65 // my castles are built on pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I think I've done these before, but I saw them on elvenjoy's journal and I felt like indulging. You know me, I'm a sucker for this stuff.
Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, and what significance it has.
I made it out of one of the Peanuts comic strips I saved. I thought it was cute and witty, and I could relate to the feeling of being overweight. So I just use it every so often when I feel kind of witty or a little biting/defensive ;)
This is actually made from a photo I took of myself right after I'd gotten a haircut. At the time, I liked the idea of having a more personal icon of me, and it gave me a chance to experiment with colors and style. The word rose is there not as a self-compliment, I promise I'm not that narcissistic. In fact, it's more the opposite. The small text is from a poem by William Blake, entitled "O Rose, Thou Art Sick." The entire poem concerns a rose that is being eaten by a worm. When I made this icon, that poem kind of described where I was with life - I was struggling with hidden flaws and not-so-hidden flaws. I have kept it for times when the feeling returns, and I have also kept it as one of the few icons I have that I have made myself that are not in recent icon posts in electricshoebox. When I reply to comments people leave, I make it a rule to use my own icons, because I want to show confidence in them as the maker. But I try not to use ones from recent posts because I don't want to make it seem like I'm trying to shove them in people's faces. So this is one I can use that's mine, but individual.
Haha. I love Fight Club, and this was just a natural extension of its wit and brilliance very aptly applied ;)
Honestly, I just really liked the effect used in this icon, the negative-ized circle. It just worked so well, and that's not an effect that can be used on every picture or icon. The use of red with black and white is always a color scheme I love, too. And House is one of my favorite shows. I don't think I've ever actually used this icon. I just like the way it was put together a lot. I don't get in a tough girl mood much on here so it doesn't see much use ;)
One of the results of my brief love affair with Moulin Rouge. It’s still one of my favorite movies, it just hasn’t figured as prominently in my graphic work in awhile. This is honestly one of my favorite icons that I have made. I was so proud of how the coloring turned out, and the cropping just worked really well. It has the piecey, scrapbook-made-from-an-old-notebook-and-labels feel that I was rapidly falling in love with and which has been my creating style of late. But this is very understated, which I liked, and the texture just worked really well. Anyway, so it’s a representation of my style, and it’s also an icon I use when I’m feeling contemplative, or when I’m brooding. I tacked the Venus allusion onto the icon because I think Satine is very Venusian, in a much more raw and modern sense of what Venus represents.
I just think this icon is freaking hilarious. I’ve never read Harry Potter, just seen the movies, and I’m not terribly connected to the fandom, but I thought the whole series that “floating_icons” made of parody spoilers was brilliant. I am not shy about my dislike for Bush, and this was such an apt jab at him.
I use this icon a lot for when I feel especially creative, excited, or happy. I just love the style, and the use of color, and the position of the girl and her expression. It just reminds me of feeling really free and alive and at peace. I don’t feel that...basically ever, but I wish I did, and it’s so beautifully represented in this icon.
This was the slogan for one of the events of a group I have become increasingly passionate about, one that is completely unique in the realm of Christianity, I think. It’s called To Write Love on Her Arms. Their passion and mission is to bring hope to people, especially young adults, suffering from depression and anxiety, especially those with a tendency toward cutting and self-destruction. Those last two issues were the motivating factors behind its inception, but it has become a group to reach out to all types of mental illness sufferers. I find the Christian world does not know how to properly address depression and mental illness, and it’s been frustrating and heart-breaking to me as one who suffers from a mild form of depression and one who has had several people close to her suffering from depression and self-destructive temptation. To Write Love on Her Arms is a group all about reaching out to these people who suffer from hopelessness and pain like this, to change the perception that we are somehow just suffering punishment for sin or lack of faith, and just need to read the Bible more. These are real experiences, real diseases, and real hardships. It’s a burning passion of mine, especially concerning self-destruction, to find a way to help others find hope. “Love Is the Movement” was the slogan for an event they had across the nation where supporters wrote “love” in large letters across their forearms, the stereotypical location where people cut themselves. Some were recovering cutters, some were melancholic and bi-polar, some just wanted to spread hope. I have kept the icon as a representation of all of that.
