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Moving to DW

2022-03-11T20:23:46Z

I guess it's time to start moving to DW for good.
My new journal: https://neonspider.dreamwidth.org/
My graphics will be at: https://neonspiderwebs.dreamwidth.org/

yes, I want to start over without this nonsensical username that I'm certain people can't pronounce in their mind xD I love neon and I love spiders, so neonspider it is.

Please feel free to add me or friend me or subscribe or whatever it is that people do on DW, I don't really know how to use it yet so both the journal and comm are completely empty yet but hopefully won't remain so.

As a dumbass I've been storing all my icons on LJ's hosting since photobucket stopped cooperating, so now I need to reupload them AGAIN. I always thought that if anything happens to LJ i'll just go down with the ship cause I've been here so long that I can't start over, but now that it's sinking I just had the very strong feeling that the massive work I've put into my graphics, and most importantly the friendships I've made here, are worth saving after all. So I hope to see you on the other side <3

Photobucket SUCKS

2017-09-04T15:10:37Z

This is old news to everyone else but I haven't been around so I was blissfully ignorant of this MAJOR DISASTER WTF. Photobucket already sucked big time, I stopped using it in 2015 because of all the SLOWLY loading ad-filled pages you had to view instead of just showing the icon directly like you can do with basically all decent image hosts. But that still leaves all my 2012-2015 icons at PB, in danger of disappearing soon.

Now I've spent a few days reuploading my icons and replacing old links. The good thing is I can still see all my old icons so either they're still showing for some users, idk why, or maybe these images are coming from some sort of cache or are only visible to the uploader. This makes it easier to see what goes where, but fuck this, seriously. My wrist hates all this extra clicking around, I had soooo many icons at PB :| but much worse than having to reupload everything is the fact that I can no longer see a lot of the old icon posts I always admired from iconers who are long gone and probably won't reupload.

There's one silver lining here and it's that this gives me a reason to revisit all my previous icons and see that I have indeed made some progress even though it often feels like I'm completely stagnant. I'm now done reuploading my 2012 icons, next moving onto 2013 (which I kinda dread cause that was my major breakout year so maybe they'll be better than my current posts, which would suck, or maybe I just remember them being better than they actually were, which would also be a bit disappointing :p). But year 2012 definitely reminded me that I've (HOPEFULLY) made a lot of progress.

I know I have a lot of iconers and other graphics makers on my flist so what are your plans, if you used PB? Are you just leaving the links broken or are you reuploading? I think I'll only reupload icons. Unfortunately I'm probably gonna sacrifice my old tutorial step illustrations because those tuts are old, nobody is going to read them anymore.

I DID IT

2017-05-24T18:12:22Z

Today I officially graduated from uni. It was a great school and I enjoyed my studies so much. I'll miss it but at the same time I'm excited to move on.
I guess I have no excuse now, no reason to procrastinaste further, I should start looking for a job asap. But I'm not worried, I trust that someone will want me.

FYI

2017-04-06T13:42:30Z

I have no interest in joining DW. I just don't see the icon thing really happening there. The icon community is already very very small as it is, so unless literally every active maker moves there, an attempt to move over there will only split us into two tiny sections, which doesn't make sense to me. Obviously it's everyone's choice ot leave or stay but yeah, if the iconing community on LJ is a sinking ship then I'm going down with it.I've already been kinda on-off and had mini breaks and considered longer breaks for a long time so idk, maybe it's time for me to stop iconing anyway. buuut we'll see how this goes.

the process of shipping

2016-06-11T16:35:27Z

Does anyone else find it weird when people rationalize their ships? I often see in fandom discussions that when asked why they ship something, people give reasons like:

- they would work so well together
- they would be good for each other
- the show would make more sense if they were together
- they would make each other happier than their current partners
- they complete each other

etc. That's just so weird to me, as if shipping is something rational where you can just pick what you want to ship. For me shipping is literally just the feeling of SQUEEE when two characters interact. It's not rational at all, it's 100% an emotional reaction, so if someone asked me why I ship something, the best answer I can give is just to say that their scenes titillate me, I see sparks between them, their angsting over erach other really hits me in the feels etc. This is why it makes no sense to me to judge other people's ships. Would I choose healthier ships if I could? Would I make my ships more diverse in terms of representation? I don't know, I probably wouldn't ship anything if that was the process. Being able to just pick my ships would make it so boring, there would be no passion.

t-r round promo

2016-03-30T18:31:31Z

Rules & Information | Join us for Round 17!

