& icons by januaried

48 icons & happy new year

januaried — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 05:32:11 GMT

jfc most of these have been lying around since August. HERE HAVE SOME ICONS.

[002] Merlin (BBC)
[003] 24
[017] Batman: The Chalice
[012] Red vs. Blue
[014] Superman (Reeveverse)

≫ Merlin (BBC)

≫ 24

≫ Batman: The Chalice

001-005.
006-010.
011-015.
016-017.

≫ Red vs. Blue

001-005.
006-010.
011-012.

≫ Superman (Reeveverse)

001-005.
006-010.
011-014.

Credit januaried in the icon comments. Please do not hotlink. If you want text on one of these, or taken off one of the text icons, just ask and I'll be happy to provide.

[FIC] Foregrounded (Lois/Clark, PG-13, 3025 words)

januaried — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 07:17:01 GMT

Title: Foregrounded
Author: januaried
Rating: PG-13
Words: 3025
Pairing: Lois/Clark
Genre: Humor, fluff, AU
Summary: A short story in which Lois and Clark are both secretly tremendous dorks with adorable crushes and everything is tiny fuzzy kittens and rainbows. A fix-it fic for STM.
Notes: Originally started in January of 2008, this was supposed to be a birthday fic last year but it didn’t want to happen. Finally, here it is this year: pure AU fluff. Happy (slightly belated) birthday to my bestie, kalalanekent, and happy holidays to all! <3

I think I may have screwed up the STM timeline in part V. Oops...

This probably also could have benefited from a little more editing, but then it would have taken me another year to post. So here it is. Anyone with awesome fic of their own that I should read should link it in the comments, because as usual I fail at keeping up with people.

I.

"Lois?" he called in his real voice, interrupting the stream of words in the other room. "Lois, I have something to tell you."

There was a moment of silence from the other room. Unable to resist a grin, Clark watched through the wall as Lois paused with hands in her hair, a baffled look on her face.

"Hold your horses, will you, I have to finish fixing my hair!" she said at last, shaking her head at herself in the mirror.

"Oh, I don't think it needs fixing, it doesn't look windblown at all," Clark said blithely.

That gave Lois pause. She ran her hands through her hair one last time, got up, and strode through the apartment, slowing as she neared him and eyeing his silly grin with suspicion.

"What are you talking about?" she demanded.

The silly grin became somewhat nervous; butterflies were dancing in his gut. Slowly he straightened out of his hunch and took off his glasses, looking directly into Lois's eyes. "I misled you earlier," he said quietly. "My name is Kal-el, but I was raised on this earth as Clark Kent."

Lois's jaw dropped.

"So, um - would you still like to go out to dinner with me?"

II.

There was a steaming cup of coffee on her desk.

Lois contemplated it for a moment, then noticed Clark, with a clever little smile, sitting opposite it on his side of their desk, pen perched precariously behind his ear. Her heart leapt - he smirked a little, he must have heard that - and everything she was holding - coat, purse, pen and notepad, tape recorder, hat - tumbled out of her arms. She cursed and reached for the mess, hoping the coffee hadn't ruined her notes and stained her coat, but Clark was holding the mug up intact, still smiling.

Inexplicably, it made her blush.

"My hero," she sighed when she had found her composure again, unable to keep a stupid grin off her face. It was different in the light of day, at work - he was Kal-el, sitting right across from her this morning just as he had done for the past several weeks, though he had had to be a wallflower and still did.

(“So how does this work, you being Clark?”

He’d smiled, lopsided, self-consciously Clarkish. “I’m sure you behave differently with your parents than with your sources. It’s the same principle. I exaggerate some parts of myself, and tone down other parts, depending on what I’m doing.”

“So you really are that clumsy?” she’d dared to ask, grinning. He’d laughed whole-heartedly and admitted, “You’ve got me, Lois.”)

Nevertheless, she had had an interview and a date with him, a spectacular date, and she couldn't stop beaming at the whole world.

"Lane!" the Chief barked in her ear, spoiling the moment. She jumped and let out an involuntary stream of curses, which made Clark wince and redden, and turned around to face White.

"What!" Lois bellowed back in his face, just to aggravate him.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" he asked a little more quietly.

"What the hell are you talking about?" she parroted.

"The article you sent me - it's the biggest interview since Moses talked to God, fer Chrissakes! Where's your victory dance? Where's your fire? Instead of giving your editor-in-chief a follow-up, you're sitting here making googly eyes at - uh - " Perry tapped his fingers on the desk, evidently hard pressed to remember Clark's name.

