WOW, I haven't made icons in a long time. And in the meantime I lost my ability to make bright colors, but I have developed heavy dull contrast in a big way... So this batch is all one color palette. Oops.


( 32 XF icons )

Alright, you people on my XF filter who haven't seen the WonderCon explosion yet -- I AM HERE TO GUIDE YOU.

1. The whole thing on video. The link-picking incident was off-camera in the big file, so here is a clip!

2. THE TEASER. (aaand, oops, the YouTube file is gone, so I better link you to the mirror file from Leelee)

3. Backstage VIDEO interviews with Chris, Frank, David, and Gillian:
(all links are to xfiles entries, not the source links)
- IESB.com
- About.com
- TV.com
- IGN.com (plus screencaps)

4. Transcribed/written interviews:
- Joint interview with David and Gillian
- An interview with Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter, wherein it is said that the movie is going to be "emotional, romantic."
- Another David/Gillian joint interview - Gillian talks about watching an MSR video on YouTube (RUN!)
- And another joint interview with some repeats but also a good deal of new material.

5. Pictures: An awesome hi-res collection. professional shots - Wireimage Hi-Res. Pictures and video from a blogger. Lots of others scattered everywhere! And leucocrystal will dump her awesome collection on us soon! ETA: Here they are!

6. For fun fan reactions, just go have fun with all the posts on xfiles. It's a pretty complete list of anything you might want to look at. I didn't sleep for two nights.

Fandom hasn't been this fun in yeeeeears!

Sometimes XF fandom makes me sad. Consider: I'm on my laptop at 2:00 am, reading a moody little piece of fic that was written ten and a half years ago. It takes place in a roadside diner, one of my favorite crack!fic genres. The person who wrote it is a long way away - two or three new fandoms away, actually, but I skim around to her LJ sometimes and check in, just to see what's up. There's a good dozen or so of them on here, mostly Scullyficcers, who wrote lots of my favorite fic a long time ago, and are still around in other fandoms. I don't know them personally, for the most part, and that's the way I prefer it.

I discovered The X-Files in the summer of 2003, in between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, during the week I turned 15, a few months before my mom died. Actually, Courtney found it. She watched a few and I ignored her, but at night she came into my room at around 1:00 and told me she'd just watched this episode about the man hearing voices and the woman finding a space ship on the beach - and that earlier in the day she'd watched this one where there was something dramatic happening on a bridge, and the woman and man had been talking, because there was some deal with his sister and the woman was reassuring him - and she was hooked. The next day so was I. There were TNT reruns twice a day back then, rerunning different strings, so the first episodes I saw were The Calusari in the afternoon, and later that night, Amor Fati. I think that illustrates pretty well how I came into XF - completely upside down and out of order.

At the beginning I told Courtney I wasn't going to "do" XF online, because I knew there had been other fans for a long time, and it felt like digging through their garbage - or their underwear drawer; it felt presumptuous. But eventually there was no choice, and that is more or less exactly what I've been doing for the past four and a half years - digging through USENET discussions, OBSSE newsletters, and lots and lots and lots of fic. I read it once and then I read it again, because I forgot. I read it on Gossamer, I read it on Geocities, I read it on personal sites, I read it on the Internet Wayback Machine archive, I read it in neat columns of text format, I read it in html with badly photo-shopped dustjackets at the top of the page, and I even read a little of it on LJ. Reams and reams of it. I'd had fandoms before (Court and I just called them "obsessions"), but books are different and all of my movie/TV obsessions had never lasted longer than a month, at most. XF has lasted four and a half years, and it's not going anywhere yet - it is a unique love affair for a lot of reasons, but I won't go into all of that. Anyway, it's well known to most of us that it's a difficult show and a difficult fandom to measure up to. It wasn't my "first love" - it was like the crown of all previous loves.

Meanwhile the only fandom I had (or wanted) myself was Courtney and a handful of friends on LJ. There are times when I am very nostalgic for the golden years - that time when all the old BNFs and fic-writers had their discussion circles, and episodes actually AIRED, and everything perched precariously on Chris Carter's shoulders! But then I think about that for two more seconds and became mostly relieved that I missed it. I like my ghost ship well enough the way it is.

But still, some nights I surface and realize I've just gotten upset about meta written five or seven years ago, and I'm frequently struck by the date stamps on the top of all of this fic. It's sad to inhabit something and run up against this wall again and again: because most of the people I share this world with have left a long time ago, and if they haven't forgotten it, time and distance has rendered it a bittersweet nostalgia at best, an indifferent memory at worst.

"No One Would Riot For Less," by Bright Eyes (lyrics)
An X-Files fanvid about: Angst, War, Death, Trauma, Failure, Fear, Doom, Darkness, Hope, Trust, Partnership, aaaand Love.

+ DOWNLOAD (39 MB .wmv)
[re-uploaded 4/2/08]

I have also put it on YouTube, just because most XF vids end up there anyway, and this is an "official" version. The quality is so crappy, though, it makes my little vidding heart want to cry.

