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finirà bene

let's do the time warp again

new challenge

lakecastle @ 2019-06-06T17:50:00

lakecastle @ 2018-02-19T14:01:00

I am the most offending soul alive

stranger things challenge at tvlims

where do i even begin?

SURPRISE!

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I am John Constantine

arrow s2 battle

lakecastle @ 2015-10-24T19:14:00

I am not dead

goodbye 2014

lakecastle @ 2014-07-19T22:38:00

teen wolf icon battle with ofthesea

and then i've lost you

JULS VS SAM - Once Upon a Time battle

guess what: another Once Upon a Time post

best of 2013

2013 in icons

random

what happened to her

you're gonna miss me when i'm gone

2020-06-11T20:00:40Z

okay so long time no see (as usual) I mean you know the drill by now: i am a lazy ass. which means basically I have 400 icons I need to post but effort ugh
so i've decided to start with a bunch (lol I mean two!) battles I did in the past months but get ready for a big ass post with 3 years old icons cause I roll that way apparently.

// title is from an italian songwriter it roughly translates in it will end well in case you were wondering.

hope you're all safe and healthy ♥ be careful cause images are H E A V Y.

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So in April the lovely sietepecados hosted a period drama battle you can all see the icons here at her community which was stunning to say the least. These are the icons I submitted :3

Faceless Crop - Light - Favorite Gentlemen - Floral - Costume

Scenery - Negative Space - Blue - Profile - Romance

Close Crop - Vintage - Obscure Crop - Fake Background - Plus One

Accessory - Black&White - Hair!Porn - Favorite Color - Favorite Character

ALTERNATES

also if you watched the witcher (if you haven't WHAT ARE YOU DOING GO WATCH IT NOW) she's hosting another battle @sininferno go check it out!!

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so the amazing novindalf hosted this fantasy battle on icontalking a month or so ago and I was so bummed I couldn't complete it sigh. if you want to see all the icons just go check it here full of goodies I snagged I'm telling you.
here are my icons which as I said aren't that showstopping lmao

favourite costume | ~~fake background~~ | hair porn | super close up | magic

~~text~~ | ~~complex~~ | nature | ~~textures~~ | scenery

black & white | negative space | supporting character | faceless crop | earth tones

two characters | muted colours | chiaroscuro | villain | animal

2020-04-20T18:06:17Z

so today marks my tenth year anniversary on livejournal. well not on livejournal per se but on this community. I am pretty sure you cannot see that original post anymore, due to the whole photobucket shebang but I have a tiny teensy shot for you of it that will be deleted as soon as you open it here :3 be aware that I mean this was 10 years ago, hopefully i've improved my icon making skills since then!

lots have changed in the past 10 years (except my college situation which it's still a damn mess!) Nicole left livejournal so this community has become my own, eventually I will switch communities cause this one doesn't really feel my own anymore.
but that said I wanted to celebrate this achievement I decided to somehow recreate that post (and I'm actually pretty shocked at the caps / images i've choose: cause they're pretty close!)

I hope you're all safe and healthy :3

[001-005] Twilight Cast (featuring Ashley Greene, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson)
[006] Emma Watson
[007] Kirsten Dunst
[008] Majandra Delfino
[009] Rachel McAdams
[010] Scarlett Johansson
[011-013] Lost
[014-016] Legend of the Seeker
[017-019] True Blood

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[001-005]

[006-010]

[011-015]

[016-019]

this is such a weird post I apologize idk I felt like doing something different and fun. also if you're interested there's a fantasy battle over at icontalking you can sign up by clicking the banner below :3

💫 🏰 💫 🏰 💫
Sign-up here at icontalking

2020-03-20T11:12:07Z

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Sign up for the new round - Wonder Woman

2019-06-06T15:50:32Z

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Sign up for the new round - Game Of Thrones

2018-02-19T13:01:36Z

tvlims | Season 12 Sign ups.

