The language of pictures...
Nov. 16th, 2005 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynSo, I've got a lot of userpics. For no good reason, and mostly for my own reference, I thought I'd clarify what I use them for at the moment.
We have:
This is a pretty old pic of me now. It's me at the age of 17, and it's the pic my mother used to take into hospital with her. She always said it was her favourite picture of me. It was taken by my sister, and is mostly used either as a default, or to reflect Sally in a contemplative mood where she tries and views the world through a sepia and shadowed light, without all the bright emotions.
It's my favourite pic of me. In my head I think I still look like this.
This is my Harley Quinn pic. Harley Quinn is my favouritest comic book character ever, and I identify with her quite strongly. Manic, obsessive and with the capacity to be very clever if she didn't channel it all into her a doomed romance of her own creation - she's very like a manic-evil Sally. This is also my favourite bit of Harley Quinn art. It's used to reflect posts or comments in which I am in a manic mood, a good mood, a mood of comic book villainy (non-serious posts get this kind of thing a lot) and occasionally when I am wallowing in a kind of joyeous malevolence. It isn't for serious or reflective posts.
This is Kemintiri. She's my favourite White Wolf signature NPC ever. I think in some ways she is a super-powered Sally character - she's evil, she's cunning, she's liable to be utterly distracted by self imposed angst and insanity. I also love the notion of someone searching for an identity, and I believe in the back story that says that being brutalised, victimised and bounced between two sides mostly creates a villainess. OK, and I bet she needs a good cuddling as well.
Vampire related posts, or Sally being comic-book/rpg based versions of evil have this icon added. I don't use it that often, to be honest, but I'm far too fond of it to get rid of it entirely.
This is a pic of me lying in the grass, taken byksirafai. It represents a certain kind of mood in my head - a mellow, happy, laid back kind of mood. Those afternoons when the world seems too nice to rush through. It's also the only nice pic I've got of my fox tattoo, which I love very much.
It's used for comments or posts when I'm in either a good or a lazy mood, and normally both.
This is a screen shot from 'The Last Unicorn'. I evilly stole it from an LJ icons community, forgot where I got it, and have never credited. I shall go to hell one day for this, although I feel only marginally guilty due to the fairly blatant copyright violation on the part of the person who made it.
I love the Last Unicorn. I don't know why - it might be to do with my love of unicorns, my fondness for Molly Grue, or just that it's one of the earliest films I remember seeing. This icon I also love - I love the imagery of looking in the mirror and not being quite sure what you see.
I use this for posts or comments when I have a bit of that feeling - a feeling as if I am Alice looking through the looking glass, or looking out on a world that seems slightly skewed on what I expect it to be. It is an icon for pondering, meandering, or possibly just hallucinating.
This is Chibi Death. The pic was stolen from somewhere. I know not where. I do know that I have this pic of my favourite T shirt which was a present frommelsner. There is no real reason for this icon. It is solely there coz it's the pic on my favourite t shirt.
Erm. It's very random when I use this. There is no reason for it.
The Disney Cheshire Cat! I love this cat! I love this cat! I love this cat!
That's enough of an explanation, right?
It's another 'not serious, bouncy and surreal mood' icon. I don't think I ever say anything I really mean while using this icon.
This is my Robin Hood icon. Disney Robin Hood is another of my childhood memories which I love very devotedly. I also kinda like foxes.
There's no real depth to this picture. I'm fond of it, I think it's cute, it brings back good memories and it also denotes all vague and soppy and jez related thoughts.
Erm. I don't use this icon very often either. I may be not good with expressing my emotions.
This is a close up pic of me - it's a fairly recent pic as well, and I rather like the curve of my hair, and the eyes in it. This is another contemplative icon - for those days when I'm peering into my brain.
This is one of my favourites of the photos that came out of themortalcity photoshoot for the Women of the Camarilla calender, and it's also my Dad's favourite. It's me on a crisp and windy day sitting down by the embankment wearing my top hat which I love very much. It's me smiling and having a good day, and I am rather fond of it.
It's an icon that I use as a default 'it's really me' pic. I'm quite fond of LJ icons which are really me, and this is generally a fairly emotionally neutral for me. It's a good pic, it's really me, and it's a pretty good mood. That's about it.
This is Otaku Kamoko. She's a Unicorn from L5R.
As some people may be aware, I like Unicorns. A lot.
