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red_satin_doll) wrote2014-04-21 01:45 pm
red_satin_doll) wrote2014-04-21 01:45 pm
Tsunami of Polls: We moved back into the restored apartment....
......and my first "official" act in fandom was to:
[Poll #1965322][Poll #1965322]
And the correct answer is....
#5! Yup, a massive, massive fail on my part. Actually, all of the choices represent a massive fail on my part, except for the last choice for which I DO NOT APOLOGIZE.
(She was mentioning how a character in her new novel has an opportunity to mindwipe the memories of another and doesn't because he respects her too much and it's not what she would want. Also, she just began watching btvs S1 at my urging and is NOT impressed with Angel or Xander. At all.) I actually spent hours making icons for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
slayerstillness challenge #22 "A Room Full of Emptiness" (Negative Space)" ("Ooh, I can do this one!"); hours dithering over which to chose before deciding to actually ask my beta ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wickedbish for help; and then failed to send him the link to the Photobucket folder so he could actually see the icons. By the time I figured out my mistake, it was too late to enter the challenge. (And I'm a little pissed at myself, because I think I made some good icons and really enjoyed getting back into the creative flow for the first time in weeks.)
But at least I manage to vote as the deadline isn't until tomorrow (midnight your time) hence still time to vote and pimp it - so there's a penance, at least.
And entries are being accepted for the latest challenge #23 (deadline Friday) so there's lots o' time left to enter. Yup, lots o' time....
The only fail more massive is #4 - I have NOT gotten around to congratulating all the winners of the Willowy Goodness Awards, includingvelvetwhip, snogged, foxstarreh, clockwork_hart1, tiny_white_hats, and snowpuppies amoung others. Congratulations to all the winners (by which I include "Runners Up" aka the silver and bronze medalists). I actually did vote in that one too and cheese on a cracker did you folks make it painfully hard to choose!
ETA: ALL credit to the amazingeilowyn for urging me to watch Orphan Black, which I'd never heard of until she mentioned it.
[Poll #1965322][Poll #1965322]
And the correct answer is....
#5! Yup, a massive, massive fail on my part. Actually, all of the choices represent a massive fail on my part, except for the last choice for which I DO NOT APOLOGIZE.
(She was mentioning how a character in her new novel has an opportunity to mindwipe the memories of another and doesn't because he respects her too much and it's not what she would want. Also, she just began watching btvs S1 at my urging and is NOT impressed with Angel or Xander. At all.) I actually spent hours making icons for
slayerstillness challenge #22 "A Room Full of Emptiness" (Negative Space)" ("Ooh, I can do this one!"); hours dithering over which to chose before deciding to actually ask my beta wickedbish for help; and then failed to send him the link to the Photobucket folder so he could actually see the icons. By the time I figured out my mistake, it was too late to enter the challenge. (And I'm a little pissed at myself, because I think I made some good icons and really enjoyed getting back into the creative flow for the first time in weeks.)But at least I manage to vote as the deadline isn't until tomorrow (midnight your time) hence still time to vote and pimp it - so there's a penance, at least.
And entries are being accepted for the latest challenge #23 (deadline Friday) so there's lots o' time left to enter. Yup, lots o' time....
The only fail more massive is #4 - I have NOT gotten around to congratulating all the winners of the Willowy Goodness Awards, including
velvetwhip, snogged, foxstarreh, clockwork_hart1, tiny_white_hats, and snowpuppies amoung others. Congratulations to all the winners (by which I include "Runners Up" aka the silver and bronze medalists). I actually did vote in that one too and cheese on a cracker did you folks make it painfully hard to choose!ETA: ALL credit to the amazing
eilowyn for urging me to watch Orphan Black, which I'd never heard of until she mentioned it.
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I hope I'll recognize you once again!
You know, I understand the emphasis on anonymity - I'm sure the mods don't want these to be popularity contests - but on the other hand? Bored now. None of the fanfic contests/awards depend on anonymity. We wouldn't even think of it.
Every artist has a signature style and I don't want to NOT use certain effects, etc just because someone might "recognize" me. That takes up energy I don't want to waste.
Besides, I trust my friends to vote for the best icon, not vote for me. When I vote in fic contests, I vote for the work I consider the best regardless of who the author is. The same is true with icon challenges. I'm very firm in that regard.
Many of my all time favorite icons are minimalist
And I got very excited when I saw this prompt because a lot of my icons are "minimalist" because I love close ups on Buffy/SMG, *points to my PG icon* but also because I haven't had layers and fancy effects in my toolkit so I've had to make simplicity a virtue.
But I also have a lot of icons with text in them and when I tried to remove the text, sometimes the meaning was lost and I had to start fresh. I love challenging myself!