How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you, and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own journal. Spread it around.Three icons picked by
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Delerium feat Nerina Pallot - TrulyThere is ALWAYS a song, I have such a history with music and with songs that just move and inspire me. A little bit of background, this was the gateway song that led me to one of my most FAVORITE female artists of all time, Nerina Pallot. It was like a slippery slope to such songs like "Sophia" and "Real Late Starter"
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Snow White, if there is a character that is my favorite, disney wise-- it is Snow White. I want to believe that I am a Snow White, but I'm not-- I'm more like Alice or Anna from Frozen. But hey, I can dream-- and I can love this character as someone that I wish I could be like. This art also comes from a "If Disney Princess costumes were historically accurate" which also hits the history!nerd in me. But well, this song, it just very much like Snow White, like that hope even though all the odds are stacked against her, she still believes in her happily ever after, and I think that's damn near admirable. So the song was almost a natural choice for this icon!
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Mark Owen - Morning BelleMark Owen is my favorite vocalist from Take That and his solo album "The Art of Doing Nothing" is an EXCELLENT song-- so really I can't hype that album up enough, the lyrics are super introspective and yet pretty positive, plus his song-- I absolutely love his voice, and strangely enough other voices that are similar to his doesn't do it for me, it's his exact vocal quality.
This is my FAVORITE picture of Sakura from
Card Captor Sakura. Hands down, that is my favorite costume, favorite picture and once upon a time, I had a vision in my mind of an icon set to another song that I sort of associate that picture and that moment with;
OMD - Walking on the Milky Way". But as I was creating the icon, the Morning Belle song stuck a little bit more firmly-- because I guess when I first envisioned an icon with that picture-- 10 years ago, I was a very different person and Sakura meant something a little bit different to me. But as we age, we interpet things a little differently, and the tone that I was going for was a little bit more somber then, including the little shadow at the edge (gasp, that shadow at the edge-- is that on purpose?!~?).
Duran Duran - Silver HaloTHIS IS NOT EVEN MY FAVORITE DURAN DURAN SONG! This isn't even in my top ten, or even my top thirty for that matter-- this is probably my least favorite song on that particular album. However it was chosen because it fit
Kanda from D.greyman. Because this song just happened to come on while I was making this icon like 10 years ago (this is an ooooooold icon everyone, this is one of Nia's freshman efforts). Kanda is my favorite character from the series, which is almost laughable BECAUSE of all the characters of that time that came out that fit that stereotype, I was ambivalent toward every one. Sasuke, yes-- Ishida, yes. Usually guys like that annoy the shit out of me almost as much as the characters like Naruto and Ichigo do-- it's because the writers are so trying to hard to highlight two opposite ends of the spectrum, that they really do get the fire/ice down, with no real nuances to speak of. But Kanda, I loved Kanda-- because he and Allen sort of fell a little bit on the outlying part of the spectrum.
Does Kanda think he is better then everyone else, yup. Is the song accurate? Probably (in my headspace). And I really love what I did with his lips. (that was when I had first discovered the 'sharpening' tool and how it could make certain parts of a picture stand out-- so that is why his lips look so damn good). #nevergonnastopbeingproudofthat
