Autumn Icons etc. - Ready for Adoption!
Sep. 22nd, 2008 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chomijiSo now that it's officially autumn (or will be, this afternoon, I think), here are the icons I've been working on ... .
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| Fall Manga Icons - assorted fandoms | ||
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| 10 | 11 | 12 |
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All the usual warnings: download 'em onto your own system, don't link directly to my poor account, please credit.
Some of the resources used: fonts from www.dafont.com, textures from colorfilter, borders from spiritsighs and endlessdeep; All manga-related artwork is from the respective mangaka (as noted below).
1, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14 - artwork by Kazuya Minekura from Saiyuki and Wild Adapter
2, 6, 7 - artwork by Akimine Kamijyo from Samurai Deeper Kyo
3 - artwork by Yuki Urushibara from Mushishi
5 - artwork by Bisco Hattori from Ouran High School Host Club
8 - artwork by Tito Kube from Bleach
9 - artwork by Natsuki Takaya from Fruits Basket
10 - artwork by Takeshi Obata from Hikaru no Go
Japanese on 2 and 9 should read kouyou (or, alternate reading, momiji - autumn colors)
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Date: 2008-09-22 01:02 pm (UTC)You *made* them? And by extension, I assume ALL of your icons? Very impressive!
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Date: 2008-09-23 02:25 am (UTC)Aww, thanks! Hmmm ... I think about 10% of my icons are from other people.
I usually think of them rather like the mood theme thingies - I want specific icons for specific types of posts or comments - so I end up making them myself. I was already doing some similar little graphics for work - icons for the front page of the web site reminding people about, say, the Asian-Pacific Heritage Day presentation - so when I joined LJ, I started messing around with making my own almost immediately.
I didn't think of offering them around publicly until a couple of folks asked me if they could have the ones I was using myself. Now I'm happy to be able to make them for others - I'm running out of room for all the ones I think of making, and also they make such nice little pick-me-ups for when folks are having a bue day or week or whatever.
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Date: 2008-09-22 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-23 02:26 am (UTC)I'm glad you like them!
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Date: 2008-09-22 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-23 02:27 am (UTC)I'm happy you found one you liked!
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Date: 2008-09-23 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-23 11:54 am (UTC)Oh, yes, Hakkai's a popular guy! See my earlier icon post ... enjoy!
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Date: 2008-09-22 07:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-23 02:28 am (UTC)Use it in good health!
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Date: 2008-09-22 08:05 pm (UTC)Also stealing 5 (which is adorable) and 1. All of them are very...autumn-ish (what, making up words is fun!)
Thanks for the lovely icons~ ^^
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Date: 2008-09-23 02:34 am (UTC)IIRC, #11's wording is from Shakespeare, although my more direct inspiration was the Sandman volume of that name. #5 ... are you an Ouran fan, or did Hunny just steal your heart all on his own?
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Date: 2008-09-23 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-23 01:31 pm (UTC)>sigh<
Well, I try t' be cultu'ed!
XD
Thanks for giving sarah the straight dope!
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Date: 2008-09-23 11:20 pm (UTC)The funny thing is, I'm sure I Googled it when I was making the icon, because I know Gaiman likes classical tags (he's so marvelous - don't you wish he was our buddy?) and was wondering whether that was one. I don't know why Shakespeare got stuck in my head!
(I keep meaning to make a Kougaiji icon with a Hopkins quote on it, but I don't know if it will fit ... I know Kou is a cattle youkai, just like his Daddy before him, but he always makes me think of a hawk.)
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Date: 2008-09-24 03:40 am (UTC)Yes, exactly ...
I caught this morning morning's minion,
kingdom of daylight's dauphin
dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding ...
I know Hopkins had religion in mind, but to me, it always just speaks of a longing for the freedom of the air, both by the falcon and by the observer.
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Date: 2008-09-28 03:21 am (UTC)"As kingfishers catch fire" is for me a deeply comforting poem, and one that I think of whenever I consider whether life has any purpose. To me, it basically says that our purpose - whether given by Nature or by God - is simply to be ourselves, to bear witness to the creatures we are: "What I do is me: for that I came."
And yes, "Pied Beauty." I think of that one whenever I hear people say that there's only one right way to be a good person, to worship the Divine.
