First, the pimpage:

- sgdiverse_award -- A place to celebrate non-McShep fic for SGA. I didn't know about it until this morning when jalabert told me she'd received a notice listing off a bunch of her stories as having been nommed. Yay! Nominations are open until April 15.

- oneill_icontest -- A GEN challenge community that actually focuses on Jack. Just Jack. 100% Jack love. It manages to bring together Jack fans, Jack/Sam fans, Jack/Daniel fans, and all other Jack/whoever fans over our greatest common denominator: Jack! He's so much fun to play with and there are scads of very talented icon makers there already. Go. Icon. Vote. Enjoy!

Now, the general happiness part:

A day off work is my definition of a Good Friday so it was already good but today brought sunny skies and welcome, much cooler weather. The bluebonnets are blooming, my dogs are happy, Joe is home, we're thinking about catching the Imperial Rome show at the science museum...it's a beautiful day.

I'm grappling with how to post a whole pile of icons that don't fall neatly into tv show categories. I have enough icons to make several big posts at this point so I need to post soon if I'm going to at all. These are the sort of problems I like.

The loss of my Photoshop hard drive slowed me down but since I had backups of my most often used stuff and a detailed list of resources, I was able to get back the stuff I most needed. I'm still missing my screen cap collection like mad. My older collection of SG-1 caps were stored on a separate HD that didn't fail. Thus? Lots of SG-1 icons and icons made from caps provided by various challenges.

Some of the SG-1 icons have been inspired by conversations with my LJ friends. The Daniel icons probably won't be overly popular this time around but after a discussion over at riverfox's LJ about the way that his glasses frame our perception, pardon the pun, of the character, I wanted to celebrate his glasses. Or lack thereof. Also likely to lack an audience are the Daniel/Sam icons but after moonshayde wrote about getting flames for writing incest because she posted a Daniel/Sam story...well, I started seeing it again in some of my caps so I went with it.

50 Stargate - mostly SG-1, a couple of SGA
20 Dr. Who/Torchwood
06 Battlestar Galactica

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( Icons, Part 1 )

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