Hello and welcome to my journal. Here you will find a variety of stuff. I post personal stuff right alongside my fandom posts, so you'll get a pretty healthy dose of all things Beth. Feel free to friend me. I don't mind at all.  I promise I don't bite, and I like to friend people, so don't be afraid to add me.  The links below will take you to fics, links, and tags.  They are good places to start exploring.

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Life Updates- I'll let you guys know that I'll probably be even less online than I have been in the last two months because I'll be without a computer for a month or two.  My roomie is buying the one I currently have because it doesn't run the programs I need it to well and I'm going to save up for a good one.  I haven't been online much because I had to start doing a second full time job again.  It is just draining me of all my energy and time.  I needed a second job for health insurance, because I've been having some problems. 

So it probably isn't a good idea for me to still be dinking around getting a pelvic ultrasound done, but I always tend to procrastinate the important stuff.  I finally got the referral I needed so the hospital will make an appointment for the ultrasound.  I don't think I've mentioned this to everyone (just a few people here and there), but I've been having severe pain in my lower abdomen (two jobs makes it hell).  My mom told me a few weeks ago that my family has a history of irregular ovarian cysts, and those can be very painful.  So most likely it is just a really bad cyst, though it could be something else like cancer or endometriosis, though these are less likely.

Conventions- I'll be at Motaku (a Kansas City anime convention) this weekend Oct. 24-25, and then Anime Nebraskon in two weeks, Nov. 6-8.  I hope to see some of you people there.

Fic Rec- I should mention that it is unfinished (and will probably stay that way according to the author) and is about lesbian hookers, but it is also filled with an amazing amount of awesomeness.  Give it a read, even if you aren't all that into lesbian hookers (cause I'm definitely not, but it was still tremendously good in my opinion).  [This is the link]

Fandom: Naruto
Title: Puppetry
Rating: NC-17 (porny, porny porn)
Genre: PWP (no, really, there isn't plot this time at all)
Warnings: semi-spoiler for the chapter 464
Pairings: Kankuro/Sakura and puppet!Sasori/Sakura (controlled by Kankuro) No yaoi.
Timeline: future, probably when Sakura is twenty and Kankuro is 21/22.

Author's Notes:  I have been wanting to write some Kankuro/Sakura smut forever now.  It has been almost three years since the end of Hot Sand and I've never found a good plot for KankySaku smexing.  Thanks to puppet!Sasori, now I have it. 

1. Why in the heck did my stupid employer make me wait 9 months until open enrollment to have health insurance? Because they are bastards.

I have the ear infection from hell (though not the worst I've had by far). I spent $90 at the doctor, and then $130 on stupid little eardrops. I really dislike getting the worst of the worst ear infections. Luckily, even with the pain, I've been able to sleep long hours and just generally be a lazy, sick bum. But I haven't been drawing. Once my ear gets better I'll start chipping away at my giant list (I'm having so much fun with it people, thank you for participating).

2. Beth had a stupid, obvious epiphany about the Naruto series

Okay, so I thought for awhile that Madara wasn't Obito in any form, and then I remembered: Each Sharingan has a unique ability. The one Danzou has does mind control, while Itachi and Sasuke have ones that do Amaterasu whatevertheheckeveritis, and Kakashi's can space time jutsu shit off into another dimension.

Uh, think about it. Space-time dimensional jutsu shit. Madara can space-time jutsu himself anywhere he pleases. That is how he evades everything. At the very least he has Obito's eye kids. It does the same thing. This is Beth just coming to the conclusion that most people have been at for awhile, but I haven't actually seen that argument before (I don't read all that much meta writing either since it bores me to tears).

3. Here is a sad semi-KakaSaku story. Enjoy if you haven't already read it.

Title: One More Day
Author: me! (thatreevesgirl/Lemon Drops)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: angst/drama
Summary: He wants to thank her for the small moments, the ramen and silly conversations.
Warnings: Character Death
( The fic is under this cut (no fake link today!)... )

Today I bring you lovely people a fanfic.  x-posted in kakasaku

Title: Sex Education
Author: me! (thatreevesgirl/Lemon Drops)
Rating: NC-17 (no reading at work)
Genre: Humor/PWP
Summary: The academy has done away with their sex ed class. Now it’s the jounin instructors' responsibility to teach this information. Sakura-sensei is having a little bit of difficultly with this task, but luckily she has Kakashi, the Hokage, to help her.
Warnings: Smutty, smutty smut. I mean this fic is seriously kinky and porntastic.  I also abuse italics in this story.

[Link to ff.net] (since it doesn't fit in a single LJ post)

I have been working really hard on all the really great requests you guys gave me.  Between here at LJ I have like 45 to do.  Expect some scans by the weekend/Monday-ish.  

Today I have some really awesome links to share with you.  The first is just for my artists on my flist.  I got it from hikari who has this very awesome artist resources post in her (?) livejournal.  [link to posemaniacs]

Then I have a really great japanese Naruto fanworks site.  [link] is the web address.  It has these great comics that I really wish I could get translated.  To read them click the link I posted and then choose "Parallel" (not pic/comics).  It is an AU about Kakashi (as a high school student) and then Rin, Tenzou, and Obito are there too.  I think that it is KakaTenz and ObiRin.  Kakashi lives with Minato and little Naruto and helps care for Naruto.  You can tell that Minato is like his foster-dad, and there are flashbacks back to his own dad.  I think the storyline has to be good for me to understand this much and not read a lick of Japanese.  When you get to the part with little Sakura and little Naruto it is adorable.  ADORABLE.