You haven't mentioned "God's Grandeur," which is very much on point with what you said about his appreciation for the physical world, rather than rejecting it. It also makes a helluva good anthemn for religion-based ecology:
THE world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Despite the fact that I have no belief in the Holy Ghost, I love the last line (and could easily substitute there the idea of the Shekinah, which is sometimes considered the feminine part/counterpart of God).
Re: (Hopkins)
Date: 2008-10-02 11:34 am (UTC)Yes, that sort of cross-cultural soul-touch is why I don't mind singing Xmas carols, and I sang Christian sacred music when I was in chorus at camp. The MD Center for the Arts camp at that time was at St. Joseph's College in upper central MD - it as a Catholic college with nuns in habits all over the place, and they were always very sweet to us, and let us use their chapel with the nice acoustics, so I never minded singing pretty hymns for them there.
Red Jacket had a number of points there ... .
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Date: 2008-09-23 01:30 pm (UTC)smilla-san keeps me honest! I'm a bloody philistine about literature, especially given that I was an English major at a respectable university ... .
I love Ouran! It's so blessedly silly ... .
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Date: 2008-09-23 02:58 pm (UTC)Also, yay for English majors! I love it when my homework is to read novels. :P
And Ouran is so much fun. Our anime club watched it a couple years back, and it's even more fun watching it with a group of people than by yourself. Good times...
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Date: 2008-09-24 03:17 am (UTC)Actually, I mostly disliked being an English major ... I wanted to be a chemistry major! But I couldn't hack it - really bad grades the first couple of semesters. The English Department's grad advisor was teaching a writing course that I was taking for kicks, and she advised me to major in English instead. So I did. I avoided all the usual types of literature courses I possibly could, and instead took things like "Anglo Saxon" and "English Drama Until 1642," as well as the max number of writing courses they would let me take for credit.
Ironically, after hating to analyze literature all through college, I now spend hours discussing and analyzing SF&F and manga here on LJ ... .
I'm odd about watching video and movies ... I haven't watched any anime since by childhood "Astroboy" days. I agree that it's more fun to watch stuff with other people. I've been reading the Ouran novels, but my daughter tells me the anime is almost as good.
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Date: 2008-09-28 03:24 am (UTC)Nope - I've read the manga of Cowboy Bebop, but haven't seen any anime since Astroboy/Marine Boy/Kimba the White Lion.
(Unless you want to count Miyazaki, but I don't ... his movies aren't a series, for one thing.)
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Date: 2008-09-28 11:19 am (UTC)(Although of the two, I think I'd suggest going for Champloo first -- partly because you already know the base-level storyline for Bebop, but more because I just have this feeling that the overall story arc and character dynamics in Champloo might hit you in a happier place than Bebop, even if the hip-hop/remix musical aesthetic might be a bit less to your tastes than Bebop's jazz.)
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Date: 2008-10-01 11:55 am (UTC)(You wanna pencil in the weekend of the 11th for me to come down and visit? And were you thinking of coming up for the street festival up here on Oct. 5?)
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Date: 2008-10-02 11:22 am (UTC)Yep, the street festival is this coming Sunday! Cruelly, they're making one choose between two of the most famous local bands, the Nighthawks and Chopteeth, for the last performance slot ... .
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Date: 2008-10-02 11:26 am (UTC)I was thinking Saturday, actually - it's difficult for me to stay late on a Sunday. I'm not sure what I was visualizing schedule-wise - may come visit with you for the afternoon, for lunch or right after lunch, and then rendezvous with the family somewhere near a Metro for dinner? I haven't detailed it out with them, either.
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Date: 2008-10-03 02:34 pm (UTC)Really, it's up to you - getting take-out, or delivery or eating ahead of time and then both supplying some video-watching munchies would mean more time hanging out at your place with the puppy, but if you're in the mood for a lunch out someplace downtown, I'm certainly up for it. There's also the budget issue - if we're meeting my guys for supper, I don't know how much you want to blow eating lunch out.
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Date: 2008-09-24 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-26 10:52 am (UTC)I'm glad you found something you liked! Enjoy ... .
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Date: 2008-09-28 10:24 am (UTC)Nice job on all of these, and LOL @ 13.
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Date: 2008-09-29 11:47 am (UTC)I'm happy you found one you liked! #13 was actually originally made for thewriter0, who was having a bad day and needed cheering up. I made her 2 Hakkai icons and let her pick one; she picked the other one ... .