I started on this video sometime in late July. The pacing is slow and a little unusual, I think, and I tried to match the pacing of the clips to the music as closely as possible -- you'll have to be the judge of whether it's successful or not! It's my first vid, so I learned along the way - I had the theme and the "feel" and tone of it in mind from the beginning, but hardly did any planning regarding scenes or clips. I had a heck of a time trying to get the last minute or so of the song; and all the tiny little edits for timing just about did me in. Ah, well. I'm mostly satisfied.


"To me that's always been the message -- not fighting the good fight, which is kind of sentimental and cliche, but fighting the... fighting the, uh, the doomed fight."
- David Duchovny

I talked stellar_dust's ear off about Spaced earlier tonight, so as penance I decided to stop surfing around and doing nothing and instead post those icons I've been promising.

I tried as best I could to make sure the color and resolution on these icons was good enough - by and large there aren't high quality images available on the internet for Spaced, and my own caps from .avi were barely serviceable. Anyway! I'm happy with most of them.

I haven't made XF icons in *so long* and I only have a handful to post this time. As I was saying to foxestacado the other day, I feel like other people on LJ are doing it so well, I don't have anything to add! But I have a small new batch nonetheless.

+ 64 "Spaced"
+ 20 "Spaced" cast/crew
+ 6 "X-Files"


( 90 frickin' icons under the cut )

Lots of icons I made this summer but never posted!


+ 38 X-Files
+ 11 SVU

( cut! )

I caved and made two fanmixes! Enter at your own risk.

Crises during the making of:
1. Every song ever written reminds me SOMEHOW of The X-Files, but how do I choose ones that will actually make some kind of demented sense to normal people?
2. Is there any way I can sneak in Celine Dion without looking like a loser? ... No. But I'm doing it anyway.
3. What's the difference between a song for the XF mix and a song for the MSR mix? NOT MUCH.
4. Damn, I can't include "Walking After You," I know you all already have it.
5. I actually hate West Side Story and "Somewhere," but I LOVE Phil Collins and this version. Therefore it is included.

( The X-Files Mix )


( The Mulder/Scully Mix )

WOW, it's been awhile. I don't like some of these. I like others lots. There are Dylan Thomas poems (or, lines from them). There is Sheryl Crow. There is no Celine Dion, for once.


+40 XF icons

( baby, don't fear the reaper )

+ 24 X-Files
+ 20 West Wing
+ 12 SVU

( touch down in the land of the delta blues )

Yes, my laptop is dead, for the moment. But since I'm checking email ("checking email") on the desktop, I might as well get this out of the way.


( 56 XF icons (12 CSM) )

First: mostly textless, brushless X-Files S3 icons.


( 48 textless )

( 14 text )

Bonus: 12 Twin Peaks icons (from caps of mediocre quality)


( 12 Twin Peaks )

+ comment, credit :)
+ textless icons are not bases; do not alter

( 19 XF icons: Various s4 & 5 )

+ comment
+ credit
+ compose a sonnet

( 60 Behind the Scenes X-Files icons )

"Oh, I know well enough that you were not lovers. You left me that. The divine blood will not mix with subjects', they say. You left me my share. When you had used him, you would let him steal home to me; until you needed him again. After weeks and months at the wars -- you and he night and day together, sharing the councils, the dangers, the victories, the soldiers' bread, the very jokes -- he could come back to me, each time a little thinner and greyer and with a few more scars, and fall asleep before his supper was down, and cry out in his dream, 'Quick, on the right there! The Queen's in danger!'..."
- Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis

Icons about partners.

They've been sitting on my hard drive for weeks, which means I am ambivalent about several.



( 27 XF icons )

( 10 SVU icons )

( 7 HP icons )

( And one random Numb3rs )

X-Files icons, surprise!

It's been about four months since my last post. That's my longest gap -ever-. I ran into a really bad icon-block for most of that time, but it finally broke this week.

Notes:
- They all look the same. To gloss over my lack of creativity, I'm calling them a "themed set." Certain brushes were grossly overused.
- Resources: meleada and eightyfour__
- I hope you like! If you want to take any, comment, and credit in keywords. :) Thanks!

Tease:


( 41 XF icons )

XF icons-- just a handful. Lessee,


( 11 XF icons )

Comment, credit if you use, etc etc. :P

Okey. Here's my latest batch, and it's been a while so it's pretty big!

Whenever I try a new style I like to explore it until I like it, so most of these look the same, but oh well. And I'm accustoming myself to Photoshop (I've always used PSP), so I'm not 100% satisfied with all of them, but I figured I'd post them anyway. :)

TEASE


( 35 XF icons )

I was bored and a little out of ideas, so I decided to icon the first stanza (in English :-P) of Eliot's "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock." lol! It was fun, but cap-choosing was hell. I have a greater appreciation for music video makers, now. ;)

( 17 Prufrock )

(if you take)
+ comment! :)
+ credit in keywords
+ textless icons aren't bases, so please don't add anything :)

Happy Birthday, sopdetly!

I bestow upon you -- freshly plucked and un-beta'd XF fic! Hooray?


( sorry about the wrapping job. and the angst. )


Have an awesome day! :)

Well, I procrastinated again today. There aren't *that* many, but..


( 12 X-Files comics icons )

+ If you want anything, feel free to take it, but please take a few seconds to credit "frey_at_last" in the keywords.
+ They're not bases, so please don't add text. :)

:)