fileg&#39;s flight

I made the Crashlanding for a challenge to use an album cover. I am just getting really comfortable with it - it has *so* many things that work for me, layers and layers - what held me back is that I don't really get Hendrix. I'm getting pat that now. But surely you don't want me to write crash and burn for Ardaverse!

Josh Holloway plays Sawyer on Lost. His character slots right into my mythos - everybody thinks he's a bad boy because he talks the talk. But if you watch what he actually does? For example, he is a pragmatist and he has hoarded lots of material goods. He has a reputation for never giving them up unless he gets paid somehow. But the truth is, he has *always* given up what was needed if he is asked instead of told or strongarmed.... I have my eye on his character.

The psycic fig was my first hamster, Ginger. She has an entire website here which will tell you more than you ever wanted to know - probably about both of us. I photoshopped her into the fez and 8ball, one of my first projects. She was a pocket pet, and would happily spend her days with me. And

jommy used her as the basis for hamster Faramir, and drew this:

Elfenlied is a new anime passion - all the opening stills include the central character Nue, a horned girl with long red hair -and they are painted in the style of various paintings by Klimt.

I am currently ripping the icon site apart on my desk - but yes, I am making autumn, winter and Boromir/Bean icons currently.....

I am still startled when I see this black and white of David everywhere and it's not me!

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That's a hamster? So it is! Truly, I thought it was a drawing of a tiny fox. So much for my eye for natural history.

I did not make the connection with Hendrix. Still don't, really. To me it's a fabulous bird icon and therefore reminds me of you. So there.

I know what you mean about the B&W David. There are icons around that I'd swear I'd cut.

(psst! did the goodies make it past the mailman?)

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She does have the look of a tiny fox, doesn't she? It's that deceptive fur pattern on her nose, I think.

Crash Landing is the cover of a Hendrix album, text and all (I lifted off the text, moved it and carefully drew back what I was missing - fortunately only a teeny tiny piece) I could not resist it, though - you are right, it speaks ot me one a million levels.

It doesn't surprise me that David fans are drawn to that photo - god knows, I went right there when I first came out here. But now that it is so readily available and turning up so many places, I am torn between the desire to retire it (it no longer says "fileg" to me when I see it, so I hardly ever use it now) and the attachment I feel for it as one of my "first day" icons.

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1. My fandom understands strength
2. cream nose!
3. psychic fig?

surprised that you don't have: boromir in a boat

And you'll know why I love this icon. *hugs*

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I've been thinking of remaking that "strength" icon now that I feel my skills are a stronger - I can't imagine not needing it.

The physhic fig is my first hamster, ginger. For two ounce of animal, she was a force of nature and had one of those personalitis that cannot be overlooked. People used to drive over just to visit *her* She has her own website here

Actually, one of my very first icons was done for Breathe and had Boromir in the boat, but I found I wasn't using it because its animated. I may need to rethink it now that we have more room

Ah that Dave face! he just amazes me - that face is a complete story, no need for anything.

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*drools inelegantly* I'm such a sucker for Dave.

Thanks for explaining Ginger. It just didn't fit, somehow.

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1. I can't look.
2. tonks.
2a. THe one I hope you NEVER need to use (but know you will) is the Minipax one...
3. What's up with that crossing the ice icon? It's top and bottom don't read clearly to me.

A little surprised by the Fear and Loathing icon, but terribly pleased by it. :)
I expected the sacrifice icon to be labelled: "Boromir! Are you alright ?!?"

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I read this at work and when I got to the last 4 words I burst out into very office-inappropriate laughter. My coworkers were quite amused.

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and best of all, if you did explain it, they would probably not understand any better....

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I am much happier now that my "can't look" icon has evolved into a sort of stunned monkey meaning. I made it originally when we were driving back and forth to Long Island, and when it showed up, it meant I was incapacated with panic.

I love that Tonks. I keep forgetting I have it loaded.

Unfortunately, I made the minipax because I did need it - I try to keep politics out of my journal since this is where I escape, but propaganda has been my dragon since Vietnam.

What is the ice icon doing? it does have a grungy edge (I did it with a spatter brush on a work path) It is from the ice hotel, but crossing the ice had numerous meanings to me.

