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So long-time friends will remember that in 2005 I did an Advent Calendar, except that in waging my own personal liberal commie War on Christmas I framed it around that year's Winter Solstice, which basically allowed me to cheat and only do 22 entries in December. And bring down America.

This will probably come back to bite me but since my main job will mostly be over with for the year starting in early December, and I won't be mailing cards this year, I've decided to revive the tradition. So.

Alban Author-an 2009

Basically, it goes like this: I list everything I feel comfortable writing/drawing/iconing/fanmixing for, and you out there in the audience can request whatever you're interested in seeing. It's basically the same as any other fan Advent Calendar, except with less cardboard.

( Big list of fandoms, etc. )

How It Works

You pick the fandom, topic, theme, and so on, but I get to pick the medium, whether it's fic, art, a fanmix, icon set, or something else as it applies. That's half of the surprise!

To participate, copy the following into a comment and fill out your choices.

Fandom:
Anything you'd prefer to see? (pairing, theme, etc)
Anything you don't want to see? (ex. fanmixes, dark fic, etc)

One fill per person. Crossover requests permitted. No limits on requesting fandoms already listed either, but variety is the spice of life, yanno.

<b>Fandom:</b> <b>Anything you'd prefer to see?</b> (pairing, theme, etc) <b>Anything you <i>don't</i> want to see?</b> (ex. fanmixes, dark fic, etc)

Current List

This is not the order they will be posted. The order will be randomized, which is the other half of the surprise! \o/

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EBENTO STAATO! The first fill will be posted on December 1st.

A friend of mine on Twitter directed me to Professor Putricide's article on WoWwiki.

I always thought his voice actor was just making a reference to Futurama's Professor Farnsworth. But according to the article, he's voiced by Farnsworth's own VA, Billy West.

( Here's the soundclips for Putricide. You decided if it's true or false. )

Just in case anybody is interested, I finished that Jadaar and Asric fanfic that I posted here last week:

Mystery of the Violet Citadel - When a reclusive archmage disappears from his tower room in the Violet Citadel, Jadaar and Asric take it upon themselves to solve the mystery.

Again, this is my first WoW 'fic, so any feedback would be most appreciated! ^_^;

As some of you might have read last week, my guild got reported for having an offending name. I've sent an emmail to Blizz, and one of my officers sent an ingame ticket, but none of us, has gotten any reply yet.
So... I wont give up... I will now take a tour of Azeroth and all those other places and look for any inappropiate name or item, invented and named by Blizz. And -then- I'll make a new email with those names in it! :P Mwahaha... meh, it'll probably not change a thing, but it'd still be fun to see how many of these things, that're out there. You can even suggest a name/item that's inappropiate in -any- launguage! :P

An example could be the pet "Willy" - which has 1 eye... I mean...honestly -.-

Diederich bundled Oli, "Daydelis" now, up in sheets and blankets, tied him to his back, and used a hearth stone to return to Shattrath. He was fifteen minutes behind schedule, but that was close enough.

Matthias was waiting outside the West gate looking panicked.

"Where have you been?!" he hissed as soon as Diederich met up with him.

Diederich untied the bundle from his back and passed it to Matthias. Matthias took it, staring, and Diederich grabbed Matthias' mount's reins and led both of them into the forest. Matthias dismounted, laid the bundle on the ground, and quickly unwrapped it. He stared at the boy, inspected him, and then turned angry eyes on Diederich. Diederich's stomach turned. He must know it wasn't Daydelis after all. He must have seen Daydelis more recently than Diederich had bargained on...

"How did you kill him?" Matthias demanded.

"What?"

"How did you kill him? There isn't a scratch on him."

Diederich almost laughed with relief but kept his face stoic. That was a doubt much easier to handle.

"Disease. Death Knight thing. Killed him very quickly-"

"He'll know it wasn't me!" Matthias interrupted furiously. "I wanted him to know I did it, me!"

"Then cut his throat or do something mage-y, I don't care."

Matthias put his hands around the boy's throat, hummed some words, and fire cracked like lightning from his fingers. It flared up and seared part of the boy's face and shirt, and incinerated most of his throat, before just as quickly dying away.

"Do you think he'll still believe it's him with his face like that?" Matthias grimaced.

"I think it might help if I come with you," Diederich said, avoiding looking at the hideous thing Matthias had done to the boy.

Matthias looked up at Diederich and considered. "I don't want him to think this was your idea. You're not getting credit for this."

"We'll just tell him that all I did was lead you to him."

"What about Aurora? We should go back and kill her, too. Then he'd know for certain this is Daydelis."

"No."

"But-"

"No," Diederich repeated with a warning growl in his voice. "You've got my son, you're not getting my wife, too."

