Hi everybody. I hope everyone who celebrates Christmas had a good one.

I am sure most of you are already familiar with Child's Play. For those who are not, it is a charity set up by Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade. Its goal is to provide games, toys, and entertainment to children in hospitals. The charity is doing exceedingly well but there will always be more sick children and they will always need more donations.

I was a sick child myself. I spent a lot of time at Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis and thanks to their fantastic care I am here today, able to bring you these silly comics. But I know firsthand how rough it can be for a kid in the hospital with nothing to do. Tonight I discovered that Riley has a Child's Play Amazon Wishlist where anyone who wishes to do so can purchase an item and have it sent to the hospital.

I urge you to take a look at that list and see if there's something you might like to buy for a child. Or check out the Child's Play homepage to find a hospital that may be more significant to you, or click on that Paypal button to send in a donation. It doesn't have to be much; even a few dollars here and there will add up.

My sincere thanks to anyone who chooses to help in whatever way. Thank you for helping to bring a little bit of cheer into a painful experience. May the new year treat you well. Thanks for listening.

Happy That-Time-of-Year, everyone! *waves, throws links and biscuits*
And the Yuletidery has been exceptionally generous to me this time round. A gift for each of my three prompts - eeeee, it's like a conspiracy of awesome! - I'm reeling. Must share!

On the first day of Yuletide, the Archive gave to me.... a Really Rare Fandom!
El Desdichado by Anonymous No. 1: this was the rarest of my requests - for Julian May's Galactic Milieu series and Saga of the Exiles (Pliocene) series [a two-series ouroboros with psychic powers, aliens, time-travel, family dramas, evil beings, spaceships, French-Canadians and Scots!] - and existing fics for this fandom can be counted on one hand, so imagine my glee at getting a shiny new one! And it's all in Atoning Unifex flashbacks; oh, the Unifex-nostalgia-angstiness! Plus, it's got Marc Remillard/Aiken Drum slash - and if that pairing's ever been written before, I'll eat my best hat (which is broad-brimmed leopard-print velour, so you know I'm serious). Anyone out there know/enjoy these books? Go read this fic - it's just delightful!

On the second day of Yuletide, the Archive gave to me.... a Jane Austen Crossover Feast!
The Dancing Monkeys by Anonymous No. 2: found this while Yuletide-browsing, saw my name on it as recipient, and outraged the cats with my shrieking. Ooo, LOOK! Unique fic alert! Mansfield Park/Persuasion crossover! 11,000+ words - all Henry Crawford's PoV - he's gone abroad after breaking up with Maria ex-Rushworth, and he ends up as a visitor on board the Laconia... Ooo, sailors! William Price and Sam Price! Wentworth, Benwick, Dick Musgrove! Age of Sail fans, read it and squee: shipboard life, lots of period details and naval-speak, and a cannon-firing clash with a French ship. Plus lots of Henry-reflections on MP events, the Henry/Maria and Henry/Fanny relationships; and woven between the lines, the Persuasion moments that Henry misses but the reader gets. (Bonus for lucky-recipient-me: allusions to the Mary/Maria MP fic I wrote last year, though you don't need any familiarity with that fic to enjoy the crossover.) Austen-fic readers, don't miss this story - it's very fine indeed.

On the third day of Yuletide, the Archive gave to me.... a Meg March Moment!
Flight From Vanity Fair by Anonymous No. 3: with Yuletide Madness now unlocked, the ficlets are pouring forth today... and I've scored one for Little Women! Meg's thoughts before her wedding - and a touch of Meg-Jo dialogue - all kinds of choices and changes and possibilities hovering here. Satisfies my whim to know if Meg ever looked back on the "Vanity Fair" chapter events, and when and how. Take a look, if you fancy a behind-the-scenes-of-canon bit of Alcottness.

And the Yuletidery continues...
I've been keeping a Yuletide Diary since mid-November - will unlock that post, eventually. Meanwhile, here's this year's guess-McTabby's-story offer. :D Point to the Yuletide fic I wrote, before the January 1 reveal, and I'll gladly rhyme on a topic of your choice! Hints: movie fandom, gen fic, typo-free summary. (aegflota ineligible as guesser, but much appreciated as gentle beta.)

