This journal is mostly friendlocked, if you wish to add me feel free, there's a good chance I'll add back. I'm easygoing and tend to natter about all sorts of stuff - not so much fandom as before (and rather more general stuff/studies, but the fandoms they are still there and I still love them and do go back head back when I need to...)
My Fanfiction...
My fanfiction stories big and small have all now been added to Archive of Our Own here and I will keep putting them there, and noting them here with links. All stories are gen unless otherwise indicated, and really don't need warnings IMO. The fandoms I have written in, either as standalone stories or in crossovers, are listed in order of most to least: Blake's 7 The Sentinel Stargate SG-1 The Magnificent Seven The Untamed Primeval Criminal Minds White Collar Stargate Atlantis
... with oddments/crossovers for Doctor Who, Jeeves & Wooster, The Muppet Show, Něco z Alenky / Alice In Wonderland, Farscape, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Miss Marple, Time Team, Chalet School, Torchwood, The Addams Family, Merlin, Miss Marple, Inspector Rex, Looney Tunes and Georgette Heyer.
Each August 2009-2015, I did a few daily icons on anything and everything under the sun for naarmamo... here are the month's galleries for 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009.
A muddledy mixture, many done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Mostly done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Dr Who
Four, River Song and a group of 'dark' ones of baddies
A muddledy mixture, many done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Assorted Film
A few each for Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away, Wall-E, Disney's Alice...
01. 02. 03. ( And more...Collapse ) and just three of Leia from early Star Wars. I do rather love her.
01. 02. 03.
Assorted TV White Collar
01. 02. 03. ( And more...Collapse ) And Miss Piggy, I do rather love her too :)
01. 02. 03. ( And more...Collapse ) Plus just one or a couple - because that's the way the challenges rolled - for Addams Family, Criminal Minds, Wandavision, Jeeves and Wooster, Monty Python, Lost in Space and Bridgerton, .
Mostly done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Sleepy Animals
The original challenge was for 'resting' so I went for a menagerie of sleepyheads, and then added some more :)
Peanuts, Simons Cat, Pusheen, Garfield, a couple of Daffy Duck and one each of Hagar the Horrible (because I had to) and the Dog from Footfot Flats {g}
Many done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
These were all done for challenges, twenty of them for just one. I know this is a fairly esoteric collection but as always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Ancient Detective, Douluo Continent, Joy of Life, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, The Romance of Tiger and Rose
The challenge, from monthlyinspo was 'monochrome' so I did a set of four icons for each of these five dramas that I am fond of, each in a different colour... Ancient Detective in green, Douluo Continent blue, Joy of Life brown, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty white, and The Romance of Tiger and Rose red.
Many of these have been done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Mostly done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Mostly done for or inspired by challenges (I need to catch up a bit on posting). As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Doctor Who
The challenge was actually to do icons featuring numbers so of course I did a set of doctors, from Eight right through New Who to the present... They are pretty much all made from scans of the DW magazine covers and there are a couple of Thirteen and one of the War Doctor that were just extras :)
An eclectic lot, done for or inspired by challenges mostly :) As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
The Three Musketeers and the Four Musketeers
The challenge was for our favourite 70s movie. And I loooove these, so made rather more than necessary.
Because the challenge was my favourite fictional invention, and while there are so many others, from a very early age I have adored spaceships, especially the ones that adorned 79s and 80s sf paperback covers (of which there were so many in our house)
An Odd Assortment These are a mixed group, some for gif challenges (the two skating ones I am particularly humbly proud of managing to get seamless, not easy) and some for rather more ecletic reasons :)
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Flowers
So this challenge was an alphabetical one, do icons for a set of letters: I happily made I through to T (plus quite a few extra versions for some multi-florally letters) and then reread the instructions that say a sent of five... oh well. Here's umm, somewhat more than five.
Mostly done for various challenges :) As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
The shows being The Addams Family (just two), Merlin, The Hollow Crown (Shakespeare), The Muppet Show, Stargate SG1, The Sentinel, Tokyo Ghoul and White Collar.
Many of these were made for challenges, I thought I'd put them up. Oh well...
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Many were made for challenges, and then I kept going on some themes :) As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
The books and reading ones – as you can guess it's one of my favourite pasttimes....
The challenge theme here was purple and yes, some of the book ones I did when making for this as well :) And also yes, there are Despicable Me ones because, well, purple minions....
Favourite places... after dithering about a whole range of ancient monuments I went for Corfe Castle and one for Swallowsnest in the Ukraine (I could have done a heap of castles actually...)
Most were made for challenges, which is why the heap of SGA's Teyla and Radek, and Blakes 7's Soolin (though I do really love them all... and I am now happily imagining a Soolin/Radek crossover :)
This was self-indulgence, but the topic did fit for two challenges! (I will probably use some myself, but thought you might, as I said, enjoy the pretties :) Mostly - though not all - Yuzuru Hanyu and Javier Fernandez because I’m biased (I did say self-indulgence, didn't I?)
Board games? I went for Scrabble because me and words are... well yes :) but I also did a couple of chess ones based on the queen from the ancient Isle of Lewis chess set. Because I love it.
This is a (rather long overdue) catch up on the icons I have done for challenges, plus extras where I made more than I needed - fandoms are Doctor Who, Magnificent 7 (yes, a lot of Ezra, he fitted into several challenges and he's pretty), the Muppet Show, Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, The Sentinel, Torchwood, Trap Door...
