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All right, they're the old year's icons. But once these are posted I am ALL CAUGHT UP ON POSTING ICONS! :)

 Merlin
(48)
13 Sword in the stone
6 Cup of Life
6 Freya
14 Freya's arm
8 Misc., including Morgana, Uther, Morgause, Sir Leon, and Arthur


01.  02.  03.  04.  05.

43 more )



Clone Wars
(22)
4 Ahsoka
1 Anakin
9 Anakin/Padme
4 Padme

49.  50.  51.  52.  53.

17 more )

Star Wars
(7)
3 Anakin/Padme
4 Padme

71.  72.  73.

4 more )

Misc.
(11)
2 Vlogbrothers
1 Hyperbole and a Half
3 The Office
1 Harry Potter
3 Hark, a Vagrant!
1 Secret Life of Dolls

78.  79.  80.  81.  82.  83.

5 more )


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I figured I'd better post the Merlin icons I've made this season before tomorrow's finale.

1 Merlin
1 Gwen and Morgana
4 Morgana and Morgause
12 Morgana
1 Merlin, Morgana, and Morgause


1.  2.  3.  4.  5.

 

14 more )

 


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And now, my final round of theatre-related icons. This time, the most underrated of '80's rock operas, Chess!

[7] 2008 concert cast
[15] quotes

1.  2.  3.  4.

14 more quotes, 4 more Florence )
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I've been storing these up for... longer than I'd like to admit, and now that I'm caught up on homework and caught up on grading, it seems like the perfect time to do yet another MASSIVE ICON POST. The theme: Wicked.

7 Original Broadway Cast (Kristin Chenoweth as Galinda)
57 Original Stuttgart Cast (Willemijn Verkaik as Elphaba, Lucy Scherer as G[a]linda, Mark Seibert as Fiyero)
--48 with English text, 9 with German text



1.  2.  3.  4.

60 more )


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I will post about other things again eventually. I just had a list of Merlin things I wanted to post before the premiere, and I didn't have time to earlier in the week, and now it's down to the wire. I have seriously not been this excited about a season premiere in years. What have I become?

I'm separating the series 3 icons from the rest, because there are minor spoilers in them for approximately 7-8 more hours. But altogether we have...

20 Morgana (technically, one of them is Katie)
4 Merlin/Morgana
1 Arthur (well, Bradley)
1 Gwen
2 Sir Leon
6 Uther and Morgana


1.  2.  3. 

15 more for series 1-2 )



Series 3 filming and trailer )

Bonus! Medieval manuscripts and a tapestry!

35.  36.  37.  38.

35: the Bayeux tapestry. This icon is an adaptation of Kate Beaton's comic on the same event
36: identified on [livejournal.com profile] cleolinda 's journal as "the origin of fangirling."
37-8: Cotton Nero a.x, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! This illumination cracks me up every time I see it. Also, the Beheading Game is the best game.


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Today I saw Eclipse with Bethany, in accordance with our tradition of going to see and laugh at every Twilight film together. This one was interesting in that I'm not sure how much of it was funny on purpose and how much was funny on accident. Bethany is right: the scenes with Charlie are always the funniest funny-on-purpose scenes. Spoilers: (Especially, in this one, "I kissed Bella. And she broke her hand. On my face." ) Even with all the stupid they apparently took out in the book-to-movie translation, Bella irritates me so much that I've decided the main thing I'm rooting for is for Alice to get to throw a successful party. This whole series, all Alice has wanted, I'm convinced, is to throw a party where nothing goes horribly awry. I want her to have that. That is a reasonable goal.

In commemoration of this event, I have decided to post all of the icons I've made over the past semester for my actual favorite bit of vampire pop culture, Tanz der Vampire. This, you may remember, is the German vampire musical I discovered last summer while studying for my German exam. It is a cheesetastic, awesome, no-holds-barred, Jim-Steinman-music-ed, consciously melodramatic, gothic festival of silliness. The whole thing can be found here with English subtitles on the youtube, but shhh don't tell anyone so it doesn't get taken down. (Also note that the subtitles on the dialogue are fine, but on the songs they are awful for a variety of reasons I won't go into right now.)

