Diaphanitas

My friend took this picture and mentioned casually that my cat was in it. It took me a moment to see her... And she's not the most easily-camouflaged thing, either.

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Padme: PAY ATTENTION TO ME PLZ~!!!11!!!
Me: "I would if you would GET OFF my keyboard!"


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"If your bullets are anything like your son, they'll stop halfway in and start crying."

Holy shit, this is the best thing I've ever heard. If anyone ever tries to shoot me, I am gonna say that.

From here.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021362.html

NYU boy: What are you guys doing tonight?
NYU girl: We might be going to a frat party in Queens.
NYU boy: There are so many things wrong with that sentence.
NYU girl: You wanna go?
NYU boy: Yeah, sure.

--3rd Ave & 11th St

• 18:21 My Adobe disks stopped working. Luckily the key is all I really need, since I can DL the programs from Adobe's website. #
• 18:45 @wabwaskshi I really, really do. T_T #
• 19:26 Every time I say something good happens, I jinx myself and bad things happen instead. So today, I'm going to say bad things happened. #
• 20:15 @MykalWane Only so far as it's one girl trying to rescue another girl. I liked that show, but it wasn't much of an inspiration for YU+ME. #
• 20:42 I have no good video games, and I wanna relax, so I am playing... Bejeweled. *cries pitifully* #
• 20:59 If anyone wants to do a guest strip for YU+ME for next week, I really need a break. #
• 21:02 @Galia I love stick figures if the dialog is good. #
• 21:12 Any kind of guest strip works. Whatever you wanna do! One strip, or a multi-page mini story. Go nuts! #
• 21:27 I'd like to have some for the next 1 or 2 weeks, so there's a sort-of time frame. #
• 23:59 @ferretthimself Someone sent me that meme, but I thought it was rather dumb. Especially because I can't even answer that. :P #
• 23:59 I'm finding myself enjoying gay male culture more than lesbian culture these days. #
• 00:40 This video made me cry from laughing: tinyurl.com/yc8gw5x The 6 Creepiest Videos Aimed at Kids #

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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/trifecta.asp

List details a "trifecta" of firsts related to President Obama.

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Hyperactive seven-year-old: Mom! Let me lick your ear! Come here, let me suck it!
Disgusted mother: Boy, I ain't your girl!

--2 Train

Wondering about Galaxy by Stuart Clark, Quercus Publishing PLC, 2009.

I saw select pages from it included in a book on designing diagrams for books and websites, if you can believe it. I'm curious as to whether anyone here has read it and what their reaction is. I've been looking for a good update on the work that Henbest and Couper did with Guide to the Galaxy since they haven't been hired to revise it themselves yet.

http://girlamatic.com/jeepers/2010/01/08/jeepers-and-assorted-spooky-stuff-part-11-quest/

I made it! And I'm back to the actual storyline!

I see Jax toes!!



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► gundam 00; 13
► katekyo hitman reborn!; 14
► umineko naku koro ni; 19
► studio key; (AIR, clannad) 10

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Mods; i didn't see this in the rules, so I hope it's ok. If not, let me know & I'll delete it.

Greetings, strangers!

Bad of me to concentrate my brain squeezings on Twitter instead of here, but I found squirting 140 characters at a time, right off the top of my head, really fun. Then I found I'd expended the energy and time I needed for blog posts. Like any other dastardly first world problem, I'm not thinking too much about it.

I hope you all had good holidays, or survivable ones like mine.

Since I don't have much more to say than, "Hey, I'm working, painting, still getting divorced, the kids are great!" I wanted to share with you about Tom (Hutch Owen) Hart's "How to Say Everything" which is "How to get started, how to remain unstuck, and how to create forever in any art form."

ANY ART FORM, dudes and dudessas. I wouldn't point you to this if I had any reservations about what Tom is teaching. It's is great stuff, lots of fun, and if you read my blog, you probably have creative ambitions of some sort, realized or unrealized. So treat yourself to this.

ALSO, join the How to Say Anything Facebook group, and you can get a PDF of the book in progress. Sweet.

