Where the hell is the remote control?

Icons roundup

nyn17 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:13:28 GMT

Nothing new (if we don't count a few Torchwood ones that I never shared cause I was not crazy about them) here, I'm just collecting them all in one place cause I never did post most of them on this journal.

Icons custom created for people (not up for grabs)

001 for malnpudl

002 for zeenell

003 for primroseburrows

004 for spuffyduds

Icons I made only for myself (also not up for grabs)

005

006

007

008

Due South/C6D icons

009

010

011

012

013

014

015

016

017

018

019

020

021

022

023

024

Torchwood/JB

025

026

027

028

Table generated using angelamaria's Icon Table Generator.
Icons by their own makers.

The usual blah blah, if anyone stumbles upon these, feel free to take any of the shareable ones, credit would be nice applies :P

And the new Headstones album is a go!

nyn17 — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:45:59 GMT

Within a bit more than 24 h, the goal was reached! \o/ \o/ \o/
Now it says 157 days till release and isn't that something :D You can still pledge for as long as there are exclusives left, which will also get you access to updates about the album's progress.
Can't waaait!

crossposted from dreamwidth

HEADS UP, HEADSTONES FANS!!

nyn17 — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:02:29 GMT

Guys, guys, guys, The Headstones are finally making a new album! And they're "cutting out the middleman", which means they need the fans' help to kickstart the project. They first tweeted about it about 5 hours ago and the goal is already 60% met, so I am thinking we'll have done it within a few days max, if not even today. The CA$ 10 pledge gets you the digital download of the album and access to their updates and there are a lot more extras for the more expensive pledges, including the omg-I-wish-I-could-afford-them silver rings and pendants, signed guitars, lyrics, etc (lol even your own house party Headstones gig).
I'm so excited about this album, I've been having a Headstones music phase lately, I was about to brag about finally getting some CDs (preeetty artwork <3!). I'm in a really crappy place mentally right now, this has brightened my day considerably :).

crossposted from dreamwidth

nyn17 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:22:33 GMT

Happy Birthday spuffyduds!

check, check

nyn17 — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:55:22 GMT

Am I crossposting? Have a Donna pic so it's not a completely pointless post :P

eta: yay, it works

crossposted from dreamwidth

Hellooo >_

nyn17 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:35:13 GMT

So um. HI! If anyone still bothers to look my way, which with me being so amazingly active here would be a miracle. HELLO TO ALL THE FISH I friended during this hiatus though! :D Not that much has changed since my last not-really-update, regarding my way too busy for my liking RL state. Hence the lj fail. One thing that's changed though is that I have no more semesters left in the university (omfg yay). Only internships and a whole bunch of leftover exams and then the exams that seem to correspond to the boards in USA (not yay at all *l*). Teh end is almost in sight. What comes after that is probably unemployment, or working something completely unrelated to make ends meet, but hey, at least I won't be in school anymore.

Some of the things I've been fangirling lately:

Criminal Minds - I feel like I won't be able to watch anything else until I have finished all the seasons of this and seeing as how I began s4, this is probably true. Psychology! Crimes! Awesome family-like team &hearts;! Reid! Garcia! Morgan! And everyone else! *lol*
Inception - Great movie, even greater fandom with a seemingly (please, let it always be like that :P) unending supply of quality fic that more than makes up for the lack of characterisation in the movie itself. Amazing art as well. And of course, from a fan of Canadian actors' point - yay Ellen Page!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - one of the best things to come to my attention because of Inception. Remembered him from 3rd Rock From The Sun and 10 Things I hate About You *l*, but hadn't known what an amazing actor he is (can't really tell just by Inception either). Manic, Mysterious Skin, Brick, The Lookout => Nyn completely in love with this guy's acting. I waaaant to see Hesher damn it!
Tom Hardy - totally not my physical type (unlike Joe up there *g*), so I didn't really pay him a lot of attention at first, but people in the fandom worship him for reasons besides his looks. Bronson, Freddie from The Take (whom I nominate for scariest villain o.o), Handsome Bob from Rocknrolla - another man who knows how to act.
The Eagle - It's the love story of Marcus the depressed Roman soldier and Esca, his fierce grumpy Briton slave (and totally the boss), set to one of my favourite tropes - a journey/quest against some breath taking landscapes xD What's not to love. (And yes, I am aware there's a book that people who read and loved as children may feel was somehow offended by the movie, but I have started it and so far I like the movie dynamics way better. Which is not to say the movie did not have issues.) Some awesome fic too. And Jamie Bell is one intense little dude for whom I'll have an eye out. I love how many good actors I've been discovering lately :P
Game Of Thrones - I waited and waited and then forgot about it entirely and then there the tv show was. I had faith that HBO could pull this off and they did. Takes a few eps to get back to the Westeros mood and remember -why the hell- you cared about these characters, but once you do it's great. Even if I don't think half of the cast fits my vision of the characters (Jon?! Sansa?! Jaeme? etc) but oh well. And then after just 10 eps you're made to wait for next season *grumbles*. I have A Dance With Dragons and it arrived just a bit too late to match my tv-induced hype, plus I have forgotten sooo much from the previous books and need to start hitting the textbooks again. Damn.
Squee: The Headstones back together and recording new material? *BOUNCES* And the new site with actual lyrics and streaming of all their songs is a great touch.
Also squee: Garbage are also back together and making new songs, what is this, I am in music heaven.

And it's 4:30 am again and I should run to bed :P. I'd love to go through the f-list but that's for tomorrow and I'd love it if people tell me things I missed although I realize that may be pretty much everything :].
Oh and thanks again for the chocolate userheads :D

I'm really, really swamped with textbooks and exams(ugh), so

nyn17 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:53:36 GMT

just the quickest post to say OMG THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS POLAR BEAR GIVER!! I've been so very out of it lately with school and RL stuff that not only did I lose track of the times I almost came back to lj, I didn't even realize that it was More Joy Day time again and this was an unexpected surprise that brought me joy when I wasn't happy at all, thank you! *hugs, whoever you are* And I'm rambling cause it's 6 am and I haven't yet gone to bed, so... sleep....be back later....

whimpers Hadn't seen these two...

nyn17 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:27:02 GMT

Did I mention I got it bad ever since rewatching A Knight's Tale?

Anyway, just in case you needed something that feels mildly inappropriate to be drooling over...

...

Click twice for hi-res.

Aaargh!

nyn17 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:32:11 GMT

I'm getting such a bad case of cabin fever. I spent three years in Stara Zagora with roommates, but I still got at least a few days a month to myself and this past year has been with me home and my parents working and my sister going to school, but now she's got summer break and I'M GOING CRAZY! She didn't use to stay up this late before at least, but now she never goes to bed before 3am or later and I'm left with half an hour to an hour of alone time at best and at an hour when I'm actually too exhausted to do anything but waste time.
She was supposed to be at a birthday party tonight, so I thought YES! FINALLY and prepared the gin and tonic and Torchwood and she fucking came back around 1 am, about half an hour after my father had gone to bed.
I need to be ALONE damn it, I'm an extreme introvert and I NEED time on my own *pulls hair*. I can't even draw anything with people around. Gah!

I also really need a mouse and am going to find one tomorrow.

Torchwood thoughts, with a clearer head...

nyn17 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:06:01 GMT

And I haven't been able to stay alone for a while and rewatch some ever since and I'm getting really cranky.