A brief explanation )



Preview:

1.  2.  3.  4.  5.

60 more )

 

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In the time since I started watching it, I have made 89 icons for Merlin. Now they are ALL GETTING POSTED.

First, for series1-2 (ETA plus two of Katie McGrath from a photoshoot):

5 Arthur
3 Gwen
14 Merlin/Morgana
5 Mordred
4 Mordred and Morgana
22 Morgana
4 Morgause
2 Nimueh
5 Arthur and Mordred
3 Misc.
2 Katie McGrath

1.  2.  3.  4.  5.

 

65 more )

And here are some icons of set photos from series 3 filming at Pierrefonds, all taken by [livejournal.com profile] chaosmaka . Minor character and costume spoilers, so I'm putting them all under a cut.

21 series 3 filming icons )
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Lately, the musicals Rent and Wicked have been keeping me sane. Or the reverse, if you want to look at it that way. While I was finishing my last paper of the year, I kept my head from exploding with unwanted information about Emily Dickinson by watching/ listening to lots and lots and lots of YouTube clips. Then, the day I went back to Illinois, I was in a weird, apathetic mood, not wanting to do much of anything productive, and therefore spent the first two days there making about 90 icons. I want to share with you the fruits of those "labors."

Rent Icons

They're pretty Maureen-centric, mostly because I was enamored with the pretty lighting in the "Over the Moon" scene. Lots of variations on a theme, for which I apologize.

1. 2. 3. 4. 
 

55 more )


1: I ship Mark/His Work. As I told Bethany, I feel kind of badly about this, because I know I should want Mark to end up with some nice girl. But he and His Work are just so cute together.

3, 24-30: From the workshop version of Rent (see link below) song "Female to Female B," in which Maureen and Joanne have this exchange: "Isn't it enough that I put up every day with a temperamental, abusive--" "Sexy!" "All right, sexy--" "Talented, brilliant--" "Infuriating--"
"Funny--" "Manipulative, immature--" "Postmodern goddess!" "And oh-so modest." I just thought the idea of Maureen characterizing herself as a postmodern goddess was about the best thing ever.

49-52: "Happy New Year" as a song may have been deleted from the movie, but Maureen still by God showed up in her catsuit with chips. Because, well, why wouldn't she?

30, 35, 38, 43: From the Broadway production. It looks kind of like Baby Idina is trapped in a box.

Rent Linkspam

Or, What I Have Found On the YouTube.

Broadway, Workshop, and The Only Worthwhile School Production On The Internet )


Wicked Icons

1. 2. 3. 4.

26 more )

10, 11: I believe that's a line from the novel. "When in the provinces, one must show them some style."

29. In The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy melts Elphaba, she cries, "Who would have believed a little girl like you could destroy all my beautiful wickedness!" Okay, the green girl overacted a bit. But I like that line.

Wicked Linkspam

More YouTube! 

Never has a grown woman shed so many tears over such a hideodious hat. )
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brand new icon I just made for this entry )

Here follows my review of/ thoughts on Wicked. I thought for about five seconds that I'd be able to avoid my usual overanalysis, but of course I did not. Thanks and apologies to Bethany, you'll see why. 

 

 

Fellow Ozians... )
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This is the end of my first week of summer vacation. "Erin," you may ask, "how could that be? Your university completed its spring term nigh the end of May, which is how you got to go have a great time at Hanover as detailed in this Compendium entry!" Well, clearly you were not paying attention to the whole entry, because I also talked a lot about how I had to write a paper about Emily Dickinson that was finished in the wee hours of the first of June. After which I had a Basement Musical Dance Party to work off all the crazy energy I had pent up from that experience. I had never wanted to move around so much in all my life. I wanted to work out, people. That's how bad it got. And I got way obsessed with Rent. I am still not any more sure why this happened than I was on Compendium. I realized after the Basement Musical Dance Party (at which my beloved friends probably thought I was insane but were too nice to say anything), though, that after months of not doing theatre, not reading for pleasure, not writing anything but academic papers, my creativity and imagination were dammed up to overflowing, and when that happens, I revert to Ten-Year-Old Erin. "Let's play Rent! I'll be Maureen!" It's... weird, but seriously, that's what happens to me sometimes.