"I didn't get to have my wife," Matthias said darkly. "Why should you get to keep yours?"

"Because if you try it, I'll kill you. I'll take you and Daydelis to Father myself. Not only will I get all the credit for it, I'll do you one better by bringing him his heir and his next in line."

Matthias gaped. "Don't you dare."

"Keep away from Aurora."

"Fine. Let's just go."

He bundled "Daydelis" back up, opened a portal, and stepped through.

Diederich took a deep breath. He didn't know what was going to happen, but he was certain this wasn't just going to be a matter of walking in, dropping the body at Corinthiahn's feet, and walking back out. He mentally said goodbye to Ismae, Lainiram, Dariahn, and Tendaros, told them he loved them, and followed Matthias through the portal.

The right side of my face looks like I got up in the middle of the night and punched myself.

I dunno what's up with that.

In other news, I apparently bought the Swedish versions of the Baldur's Gate collection and Icewind Dale 2. Which no doubt explains why they were half the price of all the other brand new copies I'd seen on Amazon.com. I installed IWD2 last night, and it loads and runs fine and in English so.... hey, whatever. I have no idea what files I'm supposed to use for patches, though.

There are four paladins in the raid tonight, two tanks, a dps, and a healer. I'm having flashbacks to Galerunner, the Syndicate of Secrets, and the sheer number of paladins in that guild. I think we had, like, six paladins at some point on a raid.

Dude. You remember when you had to keep hitting a target to maintain the Seal of Whatever on it? Hahahaha.

So, Blessings, right? One take does Sanctuary on everyone, one tank does Kings on everyone, the healer will do Wisdom and the dps will do Might.

This works. This totally works. Because if the tanks swap specs (one tank doubles as a healer, the other as a dps, but never both at the same time), they'll just swap if needed. So if the dps-tanker dude goes dps, he can do Kings and if the healer-tanker dude goes healer, he can do Kings, and whichever one is still the tank will do Sanctuary.

It works. OMG it works. I've finally cracked the Blessings code. *weeps copious tears of joy*

Seriously, though, the only person that's going to get the benefits of having four paladins doing buffs is the Ret-Pally. Possibly the Hunter.

Now I just need to solve the Healer Equation. I know Paladins are the best single target healers, but what the hell are others good at? I should level my druid and shaman and priest. And warrior. And hunter.

I hate Kholgar. I miss my Guncow! But she's on the Hooooooooorde. :( Stupid Blizzard... I want a quest to make Galerunner Alliance!

Title: In the Dying Embers
Pairing: Thrall/Jaina
Word Count: 2500 +/-
Written for: 7dayschallenge (Tuesday)

(She didn't wish to change the past, but that didn't stop her from dwelling on the loss)

(Cut to my journal)

X posted to: 7dayschallenge, wow_ladies, blizzardfanfics, wowfics

• 04:25 I cry... why must I have problems all of the sudden with open office corrupting my novel. This time it corrupted while saving, no backup #

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So I brought this hideous icon back. New and improved!

And you know what the world needs more of? Halo Babies Valentine's icons. In November. Don't worry; they have less rape than this one.

[7] Halo Babies {1 Grunt, 2 Cortana, 2 Master Chief, 2 Guilty Spark}
[21] Master Chief {assorted}
[1] Misc {Halo condom}



( moe desu masuta chiifu~ )

• 08:25 @Shortpacked Surely you could kill them with hammers in SMB3. #

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Having left my beloved guild of 2 years due to escalating officer politics - and myself not wanting to have any part in the 'new rules' that I didn't agree upon - I found myself recruited into a far more progressed guild since the start of this month.

Things have quieten down. No more dramas and QQs to deal with.

I log on, go about my dailies and preparations for raid, and then alt-tab patiently while they sort out their raid compositions.

It's almost a surreal experience- very 'hands-off'. Very calming that I actually got my sanity back.

No more 'did you read the strats for tonight's fight' talks, No more 'here are your assigns, remember to pop your cooldowns during the phase change etc', No more 'give me a moment while i reply to this, and that, and oh god not that - why me' conversations, No more staring at those epgp numbers and dealing with loot issues, No more!

And I'm glad that despite having to start back at square 1 as a trial, I found a new outlet to continue enjoying the game.

• 14:39 And @danawhite is on a tirade again...justified. The hell, karo? #
• 18:16 as long as they don't show themslevs. #

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So, I'm kind of bored with WOW in the sense that I don't want to stop playing, I just want new stuff. I keep thinking I should roll a new alt, but I've played around with so many I know where to go and all that jazz. I really want to role a Worgen something or other and a Goblin something or other, but Cataclysm is so far away. T___T Anyway, what do you all do to relieve bored when it comes to WOW? Or, any ideas what baby alt I should roll (race and class. heck, i'll even ask for server and name!)?