Anyway. The miniseries was good. Even great. It had a good plot, a better plot than most of the plots from before. And it was mostly really well executed. I could tell it was quite good and happy endings aren't mandatory in my book, however heartbreaking the lack of said can be (or even however lethal for the series as a whole). And yet something was bothering me. I realized it just now. This didn't feel like Torchwood. I haven't been able to fully accept what's happened as the canon I know it is, because it felt like I was watching a fanfic AU crossover with something else that I wasn't familiar with. And I feel kinda cheated by the fact that what was supposed to be Torchwood s3 had the Torchwood team (or what was left of it to begin with :/) in what felt like less than half of the screen time. Maybe that wouldn't have been quite so bad if that wasn't also the end of Torchwood but it was, and if there is more, I hope they call it by another name, because that one died with the team. You've decided that's the end, fine, that's your right, but you could have given us some time with the characters because of whom we were watching.
And of course Ianto's death. Ok, I knew that wasn't going to be magically erased and tbh, I'm mostly glad it wasn't. As I said, once it happened, anything like that would have just cheapened it. But I remain unconvinced that it was necessary in the first place, the way that it was. It was random, wasn't even really in a fight and served no other purpose that to pile on Jack's angst. And why hadn't most of the people in that building been evacuated when the FREAKING MONSTER ALIEN took residence in it?! Anyway, realism or not, I feel Ianto's death was for shocking value mostly, that and the end of the team. It could have been Gwen dead and it would still have meant the same, death-of-series-wise.
The moment where Jack had to make the decision about his grandson vs all those kids and possibly all of mankind was a strong point. I liked that. In a painful and horrified way. But that's when you kind of knew that Jack Harkness would be gone soon. At least my first thought after that, was that if I were him, I'd want off this planet for a very long time at best. So him going at the very end? I thought that was the logical and human... er... human-with-knowlegde-of-space-travel thing to do. Heartbreaking, yes. I really felt for Gwen, being the last one left behind and with an unspoken "you're not enough" thrown in her face. And for Jack, of course. I do think he'll be back at some point. But given the unlimited time he has, no telling when that'd be.

Hey, btw, I'm not the only one who noticed how they failed to aknowledge the first serious hit there, right? I mean, Jack refuses to kill his brother after all that happened in last season and stuffs him in the fridge, but he gets blown up along with the whole tower and no one mentions it?! Hm.

Gwen didn't cry all of the time, nor tried to flirt with Jack and treated Rhys well. I actually liked her here and I didn't expect that. Thumbs up.

It was a very good, quite realistic for the most part, movie-type miniseries. I liked it, as a separate creation. But I had been told, that this was going to be season three of Torchwood and I was lied to, because that was more like a film that featured Torchwood's characters. While, at the same time, destroying the possibility of there ever being more of the show that we were there for in the first place. I never expected to hope that there won't be a s4. But I do. And if there is, I won't be watching it. I'm sure someone will watch it and probably that makes it ok in the eyes of RTD and company. But pulling that on your loyal fans doesn't feel quite right to me. Then again, I am one of those people that get really into things once they are hooked on something. My mother for example sees nothing wrong with that. *shrugs* But my brain still can't finish processing the new events as legitimate and it's annoying, really.

Torchwood 3x04

nyn17 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:37 GMT

WHAAAAAAT?!
I just saw 1 through 4 and 5 is taking forever to download, so no coherent thoughts really, but... I still haven't processed it, because I know that my reaction is OMFG WTF NO!!! but I haven't quite felt it yet. I need my sister to go to sleep so I can rewatch it and cry in peace. I mean, as a whole, it's been great, the plot is tight, I don't hate Gwen at all this season (o.O), Rhys is there, I'm not sure yet about Lois, but I don't think I dislike her in any case, Jack and Ianto, albeit less physical than I'd have liked, were great and then...*wibble*. Not that it was done badly. I suspect that after another watching Ianto's death will hit me and I'll hate it and it'll still have been a great season and i will like it as a whole. But honestly, we had our proof that they are (all but Jack) mortal last season and we got it alright? There was no need to drive this point home again quite so soon, thank you very much. Because I'm assuming they are planning on a 4th season, but as much as I love Jack, I'm not sure I'll be watching the show for him and Gwen. I can't think of a scenario for Jack without Ianto that I'll want to see. ~~Not even~~ Well, ok maybe if they brought John back as a regular, which they won't and even then probably not :P. And I don't want to not watch it. I'm not a huge fan of pulling rabits out of hats in season finals, as I feel it cheapens things somewhat, but I won't mind a miracle in the next ep, I'm telling you. (Spoil me and die, btw.) It's highly doubtful though, I know. *sigh* Download, damn it!

In any case, that header stays for a while longer.

