In an attempt to exorcise my obsession with J. W. Waterhouse, I ended up making about 40 icons of his work. Also dumping some of my more recent/popular Havemercy-related icons here, just so that people who come looking for them at my journal can actually find them here.

If you take anything, please credit search_soleil in the comment space in your userpics. Also, please leave a comment because they make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Thanks!

[01-39] Art - John William Waterhouse
[40-45] Havemercy joke icons

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I'm really enjoying Starfighter right now, and let me tell you, the Rook/Thom parallels are pretty much smacking me over the face despite the crazyawesome mecha setting.

Okay, so I basically slept for two straight days. That was weird. It is Tuesday right? OH GOD, WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S WEDNESDAY ALREADY? *despairs of self*

Hello, new thremedon friends (*waves*)! I love you all, but I want you to know that I've gone more insane than usual the last 10 days or so making Spotlight Fest and Christmas happen at the same time. My parents and extended family sort of hate my blackberry now. (What is that infernal buzzing sound? And why is it coming from your pocket?)

My Christmas, as a result, was a total blur. I think I got some good stuff. I got a new printer, new laptop speakers, and Iron Man, which were the three things I needed desperately. I gave my mother not one but FOUR pairs of handmade earrings, which she loved. And my relatives were as generous as could be expected when we are a lower middle class family struggling with the crappy economy. I think I should consider myself satisfied, and lucky.

Also, somewhere in that mess I went to go see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was AMAZING. It was funny, visually interesting, and let us just say I BAWLED at the end. And I don't mean the closing scene left some tears in my eyes. I mean for the last 20 minutes or so I was crying quietly, but freely in my seat. And as soon as the credits started rolling, I actually started sobbing, which was embarrassing, but very cathartic. Basically, I am a SAP, but I think this movie earned all those tears, which is more than I can say for other movies I've cried during.

Tomorrow/today, I have a New Year's party to attend, and then on the 2nd, I'm heading up to Boston to stay with the illustrious PayPay to belatedly celebrate the date of her birth.

The downside to all of this is that... I have fallen woefully behind in the Merlin fandom and will continue to fall even more behind over the next week or so. It is actually pathetic how quickly I got used to seeing Bradley James' face on my Flist every day. D:

Mood busy Music Yoshimori Makoto - Kimi ni Fureta Hikari | Powered by Last.fm Tags: benjamin button, havemercy, holiday, i cry at movies, mentions of the paypay, merlin, movies, rl

IDEK, splintercat, IDEK

My life right now is a careening ball of awesome and crazy bouncing wildly between Christmas insanity, Havemercy modding, and Merlin love.

I barely sleep. It is like I went into fangirl finals right after my school finals finished.

BUT THE AWESOME AND THE INSANITY CONTINUES AND ON THAT NOTE:

Prelude: For the record and anyone who doesn't know yet, splintercat and I are not just co-mods of thremedon, we are also internet-married. We're even facebook-official. We aren't sockpuppets of each other, although occasionally splintercat claims to be able to influence me psychically.

So today we were up at insane hours of the night talking about, among other things, thremedon, internet memes and slang, and the state of our marriage. This conversation was ~*~epic~*~. I feel compelled to share these highlights:

( Cut for a medium-length facebook chat. )

loweryourwand

Mood giddy Music Complicated - Avril Lavigne Tags: barnard is the school of fandom, fangirling, havemercy, i am a vampire, idk my bff saezutte, twilight, wtf

I just woke from a nap where I had a dream that Arthur and Merlin were going to college in a city (it looked suspiciously like Columbia). At first they were just randomly walking down the street, but they got into an argument and Merlin was really angry at Arthur being a prat all the time. Then, Arthur was like "fuck you, I am a fucking great human being," and then he grabbed Merlin's hand and they ran to this insanely large playroom with like, 30 or so kids playing around in these gigantic play-castles, and he said, "Merlin, welcome to Camelot."

Because in my dream, Uther ran an orphanage and Camelot was the rec center that Arthur was in charge of. And of course, this place was fucking awesome, and Merlin was all like, trying not to look too impressed, "Well, at least this is in keeping with your general maturity level."

This was a fucking great dream, guys. Except for the part where it was all about me trying to escape the responsibilities of getting older (seriously, they're at a college that looks like my college and then they run away to a playland paradise? way unsubtle). But you know, finals are over, and I'm going home tomorrow. I have no need for these things you call responsibilities.

In other news, thremedon is going to be spotlighted on LJ starting next week! I find this exciting as hell! splintercat and I are trying to be good mods for once and put together some special events over there, so Havemercy fans, stay tuned. :)

Mood dorky Music We Get On - Kate Nash Tags: dreams, havemercy, merlin

I've been playing a lot of tetris lately, and God's truth, it's gotten to the point where I see tetris scenarios every time I blink. And you know, I keep thinking that this is what it must be like to be a Go pro. To have tsumego, life and death problems, burned into the backs of your eyelids. It's insane! They go through their whole lives like this! I need to write fic!

Also, I'm finally reading Havemercy, and so far it is amazing. Haven't quite decided on a favorite character--the cast listing is atrociously long--but I've already got a ship, which satisfies me in my fangirlish heart.

Also the second, I've finished my paper on "leaving behind heteronormativity in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," which I've taken to affectionately calling "that piece of shit paper where I diss my own sex and shamelessly display my love for gay men." But I got an A on the first draft, so hopefully that will carry over. One more paper left, due over reading week, about nostalgia in émigrés for my European complit class and then I have three finals in two days and then I am OUT of this godforsaken place that I will miss horribly within an hour of arriving home for the summer. I hate that I already know how that will go.

Mood weird Music One (Blake's Got A New Face) - Vampire Weekend Tags: books, games, havemercy, hikago, school