I'm leaving tomorrow morning and will be back July 3rd. Still not quite if I'll have internet access, but I'll probably get to check in a couple times between now and then. Have a good month! ♥

Thank you to everyone who's voted for me in stuff. :D Feel free to ignore this post, I'm just moving the shiny banners off my info page.

( stamps and awards )

I'm having a weird problem with Paintshop Pro 9. When I select a tool (paintbrush, flood fill, etc) the foreground and background colors automatically switch to whatever colors had been selected the last time I used that particular tool. This is pretty inconvenient when, say, I want to use the same color for text and for a brush, or when I want to use the eyedropper to pick a color from the image and then use it...

Did that make sense? It sounds like there should be an option for this sort of thing somewhere, but it started on its own, and I can't find an option anywhere... Any help would be awesome.

HAI TWILIGHT PEEPS!!! HAVE YOU HEARD? (if you can't see the names and faces clearly, right click-->view image)

Is it just me, or does Carlisle look too much like Tom Cruise? And Rosalie... Does not look like Rosalie.

.......

You know The Mysterious Ticking Noise, right? Well, before anyone else drops out of the presidential race, I need to post this Idea I had.

( original video + my idea for an alternative script )

THE HOBBIT!

And now a poll :D

Poll #1107608
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What are your favorite things about the holiday season?

*not just Christmas movies, but any other movies that are released around this time, summer movies coming out on DVD, etc.

ETA: I forgot to add "food" as an option. Oh well.

While I wait for Thursday, when I might get to go to the bookstore, I'm making stuff. XD *climbs on the Gaspard and Emily bandwagon*
( an edward/bella blend thingy )

More fanfic! :$
I would love to know what anyone thinks of this.

Title: Waiting for Dawn
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Wordcout: 1051
Characters/Summary: Two Weasley brothers struggle with life after the war.
Note: DH SPOILERS LIKE WHOA

( He pulled it out gradually, a little fearfully, almost reverently. )

So instead of those fics I just mentioned, here are four other ones I wrote that I thought were a teensy bit better. They're all very short.

Title: My Last
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Wordcout: 100
Characters/Summary: Petunia reads the letter accompanying baby Harry.
( ... )


Title: The Cat and the Grim
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Wordcout: 100
Characters/Summary: Crookshanks senses something in the Forbidden Forest.
( ... )


Title: Arrival at the North Tower
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Wordcout: 100
Characters/Summary: Dumbledore welcomes Trelawney to her new home.
( ... )


Title: The Running Book of Runes
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Wordcout: 241
Characters/Summary: A blurb for a new book for sale at Flourish and Blotts.
( ... )

More twin-ness!

20 pictures from clouded_logic + twin-centric GoF screencaps from sophieisgod

I think that concludes picspam day. :D

Yay, it's picspam day! :D Under the cut are 26 pictures of the lovely Phelps twins.


( here! )

Creditage: Phelpsaholics, Getty Images (as you can tell from the charming watermarks), and Twice as Nice.

Happy birthday to Harry and JKR!!!

In celebration, I started that new community I was thinking about: icon_incantatem!
It is for both posting icons like in a regular icon community, and for taking part in contests.

I'm the only mod at the moment, but let me know if you want to be a general mod (approving posts, making sure people are following the rules), and icontest mod (posting challenges, voting, and winners) or a banner maker (making banners for winning icons).

Thanks, everyone who voted in my HP poll! Here are the results: which HP books are most popular among you guys.



*drumroll*




*opens envelope with a flourish*




*expectant pause*




First place goes to DEATHLY HALLOWS with 140 points.

Second place goes to PRISONER OF AZKABAN with 128 points.

Third place goes to ORDER OF THE PHOENIX with 96 points.

Odd numbers clearly pwn :D

The rest:
Half-Blood Prince - 56 points.
Goblet of Fire - 48 points
Philosopher's Stone - 8 points
Chamber of Secrets - 3 points

I have an idea.

With all the HP quote icons around, especially DH ones of course, I thought it'd be cool if there was an icontest where each week a chapter or passage from a HP book is assigned and contestants have to make a text-only icon with a quote from it. Text-only icons are a lot of fun, it's not hard to make pretty ones, they're good practice if you have trouble putting words on your graphics, plus (best of all) you don't have to mess around with photos when doing them. :D And of course, HP (with over 200 chapters) has loads of quotable bits throughout.

Does anyone know if there's already something like this? If not, would anyone be interested in it? In addition to participants, I'd need banner makers and maybe a co-mod. There's no way I'm trying to mod a whole icontest by myself again. XD

Poll #1027710
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Your #1 favorite HP book?

Your #2 favorite?

Your #3 favorite?

And I'll maybe tally up the results (3 points for each first place vote, 2 points for each second, and 1 point for each third) and tell you which is most popular. :D

Edit on July 30th: Thankyou everyone, I've posted the results now!

I can't believe they made Lily Evans looks like this. Why must everyone in the HP movies look so damn bad??

Anyway, I made some Lily/Sirius photo manipulation thingies. I like them rather better. ;)

( under here )

- These people must feel very, um, special. And exposed.

- http://www.mysticalball.com/ <-- actually pretty clever XD

- Pope Pius II wrote a book called "History of Things". Makes me wonder why I worry so much about titling my stuff...

- Wanna read a short and very random HP fanfic I wrote? ( Golden Smoke )

I just made this. I really, really want to know if you guys think it's better than the first one I made.

Poll #921906
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Which is better?

I haven't done any polls in ages, but this is a sufficiently important issue. :P

Poll #872013
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Have you read LOTR?

Did you like Peter Jackson's LOTR movies?

Have you read The Hobbit?

Do you think Peter Jackson should direct The Hobbit movie/any other LOTR prequel?