There are the deep reasons (I identify with the outsiders, with the barbarians who mean to do the right thing but are just a bit too crude), but behind all that I think it's just that I like the notion of 'girl on horse'. I also played a Unicorn in an L5R game who I loved to bits.
This is the icon I use when I'm in the mood for setting off on adventures, and going wandering, a la Unicorn. It's a hopeful icon, and one which looks towards new horizons.
This is my Play Yourself icon, with the artwork swiped from somewhere.
As some may be aware, jez occasionally runs (and has run) a Play-Yourself rpg. In this game a group of us play ourselves, dragged from our normal lives and flung into a series of parallell realities, developing strange powers along the way. Ryan is the only one of us who has gotten through it so far without dying. We've been pretty dumb.
This is the icon I found for Play-Yourself-Sally, who is quite different to real Sally. She's a lot colder, she's lost a lot of humanity, and is an elemental witch and shapeshifter these days. Last seen either (depending on whether you believe Ryan summoned Sally back from the dead, or just an evil doppelganger) dying in the Fading Suns world, or saying in a calm and collected voice that she was going to 'turn America into the new Atlantis. I want to teach whoever tried to blow me up that they do. Not. Fuck. With. Me".
This picture seemed to sum her up - hovering in the air, arms outstretched, reaching out to the winds and the world that only she can see. And she had dark hair and looks kinda like me. If you half close your eyes and sort of squint. Again, I don't use this very often these days. Since we all died, an' all.
This is my Minion icon. It was discovered byksirafai, and given to me. Neither of us offered credit to the maker. That's coz we're evil.
It shows Lock, Shock and Barrell from the Nightmare Before Christmas who are my favourite characters from my favourite film. It's all because I love minions. I played one for many many years as Bridget and grew to identify strongly with those stalward figures in the background, saying in pitiful tones "master, can we just shoot him? It'll be far quicker". I also felt that Lock, Shock and Barrell illustrated that one lesson that people never seemed to learn with Bridget.
Never borrow someone else's minions.
Sadly, I no longer play a minion, but the day I do, or the day that the Bridget is strong in me, I will use this icon.
I don't think I've used it at all, as yet.
This was swiped fromanimal_icons. Somewhere. I'm not sure where.
It's here coz I like owls. And I have sulky days. And it says 'sulk' on it.
Is used when my mood is pretty much what it says on the tin.
This came from a picture found by typing 'insanity' into a google image search. It was used originally as an icon for my Malk Antis background when I started playing Zeitgeist. These days it is used for Malk Anti related posts, sometimes other vampire posts, and posts when my fragile grasp on sanity feels more brittle than usual.
It isn't the friendliest of icons for me.
This is brand new and was made by a person calledgennia, who posts on horse_icons and is my first credited icon.
It's there because I like horses, and I wanted an actively 'happy' icon - an icon for the days when I feel great and just want to run for miles, just let the energy in me loose. I have not used it as yet.
This is Chibi Me. It came from that chibi-avatar maker which was going around, and while the hair is a little red, I do dye that colour, and the squinty eyed expression behind glasses and over a tattered jumper and jeans is very me.
Oddly, I don't quite know what to use it for. I also wish I had some kind of frame for this pic - or something just to make it a slightly better icon instead of a random screen saved bit of tat. I don't have photoshop at the moment, so I can't fiddle too much. If anyone wants to do something clever or artistic with this pic I will be happy.
This is my Alpha Wolf pic. It's a bit random, and is used for Zeitgeist Garou posts, and those days when I feel like bouncing and pouncing and proving that I am RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT.
Also seldom used.
This is another gift fromksirafai. It's cute. I like it. It's apparently a bird from the Daredevil comic. I mostly just like it coz it's a cute girl with feathers and I have a bit of a feather fixation.
Another pic I really like, but doesn't get used that often.
This is a quote from the 10th Kingdom which I really like.
I use it instead of using an icon which says "fucking hell!" It's a bit of a ranty icon, but not a dark and brooding ranty power. It's also one I keep coz I REALLY like the 10th Kingdom. It's a nice insight into how my inner child would like the world to be.
This is the first pic I got of my kittens!
It's used exclusively for posts relating to my kittens. Did I mention I get them on Sunday?
Another nice pic of me from mymortalcity photoshoot. I don't use this that often - it doesn't really say anything - but it's a fairly pretty pic of me.
