A couple of months ago my friend Kerkevik was complementing my new icons and I thought wait, how can he see that?....oh, you can see anyone's icons by checking out their profile. So, stalking icons is now one of my favorite pastimes!
And agreed, that icon turned out beautifully - and it works well even here on my journal, which shrinks them down to 75 pixels. Yours I can still see the major details, the assymetrical composition is strong and the text is completely legible (it's a thing with me.)
I did some icons on ipiccy btw and tossed them all out except a Tara icon was that was really reworking one I'd already made and added some effects; now I'm stupidly fond of it. I'm sure it's really crude but I never had that "handwriting" overlay effect to play with before, and I love letters.
And Lexi told me that VM and OB were MUST-SEES and I love her and trust her recs so that's actually next on my list after/along with OB. (I tend to rip through entire shows, then move on to the next one rather than watch simultaneously, the way I read books - I don't stop reading just because a chapter ends.)
While Who... just completely fails on that point.
And I think that's one of the reasons why I haven't watched it yet, although ten years ago a friend of mine was a #10 fanatic and I know it's very popular; also I "know too much". I went into Buffy blind (except for Tara's death) and that was a good thing, I think. I'm going into Orphan Black the same way.
Also why I haven't watched AtS yet - I know too much and what I know, I don't like. (And it's harder for me to get into shows - or books or movies - with male protagonists. It just IS and has always been that way with me. I don't have the same identification and I don't want to see the same old- same old narratives.)
My Doctor in college was #7 and his companion Ace, the surrogate father-daughter pairing who preceded Buffy and Giles for me, except the power balance is quite different; but it was the first of the old Who that delved into feminist themes and felt very fresh to my friends and I in college. So, twenty years on, new Who should be building on that and very different, right? No?
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And agreed, that icon turned out beautifully - and it works well even here on my journal, which shrinks them down to 75 pixels. Yours I can still see the major details, the assymetrical composition is strong and the text is completely legible (it's a thing with me.)
I did some icons on ipiccy btw and tossed them all out except a Tara icon was that was really reworking one I'd already made and added some effects; now I'm stupidly fond of it. I'm sure it's really crude but I never had that "handwriting" overlay effect to play with before, and I love letters.
And Lexi told me that VM and OB were MUST-SEES and I love her and trust her recs so that's actually next on my list after/along with OB. (I tend to rip through entire shows, then move on to the next one rather than watch simultaneously, the way I read books - I don't stop reading just because a chapter ends.)
While Who... just completely fails on that point.
And I think that's one of the reasons why I haven't watched it yet, although ten years ago a friend of mine was a #10 fanatic and I know it's very popular; also I "know too much". I went into Buffy blind (except for Tara's death) and that was a good thing, I think. I'm going into Orphan Black the same way.
Also why I haven't watched AtS yet - I know too much and what I know, I don't like. (And it's harder for me to get into shows - or books or movies - with male protagonists. It just IS and has always been that way with me. I don't have the same identification and I don't want to see the same old- same old narratives.)
My Doctor in college was #7 and his companion Ace, the surrogate father-daughter pairing who preceded Buffy and Giles for me, except the power balance is quite different; but it was the first of the old Who that delved into feminist themes and felt very fresh to my friends and I in college. So, twenty years on, new Who should be building on that and very different, right? No?