Just saw a video for the construction of a a "tin can baglama" ... If a bellows bag pipe was constructed and attached so that the baglama took the place of the chanter, it'd be a bagalute! No idea what the result would really really sound like, but the baglama in the video sounded good.

The baglama vid: https://youtu.be/ry0zunWXnzQ

http://twitch.tv/Katfeathers

I got off one match, but then computer problems. Will have to see if I can edit the one or two keepables.

Xsplit ain't booting

http://www.twitch.tv/katfeathers

also going to go live here with StarCraftII

Well why not.

http://www.furgather.com/CharlesKarr

Quick change of Avi

Cleared for the Spontoons. *sip* This should be fun.

Usually I draw stuff rather than write and it'd be nice if someone wanted to borrow Katfeathers for one of their stories, although I can understand commissioning a guest spot. So some info for use.

Katfeathers (the character) is not only half lightning spirit, but the other half is Fae (or Elf if you'd rather - although in my head cannon elves are just one tribe / clan of fae.
Some write of the Fae as being a kind of spirit, while others go with them being another kind of people. I went with the latter, to allow that a faerie lass and a lightning spirit could have offspring rather than Katfeathers just being a mixed type spirit, or a fae with particular powers.

The descent he faces from spirits (not usually Kami but lesser spirits) is that a spirit is by and large one kind of thing, and thus has a pre-defined place in things. Ergo if a spirit is two kinds of things - let alone a furson who's half - it doesn't actually have a place and purpose, and is resultantly frightful to other spirits. Then there's those spirits - such as youkai - that think : half spirit = half power.

Katfeathers has been around for a very long time, and has wandered many places. So there are a few other names that legends remember him by (at least 3). One of these is Katharr the Storm.

Ok, for other intell, please ask away.

Still a quick collage of bit piece refs and sketches.

I should do these a little more often. I'm still here and real. Need to feel like it's ok to draw more, that ones a roommate issue, which also relates to why I haven't been in people's streams for a while. Gonna see a bout moving that last jurnal to a submition as well.

Once upon a time Aztlan was not his name. Once upon a time he was blue cat of average height. Once upon a time he was a happily married man, and a father trying to get it right. But that all ended and went away.
His wife changed, took an eye for another and divorced him. Then changed again and took the children and moved over the hills and far away.

With his life fallen apart, and no one to notice, he sought to go to a festival on the other side of the county. To enjoy himself, see some lovelies and maybe indulge in a one night stand. Perhaps, if he was lucky he thought, if he could stand to.

But he didn't make it there. He met a woman who offered to take him there while he was looking to buy transport there. She seemed but a ruff girl, interesting, and exciting, and maybe the answer to what he dreamed. He couldn't tell what she really was, one of the fae. And so it took longer on the road there than it should have, and got dark before it aught have. And the camp sight 'midst the desert sands that they stopped at was not here.

There in that place that was her domain, She did with him what was her want. Changed him at a pace he did not notice. More handsome, much taller, more leonic. Larger than life a pet avatar of The Unconquered Sun, on so velvet a leash, he did not know, and as he slept, a bonfire. This over what she did not let him notice was a great time of the same day folded over upon itself.

And then one day she just wasn't there. The dream of a voice woke him, the voice of his son calling for dad. He did not notice that the camp fire that he got up from was himself. He looked but did not find his son, or "Her". He found instead another lass, who told him where he really was, and the danger of staying any longer. She told him that she was once like him but had stayed to long and could no longer leave, but she could show him the way. So it was that she led the way past many a toil and danger, each he gamely won through. Each time impressing her more. And so when they reached the boundary between Home and That Place they stopped and took some time of each other, a grand memory as she could not follow after.

So as he set foot once again on home soil, the reality of it all closed in on him. What he had become, what he wasn't, and how little he resembled himself. And as he looked back behind him further horror befell, as she stepped out past the boundary. A winsome visage immediately replaced by a wicker form, brittle and snapping and falling, spilling out dried leaves and twigs. On some a certain flash of white quickly turning to sand.

www.facebook.com/nanekirin/posts/316544235044876

such slow moving cuteness.

Does it still count as Omnomnom, when a single item is eaten by slowly, and intractablely swallowing it whole?

Thank you Burger King adds, and in the words of Perry Saturn: "Your Welcome.."

For those interested, today I hit the big 40.

Altho he's one of the few people who'll probaby see this journal,  Sexy_Chickennugget occasionally offers free art, one option, or random possibility, being a stick figure cartoon.
Thought I'd get in on the last round and here's the result www.furaffinity.net/view/4784393

Humming birds courtesy of PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?xl=xl_.....amp;nomobile=1

I should do drawing of one.

From the fanfic 'Gordian Knot' by Mischif on DreamWidth ( http://mischif.dreamwidth.org )

"I'm not that kind of tentical monster!"

Went over to my old LJ site to see it's still there, and regather some old avs. I'll have t redo a Katfeathers one as well as reserching on avatars and pngs with transparency.
While there read back over some old quizz/memes and got to reminiscing over this one:

http://katfeathers.livejournal.com/6438.html

Responses to  Xizana's question/meme thing ( http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1269925 )

1) Still recovering from a bad divorce.
2) animator / pilot / astronaut
3) being heard
4) Either iced tea, hot cocoa, or I could see you trying to get me a margarita.
( but *he's* old enough )
5) artichoke
6) 'Percy Jackson & the Olympions: The Lightning Thief' ( not including on line fanficage )
7) Sag sun, Aquarious moon, Libra rising
8) No, but I have a drawing I once wanted done... maybe... someday...
9) sleep too much, stay up too late.
10) If it weren't for the likelihood that I'd be walking too, I would.
11) was SCA broadsword, but I'm not s' active any more.
12) I was optimistic... before the divorce.
13) Talk myths, offer sketch colab, ...safe stuff (39 and recovering from being discarded after all)
14) The abandonment of divorce and loss of kids after she knew I'd survived nearly being abandoned in my parents' divorce.
15) My therin side is otherkin and past life related.
16) had, I soo miss ;_;
17) O.o uhh, welcome to socal?
a) surprised you found where I live
b) see 1. 12. & 14.
18) sweet person, tragic circumstance that I could understand all too well.
19) potential for either, but mostly amusing.
20) .... need more cheerfulness, so I can better remember < TMI >
21) yes
22) blue ( darker or lighter by mood )
23) no
24) yes
25) pay debts, save & invest, update tv, ps2, sound system, and 'tower of doom'!!
26) really need a new one, at home ain't s' healthy any more.
27) not really allowed not to.
28) vid game, read, draw, tv, movies, music.
29) Used to go Terantino at times,but now I find I do the unswearing thing more, even w/out a kid around.
30) the presumption that One doesn't want to work.
31) wrecked
32) ... I hunger, but I still distrust.
33) Hawaiian style pizza (aaaryu nom!!), okra Xp
34) Yes, all of them.

Some writers understand when the cast in their head up and take off in a differant direction, guhh ;( . Started a drawing of Danaga (my dragon self) as a character, walking right to left - kinda into the windish, cliche tho it is...
insted the drawing is turning into more of a model sheet. -//-;