Wow, that took longer than I thought it would. I ramble too much.
Default Icon:
Oldest Icon:
Newest Icon:
Saddest Icon:
or
Happiest Icon:
Angriest Icon:
Cutest Icon:
Sexiest Icon:
Most Humorous (NOT FAIR...so hard...):
or
or
Favorite Ship Icon (Okay, since I don’t actually have any in my current userpic arsenal, I’ll pick one of my hidden fandom ship icons. I know I’m going to get chewed out for this but this is my ship so there. I’m not even that into this fandom, as I stated above, but there you go. Haha.)
Favorite Fandom Icon (I have too many random fandoms represented. I’ll just do it for LotR and Narnia):
and
Icon You Use Most (Besides Default) (I’m really not sure on this one. I’m just going to pick one):
Favorite Overall (Too hard. I’ll pick a couple, but it’s not limited to these):
and
how many icons do you have total? 87 (I trimmed down, used to be over 100)
how many can you have? 114
if you could buy space for more, would you? Well, I bought the space for 100, and I’ll want to keep having that much for sure.
do your icons make a statement about you? Many of them do...different aspects of me.
what fandom do you have the most icons out of? Probably LotR. I’m not so much focused on fandoms anymore, but there are probably still quite a few in there.
the second most? Looks like Narnia or Moulin Rouge.
what ship do you have the most icons out of? I don’t.
how do you categorize your icons? Movie or Character:Movie, similar if it’s music, and then the rest I just name by names that will remind what the pictures are, because I have a lot of stock icons
are your icons mostly made by other users? Probably over half
animated icons are... annoying unless well made. (I agree with Heather)
in general, I think icons... are a fun vent for creativity and show some neat skillz
[EDIT] Wow, that took way longer than I thought it would. So much for 12:30 bedtime. I ramble too much.
In other news...what to say? I went to a high school graduation party today for a friend's brother. I didn't know him terribly well but I went more to see old friends. My friend Ray was the one whose brother was graduating, and I haven't seen Ray in almost two years, so I went mainly to see him, and I talked to one or two others I hadn't seen in a while. It was just...strange. One of my best friends, Bekah, and I went together, and couldn't stop talking about how strange it was to see all these faces. It was like stepping back into high school for a moment, but as such drastically different people. We went on from there to another friend's house to reunite with a few other schoolmates, friends we were closer to that we try to see once every break. But it's still weird. It's a world I feel very disconnected from.
In fact, I feel disconnected in almost every way from what I thought I would always call home. I become attached to places, to times, to relationships; I know this about myself. But I guess I've grown up more than I thought I had. This isn't home to me anymore. I know I talked about this before and I don't mean to harp on it, it's just a strange realization. This house is more like visiting a relative's than coming home. My friends...it's closer to getting to know strangers than catching up with old friends. We are different. We are increasingly plastic with one another - I don't necessarily mean fake, I just mean very polite and forcibly interested, but very clearly not in the same universe anymore. I love them all and love to hear how they're doing and what they're doing, and I want to be encouraging and interested. I just also have realized that they are very clearly a part of the past for me, and I have moved on. Maybe I can learn detachment, be transitory, after all. While I become attached to places and things, I also have this other side of myself that is never satisfied with staying in one place too long. I have to go somewhere else, experience something else, even for a little while. I'm curious, and I have a hunger to explore. I'm just also afraid. That's why I make attachments, I think. I'm afraid. Of what? Of...getting hurt, going the wrong direction, making a mistake. But I have to, eventually.
Well, anyway, enough of my existential musings. Tell me something about you, if you'd like to. Tell me...tell me something you've read that you loved, tell me what it meant to you. Or tell me about an interest you have, why you love it so much. Most of you on my friends list are artists or writers of some kind, or are in a generally creative state of mind. Tell me about it. Please?
Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, and what significance it has.
I made it out of one of the Peanuts comic strips I saved. I thought it was cute and witty, and I could relate to the feeling of being overweight. So I just use it every so often when I feel kind of witty or a little biting/defensive ;)
This is actually made from a photo I took of myself right after I'd gotten a haircut. At the time, I liked the idea of having a more personal icon of me, and it gave me a chance to experiment with colors and style. The word rose is there not as a self-compliment, I promise I'm not that narcissistic. In fact, it's more the opposite. The small text is from a poem by William Blake, entitled "O Rose, Thou Art Sick." The entire poem concerns a rose that is being eaten by a worm. When I made this icon, that poem kind of described where I was with life - I was struggling with hidden flaws and not-so-hidden flaws. I have kept it for times when the feeling returns, and I have also kept it as one of the few icons I have that I have made myself that are not in recent icon posts in electricshoebox. When I reply to comments people leave, I make it a rule to use my own icons, because I want to show confidence in them as the maker. But I try not to use ones from recent posts because I don't want to make it seem like I'm trying to shove them in people's faces. So this is one I can use that's mine, but individual.
Haha. I love Fight Club, and this was just a natural extension of its wit and brilliance very aptly applied ;)
Honestly, I just really liked the effect used in this icon, the negative-ized circle. It just worked so well, and that's not an effect that can be used on every picture or icon. The use of red with black and white is always a color scheme I love, too. And House is one of my favorite shows. I don't think I've ever actually used this icon. I just like the way it was put together a lot. I don't get in a tough girl mood much on here so it doesn't see much use ;)
One of the results of my brief love affair with Moulin Rouge. It’s still one of my favorite movies, it just hasn’t figured as prominently in my graphic work in awhile. This is honestly one of my favorite icons that I have made. I was so proud of how the coloring turned out, and the cropping just worked really well. It has the piecey, scrapbook-made-from-an-old-notebook-and-labels feel that I was rapidly falling in love with and which has been my creating style of late. But this is very understated, which I liked, and the texture just worked really well. Anyway, so it’s a representation of my style, and it’s also an icon I use when I’m feeling contemplative, or when I’m brooding. I tacked the Venus allusion onto the icon because I think Satine is very Venusian, in a much more raw and modern sense of what Venus represents.
I just think this icon is freaking hilarious. I’ve never read Harry Potter, just seen the movies, and I’m not terribly connected to the fandom, but I thought the whole series that “floating_icons” made of parody spoilers was brilliant. I am not shy about my dislike for Bush, and this was such an apt jab at him.
I use this icon a lot for when I feel especially creative, excited, or happy. I just love the style, and the use of color, and the position of the girl and her expression. It just reminds me of feeling really free and alive and at peace. I don’t feel that...basically ever, but I wish I did, and it’s so beautifully represented in this icon.
This was the slogan for one of the events of a group I have become increasingly passionate about, one that is completely unique in the realm of Christianity, I think. It’s called To Write Love on Her Arms. Their passion and mission is to bring hope to people, especially young adults, suffering from depression and anxiety, especially those with a tendency toward cutting and self-destruction. Those last two issues were the motivating factors behind its inception, but it has become a group to reach out to all types of mental illness sufferers. I find the Christian world does not know how to properly address depression and mental illness, and it’s been frustrating and heart-breaking to me as one who suffers from a mild form of depression and one who has had several people close to her suffering from depression and self-destructive temptation. To Write Love on Her Arms is a group all about reaching out to these people who suffer from hopelessness and pain like this, to change the perception that we are somehow just suffering punishment for sin or lack of faith, and just need to read the Bible more. These are real experiences, real diseases, and real hardships. It’s a burning passion of mine, especially concerning self-destruction, to find a way to help others find hope. “Love Is the Movement” was the slogan for an event they had across the nation where supporters wrote “love” in large letters across their forearms, the stereotypical location where people cut themselves. Some were recovering cutters, some were melancholic and bi-polar, some just wanted to spread hope. I have kept the icon as a representation of all of that.
