This isn't actually on Shootastic - because I'm lazy, yo! - but I thought everyone needed to see it. Anna looks lovely and I totally want her hair. It's so pretty!

Check out the rest of the gallery while you're there. My sister's building up quite a collection of half completed fansites.

I am never speaking to any of you ever again. That is all.

And I am totally going to spam you guys with pictures of Ronaldo JUST TO SPITE YOU. Yeah, I went there :P

Yay! The Beeb has delivered. New promos are up for Episode 4x12. I am all gleeful.

( Dude, there are SPOILERS. Lots and lots of SPOILERS. )

I'm a little late to the party. I knew that Portugal were in the QF but I wasn't aware that it was with Germany until right this second.

I offer some new Euro 2008 pictures! It's been really difficult to get pictures from Portugal vs Switzerland (a good thing I suppose considering the outcome). I've got all the Portuguese games and the German ones. It's a coincidence, I promise! If you want me to get some pictures of your teams, just ask. I don't bite :)

They're here if you're interested.

My crazy refreshing has unearthed a new picture. Just one. What is wrong with the BBC, huh?!

( At this point is a cut really necessary? Everybody knows! )

Today is just one of those spammy days. I hope you don't mind me bringing you pictures of sweaty boys playing soccer. (Yeah, I call it soccer. It's an awful habit and I really should stop.)

Oh, yes, and I'm bragging. Just a bit. Two games down and asses kicked both times.

PORTUGAL IS AWESOME LEIK WHOA!

Alas I am unable to watch the actual games. See, if Australia isn't participating in a sport it's automatically put on cable - which I haven't had in years - and I'm much too sick to get out of bed let alone trek over to the local RSL club in the wee hours of morning and act like a crazy person. I would much prefer to do that in the comfort of my own home thank you very much. If and when Portugal makes it into the final, I do hope they'll at least see fit to put it on SBS or something.

So anyway I have to be happy with the recaps on RPT (but Portuguese television scares me so I try to stay away) and SBS. WOE.

On another note, the final's on my birthday. I feel so special :D

But all of that is irrelevant since there are boys behind the cut. Most of them are JUST FOR THE LULZ. Seriously, these photographers catch some very entertaining poses and expressions. Naturally, being the Portuguese team Ronaldo makes up about half the pictures (I counted; it's only a third), but I don't expect too many complaints.

Now on with the show!



( Pretty boys playing with balls. )

You can find all of these images and much, much more in a special folder at Shootastic. You don't have to register to see these particular images and they are HUGE.

Now, I have a special offer for my lovely flisties because I luvs you dearly. And nobody should be deprived of soccer players. Ever.

I know that several of you are following the Euro and are very much fond of the prettiness that comes of it. (Indeed, who isn't?) If you have any specific team requests I'll be quite happy to get you all the hi-res images I can find. Just leave a comment and I'll get them up ASAP, okies?

I have nothing better to do than sit here with my ENDLESS COUGHING and make videos. I refuse to study in this condition and I'm sort of on holidays. Meh.

( Happy, happy, happy! )

It's almost 2:30 in the morning and I'm wide awake. Short of knocking myself over the head with one of my ridiculously heavy textbooks, I'm out of ideas. I don't really like these random bouts of insomnia - doctor says they're stress related. Stress? No freaking kidding. Is there anything stress doesn't do?

Or it could be the tea. I've had so much tea today I'm in serious danger of turning into a teapot. Hmm, tea. I think it's time for another one. I am a tea fiend!

There was a point to this you know, not just ranting and raving like a crazy tea addict.

Oh, yes. Does anyone know if they ever released a Stargate: SG-1 soundtrack for the TV show? I want the Sam & Jack music. It's so very, very pretty. I heard it again the other day and became all nostalgic because it's so very, very pretty. I once spent ages hunting for some music they used in Dark Angel (in the Berrisford Agenda when Alec is with Rachel for the last time there's the loveliest piano piece in the background that's repeated during the funeral) and I never found it. Why don't they release stuff like this? WE WILL PAY FOR IT, YOU KNOW!!!

You know what else is really pretty? Mark Wahlberg. RAWR.

This isn't a meme. I'm just trying to procrastinate but the interwebs are being boring.

So ...

What is your absolute favourite ship in the whole wide word (or out of it, your choice), your OTP of OTPs, the one and only tru luv, King Caboose what have you.

And why?


I love my icon, don't you? :D

A cut. I don't really like to do it, but I just had to. I've put it off long enough; these days I spend more time skimming over entries in my f-list than actually reading anything, communities included.

It really is nothing personal. Feel free to de-friend at will :)

I'm feeling nostalgic, so here, have an Edward/Bella wallpaper featuring my Dream Team (Dream Duo?).



