Here's a picture I drew for my DuckTales/Darkwing Duck crossover fic - "The Masked Mallard".

It's under a cut because it's sort of a spoiler...though, if it's a spoiler, the title of the fic certainly is!

( Before Darkwing.... )

I've been wanting to post my collections up here, and last night I was messing around with my camera and took pics of all of my Disney duck items. It's centered around Scrooge and DuckTales, but there are some Donald Duck and Darkwing Duck pieces, too.

This started out with just the plush, which I wanted when I was a kid and all I had was Darkwing and a Donald one (not the one I have now). I left my original Darkwing plush in a hotel in Florida, I'd hidden it in a drawer while we were out and about and didn't remember to retrieve it. For a long time I thought my parents sold him at a garage sale, and one day when we were reminscing about our FL vacations, I remembered how I used to hide my stuff in the hotel room. I was given the first Donald one at the time to make up for the lack of a Scrooge plush, which I wanted.

Once I'd gotten the plush, that was supposed to be the end of my collection, but now I'm collecting DuckTales merchandise from the late 80s and early 90s, and Scrooge items thanks to Don Rosa's The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck.


( Life is like a hurricane..... )

Supernatural: Shadow and Flame

A demon!Dean story.

Author: Kay (blackrose_kitty / MaskedKitten)
Rating: The beginning is PG 13. It will likely become R.
Characters: Sam, Dean, Ruby, Sarah (from the episode "Provenance"), Bobby, Jo. Poor Sammy can’t cope in this story alone!
Pairings: Dean/Ruby, Sam/Sarah
Spoiler Warning: The entire series through "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
Summary: Sam and Dean: two brothers bonded by blood and sacrifice are now separated by fire and death. And a war that threatens to tear them apart forever...


( He heard Sarah shout his name just as the black blanket of his eyelids exploded into muted color..... )

The next chapter won't be posted until tomorrow. I've written an extra piece at the end, and I need to go back and edit it before I throw it up here. Unfortunately, I have to go to bed asap because I have to get up in the morning for a trip to the zoo.

It will be posted tomorrow, though, I promise. :)

I've been enjoying my vacation from work.

The next chapter of Shadow & Flame will be up by tomorrow night. I'm on the last part of it now. It's not very long, but it's an important entry in the story. ;)


The chapter after it is when things get interesting. It's the one I mentioned before about looking forward to writing.

Today is my last day at work before my vacation. *Squees* I feel like a little kid anticipating Christmas Day.

I'm planning on posting pictures of my collectibles up on here soon. I'm going to be gone almost all day tomorrow, but I might start on Monday, if I get the bedroom cleaned up enough to take them. Then it will be story time. I have somewhere around twenty pages or more to write when three chapters of three different stories are added up. It's like I have a fun school assignment.

If I can just get through (the very long) work day ahead of me.....

Another layout change for me. Changing my layout is like changing the purse I carry around. :) This time it's DuckTales, one of my favorite childhood shows.

I only have three more days until my vacation, and I'm so excited. I should be off for nine days.

Many of my Ebay auctions ended yesterday, and I ended up with a surprising sum of money. I did very well. It was awesome coming home yesterday and finding that out. I still have a few things up for auction, and I still have one or two items to list.

I've been so damn busy, it's crazy. I'm taking a vacation from work in a little over a week, and I'm trying to get things done before that happens. I still have to get paint for my house, a shelf for my bathroom, Father's day gifts for Dad, take Dad out to dinner for Father's day early, ship out my Ebay items, pick up my Scrooge/DuckTales books at Borders, and do a massive clean up in my bedroom. On top of those things, I want to get a sketchbook for fanart for my DuckTales story, as well separate binders for all of my stories. UGH.

I managed to get the DuckTales mood theme working that I wanted to use a while ago. Many thanks to snowdenim for creating it! I've been watching the show on dvd in the mornings while I eat my cereal. I just finished the "Firefly Fruit Contest" five parter. I'd forgotten how good that one was. I remembered the Gizmoduck and Bubba Duck ones more, and those were the ones I didn't like as much. I much preferred the show when it focused on Scrooge and the boys. I hope the final volume of dvds is released this winter.

I just figured out a way for me to get back into writing my neglected Dark Shadows story, Death's Embrace.... When I stop being so busy I'm going to add an interlude to it that should kick start the story again - finally. And I still have to update my DuckTales and Supernatural stories, respectively. All of those are coming, during my vacation if not before.

I picked up the latest Supernatural magazine at the grocery the other day. It had some nice posters in it. I've made one closet door all Supernatural thanks to the magazine posters. I have two of the brothers, one of Dean, one of Ruby, and one of the Impala hanging up.

I want to get a graphics program on this computer, like Photoshop or Paintshop Pro. I had Paintshop Pro on my old pc, but I know you can do more with Photoshop.... I just hate the idea of paying out so much money for it. I looked at Adobe Photoshop Elements in the store, but I don't know if that's at all comparable to Photoshop.

I'm anxious to start making my own graphics again... Anyone got any advice?

I haven't worked on my stories or updated this journal in the past week...I've been so busy, and I was also sick for about five days. My neighbor (whom I babysit for sometimes and is like a little sister to me) was in her school's talent show and I went to that. I bought her a sixth grade graduation present, too: a heart necklace with her name inscribed on the pendant. I plan on giving it to her early next week. I have to pick out a card first.

