Il finito!

Cocky previous comments aside, I'm pretty happy with it, being my first completed fanvid (not including that House blooper thing). I must have spent about 12 hours on it. And another 2 trying to publish the damn thing! Movie Maker got sick of me in the end, I think.

Oh, and if you've not seen past season one or two of the Doctor, there are spoilers.



Run - 10/Rose
From Doomsday to their reunion, and the memories that carried them there. Focused mainly on Rose, and her efforts to get back to the Doctor.

( extra ramblings/things worth noting/stuff that should be read after the video has been viewed, probably )

Hey all,

Just letting you know I've done another friends cut. If it seems I've been unfair in cutting you, feel free to let me know, but (in case you haven't noticed) I'm rarely on LJ anymore, and I'd say it's highly unlikely that that's going to change in the near future. So this is me saying feel free to remove me from your flist, no questions asked. If you'd like to stick around and maybe exchange contact details (like an email address or snail mail address, I'm hopeless on the phone most times) you're welcome to do that too.

As for those of you who've known me from the early LJ days, or those of you who I've contacted beyond LJ (or met :P), I want to tell you how much I value the time I spent with you, even if it wasn't in person. Some of you have helped me more than I can say; I used to live for this place. A few of you have been there with me as I faced tough times and periods of loneliness and despair, and as I tried to get myself on track. And I won't ever forget that. It's sad to think that I can't even make time to be here, but it just seems that I'm moving forward and this place is going in another direction. Something that just... happens to some people, I guess.

But, melodramatic speeches aside, I hope you're all doing well. :)

Biiiig friend's cut. You may or may not have noticed that I'm rarely here anymore, and I've noticed that when I am here, catching up on my f-list is near impossible. I'm mainly targeting communities, but if I've cut you, please don't take it personal. I hardly know some of you anyway -- which would definitely be different if I was around more, but as I'm not, and probably won't be in the near future, I might as well do some trimming.

Wow. This came out bitchier than I intended. Tally-ho!

Okay, so I don't have anything to update about that doesn't involve gushing about my romantic life (which I know I would get annoyed at if I had to read it all the time), so I figured I'd attempt to get involved with you guys in my journal again.

So. Ask me questions. Anything you can think of. No minimum numbers, no maximum numbers. I'm changing the security to public so you can even remain anonymous if you wish.

I'll answer in a separate post.

Tally-ho!

Not sure exactly what this is, but I was bored.

Title: And the voices sing.
Word count: 393.
Rating: PG.
Summary: and the voices sing, Katie, is this how you die?

( her knees are raw )

Beautiful; delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration.

I'm going to make a list (however long) of the most beautiful songs ever, and I want you to help me! It might be some obscure relatively small number, I might get it up to 50 or 60 or 100, idk.

(in no particular order as of yet, under construction and subject to change)

-- Iris; Goo Goo Dolls
-- A Light on a Hill; Margot and the Nuclear So & So's
-- Overcome; Live
-- Goodbye Mickey Finn; Something With Numbers
-- Running Up That Hill; Placebo
-- Clocks; Coldplay
-- Dear Mr. President; Pink
-- Everything; Lifehouse
-- Electrical Storm [William Orbit Mix]; U2
-- Tears in Heaven; Eric Clapton
-- Fly; Celine Dion
-- Silence; Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan
-- Hallelujah; Jeff Buckley
-- Wish You Were Here; Pink Floyd
-- Let It Be; The Beatles
-- Ache; James Carrington
-- Amazing Grace; anyone (I'll narrow it down later)
-- I'm All For Believing; Missy Higgins
-- Color Blind; Counting Crows
-- Bitter Sweet Symphony; The Verve

These are all that I can come up with right now -- there're bound to be more (and I may even replace some). I'm going to tackle some classical music when I get the chance. But now it's your turn! I'm trying to have just one song from each artist (the U2 one was epicly hard, until I remembered that version of Electrical Storm that just... floored me every. single. time) so if there's someone there who you think has done something WAY better (*waits patiently for crazed Celine fans to jump on her head*), let me know. And, just, rattle off any that you can think of. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all, so don't be like "I don't agree with any of those, so she's not going to agree with any of mine". I wouldn't be asking if you if I was fine with just my opinion.

POLL TIME:
Poll #1160169
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

should I use Chasing Cars or Run by Snow Patrol?

Do you think one of these would be better than Electrical Storm?

Do you think one of these would be better than Silence?

Which of these is the most beautiful Damien Rice song?

Would one of these be better than Clocks?

What would be the best Elisa song?

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Um, it's really, really late. So I'm going to go to bed, and you're going to think about my list. Please? This, once completed, could be epic. I know you music-lovers are out there, I can hear you feeling!

As for my hiatus, well, I lol'd pretty hard at it this afternoon. It seems as soon as I try to make it official, I get all these opportunities for internet time. So I'm using that as my "get out of jail free card" now. So to speak.

I figure that I'll feel less guilty about missing all my friends' entries if I go on official hiatus. I'm still able to sign on here and there (ie. when I get up at the crack of dawn for work or school), so you might hear from me sometime. I really can't say.