"Clark, sir," Kal-el supplied, stuttering just a little.

(“Do you have a name?” she’d asked, wide-eyed.

"What, like Ralph or Joe or something?" he’d answered, seeming utterly bemused.)

Lois couldn't stop a giggle from escaping; she slapped a hand over her mouth. Perry stared at her.

"Are you drunk? It's seven AM, you boozehound!"

"I'm not drunk, I just didn't get much sleep," she said solemnly - and truthfully - muffled by the hand still over her mouth.

"Oh, maybe you should go home and rest, Lois," Clark began with a worried frown. It was, technically, his fault she was up late, although Lois would gladly have sacrificed a week's worth of sleep just for that interview, let alone the date that followed.

She glared at him, but couldn't stop her mouth from twitching up as he mouthed behind White's back, "Sorry."

The Chief threw up his hands and, muttering, "Who can I call to find out if that alien did something to her brain?" and stomped off toward the back, calling over his shoulder, "Kent, I want to see you in my office!"

Lois looked at Clark. His face was perfectly solemn, but he brought one hand up to his temple and wiggled his fingers at her. Lois burst out laughing as Clark got up and the Chief slammed his office door.

III.

For lunch they met at the little sandwich place a few blocks away. Lois paid for their sandwiches and coffee (Clark protested to no avail) and they sat down in the corner. The table was kind of grimy and there were some coffee grounds stuck to Clark's knife, but he was too absorbed in happiness to care. After decades of making himself into a wallflower, he was shifting into the foreground; the world knew him now, and they loved him.

It was a very large change to adjust to. Kal-el was under no illusions about the xenophobia and the fear that he would have to face. But he was prepared to earn the world's trust; people would soon be connecting the dots between the nameless, otherworldly shadow who had been saving lives for years, and the colorful alien named Kal-el. After thirty years of silence, he had finally started speaking and he wanted to keep going full speed ahead.

Best of all, he didn't have to hide from this sharp, beautiful firecracker of a woman that he had fallen for. It was enough to make him float.

(“When Perry hired me, I was walking on air,” she’d confided. “I’d been the mail room girl for a long time. Kind of like Jimmy, really. Kid’s got the potential for an investigative photojournalist; he just has to grow up a bit first. --Nothing can prepare you for gangsters and kidnappings and falling off buildings, though.”

“I had no idea you worked in the mail room! I know I’ve only been at the Planet for a few weeks, but the bullpen just wouldn’t be the bullpen without you.”

“I’m indispensable,” she’d agreed with a grin.)

Through a mouthful of a Philly cheese steak Lois leaned over the table and said, "Okay, Clark, here's the deal. My name comes first, but we'll split the byline. Got it?"

"Um - what are we writing, Lois?"

He had to hang on to the edge of his chair to keep from rising too far as Lois laughed, then remembered who he was and turned a little pink.

"A follow-up, of course! What else? There's so much more that I - I mean, the public, wants to know. I need to observe Superman in action." Fiddling with a long strand of her hair, she gave Clark a soft look.

"Of course," Clark repeated, smiling wryly at himself. “Thanks, Lois, but the headline’s all yours. I don’t want to get too close to the story.”

“Oh,” Lois said blankly. Then: “Oh! Yeah, you don’t want to--” she gestured wildly with her sandwich, unaware that it was dripping on the table. “Okay. Got it.”

They weren't exactly surrounded by spies and hidden microphones. There were three construction workers eating near the window and a man absorbed in a novel a few tables away; the lone employee on duty wasn't paying any attention to them. Still, Lois tried to sneak a glance around the café, eyes narrowed in newly-born suspicion. Clark observed this with adoration swelling in his heart.

“I’d be glad to help with the writing, though,” he continued, then paused and rethought that statement. “Not that your writing needs help. It’s pretty darn amazing as-is. Except for the spelling. I mean really, Lois, how can you not know that ‘murder’ has two ‘r’s, not three? That is, well--um, I think I’d better quit while I’m ahead.”

He fidgeted a little under the hawk-like stare she turned on him until she gave up and laughed. “You’d better, mister. Not all of us can be as perfect as you.”

(Her eyes, dark and awed and shining in the pure moonlight.)

“Lois,” he murmured.

