Sonic Scribblings

gingerhaze:

Why am I so bad at communicating

I’m sitting here trying to reply to an email and I just want to rip my guts out. Like, it’s causing me physical pain right now.

So I just wanted to say, if you’ve tried to contact me through Tumblr or email or whatever means over the past few months and your message has just vanished into the night: I am so, so sorry. I’m not trying to ignore anybody. It’s just that my brain seems to react to messages by going into “HIDE AND MAYBE IT WILL ANSWER ITSELF” mode. And I really wish it didn’t.

imsorrydonthateme

Reblogging for major and rather depressing gpoy. This is why I struggle so much to get through my ask messages, deviantART comments, etc. I’m a little bit better about email, but that’s always a challenge too.

Also, I really, really like to respond to ask messages with doodles (this is an art blog, after all!), and it can be tricky to find the time to do so. School and work have taken over my life for the last several years and have left me in a pretty much constant state of exhaustion. I promise I’ll catch up eventually, despite my quirks and tiredness!

That picture was so funny until you made this drawing and that tag =(

Aw, I’m sorry ;_; Will badger!companion help lighten the mood?

a-bagel:

a-bagel:

Guys, seriously though.  It’s not that hard to do.  And not linking back to the original artist just makes them lose out on recognition, feedback, and possible viewing of their other works.

I’ve had this happen a number of times - I can somewhat understand it happening if a person can’t find the source of the picture and they’re just reblogging it from someone else, but I  purposely put my tumblr/deviantART/blogspot/wherever I’m posting my work on each piece so that the original place I posted it is easy to find (and I know many others do the same.)

So a big hug and many thanks to all of you out there that do hunt down the source of the artwork you’re posting so you can credit the artist. We really do appreciate it <3

So adorable! :) And happy birthday! I hope it’s been a great day so far. (Hmm, sounds like we pretty much watched DW in sync then. I was probably right around that same spot in the show a year ago… Oh, Bad Wolf Bay…)

Thanks! It’s been a pretty nice, fairly calm day (with the exception of a bit of a health scare with my grandma, but she seems to be doing better now), and that’s enough to make me content :)

(Sounds like we were! I may have been a bit behind you with S3 and S4 as I didn’t watch them till around Sept/Oct (I had been saving money from the occasional freelance jobs I had for them and it was slow going), but if you watched S5 right when it came out on DVD, then we were back in sync!)

First of all, WOW. Um, WOW. The popularity of my badger piece is a bit mind-blowing; I’ve never had a drawing catch so many people’s eyes before! O.o But I’m glad people like it, as I had plenty of fun drawing it :D

I have had a few ask messages wondering if I’m still taking requests, and I’m sorry to say that I’m not at the moment (had I any inkling of just how popular the piece would be, I would’ve made note of it in the post itself.) I don’t normally take requests; this was just a special occasion for a few days back in April (and I’m just getting to drawing them now… if I took requests all the time I’d never get anything done! XD)

Thanks for understanding :) I do plan to respond to each ask message individually, though. So fear not, I’m not ignoring anyone - it’s just been an exceedingly busy week, even by my standards (I’m always busy.)

(and work on the requests!)

When I was about six years old, I would make and sell (for a whole quarter!) little ‘books’ about the adventures of my favorite stuffed animal, ‘Doggy Dear.’ I was going through some of them for a project recently, when I came across this one:

A time-traveler and his companion. Sound familiar? (By the way, I have no idea why I wrote Nancy on there. I don’t think I even knew a Nancy.)

Apparently, I could spell anything but ‘rex.’

Or ‘neck.’

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a- no, wait, it is a bird. Kind of.

Parasaurolophus was my favorite dinosaur. Trufax.

And in true Who fashion, a cliffhanger! Dun dun DUN

For the curious, here’s what ‘Doggy Dear’ actually looks like:

(I wanted to take a photo, but he must be packed away somewhere ;_;)

I’m sad to say that it wasn’t Doctor Who influenced (though I honestly don’t know how old I was when I first heard about the show; I only know I was around 16 when I first had an interest in watching it thanks to seeing Peter Davison in ACGAS [even if it wasn’t until four years later that I actually did]); more likely it was a combination of The Land Before Time and The Magic School Bus. But looking at this story, it was obviously only a matter of time before I would become acquainted and enamored with a certain time-travelling Police Box-flying alien.

Hallo, everybody! *waves* I just broke 50 followers (which is totally rad) and I’d like to do something to thank y’all. Plus expand my DW-drawing horizons at the same time! Total win-win.

So, I’m taking doodle requests! Between now and Sunday morning (4/17/11) (since Tumblr doesn’t timestamp messages), drop the name of any Doctor Who character (I’ll accept spin-off characters as well) you’d like to see me draw in my ask box.

-You can request more than one; just try not to go overboard please! I’m a full-time student with multiple jobs and plenty of art projects in the works, so it’ll be slow going as it is.