I like this pic. It's a random pic, with the right colouring for me, and it's a kind of floaty and romantic pic.
It was originally my Lara-IC-pic, when I was doing a lot of Grand Epic Romance with that PC, and I liked it, so I kept it. Used rarely, but with good memories attached.
This is my BAD MOOD icon. It's me snarling, glaring, and wanting to rend and tear.
One day I will rip someone's jugular out, y'know.
I don't quite know where this came from. I _think_ it might be someone's original artwork, in which case I feel mildly guilty. But not guilty enough to stop using it. I'm just fond of this pic - it's me in a happy, and fairly laid back world, peering out at other people with a level of curiosity, but no desire to really judge or poke or prod.
No idea where this came from.
It's me being cartoon book/comic book/rpg evil or snarky or unnecessary smart mouthed.
ksirafai once said that my totem animal wasn't a raven, or a fox, or anything cool. If I had a daemon, it would be a hedgehog. Absent minded and bimbly, and with a tendancy to get prickly if frightened.
This icon is in honour of that comment.
I use it for those days when I'm just bimbling.
Another ofksirafai's pics. I'm quite fond of it - it's also got the closest to my current hair colour out there.
On a random note - originally this pic came into being when I photoshopped a pic of me to look like Lara - my kinfolk. She was a redhead, and I fiddled with the eyes to make them golden and cleared up the skin a bit. Of course, none of this really shows now, so I keep it around as a good generic 'Sally' pic.
Probably my current favourite pic of me as I look now. I hope I look a bit like this on a good day.
This is a cropped down pic from the Book Of Bunny Suicides.
Used for those days when the world seems to be pressing in on me and I sense my own impending doom.
My fox pic!
No idea where this came from now. It's years and years and years since I got this. I am very fond of it tho. I like foxes, a lot, and I like the image here - the small creature curled up into itself.
I use this icon for those days when I'm sleepy, feeling vulnerable, or just feeling bloody cold.
This is the last of my Cloud/corax icons. I think it was originally a gift fromriksowden. I don't use it so often anymore, but I don't want to get rid of it and I'm very fond of the memories. There are days when I also still feel coraxy and that's when I need this post.
I also tend to use this for my Zeitgeist Garou posts as well. This might also be me finding it easier to identify with the corax than the garou when I walk into shifter world.
We have:
This is a pretty old pic of me now. It's me at the age of 17, and it's the pic my mother used to take into hospital with her. She always said it was her favourite picture of me. It was taken by my sister, and is mostly used either as a default, or to reflect Sally in a contemplative mood where she tries and views the world through a sepia and shadowed light, without all the bright emotions.
It's my favourite pic of me. In my head I think I still look like this.
This is my Harley Quinn pic. Harley Quinn is my favouritest comic book character ever, and I identify with her quite strongly. Manic, obsessive and with the capacity to be very clever if she didn't channel it all into her a doomed romance of her own creation - she's very like a manic-evil Sally. This is also my favourite bit of Harley Quinn art. It's used to reflect posts or comments in which I am in a manic mood, a good mood, a mood of comic book villainy (non-serious posts get this kind of thing a lot) and occasionally when I am wallowing in a kind of joyeous malevolence. It isn't for serious or reflective posts.
This is Kemintiri. She's my favourite White Wolf signature NPC ever. I think in some ways she is a super-powered Sally character - she's evil, she's cunning, she's liable to be utterly distracted by self imposed angst and insanity. I also love the notion of someone searching for an identity, and I believe in the back story that says that being brutalised, victimised and bounced between two sides mostly creates a villainess. OK, and I bet she needs a good cuddling as well.
Vampire related posts, or Sally being comic-book/rpg based versions of evil have this icon added. I don't use it that often, to be honest, but I'm far too fond of it to get rid of it entirely.
This is a pic of me lying in the grass, taken by
ksirafai. It represents a certain kind of mood in my head - a mellow, happy, laid back kind of mood. Those afternoons when the world seems too nice to rush through. It's also the only nice pic I've got of my fox tattoo, which I love very much.It's used for comments or posts when I'm in either a good or a lazy mood, and normally both.
This is a screen shot from 'The Last Unicorn'. I evilly stole it from an LJ icons community, forgot where I got it, and have never credited. I shall go to hell one day for this, although I feel only marginally guilty due to the fairly blatant copyright violation on the part of the person who made it.
