Confessions

1. I am sorry, Blogger, but I am having an affair with tumblr.  I hope you're not offended.

2. I confess that I have become quite fangirly over BBC's Sherlock.  Only a teensy bit obsessed.  Maybe more.

3. I confess that I told you I wouldn't post any more Gallifreyan art, yet here it this.  This also relates to #2

The text in this one, with which I took quite a few liberties in terms of organization, says "I am SHERlocked," which is of course from A Scandal in Belgravia.
As always, done entirely in Sharpie.  And took far longer than any other Gallifreyan artwork I've done.  Drawing Benedict Cumberbatch is HARD!  But I'm quite pleased.

I have a problem

See, I know a lot of facts.  And I like to tell them to people, because having a more informed populace is good, right?

Well, I'm just afraid my friends will hate me.

Consider the following, which was posted on my Facebook wall by a very good friend, whom I'm very close with:

My first reaction was to comment something like this:

"Actually, it wasn't a space jump.  People said that Felix jumped from 'the edge of space,' but actually, the (arbitrarily) politically defined 'edge of space' is 100 km above Earth, and Felix only jumped from 37 km up.   However, if we're talking about the scientific edge of space, you could say that there are still remnants of earth's atmosphere as far as 10000 km away.  However, it is the highest he could have physically gotten in his helium balloon, because helium rises only because it is less dense than air.  The atmosphere gets less dense the higher you go, so above 37 km, helium is no longer less dense than the atmosphere, and the balloon won't rise any higher.  I agree though, it was a pretty cool jump."

However, I read that over, and immediately I became slightly worried that my friend would hate me to the end of time for going all factual on what was clearly meant as a fun post.

So, as of yet, I haven't commented.  I don't know what to say!

This problem isn't new, either.  And the last time, I actually posted the comment.  AND it was on a political post, making it 10 times worse.

One of my friends was talking about the news that Romney was using a KKK slogan in his campaign.  This sounded ridiculous to me, so I googled it.  I found the following sources of information:
a) The campaign video that used the alleged KKK slogan
b) The Washington Post article that accused Romney of the deed
c) The editor's note at the top of the article, which admits that the article "contains multiple serious, factual errors" including that fact that the video that sparked this whole debacle says, at the end, "Mitt Romney does not actually support this ad."

So I commented on my friend's post with this news.  I was pretty polite about it, I think.  I guess my friend was a bit unhappy with how I had ruined her anti-Romney post.  Oops.

I just don't know what to do.  I try to tell my friends interesting things (like, last week I enlightened them about how the Earth is in a stable orbit with the sun, which is what prevents us from spiraling inward into a fiery combustion).  And the other day, when we walked by a creepy winged angel statue, I educated them all about the dangers of blinking.

Seriously though.  I don't know how to reply to the Felix post.  What do I do?

Also, here's my Felix Baumgartner artwork!  The Gallifreyan text says "Sometimes you have to get really high just to see how small you are."  Which is an actual Felix quote before he jumped.

Just two more

Sorry for not having anything else to post, so here's two more Gallifreyan art pieces I made (if you don't know what I'm talking about, see the original post).

Numba One: Deathly Hallows Mashup
I'm a huge fan of combining fandoms.  Like this picture just screams ALL THE FANDOMS.  I mean, LOTR, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Star Wars, and Doctor Who, all in one picture?  Freakin' awesome.

Anyways, that picture is not my Gallifreyan artwork.  This is it.  The Gallifreyan text in the middle says "A man in a million could unite the Hallows" which is a quote by Dumbledore in book seven.

Numba Two: Huzzah Science!
This one isn't really a fandom.  But here ya go:

In case you can't tell, this is the Apollo 13 mission logo.  The Gallifreyan text, which is floating around in space, and also cleverly (I think so) hidden in the moon and the sun, says the famous "Failure is not an option."  (That quote was never actually said, but was made for the movie)

Gallifreyan Galore

So, I recently learned how to write in Circular Gallifreyan, which, if you don't know, is a transliterated language from Doctor Who.

I've just been making some pretty things with it - quotes and drawings and such.  By the way, these were all created by hand - with a pencil, a compass, and lots of black pens and Sharpies.  No computer stuff here.
That's all.  Enjoy :)

 This one was my first ever large Gallifreyan project.  It says "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."  It's a quote from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar and was used in John Green's book The Fault in Our Stars.

This is another quote from a John Green book, this time from Looking for Alaska.  It says "No one can catch the motherfucking fox."

This one was made in response to soulpancake's time-lapse art video on fear.  I tried to film the creation, but, having never done so before, failed miserably.  But here's the picture.  The Gallifreyan text says "This is fear" and it's supposed to represent my fear of losing myself.  Hence the maze (which is actually solvable...that was hard), the city, and snowflake letters.

I've been working on this one for a while.  As you can see, it's the mockingjay symbol from The Hunger Games.  The Gallifreyan says "May the odds be ever in your favor."  I really liked the way it turned out, and I'm pretty proud of this one.
I'm also hoping to make a time-lapse type video of its creation.  I'll post a link if I manage it.

UPDATE: Here's the link to the YouTube video of the creation of the mockingjay! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOCGJrBqBVY