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There’s Life, And Then There’s Microsoft

Gaaah.

Okay, I now have a computer problem. It’s quite a small problem, really, but it’s one of those things that just annoy you, y’know? :P

Basically, my dad did something to my computer and now some of the icons or my desktop aren’t quite the right colour. I’ve tried going to ‘desktop properties’ and setting the colours to the highest they can go, but to no avail. (Thankfully, the colours are okay everywhere else-like in my copy of PSP-or there’d be hell to pay. ;) )

Here I have a [URL=http://www.heartstars.net/collection/untitled.bmp]diagram-of-sorts[/URL] to explain better what it’s doing.

If you help me, I will love you forever. Seriously. I will write you a fanfic, make you an icon…whatever you want. XD

ROTS icons- spoiler warning!

-Screencaps and textures by me
-Comment and credit
-Don’t hotlink
-All the images from the trailer…spoilers, obviously. ;)
-You don’t have to do this, of course, but if you take one, maybe you could give a bit of money to Comic Relief? I think pretty much everyone in the UK is growing slightly weary of this by now, seeing as it’s nearly midnight ;) but I thought I’d throw it out there.

1. almostlj 2. aaylarotslj 3. macefinallj 4. anitimelj 5. wasntfairlj 6. serpentlj 7. settinglj 8. matterlj 9. didntlj 10. sithlj

I Have Seen The Trailer *squee*

I didn’t like it as much as I liked the teaser trailer, but still…wow. *giggles*

-That overhead shot of Anakin walking into the Jedi Temple is just… *shivers*

-I didn’t see Grevous in there, but maybe I just missed him

-That one shot of Padme in tears…the poor girl. *sniff*

-There was a tiny bit of Anakin with no shirt on. :p

-Palpatine vs Yoda in the Senate! That’s one spoiler I mostly missed.

-That shot of the Temple burning…ouch…I can’t stop thinking about TPM now. It seems like such a long way away…

Screenshots, icons and the like coming soon. :)

A brief moment of pettiness and the new HBP covers

The brief moment of pettiness

Oh come on, you lot! 44 icons and only ten comments, one of which was me? I was really proud of that batch…*trails off* Well, thanks to those who did comment, anyway.

The new HBP covers

Gaaaaah. There’re just not making me excited for the book….not yet…and it’s annoying because I want to be really excited. Maybe my brain has just decided I can’t be hyped for both ROTS and HBP at the same time…

They’re at TLC if anyone’s missed ’em. ;)

And one other thing

My mood theme isn’t working properly. I think I might get a different, multi-fandom one. Or something.

An obscene amount of Spider-Man icons

-Comment and credit
-Don’t hotlink
-Most of the textures by me, but see my resources page for where I got everything else from. (Tre-Xture, 1Greeneye and claudia6913 had particularly cool stuff) :)
-These were all made from my DVD screencaps (even the comic book ones), apart from most of the actor icons, and number 32, which was scanned by Moony Girl from the Peter/Harry fanlisting.

Anyhoo…this 44-icon set features, among other things…Peter, MJ, Peter/MJ, Peter/Betty, Peter/Gwen, Peter/Harry, Ock, Norman, May, Ursula, and quite a few of Harry.

1. peterursulalj 2. mydreamslj 3. leftyoulj 4. desperationlj 5. octopuslj 6. throughuslj 7. thankyoulj 8. electricitylj 9. nohopeleftlj 10. dontunderstandlj 11. tothislj 12. ohmygodlj 13. everythingoklj 14. somethingtherelj 15. theysaylj 16. harrychoiceslj 17. nochoicelj 18. harrynormanlj 19. noescapelj 20. stillherelj 21. listentomelj 22. chocolatecakelj 23. mirrormirrorlj 24.

25. mjpeterlj 26. glamourlj 27. angstangstlj 28. doomedromancelj 29. spideylj 30. addictlj 31. gwenlj 32. harrysredemptionlj

33. smirklj 34. smirkbase 35. kd1lj 36. kd2lj 37. kd3lj 38. kd4lj 39. mt1lj 40. mt2lj 41. mt3lj 42. tm1lj 43. tm2lj 44. wd1lj

1-My Peter/Ursula fanlisting just opened, if anyone’s interested…
3-Lyrics from a Green Day song…er…Nobody Likes You, I believe.
8-Someone requested this. Hope they like it. :)
13-It says ‘I love you cos I have to make everything ok’ which is from I Love You Cos I Have To by Dogs Die In Hot Cars
15-Oh come on, you all know that song
18-Manip by me. Said manip also ended up on a wallpaper.

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I was looking through my vast collection of Spider-Man 2 screencaps and something jumped out at me…

You see the woman in the portrait next to Harry? Is that Mrs Osborn? His mother? Because she looks like him, whoever she is…

EDIT: And Harry has the same picture in his apartment. (You have to look closely for it, but it’s there). Guess that settles it. ;)

Favourite Fandom Moments

Meme nicked from dayse

List your favourite fandom moments.

Star Wars
I am a Jedi, like my father before me. I love that line. It’s probably my favourite line in any movie, simply because it sums up the entitre saga for me. I need to start working it into everyday conversation.
-Vader’s redemption. If I’d been in the theatre (I wasn’t, because I wasn’t born yet :p) I’d have stood up and cheered.
-In fact, the entire end of ROTJ. If there was a Desert Island Endings, that would be the first one of mine. I could spend an entire LJ entry just talking about it. I just love it…Luke’s expression at his father’s funeral, the music, the hugging, the ghosts…everything.
-The Scenes That Spawned A Thousand Fanfictions, namely the TPM council scene and Qui-Gon’s death scene. (Both of which are pretty good scenes in their own right…TPM has more depth to it than a lot of people think)
-The ROTS trailer. What?

Spider-Man
-Chocolate cake scene. It’s just so…you never see random acts of kindness in a movie, do you? And he’s upset, and she just comes in and forgets to knock and is clearly shy around him, but offers him a sort of friendship anyway, and you can tell from his eyes how grateful he is…it’s just *perfect*. It really made an already fantastic movie.
-The hug between Peter and Harry at the end of the first movie (I give up. I really am *this* far away from writing slash about them…)
-Train scene. I adore it. You’d like to think you’d have done the same thing had you been on that train, and you know, you probably would. (My optimistic faith in human nature *has* to fail one day, don’t worry ;) )
-Harry’s final scene in the second movie. I want the third one to come out now…

Harry Potter
-The Shrieking Shack scene. I used to read it out to my brothers, and do all the voices. I loved being Sirius and yelling like crazy. ;)
-The beginning of OOTP, simply because of how long we’d all been waiting
-A good percentage of PS, because…I don’t know. I like almost everything about that book…
-The Quidditch match in the PS movie, because that was when it occured to me ‘OMG THIS IS ACTUALLY HARRY POTTER ON SCREEN!’