Er, I also went to visit my ex-roommate in Pleven for a few days and it was great, I returned today, but that's all being pushed to the back of my mind right now.

nyn17 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:45:40 GMT

I am growing old!! :[ When I was in highschool 6 hours of sleep used to be absolutely enough, and I often got by on 4 or even 3 without problems. Now I swear, I cannot peel myself from the bed if it's been less than 8 hours and I don't have to go to an exam or something like that! I keep trying and then fall asleep again. And even after those 8 hours I still feel so tired and can't properly wake up. Old, I'm telling you ~~and tired and bitter :P~~.

So in an attempt to stall being awake I took photos of two of my latest drawings, both of which are proof that my inspiration's out of the window. One day I'll buy a scanner. The camera distorts proportions and it really bugs me.

House

Started this months before I finally decided I'd try to finish it. Unfortunate attempt at big shadows :P

A forlorn punk that was at first supposed to be Joe Dick, but then morphed into someone else. Or maybe a young Joe. idk

I stopped really trying to make him look like the reference after the first 20 minutes *shrug*. He wasn't actually supposed to be forlorn, either... Drawn right after my winter exams, so I guess my own mood seeped through :P. I thought I'd experiment with the brown/red ceramic pensil because I like the colour, not sure I should have though.

So yeah, I've been feeling largely uninspired for months.
And wtf my pensils won't get properly erased anymore...even the ones that did before.

Big Bang!!!

nyn17 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:42:05 GMT

DS C6D Big Bang just went live slowestbigbang.com!! My sketch for Sage's Calm & The Black-Stained Sky is here (made a typo in the disclamer, yay), as well as the soundtrack that I put together for the first part of the fic(which was only sent to us artists then, because it hadn't been finished yet). Only, she seems to have made a few changes that make the songs out of order as they are, but oh well. Turns out Sage had a soundtrack of her own ready *lol*. Anyway, once I get the chance to read the whole thing, I'll add some songs to mine.
Now I have to stay away from all this for at least a few more days and then only read a bit after that /o\ (exams on 17th and 29th).Wah.

To get my mind off this: The Icon Expression Meme

.happy.	.sad.	.angry.	.scared.

.disgusted.	.surprised.	.flirty.	.sexual.

.confused.	.shy.	.playful.	.rage.

.hurt.	.guilty.	.bored.	.laughing.

.sarcastic.	.tired.	.wtf.	.pride.

.sympathy.	.evil.	.innocent.	.in love.

YOUR	FOUR	FAVORITE	ICONS

WANT TO DO IT TOO?
Snag yourself the coding here.

(favourite beside all those above :P)

I have a dreamwidth account,

nyn17 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:16:54 GMT

thanks to entropical87!
I'm nyn there, in case you wanted to friend me. I hesitated about losing the numbers, but it was too tempting when I saw the username wasn't taken :P. I'll probably crosspost everything there, but I'll have to get to that next month when I'll have the time.

ETA: Er, friending there is done by "granting access", I suppose? Let's see :P

ETA2: WTF, imageshack just stopped showing my header...Not that I haven't been meaning to change it for a year, but still, I was defending you in pic hosting conversations, imageshack :/ Hooray for tinypic.

Touchpads suck and studying fries your brain #54353:

nyn17 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:09:04 GMT

I decided I needed to check something on the net, while sitting cross-legged on the bed with a textbook to the side and the laptop in front of me and the cat purring with her head rested to the right of the touchpad, demanding to be scratched. So I'm doing my feline owner duty with the right hand and trying to navigate an overheated touchpad with the left instead. The cursor either stops moving or slows down terribly when it gets too hot. It wasn't until the cat's tail started hitting me with annoyance that I realized that I'm double-tapping and moving one finger over her head with increasing force and stroking the touchpad gently *headdesk*.

nyn17 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:12:32 GMT

Just found the perfect icon for university related posts. I am perversely pleased.

So very belated More Joy Day icon...

nyn17 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:22:34 GMT

I'll be very happy the day when I find a way to stop being such a horrible slacker, but unfortunately that day has not yet come. And I'm even delivering a day later than I last said and just the first icon, but that DWTS thing upset me quite a lot more than expected and really killed my inspiration.

primroseburrows, part of the reason I didn't post this earlier was I kept getting crappy results and that's not exactly a granny Connoy icon, but I'll follow up with one these days. Ok, within a week or two, to be safe :]. Anyway, here is an Anna icon and please excuse the incredible delay.