2017-12-19T14:34:08Z

Okay so I got back into icon making and I signed up for way too many challenges at some point I wasn't even sure if I was gonna finish them all and yet here we are.
So basically my Tom Hiddleston situation was extra bad this year, I basically watched every movie with him and shows, and seriously I would have paid good money to see him doing Hamlet in September but alas I didn't have the chance.
I feel like the combo Tom Hiddleston + Shakespeare is a match made in heaven tbh so my claim for character20n20 was ofc the hollow crown which I strongly suggest you all to watch if you haven't already.
that said I hope you enjoy this whole batch :D

credit wandererjulia | comments are ♥ | textless icons are not based

10 THEMES

100	Beginning	Ending	Favorite Character	Favorite Scene


Fan Service	Friendship	OTP	Villain	Quote

CATEGORY: CHARACTERS + EMOTIONS

relief	sorrow	happiness	worry	upset

CATEGORY: TOP FIVE MOMENTS

one	two	three	four	five

plus some alternates cause why the hello not am i right?

2017-11-14T13:05:11Z

tvlims| Season 11 Sign-ups.

2017-06-27T21:08:02Z

yeah!
it's me! after more than an year, damn it feels so weird to be back but I (kind of) am. I don't even remember how to make a post on here /oh dear.
okay so I stopped making icons at some point, mainly because I didn't have a laptop that worked. Now I do (YAY!) I also decided to invest in a graphic tablet (though I'm still a bit rusty) but anyway I have, obviously, an icon dump to show you.
Most of these icons are really old, like an year old!
I suddenly felt the urge to go back to icon making so I am kind of experimenting once again: which basically in my language means it's a huge mess!
In my last post I shared the intention of switching communities, which I'll do at some point, I need to get everything ready first. ugh time's not on my side unfortunately.

hope you guys enjoy it anyway.
how are you'll doing? anything new about lj that I should now? any new communities I can use to feed my muse?

credit wandererjulia | comments are ♥ | textless icons are not based

Grey's Anatomy
Once Upon a Time
Sons of Anarchy
Sense8
The Vampire Diaries
Westworld
Game of Thrones
The Hour
Merlin
The Musketeers
Parade's End
The 100
Constantine
Shadowhunters
From Dusk Till Dawn
Teen Wolf
Doctor who
Sherlock
Vikings
The Magnificent Seven
Wonder Woman
The Winter Soldier
Star Wars
Harry Potter
Star Trek

--- THESE ARE NOT IN THIS ORDER /sorry about that it's late and i'm hot

2016-04-16T13:03:56Z

I am back!
I missed making icons so I brought goodies today.
Be aware the most of these are from 2015, only a few are recent I'll put the older ones first and then the newer at the bottom, so it's gonna be a mess!
also I wanted to switch communities. I don't feel like lakecastle is a place for me anymore so I created a new one, which it'll probably be up once I have a bit more time.

so here we are: it's a big ass post (as usual) so open at your own risk!

credit wandererjulia | comments are ♥ | textless icons are not based

OCTOBER 2015 -
various stuff I made for challenges mostly, though I don't recall which ones clearly)
you can find OUAT, TVD, TW, SH, Quantico, Scream Queens, Orphan Black, Misfits, Vikings, Musketeers, Merlin, LOTS, Lost Girl, a bunch of Hocus Pocus (IT WAS HALLOWEEN OKAY?), HTGAWM, DW, Gotham, Dracula, Tudors, Daredevil
to be fair I cropped most of these from caps for my cap blog :P

NOVEMBER -
mostly stuff for the7days and capicontest I believe.
featuring SW, DW, Merlin (again), HP, OB, SPN, OITNB, Marie Antoinette, MOS, Into the Badlands (which I still need to watch ops) more Dracula, Agent Carter, AHS, The Avengers, CATFA, Lost, Tudors, Mad Men, OUAT, The Borgias, The Hour, Henry Cavill & Marina Diamandis

DECEMBER 2015 -
december was the month of the epic Arrow battle sucksucksmile hosted! You can see all the icons here plus a couple of icons I made for various challenges (only OUAT, TVD and Quantico related)

and the 23 icons, one for each episode of s2 of Arrow

JANUARY - MARCH - APRIL 2016
finally "new icons" mostly for challenges (especially the most recent ones from April!) mostly Constantine, The Borgias, Marvel stuff, Orphan Black, DW, Dracula, Sense8, The Musketeers, OUAT, Shadowhunters, Outlander, TW, FDTD, Little Mermaid

2015-11-13T23:42:27Z

To all the French followers out there - and the people who are in Paris right now - I hope you and your family are well and safe.
What's happening right now is unbelievable, and pretty terrific so I hope you're all good <3
i can't get in touch with half the people i know from there so it's really horrible, I am with you with my heart and prayers.