I know I've promoted this comm about ten times now yet failed to participate myself, but this time I'M DOING IT. I SWEAR. Cause there are about a million makers I really admire participating, and that just gives me so much motivation!

Do you want a real challenge, some super helpful concrit, and most importantly lots of fun? COME JOIN US for what will probably be a crazy good round! :>
at first I thought I'd wait for the theme post before signing up but lbr Samantha's themes ALWAYS kick ass.

PSA: iconfessing is a thing

2015-12-05T11:39:43Z

omg I just noticed something awesome on my feed!
some of you might know that I'm not a huge fan of anon_icon and that I never really go there to preserve my sanity
HOWEVER

there's this other comm: iconfessing

it has a bit similar idea but way cooler, it's more like (or exactly like?) iconsecrets was. you send secrets, they get posted, you discuss secrets (anon or not). But no personal attacks against individual makers are allowed so I think I can hang out there and not run into secrets about how me & my icons suck, so that's nice :>
seriously I love the idea of that comm, I always loved iconsecrets even though back then I was too shy to talk a lot there.

so... see you there? :)

Answer for question 4470.

2015-07-27T12:48:11Z

My first real 'fandom' was Harry Potter. In 2004 I started reading fic, then later commenting and discussing it on two Finnish fan forums. Later (in 2006, I think?) I started writing my own fic but was never very good at it.

Then I was into a few things without actually participating in the fandoms at all, but then in 2010 I got hardcore into Farscape and it has been my biggest fandom to date, measured by fandom participation.

I started by writing a lot of fanfic. That's what initially made me come to LJ and that was clearly a great decision. I started writing meta/reviews of each episode and tbh my reviews were kinda shallow and ship-focused :) but ehh it counts?? and I also started making icons. I made a crapload of them every single day and they were the most ridiculously horrible icons you can imagine but participating in farscape_20in20 made me up my game a bit.

The best fandom experience for me however was probably farscapeland, because it was a social activity where I got to know a lot of people. I participated in all kinds of fun challenges, and in these actual realtime chats which were surprisingly fun for a while until everyone started hating each other (or was it just me? I think it might have been just me :p). anyway I wish there was something similar for every fandom I like.

After that, almost all of my fandom contribution has been in the form of icons. It has been my passion for a few years now but tbh to me it's usually more about the actual graphicsmaking than about that fandom, even though I do work the best when I'm 100% into that fandom/subject.

There have been fandoms I've been into after Farscape, but online stuff hasn't really been a priority to me recently and whenever I see an interesting fannish discussion or other activity I usually don't bother participating. My fandom experiences these days are mostly just reading stuff at fandomsecrets, and browsing tumblr's ship tags (and when I'm feeling really grouchy, sometimes the anti ship tags lol).

my favorite part of being involved in a fandom is discussions with like-minded people. which there are none, usually, so this is an imaginary part. of the real fandom parts my fave thing is probably iconing, and daydreaming about my OTPs :) ♥

as for the last question - no I've never been to any cons/meetups, mostly because I'm a Finn and a student so I can't just fly to other countries whenever I want, and there are no fandom things here (for my fandoms). and even if there were cons that I could realistically attend, I doubt I would, my social anxiety would kick in plus I'm always afraid of what my online friends would think of me in person, and whether seeing how ridiculous I look would actually change how they see me as a person :D, so idk, I like to keep my online and RL personas completely separate.

sorry for the wall of text I wish there was a way to insert lj cuts into these answer thingies.

random reactions to TW 5x05 (SPOILERS obvs)

2015-07-21T16:06:21Z

PETER MENTION!!

but how unfair is it that he was no longer Valack's cellmate?? just when I thought I was gonna see him again and that Lydia of all people would go and visit that cell ugh I guess that would have been too good to be true. but I squeed at her reaction to that Peter quote, haha. (I recognized it too! lmao that Derek&Peter reunion was one of my favorite scenes on s2)

Didn't like Scott&Kira gossiping about Stydia's past. What a weird scene, and I refuse to believe that stiles still has romantic feelings for Lydia, that would feel like regressing to the previous seasons, and also cruel to Malia who has become one of my faves.

