Tsunami of Polls: We moved back into the restored apartment....

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......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 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.

Comments

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Unfortunately I think all of those graphics were lost in my recent laptop breakdown. I lost my hard drive completely :(

Given that our desktop and two external harddrives were lost in the fire last year I SYMPATHIZE. Oh boy do I ever. (I had a rough draft of a picspam meta comparing Dru and Buffy in School Hard/Becoming that I doubt I'll be able to reproduce *sniffle*)

So you don't have an online storage then? That's what I like about Photobucket, or what I used to like - it had the fotoflexer editing suite (now it has a different one that I don't like as much) and it stores photos. I need to back my stuff up to my own external harddrive in case the site crashes.

That's the benefit of PB - all my pics are there so when I want to make an icon and have an off-the-cuff idea, it's all in one place.

BTW, comlodge introduced me to pixlr-o-matic, which has some fun effects but I haven't really mastered it yet. (I like the grungy effects like "worn" that makes a pic look like it's under a piece of badly scratched glass). You can apparently download it.
http://pixlr.com/o-matic/

And comedic or meta icons - I have to be in the mood. Which usually means "incredibly snarky about something someone in fandom said" or else I'm just amusing myself.

And the compliments are no trouble whatsoever because they are all entirely true! :)

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(I had a rough draft of a picspam meta comparing Dru and Buffy in School Hard/Becoming that I doubt I'll be able to reproduce *sniffle*)
picspam metas are my very favorites and this sounds so lovely!

I ... am inconsistent with online storage and backing up my stuff. I dump into googledrive occasionally (usually at the end of semester - but since that's no longer my timeframe?) but nothing bad has ever happened before so... it was a hard lesson learned.

I lost the Introduction to my thesis.

I hate PB because the site is so slow and I am not savvy enough to organize myself there in a productive way. #lazy

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picspam metas are my very favorites and this sounds so lovely!

It was actually - but I was adding meta paragraphs as well (you know me) and that was the biggest bitch of it. I think I was trying to bite off too much at one go. Breaking it down might make it easier for me but that's how my brain works. (this is maybe why I do well with icons in that I have to FOCUS on one image at a time.)

Speaking of, I adore your Dawn and Tara icon - the assymmetrical composition? The delicate wash of colors? YES PLEASE.

I lost the Introduction to my thesis.

!!!!! So sorry hon! Were you able to re-create it? Trying to remember something written is always a bitch and for me a little terrifying.

I learned that lesson myself in college btw - before there was any such thing as icloud or whatnot twenty years ago and we were converting from floppy discs (very easily damaged) to hard discs (also apt to go wonky). Staring at a blank screen realizing I hadn't backed stuff up.

And you are not wrong about PB. It is creaky - and I don't like the new editing suite as much (but now I don't like the old on anymore either, and I'm too lazy to go back and forth between two or more sites just to make icons.)

#lazy

Wait, what? I'm constantly looking at what you post on your journal and wonder how the HELL do you get so much done (because that's just the journal and not including school ,work and everything else you do) and feel like a freaking SLUG myself. If you think you're lazy how do you think that makes lazy people like me feel? *LMAO*