Screened commenting is off again, so please comment and let me know how you're doing. Check in.

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We had a blue pigment explosion in the basement, as you can see by Tippy's blueness...but she's still cute!!!

Today I accomplished Carrot Curry Soup, Applesauce and spices bread/cake thing, my chunk of the white collar newsletter, and not as much of the bodice in the sewing as I wanted to. I may continue to try to get the top done tonight, but I'm getting tired, and have had a beer and that's really not the best time to go fiddling with fabric.

I still have tomorrow to work on it, after all. That's loads of time. All I have to do tomorrow is make bread, and that could technically wait another day (though the timing would be tight tight tight).


...


Maybe a bit more sewing....

This entry was originally posted at http://neekabe.dreamwidth.org/61268.html. There are comments there.

I'm taking next week off from comics. Not because I want to. I really don't.

The computer is in hospice. BUT I have a temporary computer to use. BUT my Adobe disks for the Mac are broken (my PC ones still work great, tho). BUT the key is still valid and I reordered the install disks for $16. BUT it's going to take a week to get here.

I have a sort of community activity planned for next week, though, so there'll be something there.

I just need a little bit of time to get things to work. And then to make the actual pages.

Anyone feel like doing guest strips? They'd be welcome, too.

Can't wait to see him tomorrow! I love that man so much. Still wish I had somebody to come with me...

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021360.html

White guy to black kid in subway doorway: Don't stop right in the doorway, you punk! Don't yell at me for running into you when you stopped in front of me!
Black kid: Yo, dude, if I were really, really black, I'd kill you right now!

--F Train

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Did anyone else watch The Colbert Report on Monday and see him talking about the LOL-Cat in the interview? It was awesome!

Here's the video in case you missed it, he talks about the LOL-Cat about 1minute 10seconds into the clip:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Erick Erickson
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Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy

I can has EARNED cheezeburger!!!

I've been an avid lurker on cat_macros for some time now. I hope these are lulz-worthy. u_u

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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021359.html

Woman: So I brought Elizabeth to New York and she was obsessed with escalators!
Friend: What?
Woman: Yea, every store we went to she had to ride the escalator! She got mad at me if she saw one that I didn't take her on. I had all this stuff planned for her: shopping, a bus tour, a Broadway musical... she just wanted to ride escalators!
Friend: That's hilarious. How old is she?
Woman: Eighteen.

--FIlene's Basement Escalators, Union Square

Overheard by: K Melv

This post shall also go by the name "Oops, Shawn Did It Again".

I've had to delete a lot of YouTube atheist channel subscriptions, because any time there's a DMCA abuse censorship case or fear of retribution, my subscriptions page gets flooded with mirror videos, and it's really annoying. You know, I kind of also want to watch my Angry Video Game Nerd videos and Classic Game Room videos. I don't like it when they get buried by twenty mirrors of the same pointless video.

In any event, one of these mirroring campaigns actually caught my attention for a change. It turns out that VenomFangX, who recently returned to the internet after being grounded from it due to the last series of incidents (seriously, his website said that his PARENTS shut him down), has only been around long enough to get himself back into trouble and over the same shit as last time. Apparently he filed a number of DMCA take-down notices to YouTube users, among which is one DPR Jones, friend of Thunderf00t (in my opinion, he's kind of like Thunderf00t Lite).

Aside from being Thunderf00t Jr., DPR Jones also happens to be a lawyer, and he's wasted no time in issuing the same ultimatum as last time. Shawn has ten (nine now, actually) days to shut down his YouTube channel, or else a legal suit could potentially be brought against him.

Now, there are some roadblocks here, namely that DPR Jones is a citizen of the UK and Shawn is Canadian, and this is a case over US law. It's hard to say if a case like this will even be heard in a federal US court. Nevertheless, this is not a situation that Shawn wants to find himself in, and he's already started playing the "I didn't know any better" card from last time.


Not only does this have nothing at all to do with whether or not Shawn's actions are punishable by law, his excuse of feigned ignorance doesn't hold up, because we've already gotten a retraction and apology out of Shawn, and here it is.


Oh dear, I do apologize for the mix-up. That seems to be the WRONG VIDEO! I don't know how I got them mixed up. Here's what I actually meant to show.


Now, as should be plainly apparent by now, Shawn is just trying the same trick he pulled last time. He filed a bunch of notices without regard for the consequences (or perhaps assuming that there wouldn't be any) with the full intent of erasing his own embarrassing history from the internet.

DPR Jones has assured everyone that there will be no compromise, and if Shawn fails to evacuate his YouTube video channel, erase it, and so on, he will seek immediate action against Shawn.

And so the game of chicken begins. If Shawn remains true to character, he will offer about a hundred apologies and then beg to settle in the last hours.

Should be fun. Let's watch.

It's been a momentous 12 months here at LiveJournal. We crossed a capital T at Ten years young. And, like most precocious pubescents, we celebrated turning double digits by publishing our first book! Needless to say, we've experienced some major changes, both inside and out. Before we recap, we'd like to thank you for bearing with us as we've struggled through ungainly growth spurts, identity pangs, and, yes, the occasional blemish. We hope you'll continue to stand by us: We're gaining wisdom with maturity.

Stuff you liked

• Back in February, we placed a call for entries for our ten-year anniversary anthology in lj_turns10. In December (less than a year later!), we officially announced the publication of Live Journal: The First Decade. Featuring an inspired collection of writing, photographs, and artwork from the pages of LiveJournal history, the book has been selected by Blurb.com as a top staff pick! We are proud to have played host to so much talent over the years, and we thank our contributors for sharing their extraordinary work.
• We all love quirky surprises, but not when it comes to managing our account settings. This year we streamlined settings into one central account management area. No more pouring through FAQs to figure out how to control privacy settings, modify notifications, adjust mobile settings, or update contact information!
• Being users ourselves, we realize our own mothers couldn't find us on LiveJournal based on our usernames and userpics alone (*heaves heavy sigh of relief*). But since there are times when we actually want to be found, we created a search tool--Find Your Friends--to help locate people by email address (it's in the Friends drop-down menu).
• Spam counter-attack: The war against vicious malware and spambots reigns eternal, but we've been making serious inroads to ensure your online security. We've established new protocols, such as requiring email address validations. We've grown more savvy about ferreting out suspicious behavior. We've added features, like whitelisting, to help you protect your communities. Our valiant (i.e., overworked) spam avengers (a/k/a the LiveJournal ops team) are standing on red alert so you can sleep safely at night.
• After an intensive beta, we launched My Guests at the end of the year, which lets you see who's been hanging around your journal. A number of you have even discovered secret admirers (not all of whom are creepy)!
• Last, but by no means least, we want to thank our volunteers for providing invaluable support and feedback. Their Herculean efforts enable us to answer your questions more efficiently, identify spammers, reduce abuse, and deliver better features (through tireless testing). On behalf of the staff and the larger LiveJournal community, we are truly grateful for their diligence, intelligence, loyalty, and passion.

You got your fix

• We recently debugged a number of the oustanding issues with the rich text editor so your entries look great regardless of whether you know html. You can read more about text editors here.
• In response to user demand, we brought back international voice posting. For more info on voice posting, read here.
• At long last, we revived TxtLJ with Verizon. For more info on TxtLJ, check out the FAQ.

Paid features you enjoyed

• In December, we introduced My Stats, which provides detailed data on who's been viewing your entries as well as statistics on commenting, RSS requests, friending history, and more. Despite a few early glitches, the response has been extremely favorable.
• This year, we launched and improved Notes (i.e., the feature formerly known as Alias), which lets you add private comments on friends and commenters (it's in the Profile drop-down menu). This way you won't be caught red-faced when you strain to remember details about that wonderful LiveJournal friend who sent you a birthday vGift. For more info, read the FAQ.
• When we first announced View friends pages by date, we thought it would be a quiet, minor enhancement. The rave reaction floored us, which made us all very happy. We gave it a fine tuning in February of 2009, so it's even better!
• How embarrassing! It appears pingbacks have gone back to the shop for service. We’ll keep you posted. We didn't know just much you liked pingbacks until it went in for service. It's back and, judging by your irritation when it wasn't available, this is good news. FYI, pingbacks send instant notifications (via screened comments) whenever someone links to one of your entries on LiveJournal. For more info, read this entry in paidmembers or check out the FAQ.