No Liam in this ep :( but hey, Kira's getting more interesting every episode. about time, she was seriously boring during s4. How has her firefox form changed into that horrible thing?? D:

I never thought I'd like Parrish but he does seem to have a pretty cool part this season.

yesss good now there will be a supernatural prison break. GET OUT PETER! and be the star of this show (again).

Answer for question 4422.

2015-06-23T09:31:45Z

I'm definitely a conflict avoider usually, but if the person is someone I can't or don't want to avoid, I can have a reasonable discussion about it. Sometimes if something irks me enough I might start provoking them unintentionally but would still avoid actually addressing the issue, which is a character flaw for sure. It happens mostly because I'm not great at taking criticism, I just take everything really personally and get extremely insulted most of the time and it's not a great feeling so I basically build my life around escapism.

There's one conflict I wish I had handled differently. It bothers me so much that I never explained to an ex friend why her actions upset me so much. I just provoked her and indirectly insulted her all the time without telling her WHY, and that would have been a shitty way to act even if I would have been more honest about the reason. You just don't treat people like that, ever, even if they insult you first. The proper reaction would have been either a clean breakup without all the drama, or being actual grownups and having a rational honest conversation. But we didn't, so... from her perspective it probably looks like I was just being an awful bigot or something but I honestly had a really good, but very personal reason for having a problem with the things she was saying. I didn't want to tell her the truth because it's so difficult to share something personal with someone that you already have a pretty strained relationship with, but now I wish I had because I'm sure that a) she would have understood and b) ONLY she would have understood. If I ever do want to talk about my issues, I don't really have anyone and it's really hard to accept that knowing I could have avoided this situation. But well, I hope I learned something.

(btw, does anyone know any fun fandom/character memes or something else I could fill to pass the time...? I'd like to write about something but can't think of anything. I feel like talking about Teen Wolf. I think I'll start writing reactions when s5 starts airing but I'm not sure if I'll do it here or if I'll finally start using Tumblr.)

fsdfsdfds

2015-05-13T16:25:45Z

Is it weird that I'm kinda happy whenever my NOTPs become fully canon, as in, their UST phase is over and the boring relationship stuff starts? I sort of see that as the end of the ship, because the ust/crush/pining phase is so much more shippy and romantic in my eyes, so since I tend to view my NOTPs as inevitable... the sooner they get there, the better. CaptainSwan has been so much more tolerable/more easily ignorable since they became a thing for real. And I hope the same will happen to OutlawQueen :p

also, I seem to have spent the last few days programming a thingy that extracts palettes from two icons and then makes a random combination of those palettes. I hope this will give me new coloring ideas. examples:

Is this maybe the most useless program you've seen? Do I need a hobby?? I just couldn't get this idea out of my head, so I now this program exists and I have no idea what to do with it, lol.

Answer for question 4354.

2015-05-06T14:41:57Z

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin

As much as I like to think of myself as a complex person, this shortish quote basically sums me up, so that's neat. Maybe. I don't know if the quote is trying to understand or make fun of people like me, but whatever, I like it and it's true.

I don't remember how I came across it and tbh I have no idea who this George Carlin person is but a quick browsing of his other quotes made me find some other gems, such as "the reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept." Hell yeah!

fun day is fun

2014-11-13T14:24:17Z

Guys, sorry I've been away, I know I have some things to reply to and all, I've been super busy with my uni project and work, but now that I finally have a day off I decided to something extra fun! and you know what that means: installing software!! In this case, MediaWiki. Because well, who doesn't want to run their own wiki? ofc I first needed a server software and didn't want to use IIS (which I'm using for the uni project) cause its awful to use and requires so much tweaking and I'm super confused and just couldn't get it to work. So, I did something wild for once in my life, ie installed WAMP, so that now I'm running both Apache and IIS on the same computer! That's not recommended at all but I did change the ports so that Apache listens to something other than 80, so I think everything should be ok.

