Happy Boxing day!!!

I didn't mean to put off voting until today, but I ended up snuggled on the couch with my kids and we all fell asleep. Christmas sugar cookie comas. ;)

But I'm awake and I have a TON of amazing icons for you to look through and vote on. Although there is no specific theme there were a lot of similar requests. Thank you to everyone for participating!

Voting rules are the same as always:

- Type your top three choices into the text box, separated by commas. Remember to put them in the order you like them.
- Please don't vote in a comment, and don't vote for your own icons!
- Your first choice will receive 3 points, your second choice will get 2 points and your third choice will get 1 point.

Example: 15 = 3 points, 07 = 2 points, 31 = 1 point

Also there are a lot of icons to look at here. Please take the time to look at them all before choosing. Also because of the high number of icons there are a few new categories for voting.

( Dear Secret Santa, Please Bring Me... )


Results will be up on Sunday as normal, keeping (or putting us) back on track. I'll also post who the icon gifts were for (and from) and all the alternates. Should you have alternates you still want 'gifted' on Sunday, please feel free to submit them.

Well here I am updating from my phone again. Although my compute does work, I'm currently waiting for Santa to make an appearance in Arizona.

While waiting though I wanted to get this reminder in. 3 out of 8 people have submitted their icons for the Secret Santa challenge. The 15 icons are beautiful, but I'd love to see everyone get the icons the requested.

The challenge ends tomorrow evening. Later than normal, but still tomorrow.

I'll add a link to this entry in the morning while waiting for the little ones to wake up.

Merry Christmas!

I know this reminder is a bit early, but I'm not sure what this evening holds and if I'll be back on the computer, so I'm putting this up now.

This is your first reminder if you signed up to participate in the Secret Santa Challenge. We currently have 2 people who have submitted icons (there are 10 icons total for voting and a bunch of pretty alternates as well). I'm sure everyone who submitted would like their icons though. :)


You can get your 'prompts' in your original post (It should have been emailed to you)
or just send me a message (or comment to your Original post and I'll send you your prompts.
You can submit your icons here!


You have until Friday, December 25th (Christmas) at 8PM EST to submit.
I can't wait to see what icons we get for this challenge. The prompts were so interesting!
If you have any questions about your prompts let me know, I'm happy to help where I can.

Thank you everyone who signed up for this challenge! We have 8 participants and some truly amazing and fun prompts to work with.

I have commented to your original post with the prompts for you to work on. The comments are screened but you should get them in your email notifications. However, if you don't have those on, or are like me and they don't tend to work, please just comment there and I'll PM you the information as well.

I will put up the normal reminders through out the week. Remember this challenge ends on Christmas Day. It will end later than normal as I will be spending the day with my little ones and what ever goodies Santa manages to fit through our door. But the voting will go up.

Please make up to 5 icons as your gift.
You can make all your icons from just one of the prompts, or make one icon from each of the prompts or any combination you'd like.
If you would like to 'give' your person extra icons (perhaps alternates or you just get really inspired) please list which ones are 'alts' and not to be included in the voting. All icons will be given at the end.


Please submit your icons here as normal.
All Comments will be screened.

+ You may enter up to 5 icons.
+ You may use any screencaps, promo pictures or otherwise image you'd like.
+ Blending and reusing the pictures is allowed.
+ Text, brushes and textures are all encouraged!
+ As usual, animation is not.



Don't forget to read the rules before you enter. They can be found HERE.

Last day to post icons: Friday December 25th @ 8 PM (EST)
Voting will start: Friday December 25th @ 8 PM (EST)
Winners will be announced: Sunday December 27th

More specific rules can be found HERE.

And here we go with Part 3. I sure hope I do this all right. :) And like amidala_thrace said thank you to everyone who entered! This has been truly amazing to see come together like this!

Same Rules as before...

- Type your top three choices into the text box, separated by commas. Remember to put them in the order you like them.
- Please don't vote in a comment, and don't vote for your own icons!
- Your first choice will receive 3 points, your second choice will get 2 points and your third choice will get 1 point.

Example: 15 = 3 points, 07 = 2 points, 31 = 1 point

This is Post #3, and contains the voting for Part 5 and Part 4 of Round 100. Sections will be labeled with their titles and a brief description of what each was about, so you guys can properly pick.