~ juls

2015-11-11T20:33:00Z

So I am literally obsessed with ~~Constantine~~MATT RYAN. It's such a shame the show got canceled after only 13 episodes (which i have rewatched three times already since I came across the show in July!) FYI there's a petition here hoping that someone else will pick it up. I MEAN after that Arrow episode last week we all know how valuable John is, amirite?
that said, I finished my claim for character20n20 which is rather shocking I KNOW! I am not totally fond of most of these, but that'll do for now.

credit wandererjulia | comments are ♥ | textless icons are not based

10 THEMES

Center Text	Cold	Favorite Feature	First & Last	Nemisis


Numbers	Outside	Times Three	Vibrant	White

CATEGORY (Autumn Color Palette)

one	two	three	four	five

ARTIST'S CHOICE

artist's choice 1	artist's choice 2	artist's choice 3	artist's choice 4	artist's choice 5

2015-11-02T22:35:10Z

so sucksucksmile is making an Arrow season 2 battle here go ahead if you're interested.

2015-10-24T17:14:15Z

capspiration

2015-10-18T10:32:20Z

whoa. it feels like i've been pregnant, considering how long it took me to make a new icon post. NINE MONTHS! insane if you ask me. but lots have happened in these months (truth to be told: I'm still trying to figure out my life but ehi!)
so I come (back!) bearing gifts. be aware that most of these are really old, like january old (i promise I'll try to actually put them separetely or something. ehi coding is mah thing /no it's really not!) and of course are like 80something icons OF COURSE. it appears i can't make smaller batches, but ehi considering I haven't posted since January I think we're okay.
but anyway: how are you guys doing? everybody's fine? goooood. i've got plently of goodies to share with.
newest are going to be at the bottom, so don't fret.
as usual: enjoy!

credit wandererjulia | comments are ♥ | textless icons are not based

Once Upon a Time
Marvel stuff (Captain America movies, Iron Man, The Avengers, X Men, Agent Carter, Agents of Shield)
DC stuff (Man of Steel, Batman, The Flash)
other movies (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Donnie Darko, Marie Antoinette, Pride and Prejudice, Star Wars, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes)
Suits
Outlander
The Musketeers
Legend of The Seeker
Vikings
Merlin
The Borgias
Lost
Constantine NBC
Parade's End
Being Human
Dracula NBC
Lost Girl
From Dusk Till Dawn
Doctor Who
The Hour
Supernatural
The Originals
The Vampire Diaries
True Blood

Ouat icon battle I made for icontalking

random stuffs from the beginning of the year (january - march) mostly made for challenges, like comics_ic . the suits batch for inspired20in20 which I haven't finished, clearly.

september october icons for different challenges, mostly the7days, elitesimplicity and comics_ic

2014-12-31T18:47:45Z

So, long time no see uh?!
I guess we can say i had a icon maker block, that's still there. I just have other ways to express my ps creativity (if we wanna call it that way lol)
so this is an huge batch and it's most of all really old, like around april i'd say /sorry. [i really need to stop making batch this huge cause it took me like an hour to do this post #damn)
I kinda miss making icons and being on lj sometimes so I'll probably be back in 2015, with a new community perhaps i still haven't decided yet :)
now just let me wish you all a great new year.

