite sure where to start.

Anyway, back to a geeky rant.

I have decided to acknowledge publicly my love of Disney... and Marvel... and Disney LOL. I find so many cute versions of Disney princesses that aren't so "Princess-y" that I almost think I should start a Links Page just to include them in. For now I'm going to start sharing them here...

found HERE
If you haven't already seen them and fell in love with them... here is Pocket Princesses. Think of this scenario: If all the princesses were to live under the same roof what do you think would happen?? Well this artist explored them in the ABSOLUTELY CUTEST ways possible. I will spend minutes *cough*hours*cough* going through all the little drawings. Each one is in the above format and shows them in doing different things. I like the interactions and the unashamed acceptance of each characters "quirks". Go now and take in the cute!

I also found the picture at the top of the post at Tee Turtle. It's actually a shirt you can buy. I've been getting into all the geeky t-shirts lately (who would have guest I'm in my 30's) and am seriously considering spending some invisible money (invisible money is that from credit cards that doesn't actually exist) on some. I think I need to hold off for a few months though being I will be paying for Fan Expo Tickets fairly soon and I don't want to blow my budget.

I have been seeing a variety of re-imagined Disney princesses. It seems to be a theme lately. I think it's awesome (and have done a fair share of my own as well),

Here is a collection of some of the cool ones I have found. The link is attached to the name if you want to see other stuff by the artist.

From Dark:
By Jeffrey Thomas
To Tattooed:
By Timothy John Shumate
To Chibi:
By Meekgeek
To Fashion:
By Sashii-kami

So many styles. So many awesome artists. If you find any more feel free to add them into the comments below.

For now I am off for the weekend. I will try and figure out this weekend how to get an automated post to happen... I'm sure I can figure it out. Just need to actually look into it.

Until next time.

Keep On Geekin' On
Angie


Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Great A'Tuin

Today I was going to talk about stuff like my cute new Jack Skellington that my awesome sauce brother sent me (pic below, 'cause I needed to share it), heck I even brought it to work so he's now living on my computer. Instead I decided to talk about the amazing Terry Pratchett.


My experience with Terry Pratchett is mainly through the Discworld Series. I love this series and, as most who read discworld, prefer specific characters over others, even though I will read pretty much anything. For those of you who don't know about discworld here's the general concept:

In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...

See...
Great A'Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
In a brain bigger than a city, with geological slowness, He thinks only of the Weight.
Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen, the four giant elephants upon whose broad and startanned shoulders the disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven.
Astropsychology has been, as yet, unable to establish what they think about.
The Great Turtle was a mere hypothesis until the day the small and secretive kingdom of Krull, whose rim-most mountains project out over the Rimfall, built a gantry and pulley arrangement at the tip of the most precipitous crag and lowered several observers over the Edge in a quartzwindowed brass vessel to peer through the mist veils.
The early astrozoologists, hauled back from their long dangle by enormous teams of slaves, were able to bring back much information about the shape and nature of A'Tuin and the elephants but this did not resolve fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of the universe.[1]
For example, what was Atuin's actual sex? This vital question, said the Astrozoologists with mounting authority, would not be answered until a larger and more powerful gantry was constructed for a deep-space vessel. In the meantime they could only speculate about the revealed cosmos.
There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics. An alternative, favoured by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis.
Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction, testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin's right eye, was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world.
Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it. Nevertheless, he was the first. There were others...
. . .
[1] The shape and cosmology of the disc system are perhaps worthy of note at this point. There are, of course, two major directions on the disc: Hubward and Rimward. But since the disc itself revolves at the rate of once every eight hundred days (in order to distribute the weight fairly upon its supportive pachyderms, according to Reforgule of Krull) there are also two lesser directions, which are Turnwise and Widdershins. Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference. Thus, in the lands around the Circle Sea, the year begins on Hogs' Watch Night, progresses through a Spring Prime to its first midsummer (Small Gods' Eve) which is followed by Autumn Prime and, straddling the half-year point of Crueltide, Winter Secundus (also known as the Spindlewinter, since at this time the sun rises in the direction of spin). Then comes Secundus Spring with Summer Two on its heels, the three quarter mark of the year being the night of Alls Fallow - the one night of the year, according to legend, when witches and warlocks stay in bed. Then drifting leaves and frosty nights drag on towards Backspindlewinter and a new Hogs' Watch Night nestling like a frozen jewel at its heart.
Since the Hub is never closely warmed by the weak sun the lands there are locked in permafrost. The Rim, on the other hand, is a region of sunny islands and balmy days. There are, of course, eight days in a disc week and eight colours in its light spectrum. Eight is a number of some considerable occult significance on the disc and must never, ever, be spoken by a wizard.
Precisely why all the above should be so is not clear, but goes some way to explain why, on the disc, the Gods are not so much worshipped as blamed.
(An Extract from The Colour of Magic)

I love Terry Pratchett's Style. As you read through his books you realize he has a rhythm and tone that is unique to him. I have never found another author who's books read like Pratchett's. Just as Neil Gaiman is unique in his concepts and structures so is Pratchett.

