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I cut my hair, so I re-did my icon.

I also took the opportunity to replace the cross in the background of this icon with a flaming chalice.

Current Mood: pleased

1) If you buy a dated stamp at the Automated Postal Center, you have to put it in the postal stream the same day, or the USPS gets annoyed.

2) Scotch tape is temperature sensitive, so you shouldn't use it to seal packages.

3) If you wrap your package in wrapping paper, the Post Office wants to put all sorts of unattractive stickers on it. Next year's plan is to wrap things properly, i.e. with minimal amounts of scotch tape) in wrapping paper, and then wrap that with brown paper sealed with strapping or packing tape.

4) Writing AIR MAIL/PAR AVION is as good as a sticker, even if the stickers are more attractive.

I need to update my icon 2 ways. The regular default needs the cross replaced with a flaming chalice, I think. And I want a yule log in the tv for the Christmas season.

Current Mood: accomplished

10. Tell me about your default icon. and 10. Pick 10 random icons from your userpics and tell me about them.

Default icon: You know how, people in the mid-90s were very, very, very excited about the fact that, on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog, and that means the Internet will be a better place, kumbaya? It turns out that what they meant was, "On the Internet, everyone's an able-bodied white American straight cisdude until proven otherwise, which gives me license to be a sexist, racist douche all the time." So, I started making my default icons women of color. Finally, I found a cartoon iconmaker I liked and retired the old Jill Scott one, because I don't look like Jill Scott, but I also do not want my picture taken. Like, ever. I liked this icon maker because I was able to make a somewhat stocky icon (it could be fatter to be more accurate), and I could make it NOT SMILE, and adjust the size of the boobs (which you can't see anymore with the double-venus, but they're big. And they had multiple shades of brown for the skin! The only thing discomfiting is that all of the free backgrounds from that time were terrible, and this outdoor scene was probably the least terrible, but there's a cross in the background. I may have to cover that up in the GIMP one of these days.

Does anyone know where I can get the happy person base for the AO3 icon? Ideally, someone has the PSD or gimp image file for it...

There are a lot of great prompts, so come take a gander.

Two fills so far:

1) June/Neal in Vegas, done as an icon

2) Dressed for Success for Neal knew and desired June before his life of crime.

So, on zazzle, I can make a navy long sleeved shirt with a white doublevenus on the front. (Sadly, they do not offer any men's v necks, and all of the women's shirts would be very tight.)

Points to ponder for looking like my icon. I have duck slippers, but I don't currently have bunny slippers. Will people notice if I substitute duck for bunnies?

Remote control, y/n/my XO-1 (the little green laptop that looks like a toy) is an adequate substitute?

Also, do I dress like my icon on the first day of the con, when people who haven't seen me before might be looking for me, or on the second day, which will have higher traffic and more people to get the joke?

Also, also, someone should suggest a panel I would really like to mod. I think the issue I'm having is that, of the fandoms I would like to talk about, only in one is my primary pairing a slash pairing, and there's nothing to say about Shawn/Gus except MFEO. The end. (Shawn/Lassiter shippers, I'm sorry, but you are wrong.) Well, also, in Castle, there's Ryan/Esposito, what is the heterosexual reading of this text?

Yeah, I'm way over that bit about how, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. My icon shows that I'm a fat black woman with glasses and natural hair who likes TV.

It doesn't show you that I'm a lesbian, and I want to fix that. I think the easiest thing is for me to add something to the TV. (My GIMP skills do not extend to manipulating the t-shirt.) What this means, of course, is that it is poll time!

ETA: poll closed because

mpoetess had the photoshop sklls to modify the t-shirt with a double Venus. Thanks, bb.

