Icontest challenge deadlines, Hush icons and anti-nostalgia - the college edition!

** starry_night just posted a tiebreaker post for Most Creative icon for slayerstillness Round 24. Voting will be up for 24 hours or until the tie is broken. And as it happens, these are two super-fantastic entries out of an amazing field of icons. THESE ICONS - THIS ROUND - GAH!  They are all, to borrow a phrase from the lovely velvetwhip, awesomesauce in a jar.  And then some. I kind of love tiebreakers. Chose between two items instead ten/twenty/thirty/howevermany? I can handle that. Most of the time. Sometimes. Sorta-kinda.

** A reminder from dragonydreams that the deadline for entries in otherworldlyric challenge 172 is midnight Friday May 23 and that she could still use some more entries in that challenge. I'm sort of surprised because I thought people would be all over the prompt song this time, until I remember that for a lot of folks it's finals time. Thank you eilowyn for reminding me that world still exists. (Now get back to the books, sweetie.)  Which means those of us who have reliable computer acces (tiny percentage of the world's population) and are not in college/sick and dying of malaria and malnutrition/hiking in the Andes/performing at Carnegie Hall/fighting in a war of independence from 50 years of oppression need to pick up the slack.

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( More icons and other anti-nostalgia ahead )

Happy Birthday (just a little bit early) to Snogged!

Since I'll be away from the computer tomorrow I wanted to send a card from me, Marshall and Lily wishing the lovely snogged a very happy birthday. Enjoy dinner with your parents sweetie, and all the good things that life has to bring you! Thank you for coming to my journal and commenting, being supportive and loving, bringing your cheer, tenderness and good humor to fandom so readily - and then gifting us with amazing stories that run the gamut from fluffy and hopeful to twisted, painful and darker than pitch. I have no idea how you do it.