I made the Fear and Loathing for one of my challenges on the weekend he passed away, but it has become terribly handy. I use it for all the times I feel like I have taken the brown acid - and I like that it indicated that feeling without hinting at me having taken drugs (because on the internet, nobody is sure when you're kidding...)

I really wanted to lable that Are You ok, but it's too serious a moment now. I still have plans to do a Bakshi icon though. And strangely enough, while I was typing this, my desktop changed to "Whee! I'm an animator!"

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Me too.

It's the Weird Sisters logo that puts it over the top.

ANd we're all drowning in the propaganda now.
Although I admit that Shadowcaptain's BIngo game cheered me a bit today. :)

I love the ice hotel, but since they build it differently every year, I didn't recognize it.

I feel your brown acid reflux syndrome...

I tell the "Whee..." story pretty often too. People really love it.

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There were so many that I haven't room to be surprised by what you don't have. 'Thistle' maybe, for #1, and Pooh has been Assimilated for #2. I'll have to pass on #3, or we'd be here all day. As long as icons are pretty, I never question the reasons for their existence.

My icon? I have loved the mystery of this picture for as long as I can remember. There's something unearthly about the colours and shadows.

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my life does tend to express itself as one hugh in-joke. I imagine many of my icons leave people wondering what planet I wandered in from.

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Isn't that the purpose of icons? As in-jokes? My icons all mean something to me, but I don't expect anyone else to understand their meanings. That's half the fun. ;)

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1. The "get my gun"/Henrietta icon always makes me think of you. It's an awesome icon and I keep wondering where that figure is from. I just love the mixture of sweetness and strength. A kick-ass icon. And that's the feeling I get of you: that you are a very sweet, but also a very strong person.

2. I'd like to see the moon that Robin painted for you more often. I have visited her website, because you linked to it, and the website is amazing. As is the icon. I'd love to see the whole picture.

3. What's the psychic fig called ginger?

My icon: it's an old Irish blessing for travelling. There's a song to go with it that I can actually sing. I think it's one of the prettier icons I made and I like using it for friends who are far away from me.

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Henrietta is one of the young protagonists in an amine called gunslinger girls It's about secret government organization that takes young girls, rescuing them from near-death incidents, refits them with artificial body parts and then pairs them with an older agent to function as his assassin. I know, it sounds terribly dark, and it is, but much of the show is about the relationships, and also it contrasts the perfect little killing machines with the pain of little girls still going through all the things little girls go through. The writing is poignant and scary - Chris nearly fell off the couch when Henrietta's handler is explaining that he chose her because "he wanted to do something nice for her." scary scary stuff, and very compelling.

I picked up the phrase "get my gun" from

leemoyer - no wasted anger, just that calm ok, you asked for it.

I tried to get a shot of The Moon where it hangs in my living room, but my camera batteries are dead. I'll try again tomorrow. The painting is very small - it's a 5x7 and the icon does show virtually the entire thing. Its one of my favorite pieces of art that I own, and I own some great ones!

Ginger was my first dwarf hamster, and since I have written so much about her in these answers, I will point you to those, and to her website

I can't remember how she came to get the nickname The Fig, but she was generally the same hapes and had a stripe down her back

your icon totally rocks!! I love the choices you made for the words.

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I hope Jim remembers how she got the name fig - I remember it was a funny story (don't remember the story, just that it was funny!)

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But most of them are sooo you! And they're original to you - hard to chose, but...
Moonheart - makes so many connections
Solstice - because I think of your still, calm fire within.
Bellyheart - is you.
I can't look - also you!
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I've never seen Dave's Hand before - and I like 'I go Like the Raven' very much.
Unknown: The animes mean very little to me, as does 'Marton', who he?
Most nonplussed would be - 'cromartie mini mechazawa'

Of mine: you've made several of them, including two wonderful Viggo's as Lancelot that I like to use, but this one combines your talents in the bases and my perchant for shiny gifs - especialy when I can suggest to other people what I want doing! ^_~

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I am quite amused to find out how befuddled my little squares leave people.

I used to use Dave's hand all the time - I have obviously not been making enough geeky posts, because that's when I generally think of it.

