If you're a huge Sailor Moon fan and haven't seen the live action, you must do so. I remember hearing about it when it started filming and I thought it wouldn't be any good. Really, how could they make Amy's blue hair look natural for a live version? Well, they solved that by having the girl's hair change color with their transformation so Usagi/Serena only has her blonde locks as Sailor Moon and so forth. Yes, there's some corny graphics going on (like when the Scouts are performing a special move), but the plot keeps it flowing nicely. And the music in is great. Love the music! Oh, and how Usagi/Serena and Mamoru/Darien meet is funny and totally sets the whole "this guy is so annoying" thing. And unlike the anime/manga, it deals with the girls trying to fit their new friendship with each other into their normal and boring old life.

Sailor Moon icons from three different sources: manga, anime, and the live action drama.

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Snagging from sean_montgomery 

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their livejournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

 (See previous post for bigger pic)

Let's see, this was the first PS work I did on my new laptop and I only had this Criminal Intent images saved as I hadn't yet transferred all my pics and things over. I've been on a L&O: CI kick for a while and wanted a wallpaper to match this. I wish it was more shippy but that's hard to do when the episodes don't really give me much to work with. **grins** I really need to change it since this one has been up for too long.

Title: Living in the Now
Author: sasusc 
Characters: River, (Jayne)
Prompt: now
Challenge: firefly100 
Word Count: 200
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine at all or else this would still be on TV

( Living in the Now )

Title: Push
Author: sasusc
Characters: Jayne, Mal
Prompt: push
Challenge: firefly100
Word Count: 101
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine at all or else this would still be on TV



His eyes stayed fixed on Mal, the meanest and nastiest glare he could mustered plastered across his face. It gave him satisfaction every time Mal attempted to shift farther away from him.

“Now, Jayne, you know this isn’t my fault. Stop giving me that look!”

He merely spit off to the side and growled low in his throat.

“Gorram it! Just help me already, will ya? This thing ain’t so light.”

“I ain’t the one who broke it.”

“It wasn’t my fault,” Mal whined. “I can’t do this alone!”

“And I ain’t the one who have’ta push it up that hill.”

I downloaded a free version of PSE while I wait for my sister to send me my PSE back to me, and I had to make a new wallpaper. I got tired of the sea turtle (a sample pic that came with the new laptop) as my wallpaper and needed to put some fandom up. Since, I've been on a Law & Order: Criminal Intent--well, mostly a Bobby Goren--kick, I quickly made this wallpaper. I really like how it turned out. Too bad that I haven't yet recollected all the fonts that I used to have.




The second one doesn't have the show title on it. I couldn't decide if I liked it on there or not.
Size: 1024 x 768 (as PB's largest size is that, but the original one is 1800x1200 so if you want that size, let me know!)
Credit and comments are very much love.

So, I have a laptop again! Not my old one. The computer people tried two different motherboard for it and they were both bad, so they must have gave up. Since I had to pay them for the new motherboard before they ordered it ($250), they gave me a credit of $140--which they are sending the creck in the mail. I just brought a new one for $700 and it has more harddrive than the other one. They only problem I have now is that the backup the people gave me from my old laptop says HP recovery. I inserted the three disk but none of them has back up of my files... I don't know what I'm suppose to do with them. My first laptop that died, I got disks with all my files from music and movies to documents so all I had to do was transfer the files over. I'm sure there's some place I can go to get those files I want out of it. At least I have an external harddrive that has most of it--except not anything recent. Now for the next several days I'll be playing around with this laptop and getting my stuff back on here.

My computer is still down. I hadn't found time to take it anywhere with the snowstorm we had early this week. **is sad** I want my computer back! I miss it. Anyway, I have several announcements.

1. I'm doing the Polar Bear Plunge on February 7th at 11am. **is crazy** My friend talked me into doing it as a couple of her other co-workers wanted to do it. We're going to name the team "Team Edward" since we all love the Twilight books. It's for a good cause--raising money for the Special Olympics--and I've decided this year I'll try new things and do more and live my life. I'm going to freeze. I know it. I can't even stand talking a cold shower so I don't know how I'm going to stand jumping into a pool in this kind of weather.

