deird_lj

(Presented in no particular order - just as they occur to me.)

Animated Icons

I am so extremely happy that my browser allows me to freeze images just by hitting the escape key.

Because when I'm looking at a page with animated icons, I can't look at anything else. Nothing at all. (Silly ADHD and its restrictyness.)

So, those of you who carefully use your lovely animated icons in comments to make a lovely animated point of wonderful subtlety? Sorry - but I'm not going to see them.

Default Icons

My first LJ icon was a photo of me. (Because what else would you put in an icon?)
Then came the 2007 writers' strike - and I changed it, in support, to a little yellow round person holding a protest sign.

This was around about the time I first entered fandom. So almost everyone I knew on LJ got to know me as the little yellow round person - while I was busy discovering how fun fannish icons could be, and stocking up on them for the wondrous day when the writers' strike ended, and I could stop having a boring icon and start having pretty ones, and change my default EVERY WEEK!

...yeah. Didn't quite work out that way.
Mainly because my flist were horrified at my impending non-yellow-roundness, and insisted that I create a default on the same theme.

Hence my little yellow round person writing with a quill.

Since then, I have changed my default icon twice: once for my birthday - which also happens to be the Glorious Twenty-Fifth Of May, ala Pratchett - and once... right now. For another supporting-a-protest situation.

(Don't worry. My normal default will return eventually. I will once more be yellow and round.)

So, you people who change defaults regularly - how do you do that? And how long does it take you to get used to your new look?

Moods

I have icons for headdesking, and for being bitchy. I have some for when I'm angry, some for mad squeeing, one for hugs, one for being cool, some for looking scared, some for friendship, some for being busy, and a few for being sneakily snarky in my icons while being perfectly polite in my actual words.

I don't have a *facepalm* or a "Whoa" or anything for looking confused. (Really must find those.)

Of course, this presents a dilemma.
If I'm in a squeeful mood and I'm talking about Giles, do I use my icon of Fred squeeing, or Giles studying? Or what if everyone's discussing Dawn and I use my main Dawn icon, and everyone assumes I'm "demanding an explanation for this bullshit" when I'm just wanting to go "Yay! Dawn!"?

Clearly the answer involves getting more icons...