....

zeenell yours is coming tomorrow!

nyn17 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:16:17 GMT

Noooooo!!! :'(
Not fair, damn it!

It's 5am and I'm going to bed pissed off and with a headache. Gah.

He did so well though, it feels a bit weird to be proud of somebody you've known about for less than two months, but I am.

blows off dust from her end of lj

nyn17 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:45:05 GMT

I was going to resurface these days anyway and I swear I'll be here with the ~~Antisocial Sloth Fail~~More Joy Day icons no later than wednesday. Thank God I signed up for ds c6d big bang with the deadlines to nudge me to open lj /o\.

But I arrived at the right moment to hear about this idiocy, so first off- Amazon rank.
And Glitch, my ASS indeed. (ETA: Ha, it finally worked! The result's now in the first place. ETA2: Nah, slipped to second again...)
Seriously, weren't we in the 21st century last time I checked?! And to think I was so happy to finally be able to order Corambis (ironically enough, although Sarah Monette's books, incliding ACTW somehow passed unnoticed by the "glitch") by myself from them.

Wah!

nyn17 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:59:32 GMT

The exams are finally over. I passed both of them, I'm pretty happy about one and not at all about the other. But anyway it's over until the summer, when I have two more, only one of which could possibly pose a problem, but at least it's an interesting enough textbook.
And I can now start my next university year even as it is. Oh joy.

Anyway, I'm a bit exhausted now, because of course my real studying was done in the last two or so weeks and especially the second one :P, so I've had less than 8 hours of sleep in the last three days and the two exams in two consequent days. But after I've had some rest I'll really start with the icons and the lj header explanation.

nyn17 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:51:49 GMT

Um, hi, I'm a few days behind on lj and what's worse, a few days behind on studying and I'm going to Stara Zagora tomorrow for an exam on the 29th. So, yeah, I just wanted to say sorry for the delay of more joy day icons! I hope I'll have time to get around actually making them when I come back, or after the next exam in the worst case.

Digging up the old Spuffy love... Or Spike love, rather :P

nyn17 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:04:17 GMT

c_regalis complained of lack of good Buffyverse fic. Now, it's been years since I last read actively in this fandom, but I remember differently. So I hit my old bookmarks folder and tried to remember what made me love the fic back then. I am a bit shocked at how much I've forgotten, but here are some stories and authors that ring a bell for me, still. *gulps* I don't have time to read these to check if I'm not embarassing myself by reccing them. Now, bear in mind I was 16-17 when I read some of these :P But I still believe there were good stories.

Spike/Buffy:

Journeys by Mary is one of the few that stayed in my head with its title and author. Not a light read, but I liked it a lot when I read it.

Spike lips! Lips of Spike! by Mr Monkey Bottoms is another. I think it was very funny.

Kantayra was one of the most well-known authors in the Spuffy realm. I loved Blue Horizons and Ballancing The Scales(both AUs, but she didn't write only AU) off the top of my head, but anything by her is worth checking out.

Nautibitz and PaganBaby were amongst the queens of pure smutt.

Euridice is another name that springs to mind. Charms Of The Clarion, The Hunt, Black Satin Voices...I think I must have read all of the older ones.

Echidna and especially the Twining Vines, A Touch Of Jealousy...

I remember these as good authors. Herself, Kalima and Fayjay especially.

Devil Piglet's name...yeah you got it, it's in my head :P

Jypzrose's Speedway almost got me into car racing. She was big on AUs, too. I remember I liked Ashes Of Dreams(not AU) too...

Isabelle's 100 Years Of Solitude was a fandom classic.

Chelle was a well known name, too. Walking After Midnight, Wet And Wild....

Affinity by Ginmar was the first long fic I ever read. Whoa, time flies.

ETA2: Cousinjean was run out of the fandom after some epic wank, but her writing was very good and The Butterfly Effect is something of a classic. Also Getaway. Her fics are now kinda scattered.

I was(and still am) endlessly fascinated by the Fanged Four(Angelus, William, Dru and Darla) dynamics. It's not everyone's thing, but if it is yours ;P :

Peasant is THE FF writer. Sweet William is one of my favourite fics ever.

