* You still have time to vote in slayerstillness Challenge 46! Or at least I think you do. As long as you don't see a "Voting closed" post from starry_night in the voting threads, you can still cast your ballots. 14 fantastic entries - a couple of which just might be mine. (Guess which ones?)  And a couple of which aren't mine, but I wish to holy heck I had made them. (Guess ( Read more... )

Recently tempertemper said she was taking a page from my book and promoted icontest voting specifically otherworldlyric and slayerstillness. I have to admit I had already stolen that book from velvetwhip, who tirelessly promotes fandom activity of all sorts; but I'm very glad to be part of the chain. Shall we call it a library book and simply pass it around?

tempertemper also made a wonderful point about ( Read more... )

Two birds, one post:

** whedon_elite Challenge 109 : vote for first, second and third place icons out of nine entries.  (Permission granted to ignore my last post. Not as though anyone had a chance in heck of cranking out an icon with a one-hour warning. Although I would have loved to have seen that happen anyway.)

Challenge 110, "Emerald Green" has already ( Read more... )

Thank you very much starry_night for making these gorgeous banners, and thank you Lenore for the brilliant suggestion of the memorial banner #2 honoring Megan's participation in Round 5 of btvsats20in20. Megan's original post on pickamix journal with the entire set can be seen here.


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Title courtesy of the lovely and witty pickamix who asked me to do just that for two new comms:


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* The deadline for Round 5 of btvsats20in20 has been extended until midnight, Tuesday, November 11 - THANK YOU starry_night! At the moment only two folks including myself have not submitted our sets - but this also means that anyone who wants to jump in at the last minute, there's still a chance!  I know there are folks who know how to use four days more wisely and ( Read more... )

Today (10/18) is the deadline for nominations at the Sunnydale Memorial Fanficton Awards Round 30; voting begins tomorrow and runs through November 30th. So if you haven't nominated your favorite fics of the year, now's the chance.  Make sure you check out the Rules thoroughly; they're quite concise and clear. (Such as "Please nominate only one ( Read more... )

1) slayerstillness: What I said in the title? THAT.

It's 4:45pm est my time zone and the deadline is midnight YOUR TIME ZONE. Isn't that convenient?  More entries are always welcome. Once again I have no illusions about winning jack this round, I just wanted to stretch my muscles and get back in the game. (Somehow, I managed to lose a really lovely Amends ( Read more... )

1) Many congrats to the winners of otherworldlyric challenge 180 pickamix and dragonydreams! I'm not sure I've ever said how much I love the color-matching dragonydreams does with her awards banners (buttons?) She makes the button look like a natural extension of the icon itself, and I envy appreciate that ability.

Full disclosure: I guessed the first place winner might be Megan's after I ( Read more... )

Vague disclaimer: I did not submit entries to the challenges pimped below, ergo I feel free to pimp and promote with impunity.

1) dragonydreams has reposted the entries for otherworldlyric Challenge 180 , because three entries "disappeared", unitl two of my personal favorites. (If I've told ya once, I've told ya a thousand times, kids - don't leave the screen door open!)   ( Read more... )