Poll #1497 Dykadelic symbols

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

View Respondents

If I saw this symbol on your icon's tv, I would assume you fucked girls

View Answers

Labrys
8 (28.6%)

Black triangle
1 (3.6%)

Pink or purple lamda
10 (35.7%)

Lamda in a color that coordinates with the rest of the icon.
8 (28.6%)

Rainbow flag
19 (67.9%)

Rainbow triangle
19 (67.9%)

Headshot of a female BSO (probably Queen Latifah or Jill Scott)
0 (0.0%)

Pink triangle
17 (60.7%)

This other symbol of complete dykiness I will tell you about in comments
2 (7.1%)

Some story recommendations for you, Dear Readers:

Necessity by iulia_linnea One perspective on Spock, the re-establishment of the Vulcan species, and Uhura
What We Don't Talk About by ellen_fremedon. Another perspective on the same thing. This feels more canonical and less hopeful to me than the previous story.
Two Sides by circadienne. How Uhura's life with or without the Nero Incident winds up in the same place.
Patterns by teaphile Spock/Uhura at the Academy
Fish In The Sea by helens78 Sulu and Uhura fuck a guy in their academy days. Sheer hotness!
Precious Things series by haearnmouse Really spectacular original character stories dealing with the Vulcan Recovery. Every story in this series makes me tear up.

Two requests, Dear Readers: One, where are people posting Trek icons? I've seen bunches, and even been given one, but I haven't come across The One that will be my Trek:AOS icon yet. Two, people should get cracking on Spock/Uhura/McCoy stories. That threesome works for me ever so much better than Spock/Uhura/Kirk, because of the way that Uhura doesn't really like Kirk. (I imagine that hilarity might ensue because McCoy is sleeping with Spock and Uhura, but has also been Kirk's backup date a lot, and when Kirk finds out that McCoy has managed to score with Spock and Uhura, he jumps up and down flapping his arms about how awesome he is and everyone should want to sleep with him and WHAT THE FUCK, BONES, why won't you get me in on that action? And Leonard is like, "The reason they don't want to sleep with you is, in no small part, because you say things like, 'Get in on that action', when referring to having sex with other sapient beings.")

And, lastly, some thoughts on AOS!Spock vs. TOS!Spock (aka Spock Prime). (AOS stands for Alternate Original Series) ( spoilers, okay )

Total Icon Count: 12

Teasers:

TEASER! Icon 001 TEASER! Icon 005 TEASER! Icon 010

( Icons Here! ) The sheep base was from

helens78. I modified a Dreamwidth base by

ct to make a Dreamcult base for use in the GIMP. For future reference, the CULT in the base is written in Enter Sansman. ream is written in Futura Medium, and the WIDTH in a regular Dreamwidth logo is Gill Sans Bold. The d is custom, not part of a font.

Comment and credit, please, but, except for my cult sheep, the rest are shareable.

Not crossposted to LJ, for obvious reasons. Not uploaded to the wiki either.

Current Mood: haterade

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1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

	This is one I made, from a publicity shot from Judith Light as Hedda Gabler at The Shakespeare Theatre Company. It was the first time I'd ever seen the play and she was amazing. I've seen it a couple of times since, but never as well done. I made the icon because I wanted a few --- critic icons to use when I posted reviews.
	This one was a party souvenir. You kind of had to be there. (Weirdly enough, it was an actual physical party. Waves at Brak and gblvr.)
	I went to school the summer of 2007. I needed an icon to talk about it with. This fit.
	This is one I made one time when I was temping at a place with photoshop and an internet connection and not much to do during the day. I made a bunch of icons I didn't really use. Several years later, I wanted an icon that looked a bit like me, that was clearly of a black woman. Also, my LJ username was witchqueen, but I was starting to transition to a fannish pseud fo zvi. So I brought this icon out of storage and I used it up until about a month ago, when Denise asked for a picture for the staff page. I don't do pictures, but I also thought it would be kind of weird to have Jill Scott as my staff ID, so I dusted off the Weemee icon that I only had for AIM. The Weemee looks more like me than Jill Scott, so I rotated it in.
	I supported the WGA writers' strike, but I thought 'Pencils Down' was a terrible slogan for an icon. Luckily, crazyvictoria made alternate slogans. I was watching BSG at the time, and I thought it was cool.