2. I'm moving out and living on my own--sort of! I'm 22 years old and it's about time to move away from mom. Me and the crazy friend who convinced me to do the Polar Bear Plunge are going live together. There's only one thing that's holding me back from enjoying this move: my pets. She owns a dog and a cat and I own two cats. There is no way we could keep four pets in one small apartment. I'll have to leave my cats behind with my mom and brother. My poor babies! If she didn't have one of her pets, maybe we could sneak three animals in but I think four is too many. Oh, and I'll have to get used to the dog smell again. I used to have dogs but it's been years and I forgotten about that scent. **sighs** I couldn't survive living on my own, and I know she wanted a roommate to help slipt the cost with. The good thing about all of this is that both our leases are up in May/June (a month apart from each other) so we shouldn't have too many problems with timing. Now we just need to find time to do some apartment shopping together.

I'm sure there was a third thing too, but now I don't remember. Must not have been that important. **grins** Off to see if I have time to type up that Todd/Alicia drabble I've been fiddling with. I think I have about an hour before my brother gets home.

I'm all better now! ^_^ No more sickness nor any hives from the meds for the sickness. I could have been on here earlier but I got distracted by RL. Plus, my brother had set up his Wii in my room for me to play. I've been playing that while I recover. It's gone now. He wanted it back. I probably won't be able to play for a couple months now--especially with Christmas right around the corner and he's bound to get some new games to play.

I got a new phone! Yay! It's a touch screen and it can flip sideways to text with a full keyboard. It's so much easier to text with a full keyboard and not having to punch the same key a few times for one letter. And the wallpaper I have on it? The external wallpaper is one of the manips of Todd and Alicia! :P I had to use one of them for a wallpaper. The internal wallpaper is Twilight with the Cullen kids and Bella.

Oh, yes, I got a PM that one of my Michael/Teyla fics was nominated for at the Isis Awards. **grins** Yay! Now, I must read through the fics nominated so I can vote (although I've read most if not all of the Michael/Teyal fics there). Oh, they have Rodney/Katie noms that I must read through. I've started a Rodney/Katie fic and want to read more. They were so cute together. Why did the writers break them up? Because Rodney/Jennifer Keller is not a great ship. They seemed to forced. Opps, realized I still have watched that Rodney/Jenn episode from the week before. I knew there was an episode of something that I still needed to watch. But I enjoyed the Todd episode that was on last week although the episoded strongly reminded the unfair treatment the Wraith get. **pets a Wraith** And I had a major problem with Todd's lack of intelligence with the ship. I won't go into any more, but to say that the writers didn't think it through again (unless they want to say Todd's thinking was screwy from the disease).

Which reminds me, must remember to review the last two chapters of cedargrove's fic. Lots of Todd/Alicia goodiness that fulfilled me. Loved it! And need to finish age's banner that I promised a while ago. It's half finished. I just keep forgetting to transfer my "Michael" caps back to my laptop. Don't know why I deleted them off of here. And gospikey I haven't forgotten the Teyla/Todd icons you want.

Anything else? O_O I don't know. Hey, f-list, if there was something posted in the last week or so that you want to point me too, go right ahead. I'll never have enough time go back through everything that has been posted while I was away. I'll be leaving my reviews for cedar's fic tomorrow while I'm babysitting. I need to get some sleep tonight! Sad thing is, I've slept alot today. This new med my doctor put me on for depression keeps me sleepy. She said to take it about an hour before bed and it should help me fall asleep. Yep, it does! But, when I wake up, I'm still feel heavy with sleep. Last night I went to bed around 1am and woke up around noon since I had to babsit--and then I took an hour and a half nap at my brother's house. Shesh, I hope it's only because my body is adjusting to the meds and it'll even out after awhile.

gospikey requested some icons . . . and I realize that I still have more to do as I don't think I even got half of what she wanted done tonight. **shifty eyes** Um . . . **shoves Todd in front of her** Yeah.

Two different manips: Todd/Vega and Todd/Teyla (taken from "The Queen").

( Manips Found Here )

And the icons that go with the manips. All icons contains at least one Wraith! :P

( Icons Found Here )

Let's face it. This icon does not lie.  **snickers** I totally forgot the icon says "Face it." But seriously, if you weren't in love with Edward after reading the books, you're be in love with him after watching the movie.