And, after all that work (I'm not even telling about how I had to reinstall everything because I accidentally deleted my sql server root user, haha. That's just... way too stupid), I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK!! I have mediawiki now! and I started working on a reaaaally awesome wiki, I'm never going to put it online because it would hardly interest anyone, it's just some place for me to store my own personal history cause I've been looking for some good multimedia format for that for ages and a wiki is perfect with all the linking and knowledge organizing possilibilities!! I swear this is not as narcissistic as it sounds, I'm storing mostly the stuff I shared with my sister. I just have this obsession on knowing exactly when things happened so this is the perfect way for me to store all the details.

So, how's your day? anything special going on? I hope you're having this much fun too but if you're not just go here and install it :> I was actually supposed to make an icon dump today but idk if I can get that done now that I have such an inspiring thing going on.

jsfunction @ 2013-12-26T00:48:00

2013-12-25T22:46:50Z

Merry Christmas & happy holidays or whatever you want to celebrate!

I'm not much of a Christmas person myself. I just celebrate by capping LOST and organizing the caps into scene-specific folders with the correct transcript files and character tags in each folder, so when I randomize a cap it will be easy to remember the context and possibly get ideas from that. Hope all of you are having a great time too!

I'll continue the meme tomorrow btw, just took these two days off cause christmas and capping project and all :)

omg excited

2013-08-01T14:41:24Z

Sooo, that icon challenge idea I've been discussing here with a lot of other iconers? IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING!! :D

watchnicon

Information & Rules | Suggestion Post | Stake a Claim

I'm so excited and hope a decent amount of people will join! I'm even thinking of possibly making two claims, but I'll save the decision making for the first discussion post! :)

The actual iconing will start 10.8. when the first inspiration post goes up, but there'll be a discussion post tomorrow where people can discuss what to claim, possibly form teams for a shared rewatch, express any thoughts about the comm, or to just discuss anything and everything. See you there hopefully? :D The comm is open for everyone so join if you like the idea!

I know I've again missed a lot of the things happening on my flist, and also have a ton of comments to reply to, I've just been really busy for the past few days with everything involving setting up and planning this comm (and also watching Lost but that's totally a valid thing to do after all that work right?).

Icon challenge planning

2013-06-09T18:52:47Z

So, now that I've gotten all the fandom stuff out of my system, it's time for icon plans! I posted some very generic initial ideas for a rewatch-based, episode-centric icon challenge comm in this entry; now it's time to go to the details with the planning, and any input is again very much valued cause I don't want to screw a good idea up by executing it all wrong.

The comments and votes for the previous post convinced me to pick the 6th idea in the poll, which was:

creating a multifandom challenge comm for episode-specific challenges, type A: a comm where you sign up for a rewatch with a specific show and then post icons and opinions for it as you go, anyone could set their own pace and also decide how often they want to post (a fast watcher could just post a set for a whole season in one post, while a slower one like me could just make a few icons each week). Due to not having deadlines or even any set structure, this comm could hardly have votings. Think of this as a multifandom, less scheduled version of #2! Pluses: this could be a really fun place for different fandoms to meet and for us iconers to get to know each other through the discussions. If it would be possible to have more than one show on the list, I could definitely take something other than Farscape too, maybe SPN since everyone apparently wants me to icon it/talk about it, so why the hell not :D Minuses: if there wasn't much interest, I could again just end up iconing there all by myself and looking silly. Or if this *would* actually take off, the place could get chaotic and difficult to run quickly, and I'd probably need a co-mod. Also, this would mostly just work for those who watch popular shows, as the less known ones probably wouldn't spark discussion. This might also very well become one of those comms that start strong but die quickly, especially if there were no deadlines.

So in short it would be a challenge where everyone claims a specific fandom and then makes a few icons of all the episodes and posts them to the comm and can also discuss the episodes.

