My journal is not friends only and probably never will. I don't update as often as I could (or would want) and only sometimes do I speak of anything outside of fandom, so I don't have all that much to say that would need to be locked (sometimes, though, some things may be).

However, I'd still like to know a bit about the people who friend me before I friend them back.

So I thought it was time for a sticky post like this.



If you'd like to friend me and would like me to friend you back, say so here and, if you want, let me know something about you too.

If you're just friending me to watch my graphics, you don't need to say anything. But you can, if you'd like. :)

So, after waking up yesterday excitedly wanting to see the very first Act of the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon's musical comedy internet film, I stumbled across the most dreaded words one can stumble in the internet world when one is outside a certain country - "not viewable outside the USA".

AGHHHHHH!

Disappointing, to say the least.

I went to work, waited, mumbled, complained, and found out that international viewing had finally been made available sometime in the afternoon around here. Yay!!!!!

Well, not so much yay because, as I found out, my work computer sucks big time and couldn't load the video no matter how many times I tried. Bummer. Five hours to wait until I got home and could try my luck at long last and see the amazingness of this project.

After much nail biting and clock watching, I finally got off work and went home. I all but ran to my laptop, opened my browser and went to the Dr. Horrible webpage.

The second most dreaded words in the internet appeared before me:

"Your connection has timed out" Or something like that.

Double AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Apparently the multitude of Joss fans had crashed the site with their multitude of dowloads. Same happened to Whedonesque, just for discussing the damn film, by the way.

Moral of the story: I didn't get to see the damn thing!!!

Until this morning, when half-heartedly I opened the page and found out the first Act is still available for viewing and I devoured the utter silliness and adorablness that is Neil Patrick Harris as a villain. And how butch and cute Nathan Fillion looked as Captain Hammer. *sigh*

I was starting to despair. Hopefully the next act tomorrow won't be fraught with such distress. My fragile heart wouldn't stand it.

Wow, I haven't posted in forever here. Anyone still remember lil' ol' me? I took a break from icon-making and I guess in the process I also took a break from livejournal. My journal was more icon journal than personal diary anyway. I'm alive, though, and no tragedies have happened to keep me off LJ. Except lots of work and other distractions.

I've been dedicating my free time to my other passion lately, which is reading. Reading and talking to some people I hadn't in a while from book forums I hadn't visited very often while I was being consumed by the icon-making bug. Which lasted a while.

But I haven't opened Photoshop in months except at work for work-related reasons. It's rather invigorating, to take a break from something that consummed a whole lot of your time and was like an addiction.

So, yeah, I've been reading a lot, much more in these past few months than I did all of last year when I spent an exaggerated amount of time on iconmaking. I've rediscovered the fun that it was to swap books in games and to participate in book-related forums.

And, since I've never been the most forthcoming of people on LJ, I haven't really thought about updating. Except I've recently felt the need to after finally watching Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who's fourth seasons. The need to squee left me wanting to express myself in the only place with people as fandom crazy as myself.

So I'm crawling back from the woodwork. I've been lurking a bit. Voting in icon contests of all things on occasion. I'm never going to be one of those who post daily or every two days, but I'm hoping not to go four months without a post again.

And I'm not sure whether I'm going to be opening Photoshop anytime soon. I guess the fascination faded. Maybe I'll try to find it again for some Season 4 DW icons one of these days. This show is seriously rocking this year. :)

Because other people say it better than I can, I'm copy paste-ing this from lecollage.



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Also, an interview with Anton Nosik, the director of the blog division of SUP corporations, translated from the Russian:

http://m03m.livejournal.com/35634.html

Or here, for some more contextualization and comments by other LJers:

http://darkrosetiger.livejournal.com/373663.html

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

One of my favorite Science-Fiction authors has died. The man who wrote the first SF novel I ever read and whose stories accompanied me as I grew up, in books, movies and even in computer games. This is a great loss to me and to every SF fan in the world and everyone who has ever grown up on 2001: a Space Odyssey.

It shouldn't have come so unexpectedly, these news. He had been sick for a long time and he wasn't at the prime of his life. But we tend to think of our idols as larger than life, as immortal, and it was a shock to wake up today to these news.

We will miss you...

*waves*

Hi! Still alive. Still around. Just immensely tired and busy and going to the gym almost everyday after work and having no inspiration (or time) to write about stuff or make icons. Which sucks because I have requests to get to but I haven't felt inspired in weeks.

Sorry also to the any post I may have missed commenting on and from ignoring my flist for the past weeks. I promise I'll be back soon.

Now, back to my bed. My bones hurt and I'm exhausted...

Once again I prove how much I love procrastinating because this is my first true icon post in, what, over a month? I am so bad at keeping up my resolution of posting every two weeks or so. Really, how many times have I said I'd do that and then didn't? I love making icons... I just don't like all the time I spend posting them. :p

Anyways, once again, due to my utter inability to post icons in a timely manner, there follows a combination of new and oldish icons and headers. Some I'm really proud of, including the 16 icons (plus variations) I made for a challenge at starttheclock. Others I'm hitching to open Photoshop and do something radical to them because they aren't looking all that great now that 3-4 months have passed since I made them.

Anyways, enough talk.

[001-045] Battlestar Galactica (18-39 made for the Big Challenge #50 at starttheclock)
[046-091] Actors/Actresses/Random Celebrities (including Adriana Lima, Scarlett Johansson, Liv Tyler, Billie Piper, Sarah Michelle Gellar, etc.)
[092-095] Twilight/Emily Browning
[096-116] Misc TV Shows and Movies (including the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Friday Night Lights, V for Vendetta, Dancer in the Dark, etc.)

