Yes, really. For all the Justifed and Downton fans out there.

(I really need to make Justified icons)

I am so tempted! And only six hours left - Farscape! is Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day.

In case you missed it over the holiday weekend, I made new Avengers icons. I'm kinda pleased with them, especially as I don't usually do manips. Here if you'd like to go take a peek.

Anyone else watch it? It was so good, and the hour just flew by. I was surprised when they went to the break promising scenes from upcoming eps. When did an hour go by? Also, the addition of Neil Neal McDonough(yes, I do realize that I've most likely misspelled that and will correct it when I get home) was brilliant.

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Later: wow, I actually spelled his last name correctly!

(I need to make Justified icons!)

I got the icon making bug when I was sprucing up avengersblend yesterday, and these are the result.

The usual: if you take one home, please comment and credit. Other adoptable icons may be found here (including other Iron Man and Thor movie ones), or by clicking the 'icon' tag.

A sample....
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( The Rest Below.... )

I hadn't realized that Alasdair had played at the Kennedy Center Honors for Sean Connery, and found it on YouTube here. I've had the pleasure of dancing to his playing on numerous occasions, so seeing this clip was a lot of fun. Stay till the end to see Sean Connery dancing a jig up in his box.

I found out back in July that Alasdair Fraser would be playing in Evanston WY (about four hours from us) in March of 2012. I haven't seen Alasdair play since I lived in California, and haven't been to an actual concert of his in longer than I can recall. Now it's closer to the day, I started looking into it, and come to discover it's The Céilí At The Roundhouse Celtic Festival 2012! Woot! So I'm looking even more forward to it now. Keep your fingers crossed that no new emergencies crop up leaving us unable to attend like past planned events.

So my father is always hogging the TV downstairs in the family room, so mum never gets to watch her DVDs. I had the idea that she could use the 20" TV I used to have in my bedroom when I lived in Monterey, in the living room. This was a bad idea. She has it so loud, I can hear it in my room with the door closed, which means I have to turn my music up louder to drown it out - which is far louder than I like to listen to it. And I can almost guarantee my sound machine won't come near to drowning it out at night, as it barely covers the sound of when she's downstairs watching TV. And to add insult to injury, of course my father is now UPSTAIRS, because far be it for him not to be the center of all when mum finds something to do on her own. GAH!!

I got ninjababe Dance Central 2 for her Kinect for Xmas, and we decided it would be a good way to get in shape, as I'm totally out of said LOL. We started using it last week, and so far, have been using it at least every other day. I don't have quite enough floor space in my bedroom for both of us to be in the sensor, so we trade off, one of use using the sensor, and the other on the opposite side of the bed, just doing the dance. It's a lot of fun, but boy, do I feel uncoordinated doing some of those dance moves! We're going to get a Zumba game next, which should be fun, since I love Latin music. Next time I go to Vegas, I'm really be busting a move if we go out clubbing again like we did last spring with strangevisitor7.

valiha created a beautiful banner for avengersblend, and I adapted a custom layout, put it all together, and voila! New do! If you have a chance, please go take a look!

In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

After reading today's challenge at lunch, the first thing that came into my mind is the scene you're about to read. This takes place during Iron Man II, just after Tony signs SI over to Pepper and just before the trip to Monte Carlo. It's set after my story, Transformative Variations. General Audiences, 700 words.

Summary: Tony and Methos try to make a fresh start.

Starting Over (01/01)

"Can I come in?"

( Methos nodded at his unexpected guest, pulling the door wider, letting Tony Stark into the house. )

I'd planned to write this weekend, but the time just seemed to disappear. Yesterday I cleaned, helped my brother put up some floating shelves in my room so I could put some of my stuff back out in a cat safe environment, then filled the shelves. Then came comment answering on my snowflake challenge post, and next thing I knew, it was late evening. And at 11:30, we ordered a freaking pizza for delivery! I can't recall the last time I did something like that. I'd assumed our small town Dominoes would be closed, but was surprised to discover it was open till midnight, and I had a craving.

Today, I started tinkering with the CSS for the avengersblend theme. I found one at thefulcrum I liked, then spent hours changing colours. I'd forgotten how addictive web stuff is. Been a long time since I dabbled. I emailed back and forth with valiha about it all, as she's making a banner for the comm, and had lots of great input. Then, I headed over to Dreamwidth to see if I could beat my theme from here into submission, and I did! I'm very proud of myself [snerk] Then I did accounts/bills, laundry, and now I'm here, wondering if any writing is possible before ninjababe come in for the evening (she has a new theme too! go see!)

I found a tutorial here for importing Flexible Squares and it worked! I'm sure there will be things I need to tinker with, but for now. it works well enough.

She made me another one! I can see this with Tony at some swanky event, can't you?

jinxed_wood made me this fantabulous modern day Charlotte icon! She used her extreme graphic making talent to create this, and I'm thrilled to pieces.

Some anonymous lovely has gifted me with a paid Dreamwidth account. I don't know who the someone is, but I'm incredibly touched by your generosity.

Fandom is filled to the brim with all kinds of talented people. From writers of both stories and meta to reccers to artists who have some awesome skills. Some of us have a blast creating, but might not be as vocal about wanting fannish things.

Today’s the day to say “You know what would be greatness? If someone made (blank) for me.”

I have a hard time asking for stuff, which is probably why I've only participated in this sort of thing a total of once before. But I'll screw myself up to do it today.

( Look out below... )

Share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends.

Food and cooking. I created my own salsa recipe this year - plum masala - using mostly what we grew here. I think it's awesome enough, I may enter a jar at Peach Days in September.

I can't afford it right now, but if I get a paid account here, would my custom theme work here as well? I adore my LJ theme, and don't want to give it up.