Edit:  How much would I have to bribe/pay someone to translate all that?  XD  No...seriously.

I don't have much more art for you guys at the moment. Basically just Ed from FMA and then there is also a pic of Kakashi in his undies linked right here [LINK] (underwear Kakashi is not really work safe). Click on the Ed picture to enlarge it.



REQUEST STATUS: CLOSED

Now comes the fun part, I've got to force my way through this art block. I have a commission that I have needed to finish since May and I just can't seem to get something good done for my very nice commissioner. So this is where you get to request some fanart characters from me so I can doodle my way out of this artblock. I might poke you for reference material if I'm completely "Huh? Who is that character?" At this point no OC's please. Maybe I'll do a OC request thingy another day. I will try very hard to get a sketch of at least ONE of your requests up to the first 30 people (haha, I doubt I'll get that many requests).

FANART DOODLE REQUEST RULES:
1. Give me a list of three (3) of your favorite characters
2. Try to have characters from at least two different anime.
3. You can tell me "Chibi" or "non-chibi" but I make no guarantees on what you'll get.
4. You can also request one pairing in addition to your characters.
5. Please include the characters name and the series they are from.
6. Let me know which one you'd like me to do the most
7. (optional) to spur my creativity you can leave a prompt, but again, I'm not making promises.

Three days in a row! It must be a new record! After this I'm seriously running out of old art to post. I think I might have 3 more after this set.

Also, I updated the Good Art Gallery [link]. There are some pieces that I added to it that some of you might never have seen before (99 sketches and doodles for your viewing pleasure (including the new ones I haven't posted yet).

( By now you know the drill, larger versions of the pics under this cut... )

I haven't updated my old sketches in a long time.  I finally scanned in some pics that had been sitting in my sketch pile since March.  They don't really help with my art-block I'm currently having, but at least they are something. I also updated the Good Gallery post found here

  

( Click here to see the pictures LARGER... )

First, I would like to say that SyFy airing penis pump commercials where crotchety old farts flirt and touch each other disturbs me to my core. When I watch episodes of anime with Kelli (my friend that I take care of) we see this commercial. Somehow this turned into a horrible mental image of a naked eighty year old guy using the damned contraption.

Also, I hate Nickleback. I heard them on the radio this morning on my way to work and it made me want to kill things. At work I started watching TV with Kelli and saw the commercial again. Then I randomly started humming Nickleback. Somehow my sleep-deprived brain decided it would be hilarious to implant the mental image of old naked dude dancing all stripper style with the penis pump to Nickleback.

There is NOT enough brain bleach in the entire galaxy to help me unthink that. That’s why I had to share it with all of you.

Pairing Meme: I stole this from istne_pieklo  I included ships from four fandoms. Mostly Naruto, some Bleach, Gurren Lagann, and a smidgen of Star Trek.

The Fanfic-Writer's Meme
I don't know who I stole this from, but I found the saved word document in my files from a long time ago and decided to fill it out.

( Long-winded anime and I have had a falling out… )

I know that many of you probably think I have fallen off the face of the Earth, because I have been hiding from the internets.  July just brought about one of my "OMG, I just need to get away from everything" attacks.  Usually I only have those concerning real life (and I become a recluse who only goes to work and necessary things), but I had one for the internet, art, and writing instead.  

I have two commissions that I still owe people.  I am so sorry.  If you are waiting on that you'll probably receive compensation and extra goodies.  Pardon me for being a giant bum whose drawing ability is truly tied to her emotions (basically if I feel like crap, then my art is crap and I literally can't finish things unless I want to hand over a doodle of a stick figure).  This is why I am putting my foot down with myself and not accepting more commissions at cons, the internet, or otherwise until I feel like my style has become more consistent and I am satisfied with even my crap art (which will probably be never).

Then there was GaaNaru fanday and the writing community I'm supposed to be participating in.  Sorry Tasukigirl, I'll probably PM you about that.  GaaNaru fans, I'll just be sitting in the corner like Tamaki from Ouran Host Club being depressed because I have let you down.  

I'm sure most of my flist that are actually reading this are like, "What in the hell, I don't even care," or "I already lost faith in you a long time ago, thatreevesgirl, so this is nothing new," or "Yeah, I gave up when Underwear didn't update for a whole year the first time."  Any of you that know me in real life know I just like to be really hard on myself.  It is just how I self-punish.  XD

I was going to post some fandom, happy, and update news with this post, but I think it would be too rambly, and also ruin the depressing ambiance I have managed to create in less than 500 words, so I'll do another post later today with that stuff when I'm less Bah-humbug.  

In closing I just want to make two pleas:  1) Please forgive me for being a big, stupid bum.  2) Ignore my pessimism, because  I much prefer to be a big, dorky optimist.

So, how have all of you guys been?

My life isn't all fandom.  Oh, no, no, no it is not.  Sometimes I think that my posts here are a gross misrepresentation of what my life consists of. 

Other things I do on the internet (Wow, everything else I do is on NPR.  Okay, fandom and NPR...maybe I really am that pathetic.):