Thank goodness LJ is up again. I can continue the birthday wishes unabated.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY glockgal!!

Happy Birthday to an absolutely amazing artist! I'm so happy to have met you. Your work is so fantastic, and you are such a lively, hilarious, humble, phenomenal person! You're such a wonderful part of the HP fandom experience. Your artwork is terrific, and you're just so sweet! *hugs* I hope your day is great!

Whew.

I'm trying to catch up with the flist, and it's taking much longer than normal because there is just so much I want to respond to.

I made a nice leap with the costume last night, and today I will go out and buy another piece for it because I decided that the original piece was way too garish and fugly. I bought it reluctantly because the person I was with was so adamant that it would work, but now that I'm looking at the costume I'm thinking, no way. Plus, the store is only two miles away, so I'm just going to dash out and grab what I originally had planned to get.

I keep pulling out boxes of stuff, hoping against hope that I will find something else to add to it or modify it with. This sort of thing is a race against time as well as a complete testing of my creativity; at this point I think I'm 50/50 fail/win. I've spent so much and I can only hope that someone at Prophecy will like it, at the very least.

I'm just not ready for Prophecy! I'm still in the shell-shocked phase, you see. New canon has sunk in, mostly, but I'm at a loss as to what to do with it; I feel...finished, somehow, like there's nothing left to write.

On the other hand, it's further fueled my desire to write tLS. I really want to envelope myself in the tLS cocoon and sing la la la.

valismort commands...

...bring me more squid for the cause. I have a plan.

*cackles cephalopodtastically*