I love the Last Unicorn. I don't know why - it might be to do with my love of unicorns, my fondness for Molly Grue, or just that it's one of the earliest films I remember seeing. This icon I also love - I love the imagery of looking in the mirror and not being quite sure what you see.
I use this for posts or comments when I have a bit of that feeling - a feeling as if I am Alice looking through the looking glass, or looking out on a world that seems slightly skewed on what I expect it to be. It is an icon for pondering, meandering, or possibly just hallucinating.
This is Chibi Death. The pic was stolen from somewhere. I know not where. I do know that I have this pic of my favourite T shirt which was a present from
melsner. There is no real reason for this icon. It is solely there coz it's the pic on my favourite t shirt.Erm. It's very random when I use this. There is no reason for it.
The Disney Cheshire Cat! I love this cat! I love this cat! I love this cat!
That's enough of an explanation, right?
It's another 'not serious, bouncy and surreal mood' icon. I don't think I ever say anything I really mean while using this icon.
This is my Robin Hood icon. Disney Robin Hood is another of my childhood memories which I love very devotedly. I also kinda like foxes.
There's no real depth to this picture. I'm fond of it, I think it's cute, it brings back good memories and it also denotes all vague and soppy and jez related thoughts.
Erm. I don't use this icon very often either. I may be not good with expressing my emotions.
This is a close up pic of me - it's a fairly recent pic as well, and I rather like the curve of my hair, and the eyes in it. This is another contemplative icon - for those days when I'm peering into my brain.
This is one of my favourites of the photos that came out of the
mortalcity photoshoot for the Women of the Camarilla calender, and it's also my Dad's favourite. It's me on a crisp and windy day sitting down by the embankment wearing my top hat which I love very much. It's me smiling and having a good day, and I am rather fond of it.It's an icon that I use as a default 'it's really me' pic. I'm quite fond of LJ icons which are really me, and this is generally a fairly emotionally neutral for me. It's a good pic, it's really me, and it's a pretty good mood. That's about it.
This is Otaku Kamoko. She's a Unicorn from L5R.
As some people may be aware, I like Unicorns. A lot.
There are the deep reasons (I identify with the outsiders, with the barbarians who mean to do the right thing but are just a bit too crude), but behind all that I think it's just that I like the notion of 'girl on horse'. I also played a Unicorn in an L5R game who I loved to bits.
This is the icon I use when I'm in the mood for setting off on adventures, and going wandering, a la Unicorn. It's a hopeful icon, and one which looks towards new horizons.
This is my Play Yourself icon, with the artwork swiped from somewhere.
As some may be aware, jez occasionally runs (and has run) a Play-Yourself rpg. In this game a group of us play ourselves, dragged from our normal lives and flung into a series of parallell realities, developing strange powers along the way. Ryan is the only one of us who has gotten through it so far without dying. We've been pretty dumb.
This is the icon I found for Play-Yourself-Sally, who is quite different to real Sally. She's a lot colder, she's lost a lot of humanity, and is an elemental witch and shapeshifter these days. Last seen either (depending on whether you believe Ryan summoned Sally back from the dead, or just an evil doppelganger) dying in the Fading Suns world, or saying in a calm and collected voice that she was going to 'turn America into the new Atlantis. I want to teach whoever tried to blow me up that they do. Not. Fuck. With. Me".
This picture seemed to sum her up - hovering in the air, arms outstretched, reaching out to the winds and the world that only she can see. And she had dark hair and looks kinda like me. If you half close your eyes and sort of squint. Again, I don't use this very often these days. Since we all died, an' all.
This is my Minion icon. It was discovered by
ksirafai, and given to me. Neither of us offered credit to the maker. That's coz we're evil. It shows Lock, Shock and Barrell from the Nightmare Before Christmas who are my favourite characters from my favourite film. It's all because I love minions. I played one for many many years as Bridget and grew to identify strongly with those stalward figures in the background, saying in pitiful tones "master, can we just shoot him? It'll be far quicker". I also felt that Lock, Shock and Barrell illustrated that one lesson that people never seemed to learn with Bridget.
Never borrow someone else's minions.
Sadly, I no longer play a minion, but the day I do, or the day that the Bridget is strong in me, I will use this icon.
I don't think I've used it at all, as yet.
This was swiped from
animal_icons. Somewhere. I'm not sure where.It's here coz I like owls. And I have sulky days. And it says 'sulk' on it.
