Sailor §trange

Reflecting my recent obsession with G1 Transformers, I have done a few more icon changes - namely uploading my four favourite G1 Transformers, Optimus no withstanding as I already have two '07 OP icons.

The others besides Ultra Magnus are Arcee, Springer and Hot Rod - my OT3.

I also uploaded an icon of Rosa I found around the place, and one of the Universal Greeting.


The TF icons (Universal Greeting not included) are from the LilFormers site. Go look around, it's unbelievably cute.

I'm doing a resort of my icons - deleting ones I don't use and uploading ones I'd like to have up.

This will probably mean a lot of my KH icons will get taken down as I don't use a lot of them anymore.


It's debatable which of the new icons I'm uploading will get used - there's always some that get neglected.

Been poking at a fandom lately that ususally only draws my attention for a short while once a year (probably two now), I think I am starting to really see the potential of Jack/Ianto, which means my quiet love of Doctor/Jack has competition and I damn well want to know where Jack's going to be come Season 2 of Torchwood.


Plus this post is an excuse to use one of my newly added icons.

Put this icon together myself - it's my FFIV OT4.

I was a little depressed at the effect saving into an uploadable format did to the quality, but then I had it blown up in Paint to 8 times the size. The effect isn't as noticable at this size.

I am a little puzzled at how dark Rosa's hair is though, she's suposed to be a blonde. Then again, Cecil is suposed to be a blond too, so that's just... special.

Dammit, Kain is cute as a sprite.


I have this inclination to print up an expanded version of those sprites and working out all the colours and crosstitching them. I've something the like before - someone somewhere (I suspect it may have been on the Childfree crafts comm but it could have been on an FF comm) crosstitched the 8-Bit Theatre sprites. I wouldn't mind doing a set of them too, for my FF1 team, who though I haven't played much more of them I am building a whole background story for them in my head.


Edit: decided to change it slightly so they're facing each other.

I found it! The butt-staring icon of Cecil and Kain!

As blueshinra said, it was on F_W, but what I really needed was to find a wank report that actually mentioned FFIV. Found that through Fandom Wank Wiki links to Final Fantasy wanks - specifically one about IV being ported to GBA.


Oh, and I am almost sure I can declare an OT4 for IV, though Rydia is still a bit of a sticking point.

I have a lot of icons!

Lots of KH icons too!

See Mansex Xemnas squee! XD

I suddenly have this crazy idea to make a Sim version of Mideel - post Ultima. Admitedly, the Lifestream would have to be a normal swimming pool, albeit with somewhat rounded edges (thankyou expansion packs for giving us a diagonal swimming pool tool!) - if I can get that to work. Before I got the expansions the pool tool was notably stubborn in as much as I could only make squarish pools - I couldn't add a second section onto an esisting pool to get a L-shaped effect.

Actually, that will be the decider of whether I can do this or not, whether I can make a octagonal pool.


On other contruction facts in S2, I think my building ability is slightly hampered. I found while poking around for more creative houses than I can build (even my Queenslander is not that creative - it was based on an actual house I've lived in) I discovered houses that are more storeys higher than the game has ever let me build.

Now I haven't tested the limits of height since I've added the expansions but it makes me wonder because the information on one such house that I read commented about building limits being restricted by the processing capacity of the computer one is running the game on. That makes me wonder at the capacity of Fëa, which I believe is 512MB in RAM. The CPU is a P4 but I can't recall the Ghz at the moment.

But really, I can't worry about that at the moment, the first thing I have to do with this computer is get a new hardrive and transfer every program I can concieve of over to it (mainly I'm thinking the two FFs, SC2k and BG2 - I'm not totally sure of S2 but I think I can recover all my games even if I do, I just have to keep a copy of the EA Games folder safe).

I really do want to move as much as I can off the old hardrive, I keep a regular eye on the space left at the moment and it keeps looking rather sickly. I managed to recoup some space by burning all my stock of S1 items to DVD and deleting the copies on Fëa so now I have a remnant of a bit over 6 gig left. Unfortunately I'm in a total frenzy at the moment of downloading more S2 content so I don't know how long that will last. It's kinda surprising how quickly space can be taken up even when downloading on a dial-up connection.

Anyway, can't go experimenting with pools yet, I need some nap time before I go to work.


In somethign totally unrelated though, I am seriously considering changing my default icon to Shelke.

Just had a bit of a rethink on one part of the hybrid mutant plotbunny I posted a few days ago... ( just what would someone get for deprevation of liberty? )


Meanwhile, random note: My journal layout is playing silly buggers. Seems to be acting normal again.

After seeing two posts about loyalty rewards in the form of extra icon space I just thought to check my quota (it didn't occur to me with the first post I read - bard_linn's - because she was talking about Perminent accounts.

But hell! I have double the number of icon spaces I used to have! *Squee!* I guess I get to post more FF8 icons then!

Now what to put up...


Edit: Can someone put the text "WTF?!!" on this?



Edit 2: Eesh! Hopefully I've finally got the last icon decided!

Journal paid up for 6 months.

Maybe when it comes time to pay it again I'll be able to pay it up for a year.