She blushed again, but thumped the table with the flat of her palm and said, “Come on, let’s finish up so we can get started. You’ve barely eaten anything, come on, let’s go.” She continued through an oversized bite of her sandwich: “You took advantage of me last night, but you’re not going to get away without giving me some real answers this time!”

Kal-el couldn't help the hint of a smirk curling his lips at Lois’s unintentional innuendo. Turning the smirk into a Clarkish smile, naive and oblivious, he said blithely, “You’re welcome to take advantage of me tonight, Lois." He took a large bite of his lunch and looked at her with innocent eyes.

Lois did a visible double take, narrowing her eyes at him above the remains of her sandwich. "You're doing that on purpose," she accused him. "I knew you couldn't possibly be as innocent as you looked, all those times you squeezed past me in the aisles."

"You started the game the day we met, remember?" He grinned. "I'm just playing by your rules."

"Oh Jesus," she grumbled. "Perry and his goddamn soda pop."

"Now Lois, you know that was entirely your fault, you can't go shaking a bottle of the stuff and expect it not to explode."

Lois raised her eyebrows. "You're the one who opened it, Clark. Why, if I didn't know better, I'd think you'd wanted my hand there."

("Well, then, what color is my underwear?")

Surprised at his own daring, he murmured, "Maybe I do."

"But Clark, we're in public!" she exclaimed, the very image of a scandalized lady. She leaned in and whispered, "Who knew Superman was so kinky?"

Clark gave in and whooped with laughter. The man in the corner started up from his novel and one of the construction workers smirked knowingly at them. "All right, all right," Clark chuckled when he had calmed down, "you win this round."

He finished off his ham on rye and gathered up the trash, beaming. "Let's go have another interview. Say, how would you like to go to my place?"

IV.

"Your dad's an asshole," Lois informed him.

"Lois!"

"Well, he is. Telling you you have to be celibate for the rest of your life so you can focus on your job, not to mention disapproving of you interacting with us lowly humans at all? I mean really, Clark, does he want you to go stark raving mad?"

Kal-el shrugged helplessly. "They knew this planet had life when they sent me off, but they didn't know anything about human society - how could they? I think he's in culture shock."

V.

A kiss ghosted over her lips, soft as a breath. Lois thought for a moment she had imagined it, then realized she hadn't and grinned. "Come back here!" she demanded. "I know you can do better than that!"

In the next instant he was slouching in the passenger seat as if he, Clark Kent, had always been there, cheap suit rumpled and the edge of his collar folded back. She reached over and fixed it, her fingers brushing his neck.

"Stalker."

"I was in the area," he protested.

("It's true, I really haven't tested how fast I can fly, but I have flown around the world in less than eighty days. A very small fraction of that, in fact."

"Enough with the literary jokes," she'd groaned, to cover up just how impressed she really was. "You are such a nerd.")

"Sure. At least you're here; I was bored to the point of tearing my hair out. I don't know what idiot chose this route but this thing is never going to get across this goddamn bridge." Lois gestured ahead of them, where through the windshield she had been watching an argument over the Navy vehicle and the 18-wheeler facing it. "My interview got put off until tomorrow so I went looking for trouble and what do I find? A traffic jam. Typical." She thumped the steering wheel for emphasis.

Clark observed, "There's someone sneaking into the truck with the missiles."

"What?" She squinted at the scene, trying to see what his keen eyes had spotted. "You're sure he isn't supposed to be there?"

But he was already getting out of the car. Lois grabbed her notebook and tape recorder before hurrying to catch up.

She found him Clarking at the lieutenant: "--interrupt, sir, but I s-saw someone climbing into the back of your vehicle with the, uh, the missile on it."

"It was probably one of my men checking the security," the lieutenant snapped.

"I'm sure it was," interrupted one of the drivers he had been arguing with, tipping his cowboy hat, "and if we can just get back to the problem at hand--"

That voice sounded familiar. Lois inched closer, readying the tape recorder, while Clark insisted, "But it wasn't, it was a woman in a red dress!"

At that point all hell broke loose.

A number of ensigns dashed toward their hulking vehicle, shouting to their comrades inside it. The lieutenant turned toward them and the first trucker, sensing that he was losing his audience, objected, "Excuse me! Excuse me--" The other one, in a plaid shirt that was nearly as loud as his voice, began talking over his partner and waving his arms in excitement. Clark stiffened, clearly looking for an excuse to leave so he could change clothes and come back as Kal-el. And Lois recognized the first trucker.