Is used when my mood is pretty much what it says on the tin.
This came from a picture found by typing 'insanity' into a google image search. It was used originally as an icon for my Malk Antis background when I started playing Zeitgeist. These days it is used for Malk Anti related posts, sometimes other vampire posts, and posts when my fragile grasp on sanity feels more brittle than usual.
It isn't the friendliest of icons for me.
This is brand new and was made by a person called
gennia, who posts on horse_icons and is my first credited icon.It's there because I like horses, and I wanted an actively 'happy' icon - an icon for the days when I feel great and just want to run for miles, just let the energy in me loose. I have not used it as yet.
This is Chibi Me. It came from that chibi-avatar maker which was going around, and while the hair is a little red, I do dye that colour, and the squinty eyed expression behind glasses and over a tattered jumper and jeans is very me.
Oddly, I don't quite know what to use it for. I also wish I had some kind of frame for this pic - or something just to make it a slightly better icon instead of a random screen saved bit of tat. I don't have photoshop at the moment, so I can't fiddle too much. If anyone wants to do something clever or artistic with this pic I will be happy.
This is my Alpha Wolf pic. It's a bit random, and is used for Zeitgeist Garou posts, and those days when I feel like bouncing and pouncing and proving that I am RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT.
Also seldom used.
This is another gift from
ksirafai. It's cute. I like it. It's apparently a bird from the Daredevil comic. I mostly just like it coz it's a cute girl with feathers and I have a bit of a feather fixation.Another pic I really like, but doesn't get used that often.
This is a quote from the 10th Kingdom which I really like.
I use it instead of using an icon which says "fucking hell!" It's a bit of a ranty icon, but not a dark and brooding ranty power. It's also one I keep coz I REALLY like the 10th Kingdom. It's a nice insight into how my inner child would like the world to be.
This is the first pic I got of my kittens!
It's used exclusively for posts relating to my kittens. Did I mention I get them on Sunday?
Another nice pic of me from my
mortalcity photoshoot. I don't use this that often - it doesn't really say anything - but it's a fairly pretty pic of me.I like this pic. It's a random pic, with the right colouring for me, and it's a kind of floaty and romantic pic.
It was originally my Lara-IC-pic, when I was doing a lot of Grand Epic Romance with that PC, and I liked it, so I kept it. Used rarely, but with good memories attached.
This is my BAD MOOD icon. It's me snarling, glaring, and wanting to rend and tear.
One day I will rip someone's jugular out, y'know.
I don't quite know where this came from. I _think_ it might be someone's original artwork, in which case I feel mildly guilty. But not guilty enough to stop using it. I'm just fond of this pic - it's me in a happy, and fairly laid back world, peering out at other people with a level of curiosity, but no desire to really judge or poke or prod.
No idea where this came from.
It's me being cartoon book/comic book/rpg evil or snarky or unnecessary smart mouthed.
ksirafai once said that my totem animal wasn't a raven, or a fox, or anything cool. If I had a daemon, it would be a hedgehog. Absent minded and bimbly, and with a tendancy to get prickly if frightened.This icon is in honour of that comment.
I use it for those days when I'm just bimbling.
Another of
ksirafai's pics. I'm quite fond of it - it's also got the closest to my current hair colour out there. On a random note - originally this pic came into being when I photoshopped a pic of me to look like Lara - my kinfolk. She was a redhead, and I fiddled with the eyes to make them golden and cleared up the skin a bit. Of course, none of this really shows now, so I keep it around as a good generic 'Sally' pic.
Probably my current favourite pic of me as I look now. I hope I look a bit like this on a good day.
This is a cropped down pic from the Book Of Bunny Suicides.
Used for those days when the world seems to be pressing in on me and I sense my own impending doom.
My fox pic!
No idea where this came from now. It's years and years and years since I got this. I am very fond of it tho. I like foxes, a lot, and I like the image here - the small creature curled up into itself.
I use this icon for those days when I'm sleepy, feeling vulnerable, or just feeling bloody cold.
This is the last of my Cloud/corax icons. I think it was originally a gift from
riksowden. I don't use it so often anymore, but I don't want to get rid of it and I'm very fond of the memories. There are days when I also still feel coraxy and that's when I need this post. I also tend to use this for my Zeitgeist Garou posts as well. This might also be me finding it easier to identify with the corax than the garou when I walk into shifter world.