Many thanks to wesleysgirl and thebratqueen for my lovely cards!

zortified sent one too, but she wished me snow, so only maeyan thanks her, and I disown the both of them.

When the raising of head is blatantly and shamelessly about fandomhigh, because applications for new students and teachers for the Spring 2010 semester are open!

Four and a half years and still going. Zoe Winchester (formerly Washburn) is our Principal. Deadpool is VP. Barney Stinson is Dean of Students, and Nathan 'Cable' Summers is the Mayor. Anakin Skywalker teaches, drives the welcome bus, and frequently gets bitten by gremlins. The students, teachers, townies and active alumni hail from 157 different fandoms and the senior class includes Alice Liddell (American McGee version), Cordelia Chase, Chuck Bass, Arthur Pendragon, Merlin and Morgana, Worf, Jaina Solo, Lois Lane, Sam Winchester, Dinah Lance, Hannibal King and Leto Atreides. Among *points to icon* others.

It's brain-sucking crackdramacomedyfun and it's entirely possible that if you join, you'll never get your life back. A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend. But don't take my word for it. The characters put together a little brochure:



[The shoeless wonder, for the curious, isn't Claire from Lost; it's Tahiri Veila from the Star Wars EU.]

I know, twice in the same month, whatwhat?

For bookmemery, which is more or less irresistible. Snurched most recently from kimera.

1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

1. Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

2. Mother, I am in love with a robot. The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, guessed by outsideth3box

3. Any Christmas visitor looking for Carnival's Hide dropped down from the hilltops by a shingle road that elbowed its way across farmland already scrawled over by sheep tracks.

4. One day, Old Witch, the head witch of all the witches, was banished. The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes, guessed by maisfeeka

5. Farrell arrived in Avicenna at four-thirty in the morning, driving a very old Volkswagen bus named Madame Schumann-Heink. The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle, guessed by jadelennox

6. Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling.

7. In the Hour before time began, Meerclar Allmother came out of the darkness to the cold earth.

8. It's raining, Annie. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden, guessed by rhi_silverflame

9. There came three ladies at sundown. The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle, guessed by steelneko

10. By day, the Nicollet Mall winds through Minneapolis like a paved canal. The War For the Oaks by Emma Bull, guessed by auroramama

You know those huge long periods when you don't post but you're still reading and suddenly you realize it's been like...September since you posted anything and that was flocked because it was about work and you'd like to acknowledge that you're still alive and in fact kind of dumbass in love with nerdy boys who can't quite manage to squelch their Irish accents and less nerdy boys with funny teeth and highly-polished armor, and WTF cut from marble girls who at this point don't even bother to hide their Irish accents, but it's been so long since you raised your head that you're kind of fearful of posting due to the sad, boring sameitude of the answers you're going to have to give to "Where the Hell have you been?" because as always it's fandomhigh?

No, just me?

P.S. Yep, I know my site's semi-down, though I've restored most of the fic.

Work has finally adjusted the filters properly so they don't block LJ's picture-and-javascript server which means I can has userpics and threaded comments back WOOHOO!

Also I posted class sign-ups for fandomhigh and it makes me all eeeee! to see the comments coming in!

Also I'm sorry halfnorn, but watery tarts really are no basis for a system of government. Even if your manservant did throw the sword in.

Also what the hell, ( state-of-the-pups, which I never do... )

So it occurred to me that other people besides me and rhi_silverflame are fans of Terry Moore's delightful and infuriating saga of of girls, boys, true love, lack of continuity and the Lesbian Mafia, and might actually have a use for the icons I've created for That Thing We Do. So I started gathering them up.

And they didn't fit in one post.

Or two posts.

So, um, yes. Have 508 Strangers In Paradise icons, plus a Francine mood-theme. Want, take have, adapt. I certainly don't mind being noted in the icon keywords (at least for the ones I did the coloring on) but the only credit I really care about staying with the images is Terry Moore's. Comments delightful but not necessary.

Francine icons
Katchoo icons
OTP, supporting character, and digitally-colored icons

Pardon Me, I Think Your OTP Is Showing: Francine/Katchoo icons.

Total Icon Count: 65

Teasers:

( Icons Here! )

Other characters (David, Darcy, Marie, Mike Walsh, Emma, Tambi, Bambi, Ashley).

Total Icon Count: 37

Teasers:

( Icons Here! )

Digicolored icons from original B&W.

AKA "MP learns shading as she goes, and it shows"

Total Icon Count: 34

Teasers:

( Icons Here! - minor toonish nudity warning )

Comments can go here, but aren't necessary for the taking and enjoying of the above.

[Original art (c) Terry Moore/Abstract Studios (and the occasional guest artist), made for fannish enjoyment with that delicate mixture of love and frustration equal only unto that which I have for Joss Whedon, so.]

Katchoo icons

Total Icon Count: 229

Teasers:

( Icons Here! )

Comments can go here, but aren't necessary for the taking and enjoying of the above.

[Original art (c) Terry Moore/Abstract Studios, made for fannish enjoyment with that delicate mixture of love and frustration equal only unto that which I have for Joss Whedon, so.]

Francine icons

Total Icon Count: 179

Teasers:

( Icons here! )

Also, here, have a mood theme.

accomplished

aggravated

amused....

Comments can go here, but aren't necessary for the taking and enjoying of the above.

[Original art (c) Terry Moore/Abstract Studios (and the occasional guest artist), made for fannish enjoyment with that delicate mixture of love and frustration equal only unto that which I have for Joss Whedon, so.]

I only rented The Cake Eaters to make caps of KStew not being Bella, but I really liked that film. It's rare that I rent a non horror/suspense flick these days (IDEK. It's just a very long phase.) but I'm glad I saw this one. And I must either own or re-create the soundtrack.

The men in it remind me so much of my grandfather and uncles, not in specific personality but in the setting and language. Sitting at a farmhouse breakfast table drinking re-heated coffee and making deep discussions of whether they're going to switch from All-Bran to Shredded Wheat. (Which actually was my grandpa's cereal of choice.) Bruce Dern's character is... frankly sort of how I wish my grandfather had been, but yeah. Boys being family. And the next person I see bitching about Kristen Stewart's lack of acting skills can bite me, because g'damn does she rock this part, where she plays a girl with a debilitating nervous disorder who manages to get out and have a life in spite of overprotective parents, physical challenges, and the acceptance that it might be a pretty short one.

*is pleased*

And also testing the crossposting from Dreamwidth, but not re-directing comments, because I just don't care. *stays frustratingly apolitical*