"Lex Luthor!" she shouted in triumph.

(“--thought when I exposed a Metropolis mob boss a few years back that it was the highlight of my career, but then you came along--”)

"What? I mean--"

His face was ugly in frustration. Lois grabbed him by the arm before he could make a run for it. "I knew it! I'd recognize that mug shot anywhere."

"How lovely to see you again, Miss Lane," Luthor sneered, trying to jerk his arm away from her grip. "Passing through? Or just trying to impress Daddy before he finally kicks the bucket?"

(“I read that when it came out, I was very impressed.” He’d smiled, soft and lovely.

She’d waved it away. “It was nothing, I had some help along the way.”)

A chill swept down her neck. She demanded, “Is that a threat?”

“Here now, you let him go!” blustered the second trucker, yanking ineffectually on Luthor’s other arm.

“Stop it!” Luthor howled at him. Then to Lois, “Yes, it’s a threat! How stupid are you?”

(Nothing can come through him, she’d realized in amazement, not even bullets. If she were assaulted in the street, she’d be safe. Even if Luthor came looking for revenge, she’d be safe. For someone who regularly leapt into danger’s way, it felt rather good.

Not to mention no more falling off buildings, thank God.)

“All right, all right, enough,” the lieutenant shouted. “What’s going on here?”

“I’ll tell you what’s going on, we were tryin’ to stop the bridge so’s--I mean, we were tryin’ to get across the bridge--Uh-oh.”

The second trucker gave up on Luthor’s arm and tried to creep away as the ensigns returned, frog-marching a curvy blonde in a fire-engine red dress who was protesting, “Lemme go! I didn’t do it!”

He bumped into Clark’s massive form and froze as the lieutenant shouted, “You! Stay here!”

Lois caught his eye and jabbed a finger at Luthor for emphasis. “This guy’s supposed to be in jail,” she snarled. “He was behind the so-called Mercy killings and the Metropolis slum protection racket, and I’ll bet you a year’s worth of my salary he’s got that bimbo doing his dirty work for him. And this yahoo, whoever he is.” She nodded to the second trucker, held fast in Clark’s grip.

“Who’re you calling a bimbo?” the woman shrieked.

The lieutenant was turning red with frustration. “All of you, stop talking!”

“She changed the coordinates, sir,” one of the ensigns reported.

Naturally, the lieutenant arrested all of them.

VI.

It took a long moment for the sound of a throat being cleared to filter through to awareness.

Reluctantly Kal-el unwound himself from his soft, warm armful of Lois. It took a tremendous effort to leave the sweetness of her sharp mouth meeting his own. But he closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm down, knowing with a wry sense of certainty that in the meantime Lois was scowling fiercely at their visitor.

When he opened his eyes, Lois had mostly put herself back together and the lieutenant was still standing outside their cell, arms crossed. Trying not to stare at the disheveled Lois, Kal-el saw with a jolt of possessiveness. But he put on a sheepish smile, adjusted his shirt, and offered, “Sorry.”

“Your story checks out,” the lieutenant said gruffly. “You’ll have to give the police your statements, then you’re free to go.”

“What did I tell you?” Lois yelped. She continued to harangue the poor man about wrongful imprisonment while he unlocked the barred door and let them out, probably more for catharsis than out of real annoyance, Kal-el thought with amusement.

When they finally set foot outside in the warm night air after giving their statements, Lois said thoughtfully, "Nobody would ever believe it if I told them all this ended with Superman and me fooling around in the slammer. Then again, I didn't get my reputation in Metropolis City Jail as a crazed hot-head for nothing."

She winked at Clark and skipped on ahead to the car, leaving him still laughing under a beautiful starry sky.

-----

Headcanon: the Metropolis police force and/or the people who frequent the jail cells call Lois the "Jailhound Journalist." She's been known to assault police officers in order to get arrested so she can interview prisoners and/or get information from gang members.

Clark, of course, is the one who brings them homemade Kansan cookies to bribe them to let her out.

Icontests from fall of 2013

januaried — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 03:12:31 GMT

[20] Harry Potter for wizard_icontest
[09] stock for basic_icontest
[05] stock for total_icontest
[11] Supernatural for total_icontest

≫ Harry Potter

wizard_icontest icons

#367 ≫ 01-03.
#368 ≫ 04-08.
#369 ≫ 09-13.
#371 ≫ 14-20.

