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"If I were at full slayer strength": My Helpless icons and alts for Slayerstillness & Whedon Elite

May 14, 2015 02:32

But first a word from our sponsors: starry_night has kindly extended the deadline for btvsats20in20 Round 9 to Friday the 15 - and as usual, I'm the only person who hasn't submitted her stuff. *le sigh* (It's my job and the barometric pressure that gave me a massive headache and I can't find things because I had to move all my images...Excuses, I has 'em ( Read more... )

comm: whedon_elite, art gallery, icon(ic) thinky thoughts, char: willow rosenberg, char: buffy summers, comm: slayerstillness, char: cordelia chase, char: joyce summers, setting: s3, icon challenge, char: rupert giles, my flist is awesome, form: icons

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red_satin_doll May 15 2015, 19:57:08 UTC

You snagged one of the "expressionist" icons! *SQUEES* I love doing icons where Sarah looks like she's in a 1920's movie. I have no idea why.

But it's your default icon!

I just changed it to a Joyce icon from this round of 20in20, just for you Kiki. I have been wanting to have a good Joyce icon 4evah and I kept making dead Joyce icons or shippy, so it's about time I showed her off. And I'll probably change it again after the current round of contests. Lately I'm feeling like switching a lot. So please, feel free to snag any you like.

I associate fear with cold colors.

You mentioned that before and that's really interesting, I wouldn't have made that association. Is it because of the climate you live in (I assume you're warm in Italy, unless you're in the Alps), because the physical actions of shivering from cold is similar to trembling from fear; or an experience or personal trauma?

But then we're talking about colors - for instance blue is the color of the night, when bad things might happen. But it's also the color of the Virgin Mary's robe, of the ocean and sky, a color of trust and openness.

I also just saw the icons for the other contest. All the close crops!

I thought you'd like!

I didn't know the community until you posted something about it.

I just found out about it a couple of months ago from rua1412; it used to be an "elite" community (closed to non-members but now it's open to anyone. I'm just discovering there are a TON of icon comms out there, but most of the ones I see are 20in20's, and I can only handle one of those if that. I don't know how some people do more than one!

kikimay May 15 2015, 22:48:53 UTC

You snagged one of the "expressionist" icons! *SQUEES* I love doing icons where Sarah looks like she's in a 1920's movie. I have no idea why.

They are SO BEAUTIFUL! I actually left a comment in the proper post, I think. And ... nothing, I just found my new favorite icon. But I actually don't know if I prefer this version I'm using now with the violet and red or the all black and white one. Maybe I'll stick with this one because I really love the coloring, but as a person who generally doesn't pick b&w icons that icon is simply amazing. So at this point I'm going to stick with this one as default icon.

You mentioned that before and that's really interesting, I wouldn't have made that association. Is it because of the climate you live in (I assume you're warm in Italy, unless you're in the Alps), because the physical actions of shivering from cold is similar to trembling from fear; or an experience or personal trauma?

Idk, I think because when I'm really, really afraid I start trembling and I get very cold (Which is the natural body reaction to protect the most important organs) But terror could cause also the opposite reaction, when you feel your body on fire because of adrenaline. Which I guess it's correct considering Buffy.

Oh don't ask me how can people do all these icons XD You're actually very productive, IMO!

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