The most important thing to decide now is what exactly people would icon after watching an episode; are there themes? Some possible solutions include:
1. static themes (like the 'favorite character' + 'favorite scene' for each episode, such as in this project; this would be the easiest for mods, and I like the fact that it's a natural way to share one's opinions. However, a static structure can easily lead to inactive comms as there isn't anything new every week to get people motivated?)
2. weekly themes (if we go with 3 icons/ep, this option could maybe mean having one technical theme, one interpretative, inspirational or opinion-related theme, and one ac? Or possibly a mix with the static option so that there would be a new technical/interpretative theme each week, but the other two icons would be the same, maybe one AC and one icon about something you liked about the episode particularly much? This would be the most work for mods but could probably keep the comm alive the most efficiently)
3. (monthly?) table of prompts where everyone could pick what to icon and when (thanks raiindust for the idea! This would require lots of work from mods at the start of each month but the other times would be easy. This might be a very inspiring thing for the participants too because it's flexible enough to let people go with which themes they're the most inspired by, and also allow people to skip themes that just don't work for them or their show. My only concern is if this is too loose a structure, can it lead to the effect where people have too many choices so they can't decide what to do?)
4. general theme of the month/week that people would apply to all their icons made that month/week; another great suggestion by raiindust (so, the way I read it - correct me if I'm wrong - is that theme of the week would basically be option 2 but there would only be one theme per week so it would be a bit easier for the mods, yet keep the comm active just as efficiently. Theme of the month would be even easier to maintain, but might work best combined with something weekly happening?)
5. some combination of these
6. something else?

The poll in my previous entry about this suggests that people do want some sort of themes, and that different prompts each week seemed more popular than the static option. I'm not sure how well the poll measures anything though since so few people filled it and it didn't have very many options.
Honestly, I'd be very inspired by any of these options so I'll probably just go with what seems the most popular, so please pick 1-3 of the options in this poll!

View Poll: Theme poll

Then there are some questions about the practical structure of the comm; I think it would be best if everyone just posts their entries as a new comment, the way it happens in icontests, but there's still some stuff to decide:

- how many icons per episode? (this should be a pretty small number, I think the 3 we used with vampire_sessah worked really well. If it's much larger than this, the iconing would slow down the rewatching. It could be even less than this but idk, I'm sort of partial to 3 so I hope it works for others too :D)

- discussion: where does it happen? One possibility would be to encourage everyone to ramble about the episodes in their entries (maybe even with a provided, totally optional form?) which would make it easy to exchange opinions in the comments and to me it would seem like a very natural way to interact, and it would also be a major differentating factor between the entries there and in other icon challenge comms. However the big minus here is that if multiple people claim the same show, the discussions will be divided into multiple entries so idk if everyone wants to share the same opinions in the comments to all those entries... An option that solves this would be that there would be specific discussion posts (weekly?) where people could freely discuss the shows they're watching, but I don't think this sort of thing has ever really worked in any of the other comms that have tried it. So, what do you think? Any other ideas?

- entries: should there be an own entry of X icons for each episode, or should people get to decide the amount of episodes in one entry post? The latter would be more flexible, but might make the comm less neat and more chaotic.

- schedule: the initial idea was to have a free schedule where everyone just sets their own pace, but the poll in my previous post suggests that people actually prefer set schedules? This result surprises me a bit as I thought people would like flexible rewatching more, but then again a set schedule makes it more possible for people who claim the same show to discuss it as they go (if they start at the same time, they can have the whole rewatch at the same pace which does sound like a fun thing, and also a comm without deadlines is often easy to forget about - no reminders for anything - but then again I wouldn't want to turn away those who want to watch and icon more than say one episode per week, or don't have the time for a pace that fast)

- should there be some sort of 'summary posts' for each fandom where the mods would add all the icons iconned for them? Sort of like the table in the BSG project. The plus is that all the icons for one fandom would be easily accessible for someone looking for icons of them, but then again tagging could easily serve this purpose and having these posts would be a lot of work for the mods so I'm not sure the gain would be good enough? I think the only case where these would have actual added value is if we'd pick the static themes options, so they would serve as tables showcasing everyone's opinions of the show in icon form, but since that didn't seem like the most popular option for the themes I'm not sure these posts would be needed - anyway, I'd like to hear your thoughts!

- anything else?

Sorry, I know this is a lot of questions, I just want to hear what others think before deciding anything for certain! I don't expect anyone to comment on all of this, some thoughts on just one or a few of the points mentioned here (or other feedback) would already be really awesome!

Please ask if you have any questions, and also let me know if I left out something important from the previous post, there was a lot to sum up so I might have missed (or misinterpreted) some ideas that were presented!

Join the fun!

2013-06-01T12:26:53Z

Rules & Information | Round 11 Sign Ups | Round 11 Themes | Round 11 Submissions

I've missed participating in t_r! My personal mission this time around: make a non-fugly set to break my turbo_rumble curse. I mean, both times I've particiated in the past, my sets have been even worse than my average icons of the time. Sooo, hopefully third time's the charm? :D We'll see.