It marks the very second when I fell in love with our Mr Whenham. I loved The Boys, but you can never tell from one movie what someone is capable of. When I saw him in The Bank, I realized he was a chameleon. The character of Jim in the Bank hits all my buttons. When he despairs of being able to explain chaos theory over dinner, and then can't manage to work the fouintain pen -- ohhh, I am teetering on the edge. And when he pulls the nib out of the pen, and writes on the linen tablecloth, ink all over those amazing fingers.......

yeah. right there. it's over.

(oh, and then he got to play some guy named Faramir......)

this ion always makes me think of you, and reading your drabbles over at the tolkien100. And tinkerbell, that does it, too---

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I so distracted myself talking about Dave that I never got to Marton - That's Marton Csokas, or Celeborn if you prefer. I try to keep a slot fot the LOTR boys that aren't in my regular rotation, and I loved this photo of marton as a photo.

mini mechazowa - ah, and just when you thought the anime was confusing, here comes injoke anime.

Cromartie High is an anime about boys in the school for the worst delinqunet boys. Except, that's so not what it's like. They are likely to spend the entire day working out an elaborate joke that hinges on the fact that the same sound in japanese can be two different words if you use a different kanji symbol (like tissue paper or angel of death, one from the anime Hellsing) and then carefully explaining it to people.

They have among their classmates a gorilla, a guy who looks exactly like Freddie Mercury (who never speaks) and a robot named Mechazowa. Only, noone ever asks him about being a robot, because they don't want to hurt his feelings - they describe him as "having a very broad face." This is Mechazowa's little brother. (in one episode, minimechazowa is briken and they have him repaired in the tv repair shop. But to keep mechazowa from worrying about him, the paint a face on the tea cannister and keep it at the other end of the table.)

and much of the art is in jokes revolving around album covers - like (my favorite) this Queen cover

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This isn't accurate because the computer won't load about half the icons.

I think of the first one, the bird, as being you. I really like the Boromir "Bite my shiny metal ass" one. I don't get a lot of them.

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I think of of that little sparrow as me, too.

I'm finding that many of my icons are a mystery to most people. I tend to make things aimed at the people I post to, so lots of them are in-jokes, or old family sayings.

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1. little brown bird, the house of my fathers, psychic fig
2. bamboo fileg
3. cephelaPod

I'd like to see "Jo's Scribbles"

I'd never be surprised at anything you have. Eclectic doesn't begin to describe!

I'm using my bear icon, which I don't particulary love but which is the only bear icon I have, because it is that time of year when I begin to feel especially bearish.

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Here's Susan Boulet's bear-woman for you---

and here's the bear

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I am especially tickled that the icons most people are finding unfathomable are the ones that remind you of me.

The bamboo fileg is reasonably new - I thought it said someting about my fascination with oriental things

Jim made me the cephelaPod as a joke on the ipod ads. it not only gets to feature a cephelapod, but octopus tentalces are a big thing in so much of the art I've been taken with lately. I love that the name means head-foot, because I do most of my travelling in my head. And of course - cephelapods travel by -- ink!

also, Jim calles me his cuttlefish (cuddlefish)

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I'm glad you got a fine laugh out of an old story.
You should have been in the theatre all those years back... The Bakshi version was on the big screen and a friend timed that remark PERFECTLY. The theater just shook from laughter. It was so fine.

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My friend Rich and I waited for 3 hours to see it on opening night in Manhattan. We were SO upset. My memory of that night is so negative that my favorite memory of the Bakshi version is YOUR memory!

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Cleaning out old sad memories is hard work.
Glad to be of help. :)

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1.)

, definitely. You're one of the few people who I can recognize instantly by icon. Usually I'm familiar with them, but you've always had the little brown birdlet, and I love it.

2.) you have so many wonderful icons that I think you should use them all more often. But this one, I think I just found for the first time, and it's so pretty...

basically, anything that's not Lord of the Rings, or directly related, or cephelaPod...but I would desperately like to know more about North and who...North is?

I am surprised that you don't use more of your own icons, because they're terrific.

My icon: I am using it because secretly, it is my favorite icon. This is a secret because I made it before I had any idea what I was doing, and it's fairly artless. But then, it's been around as long as my journal has, and I mysteriously love it to pieces especially if you don't try to see Aragorn's face anywhere but the middle diamond.

Look how much space I've taken D:

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