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
This is a catch up on the icons I have done for challenges, plus extras where I made more than I needed - fandoms are And Then There Were None, Merlin, Primeval, Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis... plus a one of Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
This is just the handful of icons I have done this month (AND October, because the start of November was frenetic and I missed it) for challenges, plus extras where I made more than I needed - fandoms are Blakes 7, Magnificent 7 (they asked for an OT3), the old Quatermass shows, Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, The Sentinel... plus just one each for Death Comes to Pemberley, Pride and Prejudice (1980 and 1995), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
...and finally and very esoterically, three quotes from my favourite historical person of all time, Sir Sydney Smith (the last one I think I will be using :)
To go with the book rec just done...? They're not from the book itself (as you can probably tell), but there are so many lovely Snoopy writing pics on the web, I couldn't resist.
This is the handful of icons I have done this month for challenges (plus extras where I made more than I needed) - fandoms are Dr Who, Merlin, Primeval, The Sword in the Stone (Madam Mim) and White Collar, plus several Marvin the Martian ones. Plus just one each for The Crown, The Hollow Crown, The Tudors and Wolf Hall (it was a set on umm, crowns :) and Elizabeth I...
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
This is just the handful of icons I have done this month for challenges (plus extras where I made more than I needed) - fandoms are Blakes 7, Criminal Minds, Dr Who, Merlin, NCIS, Primeval, Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, The Sentinel, plus just one each for NCIS:LA, Penny Dreadful, Star Wars and The Borgias...
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Going on from yesterday's post, I also decided that a good burr up the bustle would be to join a few low-pressure icons comms; so you'll be getting the odd little collection swept and and posted here every so often.
Like these... just a few of Arthur of the Britons, Blakes 7, Magnificent 7, Merlin, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, The Sentinel and White Collar.
Because I haven't done many this year, and I just thought I would like to... I tend to use my own thinky icons rather a lot, which gave me the idea.
It's a mixture of fannish and nonfannish, the former for {deep breath} Arthur of the Britons, Blakes 7, Dr Who, Jeeves and Wooster, Magnificent 7, Merlin, Primeval, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The Sentinel and White Collar, plus one each for The Avengers, Chalet School, Man from Uncle and Muppet Show, a few film ones, some cartoons and some just... because I liked the pictures :)
As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
... Based on a T-shirt spikesgirl58 showed on her journal because she loved it and knew we would too. I did enough to hunt up a few pictures and do these... am also including the blank bases, which other text could be put on :)
... Because after shopping yesterday, I felt the need for a bit of festive. As always, take if you want, text can be added if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...
Aaand... that's a wrap for the month! Here's the last post for August, and as in previous years, I finish with ten black and white icons - this year, for a bit of a change, I have chosen 10 classic film stars whom I like (either they did films I love, or the films may not be wonderful but I just like them :) Of course, the fact that they were all but the last one black and white pictures to start with... didn't actually make it easier...
They are, in order, silent film stars Ramon Novarro and Clara Bow, the classic sex symbol (and good comedienne) Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and William Powell (from The Thin Man), Anna May Wong (just because she is beautiful), Joan Blondell (just because she's lovable), James Stewart (with my absolute favourite line from The Philadelphia Story), James Mason (The Man In Grey... the bits of the film I've seen are, well, not great, but he is rather gorgeous), Ronald Colman (the definitive Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities), and Elizabeth Taylor (her Cleopatra was ridiculous, but very pretty in a retro way)
So that's another Naarmamo finished, and for the last time this year, my 2016 naarmamo image gallery is here, with the previous ones from 2009-2015 linked at the bottom of the page :)
I do like the Tintin books (not as much as Asterix, but still...) and for some reason have always loved Bianca Castafiore (not sure I'd want to listen to too much of her singing, I suspect she is one of those full-bodied vibrato-throated sopranos I tend to avoid) so thought I'd do a music icon with her. And while hunting up the picture I ran across a couple of Professor Calculus which... inspired me.
My 2016 naarmamo image gallery is here, with the previous ones from 2009-2015 linked at the bottom of the page :)
Following the posts on pairings, I decided to do a little second, purely gen set - these are five fannish pairs I pretty much always see as just friends, and adore them as just that...
They are, in order, Ezra and Buck (Magnificent 7), Ziva and McGee (NCIS... Tim is my favourite there), Merry and Pippin (Lord of the Rings), Rodney and Radek (Stargate Atlantis), and Diana and Neal (White Collar)
My 2016 naarmamo image gallery is here, with the previous ones from 2009-2015 linked at the bottom of the page :)
Today, I thought I'd do some of my favourite fannish pairings... and found myself ending up with ten :) I do love my fannish darlings...
They are, in order, Blake and Avon, and Avon and Soolin (my favourite two pairings in Blakes 7), Arthur and Kai (Arthur of the Britons), Amy and Rory (Dr Who), Chris and Ezra (Magnificent 7), Lester and Connor, and Connor and Abby (both Primeval), Jack and Daniel (Stargate SG1), Jim and Blair (The Sentinel) and Peter and Neal (White Collar... yes, I love the OT3 with El too :)
My 2016 naarmamo image gallery is here, with the previous ones from 2009-2015 linked at the bottom of the page :)
I think some people on my lists - both LJ and DW - need a little extra love, and for sure the world always does. So here are five heart icons, just because...
Plus, when I found the picture for the third one there were other little thumbnail pictures including these two lovely little rose ones couldn't resist using. I love florally icons, I do :)
My 2016 naarmamo image gallery is here, with the previous ones from 2009-2015 linked at the bottom of the page :)