pebbleinalake

Welcome!

I'm Casey (she/her) an amateur artist, graphic design student, and sci-fi geek. This is my second journal on here, as I've been wanting to separate my personal stuff from fandom stuff. Here, you can find icons, fanfics, fandom discussions, and probably quite a few random things as well. All my icons are free to grab if you want, but please leave a comment if you do, and credit is appreciated.

Friending policy: Anyone is welcome to comment on my journal at any time, I'm always open to making new friends! You can follow this journal if you want to; none of the posts are access locked except for some of my older fanfics that I've made private. If you also post about things within my interests or fandoms, there's a good chance I'll add you back.

Helpful links:
Fanwork Permissions Statement
My Fandoms
Favorite Characters/Ships
Icons Masterpost
Icons/Graphics/Fonts Resources

Other sites I post my fanfics:
My Website - scifipony
Squidgeworld - pebbleinalake | scifipony | pebble | beaconhillsluker
AO3 - scifipony (abandoned)
FanfictionNet - Links to be added
Tumblr: scifipony
Livejournal - Casey_Tyler (private journal)

NOTE: A lot of my older fanfics here on DW have been privated temporarily. I'm in the process of editing them and getting them uploaded somewhere more permanent. You can find some of them on my own website and on Squidgeworld. If there's a particular story you're looking for and can't find it, feel free to message me and I'll help you track it down.

Challenge:

tvmovie20in20
Claim: Star Wars
Deadline: June 14th, 2025

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Pastel banner with the words Work In Progress Wednesday

Banner by

purpleyin

I'm participating in the Flufftober bingo event and one of the prompts on my card is "Sort all your WIPs" so this post is my attempt at doing that. I'm not going to bother listing any WIPs that have been completely abandoned, only ones that I still intend to finish (someday).

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Fandom: Star Wars (Rebels)
Characters: Chopper, Kanan Jarrus
Words: 200
Notes: For

starwars100 Prompt #001b Droid. Set shortly after the novel "A New Dawn".

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With the 20th anniversary re-release of Revenge of the Sith in theaters last weekend, I've found myself once again dragged back into my first major fandom obsession. Since I'm trying to post every day for 3W4D anyway, I figured it was the perfect time to try one of the Star Wars fandom questionnaires I've had bookmarked. Anyone is welcome to grab the questions and fill them out as well.

( Star Wars Fandom Questionnaire )

Challenge:

tvmovie20in20
Claim: The Pitt
Deadline: May 8th, 2025

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My responses to the

thefridayfive questions for 5/2/2025.

1. What is your all time favorite book?
I don't think I have a #1 favorite, but I do tend to reread these three the most often: "The Hundred And One Dalmatians" by Dodie Smith, "Q-Squared" by Peter David, and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

2. What is your all time favorite movie?
"The Prisoner of Zenda" (1952 version)

3. What are you reading right now?
"Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma", a Doctor Who book about Turlough's adventures on his home planet after he stops being the Doctor's companion. It's pretty good so far, but I'm only about halfway through.

4. What is your favorite TV show?
Probably "Farscape". I consider it one of my primary comfort shows, along with "Stargate Atlantis" and "Psych".

5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
This past weekend, my roommate and I went to see the 20th anniversary re-release of "Revenge of the Sith". We've seen it a bunch of times already, but it was awesome getting to see it on the big screen. It was also my roommate's first time seeing a Star Wars movie in theater, so that was a fun experience for her.

It's May 1st, marking the one-third point in the year. I figured today was a good time to check in with my yearly goals and see where I'm at. Overall, it's not bad. I'm feeling pretty good about where I'm at for each of the goals so far.

Fandom goals:
- Write 90k words
I'm currently at 38,500 words for the year. That puts me ahead of schedule for reaching 90k by the end of the year, so I'm pretty optimistic that I can make it.

- Finish 3 WIPs
None finished yet, but I have made some progress on several of them.

- Create 100 icons/graphics
Done!

- Update website every month
Keeping up this one so far. I've actually made some major updates on both the main site and my Briarwood Scrolls site.

- Move Superman fansite to new host
No progress yet.

- Move Librarian fansite to new host
No progress yet.

- Finish one of my bingo cards
I've crossed off a few new squares. Gonna try harder on this one during the summer.

- Create two new fanvids
Started my first new fanvid for the year.

3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!

For day four, I thought I'd share some fun resources for graphics-making. Dreamwidth is a fantastic place to practice making icons, sigtags, banners, moodboards, etc. Below are some of my favorite sources for everything from texture packs and palettes to fonts and stock photos.

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Challenge:

smallfandombang
Fandom: La Femme Nikita (TV)
Author:

abby82
Link to fic: On AO3

My entry for the smallfandombang comm's Round 14. Three moodboards for the awesome fic "chance is the only game i play with" by abby82.

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3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!
Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥

I'm a day late joining in - hard to believe April is already almost over!