I managed to get some of my stuff up on Ebay yesterday. I've got several watchers and one bidder, and six days left on my auctions. Hopefully I'll make good money.

I had a great surprise a few days ago - I received my deductible back from my car accident in November, after thinking I would never see that money again. That put a smile on my face.

I really should be in bed right about now, but here I am posting in my LJ....

I received my Hot Toys 12" Will Turner figure today, and he is just all kinds of awesome. He's not my favorite character in the films, but the figure is one of the best I own. The headsculpt is a perfect likeness to Orlando Bloom. I placed him next to Jack and Elizabeth in my curio. I have a second Jack and Davy Jones on the way in the next couple of weeks. I really hope they continue this line. There hasn't been a new announcement for a few months, but I'm hopeful with the San Diego Comic Con coming up in July they'll have another figure announced. I desperately want a Norrington. I don't care if it's Commodore or "deck hand" version. Hell, I would buy both. I love him and I've wanted a figure of him since the first movie. And they have to make Barbossa.

Medicom is making a Sweeney Todd, and that looks really cool. That one might as well already be in my curio cabinet, too. :)

I'm still looking for someone to make the clothes for my Supernatural customs. I might have found someone, so we'll see. I'm using a promotional picture from season two because the sculpts are based off of it. I'm sooo excited about getting them.

I adore my figure collection. I need to take pics of it and post them up on here sometime. I need to upgrade my Photobucket account first, though, I think....

Wow.....

That was brutal.....

( SPOILERS UNDER HERE )

The anticipation for Season 4 might kill me....

My digital camera already needs a new battery. I've had it since Christmas, but it doesn't seem like I've used it enough that the battery should be low. I thought maybe it was a defect, but I turned it on tonight and the battery icon was on the screen and it was low. So for now, I'm assuming a new battery should do the trick. I hope. I plan to do some ebay selling soon.

I've started watching The X-Files again, beginning with season one. I'm going to buy the seasons as I go along. It's amazing how much I've forgotten and how much I start to remember as I'm watching these episodes. I started watching the show in order when FX first began airing them....I think it was 1997, when the show was in its fourth season. I hope to be through the series by July 25th, when the second movie is released.

Not too many summer movies excite me this year besides X-Files, Indiana Jones and The Dark Knight. I'll see Prince Caspian, but I'm not a huge Narnia fan. I might see Hancock because I like Will Smith. People are raving about Ironman, but I'm not too interested in seeing it. I'm curious about the new Hulk film, if only because of Edward Norton, whom I really like. I might check it out even though I hated the first film and I've never been a Hulk fan. Norton choosing to play the part intrigues me.

I'm going to be getting custom 12 inch figures of Dean and Sam soon.... But I'm going to have to go through some steps to get them completed. I have to get the sculpted heads painted, then attach them to figure bodies, and finally get clothes for them. I want to get someone to make specific outfits for them. I even have the clothes picked out, using my season companions and episode stills.... I just need to find someone who can make them for me.

This isn't final, but this is likely close to it. I'm really picky when I create a soundtrack for a story, so every song has a specific purpose or scene attached to it, so there could be a change or two, or maybe an addition. This would be divided into two discs. It's a mix of classic rock (of course), and modern rock.

( ...there's still time to change the road you're on... )

This is just a list for now, but I may add the specific lyrics to each song that made me place them on the list.

Yes. I do believe in ghosts. The subject of ghosts and life beyond death has always fascinated me ever since I was a litttle girl. But I've also come to believe in the presence of ghosts, partly because of my own experiences.

I lived in a rural area of southern Georgia from 2004-2005. There was a lot of history in the town, dating back to the civil war. A lot of old mansions, some restored and lived in, some decaying and abandoned. Our house was built in the late 1890s, and was quite large itself. Now, my parents had friends down there that refused to step foot inside our house. It didn't bother us because nothing bad ever happened to us there. But my father and I do believe it was haunted.

The first incident involved music. There were two actual bedrooms in the house; my bedroom used to be what would have been considered the parlor or drawing room in the old days. It was in the very front of the house, right off the foyer. Dad came into my room one night to see if I was playing music, and I was just sitting on my bed reading a book. I think it was Susan Kay's Phantom (an absolutely marvelous read!). I hadn't been playing any music. He asked me to follow him into the master bedroom, where everything was dark and all the lights were off. And I could hear the faint sound of music. It was odd because it sounded like it was coming from a great distance, and yet it also sounded as if it was being played at a very, very low volume right next to your ear. We went outside and didn't hear a thing. The only two places we heard the music was in the master bedroom and the guest bedroom behind it.

The next story is Dad's; I wasn't there to witness it. He was in the family room that had been added at the back of the house, watching television. The dogs were laying in the chairs next to him, awake. To the left of his line of vision, he saw a blur of what looked like gray smoke run by the entryway, headed for the backdoor. He said it looked like the size of a child, and the dogs didn't bark but they did turn their heads to look. When the house was originally built, the foyer ran all the way to the back of the house. So if you walked through the front door, you could walk (or run) a straight line all the way to the back door. You could see it while you stood at the front door. The foyer was like a large hallway running through the center of the house and it led out to the backyard. A laundry room, second bathroom and closet had been added in the house's later years, so you can no longer see the backdoor from the front foyer. But a little kid once could have went through the front door and ran straight out the back.