( Part Five )

( Part Six )


Miss a Poll?
Voting part 1 (Icons for Parts 1 and 2)
Voting part 2 (Icons for Parts 3 and 4)



Your Secret Santa information will go out to you first thing tomorrow morning (well my morning) for Round 101 if you signed up for it. Haven't signed up? There's still time!! Go Here and comment with your 5 prompts and you'll get your information in the morning!



Um...Good Hunting Voting.

On with Post #2! If I haven't said this before - and I don't think I have, so shame on me! - thank you, thank you, THANK YOU so much for all of these lovely entries!!!!! You all helped to make Round 100 a truly awesome one and I am extremely grateful, more than I can say! :D

Same rules deal here:

- Type your top three choices into the text box, separated by commas. Remember to put them in the order you like them.
- Please don't vote in a comment, and don't vote for your own icons!
- Your first choice will receive 3 points, your second choice will get 2 points and your third choice will get 1 point.

Example: 15 = 3 points, 07 = 2 points, 31 = 1 point

This is Post #2, and contains the voting for Part 3 and Part 4 of Round 100. Sections will be labeled with their titles and a brief description of what each was about, so you guys can properly pick.

( Part 3 Voting )

( Part 4 Voting )

My wonderful co-mod fire_sister has VERY kindly consented to put up Post #3, as I have been working for about 3 hours on this now and I desperately need to get to bed (work tomorrow, heh). So she will have that up for you in a bit. Thanks, sweets! :)

Missed Post #1? You can catch up and make your picks HERE!

Your eyes do not deceive you - we got so many amazing icons entered to all six of our themes that we're going to need a few separate voting posts to handle them all! This is just a precaution, really, but I don't want to go to the trouble of putting together one huge post only to have LJ get pissy with me because of character length. So we'll once again do it the way I did it at swicontest, and have three different voting posts, which I'll then interlink once they're all up. I'm also sorry it's taken this long to get up, but given the numbers involved, I hope you'll understand! ;)

The voting rules are, as ever, the same:

* Type your top three choices into the text box, separated by commas. Remember to put them in the order you like them.
* Please don't vote in a comment, and don't vote for your own icons!
* Your first choice will receive 3 points, your second choice will get 2 points and your third choice will get 1 point.

Example: 15 = 3 points, 07 = 2 points, 31 = 1 point

This is Post #1, and contains the voting for Part 1 and Part 2 of Round 100. Sections will be labeled with their titles and a brief description of what each was about, so you guys can properly pick.

( Part 1 Voting )

( Part 2 Voting )

Post #2 is HERE, when you're ready to move on. :)

My lovely co-mod already poked you guys to remind you about the Secret Santa Exchange, and so I am here now to deliver the matching reminder for Round 100, the special multi-category theme.

First, an update on our (spectacular!) entry totals thus far:

PART ONE: 21
PART TWO: 31
PART THREE: 5
PART FOUR: 23
PART FIVE: 14
PART SIX: 19
GRAND TOTAL: 113

I am obviously SO pleased and excited about these amazing numbers - thanks so much, guys!!!!! And of course, if you do have more you'd like to submit before the deadline of Sunday, December 20th at 6 PM EST, please feel free (especially to Part 3, which is the only section that doesn't really have enough icons entered by enough people to hold voting with)! Just leave them in a comment, or several comments, to THIS POST. Thanks again! :)

So last night my computer committed suicide. I've been in mourning all day. I sent it off with an IT friend who hopes to return it - revived - back tomorrow. So in theory our Secret Santa challenge will be ready to go tomorrow (if not, I'm going to my mom's on Monday morning and I'll send everything out that day - or do it from my phone like this post).

But being computerless means I'm posting this reminder from my phone. So no graphics and sadly, no link to the original post.

But regardless I want to remind you to sign up for our Secret Santa round!! We currently have 7 people signed up, but we'd love to have more!!!

Please join us by commenting with your 5 prompt requests (and personally, I'm loving these prompts!!).

Yep, you get the typical Thursday reminder, but it's the FIRST reminder instead of the second because our deadlines are kind of funky this week. ;) So if you've been busy with the holiday frenzy and haven't got a chance to enter yet, don't panic, you've still got time!!

Entry totals are looking pretty good thus far - here's the breakdown of how many icons we've got per category!

