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[sara_tanaquil]

Five requested by gnine!

Oh, man, I swear there was some sort of backstory to this, but now I can't track it down. I looked through my entire series of 2005 journal entries (because I know I picked it up sometime during that year), but to no avail. I thought the lettering on it had been done by spacealien_vamp, like so many of my icons, but since I didn't credit her on my icon page, maybe I'm misremembering? Anyway, I adore this icon, and it so often sums up all my feelings about Japanese. No cookie for you, Japanese! For anyone who doesn't know, the character means "bad."

Kimi ni Todoke! (That's Kazehaya being adorable, as Kazehaya always is.) Oh, you must watch the anime and/or read the manga if you don't know about this lovely shoujo series. The anime is complete; the manga is still running, though I think it's nearing an end - I just picked up vol. 20 in Japan. My favorite icon when encouragement is needed (either for someone else or for myself).

Ahaha, the finale to season 2 of Chuck! I actually can't remember all the details of the climax (way overdue for a re-watch), but it's a wedding (Chuck's sister) that goes hideously, horribly wrong when Chuck's secret spy life somehow intersects with Chuck's dorky BuyMore colleagues who were recruited to perform at the wedding in their dreadful amateur band. I wish I could find more opportunities to use this icon.

One of my several Odoru icons, all by the talented spacealien_vamp. I don't get to reference Odoru often enough (and how often otherwise does one want to post about stalking or strip shows?), but I've been on an Odoru rewatch kick just lately, as part of my campaign to do more listening practice. Just such a fun TV series.

One of spacealien_vamp's best. From the halcyon g_defend community days. I'm always on the lookout for a chance to use it, and sometimes I even find one. I love Ishikawa's clueless face.

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[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

I thought the lettering on it had been done by spacealien_vamp, like so many of my icons, but since I didn't credit her on my icon page, maybe I'm misremembering?

You remember correctly, I did make that one. It was shortly after I purchased my embroidery sewing machine and before I loaded Japanese fonts onto my computer, because I had to get the kanji by taking a screen capture of the sewing machine pattern-making software.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! I will update my icon page accordingly. And thank you extra much for one of my favorite icons, especially since it sounds like it was quite a job to make it.

I don't suppose you remember the conversation thread it emerged from? Something on your journal, or maybe something on g_defend?

[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you remember the conversation thread it emerged from? Something on your journal, or maybe something on g_defend?

I can't remember at all. It's sandwiched in between several that I know were posted on wednesday_10_00's LJ, so you may want to check there.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear god, I finally found it. (For the record, it was a thread in mangaroo's journal. Thread: May 12, 2005.) I should have thought to search my old email archive sooner. (Most of my email is in gmail, but that only started in 2009.)

In the meantime, I got to read a lot of old comments on G-Defend summaries. Natsukashii!

Speaking of summaries, where did I put One Piece vol. 32?

[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

Great work tracking it down!

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this link, btw. It's been a while since I read the character interviews; those posts were so much fun. (I'd completely forgotten about Chatty McSlappyface!)

[collarnojutsu.livejournal.com]

Aww, how come you didn't credit my hard work? Boo!! :< I have so few reasons to have as many icons as I've made, so it's always nice to see someone else use them. :>

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

My bad! Kazehaya and the Chuck wedding icon are indeed your excellent work. In that case, I did have the credit on my icon page, but I was again having difficulty remembering the genesis of the icons. I remember going back and forth a bit about the various gambaru icons... there's another thread I need to go back and dig up.

I've been getting a lot of use out of lethal gamer lately, too! I love that icon.

It's nice to see you on LJ. I know you've been on hiatus, but hope you'll be around a bit more in the new year. (And thank you for the lovely Christmas/birthday cards! I wish I didn't suck at sending out Xmas cards. Every year I swear it's going to be different, and every year my life goes to hell in December.)

[collarnojutsu.livejournal.com]

It's nice to see you on LJ. I know you've been on hiatus, but hope you'll be around a bit more in the new year.
I shall apologize in advance, then, for disappointing you.

And thank you for the lovely Christmas/birthday cards!
You're very welcome; I'd been saving that tsundere owl card for AGES.

Every year I swear it's going to be different, and every year my life goes to hell in December.
My life goes quite to hell every December, only for me that is precisely WHY I send cards. I sometimes think I'd never make it out alive if I didn't try to at least remember why. People who send cards year and after year need a reason - it can be pure or selfish, but that's an emotion and time sink no one would undertake without one! Maybe you just haven't found yours yet. :P