Hello, and welcome to the thinking ground.

Found me from somewhere? Friended me? Please leave a comment here about where you found me, or why you friended me. :]

This journal will most likely be a live sketchbook of sorts: it'll have doodles, writings, and ideas. A place for me to get all those artsy little thoughts down. Expect chaos and inkblots, and lots and lots of scribbles.

Fanfiction and art will always be public. The rest of the insanity is friendslocked.

If you're interested in anything you see, do say hi! I'm nice. :] 

This is fanart for copperbadge's tremendous novel, Nameless. I was inspired by a lot of lovely visuals in the story-- I think I may have said that it makes me want to paint. Which it does. Which I did.

It's been a long time since I've worked in watercolor-- I miss it! Oils are all well and good, but there's something so very forgiving about pigment and ache-two-oh. Plus the brushes are much nicer. :D

Unfortunately my photos aren't the greatest-- if I can, I'll replace them. (Not likely, alas!)

( Contains landscapes and no portraiture! What gives? )

A while ago I got in a decidedly icon-making mood. So I made these.

The fandom icons are either stock art or my... computer graphics whizziness? The band icons are all my photography from a show I went to back in December.

Feel free to use with credit; if you're going to modify them (I don't think there's much that can be done with these, though) then make a note of that too. :D I'd really appreciate it if you didn't mod my band icons, though... if you want something just ask? Thanks!

[And a warning: lots of little pictures! I don't how to do fancy icon tables, so if you want to let me know which one you took just describe it or something... ]

1: Shakespeare
8: Brideshead Revisited
10: Harry Potter
12: Sherlock Holmes
13: The Parson Redheads
17: Starfucker
25: Blitzen Trapper

( ICONS AHOY! )

Well now this is interesting. It's been a while since I wrote any decent (read: post-worthy) GO-fic; I attribute it to the massively depressing loss of both of my copies for seven months. But moving on...

One of the reasons why I love Good Omens fic so much is that it's so down-to-earth and yet otherworldly. There are angels and demons and other fantastical characters, and sometimes fandom makes them sleep together, but even without the sex there's all sorts of interesting things to write about!

Like death. Not DEATH, or Death, but you know, death. The loss of a body. It's got to be an issue for our favorite two wile-and-thwarters, and, well, I was curious as to how one (say, Crowley) would react whenever the other (say, Aziraphale) would... die. Or discorporate.

This fic is... ah, slightly thinky, vaguely humorous, immensely morbid, and themes of death and suicide are tossed around like pennies-- though I think I've written it rather respectfully. And it's unbetaed. Ha. :D

That said, feedback would be lovely. It's not as tight as I'd like it to be; any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Title: He kindly stopped for me
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG-13 for aformentioned morbidities.
Pairing: None! Le gasp.
Fandom: Good Omens
Disclaimer: It's not mine, really.
Notes: It's one of the more unusual fics I've written, methinks.

( And all of a sudden you’re thrown into the air, hovering over your dead body, looking at your feet and thinking, 'gosh, I wonder if that hurt?' )

And yet another Brideshead fic! I'm really on a roll here, or something; I actually wrote this a few days after Salt and Honey, and there's one more on the way...

This is another one of those 'missing scenes' fics, inspired by a few lines of dialogue which I've, ahem, borrowed at the end. The tone's different from S & H, too; do tell me what you think!

Thanks for reading; feedback is glorious but not required.

Cross-posted to rarelitslash and marchmainhouse.

Title: Butterflies and Cathedrals
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG
Pairing: Hopefully canon-esque Sebastian/Charles.
Disclaimer: Brideshead and its characters don't belong to me; I just adore them. Additionally, the last three lines of dialogue are straight from the book.
Notes: Wine, aesthetics, romanticism, and a snatch of a summer alone.

