Oh, Tara:My last award for Slayerstillness of 2015

[red_satin_doll]

And for my very last fandom award and icon challenge of 2015 it's only fitting that the marvelous tempertemper made the banner:

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My 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".

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If I could resubmit these, I'd switch out #6 for #5; the rest I'm satisfied with.

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Comments

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

The mod choice one is beautiful but my absolute fave is #10...the coloring is lovely and really enhances the image of Tara here. Plus, the words stand out well. Gorgeous.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

the coloring is lovely and really enhances the image of Tara here. Plus, the words stand out well. Gorgeous.

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.