Your Patron Saint of Icons is on Vacay but Never Too Far Away Because:

[red_satin_doll]

1) Thank you very much to starry_night for awarding me a Mod's Choice Award in Round 27 "Hair Porn"! And thank you to everyone who cast votes for my icons! This award is particularly special for me because this Buffy & Dawn icon was the inspiration for the poster I made for clockwork_hart1's "Conclusive Etymology of a Summers" (my first fanfiction poster, and I hope not the last). Congratulations all the winners of that round for their lovely entries: rua1412, teragramm, tempertemper and iconsoleander!   And speaking of starry_night:

2) Strike up the band and toss the confetti: starry_night has joined comm owner bangel_4e as a moderator of btvsats20in20.  A round of applause, please - two of the niftiest people in fandom coming together to make an already terrific comm even better. (Anyone else interested in joining the team of fandom's newest icon challenge site? Contact bangel_4e.)  And speaking of btvsats20in20:

3) Your votes are needed for btvsats20in20 Round 2 TiEBREAKERS! bangel_4e has 4 tiebreakers posted. I've voted and encourage you to - and not JUST because one of the votes includes my own Vamp Category set. (Which should in no way be construed as me encouraging you to vote for my icons. I'm just encouraging you to vote for the best as you see fit, but by all means VOTE.)

This is actually a first for me so it's nifty whichever way it goes: the first time my work has been included in a tiebreaker vote, and the first time I've ever been able to hit the little "I'm nominated" button! Super-nifty, especially as it involves that set of icons, which I'm super-proud of whichever-which-way the vote goes. (Of the other three votes, the hardest for me to decide was the fourth one - a super-gorgeous Buffy set vs a super-gorgeous Willow set? Decisions, decisions....)  And speaking of otherworldlyric:

2) Ok, granted, we weren't talking about otherworldlyric but I didn't want to break my segueway pattern and anyhow I'm talking it now: More entries are needed by Friday for the already-extended Challenge 178. Apparently dragonydreams received only ONE entry thus far. (Guess who popped one off the night before she went hither and yon on her week-long sojourn in Vermont.) Come on darlings, you can do it. Can make the maximum three entries? Make one or two.  Surprise yourselves! Your Patron Saint of Icons has every faith in you.

Comments

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was so happy to see your set in the tie-breaker! And FYI, I'm at my sister's house with the fam for the next few days, trying to fight through the medicine haze to do "family time" stuff, which is awkward because I'm the only one of my siblings without a significant other to bring . . . and I have to drink my coffee black because my sister works at a snooty coffee shop and doesn't believe in cream or sugar.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I'm the only one of my siblings without a significant other to bring

Just remember that they're all secretly jealous of your independence and your ability to do what you want to do without kids or the "old ball and chain" to tie them down, and it makes the time pass so much easier. Of course no one will admit to it because that might bring the whole damn edifice crashing down about their ears and goodness, we can't have that, can we?

I have to drink my coffee black because my sister works at a snooty coffee shop and doesn't believe in cream or sugar.

I'm sure your sister is a lovely person (unless she isn't, IDK) but is she your mother? Does she pay your bills? Are you over the age of reason? Then you can put whatever the hell you want to in your mouth and she has nothing to say about it. Sorry, but I have no patience with fascism of any sort, including "food fascism". Screw that.

Sorry, I have feelings about this apparently.. Um, on the lighter side - thanks for the support sweetie!