My Entries for Round 3 of btvsats20in20: TARA MACLAY, A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS

[red_satin_doll]

My original claim for this round of btvsats20in20 was Tara in S4, but starry_night kindly allowed me to expand that.






    Teasers

10 Themes
Full Body	Minimalism	Heartbreak	Yellow	Matching Background
Fear	Grunge	Favourite	Touch	Mod’s Choice
5 Category |MAGNIFYING GLASS
Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Cat 4	Cat 5
5 Artist's Choice
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3	AC 4	AC 5

Alts and extras will follow in a separate post and oh boy do I have alts.

Comments - including honest critiques - welcome. (You can't be harder on these than I am.) If you're wondering what I was aiming for with the Fear icon, my inspiration was clockwork_hart1's Tough Love Tara-POV fic "Shadows and Light".

My mom is coming for a week long visit tomorrow so if I do not reply to comments, that's why.

starry_night if you need to disqualify my entries, I understand and that's ok. I'm really not fussed about that. I learned a lot, and quality time spent with Tara Maclay is NEVER time wasted.

I would love to make more Tara icons, and more Willow/Tara icons. Oh goodness I could go on forever. But I've realized two things: 1) 20in20 isn't a good fit for me. 15 would be more like it. I have alternate versions but I run out of steam and then realize I have to come up with five more new ones. Ugh.

2) that my days of icon making are numbered. My new bifocals make it so much harder than before, slower; and I find myself thinking in terms of banners and large artworks as a consequence. The icons for Full Body, Touch, Cat 1 and Cat3 all started life as larger artworks. Which I will show off in another post because....

3) I FINALLY made artwork from the final scene in Dead Things that I'm happy with. (Thanks, ipiccy!)

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

You named some of my absolute favorites here. :)

ETA: Laughter was my goal with AC 5, so mission accomplished! It's not the prettiest icon by a long shot by I had to have at least one humourous one here.

And goodness yes, why aren't there more Dawn and Tara icons? or Dawn and Tara fic for that matter?

Which jewel song are you referring to? I didn't follow her very much. I do love hand imagery (I love women's hands in general, especially strong hands), love the hand imagery in the buffyverse and wanted something to pair with a Buffy/Faith handclasp icon I've made and also, I love the parallel between the spiritual handfasting in Hush and that in Chosen.

Hand imagery is my crack.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

This is the song I was thinking of:



My hands are small, I know, but they're not yours/ they are my own/ and they're not yours/ they are my own/ I am never broken.

The end is a bit religious, but the tone and theme of the song makes me think of Tara.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

The end is a bit religious, but the tone and theme of the song makes me think of Tara.

Oh this was during that veru short period when I had any interest in jewel

(and then she came out with that pop song and the video for it where she's in short shorts and a white tank top and suspenders as a "fireman" squirting a fire hose between my legs and...I am still trying to scrub the memory out of my mind's eye. A fireman when the floods roll back? I think not.)

You know what you reminded me of? The Indigo girls song "The girl with the weight of the world in her hands" If I could do fanvids I'd want to do one of Buffy with that song but I don't know why I didn't realize how PERFECT that would have been for this icon for both Buffy and Tara.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/indigogirls/thegirlwiththeweightoftheworldinherhands.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBtEdr47b4&list=PLE2C109996425A29F&index=19

Tara and Dawn are both "intermediaries", bridges between the The Hand (Buffy) and the Mind/Spiritus (Willow) .