Also, school is consuming a lot of my time. I'm loving it so much, but it is all I ever really think about. And, y'know, all I should be thinking about.

So:

ON HIATUS

If you want to defriend me, this is another no-questions-asked pass. If you've come to check me out in the hopes of friending me, and see this post, you can still comment on my FO page and add me -- I'll get around to adding you back. I'm not talking forever, here.

ADIOS!

I have been AGONISING over the colouring of these Sweeney icons, and there are still only a FEW that I'm 100% happy with. Still, you can expect a tutorial for it sometime (unless I forget). Getting those to look relatively normal was quite the mindf*ck. imo.

55 icons:
01-40 Sweeney Todd (part 1)
41-55 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2 animated)



is Sweeney gonna have to shave a bitch?

I figure if I don't have to sift back 300 entries on my flist every time I get a chance to check I won't feel as bad for missing out. So. Massive community cut (seriously got rid of like, half of them), and now a (somewhat smaller) friends cut. I hate doing these things, but it really will make things so much easier for me.

If I cut you it's because we never talk anymore, we don't have any interests in common anymore, I never hear from you, you never update your journal. Feel free to comment here and argue with me if you'd like to stay on my flist. Please remove me in return.

If you're still on my flist but don't want to be, feel free to remove me -- no questions asked. I have been a really sucky friend lately.

Firstly, I AM SO SORRY CAT (untwo_trois). I know I told you that I would send you this to Beta when it was typed, but then I left it sitting in my bedside table for days, and THEN spent an hour going over it tonight, and by that stage I was too impatient to post the damn thing to do anything but. So! I am dedicating it to you in the hopes that you will forgive me. Here's hoping it's worth it... :\

Title: Tonight I Believe Again
Author: chaosity. Duh.
Fandom: Twilight
Pairing: Alice/Bella
Rating: Work-safe.
Word Count: 673.
Warnings: Set during New Moon (I think the chapter is called "Visitor". Y'know, when Alice comes to pay Bella a visit to make sure she's... okay), but not too spoilery. If at all. I think this warning just gave more away.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Shut up.

Summary: The pain continued relentlessly, but even more predominant was the fear that I was dreaming – or worse, that she might decide I was a lost cause, an irreparable break.

--

( I was praying for the light I see in your eyes, I had all but given up )

For the record, I'm sorry I suck at titles.

Okay, so here's my first ever Twilight manipulation. At least, that's what I think it is. I really have no idea. I was like "LET'S FIND A PICTURE OF KRISTEN STEWART AND MAKE HER INTO VAMPIRE!BELLA", then successfully gave her golden eyes and pale, shadowy features, and then idk what the fuck happened next. I sort of like it, but the fact that it's really sort of nothing but the result of two hours' fiddling gets on my nerves.

Snippet: .

( voila! )

Feel free to snag and/or make something of it -- just don't forget to credit.

34 House icons
-- 20: 2x17 "All In"
-- 14: 3x06 "Que Sera Sera"



Over here @ my graphics journal.

friv0lity, I wrote this for you! It's not smut, and it's nothing fancy, but it is the pairing you've been asking for! ♥

Title: Smoke Signals.
Fandom: Twilight.
Pairing: Bella/Rosalie.
Word Count: 575
Rating: Relatively work-safe.
Warnings: First-ever Twilight fic, and first fic I've actually finished in a long time! There. You have been warned.
Spoilers: None really. Takes off during the chapter "Happy Ending" in Eclipse, so it makes more sense if you've read at least that far.

Summary: "It was at times like those the thirst bordered on irresistible.” Her voice was barely more than a whisper in my ear now. Had she always been that close?

( you're hiding, underneath the smoke in the room )

**OFFICIAL SEMI-HIATUS POST**

As you may have noticed (but probably haven't because I'm still posting the occasional entry/comment), I've not been around much lately. And I'm not going to be for a while. I'm still checking in every now and then, but I think I've missed a lot.

There's just a lot of stuff going on right now, with me, with my family, with stuff in general, and 95% of the time I'm a horrible person to be around because of it. Plus I'm just not taking as much interest in, well, anything, as I usually do. I figured it was nicer of me to actually make that known rather than keep ignoring everybody.

So. I shall see you around! Sometime.

+ using Photoshop 7.0.
+ includes selective coloring.
+ probably not beginner-friendly.

Over here.

(includes .psd)

It took me hours, but I have made a tutorial for animated icons. And also for using actions in Photoshop, which are very handy when it comes to making animations. Or just... in general. You can find the tut. here if you're interested.

I can sleep in a little tomorrow. YAY.

HELP.

I AM SENDING A DESPERATE FLARE OUT TO ANY EMILY DESCHANEL/DAVID BOREANAZ FANS ON MY FLIST (or outside my flist) WHO ALSO MAKE ICONS.

Challenge #1 at emilydavid_ic has been extended, and is probably going to end up with only three participants when it comes to voting. Which is kind of sad.

It ends tomorrow, 7pm AEST. You can find it here.

(then, y'know, you could keep particpating in the future. nextuesday and I really do want this ball to start rolling so we can all have some fun)