red_satin_doll | While I sit here feeling very very numb

btvsats20in20 is up NOW until June 16th; there are separate posts for the 10 Themes, Category (black/white), and Artist's Choice.

And sign-ups are already being accepted for Round 2 so grab your claim!

Kudos to

bangel_4e for all their hard work, for creating this comm and for making it all look great! And I forgot to thank

clockwork_hart1 in my entries post for taking the time to explain how to make a collage in ipiccy so I could do the blending icons. I'd never done that before because Photobucket doesn't have that capability.

So go and vote for your favorites, the best of the best if such decisions can be made. What is "best" really? I used to whine and complain when I had 9 - 30 entries to chose from? I had NO IDEA how good I had it. Oh to be so young and innocent again (as I was last week...)

It's a trade off: on the one hand I've LOVED giving and getting feedback beforehand. Showing off more of my work, knowing who made what and learning from y'all how stuff is done is marvelous and energizing. Artists NEED audiences, even an audience of one. And vice versa.

And artists need a community of other artists to learn and grow. I've seen how not having that, how being a lone wolf, has been harmful to my sweetheart's growth as an artist. It stunts her if anything - hence the need to go to NYC last October and attend the Armory Show and expose herself to work she'd never seen before.

OTOH, it makes it a little harder to vote, if anything - I feel that nagging sense of "oh I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings". Which, oddly enough, I don't feel when I vote in or judge fic contests. Perhaps because it feels as if the "fic writing community" is larger than the "visual arts community (icon makers)" in this fandom, although that may just be my perception and limited scope of aquaintance. IDK.

And now I understand why you can't see the voting results in other icontests I've participated in. I thought it would be nifty? I'm re-thinking that stance. I'm feeling nervous all over again. And a little sick. Ok, I was feeling sick before thanks to a life-changing event involving sudden loss of income leading to numbness and depression but also nausea - which makes it sound like I'm fishing for pity votes or somesuch nonsense and really not. (Does that make it sound like I'm fishing for pity votes? Oh god I hope not. Somebody slap me upside the head. Or even better, hug me - hugs are of the good!)

Anyhoo - thank you everyone for your support, encouragement and feedback. Seriously, you folks have kept me from curling up in a very small ball in the corner (because it's impossible to sit at the desk and type in a fetal position.)

As

velvetwhip would agree, this is what fandom is all about: not about endless wars and intercene skirmishes, not about "my HBIC/MANPIRE is better than your HBIC/MANPIRE" but about friendship. And sharing. And porn. And fun. And hairporn. And endless creativity. And Winged!Buffy/Vamp!Willow porn (ok that last one might just be me...It doesn't exist yet, but someday!)

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This time is really DAMN HARD to choose. Congrats, it means that you're all really talented. But, ugh, who do I vote?

Oh boy - so true ... I have voted, but one or two were very hard choices.

It has been a good round, but that does make that final decision harder!

I have signed on for next month ... BtVS, season 1 (so, no Spike!!) ... hope that you join in, as well.

Thanks so much for promoting the voting, I really appreciate it :)
And I'm glad people like the comm and that you've signed up again...it makes me incredibly happy!

I went and voted!

*hugs and good thoughts for you*

Also, yes, fandom is about friendships not fighting.

Gabrielle

I whole agree completely that fandom is about love and all those wonderful things you listed, not petty fights. *squishes you*

Thanks for the heads up with voting, I will be voting tonight!!!!

*hugs tight*

Winged!Buffy and Vamp!Willow, hmmm?

I've never written an angel fic before, but perhaps I could be inspired? :P

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oni_9 referenced to your post from Wednesday, June 11 (http://su-herald.livejournal.com/728771.html) saying: [...] While I sit here... [...]

It was difficult to vote, wasn't it? There were so many and my eyes kept going from one icon to another. I made a decision but what always happens in these 20 in 20 icon challenges there are a ton of icons i wanted to vote on but couldn't because my quota was filled.

VampWillow/Winged!Buffy porn? I so have to try that.

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