When talking about Pratchett with any Pratchett ready everyone seems to have a favourite character group. He has a few character groups that seem to stick together by books... some of the few are the Witches, or Death, or the Night Watch, or the Wizards. All the books have different themes... the wizards seem to be based on literature or classic items, like fairy tales or the Phantom of the Opera. A lot of the Night Watch are film noir or mysteries... the list goes on and on. My absolute favourite has always been Death.

From HERE
I have read and re-read the Death Series many times in my life. My favourite has always been Reaper Man but really they are all so good that it makes it hard to decide.
From HERE
I can never get over the awesomeness that is the Death of Rats... or Death's Granddaughter Susan.... or pretty much any time he talks. I always try to picture what it would sound like. What kind of voice does Death have that is it spelt in Capitols. I don't feel it's particularly loud (like the Capital speech in common texting or im-ing), instead I feel it represents a characteristic that is OtherWorldly. Something different or something that makes you react in a way you can't quite tell.

I always love Death's appearances in the other Discworld novels. A little "EXCUSE ME" or "HELLO" while passing in a scene. Some kind of mention of a guy that seemed exceptionally skinny. All these make me giggle. All these make me appreciate that Death, in one form or another, is everywhere. If you think of that it seems like a rather grim proclamation but in all honesty it's kind of comforting. (I know, the goth girl in me is getting out lol)

In looking around the lovely internets to try and find some cool gifs or images or stuff related to Discworld I discovered this artist on Deviant Art:
By Deviant Art Artist Kian
I think it's rather well done. You should check out the other Discworld Dictionary Stuff on her site. The physical portrayal of the scenes actually to the novels a lot of justice.

Well for now I wish Sir Terry Pratchett a comfortable journey to his next destination, with the promise of remembrance every time I read his books.

Until Next Time
Keep On Geekin' On.
Angie

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Tim Burton and the Con Man!

When I think of Tim Burton this is what I think of...
From HERE
and this:
I know he's done other things like these:
Found HERE
And some of them are dark, some are lighter but all Tim Burton has a slightly off quality too it. Now as a kid I really didn't like Dumbo. With the weird "high" scene and the older styles of cartooning, that even as a kid of the 80's I found was strange.

As a live action Dumbo I'm not sure if they are thinking more of a CG Elephant or real Elephant but I have a hard time believing that it will be a kid friendly movie. All I can picture is Tim Burton/ Salvador Dali styled Elephants flying over the Circus tent.

What do you think of this revelation??

On another note have you seen this??
Image from their Indiegogo
I would TOTALLY watch this show. I'm quite thrilled that they are fully funded in less then 24 hours. As a geeky individual in a geeky community I have one question: Did they really think that something with Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion would NOT get funded? Seriously??

Heck with the increase in shows like the Guild and Table Top and even Sherlock and the MARVEL INSANITY.... are we surprised that a show about actors in the Convention world gets a lot of buzz?? No not really. If anything I'm wonder why it wasn't done before. Also this opens up a whole slew of possibilities of Guest Actors/Actresses being on the show... which is very very very exciting.

Well, for now I will go revel in the possibilities of a comedy I may enjoy and the confusion bestowed upon me by Dumbo.

Until Next Time.
Keep On Geekin' On.
Angie

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Passion and Embracing your Geekdom.

I wasn't sure what I should write about today. I've been really hung up on the pocket letters and pen pals lately but I feel like I've been neglecting my other joys of Geekdom. At the same time I've been embracing something new and seeing where it has been taking me.

Wise Words found HERE
I keep having to remind myself that there is no rules or limitations on what you enjoy. There are no specifics on how you get there. There are no Right ways or Wrong ways on why you are doing something the way you are doing it.

This year has been a year of a lot of changes in my life and there are a TON of things that I am experiencing and trying to experience that I haven't before.

One of the cool things is being a part of communities like IGGPPC and recently getting some non (or less) geeky pen pals in the Pocket Letters club.

But there are SO many other things that I want to try. One of them is truly embracing Cosplay. I have loved Costuming and everything Costume related for years. There is a reason that Halloween is one of my favourite Holidays. I am working on building some costumes of my own creation (you can find them all on my Facebook .... come like me) but I'll include one or two below...
My Evil Snow White

My Alt-Wendy
The main problem with hobbies (especially those that involve sewing) is my limited time when I can actually sew. During the day I work, in the evening I have my kids and once my kids are in bed I find it hard to sew being it's a little noisy and I worry about waking them up. (Also I'm too tired to do a good job and I'm a bit of a perfectionist at times.) I really really really want to get my costumes ready for Fan Expo... which is in September.

So to all those trying new things I will give you the encouragement that I try to give myself... KEEP GOING! Don't give up and you will get there in time. There is no time limits on Success and no deadlines for hobbies. So enjoy it and embrace your passions.

Until Next Time
Keep On Geekin On.
Angie