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I'm not even working tomorrow, it'll be great.

But in the meanwhile, last night I was like "Oh hey, I've got a whole bunch of labs to do. TIME TO MAKE SOME ICONS HERP DERP."

And so I feel I should post them so I have a sense of completion.

23 icons, all Homestuck because that's where the fanart comes easiest, mostly ancestors and Equius.

Preview:

 

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Also on a similar note, I don't suppose there's any Handmaid/Darkleer out there. I mean it does remove all the creepy dubconnish "I put a chip in your heart to make you love me" grossness from Equius/Aradia, and if the Handmaid still has any hope left of escaping her employer using Darkleer's psychic void seems like a natural idea.

Of course, she'd be found anyway and Darkleer would die horribly because that's kind of how the Ancestors' lives work, but wouldn't it be cool while it lasted?

...don't make me write it. I can't even explain to you how much crap I already have to catch up on.

1. Write a whole bunch of John/Karkat specifically to piss everyone off.

Hey, hey, fandom, come over here I have something really exciting to tell you. Are you listening? Are you ready for it because I think you aren't it might just blow your mind right out of your face.

Ready okay here it is:

There is no such thing as an inherently bad pairing. Or an inherently good one, for that matter. There is no intrinsic moral or utilitarian worth to be had in any pairing given that they're all just ideas/devices for us to have fun with a media source on the internet. You don't have to like any particular pairing, but your feelings about them do not make them good or bad.

Now shut up and sit down and stop throwing fits about it. Cripes.

2. Sign up for Yuletide. Last time I tried that I defaulted and I'm pathologically incapable of doing much of anything on a deadline so it's pretty well covered why it'd be a bad idea to sign up for Yuletide but it always seems like so much fun and I am a greedy bastard who likes getting presents. :(

Plus, last time I signed up the fandoms I volunteered for (and the one I ended up getting assigned) included the movie The Fall, which is so unceasingly flawless that when I tried to write for it I tied myself in knots trying to construct Meaningful Symbolic Magical Realist Blather that equalled the unbearable perfection that is The Fall and predictably enough didn't get anywhere.

If I was going to sign up this time, I would sign up for movies like Van Helsing and Priest, because yes, there's a category for the Priest movie. The thing is, much as I enjoyed them, both of those movies were complete bollocks that I went to see mainly because there were pretty people in them. I would feel much less pressure writing for them.

Although I suppose if I wrote for Priest the recipient might expect me to know things about the manhwa and I really don't, so...

Also the Gabriel Knight games are on there and if I had played the last one I would sign up just to write that, MORE GABRIEL KNIGHT LOVE YEAAAH.  

3. Make some icons out of the pile of fanart I've right-click-saved from Tumblr. Oh wait I already did that.

Six Homestuck (mostly Equius and Equius <> Nepeta), 5 Transformers Animated (Sari, human!Wasp, Blackarachnia), and one random humanized Pinkie Pie because I can. Oh, and one Tarman from Return of the Living Dead, because the picture was funny.

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Don't make fun of my amateur icon skills. :(

4. Join Tumblr, for that matter, given that about a third of LJ seems to have moved there. Where are you gu~ys?

But I'd feel weird being on Tumblr - there's no real way to post fic or blog on there, you just have to reblog from other blogs, and I can't figureout how one's supposed to hold a conversation of any kind. Also it seems to be primarily fanart focused and while I've been going to the open model sessions at our local arts center I'm still not good enough to have any kind of consistent offering.

5. Spend an hour on the computer making a post when I should be doing something productive like cleaning my room or getting ready for work.

OH WAIT.

 In lieu of working on fic (or, you know, being socially competent), I've been making icons for the past few weeks. 

25 mixed Doctor Who, mostly old-school companions with a few old-school Doctors and a couple of Nine and Rose. Lots of Jo and Polly, though. A few of them may be Three/Jo shippy, because I was feeling self-indulgent. 

Preview: 

( Also contains random song lyrics. )

...and sleep I should be getting. But I told 

rhia_starsongI'd do it. 

I was wickedly, wickedly tempted into finishing up The Dominators tonight with her and kayliemalinza, and amidst our Very Serious Discussion of the deep thematic language of the episode we managed to squee a lot about how often Two and Jamie touch each other.

In case you haven't seen it, The Dominators features The Doctor Telling Jamie That He Is Clever, The Doctor Being Distressed Because Jamie Might Be Dead, and The Doctor and Jamie Lying On Top of One Another In a Smiley Pile After a Particularly Turbulent Capsule Flight. Also, swooshy kilts. And adorable robots which are obviously the overly affectionate little sisters of the Daleks.

Clearly, Two/Jamie contact is absolutely crucial to the episode. I mean, the narrative structure of the entire serial just completely falls apart if the Doctor and Jamie do not have their hands on each other as often as possible.

 

So

rhia_starsong, arush with the wonder and joy that is Gay Marriage In Space, asked me to make an icon.

 

So I did.

I didn't use a Dominators cap because I couldn't find one I liked, and frankly I'm not sure if I'm entirely happy with how this came out. But I figured I'd post the first one up here so you, dearest, could tell me what changes you wanted made and/or if you wanted more.

rhia_starsong, so far your icon looks like this:



I thought they looked good in blue, anyway. Much more interesting than greyscale in this case.

Made in GIMP with caps by calapine.

So? You like it? Any changes I should make?

Yes I do.

So far, so good with the cut-down-on-internet thing. I actually studied for my Religion test, I got my reading and such done on time, and I've remembered to do almost every major task I had today.

Also, I managed to drag kayliemalinzainto Doctor Who. Merci, "Genesis of the Daleks". 

So, um. After Genesis, I was inspired to do some iconing, particularly of the Four and Harry variety. (it's surprisingly hard to find good Sarah Jane caps for that serial. There are a few good shots of her, but none from the segment I was looking for.) To facilitate my iconing, I finally relented and downloaded GIMP, and am finally starting to learn how to work it.

Of course, I could hardly stop after the Who icons, so I turned my shiny new computer toy to my stockpile of Miami images. 

Behind the cut are: 

8 Doctor Who icons (Mostly Fourth Doctor and Harry, mostly variations, plus an edited version of my earlier Delgado!Master icon because he's cool.)
15 CSI: Miami icons, (Horatio, Yelina (some H/Y), Alexx, Calleigh, one Eric and Ryan, mostly variations)


Textures from pinkmelons, bassviol, and 77words.

More to come, so soon as I clear up a little space on my poor, overloaded hard drive.

I figured out how to make icons.

And I just wasted THREE HOURS doing just that.

Why didn't anybody tell me macros were a gateway drug graphic? Why?

After my first few attempts at iconizing were a success, I decided, in celebration of the new Liz Shaw community 

legsofscience (which wins my vote for Best Community Name in the History of Ever), to direct my icon-making efforts towards Miss Shaw. So...underneath the cut are ten Liz icons, including variations and some Liz & Three, one Evil!Brig icon and variations (that took a million zillion years to get right), a One, a Delgado!Master, a Seven, and a Five/Turlough. Note that these were done solely with Microsoft Photo Editor and Open Canvas. They're pretty plain, and have no fancy textures/backgrounds/etc, because I don't know quite how to use those yet. All image edits, such as the text in the Brig icons, were done by hand.

The real fun's gonna happen when I cut loose on my CSI: Miami picture archive, and start color-filtering and gamma-tweaking with wild abandon on Miami's already ridiculously saturated color pallate.

Take what you want, but please credit if you do.

 ETA: Four more - three Three/Liz and one Three & Brig (mostly the same type of icon). Because I'm addicted.

Enjoy!

Maybe now I should do some actual work.