01 won 1st Place in challenge #367 [capture]
03 won Mod's Choice in challenge #367 [capture]
04 won 1st Place in challenge #368 [capture]
10 won 2nd Place in challenge #369 [capture]
12 tied for 3rd Place in challenge #369 [capture]
13 won 1st Place in challenge #369 [theme] and Runner Up for Icon of the Month [August 2013]
20 tied for 3rd Place in challenge #371 [theme]

≫ Stock

basic_icontest icons

#193 ≫ 01-03.
#197 ≫ 04-06.
#201 ≫ 07-09.

02 won 4th Place and Best Texture in challenge #193
03 won 3rd Place in challenge #193
04 won 1st Place in challenge #197
07 won 1st Place in challenge #201
08 won 2nd Place in challenge #201

total_icontest icons

#248 ≫ 01-05.

04 won 1st Place in challenge #248

≫ Supernatural

total_icontest icons

#249 ≫ 06-11.
#251 ≫ 12-16.

03 won 1st Place in challenge #249
16 won 1st place in challenge #251
12 won 2nd place in challenge #251
14 won 3rd place in challenge #251

Comments and credit are lovely but not really necessary. Enjoy!

20 icons - Superman (Reeveverse)

januaried — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:01:39 GMT

Yet more icons today! Whee!

[ 20 ] Superman (Reeveverse) icons for comics_20in20 round 9

10 THEMES

Dark side	Dreams	Eyes	Favorite fan art*	Fear


Orange	Rotate	Smile	Soft	Touch

5 CATEGORY - Summer colors

№1	№2	№3	№4	№5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

№1	№2	№3	№4	№5

* Lunky Beefhead by Ming Doyle.

Alternates:

7 icons - Margot Kidder

januaried — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:21:28 GMT

Here is my very first entry for the7days! This is an icontest in which you make sets of 7. The current challenge, #50, is to do one of the previous challenges. I chose #38, "1 Actor, 7 Roles." My post in the comm is here.

featuring
Margot Kidder
in the following:

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970)

Sisters (1973)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
Waldo Pepper (1975)
Superman II (1980)
Miss Right (1982)

Keeping Track (1985)

186 icons [Lawrence of Arabia, Six-String Samurai, Supernatural, Star Wars]

januaried — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:50:55 GMT

Holy bejeezus how did I end up with this many icons. I was not expecting such a huge freaking post. But the Star Wars Omnibus art was so easy to just clean up and adjust, making simple icons, that I couldn't help myself and ended up with a gazillion.

And I'm a huge nerd, but arranging everything by color was the fun part. :D

[022] Lawrence of Arabia
[017] Six-String Samurai
[020] Supernatural
[002] art from William Shakespeare's Star Wars
[124] art from Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago... vol. 3

≫ Lawrence of Arabia

001-005.
006-010.
011-015.
016-020.
021-022.

≫ Six String Samurai

023-027.
028-032.
033-037.
038-039.

≫ Supernatural

040-044.
045-049.
050-055.
056-060.

≫ Star Wars

061-062.
063-067.
068-072.
073-077.
078-082.
083-087.
088-092.
093-097.
098-102.
103-107.
108-112.
113-117.
118-122.
123-127.
128-132.
133-137.
138-142.
143-147.
148-152.
153-157.
158-162.
163-167.
168-172.
173-177.
178-182.
183-186.

Comments and credit are loved!

GRAPHICS.

januaried — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:18:56 GMT

ICONS AT LAST. This is a special Superman-themed post because I know various people on my flist have been wanting icons--other fandoms later. Yay!

[18] Man of Steel icons
[03] Superman Returns icons
[16] Reeveverse Superman icons

01--05.
06--10.
11--14.
15--18.

19--21.

22--26.
27--31.
32--36.
37--37.

Updated resources post

januaried — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:10:16 GMT

Icon textures:
a_symmetria • acupofgraphics • aintafairytale • bourbonate • chaoticfae • colormetwice • daintydeers • discolore • dreamseas • emonet • krimson • horizonroad • il-aranza-il • infinite_drag • innocent_lexys • iwillnotdance • jenniferkoliver • kagychan • lemonpunch • lookslikerain • mellowmint • midnightroad • emonet25 • ransie3 • resourgem • ohfreckle • sinking_theship • so-ghislaine • spud66cat • sweetxpie • talipuu • trapne • twinstrikeish • vanessax16 • violateraindrop • lepiehole • x-cielogris • yunyunsarang

