redesign--minor self-righteous whining--vaguely intelligent discussion (ehh. . .)

well, I redesigned. This is not as nice as the old one--few things are ;) but it's only temporary. I needed a change and I wanted to show off my sluggy icons :D These are only 10 out of the 43 I've made though, and still counting ;) If I can manage to upload stuff I'll show you the rest. These are pretty kicking though! They aren't as pretty as the Francie icons (the art, the colors, or the subject) but they're so funny and so much fun! I don't have a lot to use when I'm being serious--the aylee icon, mainly, but as I said, I don't think I'll be using these for long.

The redesign is interesting. Katie really wanted to use the color we found that matched Kiki's peanut butter almost perfectly, but then I switched things around to make it match better and be a little more asthetically pleasing. So you can still see the peanut butter color in the links (I'm saying this because I know Katie wants me to. She's starting reading my journal. Now I've just got to get her to comment. heh-heh. hey, you guys can go to ambushbug and tell her to leave comments in my journal ;) I'm so evil. >D I'm in a good mood cos I like spending time with Katie. She was helping me choose which icons to use (an extremely difficult decision) and what colors to make the redesign. (admittedly, I ended up changing a lot of her suggestions, but she gave me a good starting point ;)
Anyway, the links now make a definite statement. To be specific, they say (in Katie's words) "Skeeaah!! Click me!"

Next time, though, I don't think I'm going to have an icon theme. I want to go back to my random pretty icons. I made some P. Craig Russell icons that I want to use.

uhm. I should probably say something of actual content. Feeling kinda annoyed at the oekaki circle (where I did the oekaki in the previous post--go! look! say something nice! or give me gentle criticism, or some combination of the two!) because I'm a "newbie" (actually, i've been lurking there for a while so I know how things go, they just don't know me.) And, because I know how things go there, I know that people who aren't regulars don't get comments. I mean, my picture was good enough that they couldn't get away with deleting it, but that doesn't mean they have to comment. I don't know. I'm kinda annoyed. (I already said that, didn't I) But I know I kinda brought it on myself, cos I could post more comments, and I'm too lazy. Usually at oekakies I try to be nice and say something on every picture, which is, as you can imagine, exhausting. And I'm not going to do that at an oekaki where a lot of the people have struck me as being less-than-nice. which is probably the reason why I haven't felt like commenting on some of the really good ones, either. ugh. I don't know. The commenting is so uneven.

I know that if I comment on everyone's it doesn't mean as much to get a comment from me--like, if you get a comment from someone who rarely comments, you know you're really good. But I don't care. I'm somewhat lavish with compliments, and I do mean them all (i think I'm actually honest, which is kinda weird) but it probably means less. Whatever.

I use a lot of parenthesis, don't I. Ah well. Maybe this is only noticable to me, but I think I also do a lot of little things like. . . "I think" or "I'm pretty sure". I use the word "moderately" a lot. Cos I'm not sure of myself--the world is so very different outside my head. Sometimes it's just a little different, and sometimes I feel like it's so immensely different--it makes me feel kinda delusional. It's weird. Like, I can't tell if other people see me the way I see myself. And I also want to be precise and honest. So I add in all those extra little phrases. (this does have a point--look! ahead of you! there it is!) I don't mind that I do this (although it may be annoying to the reader?) but the problem is that I get into the habit of being "honest" and they don't want us to do that in essays. They want us to pretend that our opinion is fact. That pisses me off. I have to force myself not to use "I think" (I go into essay writing mode so I don't have to worry about saying "I'm pretty sure". Although I might want to say "I'm moderately certain".). We're not allowed to use "I" in an essay. But it is my opinion. It's not fact. And I don't want to pretend it is.

all right. Enough content. I'm going to eat ice cream. My strangers in paradise calendar tells me too :D

not sure how long this is, tell me if you want a cut tag.

shit!

oh my god. the people at oekaki circle deleted my picture. which is why you can't see it. luckily I screen-capped it before I sent it, so I still have it--but in my lack of an upload site I can't show it to you.

uhm. my god. I don't know why they'd do that.

did one of the mods just read my journal and see my criticisms? I thought I was pretty diplomatic. Especially considering I'd gotten 2 comments on a 5 hour picture. I'm. . . I don't know. And like, pictures are deleted cos they aren't good enough (although fairly often that's debatable) not because you don't like the person. There's been someone who's insulted people in their comment on their picture and not had it deleted (well, once it was, once it wasn't).

I'm. . . baffled! Maybe this is what I get for being too sure of myself. I thought this time I definitely had a picture that they would not be able to delete.