I just tagged this random, since it is, but tag it with whatever if you want.

Ghosty's tweets for the day:

• Hey Sony Jerks, if PSP firmware updates are saved/run like game files, why can't I just DL them via USB & PSN? I don't have WiFi at home. #
• Let me clarify... I also don't have a PS3. I want to update my PSP via PC with Media Go. Not that hard, Sony; figure it out. #

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Shortpacked!: But who's Robin? That's who I'm stuck at.

Next week is Thanksgiving, which is followed by the serpentine menace of BLACK FRIDAY, so Target's been gearing up their toy section. Part of their lineup of exclusive Transformers products are a Revenge of the Fallen 5-pack of Legends Class toys titled "Straightaway Shootout." Blah blah Ironhide, blah blah Mudflap, blah blah Swerve, blah blah Runamuck, blah blah... Sparkcrusher?

Hrm. Sparkcrusher looks familiar...

Oh, hey, he's actually a trademark-challenged Gutcruncher! And that's why I have this set. See, Gutcruncher was an Action Master. Everyone remembers the Action Masters, the Transformers who couldn't transform? There were some unique characters to the series, such as Gutcruncher, and I've always wished that Hasbro would make transforming versions of those guys. And one by one, they seem to be. Very slowly.

So Sparkcrusher here is a redeco of Warpath. Whoever at Hasbro decoed him did a pretty good job. He's got the colors in mostly all the right places, while compensating for the toy's transformation. And his thighs were painted gray (on top of green plastic) to further cement the Gutcruncher motif.

It's too bad he's so tiny! And, uh, that he comes with yet another Legends Mudflap. I have two of him now, 'cuz they keep putting him in box sets with other guys that I want! I wish he were his twin brother Skids instead or something. Woof. I've owned all of these molds previously with the exception of Ironhide's. Ironhide's Legends toy ain't too bad. It goes from a Topkick truck to his robot form pretty simply and effectively, with the arms coming from the top and the legs on the bottom and the chest out in front. Impressive for his size. I could have lived with not having one, but impressive nonetheless.

Since Sparkcrusher there is a Legend Class guy, he does look pretty dinky next to the other transforming Action Masters I've acquired. It especially hurts 'cuz he's a tank, and so putting him next to Axer the motorcycle is just plain weird-looking. That this year's BotCon-exclusive Banzai-Tron is a friggin' giant compared to both of them helps matters none. But hey, throw in a plain-ol' Action Master Krok, and the median height ain't so far above Sparkcrusher's armspan no more.

The final verdict is, if you love Action Masters, you probably need this guy. And Warpath's toy was always pretty damn solid, so that's in the toy's favor as well. He's still got the interesting transformation and the wide range of articulation uncharacteristic of the smaller Legend Class toys. But he comes in a set with four other dudes for $20. Is that a dealbreaker for just one dude?

Sometime when I wasn't paying attention, Nintendo Wii started allowing free demo versions of stuff for download.

World of Goo amuses me, but I'm not sure if it $15 amuses me. Shawna doesn't seem to care for it.

Bit Trip Beat is like Pong meets Techno Geek Guitar Hero. I lack the hand-eye coordination to track that many moving objects at once. But the soundtrack amuses me.

• 17:16 @trixter For reals. I lost two boxes to that this month, and I'd daresay I'm more careful than joe schmuck. #

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Be warned, I have a severe hatred of gear score used within a guild where we all know each other's competence, so if I make a scathing remark in that direction, please do not apply it to gear score in general. Just giving fair warning before I continue.

( Casual Guild - how we work )
( Casual/Fun/Lowbie Raiding - A question about raid DPS discrepancies )
( The Hardcore Group - Control Freaks or Creatures of Habit? )
Any advice is welcomed and appreciated.

TL;DR: a hunter who fluctuates over 1k in DPS from raid to raid and a raid leader who can't take a backseat. HALP.

Hi Ladies (and Gentlemen)!

As requested, I am letting you know Icon, Chibi, and Mounted Chibi WoW commissions are OPEN! All slots filled for now! Thanks!

Thanks for everyone's suggestions and advice on my previous post! I've taken your words into careful consideration and some of my prices have changed slightly. For now I am NOT offering full body type commissions because I need to measure my efforts better before I can offer a fair price.

Anyway it's been a while but I'm nearly finished with guild commissions so I'm opening up my lines again! Whee!

For now I have 10 individual slots available - one person per slot.
(Each person may order multiple commissions.)


Slots: 10/10 FULL


Please comment here first if you are interested. I will reply and ask you to email me your commission specs (no LJ notes please). An up-to-date commissioner list can be found on the queue post.

EMAIL: cazamonster (at) gmail (dot) com