Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

djinni is doing another free icon day! Yay! Some of my favorite icons come from him. :D And it's getting to the point where you see them all over the place on LJ!

Go here to request one! First one is free, but tipping can get you a second or third one!

Okay, that didn't quite work. A cat and a Korra and a WoW!

djinni, the fellow who does hundreds of free icons at a time, was drawing them on livestream tonight, and I caught it. AND he was doing mine! EEE! Unfortunately he stopped for the day in the middle of my batch (I get three this time, since I donated). But I got to see the first one being drawn! I love seeing sketches and things in progress, it's like getting to see how a magic trick is done. :)

( Three images back here... kitty! )
Unfortunately I messed up taking a screenshot of it finished/colored. It came out so spiffy! "No matter," I said to myself, "I'll get a screenshot when he starts on my next one!" But that was the end of his hour of work, so he stopped. Hopefully I can catch the next time he does a livestreaming, so I can see my next ones made, too. Otherwise it will be a surprise, which is great as well.

Korra is so amazing. o.O I need a Korra icon. I cannot believe how much happens in one ep! It feels like a whole season in a half-hour. It's boggling and so very great. Other shows would draw out the bending tournament for an entire season!

WoW: I've finally made a full circle in WoW. I leveled my first alt to 80 (then cap) through PvP only... now I'm back to PvPing. Warlock PvPing is pretty darned fun. I'd like to think people kill me first because I annoy them too much with damage and fearing them, but likely it's more like "Hey look! A clothie! Easy kill!". It amuses me to make myself as challenging to kill as possible. Oh it'll happen eventually, sometimes sooner rather than later, but I do enjoy making them work for it.

I'm up to 900 HK (of 22,000 needed). Twin Peaks is the Call to Arms, and I gave it two shots, but I HATE it. HATE HATE HATE. It's just WSG with a more annoying layout. And let me tell you how much I hate WSG! So mostly I've been TBing (since hitting 85, before that it was all BGs).

I hope this isn't all for nothing. A blue post said for hard achievements, like 250K HKs and 2,500 daily quests done, progress would be shared across alts. I'd think 100K would have to fall under that, too. Fingers crossed.

Copy pasting is hard on iPad, so here is artist's whole post:


I'm open for requests for free icons over on my livejournal, here - http://djinni.livejournal.com/367530.html

There are a few tip incentives, and tips are appreciated, but not required. I've done this twenty times, previously, and you can see my last completed batch, here - http://djinni.livejournal.com/367109.html and other examples by clicking the 'icon day' tag in my journal.

Feel free to swing on by and grab an icon!

/// icon on this post was a free one!

Edit: computer repair place called. Said it really is only the power supply. O.o Will cost under $200 to fix, so going for it. Color me surprised! This is very unexpected.

Edit 2: I HAVE A COMPUTER! Yay! It cost only $120 total. o.O I didn't have a credit left with them (I checked my old emails, looks like they sent me a check instead), but hey.

I turned my WoW settings back up to ultra to see if it would explode again how it would do. Fans are loud, but so far no crashes.

I'm going to switch over to the laptop when it arrives, but this way I can do it slowly and without losing things. WHEW!

A good zombie icon is surprisingly hard to find. It can't be something too bloody, and while an animal zombie might be amusing, it would be too easy to mistake it as a bloody animal icon. It has to be work safe, so no innards hanging out. Then there's the whole idea of what a "zombie" is, the image in my head doesn't match all the other ideas out there. So I have this one for now, but I'm going to keep my eye open for better ones. I might even commission one, though it'd be a challenging one because I don't know exactly what I want it to look like, and that's unfair to the artist. (Edit: The more I look at it, the more I kind of like this one...)

Anyway, zombies. I can't believe how badly I have zombies on the brain. Week before last, not only did I dream about zombies every single night, I had multiple dreams a night about them. I seem to be running into them everywhere, not just The Walking Dead. Er, not literally running into them, thankfully. Shows, movies, books, even RP sort of (ghouls!).

And! The Walking Dead. This week's may have been my favorite ep so far. LOVE LOVE LOVE Daryl. Loved every spoilery plot element. I have all the comics/graphic novels now, but I have to be really careful once I start reading, I don't want to get ahead of the show. (That's backwards, I know.)

It's strange, I've always avoided horror movies because I don't like being scared, but I find I'm really, really enjoying the frightening moments in Walking Dead. Seems like at least once an ep I jerk back from the screen, gasping in surprise. And then I end up grinning.

In WoW, questing went surprisingly well. 28-31 on paladin in about two hours. I'm out of range of the instance I don't like and can't spell (Gnome-whatever) so I could go back to instancing, but I don't know if I will.

Got RP as well, yay! A very fast-moving, but good scene. I can't wait for the follow-up to it. :D

I'm glad tomorrow is a weights morning instead of aerobics, otherwise I think my legs might just fall off. I've been doing more intense stuff lately, and now my legs have all sorts of minor pulls and aches.

...Ha. Every time I write a post about zombies, I always forget I have this tag.