Mixed reviews

• The search is still on. Some of you have reported getting more comprehensive results for keyword searches using the new Yandex search engine and like the ability to search within content categories (like entries or comments). Others have not been satisfied with the relevancy of search results. Please be patient. We're still tweaking this product.
• This past December, we wanted to try out a new holiday promotion. Given the crap economy, we decided to offer our Paid/Permanent users a stack of $10 coupons to send to Basic/Plus users for paid account upgrades. We hoped you would like it. And some of you did, but many were disappointed that we didn't offer Give More as well. We want to thank you so much for letting us know. Your input will help us plan better in the future. Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users can continue to send out coupons through January 15th. Coupons can be redeemed through January 31, 2010.
• We were pretty excited about Your Journal Your Money, which allows Paid/Permanent users to earn extra cash by displaying Google ads to Basic/Plus and logged out users. A number of you tried it. Some of you really like it. Others, not so much. (Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users who do not participate in this program will not view ads on journals. Participants will see ads on their own journal, but won't see them on other journals unless they specifically opt in.) For additional details, visit here.
• We relaunched m.livejournal.com, our mobile app. While it offers a nicer UI and enhanced functionality, some of you think we can do better on load times. Like most of us, it's a work in progress. You can customize your mobile settings here. For more info, please read the FAQ.

Missing Inaction

• We shudder to bring up the neon purple elephant squatting on our heads, but, yes, we didn't give you those a la carte userpics. We've been making radical improvements to our backend in order to support them. But no excuses. We know you want them. We cringe every time you mention them. We're sorry we dropped the ball on this, and we promise to do our best to get them to you in 2010.

Stumbling points

• Back in early August, we experienced outages related to a series of DDoS attacks. We are proud to report that we were down a total of one hour over the course of a few days. We thank our heroic ops guys for getting us up sooner and more consistently than any of our less fortunate social networking friends. We apologize for leaving you temporarily stranded.
• A couple of months back, we offered a free, unrestricted vGift, which induced a snowflake cookie avalanche. This resulted in backed up/delayed notifications, which, in turn, led us to reboot systems, rendering scrapbooks unavailable. It took a while to shovel free. Apologies for the inconvenience. We learned a valuable lesson that should keep us calamity-free in the future (fingers crossed while knocking on wood).
• That darn Best Buy ad. First off, we're sorry about the audio auto-play (we got it turned off as quickly as possible). While it's true that we'll continue to show this type of ad to accounts that normally see them (never to Paid/Permanent accounts), we'll make sure the sound defaults to off moving forward. We promise to do our very best to keep ads to a minimum on LiveJournal, while keeping a roof over Frank's head.

Full steam ahead!

As we plunge headfirst into the next decade, we want to take a moment to look back and thank all of our employees, both past and present, who have worked so hard to create our unique and magical universe. We couldn't have made it this far without you: Your contributions brighten our path everyday. We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you. Whether you've been around for ten days or ten years, your humor, intelligence, talent, and creativity are what makes this the most vibrant global community on the Internet (the best place on the Web, in our humble opinion). Here's hoping that 2010 will be the greatest year yet! We thank you for joining us as we embark upon another glorious decade of LiveJournal history!

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http://atheism.about.com/b/2010/01/07/antipopes-what-is-an-antipope-when-is-a-pope-not-a-pope.htm

The term "antipope" refers to any person who claims to be pope, but whose claim is treated as invalid today by the Roman Catholic Church. This should be a straightforward concept, but in practice it is much more difficult and complex than it might appear.

