Procrastination. And icons!

Things I am so totally supposed to be doing right now: research for my military history paper. And I am doing it, my attention's just divided. And I'm getting so sick of taking notes that I may just start writing the damn thing. It's on military organization, and I'm doing the Mongols. And oh holy God were they ever effective. No WONDER they had the second largest empire and the largest contiguous one. The Romans have NOTHING on them.

Also, I found out that my image manip program survived the attack on my computer, so I don't have to go figure out which one it was and reinstall it. You have no IDEA how happy this makes me. So, I made icons from pictures I took during the New York/Boston trip last year. ( And I think they're pretty )

*prods at Habeus Corpus ideas* Oh, now you show up, huh?

*goes to work on paper*

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I WILL get at least five hundred words of my report before I blank out again. I WILL. It's only about two hundred more...

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Dude! Flack cut his hair and lost the leather? I am so glad I'm writing the Bardverse (the snafu-verse). Everybody's - well, not sane, but closer to the people we were introduced to in the first season.

As a fanfic writer, you can pick and choose how you want to portray your incarnations of the character. Because CSI: NY's only on it's first - almost second - season, there's not much to choose from, but you stick to what you know and what you love. Your characters do change, but you control how they do, and in text, you don't see so much of - you don't see them so much. They are what you think they are. I don't put in a lot of description when I'm writing, because I don't actually visualize characters. I can see their environment, but I don't see them. Just - blurs, or negative space. Every time I look at caps of CSI: NY, I end up going, "So that's what my characters look like!" Which probably makes me a little weird, at least among movie/tv-fic writers. A lot of the time, I have a vague idea of what my originals look like, or I base them off characters from other movies. Val was based off John Constantine from Constantine, Joey was based off of Al Giordino from Sahara - but Ace and Carmine are very unusual in that I have some idea of what they look like, and they're not based off of anything. When it comes to my actual originals - SCU: Boston, Year of Ghosts and Shadows, Uncovering Delphi, my Summers-Harker PI story - I have very little idea what the characters look like, unless they are based off someone else's characters. If I was casting for SCU: Boston, Bobby Hanson (Dave Silk in Miracle) would totally play Jimmy, but beyond such generalities beyond hair color, I couldn't tell you anything about the others. Halden is blonde - really, really cream blonde, not platinum, but almost white. Siobhan is honey blonde/golden brown, with sort of weird amber/gold eyes. Think Michael Mantenuto (OC in Miracle). In Year of Ghosts and Shadows, I based quite a few characters off people in my own band, so I know, sort of, how they look - Joey and Alan (whose real life equivalent quit band and is sort of a jock prep), Kyle Leonstrattan - but when it comes to the other, I have very little idea of what they look like. Fury d'Alessandro and her twin Grace (what?) are probably brunette, and the O'Carolan clan (of which Flynn is part of) almost certainly has the same coloring as Siobhan from SCU: Boston, but the others? Couldn't tell you a damn thing.