CHRIMBO HAUL:

A 4 gig sansa MP3 player!! Yayyy my old 2 gig one was inches from death
A gateway NETBOOK! It's a candy apple red, too! So cute
Lots of jammies and socks and undies
A cute shirt
A cute sweater
A green purse
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Making Comics by Scott McCloud
A cute dress and a jar full of ART PROMPTS that my sister made for me! I'll post about that more later but it's so cool
My brother got me 100 dollars to spend at Anthropologie in boston!!
LIFE DRAWING CLASSES omg mom found a life drawing class and she said she would pay for me to go! HOORAY FINALLY jeez it only took me like years to find a class
My other brother got me 30 rock season 3!
aannddd umm I am sure theres other stuff, I can't remember right now I'm all tired.


I had a reeeally good holiday, we had the whole family around and it was just super joyous. We also went and saw Sherlock Holmes, and I ate some cheesecake. I felt sick from the cheesecake, but I am still in good spirits.


I am super blessed and it is a privilege to be in my family!


I wish I had some art for you guys, but my computers been pretty slow lately and photoshop eats up the most memory.
All I have is this doodle of a house that I had a dream about:
I drove down this long thin road (I had a friend in the car too, though I don't know who she was, she had black/dark brown hair) that was surrounded by lakes and cranberry bogs, and I drove up to this house, it was more like a hotel actually. Anyway, there were these ponds in the front of the hotel with little floating bellhop bells in the water. Me and my friend discovered that ringing the bells made the bells sink to the bottom, but open a door to the hotel. So we started pressing all the bell tops and opening all the doors, thinking it was wonderful



The scene had strange lighting that I did not take care to duplicate in the image above. It was sort of in warm shadows with sunlight creeping up near the corner of the house. The bells were all shimmery in the sunlight, floating around next to green lilypads

I remember taking a peek into one of the front doors and inside was so fancy and warm. There was a shiny checkered floor to the hotel lobby. Anyway, it was a lovely dream, I don't know if I ever went inside the hotel


ANYWAY I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED YOURSELVES IN SOME WAY THIS FESTIVE SEASON ♥

Hope everyone is having an EXCELLENT HOLIDAY!
My day has been great so far! Lots of wonderful gifts exchanged, I'll perhaps elaborate on that later

My question is this: Where can I find a streaming link to tonights Doctor Who episode airing on the BBC tonight?
My brother and I don't want to wait for the american showing tomorrow! I just don't know where to look for the live streaming thing

thanks a bunch if anyone can answer this question!



Edit: Wait, did End Of Time Part 1 air already?? I thought it was premiering christmas day! WHY AM I SO OUT OF THE LOOP

It being Christmas Eve and all, I was thinking of this Christmas story and drew it up. I meant to draw it nicer, but didn't get time.  It's about family.

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If it helps to understand it better, I am the second oldest of four girls.

Merry Christmas, everyone! To you and yours.

I do not know who michael buble is at all, but somehow I get the feeling that I should be embarrassed to like this song!



I'm gonna be all busy with the holidays and visiting new york and new years, so I'll do a little 2009 recap now

( 2009 recap )
Here is a ballet dancing pug dog

My friend Emmy made a shocking discovery recently; someone in Japan is totally ripping off my comic! Fortunately she has a friend who knows a little bit of Japanese so he helped translate it into English. It's a little rough but it gets the idea across. Still, can you believe this??
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A Scottish cartoon, since I am back home for the holidays.

I'm well acquainted with the tune "Lord Lovat's Lament," since you hear it around these parts every time anyone has to pick up a fiddle and learn something. But you know, it's one of those tunes you know so well, you pay no attention to it, it's just there in the back of your head.

Then one day, I was looking up a bunch of works by Hogarth (the best) and came upon this portrait of 'Lord Lovat'. The lovely old tune and that devily face, they didn't match. So I wanted to learn more about him!

Lovat (Simon Fraser, born 1697 - there are about a million Simon Fraser Lord Lovats) really epitomizes how reading Scottish history can make you want to tear your eyeballs out, or laugh because it's nearly a farce it's so nutty. Either the people involved are disastrously loyal, or disastrously duplicitous. Everything is a disaster, but it's a hell of a ride.

Doodling. The eternal struggle continues!

EDIT:

Some holiday comics! The Kiss Elves return.

Oh and I am posting journal type comics on twitter sometimes. If you are on twitter I am @beatonna

Man, every december, I gotta give this another watch

I can't believe this is like 5 years old!!! Best thing I ever got

http://potterpuppetpals.com/pppstore/fun/emmyxmas.htm

It's getting colder here, so I decided to draw a sexy beach picture to ward off the snow. Enjoy!