drawing nectar in a sieve

[b_hallward]

I've a bunch of Yami icons I haven't posted. Trouble is, lately I've been feeling completely uninspired icon-wise; so I took up this challenge: make a dozen icons using the same picture, the same quote (if there's text), and a limited color palette. The results are ... well, turns out there really are only so many ways to skin a cat.

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Comments

[wordsofastory]

Pretty icons! It sounds like a fun experiment at least, and you never know which version will happen to appeal to someone the most.

For the fst thing- I'd go with the song. It's very rare to find a song that works perfectly, with no weird or inexplainable lines. As long as the rest of it works, I doubt anyone would have a problem with a single verse. If it's something as small as the pronoun problem (where a song would be perfect, if only the line was 'he' instead of 'she'), I doubt anyone will even notice.

And if it's just for yourself, rather than some sort of "official" fst, than you should go with whatever you like, even if other people might not see the connection. For instance, I'm convinced that Summertime is the ultimate Tsuzuki/Hisoka song, but since no one else in the entire world sees the logic of that- which I'm willing to admit could be because there is no logic- I put it on all my personal fsts, but not ones that I upload for others.

[b_hallward]

They're not official fsts in that I haven't signed up anywhere (because I hate posting anything I haven't had a suitable number of months to obsess over) but I may put them up someday (however random it would seem) if I can ever stop fiddling with them. Like every other fanish thing I've ever done, they started out as a simple experiment just to see if I could. And then snowballed wildly out of control.

& Yay! You said what I wanted to hear. My screw-the-details policy has been validated. ^^ I've always loved John Lee Hooker's It Serves You Right to Suffer for Tsuzuki; I don't think I could give it up, despite the "woman" thing and the fact that Tsuzuki is so utterly gay.

Summertime you say? Do you mean Janis Joplin's version or Billie Holiday's? Or is there yet another...

[wordsofastory]

*shrugs Random is good! I, at least, would want to see it.

And you kinda have to screw the details; it's the only way to get songs that work. Even the best have a few things wrong with them. Though there is a balance- I have to keep rolling my eyes at the fst community this month, because some of the songs are just so generic that they could apply to any couple ever. That's no fun.

Oo! Wow, that song really does work well for Tsuzuki. I shall have to find me a copy. And you know, if you want to fanwank it, you could say the woman he keeps thinking of is Ruka.

There's approximately a million versions of Summertime; I have five on my computer right now, and that's just because I deleted some not too long ago. My favorite is the live version by Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix from Woodstock, but they're all good.

[mistressrenet]

I have to keep rolling my eyes at the [info]fst community this month, because some of the songs are just so generic that they could apply to any couple ever. That's no fun.
Shit, I know. I regret some of the more bland choices I made because everyone's doing it-- but dammit, I chose those songs to be ironic!

And Tsuzuki fell for that dancer, too. I'd say Tsuzuki liking women (or at least thinking he does) is canon.

[b_hallward]

I have a theory about that. I'd say that Tsuzuki might have loved her (he's always cutting out little pieces of his heart and handing them to strangers) but I don't really think he fell for her (in the in love, whole nine yards sense of the word -- curse the poverty of the english language). But then I also think that Hisoka's not always very good at understanding the emotions he feels with his empathy. So he was the one that was confused about the sort of love Tsuzuki had for that dancer, not Tsuzuki.

Somehow all that has the aura of sophistry about it, but damn it, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. XP

[mistressrenet]

I think Hisoka saw so very little love that that's entirely possible. He doesn't seem to be very good at sorting out the different flavors of things.

[b_hallward]

Tsuzuki dragging Hisoka to the Japanese equivalent of 31 flavors "for practice" -- don't ask me why I find the thought of this funny...

[wordsofastory]

No, no, that's different! When it's meant ironically, the song choice isn't generic, it's funny. Some of the people who keep picking the same tired old choices are just so boring.

C'mon, people! There's got to be at least one song out there that fits your couple better than "I Will Always Love You".

[mistressrenet]

No, no, that's different! When it's meant ironically, the song choice isn't generic, it's funny
But I still can't believe I've seen "Fields of Gold" so many damn times! I should've gone with a different sappy ironic song! XD

Of course I whine about the fsts that seem to be deliberately pretentious too-- the ones without a single pop song or song in English come to mind...

I really liked the Vash/Wolfwood soundtrack because she put a lot of thought into genre, and something that would suit the setting.

[b_hallward]

I spent an unreasonable portion of the last two week arguing that very point with myself

And certainly when I'm just listening to a fst, I'd rather have some unusual songs that had a few misfit lines, than just stick with the vague and general. But I wasn't sure if mismatched pronouns weren't thought of as the fst equivalent of poor punctuation.

[wordsofastory]

Nah, misplaced pronouns are generally forgiven as a neccessary evil. After all, the vast, vast majority of songs are geared to describe straight couples. You'd have to be very lucky to find a song that not only worked for your pairing, but actually fit the appropriatly gendered singer/sung-about combination.