PS

[rowyn]

Oh, and I replaced a couple of icons. I figure I should start replacing my icons periodically, so that as I get older it's not such a shock to my LJ readers. The new ones were from pictures taken a year ago, so not really recent, but at least closer.

Of course, I really should've replaced the seven-year-old Glamour Shots photos first, but I so like that one over-the-shoulder pose .... :D

And I didn't know LJ was handing out another 5 icons to paid users for no additional charge. Woo! Maybe I'll take some new pictures to upload, and cover some additional emotions, like "depressed" and "confused".

Comments

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Heh. Don't replace the "scheming" one. It's just too fun. :)

Though, I don't think I've ever seen you use "sledgehammer" yet.

I wanna be --

[rowyn]

Now you have! :)

I don't use it much -- usually only when I'm joking around with Kagetsume. Or if Level Head makes a really atrocious pun. :D

Re: I wanna be --

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

I think the only way you could improve on this one would be if you could get a picture of yourself firing a giant medieval siege weapon with the word "ACME" written on it.

Come to think of it, you'd look cute with some Wile E. Coyote ears perched on top of your head.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Um, I've seen it a few times. ];-)

But as I don't drink, I have never truly been hammered enough to feel it.

===|==============/ Level Head

[rowyn]

Ah, such an unkind friend I have been, to bludgeon you with my icon of hostility. It is good of you to put up with me, sir.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

It doesn't strike me
as hostility
For you've got quite the swing
of civility
And friendship's not spurned
By paying what's earned
For such dreadful shows of ability.

I really should give this some more thought
(But now I've a "late for the door" thought)
Since you don't look mean
In that icon-scene
Can it really be Mallets-Aforethought?

===|==============/ Level Head

[sandratayler.livejournal.com]

I've never mentioned it, but I really like your selection of icons and the way you use them as additional expression.

(I've thought of emulating it, but I haven't managed to find the right pictures to symbolize myself and I'm not sure I want to stare at my own face all the time.)

[rowyn]

What I really wanted to use was a series of expressive cartoony drawings. (godkin's icons do that, for example.)

But I couldn't decide on an avatar image to use for myself. I threw up a few pictures of me at random, just to have some kind of icon in the interim. When, a year later, I still hadn't decided what to use for an avatar, and people were occassionally commenting on how stern I looked in my existing pictures, I just went through and populated my icon list with ten different headshots. I have tons of pictures of myself, from people taking picture of me at conventions and then sending me copies. So I had more to choose from than most.

But if you didn't want to look at photos of yourself, I bet you could talk your husband into doing some variety of doodles of you to use ... :D

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Ms. Rowyn's undoubtably right
In thinking you haven't a plight
Since you have, in your Howard
Much art, turbo-powered
And he could make icons all night!

===|==============/ Level Head

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Woo, shiny pictures :-)

CYa!
Mako

[rowyn]

I knew I should've powdered my nose!

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

Why admit you're aging? ;)

[rowyn]

Well, this way I can age gradually and no one will notice, right? Right! :D

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Unless you go and announce it like this. ;)

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Ah, something I needn't ever worry about. I have the perfect one-size-fits-all-moods icon, which is still just as relevant as I get older! I'm sure that if I really strained, I could squeeze some sort of artsy deep symbolism out of the imagery of a spinning gear, but I'm lazy.

[rowyn]

It always surprised me that you didn't upload some of your Greywolf pictures, or something of that sort. I expected you to use something a bit more personable than a spinning gear. :)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Such a cutey! ('gryn) I need more pics of myself.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

The Lady Rowyn is cute, too. ];-)

===|==============/ Level Head

[rowyn]

Aw, shucks. :)

[rowyn]

Thank you! And you do! If you move the camera a little to the left in that picture you've got uploaded, I think there's another good-looking fellow in that shot ... };)