I do know that this is the best place to seek icon-specific concrit, which I haven't gotten (or asked for) in ages, so this should be interesting and helpful. I think (hope) I've grown enough confidence in my work to accept it even if all my icons do horribly in the challenges :D The thing I'm mostly nervous about now is giving concrity votes myself, because the more I develop my own questionable icon skills, the less critical of everyone else I seem to become, idk why, it it seems counter-intuitive. I just feel more and more awkward trying to tell anyone that there's something wrong with their work, cause I don't really think I'm in a position to tell anyone that unless my own stuff is perfect, which it isn't. But then again challenges like this wouldn't be half as beneficial if there were only positive votes, sooo I'll try to do my part as well as I can!

Trust it on me to turn even a freaking pimp post rambly, haha! If you're wondering what happened to me and my icon challenge ideas, the short answer is 'exam week + yet another character crush' and the long answer is long and boring so I'll spare you all and just jump right to the icon challenge plans as soon as I've developed the ideas a bit further. Expect a post soon :>

Confession:

2013-05-18T21:19:48Z

watching ESC is my guilty pleasure :D

My favorites this year are Norway, Denmark and most of all the cute hipster from Hungary.

I'm not a big fan of Finland's song. I like the fun energetic performance, but the song is really flat, I'm not expecting us to do very well this year.

I'll get back to all the icon-related business asap!

umm

2013-05-17T13:27:37Z

PLEASE TELL ME 'BLOODY MARY' IS LIKE THE SCARIEST SPN EP

good thing I watched that in the middle of the day, it was creeeeeeepy o.O

Still, I'm enjoying SPN a lot, esp the dialogue. and I readjusted my viewing schedule cause otherwise it would have taken me freaking forever to get anywhere. So now instead of each weekday having its own show, I'm using a weighed roulette wheel selection anytime I want to watch something. The wheel is weighed according to the amount of unwatched episodes each of the shows (Lost, SPN, Buffy, OUAT & Classic who) has, so the random chance will favor the humongous shows like SPN and Lost. This way, I'll make decent progress in each of the shows and get a quick start to the longer shows.
(...yes, I know normal people just decide what to watch and when... shutup)

Farscape, Defiance and NuWho aren't in the wheel because FS I'm watching with a set schedule in the rewatch chats, and the other two are the only shows I'm trying to follow at least somewhat keeping up with the airings, so these three are still one ep/week.

Now that lj finally works...

2013-05-17T09:32:11Z

...I can ask for your help. I have a billion ideas buzzing around in my head. The problem is I'm not sure which one to pick for further development. Sooo, help me out?

Problem specifications: I want to have some sort of challenge where I can icon Farscape episodes (one ep/week, not more than a few icons per episode). Something interactive where I could discuss the episodes with others would be a big plus.

Background: We have finally reached the end of the weekly club_farscape rewatches, and as far as I understand the plan is to start again from the beginning on Sunday. However, I've seen the episodes a gazillion times already so I'm not sure there's any point in watching them yet again, unless this time I have an icon challenge to go with it - the best kind of motivation. Soooo I'll need to come up with an idea asap.

Possible solutions (rambly collection of seriously incoherent thoughts! None of these are ready ideas yet, just concepts for possible solutions and they all need serious refining, some more than others):

a personal challenge: I'd just make my own challenge post and complete it with episode-specific icons. Pluses: This would be the easiest option, and independent of anyone else's interest so I'll be able to do at least this in any case. Minuses: not interactive, just me iconing all by myself, not very inspiring or motivating

challenge with a specific friend or group of friends: everyone would enter each week and there could be discussion about the episodes too, something resembling this BSG rewatch post with vampire_sessah :) Pluses: it would be a fun way to collect everyone's opinions of the episodes, and quite motivating imo. I really like the prompts especially (favorite character, favorite scene and one AC for each ep, and clear schedules like this help me participate in a challenge regularly). Minuses: it's a pretty rigid structure and puts maybe too much pressure on each participant to enter every week (for me that's no problem but might prevent others from participating?). Only works if I can find at least one person to do this with!

