This boy.

Its because once upon a time I had so much faith in this comic, in this story, in these characters. And yet for me personally time and time again I have been let down and disappointed by the way they have be portrayed. Giving up on this comic has been a long and slow process for me at least, so yes I will be angry, and I will be critical, and I will give it the credit it was due because at one point I did LOVE this comic, this comic gave me my best friend, it gave me for a period of time characters that I could relate to and empathise with, however that time has past.

So yes maybe you cant understand why I keep intermittently coming back to something I have so much ‘disdain’ for but the sad fact is I don’t hate the comic even if I disagree with what is become. What I am is let down over and over again by narratively unfulfilling story lines, unrealistic plots, and in my opinion a complete disregard towards certain characters story lines and personal growth. But thats just my opinion and if yours is different I’m really fucking pleased that you can enjoy this but for me despite how often I keep trying to find what I used to love about it again, it just keeps slipping further and further out of reach. With this update in particular making me feel physically sick to my stomach.

Anyway if you disagree. cool. but be critical of the media you consume or at the fucking least let other people be critical.

So I’m clearing out my laptop and since I hard core do not go here anymore I really have no use for over 600+ icons and omgcp clipped character psds so. here you all go I guess. 

Files include icons and psds from all of year 2 and some of year 3 as well a christmas, halloween and valentines day specials.

anyway go nuts?

Okay so first off I just want it to be known that I think its great when people do exchanges. Heck as someone who participated in a bunch during my time in the fandom, produced two fanzines in less than 12 months, and saw numerous friends pour their time and effort into running numerous exchanges you can say I have been there, done that, have the t-shirt to prove it. 

So firstly to the people being dicks about fics not being up on time: shit goes wrong, computers crash, life happens, and sometimes fics just don't get done in time. 

Last year Idril pinch-hit a fic with less than 24 hours until publishing. she got it done in time and the entire collection went live with everyone's gift accounted for. this is not always what happens, not everything goes to plan.

That being said the people running this years challenge have no affiliation with either Idril or Codie (nor any communication with them to my knowledge) (despite me seeing stuff floating around saying they inherited which confused me for a god damn long time), the point is Idril and Codie are both phenomenal writers, they’re phenomenal organisers, and outstanding people for a good two years the omgcp fandom had almost impossibly high standards regarding the organisation of fan events and that's is the joy of being a smaller fandom is that you can do that. But with growth comes more people and more issues and it's difficult to maintain the standards that previously existed in quite frankly almost an entirely different fandom collection of people.