June 3rd was this journal's fifth birthday! My Turtle is, like, in kindergarten now! I feel like a very proud, but neglectful parent. But don't worry, I have plenty of plans for your entertainment and mine to blog about over the summer. I won't disclose all of them yet, but I do plan to start updating Story Dice again in the nearest future possible. Also, tomorrow I am going to see Wicked and will post my full review! I AM SO EXCITED!

For now, the backlog of icons I've been collecting for months!

Arthurian Manuscripts!

1.  2.  3.  4.

At about midnight the night before my art history paper was due, nothing was funnier than these. Oh, Lancelot and Guenevere. 

Bones!

5.   6.  7.  8.

3 more featuring more of The Sword! )
5: parallel images omg! From the Pilot and The Girl in the Mask.
6-11: The sword was the star of "The Princess and the Pear." Props to Sweets for the Star Wars, Hodgins for the Arthurian, and Brennan for the ass-kicking.

Kate Beaton!

12.  13.  14.

2 more: the Party Boat and a scene from Pride and Prejudice! )

13: My feline roomate does this to me when her mom is unavailable.
Credit [livejournal.com profile] beatonna !

[livejournal.com profile] cleolinda 's "The Secret Life of Dolls!"

17.  18.  19.  20.

17 more featuring Anna Dollerious, The Littlest Edward, the Anti-Sparklepire Task Force, and more! )
The Clone Wars!
(Shut up!)

48.  49.  50.  51.

28 more, including many kickass females )
62-62: Concept art!
69-70: from TPM novel
80: Heh heh. "Lightsaber."

Bonus Star Wars!

81.  82.  83.  84.

3 more )
81: From the Children's Museum Clone Wars exhibit
82, 85: "Learn to draw Luminara Unduli like Katie Cook!" the website said. "Or," I replied, "I could just take Katie Cook's drawing and make an icon." Credit Katie Cook!
83, 84, 86, 87: Daniel Logan's 501st card is so full of angst, it is awesome. This makes me really hope he ends up in the live-action series.

If you go to my Photobucket for whatever reason, bear in mind that if the picture is not titled "mine," I probably stole it and forget who from. So... dun re-steal. 
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It's been a while since I've posted the icons I've made, and I figure I might as well do it now before February sweeps hits. Therefore, behold!

Bones

1.   2.   3.   4.

The Office

1.   2.   3.

4 more )

How I Met Your Mother

1.

Kate Beaton Comics

1.   2.   3.

6 more, featuring George IV, Shakespeare, and Fat Napoleon )

Jonathan Coulton

1.   2.   3.

7 more Skullcrusher Mountain )
Austen vs. Bronte

1.   2.   3.

Ah, the age-old question: If Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte got into a knock-down drag-out fight, who would win? My money's on Jane. (These are for Whitney. :))

The Duchess

1.   2.   3.   4.

12 more )
And, because the movie was so pretty that the icons don't really need text, I give you my "Duchess" bases.

bases )
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icon )


I just realized that I didn't mention the redesigned credits sequence when I talked about the Bones premiere. I don't know. It's growing on me. But did they really have to use that picture of poor John Francis Daley with elf ears? 

 

Bones 4.2 [4.3?]: The Man in the Outhouse )


Our Weekly Lesson From Dr. Temperance Brennan: "I've heard that, if practiced correctly, tantric sexual techniques can extend orgasms by four- to five hundred percent."

Probable future recap title: Some kind of play on "Big Love." I'm not sure what yet.

Here are some icons from "Yanks in the UK"!

1.  2.  3.

4.  5.  6.