I'll put everything in spoilers as not to spoiler anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet and don't want to see anything they don't want too. Also? Comments are most likely to be spoilery. You are warned! :P Oh, I'm sure my f-list will start to flood with Twilight movie comments. I urge you all to go see it ASAP!


( Awesomely Movie Info Here )

If anyone on my f-list readscedargrove's story that's rewriting season 5 (and I have to tell you all, it's so much better than what the writers had given us) then you probably know about Todd holding Alicia Vega captive. **grins** And I couldn't resist shipping this couple. Hey, even Wraiths need love. :P



( The Manips )

( And the Icons and a Banner )

I have 26 Wraith icons plus one manip icon that matches my header. **grins** And gospikey</lj>, I finally have those lighter icons you wanted. :P The first seven are from "The Queen" (and are the lighter ones from my previous icon post) and the manip is from "The Prodigal". The remaining icons are from "The Last Man".

( See them here )

My own worst enemy? Stupid TV people who cancels good shows. I just opened my email account and they had a side story about "Lipstick Jungle" (do not watch) and "My Own Worst Enemy" and NBC canceling them. Can read it here. NBC only ordered 9 episodes of MOWE and aren't planning to order more. **gashes teeth** I'm really enjoying the show. I love Monday night line up on NBC: Chuck, Heroes, and MOWE. How I hate networks who cancel good new shows--especially when they start replacing them with more reality TV shows (I will admit I do watch some, but sometimes that's all the networks shows).

The two little drabbles I wrote yesterday really got my muse going. **grins** The next chapter of "The Road Not Taken" is coming along nicely. And while I was screencapping "Kindred Pt. 2" and "The Last Man" (why do I always want to call it "Last Man Standing"?) inspiration for another Michael centric fic took root. I've already have a paged typed up. I was literally falling asleep as I wrote it. I was on my bed with my laptop in front of me and laid down my head and closed my eyes as I typed. I opened them after ever other sentence just to make sure I'm hitting the right keys. My computer teacher in HS will be so proud. He always had us hide the keyboard as we followed the work pages. I can't even type correctly if I watch myself type. :P

Oh, and today as I was catching up on Ghost Hunter's Live Halloween event with Amanda Tapping, I was inspired to write a tag for "The Prodigal". So far it's very angsty and probably will stay that way throughout all of it, I'm hoping it'll go somewhere great and make up for that horrible ending. I was attempting to change the episode from the middle, but nothing I was writting was working right. This new idea is much better. The working title? "Shattered" Poor Michael, I'm really putting him through the ringer in this one. I'm not sure if this will grow into a long fic or if it'll stay a ficlet. We'll see. ^_^ I'm hoping for another slow work day so I'll be able to write almost all day (err, night).

Title: Memories
Author: sasusc
Characters: Samantha Carter, Jack O'Neill
Prompt: The "Out of Mind" Cap Here
Challenge: sj_everyday
Word Count: 258
Rating: PG-13 (Just to be on the save side)
Disclaimer: Not mine or else there wouldn't be any questions over Sam and Jack's romantic relationship.


( She breathed out of her nose . . . )

Title: Watching You
Author: sasusc
Characters: Jayne, River
Prompt: Deal
Challenge: firefly100
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine at all or else this would still be on TV


( Let's make a deal! )

Heh, didn't realized that I had this many icons ready to post. I think I have some Firefly icons that I haven't posted yet. I need to check to make sure before I post them with my next round of icons. Yes, there will be more coming soon. I only just started going through my caps from SGA's "Kindred Pt 1" and "The Queen" (there's only so long you can look through caps before getting tired of them and have to look at another fandom), Enterprise, and **drum rolls** Law & Order: SVU! Yes, I just brought the first two season so I have some capping to do. And I think I need to do more capping of Smallville. I finally caught up on it and I'm sooooooo loving the new season. That's the Smallville I love! It's so Superman!

**squeeeeee** Oh my God, I just saw the promo for the newest episode of Stargate Atlantis for this Friday! Michael, I sooooo love you! I can't wait to see this episode. I haven't watched live TV for awhile now. I've been bad--I've been downloading episodes of all my shows. Oh, except for on Monday nights with Chuck, Heroes, and My Worst Enemy (<--If you haven't had the chance to watch MWE, you must do so!)


On to the icons. This one contains:
Stargate SG-1
Sailor Moon
Superman (Movies and various TV series)


( Part Two of Sparklies )