( 'It’s all deep thoughts for my dear Charles tonight, isn’t it?' he asked. )

Aaaaand here's all the moleskine prismacolor goodness. Basically, as p01s0n3d knows, I've been snowed in for quite some time (since last Sunday, actually) and the result has been an explosion of creativity. All of these drawings were done within the past few days.

The black and white ones are charcoal pencil heightened with a white charcoaly pencil thing (Generals, yay!) and the color ones are Prismacolor. I've got the 24-set (aren't I blessed?).

( My little brother... )

( And then my mum called it an abstract turkey. )

( 'Androgynously Green' )

( 'Oh, Alice.' )

( This one's more of a sketch, really. )

( 'Orange Dress' )

( Essentially a creepy hand... )

Ahaha. So I have been arting for quite some time (yes, I did just turn art into a verb) and accumulated quite a collection. Here's some stuff from sophomore year that I've had the opportunity to photograph... although my photos are not so good. D:

The following dump will contain all of my fun moleskine prismacolor gewgaws; stay tuned!


( I am mildly synaesthetic. This is what the word 'maybe' looks like to me. )

( 'Colorful Language' (Old painting, from 2006 or thereabouts) )

( 'Clockwork Dandelion' )

( 'A worm's eye view' )

( 'The Air Up There' / 'Chinatown' )

( 'Portrait of self or some other such highfalutin' title' )

I've long loved the book Brideshead Revisited, by the extraordinary Evelyn Waugh. The relationship between Charles and Sebastian is probably the biggest reason why I adore it so, although the dizzying prose is probably a good second.

This is just a short "missing scene" of sorts that I scribbled up late last night. I've tried to emulate Charles's/Waugh's romantic style here; hopefully that turned out all right. Unbetaed, as all of my fics are.

Thanks for reading, and if you haven't read the book then please do! It's brilliant and gorgeous.

Title inspired partly by the quote "I was drowning in honey, stingless..." from the novel.

Cross-posted to rarelitslash and marchmainhouse.

Title: Salt and Honey
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sebastian/Charles, although it could just be friendship.
Disclaimer: Brideshead and its characters don't belong to me; I just adore them.
Notes: I'm quite fond of this. I love Brideshead, I love the sea, I love Venice. It was fun to write. :]

( We walked out from under our rather feeble umbrella, where our clothes and other mortal adornments lay in one sad heap... )

I was listening to the Vitamin String Quartet's cover of Death Cab's "The Sound of Settling" (have I mentioned how much I love Death Cab?) and I guess this is the result.

I actually wrote it quite some time ago; there are still a few things that bother me but for the most part it's done. I've never written non-MWPP Remus/Sirius so... any and all feedback will be much appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Title: Found
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG. Sort of.
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Disclaimer: Definitely not mine. And the title of the song mentioned late in the fic isn't mine, either; I saw it in fic and thought I might've seen it in canon... whoever came up with it, congratulations!
Notes: It's set somewhere during OoTP, but it's one of those stolen moments that could happen at any time.

( He supposes he doesn’t mind. It’s enough to stay here, and live, and care. )

And this is the second of the Peter ficlets! I was hoping to write his commentary on Remus and Sirius separately, but then I figured my slashy mindset + Peter's ability to pick up on the small details (that's always how I've seen him, at at any rate) would prevent me from doing so. Thus, Peter's commentary on their relationship, or what he thinks is their relationship.

Not my favorite, but... I don't know, I just didn't see Peter having quite so much to say about Moony and Pads. And yeah, I didn't use the nicknames--simply because they feel stilted at times and Peter's sort of talking in his head for the most part.

But! Again, thanks so much for reading! :D It's not what I usually write; any and all feedback is just... crazy amazing. :]

Title: Peter: On Remus and Sirius
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG sounds about right.
Pairing: Remus/Sirius, but they're not in the foreground of this one.
Disclaimer: It's Jo's, definitely not mine.
Notes: My first second time writing Peter. And my second time writing first person? The statement still remains from the fic previous to this: any and all critique is LOVE. Also, if you know of any comms I might be able to post this to, you will be in my good books forever.