PART ONE: 10
PART TWO: 16
PART THREE: 5
PART FOUR: 10
PART FIVE: 5
PART SIX: 10
GRAND TOTAL: 56

And that's from just two different folks, so I'm sure we'll have TONS more by the time I update again on Saturday! In the meantime, you can enter icons to Challenge #100 OVER HERE, and you have until this Sunday, December 20th at 6 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Also, don't forget about our Secret Santa Exchange! Signups are still open in THIS POST, and they will be so until December 20th as well. We've got a whole bunch of participants to that one and both fire_sister and I would LOVE to see more, so head on over if you get the chance and check it out!

And that concludes the f-list spammage for tonight. Hehe. ;)

(Meant to post this last night, but unfortunately I just ran out of time. So it's going up tonight, with a bit of an extended deadline!)

This it deserves its exclamation point, believe me! Not too many stillness communities reach that big 1-0-0, and I am so pleased and proud to say that karastillness now has. Of course, much of the credit for this comm's success has to be placed directly on the shoulders of the previous mods - they saw this place through the majority of its themes, while fire_sister and I have been around for only a comparatively short time. So this week, we're going to celebrate, with an extra-special super-duper challenge, and I hope you guys enjoy the heck out of it. :D

Over at another stillness community I mod, swicontest, I decided to do a series of six different themes that members could enter for the hundredth challenge. This will be a multi-part challenge, and you are free to participate in as many or as few of the parts as you would prefer or have time for. It would be awesome if folks submitted to all six, but I recognize that this may be slightly unrealistic, so even icons submitted to one part would make me happy and bouncy!

Please read all the rules carefully, and don't hesitate to ask me any questions you may have! When you're all set to post your icons you can just put them together all in one comment, as is indicated under the cut. Good luck, and have fun celebrating Round #100!

( Under here - this post would eat your f-lists otherwise! )

Don't forget to read the rules before you enter, both those above and HERE.

Last day to post icons: Sunday December 20th @ 6 PM (EST)
Voting will start: Sunday December 20th @ 6 PM (EST)
Winners will be announced: Tuesday December 22nd

More specific rules can be found HERE.

Enter with a reply to this post, all comments will be screened.

Happy Round 100! :D

Congratulations to all the winners. I am admitably not a 'Lee' girl, but I really loved all the icons. So pretty! There is such amazing talent in this community. Thank you all for entering (and everyone who voted).

( On To Your Banners )


And don't forget to sign up for our Secret Santa challenge! We've got some really fun prompts from 5 people already! The more the merrier!

They're a little late, but here we go - and amazingly, we have NO ties this week! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted their picks for the best K/L icons! We had a record 24 voters this week, which is definitely the most I've seen in a long time. Took me half the night to total everything up, but I didn't mind. ;) Thanks also to all those folks who entered - your icons were all spectacular, and I plan on snagging quite a few for my own use. :D

( The envelope, please! )

Nope, I'm not counting wrong...and I'm not skipping a round.
amidala_thrace will be posting round 100's challenge today. It's a huge, awesome, amazing (well at least we think so) challenge to Celebrate our 100th challenge. (She'll also have results of Round 99 up today too - we had a record number of votes that round! Thank you everyone!)

BUT...
we are going to finish out December with a theme challenge, and a holiday challenge at that, since these icons will be due on Christmas. But with the challenge it does require some extra set up time, and thus, Challenge 101 will start today...kinda.


We are going to do a Secret Santa challenge!

How this will work is you sign up here in a comment with your username and the five possible prompts you'd like to have iconned for you. Remember all icons need to be Kara focused. Possible prompts could be: Your OTP, a song lyric you want included, an episode you want iconed, a cap you want used, a quote you want used, a color, that you want the icon b/w, your name or username incorporated...what ever you'd like.

Sign ups will close on Sunday the 20th and I will randomly draw names from the list and give them out to people in PMs and they will icon one or more of the prompts (you can make up to five icons for your person). Icons will be submitted just like normal in the challenge post (which will also go up on Sunday). We'll have the normal reminders and then on Friday the 25th voting will go up just like usual on all the icons. Winner, banners and then all icons for each of you will be posted on the 27th.

This is a great opportunity to make something for someone, to get something you want and to celebrate BSG/Kara in the Holiday Spirit (since they don't celebrate it on the show).


If you have ANY questions please just comment or PM me.
And to sign up that you want to participate please comment here with your username and your 5 prompts.
Comments are screened.