free-for-all, open challenges in my journal or froonium_icons: anyone could enter when they feel like it, no signups or anything. I'd just make a post each week, corresponding to the episode of the week, and anyone would be welcome to post icons of the ep (possibly for specific prompts like in the above suggestion?) Pluses: very flexible, it would allow for people to enter maybe only their favorite episodes, or to jump in in the middle, or drop out, or anything. Very low on pressure. Out of all these challenge types, this would probably work the best with other types of graphics too. Minuses: making a new post every week would probably feel like annoying spam to those watchers/friends who are not interested (or, in case we would use the same post each week, that probably wouldn't work very well cause everyone would probably just forget about the post altogether).

making a few icons each week for some other challenge (maybe theiconquest quests?) with an added rule of only using caps from that week's episode: Another type of personal challenge I could do just on my own. Pluses: slightly more motivating than solution #1, cause at least the icons would be for something. I always plan on doing more for theiconquest and this would definitely make me do that. Other possible comms would be the7days whenever there's a more technical theme that can be used with any subject, and maybe even 20inspirations if I'd claim a Farscape season in some future round. Minuses: still noninteractive and depends a lot on my ability to find compatible challenges. Also this is a much more vague challenge structure than the others so I'm not sure I'd be able to follow it very efficiently, I like clearer rules and systems.

creating a Farscape (icontest?) comm: each week there would be new prompts (I'm thinking three prompts and everyone could enter 1-3 of them?). Could work with or without votings. Pluses: if this would take off, it would be a fantastic place for Farscape discussions and icons and possibly motivate even those FS fans who are too busy for farscape_20in20. It would allow for discussion with those FS fans who don't for some reason go to the chats, and that would be awesome cause I always love to hear new points of view. I could post cap samples there too so that even those too lazy to look for caps could participate, and when we'd reach those eps with no bluray caps yet I could definitely cap them too. Minuses: this would require much more work than the preceding options, and there's a big possibility that this wouldn't actually interest people so I'd just end up iconing by myself in a comm and feeling silly.

creating a multifandom challenge comm for episode-specific challenges, type A: a comm where you sign up for a rewatch with a specific show and then post icons and opinions for it as you go, anyone could set their own pace and also decide how often they want to post (a fast watcher could just post a set for a whole season in one post, while a slower one like me could just make a few icons each week). Due to not having deadlines or even any set structure, this comm could hardly have votings. Think of this as a multifandom, less scheduled version of #2! Pluses: this could be a really fun place for different fandoms to meet and for us iconers to get to know each other through the discussions. If it would be possible to have more than one show on the list, I could definitely take something other than Farscape too, maybe SPN since everyone apparently wants me to icon it/talk about it, so why the hell not :D Minuses: if there wasn't much interest, I could again just end up iconing there all by myself and looking silly. Or if this *would* actually take off, the place could get chaotic and difficult to run quickly, and I'd probably need a co-mod. Also, this would mostly just work for those who watch popular shows, as the less known ones probably wouldn't spark discussion. This might also very well become one of those comms that start strong but die quickly, especially if there were no deadlines.

creating a multifandom icontest for episode-specific challenges, type B: This would work more like a regular icontest. There would be no claiming of shows so you could icon episodes of different shows each week. There could be weekly challenges and votings, if people want them. Pluses: the well-known traditional format would probably be easy to grasp and thus lower the bar to participate. It could be fun to icon several shows. The format could easily be modified according to the interest of the participants, for example, it would work with or without votings, and with or without weekly prompts (if it's 'without' it could just have 'icon things you liked particularly much about the episode' as a general theme, or the same ones from option #2?). Minuses: difficult to run, though less chaotic than option #6 and would require less work from me than option #5 (because I obviously couldn't offer caps from every possible fandom so there wouldn't be any). Also, the multifandom angle wouldn't actually have any effect on me as I would still be iconing just Farscape, unless it was allowed to participate several times for each weeks challenge, so you could use as many shows as possible (which I still probably wouldn't do cause hey there are other challenges and I have to leave some time for those too!), OR maybe a solution where you could icon different shows in one entry - say, I could participate with one icon from FS, one from SPN and one from Lost. Idk?

Something else (please give ideas in the comments!)

