Crystal Dreams

Updates

Ariane — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:30:02 +0000

Uploaded 3 new wallpapers, featuring characters from Spartacus: Blood And Sand.

And icons I’d had made for various icon challenges:

Avatar/Icon Update

Ariane — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:49:34 +0000

Uploaded some Star Trek, Seven Of Nine (Jeri Ryan folder) and Xena icons that I made for challenges and then forgot to upload here when the challenges were over.

Also, updated the Awards page.

New Icons

Ariane — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:45:59 +0000

I’ve uploaded Lost, Star Trek and Spartacus: Blood And Sand (Lucy Lawless) icons.

New Look!

Ariane — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:19:49 +0000

As you can see, we have a new look up here! I visited today the awesome site Aun Existe Amor; I have long loved their designs, and was so happy to see that they have released their first WordPress theme I just had to use it immediately!

Textures

Ariane — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:29:44 +0000

Tried my hand at making a texture: here’s 1 large texture (1920×1080) and 160 icon size cuts from it. Click on the pics below to go to their respective pages.

Large:

Icon textures:

New avatars and a wallpaper

Ariane — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:12:54 +0000

I’ve uploaded new avatars for following subjects: Star Trek, Sanctuary and The Duchess, as well as The Duchess wallpaper:

Sample avatars:

Fan Fiction

Ariane — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:27:01 +0000

I’ve imported all my writings I wanted to keep to Wordpress and deleted the efiction site. You can access them by the Writings link in the menu.

Ranting to self / Thoughts On Writing

Ariane — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:01:04 +0000

I feel bad about not writing, or rather writing so little. Writing isn’t easy for me, it takes a long time and more energy and so much more creativity than say, making wallpapers, or avatars. I think a thing contributing to this is that English isn’t my native language, and I try to be too careful to say what I mean to say perfectly the first time – instead of just getting it down, and rewriting and tweaking it later. So it takes a lot of energy. For the last couple of years, ever since I started at my last job in February 2007, I haven’t had that energy, or if I have had the energy haven’t had the creativity. At first the job was so bad and stressfull, and two months after that ended all that health problems/stuff I’ve been writing in my Livejournal started, and is still going on as I write this. I fell out of writing habit.

In case you’ve been wondering why I can keep capping as normal with all this health stuff going on – capping demands very little; uploading is by far the worst part, and even that doesn’t need much effrot. And weeding out the bad caps, even though I hate doing it because it’s boring, is so routine, there’s no thinking involved. So that’s why I’ve been managing capping normally, and wallpapers/avatars almost normally.

Now that things are looking a little better, I hope I can get back to that habit – I miss writing, and I’m writing in my head all the time, every day. It’d be great if there were a device that could read my thoughts and put them on paper but there’s not, so just have to do it hard way…

It doesn’t help that I dread writing Todd – not so much because I don’t think I can write him, but because I haven’t written a canon character other than Ardeth Bay in more than 7 years, I think. I don’t remember dreading writing Ardeth even the first time around. I think Ardeth and The Mummy universe have become my comfort zone, and now I need to write start writing the part with Todd, I’m dreading getting out of that comfort zone. I had no trouble writing in SGA when it was just on OC – granted, there was some direction problems because I didn’t know why she was there and why Todd would want her, but with AKVeronica60’s help, I believe I got that sorted out. So it just remains to write Todd… and I don’t. There’s quite clear in my head, and there’s been times when I’m not tired and feel like I can write… and I don’t. I procrastinate, do anything but write. And I hate that!

Any suggestions as to what to do to brake this rut?

I’d love to try a WC – explanation here – but that’s complicated by my living in the “wrong” time zone for pretty much any fandom real-time online activity. I’m in Finland which makes my time zone GMT+2, and I’m pretty much sleeping when most people I know online are up and vice versa. If you live in a time zone closer to mine, and would like to try a WC out, please e-mail me or leave a reply here.

New icons

Ariane — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:54:06 +0000

I’ve uploaded 31 new Xena and 8 new SGA icons!

Samples, see the full sets at Xena page and SGA page

New icons

Ariane — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:00:29 +0000

Uploaded my newest avatars:

Stargate Atlantis – Steve the Wraith x8

Xena Warrior Princess x6