JE's Ramblings

(created by poptartmuse @LJ)


All of my fandom work (fanfiction, icons, wallpapers, tutorials,...) will be posted at love_sacrificed.

( What does get posted here? )

Challenge 57 over at dwicontest could use some more votes!

This won't happen any time soon... at least not before I get ahead on the icontests I already mod, but since dwicontest is practically dead - Would anybody be interested in reviving it?

I've tried asking the mod in comments to recent posts several months ago to at least give an update. If it's rl, too few votes/entries in the open challenges. No reply or official post ever came and after checking her journal on Livejournal, I could see that she had made several public and locked posts since the last post here. At least one of them had even been a picspam. Even a lack of interest in IJ, DW or whatever would have been fine instead of just letting it die.

On the other hand. I know I've been severally lacking when it comes to merlin_icontest but there's still only one person who entered and usually there are just two and it's kind of disheartening. Especially since I still have to catch up with season 2. I think I'll close the current challenge (as soon as I'm done posting as it's just no use keeping it open) and put the icontest on hiatus either until I've seen the "new" episodes or someone wants to take it over.

I also haven't decided what to do with fandom20in20. Right now I've limited my field of interest to two fandoms: Doctor Who and Harry Potter, so I feel beyond uninspired to take it active again. However, I've been itching to mod a 20in20 community. Specifically, I've been considering getting one open for all fandoms with a pretty open range for what can get claimed. I guess I could convert it.

And now I really should start studying for my exam on Wednesday. Oh yeah... and maybe extend my icontest on Livejournal because there aren't any entries so far... Not that I didn't help what with my lack of reminders!

So much to do... so why the hell is time insisting on running way too fast???

plusone_rumble @LJ has opened it's doors for a new round!

Since I love procrastinating instead of doing important things, I've decided to create an asylum for support. Anybody who wants to achieve something (no matter what) is welcome to join and share. Maybe with a little pressure/control possibilities it will result in success!

achieve_it

I certainly know that even if there aren't any comments, just posting regular updates will get to me actually do something... nothing worse than a guilty conscience when actually seeing it in writing.

Anyone remember my offer to translate my notes on Photoshop 7 as I type it up? Well, after months of doing nothing I've started typing up again and am currently on Page 8 of 14 (well... a page meaning 2 pages actually as it's a sheet of paper with notes on both sides). And I have a feeling that I'm moving along quicker than before (might be the difference in neatness though...)

Anyway, I uploaded what I typed up so far to see if it's actually understandable. I would ask about formatting, but since I published it through Google Docs, it's a bit of a hit and miss (as in Google Docs replaced all my arrows with other letters and while I use the "Find and Replace" function to fix that, I'm not sure if I might have missed anything).

Anyway, for anybody who's interested you can check it here: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgqfgwjh_26djx8wcv4

I also noticed that Photoshop CS3 is still pretty similar ;)

(And yes, this is my way of procreating when I should be working on my Bachelor Thesis... although I could always post more of my icons -- if only I wouldn't hate the coding /read: numbering of the icons/ so much)

I need voting help for challenge 11 of my icontest community fandom20in20. There's a three-way tie and I don't want to announce three out of five icons as winners.

So... during the summer last year I had a book about Photoshop 7 from the university library since I wanted to check something (not sure what any more) and I ended up reading the first half of it and taking notes of the little things I didn't know/hadn't discovered in my exploring yet. When my practical semester started I didn't have time to finish it and now I have the book again and plan on finishing it soon (hopefully today so I can bring it back together with other books tomorrow)...

So far all my notes are on paper, but I plan on typing it up and wondered if anybody would be interested in it. I'm asking now since all my notes are in German and I wouldn't mind translating it as I type up (since I need the English terms for any tutorials I end up writing anyway). I'm sure that I left some things out that I already know about (and won't forget again) last year, but I seem to be more exact this time around.

Anybody who's interested, feel free to drop me a comment and I'll post it once I'm done with taking notes/typing the notes up.

Not living in the US, I can't vote but I wanted to show my support nonetheless:


"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

Please those who can vote go here and sign the petition against prop 8. Thank you.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/divorce

I wish everybody a nice (and mostly harmless) New Year's Eve and a Happy New Year.

