Delightfully Useless

Back to the ever-reliable "ur doin it rong"... this time with a crossover pun on the side. Hey, everybody does it. ;-)



(Screencap by illyushadarling from the Five Daughters Affair Part 1.)

I have finally produced a new LOLIllya! (It's tricky, because I have a dual-boot computer, and the image editing software is on the OS I don't take onto the Internet - so poking through screencaps to save good ones, then cropping and captioning them, are two different projects. Anyway.) Caption inspired by lolmac 's LOLBouquet, but frankly it's more of an excuse to post an arm shot... I wish both boys had worn those Thrush jumpsuits more often!

Let's hope the image servers are behaving better now!

Picture from FrameCapLib... the ep with the goldfish guppies in the taps, whatever that was. (Mad Tea Party Affair?) Caption because it always takes me a second after I see this picture to realize he's not really holding a sword...

For those who participated in the "Fics I Wouldn't Write Meme" - there is a list of things I hope to write from your prompts under the cut.

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And a LOL. Piccie from purple_bug , color-tweaky advice from illyushadarling, caption from lolmac 's LOLHappyFace.

This is how I've been feeling lately... during the daytime. At night, I'm all bright and chipper and writing way too much fanfic. o.O

Picture from illyushadarling 's caps of The Project Deep Hole Affair - a strange episode in many ways, but General Burkhalter as the Mole Man makes up for a lot. As do pretty pictures of Illya not being action-y for once.

Caption ganked from LOLSleep by lolmac , who has probably been wondering when I was ever going to use it...

I actually kind of snurched (love that word, Beth) this caption from isiscaughey 's "Three and Sarah Jane Picspam of Awesome" (hey, I've got to hunt up that Gandalf the Pink LOL, sometime... not today though.) Go check it out, it is the awesome, and I quote it incessantly. *yells "ONOES! '80s clothing attack!" just for fun*

Oh yeah... pic from screenmusings, helpful color-tweaky advice from illyushadarling, cuteness courtesy of David McCallum and Pauley Perrette (I think I spelled that right).

First of all, many, many thanks to illyushadarling , who has just taught me how to tweak the color and brightness on screencaps. I was up quite late last night playing (and will probably wind up redoing quite a few of my LOLs), but it was well worth it. A hundred million hugs with chocolate awesomesauce to you, darlin' - you've been an absolute lifesaver! (Oy, that sounds sticky...)

Many thanks as well to eponymous_rose (moderator on A Teaspoon and an Open Mind, but that's slightly beside the point) for her awesome "Sapphire and Steel: A Beginner's Guide" picspam (warning, will mercilessly oppress dialup users, but how many of those are there anymore anyway?) without which I never would have figured out the difference between Sapphire & Steel and Remington Steele, let alone remembering to actually watch the former. It's also where I ganked this picture from. And while I'm at it, I should really thank iko (who is an incurable cinephile and a fellow knitter of Doctor-Who-themed stuff) for pointing me to the show, via the picspam, in the first place.

Okay, enough yapping.

Not sure if I bagged this idea from somebody else... I probably did. If you recognize it, let me know and I'll credit.

First off: I haz big news! Four years, four months and three days ago (yes, I counted), my family moved house. Since then, we've been doing a major remodel on the old house and trying to sell it - not exactly at the same time. My mother and I did most of the work: plumbing, electrical, carpeting, drywall, flooring, cabinets, everything but roofing (which I refuse to learn, being acrophobic.) I even wrote a Doctor Who ficlet, Liberation, inspired by the subject.

Anyway. Today - today, right now, as I type - is the closing on the old house! Going, going, gone!!! Out of my hair! No more flitting around like an UNCLE agent in miniature, never knowing what will go wrong next or where I'll spend the night; no more camping without running water or a working stove! (Granted, these experiences do help me get inside the boys' heads when I'm writing, but I'd just as lief not have any more for a while, y'know?)

So, in celebration, a plumber!Illya LOL. (You know you're going a little bit crazy when you seriously consider dreaming up a scenario where Illya takes a long-term undercover assignment as a handyman just so you can turn around all the crazy things that happen to you and happen them to him. No, I didn't do it.)

I must be the only person on illyushadarling 's flist who, when confronted with this particular Illya-costume from The Off-Broadway Affair, saw something besides Baby Ducky. (I absolutely love this costume... but that's a bit beside the point, isn't it?)

If you don't get the caption, there's an explanation below the LOL.



Okay. If you didn't get it: it's a MacGyver joke. Mac occasionally goes undercover as a computer geek named Dexter Fillmore; the disguise consists of scruffy clothes, thick glasses, and really seriously good, Illya!Nexor level, acting. This is Mac (in Dexter's clothes, but not in character); this is Dexter.

And if you haven't seen MacGyver, you should.

Okay, I honestly have no excuse for this one. My sister was doing a Star Trek parody of David McCallum's song "Trouble" - from the Take Me To Your Leader Affair, if you remember. Since I have no great love for William Shatner, and am therefore quite fond of the scene where the prop guys got to drop 500 tribbles on him eight times in a row, this was the result.