7.  8.  9.

10.

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It's taken me a long time to get to this, and I don't really have much of an excuse. I graduated, and it was wonderful. Other minor things have happened. Most of the time I've been cleaning my room-- it is SO CLEAN!-- working, and recapping. I'm also moving all my icons to a new photobucket in a project I'm calling The Great Icon Migration of '08.

But now, at last, the very last one of these for my undergrad experience...

Quotes of the Semester, Winter-Spring 2008

Early Lit )




Theatre )

 

Misc. )

Unfortunately, I couldn't write down all the funny things that were said this semester, so don't feel left out. I'm sure that you said all kinds of hilarious things, but I had stupidly forgotten my notebook or was feeling lazy.

And finally, as a tribute to my wonderful friends at Hanover, I have made some icons just for you guys:

     

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As we've already established, it's season finale time, and that means it's also time for me to burn off my nervous finale-related energy by making icons. Which means that it's also time for me to get rid of the backlog of icons I've developed over the past few months. And thus this post came to be.

10 Austen-related icons
Three quotes from Austenblog's comparison of Mansfield Park '07's Fanny Price to Chuck Norris. Seven book illustrations.

1.  2.


12 Bones icons
Let us remember happy times, before the season finale tomorrow potentially makes everything much less happy.

1.  2.  3.  4.  


6 Susan Pevensie icons

1.  2.  3.


7 for "Story Dice"
Have I mentioned yet that Michael and I have started a recapping blog? Amazingly enough, I haven't! Everybody, go visit [profile] storydice! I am recapping Bones so far, and Michael is recapping How I Met Your Mother and Psych.

1.  2.  3.  4.


2 Misc
One for "How I Met Your Mother," and one of Marie de France.
 

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My original plan was to do one huge icon post for the over fifty icons I've accumulated and not posted yet, but then I thought maybe I'd like to link some of them to communities, and that isn't really something I want to do with these. These are for my own amusement and that of my friends. Because the last thing I want to do is make the author of that paragon of bad fanfiction known as "Taken!" stop writing.

So here, ladies and gentlemen, are seventeen quote icons from "Taken!" Because I couldn't resist. More behind the cut.

1. 2.  3.  4.  5.


And, as a bonus, two icons from "Held at Gunpoint":

 

Happy 2008!

Jan. 1st, 2008 10:21 pm
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I'm currently kind of watching a football game for the first time in my life. It's the Sugar Bowl, and my family is there, so... it's on. This does not mean I'm paying attention, but I do look up every now and then.

I want to give a shout-out to my friend Whitney, who spent the last few days with me, and Bethany, who is going to France tomorrow. I love you guys! Incidentally, among the many things that Whitney and I watched while she was here was the season finale of the BBC Robin Hood, and-- holy crap! They killed Marian! I don't even watch that show, and I'm traumatized. There is something so, so sad about her standing there, knowing there's a good change she's about to be run through, saying "I'm going to marry Robin Hood." Ugh. Traumatized, I tell you. Although, Marian has apparently given her life to my cell phone, so thanks for that.  It was exposed to water a day or so before, and all I'm saying is, before I watched that episode the phone was dead, and after I watched it the phone lived again. It is Zombie!Phone! And I am renaming it in honor of the fallen. You may now refer to my phone as Marian. Spoilers in this paragraph whited out.

Today I went driving all over the place in the snow, which makes me proud of myself and which seems like an auspicious start to 2008. I got Hogfather on DVD. I read a lot. And, since one of my goals for the new year is to get back on a regular posting schedule, here are the rest of my Hogfather icons.

1.  2.  3. 4.


1.  2.  3.  4.

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Due to the fact that I recently made over 70 icons of the Hogfather miniseries and also a batch of icons from the Bones Christmas episode, "Santa in the Slush," I have decided to do a holiday icon post. Yay! Consider this my gift to you. Unless I got you an actual gift; then you can consider that my gift to you.

Here are the "Santa in the Slush" icons. Remember, kids, it's not morally wrong to lie at Christmas!