( I guess I shouldn’t be saying that, but I notice these things. )

So this is the first of the Peter!ficlets I might've mentioned earlier. I wrote them mostly out of an attempt to give him some attention; turns out he's a lot harder to write than I expected. But very interesting, fersure. :D

Anyway. This is Peter, talking about James. I like this one better than the second, though that's probably just me. THANK YOU FOR READING! :D I realize these two ficlets might not be particularly exciting or glamorous, so y'know. Thanks. :]

Title: Peter: On James
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG? Sure, let's go with that.
Pairing: None. I think. It's ostensibly gen, but...
Disclaimer: It's Jo's, definitely not mine.
Notes: My first time writing Peter. And my first time writing first person. And my first time writing intentional HP gen. Oh lordy, so many firsts. Therefore, any and all critique is LOVE. Also, if you know of any comms I might be able to post this to, you will be in my good books forever.

( Because it was still the four of us... the Marauders with a capital M. Us vs. the world. We were like a family, almost. )

 I like this writer's block question, actually. :] I chose this name because I liked marchen, which means fairytale. Merechyn is... gosh, Old High German? Or something like that-- for fairytale. And then I added the underscore because merechyn was taken, and I like underscores.

I like to think that the special meaning is that I'm dreamy and artsy and generally fairy-tale like, but it's mostly because I thought it was pretty cool. :D

I don't know how it's pronounced, though. I say "mar-KEN," but whenever I see it I think "EM-air-KIN."

This brings the total to... eighteen? Something like that.

Anyway. More drabbles; each exactly 100 words excluding any end parentheses. Almost all of these were written late at night and prompted from the title, or... written and then adjusted to a proper title. :D

Thanks for reading! ♥ Crossposted to lower_tadfield.

Title(s): Scattered, Surprise, Scandalous, Shaky, and Silent.
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: G to PG-ish? You know me. No smut, no language, just... themes. :D
Pairing(s): C/A as per usual, plus canon!ships and one surprise that isn't really a surprise.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Theirs. Canon ftw!
Notes: These are really meant to stand alone; they moods are all rather different. I tried to put them in some sort of order but that didn't work; so the current order is just one that felt right?

( 'Oh, bugger.' Aziraphale scowled at his desk. )

( 'We don't have birthdays,' Crowley says blankly. )

( The rest found out eventually. It was bound to happen. )

( 'I think we need to take some time apart.' )

( Sometimes an angel and a demon... )

Like the header says, this one's a gift. For anyone who's ever read, reviewed, or otherwise dealt with my fics, this one's for you. Thank you. But it's especially for sirius_luva because she's a wonderful, prolific writer, and even better than that-- a great friend. Thank you!

I wrote this as a gift, so it's not particularly controversial. Just thinky fluff that deals with the moon and the stars as we know them. :] Oh, and I wrote it in the car, late at night, longhand, in ballpoint pen. It's a very good mood setting, to be sure.

Thanks for reading! ♥

Cross-posted to hp_slash and remusxsirius

Title: Of the Night
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG, because it just doesn't feel like G. But there's really nothing provocative here. :]
Pairing: Remus/Sirius, as is my wont.
Disclaimer: The moon and stars belong to us all, but HP is JKR's.
Notes: Remus-centric. He thinks a lot, and this is what I think he thinks. Or something like that. Though Remus would probably be a tad more pragmatic about the whole thing. :D

( Remus knows the moon can be reached—after all, even the muggles did it not too long ago—but the stars are unattainable. )

PG for a kiss on the cheek? XD

Doodled this sometime in June, most likely late at night. It's not really an art style I'm used to drawing in-- the weird semi-realism-- but I blame that on the fact that I didn't have a proper eraser or a pencil sharpener. Yay for fluff!

