redfiona99

Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
- You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
- There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

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Mine are the usual:

1 - A day late but the Amnesty International 'Write for Rights' campaign http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10673 is a cause close to my heart. If you have ten minutes, an envelope and don't mind writing a letter, choose a cause close to your heart and write a letter for them.

2 - More selfishly, links to people who make icons and don't mind other people using them (with credit, of course). I am on the hunt for more icons, particularly a Sherlock one, an X-Men:First Class one (Mystique, equally of course), a Covert Affairs one and a Human Target one. The problem is I have a definite image in mind for the first two and I don't have the talent to make them. I think you have to have an eye for colours and shapes that I just don't have. So yes, icon recs please.

From saruwatari, 1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

is by fileg. It combines several of my favourite things, which would be Data, who is my favourite TNG character, and music, even if it is a violin he's playing. I love the sparkles, and that if Data wasn't sentient, he couldn't make music but he can and he is, and he is not a toaster.

was the first icon I ever made. You may be able to tell this by the terrible cropping and the fact that it's the wrong width, and yet, I don't have it in me to get rid of him. Elrond really caught me the first time I watched Fellowship of the Ring, and I like having a pensive icon. Plus, I've now had it so long ~ 8 years that it's become a useful short-hand for it being me that made a post or comment.

is by radioactivepie. It features Kurogane, who is my favourite character in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, my present drug of choice as far as manga goes. He's wonderful, and crabby and sarcastic and I love him. Any further description of why I love him would, unfortunately, be spoilery :)

Oh 11, present Doctor, who makes me very happy in oh so many ways. This is his of the series of numbered Doctor icons I have, although this was made in a rush after the first episode was shown and I decided I was in love (I am still totally in love). I will make him a new, better one one of these days, because yes, he deserves something less grainy. The problem here is the actor who, in posed photos always looks horribly posed, and is one of those people who looks better in action than he does when static and a lot of the shapshots taken mid-action are either unfortunate or do not work out of context.

Ah science, the thing I have foolishly dedicated myself to. The picture in the background is of an NMR spectrum, which is what I work with. The only problem, something I'm finding while writing up, is that the damn spectra do not make good pictures.

also by fileg. Let's be honest, if I got sorted, there's no way I wouldn't end up in Ravenclaw. I wanted a general university icon and this is the prettiest one I ever did see.

Music Meme

Day 13 - A Guilty Pleasure



I don't do guilty pleasures. I have no shame in adoring large chunks of the works of Steps. It's so shiny.

Although I should probably feel guilty that the past two days have both been BeeGees covers (again, have the original - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVTOMkJdqs)

( The other days )

Following on from last year's self-set challenge to make icons out of all the Formula one drivers, 2009's challenge was all the Divas. Some of them are good, some of them are less so.

Total Icon Count: 20

Teasers:

( Icons Here! )

During various bits of boredom at work last year, I tried to make icons out of all the drivers in Formula 1 last year. I failed miserably, but here are the ones I did do.

Total Icon Count: 14

Teasers:

( Icons Here! )

With thanks to fileg for introducing me to the table producer.

As pinched from kindoftrouble and scoobydumblonde.

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick three of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee!

( For scoobydumblonde )

( For kindoftrouble )

I should be packing. Really I should. Guess what I'm not doing, despite the fact that I know that if I did it in little bits rather than one big chunk I'd get less stressed.

I still hate packing.

Mum's actually coming on two days this time just to break it up, because I think she finally got that I wasn't being funny and packing really does depress me.

On to more fun things - Not happy about Nesta being out, especially as I fear that this might mean Zaccaro playing and Italy really don't need another own goal.

Phillipe Senderos should be forbidden for making me feel sorry for him when he's playing for Switzerland.

There is somewhere a photo of Michel Platini and Diego Maradona hugging. Anyone who is able to point me in the direction of it will earn my gratitude.

Also, check out the new icon, made by Greeniebach. I'm using it because it's only Zidane that's making me happy about France going through, because I don't think I could have stood it if his career had ended after the game against South Korea.

Since this is the last time I'll have either the icons or the time to do this before Summer:

01. Default: Because I can use it on most occasions, it's not offensive and doesn't push any agendas. Unless yay! Elrond can be counted as an agenda.
02. Oldest: See above
03. Newest: Just uploaded it since I'm using it for the 50 Kinky Ways challenge.
04. Saddest: I don't have any sad icons. I tend to do angry a lot easier than sad, but Danny doesn't look happy on this.
05. Happiest: Mario by a country mile. He'd just played the winning rubber for Croatia in last year's Davis cup. It's also my default on the tennis account.
06. Angriest: While the Roddy icon may look angrier, this is the one I use for situations where bad things will happen to whoever it is that annoyed me.
07. Cutest: , well either that one or Mario.
08. Sexiest: It's the only one of mine that's sexy in any way.
09. Most Humorous: I don't really have any funny ones. My TV one is funny because of the silly look on David Wenham's face, and the 'bothered' help one is amusing because it's Benicio Del Toro with pigeons landed on him.
10. Favorite 'ship: Don't actually have any 'shippy icons, if you don't count this one.

