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taotrooper) wrote2005-11-08 05:55 pm
taotrooper) wrote2005-11-08 05:55 pm
Withdrawal
Between the fact today's been a lousy day, and the FMA manga withdrawal (it's 8th!!!), hearing Bohemian Rhapsody made me cry. I'm so odd.
Some pet peeves in general when it comes to icons:
1. When the iconmaker gives a link to the reply page directly. Maybe I'm weird, but it gives me two feelings about that:
1.a the iconmaker is a comment whore and tries to force anyone who browses around to comment
1.b the iconmaker has a layout without perm link, and is either lazy to delete everything after the html, or he/she doesn't know anything about URLs.
I dunno, I happen to like to see other people's comments when I check somebody else's icons out. Because I'm curious, and if I like the same icon 90% of them took, I might not use it on LJ, so yeah. I like to read the comments, even if I don't comment, like or take any myself.
2. When it comes to a 100 challenge, and someone takes a SERIES, yet he/she only uses
2.a the main character(s)
2.b the couple(s) he/she ships
2.c his/her favorite character(s)
2.d popular stuff to get tons of love
I think it'd be a real challenge to use almost all characters, whether you like them or not. Because it's more balanced that way, you know, and perhaps someone will be grateful if you made one icon of that obscure character they like so much. Don't you think it'd be nicer? ^^ Don't you think it's a better contribution for fandom than doing the same character and using the same images over and over again? Be original! Use the character you hate as well, your fingers are not going to fall out! Even though you ship a hawt ghey couple, some icons of the canon couples (especially the ones people take for granted, like parents and married people) would be cool as well. Your computer won't get dirty, I swear.
If you like this character or ship so much, and you have a lot of images of them, take them only as the subject! You'll be saving people's time.
Also, if more than half your character challenge icons are OTP-centric, maybe you should rethink on why you choose the couple and not the pairing itself. I'm not saying not to make them, with some limits, but I saw a challenge about Harry where a lot of them were H/Hr and... ugh. Don't take the character because the couple was taken, please. Just wait for the other person to finish, or something.
I'm saying it because I want to take RG Veda after I'm done with Eriol and Yuuko at iconfiend100. And even though most of the images are Ashura and/or Yasha, I'm not doing 100 of them (not only because I don't like them... I will do some, yeah, because a lot of folks like them.) I want to do icons from everybody! From the rest of the seven stars and Kujaku to really minor characters *cough*Tenoh*cough*. It's a bit frustrating, finding only Ashura icons on LJ. I think the only Kujaku icons I've seen are mine, and that sucks so much (might exist, but haven't seen them yet.) So many pretty illustrations from the girls, and so little people using them... Pam has used a lot of Kendappa, but what about Karura and Souma? Or Gigei and Karura's little sister?
The more I think about it, the more I want to do this. But I really should finish my previous icons first.
And I'm tempted to apply for manga!Kurogane at manga100. Not faaaair.
Some pet peeves in general when it comes to icons:
1. When the iconmaker gives a link to the reply page directly. Maybe I'm weird, but it gives me two feelings about that:
1.a the iconmaker is a comment whore and tries to force anyone who browses around to comment
1.b the iconmaker has a layout without perm link, and is either lazy to delete everything after the html, or he/she doesn't know anything about URLs.
I dunno, I happen to like to see other people's comments when I check somebody else's icons out. Because I'm curious, and if I like the same icon 90% of them took, I might not use it on LJ, so yeah. I like to read the comments, even if I don't comment, like or take any myself.
2. When it comes to a 100 challenge, and someone takes a SERIES, yet he/she only uses
2.a the main character(s)
2.b the couple(s) he/she ships
2.c his/her favorite character(s)
2.d popular stuff to get tons of love
I think it'd be a real challenge to use almost all characters, whether you like them or not. Because it's more balanced that way, you know, and perhaps someone will be grateful if you made one icon of that obscure character they like so much. Don't you think it'd be nicer? ^^ Don't you think it's a better contribution for fandom than doing the same character and using the same images over and over again? Be original! Use the character you hate as well, your fingers are not going to fall out! Even though you ship a hawt ghey couple, some icons of the canon couples (especially the ones people take for granted, like parents and married people) would be cool as well. Your computer won't get dirty, I swear.
If you like this character or ship so much, and you have a lot of images of them, take them only as the subject! You'll be saving people's time.
Also, if more than half your character challenge icons are OTP-centric, maybe you should rethink on why you choose the couple and not the pairing itself. I'm not saying not to make them, with some limits, but I saw a challenge about Harry where a lot of them were H/Hr and... ugh. Don't take the character because the couple was taken, please. Just wait for the other person to finish, or something.
I'm saying it because I want to take RG Veda after I'm done with Eriol and Yuuko at iconfiend100. And even though most of the images are Ashura and/or Yasha, I'm not doing 100 of them (not only because I don't like them... I will do some, yeah, because a lot of folks like them.) I want to do icons from everybody! From the rest of the seven stars and Kujaku to really minor characters *cough*Tenoh*cough*. It's a bit frustrating, finding only Ashura icons on LJ. I think the only Kujaku icons I've seen are mine, and that sucks so much (might exist, but haven't seen them yet.) So many pretty illustrations from the girls, and so little people using them... Pam has used a lot of Kendappa, but what about Karura and Souma? Or Gigei and Karura's little sister?
The more I think about it, the more I want to do this. But I really should finish my previous icons first.
And I'm tempted to apply for manga!Kurogane at manga100. Not faaaair.