Tattoos and Fire

Dance with me in the fire light, 'neath the Beltaine moon.
Come with me into the night, to where the Hawthorns bloom.

Happy Beltaine everyone! Or, as I like to refer to it, happy "dance around the fire naked and go screw like bunnies" day! Nothing like a good old fashioned pagan fertility holiday to get the blood pumping.

And while I am ensconced in my last week of classes and all those finals and final critiques are seriously looming dauntingly large, it is nonetheless Tuesday... and I most certainly could not resist combining two of my favorite things: Tattoos and Fire.

Tattoo Tuesday - Jamie Dominic (NSFW)

I've been a bit absent of late, my apologies for that. In my defense, my other life has me coming to the end of a semester and neck deep in all the inherent joy of preparing for final exams and critiques, thus with a decided lack of available time for such things as I enjoy doing, like writing, that don't actually promote those ends. Once I complete the semester, though, it's game on and full steam ahead for all of my writing projects. In fact, I have an entire week and a half of much needed vacation before I start my full time job for the summer and I hope to, at the very least, complete my short story and submit it for publishing and also write the final two chapters of a project that has been on the books (on and off) for the last six years. It won't be submitted for publishing any time soon, as it needs massive overhaul - the change in my writing style over that period of time has been fairly significant and the early story in particular just needs serious work - but the plan is eventually to submit that one as well.

In the meanwhile, I couldn't resist a little Tattoo Tuesday action. Without further adieu, I give to you Jamie Dominic.

Music Monday - Florence + The Machine

For whatever reason, I just can't get enough of this song lately. In fact, it's playing on my stereo right this second. Seemed entirely appropriate that I share it for a Music Monday.

Tattoo Tuesday - Nicholas Lemons

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's my favorite day again!

Without further adieu, I give to you Nicholas Lemons.

All that glimmers - Brandon Waarbroeck

I thought for this Tuesday I would introduce you all to Brandon Waarbroeck, model and beautiful tattooed man. Bon apetit!

Tatt-tuesday

I love a man with a little bit of ink.

Oh, hey.  Good morning...Hope you slept well.  Next to me...

 Jessie Pavelka = Yum

Nick Haas

Punishment, I am a glutton for it.

As though I didn't already have more than enough to do already in the realm of works in progress, I've snapped up one of the prompts for the Goodreads M/M Romance group's 'Love is Always Write' event.  Of all the Dear Author letters, there was just something about this one that reached out and grabbed me.  It's very unlike anything I would come up with on my own, and I think that's one of the reasons it intrigues me so much.  I'm pretty thrilled to be participating and I can't wait to see the story unfold.

In other, far more random news - there I was working on yet another project (though, admittedly, un-writing related) and I came across this.  It's a snippet of writing I did once upon a looooooong time ago with a very specific bent to it (it was supposed to be for a very particular interactive online writing group) but the group, to my knowledge, never went anywhere and the idea got mothballed and all but forgotten.  I came across the file this evening, tweaked it slightly, and have added it to the free reads.

The end of the world as we know it

I woke up this morning to snow after walking around in short sleeves in 60 degree weather yesterday.  No, I didn't do any traveling, shy of driving about forty minutes.  That the weather has been absolutely bizarre this season has nearly given me a near permanent brow quirk and been driving me absolutely nuts.  I haven't skied at all, but then... there hasn't exactly been good skiing for the lack of snow, even here in New England.  Just damned strange.

Ended the week on a warbly note:  Great news at work about two coworkers who will shortly no longer be coworkers, much to my delight, and the boss sent us home early (yay!).  Got home to find a $53.50 ticket from the state of Massachusetts (bastards) for a snafu with my EZ Pass (boo!).  But then went out to eat with my fabulous husband and now am home curled up with my computer in my flannel LT3 PJ's and settling in to get some damned writing done (yay!).

Is it a bad sign that I'm pleading with the muses for mercy before I've even opened the file?