Cleaned up and colored in openCanvas 4 plus. I was going for a fade-y old fashioned effect, but I'm not sure if I got there. Thanks for checking out my stuff; hope you like it :]

( everyone loves a photobooth strip :D )

Once again I come bearing a Death Cab for Cutie inspired fic, though this one is for Good Omens rather than the HP-fandom.

The song: Someday You Will Be Loved.

Though really, it's more the feel of the song than the actual lyrics themselves... in fact, the lyrics have almost nothing to do with the fic I've written. But if you happen to have the song on an mp3 player near you, by all means, play it while you read. :]

It's been a while since I wrote a full length Good Omens fic. But I'm rather fond of this one, and I hope you like it too!

Title: Someday You Will Be Loved
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG ish. Mentions of shady characters and shadier businesses.
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley (Although it could be gen. This pairing walks the line.)
Disclaimer: Good Omens is not mine. Death Cab is certainly not mine. But everything else came from my pen. XD
Notes: This is a fic in two parts (plus a transition), so don't be shocked by the change in tense!

(  “It’s all lust,” Crowley replied, with the secret smirk of someone who knows exactly what lust is. “Perhaps a little bit of love. But I’m not interested.”  )

and they are pretty. :D

I've edited this entry to make it my official icon post. Sooo... all icons I make will end up here!

The first two are quotes from shoebox_project and the rest are quotes from Good Omens.

Anyone who stumbles by, feel free to use :] Please don't direct-link; please do credit me and shoebox_project if applicable. Oh, and do comment if you take one. :]

( cut for userpiccage! )

Look! It's a non-angsty R/S fic! :D

I am a little bit obsessed with Remus Lupin. So I wrote this fluffy little piece. Still trying to get a feel for the boys; this is my attempt at a more sweet, fandom-friendly R/S (as opposed to my other two pieces, Secrets and This is the Moment). However, I think I might be better at angst.

Entirely too long and perhaps a little confusing, but so be it. Title comes from one of John Keats' sonnets, "When I have fears that I may cease to be." The actual sonnet doesn't really suit this piece, though; I just snagged the title. :]

Thanks for reading! ♥

Title: Huge Cloudy Symbols of a High Romance
Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG for a swear word, mostly G.
Pairing: Remus/Sirius, or rather, Sirius watches Remus.
Disclaimer: The boys aren't mine. The poetry isn't, either. I just fic them. :D
Notes: A little long and rambly, but it was fun to write.

( It’s always rather entertaining to watch Remus holler—politely, of course—at hapless firsties as he races down the hall. )

and I'm almost certain it has been done before.

BUT.

Crowley with a venus flytrap.

I would love to see that arted.

*arts*

PS: I have decided I am going to tag all my old fic with various enlightening... tags and stuff. Go me. :D

Quite some time ago quantum_witch posted a lovely set of music inspired drabbles. They were based on a meme and I thought I'd try it too. :D

Yoinked from quantum_witch
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Put iTunes or equivalent media player on random.
3. For each song that plays, write something related to the theme you picked inspired by the song. You have only the time frame of the song: no planning beforehand: you start when it starts, and no lingering afterward; once the song is over, you stop writing. (No fair skipping songs either; you have to take what comes by chance!)
4. Do 5 of these, then post.

Except I cheated, because I turned all of mine into forreals drabbles, meaning 100 words each. Which required some editing after the song was over. Um. And I also kind of just wrote with the song, instead of picking a theme. Ahaha. I'm so bad at following rules. XD

That said, here be drabbles! :D Featuring Aziraphale and Crowley, because I am a fangirl.

Author: m_erechyn
Rating: PG. Ish.
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley for the most part?
Disclaimer: Erm. Good Omens is property of Pratchett and Gaiman. Not mine, alas.
Notes: A little sad, a little wistful, a little angsty. I don't know, I like them. :D

( Drabbles... with bonus Anathema, because she is nice! )