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1 - 5My original intent was to only use caps amoung the examples Starry provided; it didn't quite end up that way. Nor did I recall planning on making them so consistent color-wise. I did want to use unsual or rarely used caps as much as possible and I think I succeeded, especially with the two images from Where the Wild Things Are. The girlish pigtails bely the fact that she is someone who possesses a great deal of power and knowledge passed on by her mother and the women of her family. Tara's own power and knowledge are terribly underplayed after S4 and this is something I will never be happy about. Because it ends up being a double-whammy of the show's "issues with powerful women".
6 - 12If I could resubmit these, I'd switch out #6 for #5; the rest I'm satisfied with.
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Date: 2015-12-31 07:57 am (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2015-12-31 08:43 am (UTC)Thank you for all your help and support this year; I hope I continue to make you proud in 2016.
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Date: 2016-01-02 01:26 am (UTC)That icon might end up being one of my favorites for the year.
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Date: 2015-12-31 02:16 pm (UTC)Second, I never really noticed how they short-changed Tara's powers after Season 4. Now that you mention it, I agree that it's quite irritating and really does a disservice to Tara. Bad writers. *smacks them*
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Date: 2015-12-31 09:35 pm (UTC)Thank you for the compliments sweetie!
And yeah, it's a subject I don't see commented on but it was weird for me as a newer fan to see Tara initiate Willow into "deeper magicks" throughout season 4 right from Hush, perform a spell with Willow and Giles in WTWTA, be the only person who knows Faith isn't Buffy in WAY (however wonky that is), and be portrayed as someone with genuine knowledge and power that she is just beginning to claim herself in S4, and then in S5 she's downgraded to junior partner in terms of the magics. I get where they were going - they wanted to show Willow surpassing her, but I don't think it was necessary to downgrade Tara in order to achieve that.
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Date: 2016-01-15 08:54 pm (UTC)Thank you for the feedback hon! I'm sorry it took me so long to reply and acknowledge your comments.
What you said about the words in that icon makes me very happy because I do have a thing about "legibility" in icons that's gotten stronger on one level (because I've recently started wearing bifocals), at the same time I'm willing to use text more often as a merely decorative element. But here I definitely wanted folks to be able to see that fragment of Sappho's poem (a translation of the text on Tara's back.)
Which could inspire a whole speech about how Sappho's poems were lost from us for so long and in fact we only possess a tiny fragment of her reputed total output but I'll spare you that speech.