Well, it's a little late - I had to go out tonight - but it's Friday, and you folks know what that means! Voting time! :D We have 19 beautiful icons entered, which is absolutely awesome. Thanks, guys! I'm kind of glad I'm not voting, because I don't think I could choose between them hehe. I'll just sit back and enjoy my birthday challenge. :)

Now without further ado, let's review the rules and make our picks! :D

- Type your top three choices into the text box, separated by commas. Remember to put them in the order you like them.
- Please don't vote in a comment, and don't vote for your own icons!
- Your first choice will receive 3 points, your second choice will get 2 points and your third choice will get 1 point.

Example: 15 = 3 points, 07 = 2 points, 31 = 1 point

( Do you have a problem with my hygiene? )

Yep, I'm just a little bit earlier with the reminder tonight - not by much, but at least it's on Thursday! Hehe. ;) Hope everyone's had a good week so far. I personally can't wait for the weekend to get here, not only because it's my birthday but also because it's been a busy few weeks for me, and I've got a heck of a lot of stuff to catch up on. (Including our sister community BSG Stillness - I can promise you I haven't forgotten! Real life has just been absolutely nuts, ugh. But I'll get to it tomorrow or Saturday. :D)

In any case! We've had a pretty awesome week here, with 13 lovely icons entered as of tonight! *bounces and grins* As always, though, if you do have more that you'd like to submit, they are absolutely welcome until the deadline tomorrow! Remember that your theme is Kara and Lee, and you can use screencaps that you hunt down yourself in addition to those provided. :)

You've got until tomorrow, as I said, Friday, December 11 at 6 PM Eastern Standard Time, and entries can be submitted OVER HERE when ready. Thank you thank you! :D

Eek, it's about ten minutes after midnight my time and the reminder isn't up yet! Ah well, I do sort of have an excuse - I was out all evening at a hockey game and it was a long drive back home, so I just didn't quite get around to it until now. >.> Anyway, here it is!

As I type this we have 5 beautiful icons submitted to our Kara/Lee challenge, and I would love to see some more if you have some time amidst all your holiday preparations! Since this theme is kind of for my birthday, I'm hoping for a really awesome turnout. ;) *blushes* No worries if real life is getting you down, though - believe me, I know how that is. *glares at her own RL stuff*

You've got until this Friday, December 11, at 6 PM EST, and your entries can be submitted to THIS POST when ready. Thanks a bunch! :D

(My silly self ended up falling asleep early last night - ugh - and ImageShack neglected to cooperate with me for most of the day, so that's why this is a tad late. My apologies, folks!)

Well, just as we celebrated fire_sister's birthday with some absolutely amazing Kara/Sam icons (seriously, you guys are awesome!!!), I hope everyone will indulge me in just one more special celebration for this week's theme! See, this coming Saturday - December 12th - happens to be my birthday, and since Kara/Lee is my OTP (with Kara/Sam a very close second), I figured that a fun follow-up to last week's challenge would be a K/L theme! After this, I promise we'll get back to regular programming around here, hehe. ;)

So, your job this week is to make an icon featuring both Kara and Lee. Which season(s) and which caps are absolutely up to you - I've provided a rather healthy selection for you to choose from under the cut, but there are also some additional resources you can go to if those are not to your liking. Otherwise, all the usual rules apply, and whether you want to photomanipulate K/L into an icon, go crazy with cropping and blending, or what-have-you, the choice is yours! Be creative and have fun! :D

Don't forget to read the rules before you enter. They can be found HERE.

Last day to post icons: Friday December 11th @ 6 PM (EST)
Voting will start: Friday December 11th @ 6 PM (EST)
Winners will be announced: Sunday December 13th

More specific rules can be found HERE.

Enter with a reply to this post, all comments will be screened.

( 42 screencaps under the cut )

Any questions, just let me know. :)

We had a lot of new participants for this challenge. I hope you stick around for future challenges with us.

And can you believe it? We had a challenge without any ties?!
So since there's nothing more for you to vote on, here are your winners and banners

( Well, HERE they are )


A new challenge will be up shortly. It's another fun theme challenge in honor of amidala_thrace's Birthday. :)

Is today Friday? Really? It's finally come? YEAH!!! And before all our weekends start I have our voting for this round. THANK YOU to everyone who made me (us) pretty Sam/Kara icons.

You know the 'rules' but just in case:

* Type your top three choices into the text box, separated by commas. Remember to put them in the order you like them.
* Please don't vote in a comment, and don't vote for your own icons!
* Your first choice will receive 3 points, your second choice will get 2 points and your third choice will get 1 point.

Example: 15 = 3 points, 07 = 2 points, 31 = 1 point

( I just want to hurt someone and it might as well be you. )