I wish everybody a Happy Christmas (or whatever your celebrating)! Hope there will be/were a lot of gifts (and especially things you wanted ;) ) Have a nice couple of days with family and loved ones without fights or other aggravations.

I'm suitably tipsy already on 3 or 4 glasses of sparkly wine, half of my gifts are unpacked (the other half will come with my grandparents tomorrow after lunch probably) and now my parents are a couple of houses down with a few more people who have grown kids that aren't home on Christmas (or "in bed" at 10pm like I usually am because I'm bored watching TV while the TV is too distracting for me working on my computer)

I'm willing to take on requests for screencaps... go and check out this post for a list of DVDs I own and can make screencaps from.

There's a new idea for a lims over at LJ. So far there are only 3 participants and the first challenge gets posted next Monday.

Saw this on my lj flist and couldn't resist :D

( *rambles* )

So... after some time of few icons being made, I finally posted some again.

Half of them are icontest icons and the rest is for Torchwood...

Samples:


They can be found here

Took long enough. Then again, I spent most of Thursday working on a uni project, nearly finishing it. I got an email from my Professor about a problem I ran into and just need to fix it.

The scariest part? All those LJ and IJ posts I bookmarked to comment on after having them open for most of the day due to being too tired late at night... I guess they got plenty full again. Really need to catch up again.

Alright, I caved, I created my 8th asylum. This time it's an icontest (since I've become so addicted to them). It's called fandom20in20 and offers a challenge for different TV Shows each week.

I originally planned to make the first challenge for Torchwood with the theme duos, but as I was about to make screencaps for it (since I only had crappy ones for the scene I wanted) I found out that the files I had were corrupt. So I switched it with the second challenge, which was the CSI episode "Big Middle" (which is now the first challenge).

Now I just have to wait until Wednesday(?) when my last post to asylum_promo is a week old to add it to my regular pimp there. To think I originally did those posts on Saturday... until I kept forgetting and posting the next day which eventually turned into Wednesday.

So... now I'll answer comments on IJ and LJ before heading to bed - or cleaning my bed of the stuff I threw on it when I started cleaning my room and stopped halfway through.

Asylums I created and manage! Feel free to check them out and join.

( 10prompts )
( harry_slash )
( stargate_xover )
( dw_threesomes )
( dw_fest )

The disney_icontest needs more votes for the Jack Sparrow round here!

You can also join the next round which is all about the movie Cars.

Alright... I meant to do this a long time ago (Beginning of the year? Earlier? Later?) and I remember I started, but then I stopped again and I can't even remember what I did with the list I already had...
For more explanations check out the post I've posted to to love_sacrificed... I just figured I'd post this here as well, so people know what I'm going to be talking about.

The shows are divided into "Currently Addicted" (i.e. the shows I'm currently addicted to and/or watched in the last month), "Recently" (i.e. the shows I'm still slightly fond of, but haven't really watched in a while/am not obsessing over) and "Old" (i.e. the shows I watched years ago and that don't have any new episodes coming out (in most cases)). IF A SEASON ISN'T LISTED, THEN I HAVEN'T WATCHED A SINGLE EP OF IT! (or watched it so recently, that I didn't update the list yet)

Anything marked as all* is a guess, since I have the Season on DVD and assume, that I've watched it, even if I can't connect the episode summary with the episode.

CURRENTLY ADDICTED
( Doctor Who )
( Torchwood )
( Sarah Jane Adventures )
( Dead Like Me )

RECENTLY
( Heroes )
( SGA )
( CSI )
( CSI:NY )
( House )
( Numb3rs )
( Bones )
( Supernatural )
( NCIS )

OLD
( CSI:Miami )
( Highlander )
( Buffy )
( X-Files )
( Earth 2 )
( Space: Above and Beyond )
( Without A Trace )
( Gilmore Girls )
( Smallville )
( Dark Angel )
( Babylon 5 )
( Star Trek )
( Star Trek:TNG )
( Star Trek:DS9 )
( Star Trek:Voyager )
( Stargate )

I copied my original screencaps post on LJ, added (several) Heroes and (tons of) Doctor Who screencaps to the list and posted it to love_sacrificed, my creative asylum. Over the next few days (hopefully I'll get it all tomorrow), I'll add the caps I made for Torchwood.

The direct link to the post: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/je_fic/5021.html