Anyway, I promise myself every year that I'm going to participate more in 3W4D when it rolls around, and then I always get busy and don't do anything for it. This year I really want to make an effort to post each day, even if it's just something quick and small. I found some good questionnaires and fandom memes so I might try doing something like that. (There's some fantastic resources for those in this post and also on tumblr.)

Also, I'm going to try not to post anything on my tumblr blogs during the duration of the event, except for some promotional posts with resources/tutorials about dreamwidth. Not gonna give up my personal blogsite, but all other accounts I'll try to leave quiet so I can focus on dreamwidth stuff.

(The beautiful icon is by

veronyxk84 and can be found here.)

Title: Green Eyes
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Verse: Morey UCLA Years
Characters/Pairings: Mason/Corey
Rating: G
Words: 200

Notes: Another double drabble for the

fandom_empire Fandom Rush challenge. Takes place post-series when Mason and Corey are at college. They have an apartment together off campus.

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Quick double drabble for the

fandom_empire Fandom Rush challenge.

Title: Guilt Reflected
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Characters: Scott McCall
Words: 200
Rating: G

Notes: Takes place during episode 3x06 Motel California. While rewatching it last night, I was once again reminded how tragic it is that Scott saw his alpha eyes for the first time under those circumstances. He was already (incorrectly) blaming himself for Derek's "death" and that moment just solidified his guilt for him.

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I finally saw "Captain America: Brave New World" yesterday. I actually hadn't intended to watch it at all. I'm more of a DC fan than Marvel, and with the rapid decline in quality the MCU has been suffering from lately, I've pretty much lost interest in their movies altogether at this point. But, I saw a trailer for CA:BNW on youtube and it looked pretty fun so I went.

Maybe it's because I went into the theater expecting less than nothing, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. No, it's not a great movie by any means (to be fair, most MCU movies aren't either), but it is good and I had a fun time watching it. Tbh I'm confused by the level of bad reviews I saw online after the opening weekend. If nothing else, it was far better than most of the other content Marvel has been churning out the past few years.

There were a few issues with pacing and one action scene fell kinda flat for me. (Also, there is one rather important moment in the climax that I wish had been done better, but I'll get to that later.) Other than that, I really didn't see anything wrong with the movie. It had some solid action scenes, an intriguing mystery plot, and genuinely good character moments for everyone. Also, as someone who loved "The Incredible Hulk" movie, it was fun to see so many callbacks to that one.

Overall, I liked it quite a bit more than I thought I would. Not a favorite superhero movie for me, but I definitely wouldn't mind buying this one when it comes out on DVD. As a side note, I took my roommate with me, and she actually is a huge MCU fan who was going solely to hate watch it (she wanted to hate it on principle due to them replacing Steve as Captain America) and even she enjoyed it.

Okay, all the spoilery thoughts are going behind the cut:
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Icons for the

fandom_empire Fandom Rush Challenge

Fandom: ER (TV)
Characters/Pairings: Carter, Peter, Neela, Doug/Carol

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Some Stargate icons for the

fandom_empire Fandom Rush challenge.

As always, my icons are up for grabs, just please credit me. :)

Challenge:

dailyicons
Claim: Favorite Characters
Table: 50 icons

Fandoms: Doctor Who, ER, Arrowverse, Farscape, Hitman's Bodyguard, Teen Wolf, The Librarian, Stargate, Psych, DC Comics

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I didn't do too bad on my goal list for last year, so here's hoping for an even more successful 2025!

Fandom goals:
- Write 90k words
- Finish 3 WIPs
- Create 100 icons/graphics
- Update website every month
- Move Superman fansite to new host
- Move Librarian fansite to new host
- Finish one of my bingo cards
- Create two new fanvids

Community goals:
- Be more active in

sweetandshort this year
- Complete one full card at

comment_bingo
- Be more active in

trope_of_the_month
- Post to dreamwidth/tumblr more this year

Found this cool yearly wrap up questionnaire for fanfic writers on tumblr (here) and thought it looked fun. Posting my fills here because long posts are harder to write out on tumblr -- and also in case anyone on DW would like to snag it and fill it out for themselves. :)

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Can't believe 2024 is over already. Where did the year go??
Time to check in on my yearly goal list and see how I did for this year.

Personal/fandom goals:
- Write 80k words
Total: 122,398
- Finish 2 WIPs
Total: 4 WIPs finished
- Create 100 icons
Total: 100 completed!
- Keep working on my website
Finished several new pages and launched two new sites!
- Move my Superman fansite off GoogleSites
...nope. Sadly failed on this one.
- Finish one of my bingo cards
Came so close on a few, but didn't actually finish any
- Create two new fanvids
Only created one new fanvid this year

Community goals:
(All of my community goals kinda fell apart due to irl stuff, but I'm just gonna transfer them over to my 2025 goal list and try again.)

Also, two life goals were completed this year: Finished NaNoWriMo for the first time ever, and took my childhood dream vacation to Branson. They weren't on the yearly goals list, but still want to celebrate getting those off the bucket list.

Overall, not a bad year. Didn't get all the goals done, but got a lot of them done or at least mostly done, so I'm happy. On to 2025 now!