I'm going to enjoy having a shiny new fandom if it kills me

I have got to get better at the whole "enjoying myself" thing without the accompanying "self sabotaging into full blown depression" thing. (This is not just a matter of "I ruin fandom for myself". I ruin - deliberately, consciously strip the pleasure from - all sorts of things. I can't count how many vacations I have ruined because they are going to END so why shouldn't I start being miserable halfway through? I'm fairly certain my sister will never go on anything longer than a day trip with me again, because a miserable dragon is a passive aggressive dragon.)

So at some point today there will be icons. And if I want to make twenty Arcee icons, that is okay. And if I decide to freshly screencap my new Beast Wars DVDs and make icons from that, also okay. Because I should feel free to make myself happy without some weird sense that happy on my own terms is wrong.

Or maybe I will just watch cartoons and knit my sweater and enjoy myself that way. That's okay too.

Oh, oh, oh! One more thing. My green hair is fading at a rather alarming rate - I give it a week before I simply look over-chlorinated, I've already stopped getting the "OMG YOUR HAIR IS GREEN!" reaction - which leaves me facing the vitally important question: purple or blue?

GAH!

I am suddenly unable to load the beastwars_100 page. I get an error I've never seen before: Content Encoding Error - The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

Is anyone else having this problem, or did I break Firefox (or, possibly, Livejournal)?

In hair, as in relationships, the answer seems to be "why pick just one?"

Blue or purple?

Blue AND purple?

Blue, purple, and pink?

There's a 3 color kit at the drugstore. DO WANT.

The thing is, I am not actually that good at dying my hair ONE color. Three? Three will be hard. I may be able to recruit a second pair of hands, but mostly I need advice. ADVISE ME, INTERNETS.

(I have to figure this out, because by Halloween the plan is black with orange stripes.)

I have made iconses

Two Beast Wars and fourteen Transformers Prime. The TF Prime ones are not ALL Arcee.

( Apparently when iconing Arcee my choices are 'blank' and 'snarky'. I can't fathom how she's my favorite. )

Edit: And then one more. Yes, I am appropriately ashamed of myself.

Oh, and eosrose did a podfic of Lessons Learned, one of my Demona drabbles. ^__^