Coquette was a bit like Peasant. Never finished her second story, unfortunately.

Spike/Xander:

Wiseacress is Coquette, later on. Her stories were pretty dark but I loved them. Especially Modus Vivendi. She has Spike/Angelus, too, and again -dark-, very NC17, but good, imo.

It's Just A Jump To The Left" by Kimberly was one of the last fics I read in the fandom and the only one that's in my lj memories *s*. It's really good, too. Starts off confusing and not really Spander, but has you convinced by the end.

...I should think that'd be enough for a start *G*. I got nostalgic here. And it all just started to come back to me, so if you, by any chance don't find anything you like here, I'm sure I can find something else! *is a pimp* Also, there must have been Spike only stories, when I think of any, I'll tell you *eg*

(God, the sheer quantity of fics I read in that fandom is scary *l*)

And remember, judge not, I don't quite remember what I'm talking about here ;))

ETA: Also, also! The Spuffy Awards (and wow, they still exist, yay) are a good place to use for finding good fics, cause, duh, award winners and nominees and nicely split into categories at that.

nyn17 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:27:07 GMT

I was going to make a bigger More Joy Day post, maybe with a bit of an unexpected picspam, and do some commenting, but I won't be able to, today, cause it's 4 am and I should sleep(if I can) /o\.

So here's what I'm offering :P :

1. I can make you an icon/icons by your request, most of my fandoms are in my interests, except Merlin. If you want another fandom, you'll have to provide me with pics and/or quotes.

2. Or a wallpaper or an lj header, but that'll probably take longer, cause i have exams soon.

3. Like last year - I can draw you a sketch (preferably portrait) of a fictional character/actor/etc. If I don't know who they are I'll need a pic again. And that'll most surely happen after my exams, i.e. around the middle of February at best.

I'm probably forgetting something, idk.

...Oh, oh, have a wallpaper
I'm not sure about it at all, but that's what Virology does to you. And I thought at least I'd have something in the post.

SOrry, getting more and more incoherent here, night and yay joy spreading!

Oh and I sent a poor soul over at ddg_and_sundry the Maya fic pdf, because they'd lost theirs in a comp crash. Although I wasn't thinking about the Day when I did that *g*

nyn17 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:47:15 GMT

What do you know, once you get past the classification-related horror Virology is actually interesting. But going slower that anticipated.
I'm gonna be my usual half-lurking self for the weeks to come because of all that.

Snagged an icon meme from love_jackianto again(in hopes that I'll nudge myself into iconmaking again at some point). I used only icons made by me, I couldn't possibly choose otherwise:

My icons

default	oldest	newest


saddest	happiest	angriest
/>

cutest	sexiest	funniest


fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated


best quote	best textless	best stolen idea


use the most	favorite

(answers are for all of my userpics, not those made by me)
HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 83
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 105
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: Yes
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Hmm yes. It reads: FANGIRL :P
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: At the moment Torchwood.
AND THE SECOND MOST: Must be Due South.
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: *counts* Heh, that would be a shared first place- Fraser/Ray K and Jack/Ianto
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Yes.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: Yes.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: I hope.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: LOVE.

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

Today is the day for "good" news

nyn17 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:31:05 GMT

Ok, so I managed both to back up my lj over at insanejournal, and get a ljarchive copy on my hard drive, using instructions from this post. *eyes lj* That is not an invitation for you to go down, lj.

Also, we, and by we and mean Bulgaria, are on the verge of a serious(-er) crisis, thanks to the quarrel between Russia and Ukraine(in which we have -absolutely- no part). We rely on Russia for all of our gas supply and we were completely cut off, when they stopped the gas flow for Ukraine. We don't have enough natural gas reserves to live on, and what back up reserves we have will last us till the end of the month, if rations are cut down. At least Varna doesn't have central heating, and we don't have gas at my home, so we're not immediately hit by the consequences. But if things stay as they are, we're in for an economical crashdown. There's already talk of power restrictions and schools and hospitals left without heat. Fan-fucking-tastic.
(And I just bet the EU's going to come up with a reason for us not to be able to restart the recently stopped nuclear reactors of Kozloduy.)