Large textures:
9_liters_of_art • accio_glow • barcelona • bmltextures • butterphil • cassanovak • carolkayla • denoctem • eamsie • hibbary • horizonroad • iheart_sj • innocent_lexys • maeappleseed • masterjinn • mellowmint • midnight_road • emonet25 • mmorrow • newmeen • northerndawn • nyvelvet • oumbojae • planets-bend-between-us • plldailly • randbgraphics • seunghor • tanja92 • timelights • trapne • vikyvampirs90 • whiteowlresources

Screencaps:
Fandom Forever • oxoniensis • Home of the Nutty • Screencapped • Desiring Jensen • januaried • megacaps • dj_capslock • nympho_newsie

Texture post!

januaried — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 05:19:47 GMT

DOWNLOAD .ZIP HERE

Screencaps! And trailer DL link!

januaried — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:19:01 GMT

Soooo the new Man of Steel trailer. I can't say I like Henry and Amy, at all, but the rest of it is visually and musically stunning and I'm interested in seeing it. Although probably not in theaters. Anyway, I have here the trailer download link, for those of you who are interested, and also screencaps!

Man of Steel trailer #2 in 1080p HD - .mp4 format, 54 MB blocked, but I added below how to download it from Youtube
Man of Steel trailer #2 in 1080p HD - 179 .png format screencaps, 74 MB

Enjoy!

PSA: I've been using Freemake Video Downloader to get stuff off Youtube, but -- possibly because of the new Youtube -- it doesn't work much anymore. So Now I'm using file2hd.com, which seems to work just fine and did great for this particular file.

27 icons - Reeveverse and requests

januaried — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:01:56 GMT

ICONS.

FINALLY ICONS.

Yeah, this is what I do when it's the end of the term and I'm desperate for more fandom to procrastinate with. :D

The great majority of these, I made today while kalalanekent watched via Livestream. It was pretty simple to set up and we both got a big kick out of it. So someday, maybe when I'm done with this term, I'll do another one and you guys can all come and watch and make requests? Would anyone be interested in that? (Besides you, KLK, I already know your answer. :P)

You know what, there aren't even enough of these to put under a cut. So here they are. Enjoy!

01 - 05.
06 - 10.
11 - 15.
16 - 20.
21 - 25.
26 - 27.

Time flies when you're away from LJ for this long

januaried — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:00:15 GMT

My god, has it really been an entire year since I've posted here? I can't believe it...

So, reasons for my absence:

Grad school, year 2 of 3. It's been a long trip.
My fiance and I broke up in December 2011. At this point I'm just about recovered, but needless to say that was an extremely difficult and painful process.
Avengers fandom, because I have so, so many Loki feels.

I have no idea what's happened with all you on my flist in the meantime. Comment and tell me, please? And someone let me know what happened to sith_romantic? :(

kalalanekent and I rewatched STM on Wednesday, which is helping me get back into the swing of things. I want to start making Reeveverse icons again, maybe redoing some old classics. And I'm revisiting old, never-published fic from 2007 and 2008 - now that's a blast from the past! Some of it will get published here. At some point. You know me, I'm a glacial-pace writer. Anyway, I'm excited to be here again!

20 icons - Game of Thrones

januaried — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:50:40 GMT

Here are my round 4 icons for got20in20!

I am so behind on commenting and looking at people's posts, it's not even funny. School started very recently for me - I'm now a second year grad student *unenthusiastic woo* - and it's been a frantic race to get these done along with all the reading. Well, maybe not frantic - that will come later - but still somewhat overwhelming. I don't know if I'll be able to do starwars20in20 - god only knows what I was thinking when I signed up. Anyway, sorry if I haven't replied to your comments or commented on your posts, everyone. I'll get there eventually.

10 Themes

Summer Child	Dolorous Edd	The Builder	Broken Things	Golden Crown

Oh My R'hollor	Sworn Sword	Family	Duty	Honor

Category - The Rains of Castamere

cat.1	cat.2	cat.3	cat.4	cat.5

Artist's Choice

ac.1	ac.2	ac.3	ac.4	ac.5

Happy birthday to Tatiana!

januaried — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:29:57 GMT

sith_romantic, you brighten my day every time we talk! You're a fantastic mod, a generous friend, and an amazing icon maker. Here's a little birthday present, in appreciation of all you do. ♥

I hope you're having a fantastic day today! :D

Screencaps: The Chronicles of Narnia #2 and #3

januaried — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:45:30 GMT

I was looking for caps of these and couldn't find any high quality ones, so I made my own. Enjoy!

Movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Capping program: KMPlayer
Number of files: 4096 JPGs
Resolution of files: 1280x528 pixels
Size of zip files: 180 Mb each
Download link: one two
Samples:

Movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Capping program: KMPlayer
Number of files: 3490 JPGs
Resolution of files: 1920x1080 pixels
Size of zip files: 200 Mb each
Download link: one two three
Samples:

25 icons for Iconfest #5

januaried — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:12:56 GMT

YAY! I'm back to my paid account (with many thanks to the lovely and generous sith_romantic)! I spent most of this afternoon changing my layout; now it's time to upload some userpics. I apologize to your inboxes in advance. :D

And here are the icons I made for ic0nfest Round 5. Nothing too exciting this time, just stock:

01 - 04. Stock: flowers (pics supplied)
05 - 07. Stock: sewing (pics supplied)
08 - 15. Stock: Holga camera (pics supplied)
16 - 18. Stock: guns & bullets (pics supplied)
19 - 21. Stock: socks (pics supplied)
22 - 25. Stock: various (pics supplied)

01 — 05
06 — 10
11 — 15
16 — 20
21 — 25

Time for my annual texture post...

januaried — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:45:13 GMT

So um. I got inspired by some awesome typography sites to start making textures again, then the Dear Maker meme below inspired me to finish the pack and post it. I also discovered that I apparently only make one texture pack per year. *snorfle*

These typography textures are actually the first pack of at least two, so here's to posting more textures more often! :D

Download links:
.RAR | .ZIP

Please comment and credit if you use!

Dear maker,...thread || My thread

icons: Game of Thrones

januaried — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:47:42 GMT

These are my icons for got20in20 Round 3. The round is over, so I'll post what I won (which I'm still in shock over) here:

#6 won Best Internet Slang
#10 won Best Lost
#11-15 won Third Place in Best Category
#15 won Second Place in Best Category Icon
#16 won First Place in Best Artist's Choice Icon

!!! :D

10 Themes

Neg Space	Complex	Prov Texture	Iron Throne	Beginning/Ending

Internet Slang	Outside	Three	Soft	Lost

5 Category - The Chain

cat.1	cat.2	cat.3	cat.4	cat.5

5 Artist's Choice

ac.1	ac.2	ac.3	ac.4	ac.5

And here's some of the icons from Round 2 which I didn't get to post:

icon batch #004

januaried — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:05:57 GMT

Oh man. I was going to post some Smallville and Superman icons with these, but this post is huge enough already, probably the biggest non-challenge icon post I've ever done. *boggles*

Also, I did some more icons for Star Wars 365, and signed up for got20in20 round 3. Here's hoping some of the icons from the previous round (which I'm still pissed off about not getting to complete) work for this round.

[ 04 ] Captain America
[ 15 ] The Hunger Games
[ 15 ] Doctor Horrible
[ 35 ] Tangled
[ 33 ] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (both parts)

01 — 05

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About that reboot picture...

januaried — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:32:15 GMT

...I lightened it up a little and increased the saturation, and here's what it looks like:

The cape is definitely bright like we like it, but it looks like the blue bodysuit is a lot darker, as well as the yellow in the shield and belt. I can live with that.

I'm fairly confident he's got the red ~~over~~underpants on as well, but I can't tell what they look like from this; making the pic lighter only makes it pixellated, not clearer.

Overall, I feel like this is Batman in a Superman suit. It's dark and gritty and industrial. Do not want.

And is it just me, or does he have a giant forehead and poofy hair? Either one would be bad, but together he just looks ridiculous, or like he's actually bald and is wearing a wig. Definitely do not want.

At least he looks pretty good with the S-curl.

Black Swan picspam!

januaried — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:20:27 GMT

Happy birthday to my dearest anissa7118! I know RL has dumped a huge load of crap on you all at once, so here's hoping this will inspire you and put a smile on your face (and in your pants *waggles eyebrows*). Here's to you and all your epic awesomeness! ILU! *tackleglomps*

And a bonus image, because my muse wasn't cooperating for a while:

♥

Star Wars 365 icons

januaried — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:38:21 GMT

I'm getting back into challenge communities this summer, apparently...