 

Read Article: What is an Antipope? When is a Pope Not a Pope?

 

Antipopes: What is an Antipope? When is a Pope Not a Pope? originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 15:00:00.

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 In stead of my boredom and my current love of Code Geass, I thought I'd play around with some icons, I usually do sigs but icons are a tiny bit easier in my opinion. Sorry if they're bad, but hope you like them anyway.

 

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there isn't a good way to link to the story, just a c&p of the url here: http://newyorkrenovator.com/2009/12/building-a-winter-cat-shelter.html  along with a teaser pic of the finished product:
    and a pic of a kitty of course :)   cross-posted to cat_lovers 

53x Kiddy Girl-and
51x Kiddy Grade
9x Macross Frontier
5x Clannad
5x Umineko no Naku Koro ni



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http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/01/i_feel_sorry_for_this_kid_1.php

His class was going to go on a field trip to a museum; his parents denied the trip and scrawled their reasons why on the note.

That's just sad. And it happens fairly often; a few years ago, our university theater group put on a play about tolerance for local schools, and the notes from parents refusing to allow their kids to see it flooded in. It's just not that often that one of those notes get scanned and put up on Failblog.

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Metro-north conductor: This train has five cars open.
Drunk teenage girl: Your mom has five cars open! Your mom's fellatio lips are open too!
(trio sits in row in front of girl and friend)
Drunk girl: I hate you, don't sit here. We're all going to throw up on you. Why are you still here? No one likes you.
Girl's friend: Why are you so drunk?
Drunk girl: That's something we'll never know.

--Metro-North

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It would be unreasonable to expect a Catholic leader to give a positive review for atheism or secular humanism, but it's still depressing when major Catholic figures use their positions to spread bigotry and myths about atheists. I doubt Thomas G. Bohlin, vicar of Opus Dei, wouldn't be given a platform to claim that blacks have no reason to follow the law or Jews have no reason to be charitable, but he was given a platform to spread the myth that atheists have no reason to be moral.

The (rather old) humanist idea of being good without God goes very little beyond simple catch-phrases like "Be good for goodness' sake." Without a God or a created order, morality becomes relative and each person ends up deciding for himself or herself what will be best, even if that means not respecting other persons.

Although the humanist admonishes us not to harm others, this principle itself ends up being relative and consequently ineffective. Only when others are seen as God's creatures made in his image and likeness is there a real basis for the moral imperative to respect them.

Source: The Washington Post

Of course, Christians like Thomas Bohlin can't demonstrate that there is some sort of god-created moral order, so his entire argument is ultimately based on the idea that belief in such an order is better than the lack of belief in such an order. When we look at history, though, we don't find that people who believe in gods or a god-given moral order are any more moral than atheists -- and we certainly don't find them treating other human beings any better.

The reality is that people do end up deciding for themselves what's best, though in the context of what their cultures and religions teach, with some attributing those decisions to gods and others taking personal responsibility for those decisions. Atheists who take responsibility for their decisions can engage in discussions about how good or reasonable their decisions are. Theists who attribute their decisions to a god are removing their decisions from critique, discussion, or debate. Thus no matter what the consequences or effects on people, those with the political, social, or religious power to make decisions for others don't have to apologize.

Maybe that's why so many priests felt entitled to rape children while their superiors felt entitled to hide this from the legal authorities, moving the predators around so that they could keep molesting children.

Thomas G. Bohlin: Atheists Can't Be Good Without God originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 12:00:48.

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One of those lunatic religious right sites compiled a list of the top ten "anti-christian attacks" of 2009…and the pathetic thing about it is how feeble and largely imaginary the attacks are. They range from a rantin' anti-choice pastor getting arrested for harassing women at a clinic to the existence of those uppity gays who complain when Christians lie about homosexuality. There isn't one crucifixion or involuntary lion-feeding on the whole list. Read this dissection of the compilation — those poor guys are really desperate for some notable oppression.

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The Development and Validation of a Group Test of Logical Thinking by
Kenneth G. Tobin

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 41, No. 2, 413-423 (1981)

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thanks in advance--my school doesn't do well with anything before the '90s.

