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Autumn Icons etc. - Ready for Adoption!
Sep. 22nd, 2008 07:25 amSo now that it's officially autumn (or will be, this afternoon, I think), here are the icons I've been working on ... .
Previews:
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Letters Meme!
Sep. 17th, 2008 04:28 pmI love my love with an F ... ! Actually, no, not really - because F is a tricksy letter, which no doubt accounts for the fact that it's worth 8 points in Scrabble (as opposed to, say, S, which is worth only 1).
Anyway, I got this at athena8's place. The meme prompt is:
1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters whose name starts with that letter and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
Iconic Decision
Jul. 3rd, 2008 06:28 pmI've long wanted an "I can kill you with my brain!" icon, but couldn't find artwork I really wanted to use. Predictably, I recently found 2 pieces:
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Bereznoff or Zakuro? Zakuro or Bereznoff?
Zakuro is a much better piece of art and far more of a character, but there's something beautifully loopy about using Bereznoff for this purpose ... .
(For those not familiar with Ouran High School Host Club ... Bereznoff looks like a hand puppet because that's exactly what he is! He's not quite as weird and spooky as the sock puppet in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, but he's not quite the innocent toy one would think, either ... .)
Take the teenaged cast and episodic nature of the old "Archie" comics, strain them through some "Comedy of Manners" novels (I'm thinking of Kushner's Swordspoint and Privilege of the Sword, and Wrede and Stevermer's Sorcery and Cecelia, but their common ancestors, the works of Jane Austen, would probably be even better), add a dash of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and a generous helping of the showiest, wooziest aspects of modern Japanese life. Beat until very, very light and fluffy ... and maybe you'd come up with Ouran High School Host Club.
I actually enjoyed this quite a lot, which is extremely strange, because it has very little in common with the other manga I really love.
( Read more ... with spoilers! )
