74. Thirty-Two Icons

[novindalf]

I posted this on the 8th of May, but apparently the original post no longer exists?? Anyway, here goes attempt 2...

Colours! I've been trying to improve my use of colours and blocking lately, so this batch is basically a big experiment of those :P I was also accepted to elitetardis (today in fact :P) so this is my first entry there. And there are lots of

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[the_silverdoe]

Oh that's so odd, I remember seeing this post... Anyway, I really love the 2nd elite-tardis one, and the Rory one is brilliant! Are you still working with Gimp or did you manage to install Photoshop?

[novindalf]

I remember making it :P It's weird because when I follow the link to it from my personal journal the post is apparently still there, but when I go to edit the post, or try to find it on s_l, it doesn't exist. ???

Anyway, thank you! Still working with Gimp for the nonce, but now that exams are over will try to install Photoshop :)

[the_silverdoe]

Apparently you're not the only one with a 'ghost post' since the last maintenance, I've seen other makers with that problem...

The links I gave you then might not work, since I had to find new ones to install PS on my new laptop, so if you want these when you install it just PM me :)
(Also when you have time perhaps we could do that battle we were meant to do last year? I still have three months of relative free time before I go back to uni :P)

[novindalf]

LJ has been really glitch lately - I can't use Enter when making entries without using the (br) code, spaces are looking weird in the post editor, and now this. What was wrong with how it used to be??? I never had any problems before!

Could you PM me the links anyway? Don't know when I'll get around to installing it, but it'd be good to have the links ready.

(And yes!!! I was actually thinking about this recently when I saw your latest icon battle :P Can't remember exactly how we'd planned it before - there was something like we had each chosen 5 fandoms, and then there was something else...? I have shifts at work today and tomorrow, but after that I should be freeeeeee!!)

Also, can't remember if I told you this, but the plan for that AU royal Starks fic I sent you has grown exponentially :P Would you like to see the new plan?

[the_silverdoe]

I know the spaces come off really weird when I make icon posts, and most of the time I can't even fix them :/ I hope I won't get any additional problems...

Sure!

(Er well, we planned this gigantic battle, but last time we said 20 icons would be good? So that'd be four or five fandoms. I think it'd be easier for us to finish it. Yay for holidays :D)

Even bigger? :P Sure, if you want! Did you start on the actual writing?

[novindalf]

Yep sounds like a plan :) I propose GoT as one of the fandoms anyway!

Yep, even bigger! (at this rate I'll probably be writing into the next century lol - might even be finished by the time GRRM is finished writing!) And I have done a little bit of writing, yes!! I've started the very first scene, and a couple of others.

[the_silverdoe]

Spooks, DW, GoT? And maybe OUaT? *puppy dog eyes* Or RH if you prefer, but I swear the caps hate me!

Any chance I can get a sneak-peak of that too...? Anyway, kudos to you for planning this carefully. As I'm mostly writing original now, I value planning even more (also it's sort of fun :)).

[novindalf]

I'm up for OUaT though I've not done much of that at all. Would prefer RH to either DW or Spooks though - up to you :)

Naturellement! Need to summarise the plan in any case so I'll send it, and the actually-written(!!) snippets, when that's done.

[the_silverdoe]

Er okay, us battling without Spooks icons is odd (O.o) but I'm going to go with DW because I'm more comfortable with the caps and I'll have to work a lot on the RH ones. How about I pick the DW and OUaT caps and you pick the GoT and RH ones?

Great, looking forward to it! :)

[novindalf]

How many caps for each fandom? Because if we only have 2 per fandom we could do Spooks as well and still only have 20 icons to make in total :D

[the_silverdoe]

With 4 caps per fandom we could have five fandoms, so yeah, I'd be up for that! We can pick two Spooks caps each on top of the other categories, unless we split caps and pick two caps per fandom each. I don't mind either option :)

[novindalf]

I think 2 caps apiece per fandom sounds good :) Gonna go pick mine out in a minute, then we can start soon!

[the_silverdoe]

Deal, then! I'll go find caps and upload them, and e-mail you with the links in the afternoon :)