Uffish Thought

Eleven years ago, I watched the last ten minutes of Dark Angel's pilot, and was hooked so hard that I ventured into the strange wilds of the Internet in search of more.

Eleven years later, I am fundamentally changed by my time here, with all of you crazy awesome people and your passionate diversity and endless acceptance.

I'm about to start a new career in massage therapy, and it's been awhile since thedorkygirl made my lovely former default icon, which has been in constant use since 2003. It seemed like a good time for a change.

How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don't you think?

Icon Meme 2: The Icon Meme Returns

- Reply to this post with the words "BY THE ANTI-CLOCKWISE PROPELLER OF ICARUS!" (or whatever; I don't even know what that means) and I will pick six of your icons.
- Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
- Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
- This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.

musesfool chose these icons:

( by virtue of having more than 6 icons, finally )

My keywords are very prosaic, so I'm not going to discuss them: they're generally: [fandom][character(s)][one-word descriptor]. I think recessional said once about her icons that they were like an alethiometer, and that's a wonderful description of how I use mine. There are obvious uses, like using my Life icon when I'm talking about real life stuff; but that same icon will be used for multiple emotions and contexts, like feeling meditative, or discussing something urban, and several others. I imagine most people do something similar, but feel free to tell me I'm wrong.

For years, I've only had the basic number of icons on LJ, so I had to use versatile icons; you'll rarely see me with single-fandom, single-sentiment icons - not because I don't like them, but because they feel like a luxury for people with the icon space.

Okay, combination GIP, public service announcement, and journal rec today:

I was wandering through my bookmarks and rediscovered teasel. Not only does she write amazing essays on LotR, she posted the Top Seven Reasons Why Voting is Like Sex and icons to boot (*points to icon*).

*makes shooing motions* Go! Why are you hanging around my boring journal, anyhow? ;)

*glomps Karen* SQUEEE!!!

Karen made me this adorable icon!!! It makes me want to preen ;) And that is just the coolest font ever!

Karen-Bear, I send you many, many wet kisses via eager Johnny Depp clones (and a few Michael Weatherlys, just to add color). *big, sloppy hugs*