This is a rumor started by people I've fallen over.

[walkingshadow]

I'm not going to draw, but if you comment here I will make you an icon inspired by one or more of your livejournal interests.

Sent out the bibliography at like four-thirty this morning. The accordion effect of papers citing papers is both fascinating and a little frightening. Already there were signs of redundancy though, a hint that the existing literature is still quite limited. It seems most limited when it comes to the language of blogs (a google search turns up lots of linguistics blogs, but no linguistics articles about blogs). If anyone knows of any good conversations or analyses about blogging language or habits, in any field and from any source, let me know about it?

History in a few minutes, for which I should put on clothes and brush my teeth and wash my face. Still? No paper topic.

Comments

[picksthemusic.livejournal.com]

*raises my hand*

Me please?

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

acoustic guitar + simon & garfunkel

[silentfire.livejournal.com]

that's gorgeous, and you rock. liek, so much omg!

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D

[picksthemusic.livejournal.com]

WOOOO!! *hugs* I love it! ;) Thank you, sweetheart.

*twirls*

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

You are most welcome!

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

mrrrph? I would love an icon, even tho I am new.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

ink + butterfly knives + w. h. auden (LOVE HIM)



(I have been known to foist icons on people unsolicited, so believe me when I say all comers are welcome!)

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

oh my GODS. *flails* That's lovely. And here I am with icon spaces to fill! How convienent. *grin*


...oh honey, feel free to foist icons my direction at any time. I'm a total icon whore. =D

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

One might even call it serendipitous. ;) I'm glad you like!

*makes note of amenability to foisting* Doing this meme was actually a great idea—I'm making icons that aren't the icons I always make.

serendipitous = my favorite word, ever. <3

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

*grin* I seem to remember doing this meme a while back, and never finished it for one reason or another....hrm. *eyes semifree schedule over the next few days, considers creative slump*


It IS nice when you have new and fresh prompts, isn't it?

it's an awfully good word, isn't it?

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

It totally is. I'll have to remember this little exercise for the future.

[birdsflying]

:hearts:

as soon as I get a working image program, I shall make you one.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

geek + web design + rain



*hearts back*

[birdsflying]

Ooooh. thank you!

I just bought more icon space so mwhahahaha.

[silentfire.livejournal.com]

oh, that's an adorable and ingenious idea! i need icons, so do me, please ;)

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

*does you omg*


. . . oh, you meant an ICON:

fantail goldfish + ferlinghetti

[silentfire.livejournal.com]

*lights a fag, blows a smoke ring at you*

was it good for you? as good as my NEW ICON?! baby, it's fantastic, and i <3 it (almost as much as i <3 you!). thanks ever so kindly.

I didn't know you were called Dennis

[malelia-honu.livejournal.com]

poke-poke.....I am putting my faith in this live journal thingy (well, in this really old computer, actually...), and I have figured that if I just write enough at once, the fates have no choice but to allow me to post! Ides of March, Shmides of March!!! Bwaahhahhaaaa!

OMG with the loveliness of the poster!!! (I know I already squeed about it on the phone, but *SQUEEE* i heart it)

I would gladly give up one of my three free icon spaces for a chunk of your fabulousness! pretty please? come on, you know you want to....(and I have such an interesting selection of interests to choose from!)

Ok, I have decided that if I type anymore and lose it I will be very sad indeed, so just remember, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

p.s. am I the only one amused by livejournal's really funny suggestions during spell check? yeah, I thought I would be...

Re: I didn't know you were called Dennis

[malelia-honu.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA!!! It worked!!!

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Of course it worked! The technology knows when it has met its match.

Thank you so, so much for squeeing over the poster. Seriously, it means a lot to me. *beams*

Okay, so I went looking for pictures to icon for you, and I found this news story about this Scrabble convention in England where in honor of Scrabble's 50th Anniversary, they played a Scrabble match on a SOCCER FIELD with HUGE SCRABBLE TILES the size of DINNER TABLES. So.



I have a bunch of Florida icons I could have made for you, but they all came from gettyimages.com and considering the pictures you take, it felt an awful lot like bringing coals to Newcastle (and finding that not only do they have more coal than you, they've got diamonds).

P.S. We're all Britons! and I am your King!

[malelia-honu.livejournal.com]

My Scrabble Queen! You like me, you really like me!

It is absolutely fabulous! I have big plans for the weekend! I will make you an icon (eventually...)

P.S. I just got the 2-disc special edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail! We must watch it the next time we are in the same county. The second disc has the whole movie in Japanese and in LEGO form....hehehe, I'm getting nothing done this weekend!

[leksa.livejournal.com]

will you make me an icon? will you? please? pretty please? or, you know, not if you don't feel like it.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Of course I'll make you an icon. Crazy girl.

cigarettes + michael ondaatje

[leksa.livejournal.com]

you! you are an artist, baby. that is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen (and it's mine, MINE). thank you!

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

*looks at sample of other icons* Wow. WOW.

*raises hand*g*

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

*doesn't get performance anxiety AT ALL*

eyes + cowboy bebop + yoko kanno

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's...just amazing. (And unusual. And slightly creepy, but in a good way.) Damn, woman, you got some skillz!

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

As long as it's creepy in a good way. ;)

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

It is! I keep looking at it and thinking it would make an excellent default, actually...;)

[hetrez.livejournal.com]

I would like one.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

paper crane fetishes + kaleidoscopes

[hetrez.livejournal.com]

This is so beautiful. Thank you.

[go4it.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can't resist any longer. I would love an icon. Maybe it would even inspire me to post.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

That would be excellent!

reading + art + michelangelo buonarroti

[go4it.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is fabulous! Many thanks!

[smartlikejustin.livejournal.com]

Icon? If you're still taking requests. Merci!

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

viggo's crazy zen + peter and fran

[uschickens.livejournal.com]

Dude, how did I miss this before? I would luuuuuurve an icon from you!

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

getting lost + david sedaris

[uschickens.livejournal.com]

!!!!!

I only just now got this comment in my mailbox! I do not know where it has been, oh little lost comment email, but I am so very glad it found its way home. !!! I love all your icons, but I especially love your use of color and interesting text/font choices. Lucky, lucky me that the icon you made for me (!!) features both. It's lovely, and I promptly resolve to use it often, frequently, and maybe even repetitiously.

(Thank you, in other words. :)

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Ack, and I am only now replying to your comment to my comment! *facepalm* But, thank you so much! I worry sometimes that I'm making all my icons the same way and that I'm being BORING, but then I tell myself it's not BORING, it's my STYLE. I haven't discounted the idea that I have a boring style, but that's for angsting about another day. You're really so very welcome, I'm so happy you like it! *self-actualizes*

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn I commented here, but apparently LJ ate the comment.

<3

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

*glares balefully at lj*

cats, tom mcrae

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Oooooooo gorgeous! I am honored :) thank you

[sweet-dichotomy.livejournal.com]

I'll absolutely take one!!

please&thank-you.
alison.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

tree-huggers + bob hicok

[sweet-dichotomy.livejournal.com]

thanks soo much. I love it!