Once Upon a Time
Colin O'Donoghue + Sebastian Stan
Pretty little liars
Dracula
Reign
Disney (Tangled & Sleeping Beauty)
Teen Wolf
Merlin
Mad Men
The Musketeers
The Tudors
Marvel stuffs (The Avengers, Captain America: the first avenger, Captain America: the winter soldier)
Dc stuffs (Man of Steel)
Game of Thrones
Sleepy Hollow
Private Practice
Agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.
How to get away with murder
Gossip Girl
Lost girl
Orange is the new black
Queer as folk
True Blood
Doctor Who
Orphan Black
The Borgias
Dollhouse
The Vampire Diaries
Arrow
From Dusk till dawn

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2014-07-19T20:38:54Z

my claim for celebs20in20

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10 THEMES

Crown EMMA WATSON	Book --> Movie Char. LIZZIE BENNET	Green SEBASTIAN STAN	Working LANA DEL REY	Crush CHRIS EVANS


Selfie SARAH BOLGER	Abstract LADY GAGA	OTP BRANGELINA	Best Dressed JENNIFER MORRISON	Upcoming Project KAREN GILLAN (Selfie)

5 CATEGORY – Favorites

RACHEL MCADAMS	FRANCOIS ARNAUD	EMILIA CLARKE	HENRY CAVILL	KATIE MCGRATH

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

GINNIFER GOODWIN	MATT BOMER	KAT DENNINGS	LIAM HEMSWORTH	ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

2014-07-05T09:57:33Z

i was on twitter and i wanted to make a battle with someone so i just tweeted it and i honestly didn't expect to receive a reply from ofthesea who's, if you don't know that, the first icon maker i started to follow here on lj. (and for follow i mean: commenting her posts and snagging all of her icons)
so i was really shocked lol mainly because i've been wanting to make an icon battle with her for AGES. and i am really glad we ended up making it :D
truth to be told i still have to watch s3 of teen wolf but nevermind :P
be sure to check her community over at killcolor but i'll edit this post once she posts this entry as well :D)

	1	2	3	4
ofthesea
wandererjulia

	blue	close up	keep on moving	target
ofthesea
wandererjulia

2014-05-20T20:31:51Z

so i've been neglecting lj for too long (the whole layout even changed what is this fuckery?) so I decided it was time for an update.
I am okay, if you wanted to know that lol.
I haven't been made icons for quite some time tbh. I suppose I lost my vibe or I just lost interests in making them (though I have quite a batch to show you today lol) I only update my tumblr - well update is a big word cause I only put things in my queue so that doesn't really count as updating.
But I am more of a gifs person now.
Enough rambling now let's go to the icons!!

Agents of Shield
Arrow
TVD
The Originals
Once Upon a Time
Sleepy Hollow
The Borgias
New Girl
The Hour
The Tudors
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Merlin (BBC)
My Mad Fat Diary
Elementary
Game of Thrones
Teen Wolf
Vikings
The Musketeers (BBC)
Reign
Lotr
Harry Potter
Twilight
Maleficent
Tangled
Catching Fire
Titanic
The Rite
Emma Watson - François Arnaud

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2014-02-16T10:53:53Z

Allright this is basically the best challenge ever.
When I asked to absolutelybatty to make this battle I thought she'd say "no thanks" and instead she was super cute and adorable and I made her wait way too much for it (wifi problems and all that jazz lol) but I mean in the end it was kind of awesome, though looking at her icons hurt so much cause DAMN the pretty things she makes! (she also made the coding so I basically haven't done anything at all :P)

(my AU one is kinda tricky. cause it's a "they live happily ever after" au as a family - despite being cursed and all that lol)

ALTERNATES wandererjulia

go check Sam's here and comment her icons over there!

2014-02-10T19:13:02Z

did you have any doubts?
it appears to me that the only show I can icon lately is Ouat (which is why me and absolutelybatty are making an ouat challenge: like fav icon maker ever and she said YES! I am still fangirling over it lol)
these are for my claim over once20in20 and it's weird to see there's little of Hook, and so much of Regina, I guess you can say I am rewatching Once Upon a Time from s1 and well Regina was a total bamf (still is though!) but i never actually made icons on her.
so here enjoy :D

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10 THEMES

Faceless	Minimalistic	Crossover	Visible Texture	Brightly Colored


Fairy Tale	First Love	Heroes	Damsel Out of Distress	Character Development

5 CATEGORY – TEXT:

Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Cat 4	Cat 5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

a bunch of alternates

2014-01-04T22:24:39Z

ICON NOMINATIONS - JOIN IN! | MY THREAD

2013-12-31T17:54:02Z

This year I didn't have enough time to make a best of 2013, but I still wanted to do something ~cool cause I really miss being on lj (I actually need to come back a bit more)
So I decided to make a post of all my fav icons during this year with a bit of a explanations and my next year resolutions regarding icon making :)
Happy New Year everyone ♥

JANUARY

nothing special about these icons really. Though I actually used lots of light blobs setted on screen back then. You might say I had an obsession.