Challenge: starwars_365
Claim: Anakin and Luke Skywalker
Due Date: June 30, 2012
Progress: 30/100

1. Villain	2. One color	3. Peaceful	4. Object	5. Awesome

6. Negative space	7. Bright	8. +1	9. Dark side	10. Animal

11. Fake background	12. Profile	13. Blue	14. Red	15. Extreme neg space

16. Corner	17. Silhouette	18. Dreamy	19. Senator	20. Angel

21. Demon	22. OOC	23. AU (source)	24. +2	25. Elements

26. Desert	27. Night	28. Forest	29. TV Tropes	30. Yellow

31	32	33	34	35

36	37	38	39	40

41	42	43	44	45

46	47	48	49	50

51	52	53	54	55

56	57	58	59	60

61	62	63	64	65

66	67	68	69	70

71	72	73	74	75

76	77	78	79	80

81	82	83	84	85

86	87	88	89	90

91	92	93	94	95

96	97	98	99	100

62 icons - multifandom

januaried — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:52:09 GMT

Sorry I haven't been commenting much lately; I've been dealing with various things and have only really had the inspiration to make icons instead of participating.

At any rate, this is kind of a weird post - mostly it's to fulfill some requests. There's also some Suicide Girls icons (because the red hair/black hair works for Lois/Lana and I am an evil, evil shipper, MUAHAHAHA...but seriously, these are about a year old, they just got lost in the multitude of folders on my hard drive) and Rage Comics icons (because I haven't seen anyone using ragey icons around LJ and it's a damn shame because the drawings are hilarious and really, really expressive of various emotions). So, weird post gets all the weird icons out of the way, and the good stuff (Game of Thrones, Smallville, Reeveverse, Returnsverse, etc.) will come in the next post.

[ 12 ] Requests from saavikam77 and kalalanekent
[ 10 ] Suicide Girls (just slightly NSFW)
[ 40 ] Rage Comics

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Screencaps: Return to Krypton deleted scene

januaried — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:18:24 GMT

Scene: Return to Krypton from Superman Returns
Capping program: KMPlayer
Number of files: 673 JPGs
Resolution of files: 1920x1080 pixels
Size of zip file: 49 Mb
Download link: Click here for the file
Sample:

Many thanks to repmetsyrrah for finding the HD version of this scene, which Bryan Singer finally shared with us fans! There ought to be enough caps here for making animations if anyone wants to, and if there aren't, let me know and I'll make some. Otherwise, enjoy! :D

Resources post, version 2

januaried — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:07:28 GMT

Time for an updated resources post, since I'm making icons again! (Finally, I know.) These are most of the places I've downloaded textures from; I use some more than others but they're all here just in case. Except for the deleted usernames, which I just left out.

Big textures:
-redux
dearest
emmahyphenjane
ewanism
krimson
slayground

Icon textures:
_bitter_endings
77words
aquatilitis
babliz
bambinainnero
bite_my_muse
bloomyicons
bluerose30
cdg
chippugp
cielo_gris
coloured_skies
creamyplot
crimsonxicons
crownlet
ddg_textures
discolore
dolceeh_dreamsz
droppingtear
dustypaper
endelyn
eveningwalk
expose42
flamelove
gfx_sweets
gfxgurl
goodbye_anymore
graphic_sl
heartfullcry
hgx
iconictea
iconite
iconmation
innocent_lexys
irati86
italian_jewels
jordansavas
juanxyo
kaelcreations
keoni_chan
krizzzie
kuribati
la_inspiracion
sir
lemonpunch
lifeisdolce
light_ofmy_life
light_meetsdark
lore_85
lovelamp
luckylois
luminancy
memora_obscura
mentahelada
nique1024
november_again
ohfreckle
ohh_hush
ohmahgasp_icons
ohriot
oxoniensis
peak77
perquisites
piemin
pildas
psychedelic_flu
querita
re_cycled
realmofsilence
recap
retrovicious
sarisafari @ foretmagique
seeingbeauty
seemyhands
seewrong
selinna
serenart
serene_infinity
shadedcolor
shalowater
shark_bitten
sith_romantic
skyglass
soaked
sunnymystery
seeingbeauty
stagesix
stolenlights
stylishlife
talipuu
terempaty
thatgoldenrule
the_preamble
tiger_tutorials
tralala_icons
trapne
twinstrikeish
uncreativ
unpresented
urbanstrokes
valensmalice
vienna_blood
vividtruth
vol4itca
winterlillies
wunderkind_lucy
xloliconsx
yunhe
zlata_alex