I was thinking the other day about how I had so many icons, and yet I still seem to use the same set when I make posts. I use more when I comment, but I'm still definitely not using all 165 or so. And I love my icons! I've added every single one for a reason! Most of them were for Pros, of course, but I've got non-Pros ones too - in fact my first ever icon wasn't a Pros one (more about that below *g*)
So - I'm going to kill two birds with one stone (that must be a
really old saying, I definitely don't really want to do that...!), and start a new posting project - a post for every icon I've got on lj! I'll use the icon, add it to my post, and write a bit about it and where it came from. *g* That way I use my icons, and I post to lj too - for 165 or so days, in fact!
(If anyone would care to join me, it might be kind of fun to see posts about other people's icons too... *g*)
I'm going to post the icons in the order they're listed as my user pics - in other words, the oldest ones first.
This was one of my first livejournal icons! It was the first one I made properly, anyway, and it was because all those years ago (September 2005!) when I first created an lj, I'd just got back to Alaska ready to get on with my PhD, and I thought that if an icon had my name on it, then perhaps it should also have the gorgeous northern lights on. I
miss the aurora borealis! It was an actual
good thing about having an outhouse for a loo - going out to use it at night meant that you were under the night sky and if you looked up, you just might see the northern lights playing in the sky...
After re-discovering my lads when I was living in Somerset (a bit further south than I am now), I spent all my first years with them in Alaska. Just me, a cabin in the snow, isotopes classes, and a thousand thousand pages of Pros fic to read... So lush! I miss
those days too - *vbg*
Oh - and this kind of tells the story of my lj user name too. I'd tried all kinds of names, but the ones I wanted had all been taken, so I resorted to flipping through the books I had on a shelf for inspiration. Anyway, one of them was poetry, and I came across some Emily Dickinson:
There is a certain slant of light...And I thought
yes! The "slant" is like the slash in B/D, and I'm looking at our lads in that certain kind of light because I'm writing stories about them,
and it's like the slanted auroral lights, because there I was in Alaska - perfect! Only, of course, "slantedlight" was already taken (and really annoyingly that person stopped posting to it in December 2005, and it's been just sitting there ever since.
Why won't you purge it, lj?!!! Oh well.) So I figured that I was writing "by" a slant of light, and that also that would refer to my stories being
by Slantedlight, so I went with that. Byslantedlight. *g*
So that's me, and the story of my first lj icon... *g*
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enednoviel. *happy sigh*
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