If you want any other resolutions, feel free to ask.

I has a new layout header. I couldn't resist my shiny new caps.



I also have icons. Long time, yeah? Featuring Jack-Jack and Kari, the babysitter, from the short film on the Incredibles DVD, Jack-Jack Attack. It's a brilliant little piece. Jack-Jack is adorable. But I'm a sucker for animated babies so I may be biased :)

There are 12 icons in total, 6 still and 6 animated. I've also added the original animations which are way too big for LJ standards but you can use them if you wish.



( You ever seen an exploding baby before, Mr Dicker?! )

I got my shiny and new Series II DVDs which means I can make really, really big screencaps. I decided to start with Carter. Anyone surprised?

Caps are 1680x944 and fairly good quality, which makes them ideal for pretty much anything. I've uploaded them to the Shootastic! screencap gallery which is accessible to everyone regardless of registration status. I'll eventually get screencaps up for all the episodes, but Carter is a good start, yeah?

Spoilers, obviously :P

( Clicky on the pretty pictures to get to the individual galleries! )

I got some capping done a couple of weeks ago and I put off uploading them to Shootastic. About five seconds into uploading I realised that things could get very messy, especially since I'm not as protective of my screencaps as I am of the hi-res stuff. Capping takes a lot less effort compared to what I need to go through for the other stuff! Keeping the caps locked behind mandatory registration just seemed silly. It was a toss up between making the gallery freely available to everyone or setting up a separate Coppermine gallery for screencaps. Since I am lazy I decided to do neither and instead I fiddled with the settings. The screencap albums are freely available to whoever wants to see them; hi-res stuff still requires registration. I'm so proud of myself :)

Anyway, I have 565 caps for The Neverending Story II and 871 caps for The Princess Bride up at Shootastic. They're two of my favourite 'I can't believe I'm that old' movies. Next up for capping is Labyrinth 'cause it's my absolute favourite. Possibly ever.

( Have you ever read a book twice? Books change each time you read them. )

And here, have a video too! I made it before my PC went nuts earlier in the year (I made others - and they were really good, too! - but this was the only one I had backed up). It's a Pride & Prejudice video set to music from High School Musical. Why yes, there is something wrong with me.

I couldn't help myself!

I have three assessments due next week and there's no Coke in the house. This is not a good thing.

However, I do have three wallpapers behind the cut. I am unsure as to whether this is a good thing or a bad thing :P

( You'll have to forgive him. He's from Barcelona. )

I was silly enough to sign up not one, but two LIMS competitions in one go. Considering I'll be away for two weeks, this may pose a problem. Clearly I am not very smart. Not at all. But we'll see what happens.

Not to mention the fact that any icon inspiration I may have had has gone bye bye out the window. See, the wallpapers I made like less than four hours ago? I have one on my desktop and while I was playing with iTunes, I realised that it was nowhere near as exciting as I'd originally thought when I'd made it. I'll probably change my mind in a couple of hours, though :/

So anyway, pimpin'!

je_lims is just starting so sign ups are over, but I'll draw your attention to it anyway.


.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand sga_lims is still accepting sign ups, so check it out.


All done :D

Felt inspired. Made wallpapers. Really no other explanation.

I am shocked and appalled at the lack of Nick/Claudia stuff. All the het shippers in the fandom are too busy with Connor & Abby to even glance sideways, and everyone else is a slasher. So I took it upon myself to pay tribute to this adorable couple. And there's a wee bit of Jenny in there, too. A whole wallpaper, actually. There's also a header graphic thingy which you are free to modify as you wish.

You'll also find wallpapers featuring Fanny and Edmund of Mansfield Park and another featuring Serafina from The Golden Compass.

Beware, gratuitous use of trendy textures behind the cut!

If you'd like the wallpapers in any other resolution, please don't hesitate to ask :)



( No, don't worry. I'll get myself a shovel and a cement mixer and do it myself. Yes, of course you should speak to the contractors, you idiot. )

I made an icon community for Primeval. Because I can. (You know, this community business is addictive.)

For some bizarre reason, every time I tried to add an image to my header the entire layout would disappear and I'd be left with a whole bunch of UGLY plain text. So I decide to hell with it. And now it's just got blues and greens and a little bit of purple. But I'm quite happy with the userinfo.



Run along and join and then make lots of pretty icons. Go on. You know you want to!

Question: For those of you that have icon communities - or any community really - what is your view on linking to friends locked posts? I think it's kind of counterproductive and silly, particularly when it comes to icons. But I don't want to yet draw the line at disallowing linking to flocked posts within the community.

Any thoughts?

