Originally posted 21st April 2009: Day Eight: Picspams

[8daysofhappy]

Eight days of happy, day eight!

Day Eight: Picspams

I think picspams are the single thing I miss the most from heavy bandom involvement.

-- Dogs

I love dogs. I really, really love dogs.

They're so long-suffering.



And charming.



And, oh, there are those of who love the smell of wet dog and those of us who don't. Guess which category I fall into? (Hint: I have never owned a dog. I am well aware my views might change -- don't disillusion me.)



I DEFY YOUR HEART NOT TO MELT A LITTLE.



-- Bandom

Talking of reasons for your heart to melt...



The above has to be about my favourite photo in all of bandom. But this next one comes close.



Don't your toes just curl with the pretty?

No bandom picspam would be complete without some dorktastic dorkfaces, and who are my favourite dorks but these charming young men.



Anyway, this is my picspam, and I can be self-indulgent about my OTP if I want to, so:



THEY'RE HOLDING HANDS!

-- Rachel Luttrell

Talking of self-indulgence, I should warn you, there may be some hot women in this picspam. Just may, you understand. But I thought I should warn you in ca--



Oops, too late.

Teyla is unimpressed by my shenanigans.



In fact, she can kill me with her brain.



I hate the Teyla-wig, by the way. Serious, serious hate.



-- Lolcats

Almost as much hate as some of you have for these, in fact.

This batch was chosen for two reasons. The first was as an excuse to post the most tasteless lolcat I'd ever seen, which I now can't find.

(Um. It's so tasteless that since I can't cut it, I'm going to rot13 the text -- cut and paste here to recover -- vg'f n cvpgher sebz gur raq bs Fpuvaqyre'f Yvfg, jvgu gur ybypncgvba "V pna unm fnirq zbne!")

The second is so I get to use the wonderful, wonderful pun: Lolkien:



LolCatulus:



When cealdis and I tried to explain, "I am in ur X, Ying ur Zz," to footnotetoplato, he immediately suggested, "I am in ur wardrobe, wearing ur fez."



This last one is here because, hey, in every picspam Yoneda little maths.



-- Amanda Palmer

The only person I know who can stride better than this is oxfordgirl:



I call this next picture DO ME NOW, for no particular reason.



a;sldjf EYEBROWS:



Amanda Palmer is cooler than you:



Sorry. That's just the way the cookie crumbles.

-- Oxford

The following pictures were all taken by shimgray. Last year Shim did the wonderful, wonderful pic-a-day project, and his photos of Oxford were balm to my homesick soul.

Because I do confuse learning with the smell of cold stone.



And the smell of warm sunshine.



And the smell of happy, rambling anecdotes about long-dead mathematicians.



And the smell of a place to rest, to talk, to think.



-- Parminder Nagra

In the following photo, Parminder Nagra is at least 25. On the other hand, you should be ASHAMED if you are perving on Keira Knightly, too.



ASHAMED.

(Fortunately, both Nagra and Shaznay Lewis were born in 1975. *breathes sigh of relief*)



However, Dr Neela Rasgotra thinks you should be ashamed of yourself anyway, apparently.



And oh, this next picture just makes me beam and squeak happily -- it is a picture of JOY!



(MY HEART!)


And finally, the 64th happy of my eight days:

-- Baldness

Those of you who have known me for the better part of a decade may not be surprised by this.



I named my first laptop Toby, y'know. Because it was smarter than me, got cross with me when I gave it stupid orders, and, most importantly, was bald.



I have had a crush on Skin from Skunk Anansie for more years than I can count.



And, hey, it's no contest really for the pinnacle of what makes me happy:



I hope you've enjoyed these as much as I have! It's been immensely, immensely fun.