I am pretty obsessive with icons.
I paid for an account where I get all the icons-- and if more icons are offered on top of that, damn you better believe I am going to jump on that. It's all about the options with me, the more options the better. Currently I am at 166 icons-- out of 500; it means I have so many more opportunities to create, and icons are pretty easy for my attention span to handle-- I have icons that are nostalgic (anything from my Xenogears/saga days), but I also have icons that are of current obsessions- (Versailles, anyone?), then there are the icons that I WANT to make but haven't gotten to yet (I really want to make an Eizen icon). But there are also icons from other people that I go "GEE I COULD NOT MYSELF MAKE A BETTER ICON!" and I will cling to that icon until the day I die.
Of course, I do credit the makers with the icons. If you are new to DW and you make icons and were on LJ, please go to my icons and see if there is anything there that YOU HAVE MADE, that I inadvertantly didn't credit-- please let me know; I will give you my utmost appreciation!
Also if you like any of the icons from
hiraethe and want to use them-- go ahead and use; I also take icon requests which you can also find at that site. (I clarify, if it is a FFXIV icon involving my character, please do not take-- even though I have no clue why someone would use those icons since it would virtually hold no meaning to them.)
But back to the subject at hand.
I am picky about the lyrics I use for my icons, I am picky about placement of my icons on icon page. (I do not like clashing colours next to each other-- the latest two icons, side by side-- both in shades of blue, both totally in harmony with each other-- zen has been achieved.)
What I am excited about with the whole Tumblr migration, is maybe a surge in icon making! I love looking at icons that other people have put their heart and souls into, and I hope that there will be an influx of creativity, I am definitely (as Yoshi-P would say) looking forward to it! And hey, I seriously need to use more of other people's icons, just to promote that same creativity that I want to foster in myself.
Now for THOUGHTS!
Tales of BeseriaI picked it up after my last record of playing the game (May 5th, 2017-- yes, I can't help it, Stormblood happned in June and well, FFXIV is the game that I will NEVER be done with, so May was pretty much "CATCH UP ALL THE THINGS FOR RHALGR!" And then I created a new character on a server and ended up going from zero to hero. But back to Beseria-- I really liked what I was playing and with Vesperia, they had a 'fight battles in equipment and learn skills', well Beseria has the exact same system so it's constantly 'swap equipment, learn skill, swap back" and it is also challenging me to take on more Dire Foes so I can get ALL THE GRADE
I can actually look at a character and go "I will love that character". I looked at MagiLou and just knew, sure enough-- I loved her; who I did not expect to love though was Eizen. It isn't like Graces where I loved ALL THE CHARACTERS (even Cheria, who gets in the way of my ship, I really really really love so I can't really bash the Cheria/Asbel ship-- and I can see it and appreciate it in its own way even though I AM TEAM RICHBEL)
disclaimer: I am equal opportunity shipping so I do whatever makes sense to me. Be it het, f/f or m/m. In Graces case, I love Richbel, cheria/Sophie and Hubert/Pascal, thereby covering all bases at once. However with Beseria, I have found it hard to ship any of them-- it is like there is some bar/limiter on my mind, SAD BUT TRUE. I want to ship Eizen/Magi but I also know that it WILL NOT END WELL.
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Alright, I think I've rambled on long enough. I hope y'all are having a good evening and if y'want to tell me about how your day went, I'd love to know!