FEBRUARY

slightly better post if you ask me. I started to pay more attention to colorings and to work with the cap before even adding a coloring on top. Also that was the phase when I made lots of contests in italian forums lol

MARCH

the most uninspired month of the year tbh. I actually made these icons for a challenge and ugh I still dislake them all.

APRIL

sort of productive month where I started using textures FOR REAL. Though I kinda use the same coloring for all of these icons so not really that special.

M A Y

best month of the year for my muse. Idek why but ehi I still like all the icons I made during may not only I made an amazing battle with sky_magenta but I also entered two different challenges.
I think the whole concept of this month was: e x p e r i m e n t. both with colors and textures.

SEPTEMBER

still one of my fav batch of the year. It was really hard to pick just 3 icons, still I was trying to improve my use of lights but I was pretty much obsessed with the same texture lol also the amount of negative space in this batch is scary

OCTOBER

this is the batch of elite communities basically. Nothing special here, except for oh look LIGHTS again. Also I tried to use the graphic tablet tecnique (without having one ops)

NOVEMBER

this was just the post of the huge mess. really. there is no link whatsoever to these icons, they've been randomly put in the same post. but ehi i kinda like them because they express how much I don't want to be scheduled in one type of icons only and how much I want to improve at icon making, by using different tecniques and experiment more.

DECEMBER

actually I should have posted it sooner but I kinda forgot about it /sorry but these are the icons I made this month (all OUAT related I am afraid) and half of these xmas related icons :P

resolutions for the new year:
- make one icon a day. (that's gonna be a challenge)
- trying to find new shows to watch and to icon (if you have any good one to advice go ahead!)
- improving my non use of text, cause I suck at it.
- COMMENTING on other people's posts.
- using different tecniques.
- make more icon battle.
- and more 20in20.

oh i am sure i forgot something but nvm I'll remember it eventually lol

2013-11-17T12:31:04Z

Once Upon a Time [1-19]
Teen Wolf [20]
Merlin [21]
Doctor Who [22]
The Vampire Diaries [23]
Supernatural [24]
Game of Thrones [25-28]
Suits [29-31]
Various movies (Man of Steel, Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland, Titanic) [32-38]

CREDIT wandererjulia | DO NOT HOTLINK | COMMENTS ARE ♥ | textless icons are not bases | the post will be public for a couple of days so join :D

[01-05]

[06-11]

[12-16]

[17-21]

[22-26]

[27-31]

[32-36]

[37-38]

2013-10-09T17:52:04Z

okay so new icon post, which is really weird you must say lol especially because i never made small icon posts so well something happened probably in my brain :P

Once Upon a Time
Game of Thrones
Sleepy Hollow
Merlin
Teen Wolf
Doctor Who
Pan Am
Legend of the Seeker
Kill Bill
Red Riding Hood
The Borgias

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1-6 by absolutelybatty

7-12 by wandererjulia

NEGATIVE SPACE

ALT UNIVERSE

OUT OF THE BOX

13-18 by absolutelybatty

19-24 by wandererjulia

2013-09-22T13:57:05Z

Hello I'm back on business :D (well sort of..)
considering these icons are really old (the majority of them is from april and just a few of the Lots ones are the most recent!)
I suppose I should start making smaller batches :P
Enjoy.

Doctor Who
Once Upon a Time
Merlin
Game of Thrones
Vikings
Legend of the Seeker
Teen Wolf
True Blood
Elementary
Random shows (The Following, Supernatural, The Beauty and the Beast, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fringe, Parade's End, The Vampire Diaries)
Random movies (Man of Steel, New Moon, Les Miserables, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland)
Celebrities (Emilia Clarke, Sarah Bolger, Rachel McAdams, Karen Gillan, Holland Roden)

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