-If you request a Classic character who isn’t one of the Doctors or request a spin-off character, please include a link to a ref or two! It’ll save me a lot of time.

ALSO: you don’t have to follow me to request a character! So feel free to reblog this so more people can see it :D

I’ll just go where my muse takes me with these, so some may stay monochrome, others may get color… some may be doodled on post-its, others scribbled in ArtRage… who knows!

Request away!

captjackattack:

arthur-cunt-trumpet-weasley:

IF THIS IS TRUE.

ALDHFKSHDKSJD

All I can think is that it serves him right for the times he’s kicked Peter out of his house and car XD

hithah:

Hey, all. I’m nearing the end of the Peter Davison-y seasons of All Creatures Great and Small (*sob!*) and am browsing Netflix to see what other Davison shows they have.

Has anyone watched The Last Detective? If so, two questions: 1) is it good? and 2) if it were on TV nowadays, what would it be rated? (Because the discs are, rather unhelpfully, all marked as “unrated.”)

Thanks!

Hallo! Saw this post and had to chime in, because I recently started re-watching The Last Detective (I first saw it several years back) and I’m enjoying it just as much the second time around. So yes, it is definitely good - and while it’s a more serious show, it does have plenty of chuckle-out-loud moments (especially when Mod’s around.)

As far as a rating… I don’t know how TV ratings work, but if I were to give it a movie-rating, I’d say PG-13ish. Mild swearing, mature themes, some blood/violence, a few very brief bedroom scenes (as I was watching it with my whole family at the time, my parents fast-forwarded through them)… there was also one episode my parents wouldn’t let us watch, so I can’t comment on that one (it was one of the last episodes, I believe.)

Another excellent Peter Davison-starring show worth checking out is Campion. Once again he plays a decent detective, and the stories are set in the 1930s. I’ve only seen the first series so far (out of two), but it’s been absolutely delightful :)

shutupandgetinthetardis:

five-rounds-rapid:

I’m just… really sick of Ten.

I don’t mind that other people like him, but it seems that as there’s more distance from his era, more and more problems with his character and with the writing and with lots of different things about him crystallize for me.

I try not to be negative, but now… just, no.

THIS.

I just want to say, as I reblog this, that I adore Ten. I really, really, do. There’s so much that I love about his character that I could never really hate him.

But dammit, I do sometimes. It’s those bloody ‘Specials.’ (Mostly. There are some other things here and there, but it’s mostly the Specials.) As I’ve said before, I will get into this more later (planning to type up commentary next time I watch them, and I’m writing a little comic-paper on hubris in which I, as the narrator, give Ten a good scolding), but there are a few little things I feel like mentioning now.

Make that one big thing.

Russell T Davies.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m eternally grateful to the man for reviving the show, making it absolutely breathtaking and heart-wrenching, and doing an all-around decent job. Not perfect, but then again nothing is.

But then he let it all fall apart, and the worst part is he can’t even see it. He is so wrapped up in his own ego and far too overconfident in his writing skills that he can’t see the mess he made of things.

I’ve read all of ‘The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter.’ Bloody brilliant book. Absolutely loved it. But it also made me see some of the reasons why he went wrong.

He has a tendency to do things very last-minute. Writing scripts past their deadlines, groping for ideas and settling on ones that are often half-baked.

I’m not faulting him for being a procrastinator - I’m terribly guilty of that myself (hullo, overdue honors papers!) But I am faulting him for letting his ideas suffer as a result, and not thinking things through. I mean, if I were the head writer of DW, I’d have started planning Ten’s demise the moment I started writing series 2! Of course, nothing can be set in stone at that point because there are so many future variables to be accounted for, but I still would’ve been storing away possible scenarios from the very beginning; scenarios that could be shaped and re-worked to fit wherever the show ended up.

As a result of RTD’s carelessness, we have Ten acting like an arse when he should have been noble. I’m not saying he couldn’t be an arse at all (the Doctor isn’t perfect, after all), but there are certain things that were said and done that should never have been. All I can think at certain points is how deeply disappointed Five would have been at his future self.

I know Tennant was very close to signing on for another series under Moff’s management, and part of me desperately wishes he had. Moffat would have given Ten a proper sending off; none of this ‘woe is me I have to -gasp- regenerate how horrible’ (cuz, you know, it isn’t like half a bajillion people have died to save him.)

But at the same time, I am so, so grateful we have Matt Smith. Eleven is brilliant. And I feel like the show has finally returned to what it is all about: Intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism (to quote a rather silly but very perceptive talk show host.) With Eleven, hope has returned to Doctor Who.

shutupandgetinthetardis:

hithah:

tardiscrash:

five-rounds-rapid:

TRISTAAAAAAAAAAAAN

TRISTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!

TRISTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!

Reblogging this for Carolyn. <3

TRISTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3

Methinks it is high time I did some ACGAS fanart. Last time (and only time?) I drew Tristan was… 2006? Need to fix that ASAP.