So, obviously I still have a LOT to decide, and there's room for modifications in each of these so if one of these only half works for you, I'm really open to concrit. Also, I know some of these are explained in a horribly confusing and rambly way so if you didn't get what I meant with some of the options, please ask, I'd be happy to clarify!

And just to clarify - no matter which option I pick, any possible comm would be free for all (=not an elite comm), and if I pick one of the Farscape options, participating would not require coming to the club_farscape chats.

It would be awesome if you could fill the poll if any of these interest you at all! Please only fill this if you read the descriptions above cause the short descriptions in the poll don't really give a good idea of the solution.

View Poll: What do you think? (pick all that apply)

I'll of course still do other challenges as well and pick other fandoms for those, so please don't comment with 'pick Supernatural for this instead'! Yes I know you want me to icon it but as stated above, I have a good reason for wanting to pick Farscape for this project, to go with the shared rewatch :)

Huge thanks to anyone willing to help me with this!! I hate it when I have too many ideas, lol. If this post doesn't get any replies or votes, I'll just go for option #1 or #4 or manipulate a friend or two into option #2 :D

DW icon battle?

2013-01-15T17:19:46Z

I'd like to know if anyone on my flist (or not, but happens to find this post anyway) would like a DW battle? I haven't had a battle in a while so I thought this would be fun.

This week is busy for me (making my character20n20 icons and possibly a the7days entry?) but after that I'd be ready for some battle fun, so as the organizing probably takes some time too I thought I'd ask around a bit already. Just let me know if and when you'd like to do it and if you have preferences about the amount of caps/themes etc. If all the participants are at theiconquest, we could make it an IQ battle too. Idk if anyone is interested but I hope so cause my love for DW just doesn't seem to die even now that I've caught up with the airings :)

Happy new year!!!

2012-12-31T22:40:47Z

I was supposed to put up an end of the year praise post and a progression post and go comment on a lot of gorgeous entries I've seen lately, but with LJ being even wonkier than usual and my tooth still giving me major pain I think I'll leave all that to the following, hopefully better days. Too bad, those would really have been my idea of a new year's party :p

My only real resolution this year is to STOP PROCRASTINATING, because it caused me a lot of stress and feelings of guilt this year.
I also have some iconing resolutions but I'll talk more about them in the progression post maybe.

I love that it's very quiet and peaceful here now, this is surprising cause students usually take any excuse to have loud annoying parties and seeing that I live in a student house I was kinda prepared for worse.

If anyone knows any fun end of the year memes, I'd love to fill some to pass the time =)

Love all around! Yay!

2012-12-08T20:48:30Z

From half of my flist. Seems fun :)

holiday love meme 2012
my thread here

hmm

2012-11-12T12:19:57Z

Weird stuff #1:

I had a dream where my sister applied to an elite icon comm, not sure which one. She doesn't even make icons! Instead she had this one HUGE... object... a real physical object that she just decided to call an 'icon'. Like a rectangular plate or something. And she sent it via regular mail, somehow, as her application. I wish the dream had continued so I would have gotten to see the response, lol! I mean wtf??? What does this tell about my subconsciousness??

Weird stuff #2:

There was a random naked guy in the corridors last weekend, and he was making an awful lot of noise. He seemed to have no clue about where he was. Not sure if he was on some drugs or just a regular crazy person, but I called the police anyway so they'd get him somewhere where he'd be a) safe/taken care of and b) less of a disturbance to everyone at 12pm! This sounds ridiculous now but it wasn't funny then cause nobody wants to listen to endless yelling (like, from the top of his lungs screaming!) and seriously wtf stuff like 'I'M DEEEEAAADDDD!!!' and 'WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING???? I DON'T KNOW WHERE I AM!!! DON'T KILL ME!!!' (which nobody was trying to...).
I really hope he was just lost, maybe a party guest who wandered off, and not like a new neighbor or something. Also I wonder what happened to his clothes o.O

How is everyone else? Haven't had much time to talk to anyone lately! :p

I'm hopeless

2012-10-28T10:55:03Z

My mom called me yesterday and reminded me to go vote the next day. I wondered there a bit about which icon challenge comm she meant, until I got that it was an ACTUAL ELECTION (municipal).

Clearly in my head iconing >>> Finnish politics :p

I'll go vote now anyway.