[09] Headers (Actresses/Models)
[01] Wallpaper (Battlestar Galactica)

Teasers:


( So say we all... )

I just came back from my first excursion to a gym in a few years.

God, it was painful. I'm so horribly out of shape. I hurt everywhere! I don't know how I'm going to be able to walk tomorrow, my legs still tremble a bit even now.

*limps like an old lady to bed*

lotr_lims lotr_lims lotr_lims lotr_lims

Round 5 of the Lord of the Rings Last Icon Maker Standing Competition has started! The first challenge is up but you still have an opportunity to sign up and participate!

I haven't been feeling extremely motivated for iconmaking (reason why I've only been making a couple or so for a few select icontests and whatnot) but I've just noticed something extremely interesting in my profile.

I have over 100 people watching this journal, and that not counting the other 100 that are on my mutual friends list. Thank you so much to all of you for your interest! So this is that time in an iconmakers life ripe for...

REQUESTS!

Provide me at least three good quality images/caps and I'll make you 2-3 icons at your request (or more, depending on time and number of requests I get). The more images you give me, the better, so I can have more to work with (and to choose from).

No images, no icons. I'm sorry but I really don't have the time to go cap hunting. The exception to this is probably Firefly/Serenity since I have all the season and movie screencaps in my harddrive and I'm familiar with it enough to find caps easily for you.

You can request any fandom. I'd be more comfortable with those fandoms I know but as long as you provide the caps, I'm okay with anything. You can even ask for specific text, though I don't guarantee it'll look good. If you'd like a larger graphic, you can also request headers or wallpapers, but those may take a little longer. And for those I'd really need good quality images.

So, go ahead, request something. Pretty please? *bats eyelashes*

No limit for now but I will probably cut it off somewhere after 20-30 (if I even get that many). Or I may let it go on if I'm feeling generous. So request! And keep requesting!

ETA: Yes, you can save a spot if you can't get access to images at the moment.

REQUESTS: 23 out of 30

I finally got them, months and months after probably everyone else calling themselves Browncoats!!! But I have them in my hands now, at long last.

Bought from an online seller, much cheaper than their cover price, even with postage to Portugal, and they're BRAND NEW!!!! And they are SO pretty. The Firefly companions in particular are just beautiful inside.

They're just so shiny!

What the hell? WHAT!?

'Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment...'

Oh. My. God.

So, I'm having a bit of a problem with the local hometown post office and I need a place to rant and vent off about all the crap that has been happening with my mail lately.

Warning: It's LONG. You've been warned.

( Why my local PO is full of fail lately... )

Someone nominated me for Most Creative Iconmaker at besticonmaker. Can I say, WOW? And what were they on!? :p

So, I have a new cellphone, right? You remember me telling all about it a few posts behind. With a new cellphone comes new ringtones. And with this particular cellphone, new ringtones mean MP3 songs (for me at least, who has never had a cellphone that played anything but midi's).

But since I haven't given the new number to everyone else and haven't received all that many calls, the stupid was bound to happen.

Picture me, at work, listening to a ringtone of '100 Years' by Five for Fighting, and wondering who had a cellphone with that great tune. I even pointed it out to a coworker, telling them I loved that song.

The second time I heard it, I pointed it out again to my coworker (and a couple of others that arrived meanwhile). "I want to know who has that great ringtone", I was thinking.

Obviously, as you're guessing, I finally realized the ringtone was coming from a familiar bag... and my own cellphone...

*headdesk*

As my excuse, the ringtone volume was really low so it wasn't immediately apparent it came from under my desk where I keep my bag...

Yeah... err... right...

I have a new Layout!!!! Check it out: xeyra

I decided I needed a change with the new year and I went in a different direction than my previous color scheme, which was very blue. So this one is green. And my header is from Pushing Daisies, probably (no, certainly!) the best new show on Television right now, if not one of the best I have ever seen.

Layout by the awesome resplandor, header and other graphics by me.

Hope you like it!

PS: Sorry, frodolyn, I know you don't like green, so close your eyes when you visit my journal. :p

So, I took up the task proposed by phuck in the Phuck Up The Oldies Meme, to choose an old icon post and try to remake those icons. Since most of my icon posts are HUGE, I decided on my first ever icon post, which consisted of only 16 icons (though I didn't actually remake all 16 icons) and I could easily find these images.

Unfortunately for those of you who already got an 'iconful' of her in my latest icon post, that oldies entry was dedicated to River Tam, from Firefly, so bear with me. I had to make this entry so it could fit with the format of the meme.

There will be a big reveal after January 7 (the deadline) so keep an eye out for it at last5.

Phuck Up The Oldies Meme

Info & Rules | Old Icon Post

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( Phuck Up The Oldies: 9 River Tam Icons Remade )

I've seen this meme circulating through my flist and it looked like fun!

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4.Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post it in your own journal.

Hey people on my flist or who are simply watching this journal, can you all take a moment to go vote on the BIG CHALLENGE 50 at starttheclock, a Battlestar Galactica icontest?

All votes are appreciated since this challenge is almost like an Awards Show, with 16 Categories that go from Best Character to Best Best Music Themed Scene or Best Outfit. There's even real prizes!

You don't have to be a fan of this show or have watched it at all. You'd be voting for one icon per category you think is the best, regardless of personal preferences regarding characters or scenes and even regardless knowing what the heck this show is all about. Read the rules before voting.

WARNING: There are spoilers for all three seasons of the show so if you haven't seen it and plan to someday, or you're seeing it but haven't caught up to it, you might want to stay away, if you're bothered by spoilers.

So, please, go vote!

Here's wishing you all a...



May it bring you all what you wish and may it be better than the one that came before. :)