Wow, that took longer than I thought it would. I ramble too much.
Default Icon:
Oldest Icon:
Newest Icon:
Saddest Icon:
or
Happiest Icon:
Angriest Icon:
Cutest Icon:
Sexiest Icon:
Most Humorous (NOT FAIR...so hard...):
or
or
Favorite Ship Icon (Okay, since I don’t actually have any in my current userpic arsenal, I’ll pick one of my hidden fandom ship icons. I know I’m going to get chewed out for this but this is my ship so there. I’m not even that into this fandom, as I stated above, but there you go. Haha.)
Favorite Fandom Icon (I have too many random fandoms represented. I’ll just do it for LotR and Narnia):
and
Icon You Use Most (Besides Default) (I’m really not sure on this one. I’m just going to pick one):
Favorite Overall (Too hard. I’ll pick a couple, but it’s not limited to these):
and
how many icons do you have total? 87 (I trimmed down, used to be over 100)
how many can you have? 114
if you could buy space for more, would you? Well, I bought the space for 100, and I’ll want to keep having that much for sure.
do your icons make a statement about you? Many of them do...different aspects of me.
what fandom do you have the most icons out of? Probably LotR. I’m not so much focused on fandoms anymore, but there are probably still quite a few in there.
the second most? Looks like Narnia or Moulin Rouge.
what ship do you have the most icons out of? I don’t.
how do you categorize your icons? Movie or Character:Movie, similar if it’s music, and then the rest I just name by names that will remind what the pictures are, because I have a lot of stock icons
are your icons mostly made by other users? Probably over half
animated icons are... annoying unless well made. (I agree with Heather)
in general, I think icons... are a fun vent for creativity and show some neat skillz
[EDIT] Wow, that took way longer than I thought it would. So much for 12:30 bedtime. I ramble too much.
In other news...what to say? I went to a high school graduation party today for a friend's brother. I didn't know him terribly well but I went more to see old friends. My friend Ray was the one whose brother was graduating, and I haven't seen Ray in almost two years, so I went mainly to see him, and I talked to one or two others I hadn't seen in a while. It was just...strange. One of my best friends, Bekah, and I went together, and couldn't stop talking about how strange it was to see all these faces. It was like stepping back into high school for a moment, but as such drastically different people. We went on from there to another friend's house to reunite with a few other schoolmates, friends we were closer to that we try to see once every break. But it's still weird. It's a world I feel very disconnected from.
In fact, I feel disconnected in almost every way from what I thought I would always call home. I become attached to places, to times, to relationships; I know this about myself. But I guess I've grown up more than I thought I had. This isn't home to me anymore. I know I talked about this before and I don't mean to harp on it, it's just a strange realization. This house is more like visiting a relative's than coming home. My friends...it's closer to getting to know strangers than catching up with old friends. We are different. We are increasingly plastic with one another - I don't necessarily mean fake, I just mean very polite and forcibly interested, but very clearly not in the same universe anymore. I love them all and love to hear how they're doing and what they're doing, and I want to be encouraging and interested. I just also have realized that they are very clearly a part of the past for me, and I have moved on. Maybe I can learn detachment, be transitory, after all. While I become attached to places and things, I also have this other side of myself that is never satisfied with staying in one place too long. I have to go somewhere else, experience something else, even for a little while. I'm curious, and I have a hunger to explore. I'm just also afraid. That's why I make attachments, I think. I'm afraid. Of what? Of...getting hurt, going the wrong direction, making a mistake. But I have to, eventually.
Well, anyway, enough of my existential musings. Tell me something about you, if you'd like to. Tell me...tell me something you've read that you loved, tell me what it meant to you. Or tell me about an interest you have, why you love it so much. Most of you on my friends list are artists or writers of some kind, or are in a generally creative state of mind. Tell me about it. Please?