uni studies + 1.5 jobs + moving = 4 hours of sleep/night + crankiness D:

It should all be over by the end of May... I hope. D:

You should all run here!!!! naggawikka has drawn a picture of Draco in a kilt! Doing a Marilyn Monroe pose!!!! :D It's awesome!

So, go HERE! :D

I'm back! :D [Insert excuses for being away - uni, work, exhaustion, etc.]

I think I'll have some more time from now on... Although I still have to finish my MA thesis from last year (why am I so lazy?), write a linguistics paper (I have no clue what about, although I might ask some of you for help - just to ask a few questions :P) and read a bunch of books for lit class (the only thing I'm looking forward to). But, ohwell, I'll do it somehow.

I've really missed you guys though. I bet a lot of fun/interesting stuff has happened while I've been away! Hopefully this means that I'll be able to find a lot of good new fic I haven't read yet. Any suggestions? Any news? :D There's no way I'll be able to check the last 2 months of f-list. :P

On another note, my paid account is about to expire. Should I buy one more year or not? I don't really know what's been happening with LJ and IJ for the last two months, so if any of you could advise me, I'd be really grateful. (I like having a paid account btw. D:)

About my rec lists... I'll try to update them as soon as possible. I can't say how long it'll take me, because I don't know when I'll have time or when I'll feel well enough to do it. I love keeping rec lists, but work has been incredibly exhausting lately, so that I usually don't have energy for anything on the days that I work. Meh.

And since my paid account is about to expire, ( here's a stupid poll. )

And before I forget... Thanks to everyone for my birthday wishes. Sorry if I didn't respond to your posts. :( I'll try to find my way there in the near future... :)

PS - I'll be responding to all of your past comments soon.

The second rec post - incredibly late and incredibly short. Sorry about that. :/

# recs: 6

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( 08 December - 14 December )

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I think I might've missed a couple of fics from this week. I read them all three weeks ago, so I probably forgot a few... I'll add them later when I'll check the communities. :D

Yup. I just have too much to do at the moment. I have a paper deadline next week - a paper that I've barely started. I really need to focus on that. :/

So I'm going to try to avoid reading LJ until after Christmas. My holiday recs will have to wait until then as well, although I might post last week's this week, since I've read all the fics from then - I think.

If anybody needs to tell me something, or thinks I should know something, or anything like that (even though I doubt you do :P), you can email me. Or use the message feature on LJ. I'm also going to have the chat programmes on while I write (because some distraction is nice :P), so you're welcome to say hi there. :D

And that's it.

Don't break fandom/LJ while I'm gone. Or if you do, bookmark stuff so I can point and laugh at it (and you) later. :P

One of these days I'm going to completely embarrass myself by commenting on the wrong fic. Like I almost did just now - I almost submitted a cheery comment to a rather sad fic. This is what you get when you have about six fics open at the same time in order to comment on them. :P

As always, I thought I'd have enough time to write longer recs, but I failed at that. Also, I thought I'd have enough time to read Snarry as well this year, but I failed at that too. I fail a lot it seems. D:

... So, here are the H/D recs for the first week of December, as promised (lacking Snarry and 'proper' reviews, obviously *fails*). There are 12 of them, thanks to hd_holidays who have been posting 4 (!!!) fics/art pieces every day. Yay! :D

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( 01 December - 07 December )

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So, these were my, umm, SuperUltraTurbo H/D holiday recs #1. :P

Now go read the fics and comment! :D

Does anybody know how to create animated images (icons) out of videos? Like, if you have a short video, and you want to capture a few seconds in it and make it into an icon... I have Photoshop if that helps. :)

I've tried looking on Google, but all I can find is how to make several images into one animated image. I'd be able to do that, but I need to know how to "extract" the images from video first. :/

I realised about an hour ago, after reading furiosity's post, that tomorrow is December 1 - which means that all the fests start tomorrow! :O I totally forgot. And I was hoping to make a plan of everything, and organise my reading in advance... Oh well. :)

Anyway, I'm going to be posting weekly recs this year too. Since tomorrow is Saturday, my first rec post will probably be either on Sunday, December 9, or Monday, December 10 (but most probably on Monday). I'll rec one week of fics at a time, so December 1-7, December 8-14, etc. I hope I'll manage to do this. It'll be fun, anyway. :D

I'm planning on reading only Harry/Draco and Harry/Snape fics (and sometimes other slash pairings too, depending on how interesting they'll sound), because I won't have time to read much else. :/ Here are the communities I'm going to try to read:

On Livejournal
3fan_holidays
harry_holidays
hd_holidays
hp_wintersmut

On Insanejournal
merry_smutmas

Have I forgotten any? :)

PS: This new LJ thing - It's confusing me. I don't get it. It's making me feel cranky. :/

"The Harry Potter series will lighten up on the darkness and turn into a romantic comedy for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." (quote from here)

Umm... ??? o_O