During my obsessive search for pictures I realised that a great many of them would make lovely icons, and I haven't made icons in such a long time. I miss them. And I'm still despairing the relative lack of Carter icons so I decided to rectify that too. Behind the cut you'll find Robin Hood (mostly Carter), Primeval, Alias (and by 'Alias' I mean Sark) and Tin Man.

45 icons overall. Possibly the largest batch I've made in a very long time. Mostly textless; feel free to modify if you wish.

Crediting is nice but not necessary. Comments make me happy :)



( Why have a King when you can have Carter? )

Why is there no Primeval icon community?

primevalicons. I'll have to make it pretty and everything, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Linky, linky, linky :D

I've just realised that I have an awful lot of hi-res images sitting on my harddrive, a lot of them of interest to me and many of my friends, but perhaps not the large world of fandom. By this, of course, I mean stuff that doesn't get much recognition outside of the circle of craziness that is made up of those who large costume dramas, and the BBC in general. It's bloody difficult to find, and I thought I'd share.

I started shootastic so I could do just that. But lately it's been kind of annoying uploading everything to image hosting places when I have a perfectly good domain with heaps of space. So, I've decided to put all of my stuff over here. Eventually it'll be part of a full site, with all my graphics, screencaps and whatnot, but for the moment I'm just concentrating on uploading the stuff that I've managed to get over the last few months, as well as moving stuff over from shootastic.

The newest stuff includes stills and promotional material from stuff like Cranford, The Shadow in the North and the new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. I've also found a few new photos of Harry Lloyd and Joseph Kennedy (Carter!) in their theatrical pursuits, and a marvellous photoshoot featuring Rupert Penry-Jones. Ooh, and promotional material from Voyage of the Damned and Time Crash. And there's Clémence Poésy and Gaspard Ulliel 'cause they're pretty.

This is essentially my playground. I find that for the most part I have rather different tastes from those with the usual collection of Hollywood starlets, and I know that several people share these interests. And it's all hi-res. So I'm sharing.

There is a catch, however. You have to register. But it's all automatic, and all you need is a working e-mail address to verify and you're set.

Oh, Robin Hood stuff stays where it is, over at the English Rose gallery.

ETA: I'm an idiot who can't spell. Shootastic (the gallery) is (mostly) up. You can find it HERE.

I couldn't resist because Carter's so pretty. Adam is too, but he's only second best at this point. It pains me to say it, but true facts.

Should I be worried about my slight obsession with pretty boys who like to kill people? Or should I just enjoy it because they really are that pretty?



( Can I have a Carter for Christmas? Pretty please? )

You know what we need? More pictures. More everything, actually. Alas, Joseph Kennedy has no fan site and I'm really sick of bringing up half a million websites on US presidents :P

So I've decided to lock down my journal. Because I can.

All graphic posts will remain public because I'm much too lazy to put them in a seperate journal.

Defriend at will.

Now I need to make a pretty, pretty 'friends only' banner :D

I made a couple of wallpapers because I really, really don't want to write this essay. Ever.

Moonlight and Pushing Daisies wallpapers behind the cut. From my screen resolution and the comments on an earlier post, 1024x768 and 1280x800 are the easiest to convert and thus offered by default, but if you'd like them in any other resolution, feel free to comment. I am in no way discriminating against those with different screen resolutions.

I love you all regardless of screen resolution :D



( Cutty McCut )


ETA: I really, really, really don't want to write this essay. Really.

I've figured out what inspires me to make icons - essays! The more I need to do, the less I want to do it. So I make icons. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the source is so pretty and Robin Hood is the best crack ever :D

There are 16 icons from the first episode behind the cut. Assume spoilers.

Special thanks to ariane179254 for her spectacular HD caps.



( There are five or six of us. )

On a slightly related note, I've found some of my old graphics saved on a CD. Quite frankly, I'm surprised I used to get so much positive feedback :/ Do people really have such bad taste? Or are they just great liars? Or was I really that gullible? Hmm ...

You know what the really sad thing is? I used to think they were absolutely fantastic.

Question: am I similarly deluded about my icons? This isn't a cry for compliments (although I won't hold it against you in any way ;), but constructive criticism are totally welcome.

I couldn't resist. They're just too pretty. And I have to kill time until I can get my hands on the first episode. I suppose I could, you know, sleep since it's almost two in the morning, but where's the fun in that?

Click on the thumbnails for 1024x768.



They were orginally made as ridiculously large widescreen wallpapers, so I had to trim it down.

Out of curiosity, what screen resolution does everyone have? Still on 1024x768? Anyone on 800x600? Widescreen?

ETA: I've uploaded 1280x800 and 1280x1024 versions of both wallpapers.