11. Favorite fandom: On number of icons it's Dr. Who all the way.
12. Most used: Elrond.
13. Favorite I've made: I do actually really like the "Wonder" one because that took some time and it works.
14. Favorite(s) by someone else: By Fileg
15. Favorite of the moment: That one. Probably.
16. Favorite overall: That one, because seriously it's one of my favourite icons ever.
17. How many icons do you have total? 34
18. How many can you have? 100
19. If you could buy more space, would you? I'm going to save the money till Easter and then probably buy myself 12 months of icon space.
20. Do your icons make a statement about you? Unnerving love of Dr. Who, absolutely unsettling number of angry icons. Possibly.
21. What fandom do you have the most icons of? Dr. Who.
22. What 'ship do you have the most icons of? Rather worryingly, Road Dogg/Billy Gunn, unless Dr. Who/Tardis counts.
23. How do you categorize your icons? A pretty bizarre mix.
24. Are your icons made mostly by other users? No, actually, I thought they would have been.
25. Do you make icons? Yes.
26. Are they any good? No. Sometimes they work well though, and that will do for me.
27. Animated icons are... a good idea sometimes. There's still a few I want to make.
28. In general I think icons... a fun way of dealing with pictures and words and conveying information.

Growed ups are driving me mad, and have unfortunately left me with a bottle of Smirnoff vodka that I'm manfully (womanfully) resisting.

Enjoying watching the darts. I'm also in the middle of making more icons. Whoever said they were addictive was right. Still can't get a decent Jack Harkness one together though.

I don't know how many of you follow English politics, but the Liberal Democrats are having a leadership election because Charles Kennedy was forced to resign for various reasons. As has previously been noted in this journal, Charlie is my darling. This being said one of the challengers for the leadership, Simon Hughes, happens to be my favourite politician. Therefore I shall be cheering for him. Mainly because much like me he's a liberal leftie. And because he's an incredibly cool dude.

There shall probably be comments about this floating about on here. I know there's a couple of people on my f-list who I've filtered off on political posts, but is there anyone that wants to be filtered off for this? I ask only since the fight looks like it's going to get dirty since so far the candidates are:

Sir Menzies Campbell, pronounced Ming-is Campbell for reasons for reasons of letters that vanished with the advent of the printing press AKA Ming the Merciless, acting leader of the Lib Dems and the main force behind getting rid of Charlie. His supporters are known as Mingers.

Mark Oaten - on the right of the party (Lib Dems are a centrist party). Sworn enemy of Simon Hughes. Supported by Lembit Opik, an odd chap, even for an MP, who rather sensibly wants an oncoming asteroid early warning detection mechanism.

Simon Hughes - on the left of the party. I adore him. Is the sworn enemy of Mark Oaten. Telegraph has already started to smear him, he must be doing something right.

And someone else, obscure even for the Lib Dems who I've never heard of.

All camps have asked that the fight be political not personal and they want no muck-raking and slinging. Fat chance!

Also, since I'm talking about politicians, I was very sorry to hear about Tony Banks dying. There's not enough politicians who speak their mind and recently they seem to be dying off.

I've made another couple of icons









[Poll #652712]

Also, seriously love my friends, for they know that I require alcohol without being told and have invited me out for drinks.

For the Christmas Invasion was good. Not perfect or brilliant, mind, but good, and I'll settle for that.

Basically, while Christopher Eccleston (number 9) was decidedly Tom and Colin Baker-esque, David Tennant (number 10) seems to be decidedly Jon Pertwee-ish. Since Pertwee is my favourite Doctor, I'm happy about that too.

Therefore I have gone a little mad with my icon space - all ten Doctors are up - http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=redfiona99

I am mostly ignoring Christmas due to people trying to bring the party down. I'd like to see him try that tomorrow. Or rather I await Uncle Steve's reaction with rather large amounts of worry.

I had icon space, I had a picture. I couldn't resist.

As I've been saying in other places, why is no one writing 3LK fic? Because from the time that Billy Gunn (sorry, I couldn't keep up with the name changes) arrived there has been so much to write about.

I am trying to fulfill fanfic rule 8 and write some myself instead of whinging but I'm hamstrung by my lack of TNA at uni.

On a similar tip, why is my inbox not being deluged by f/f wrestling fic. And who do I have to talk to to get some. Again, I am trying, but it keeps turning into porn.

Not entirely sure that that's a bad thing, but ...

Also I bring fic, it's a stupidly late challenge response


No Credit For Tchaikovsky (1/1)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwfsml/message/90916

Rating: PG - tame
Pairing: Tajiri/Jamie Noble