   
If you're looking to have your two main characters kiss for the first time, you really can't give a better reason than, "Because it would amuse me. You're all 'Dr. Brennan,' and he's all 'Special Agent Seeley Booth.' And it's Christmas. And I'm feeling puckish."

As far as the Hogfather icons go, I'm not posting them all in this entry because there are SO MANY. I'm just posting the holiday-themed ones and a few general ones. Which basically means, I'm saving the bajillion Susan ones for next time. I'm ASSUMING that my animated icons will animate when this publishes, because they aren't right now. If they don't, bear with me.

       
Quote for the second one: "THAT WAS A PUNE, ALBERT, OR PLAY ON WORDS. I'M NOT SURE YOU NOTICED."


 
       


Several people have asked me whether I've heard the news about Terry Pratchett being diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's. Yes, I have. It's not a good thing by any means, it's very sad and pretty scary, but I would like to point out that the man himself is optimistic about several more books and a good many more years. So, let's follow his lead and be somewhat optimistic, eh? There is a natural tendency to start mourning prematurely, and that isn't fair. I don't think Pterry would appreciate it. Remember, folks, He Aten't Dead.

Now, Happy Holidays to all, and to all a good night! :)
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 This is just another icon post, but pretty soon (as in, by the end of the week) I want to get caught up on my Fifty Book Challenge books. 

First, I got the soundtrack to "Wicked" for my birthday, and I love it, and for some reason I find the part of the song "Dancing Through Life" about Elphaba's hat incredibly hilarious. Galinda and Fiyero deserve each other, Nessa and Boq deserve each other... Here, Elphaba. Here's this Hat. (And thus began the epic love story of Elphaba and Hat.)

 


Also, I have recently gotten into the show "Bones." Which is weird, because I don't usually like procedural drama of any kind-- I think it's because this is character-driven rather than plot-driven. And it's funny. And I love the characters. I'm making my way through the DVDs of the first two seasons. I'm on Disc 3 of Season 2 right now. Anyway, icons.



The Squints. Text is from one of the Discworld Watch books: "Waifs and strays. Waifs and bloody strays, because normal people wouldn't be coppers." Okay, the squints are not cops, but they are all outcasts who have become one another's family. And they are definitely not normal people, otherwise they would have gotten into different lines of work.



Skully and Mulder? The Cure? The Blair Witch Project? Colin Farrell? Temperance Brennan does not know what that means. It's one of the things I love about her.

No school for five days! Have a Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! And a Happy Slapsgiving, too!
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Update on life here, although not much is new.

Just a quick Office icon post before a new episode of The Office comes on. Fourteen new icons, two from "Dunder Mifflin Infinity" and twelve from "Money." Remember how I make icons when I'm stressed? And Jim and Pam are making me so happy. Yay!


Money )

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icon! )

Wow, you guys. This school year is going to kill me dead. I'm currently overloading classes (yes, yes, that was my choice-- but, I mean, how could I not take Stage Combat?), doing my Independent Study, preparing for the GRE, and I've been cast as Tiresias in Oedipus, and the ITC is doing two M15M performances at the Chautauqua Festival tomorrow. YOU SEE WHY I HAVE NOT UPDATED?

Still, I was not going to let September go by without a single entry, especially after last night's amaaaazing season premiere of The Office. I will do a spoiler cut, because I learned last night that sometimes people you would assume watched the show immediately did, in fact, not.


So, I have jumped on the ball and made "Fun Run" icons. Again, under a cut.

Also, around the time that Whitney created the Jurisfiction facebook group, I decided to make these icons of Marianne Dashwood. Text from Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde.


And, finally, Michael has gotten me hooked on the completely awesome trailer for Elizabeth: The Golden Age. In which Cate Blanchett is hardcore and Clive Owen is oh so hot. This is the result of watching it whilst in a Star Wars mood. (I basically decided that the whole thing could conceivably be dubbed over footage from The Phantom Menace and still make sense.)

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