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.

[mistressrenet]

MmmmmSanzo.

....I'm sorry, were you saying something?

[b_hallward]

Nothing as important as ogling Sanzo.

Carry on, carry on.

[mistressrenet]

...right, then. XD

[boniblithe]

If the song works, keep it.

[b_hallward]

That seems to be the general consensus, which is most convenient since it's what I wanted to do anyway. ^^

[ranalore]

Mmm, variations on Sanzo. And cool, you even used the quote I was thinking the other day was so right for him. *G*

As one of the queens of fannish soundtracks that are nine miles long and which only make sense if you live inside my head (and sometimes not even then), I say keep the song, and work it to death.

[b_hallward]

I find it most comforting to know that I'm not the only person who reads Shakespeare and then thinks such things as, Ah, that passage is so Sanzo.

>>I say keep the song
I guess it's like Humpty Dumpty said: only a question of which is to be master, that's all.

[ranalore]

Dude, Shakespeare, the Eddas, and manga. There is an entire series of essays there for one less lazy than I.