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novembermond posted with a meme to talk about three selected icons.
Here are the ones I was assigned:
An old icon! So old that I honestly have lost a lot of the details. :D I think this one dates back to when I first started using this account; I needed some icons and figured that my limited icon-making skills would probably be better off if I ran with the snake theme than if I tried to make fannish icons. The snake in it came from a Google image search, most likely, and I just trimmed it down to fit. This is/was my "humourous post" icon, because to me the snake looks like it's laughing, or smiling.
A new icon! Very new; I made it on 1/2/19. :D I'd been watching and posting about Nirvana in Fire, and really wanted an icon to go with those posts! Again, I don't actually have icon-making skills, so this is really intended to be a placeholder until I find some nice professional ones. It's just a screenshot of the NiF episode page on Viki, cut down and slightly resized. I like both characters, I like blue, and the lack of background detail meant iconifying it was near my skill level... though I think it still took me half an hour to get it cropped just right. :/
Another new icon! But it's a new icon about being an old fan. :D It was made bychina_shop, and I saw it in this icon post along with a number of other old!fan icons. It reminded me of LJ and the way people always had some new fashion to complain about: Why are all the icons full of tiny text nowadays? and People, please stop with the eye-searing custom colours! or What's with all these desaturated pastel icons lately?
I am not quite 40, but I have been in fandom since about 1997 (okay, I chose that date almost at random, because trying to define "in fandom" would be a huge post in itself) and find myself a little nostalgic now and then about the ways it changes and the ways it doesn't.
If you would like me to pick three of your icons for this meme, comment with "Pick me!" Or just comment and tell me about your favourite icon, yours or mine. :D
novembermond posted with a meme to talk about three selected icons. Here are the ones I was assigned:
An old icon! So old that I honestly have lost a lot of the details. :D I think this one dates back to when I first started using this account; I needed some icons and figured that my limited icon-making skills would probably be better off if I ran with the snake theme than if I tried to make fannish icons. The snake in it came from a Google image search, most likely, and I just trimmed it down to fit. This is/was my "humourous post" icon, because to me the snake looks like it's laughing, or smiling.
A new icon! Very new; I made it on 1/2/19. :D I'd been watching and posting about Nirvana in Fire, and really wanted an icon to go with those posts! Again, I don't actually have icon-making skills, so this is really intended to be a placeholder until I find some nice professional ones. It's just a screenshot of the NiF episode page on Viki, cut down and slightly resized. I like both characters, I like blue, and the lack of background detail meant iconifying it was near my skill level... though I think it still took me half an hour to get it cropped just right. :/
Another new icon! But it's a new icon about being an old fan. :D It was made by
china_shop, and I saw it in this icon post along with a number of other old!fan icons. It reminded me of LJ and the way people always had some new fashion to complain about: Why are all the icons full of tiny text nowadays? and People, please stop with the eye-searing custom colours! or What's with all these desaturated pastel icons lately? I am not quite 40, but I have been in fandom since about 1997 (okay, I chose that date almost at random, because trying to define "in fandom" would be a huge post in itself) and find myself a little nostalgic now and then about the ways it changes and the ways it doesn't.
If you would like me to pick three of your icons for this meme, comment with "Pick me!" Or just comment and tell me about your favourite icon, yours or mine. :D
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Ha, good eye! :D That is indeed her art, and I'm a big fan of both her artistic style and her writing. (I've read almost all of her kid books and a fair number of her stories, still need to read the self-pub novels at some point.)
Thank you for the icon picks! I shall ramble on them in the next post :D
I had to choose between my three Temeraire icons on LJ, since I really don't have reason for more than one one, and just had to go with Perscitia and Temeraire's math rivalry (she's my favorite character in the series).
And mad props on the 'good coat and a short friend' icon;
Ha, thank you! A friend I
dragged intointroduced to Dragaera thought to apply the quote to the two of them, and I knew just the art I wanted to go with it -- not that there is a lot of Dragaera art out there. This one's by Dylan Meconis, from a lineup for what would've been such an awesome comic. There used to be a page up with all the sketches, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. You can see the larger art here, and there are individual character sheets here on Flickr.no subject
Yesss, another UVernon fan on DW! *high-fives* I own the giant Digger omnibus, remember reading the original comic online before it was finished. I've also read some of her short stories, but I originally found her through artwork, and that's probably always going to be my first association; it a lasting impression on me! I have even written fic about it. :D
That character lineup is great! I don't know if I can pick a favourite, but Aliera hovering to stick her finger in Morrolan's face is perfectly in-character and a very canonical touch. Also Loiosh is super cute (as he's always telling everyone)!
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Anyway, I need to go read your Bighorn Pears fic! -- but just wanted to mention that it looks like Vernon has reorganized her website and the link no longer goes to the artwork. It looks like deviantArt might be what you have to point to now (or at least I assume this is the right painting; bless Ursula for having a dedicated "weird fruit" gallery XD)
I love most of the Vlad line-up designs, even the ones where they don't match my own mental image too closely (like Cawti and Kiera; I have no mental image of Kragar -- which I suppose is fitting -- so can't say if he matches or not :P) Loiosh is super cute! -- and I like that he looks both reptilian and somewhat birdlike, especially in motion. And the body language between Morrolan and Aliera is GREAT! :D (as are Aliera's expressions in general; I love the headshot of her looking pissed).
Oh, and, posted my icon ramble :)
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I... realised that I don't really have a Kragar Mental Image either! I think because Vlad doesn't, though I have a sort of Kragar Outline built on background awareness - Kragar was a Dragonlord, so he must look like a Dragonlord in the most generic sense.
Agree about Cawti and Kiera, too - I had a hard time figuring out who they were, save by process of elimination. (Is that Norathar hanging out in the back of the group?)
...Vlad needs to get some friends who aren't once-or-present Dragonlords. :/ Maybe then he'd suffer fewer rude conversations about Eastern conquest, among other effects.
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Kragar was a Dragonlord, so he must look like a Dragonlord in the most generic sense.
Yeah, that's what I've got, too, and looks like Meconis was going off the same idea :))
I believe the line-up is Daymar, Kiera, Kragar, Vlad + Loiosh, Cawti, Morrolan, Aliera, Sethra. (How Kiera and Sethra coexist in the same picture I don't know XP)
...Vlad needs to get some friends who aren't once-or-present Dragonlords. :/ Maybe then he'd suffer fewer rude conversations about Eastern conquest, among other effects.
I feel like Vlad strongly agrees with you in theory while being very bad at actually making this happen :P (Well, to be fair, I guess he keeps befriending Issola, too. But I think that one's less about friendship and more that Vlad has a type :P)