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After I made my post about my new year's resolution being "to have fun" I realized that this icon is the only one I have that really seems to reflect that spirit. I looked through my extensive collection of LJ icons (three journals over almost a decade -- I collected a lot of icons), but none of them really seemed to be embrace a true spirit of fun.

Okay, so I was depressed during a lot of that time, but still. . . What does it say about me that that theme is so conspicuously absent?

I'm currently hunting for new icons.

Image suggestions welcome, even if they are not currently in 100x100 format.

Yikes. . . I just went to add tags, and I didn't even have "fun" as a tag.
(Although I do have tags like passion, creativity, happiness is, love is, and other positive things.)

Clearly it is way past time for this Queen of Swords to lighten up!

I just bought a paid DW account, and now I have 100 icon slots.
This makes me very happy.

I had three accounts on LJ and hundreds of icons.
I loved finding new icons as well as creating my own. I didn't have the ability to create gifs or do fancy lettering, but I liked taking images which I loved and found significant and reformatting them as icons.

I also have about a dozen icons which were made for me by friends, which I treasure. The one which made me smile the most this evening was a simple pail of water, which was made for me during my years of having a great deal of trouble with water, from my residence flooding repeatedly to water pipes breaking when I visited another work site. Fortunately, my days of struggling with water seem to be over.

It's been interesting to go back through those folders and decide which images I'm delighted to upload again, which no longer seem relevant, and which inspire more of a let's wait and see attitude.

QoS was my primary account on LJ, and I also had a very active sprituality/priestess account called ShadowAndStar. I'm not going to separate those topics here. I also had an erotic blog which I loved very much. . . but since I don't have any erotic activity in my life right now, there's no reason to re-start it here. (*crosses my fingers hoping that will change one day)

Current Mood: nostalgic

One of my self-indulgences is paying for extra icons here on LJ. Between that and the loyalty icons I get for each year of paid membership, I have quite a collection.

The problem is that when I look at that collection these days I feel uncomfortable. Most of these were added three or more years ago, when my life looked and felt very different. There are several I haven't used in more than a year. It's time to do some thinning and replacement.

The thing is that I have a weird desire to maintain the integrity of the old posts where these icons remain appropriate -- even though even I don't go back to look at most of them anymore.

Just typing that puts the situation more in context.

This is just another opportunity for me to release the outgrown, the no-longer-useful.

Except that the word "just" is almost never appropriate in such situations. It minimizes the real emotional weight of such a shedding, dishonors both the meaning the things once held and the significance of the growth that the release makes necessary.

. . and sometimes ( Art imitates art -- check userpic before clicking )

Current Mood: amused

Via

scinnlaeca -- who also provided tech support!

I might have tweaked this a bit to show different icons if I'd had more time to play with the code. . .

( Behind a cut due to size and one potentially NSW image of a hand on a bare bottom )

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: my home office

I am, as I have always been, an introvert.
I need a certain amount of alone time on a consistent basis or I go nuts.

But I have lost the knack of being alone.
I have lost the knack of being at peace with it.

I resent the fact that now when I think about doing something fun I almost inevitably wish that there was someone here to share the experience with me. I wasn't that way Before.

Before, I didn't really experience "lonely."
I do now.

That said, I am at a place where grief-related posts aren't going to be using the fully-veiled Arwen icon anymore. This icon acknowledges loss, but the pain in it is less acute.

It's a cropped version of a painting called "Black Widow" by Jeff Johnson. Shortly before he died, Lohain refered to me as "The Goddess Widow." It's not a title I ever wanted, but it seems to be part of my path this time around.

Current Mood: lonely

I've been realizing that it's also time to clean house where my icons are concerned.

I've deleted very few since I started LJ, just kept buying more space for them. But with the name change -- and all that goes with it -- it's becoming clear that some of those old images need to be retired.

*sigh

I'd like to keep them, so they stay affixed to the old entries where they are still appropriate -- but really, how often do I or anyone else actually go back to them? And there just isn't room to be flexible about adding new images.

I've always put a lot of thought and care into which icons I upload and which one I put on each post. I've been known to go out and create a new one if I don't have one that fits an entry.

But this seems to be my year to learn to let go of things. . . especially the things that no longer fit.

*Has image of Inanna's precious and beautiful regalia lying on the ground of the Underworld as she passes through yet another gate. . . .

Vader & Fett icon by

snarkel

Current Mood: silly

I always loved this bit from The Emperor's New Groove.

Thanks to

tropic_icons for the icon.

The Firefly fans in the house will get this. . .

Unfortunately, I don't know who created it. Will provide credit if/when I find out the maker.

(Not to be confused with "The Great Maker." That's a different fandom.)

Current Mood: geeky

I actually feel much better than this, but I thought the icon was great and wanted to share.

I love LJ icons, but can't use all the ones I like.

( Here are a few from my gallery. )

Current Mood: appreciative

iconsbycurtana just posted a bunch of icons from The Lion in Winter. I'm not going to be uploading them to my userpics, but grabbed a few for my personal gallery. Since I know there are some fellow fans on my flist, I thought I'd share them.

I don't usually lie awake at night thinking about Harry Potter stuff, nor about icon-making. Last night was an exception.

( On the slim chance anyone still cares about Deathly Hallows spoilers )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: lunch counter at work

In contrast to my very young RPG character. . .

Current Mood: mischievous

starstuck__x was kind enough to personalize one of her lovely Wendy icons for me.

For those of you who haven't seen the recent live-action Peter Pan, Wendy confesses to Captain Hook that she has dreamed of being a pirate, and always liked the name "Red-Handed Jill."

I love the way this icon captures both the truly innocent schoolgirl and the adventurous spirit beneath that few suspect is there.

She reminds me of myself as a girl.

And, on reflection, maybe a bit of who I am today: the rather mundane-looking person on the outside with pirate dreams going on where no one can see.

Current Mood: happy

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