Edit: would help if i provided an email, huh? jen.esswein at gmail.

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Some stunning fossil trackways have been discovered in Poland. The remarkable thing about them is that they're very old, about 395 million years old, and they are clearly the tracks of tetrapods. Just to put that in perspective, Tiktaalik, probably the most famous specimen illustrating an early stage of the transition to land, is younger at 375 million years, but is more primitive in having less developed, more fin-like limbs. So what we've got is a set of footprints that tell us the actual age of the transition by vertebrates from water to land had to be much, much earlier than was expected, by tens of millions of years.

Here are the trackways. Note that what they show is distinct footprints from both the front and hind limbs, not drag marks, and all that that implies: these creatures had jointed limbs with knees and elbows and lifted them and swung them forward to plant in the mud. They were real walkers.

They were also big, approximately 2 meters long. What you see here is a detailed scan of one of the footprints of this beast; no fossils of the animal itself have been found, so it's being compared to the feet of Ichthyostega and Acanthostega, two later tetrapods. There are definite similarities, with the biggest obvious difference being how much larger the newly-discovered animal is. Per Ahlberg makes an appearance in a video to talk about the size and significance of the mystery tetrapod.

What's it all mean? Well, there's the obvious implication that if you want to find earlier examples of the tetrapod transition, you should look in rocks that are about 400 million years old or older. However, it's a little more complicated than that, because the mix of existing fossils tells us that there were viable, long-lasting niches for a diversity of fish, fishapods, and tetrapods that temporally coexisted for a long period of time; the evolution of these animals was not about a constant linear churn, replacing the old model with the new model every year. Comparing them to cars, it's like there was a prolonged window of time in which horse-drawn buggies, Stanley Steamers, Model Ts, Studebakers, Ford Mustangs, and the Honda Civic were all being manufactured simultaneously and were all competitive with each other in specific markets…and that window lasted for 50 million years. Paleontologists are simply sampling bits and pieces of the model line-up and trying to sort out the relationships and timing of their origin.

The other phenomenon here is a demonstration of the spottiness of the fossil record. The Polish animal has left us no direct fossil remains; the rocks where its footprints were found formed in an ancient tide flat or lagoon, which is not a good location for the preservation of bones. This suggests that tetrapods may have first evolved in these kinds of marine environments, and only later expanded their ranges to live in the vegetated margins of rivers, where the flow of sediments is much more conducive to burial and preservation of animal remains. That complicates the story, too; not only do we have diverse stages of the tetrapod transition happily living together in time, but there may be a bit of selective fossilization going on, that only preserves some of the more derived forms living in taphonomically favorable environments.

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Niedzwiedzki G, Szrek P, Narkiewicz K, Narkiewicz M, Ahlberg PE (2010) Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland. Nature 463(7277): 43-48.

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"Imagines e deviantART!"
"Images from deviantART!"

Yes:

http://evy-and-cats.deviantart.com/art/674-139828779 <- kitty
http://catgirlnekochan.deviantart.com/art/kitty-148157003 <- kitty
http://alixofhesse.deviantart.com/art/Big-Pair-in-the-Crimea-149328506 <- Big Pair
http://evy-and-cats.deviantart.com/art/702-148051895 <- kitty
http://strawberrygina.deviantart.com/art/Red-String-Happy-Holidays-147933086 <- by Gina
http://evy-and-cats.deviantart.com/art/705-149442445 <- kitties
http://alixofhesse.deviantart.com/art/Gehenna-II-149410359 <- kitty
http://alixofhesse.deviantart.com/art/Gehenna-149410193 <- kitty
http://alixofhesse.deviantart.com/art/oops-I-did-it-again-149408105 <- OTMA

( Imagines )

"Epistula"
"A Letter"

Melissa and I each got letters from the Official Department of Taking Your Money.

The best thing that I can say about this is that the envelopes we get from the place don't suck as much as many others. I can at least open these envelopes without completely ripping them up.