sqbr: Hannelore: Worry hat! Bravery plus 10, charisma plus 5 (worry hat)
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 07:50 pm
So! I just made this anxiety related icon, and would like a similarly cheerful icon about being touch averse (and specifically, not liking hugs)

Thinking about it, while I had a number of sympathetic anxious characters to choose from I can't think of any positive portrayals of people being being touch averse in a good natured "this is just how I am" way, it's all grumpy messed up people like Fenris. Can anyone else think of any examples? Closest I can think of is Rogue, who is polite about telling people not to touch her or they'll die, but I'd rather someone less wracked with angst.
sqbr: A cartoon cat saying Ham! (ham!)
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 08:56 pm
(at my lj since I'm all out of icons here)

A follow-on to Anti-racism is the new black.
sqbr: "Creative genius" with an arrow pointing to a sketch of me (genius!)
Monday, May 11th, 2009 09:24 pm
Another one! I think I'm done now, at least for the evening :)

EDIT: Here are some other things DW stands for, the only other one which sounds promising to me is "Discworld".

From my lj (the place I tend to post all my creative stuff):

After making my last icon I remember [personal profile] angriest saying that that "DW" made him think of Dr Who, so I decided to google image search Dr Who and see if anything inspiring came up, and there was the perfect image. It's a woman! In pink! In the foreground! With the keys to the Tardis! That's the way fanfic fandom on DW sees itself right there, I would say :) (Fandom may disagree)



Original image. That has to be the quickest icon ever :)
sqbr: "Creative genius" with an arrow pointing to a sketch of me (genius!)
Monday, May 11th, 2009 06:39 pm
First off: someone gave me a month free time, thanks! I got all confused and submitted a support request because I had too many icons :)

Second: A new DW icon! Which I probably won't actually use but the idea refused to go away:
sqbr: A wordy explanation that the comment is a joke (joke)
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 11:45 am
Because I have this unfortunate need to make sarcastic jokes in the ljs of strangers, and then they think I'm sincere, and it's all very embarrassing. (It's also sometimes a problem with people I know, but on the whole I think you guys have learned to go "Sophie just said something nonsensical or out of character, so even though it wasn't funny I'll assume she was joking")
sqbr: I lay on the couch, suffering an out of spoons error (spoons)
Friday, February 6th, 2009 01:32 pm
Not quite right but it will do until I feel like fiddling with it some more. Inspired by Kira attempting to create the situation depicted :)
sqbr: Alien city skyline (atlantis)
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 09:19 am
There may well be pumpkin oatmeal cookies!
Details for the forgetful.

Heh. Every time I have to go back through my lj to find a recent post I am surprised at how much I have written since then :)

Also: I decided that since I make so many stargate posts I should have a stargate icon, and as it happens I made one a while ago from this fanart (Ok, yes, it's Atlantis, that's still closer than Torchwood)
sqbr: (cake)
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 08:26 pm
It may or may not make the various people on my flist who've been sad recently happy(er) to know that they inspired this icon (If not.. have some cake, I made it with you in mind :)) It needs some work, but I have a feeling it's going to take my brain a while to figure out exactly what I want to change about it and how, so this will do for now.

Did I miss any food intolerances?

Man, now I have an incredible craving for cream cake.
sqbr: Torchwood spoilers for various episode numbers: Jack dies (torchwood spoilers)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 08:43 pm
I checked the episode summaries but I may have missed one :)

This icon popped into my head so forcefully I'm a little paranoid I stole the idea from someone.
sqbr: pretty purple pi (racism)
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 08:22 am
Still deciding if I'll find this one very useful, since I can see some people taking it as making fun of them rather than making fun of me. Inspired by a tradition of *blah* against racism icons I've seen around the place (I think my favourite is a pic of Chiana with the slogan "REALLY white girls against racism")

I know the image isn't very good but the Hairspray pictures online are pretty much all just repeats of the same 12 or so publicity shots put out by the distributor. I had my heart set on an image of Tracy holding a placard (and also liked the idea of using something from the original, but there are NO decent images from that I could find), but this works ok too, imo.
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sqbr: me pointing to a hat with neon sign saying Mod on it. (mod hat)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 10:24 pm
I got inspired to make this icon ages ago but had no excuse to use it. So when it was suggested I be a mod at [livejournal.com profile] webcomics how could I say no? :)

I need to find a way to make it flash, what's a good animated gif maker? (My old one is gone) New flashing version made by the super awesome [livejournal.com profile] sonictail!
sqbr: Asterix-like magnifying glass over Perth, Western Australia (australia)
Monday, February 25th, 2008 02:55 pm
To cheer myself up about being too sick to work or do anything at all productive, a new usericon.

Very much inspired by [livejournal.com profile] bantha_fodder's aussie icon (and Asterix). Needs some work but, well, I'm sick.
sqbr: Are you coming to bed? I can't, this is important. Why? Someone is wrong on the internet. (duty calls)
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 07:25 pm
Thus bringing my xkcd icon count up to three.
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sqbr: A cartoon cat saying Ham! (ham!)
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 09:43 pm
So, for while I have felt the dire need of a food related icon. I set my subconscious the task of thinking of one, and it combined with subsiduary thoughts about cat icons and surreal icons and this Penny Arcade cartoon to create the icon you see before you, which leaped into my conscious mind with great force this afternoon.

I feel a bit lame using someone else's artwork (and such a well known and likely commonly-iconed one at that) but at least I did a reasonable job of adapting it, imo.

Man, it is HOT. Other than that my holiday season has been pretty "cool" so far (pretty much everyplace we visited but my parents has aircon, which helps)
sqbr: A stick figure doing cartwheels saying "Yay" (yay!)
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 08:20 pm
Right! Done! This was a lot more effort to make than you'd think, since until deciding to make it I'd never used flash before (I have a trial version) and am still rather flummoxed by the interface. Luckily I discovered the "import photoshop layers as frames" option, since I know how to use photoshop.

I may try making it look nicer at some point, but I think the fuzzy edges add to the charm :)

Now I just need a "food" icon and I should be right for a while.
sqbr: A happy dragon on a pile of books (bookdragon)
Monday, October 15th, 2007 09:54 am
Made from the picture I drew for [livejournal.com profile] purrdence, with her permission. How I lasted so long without such an icon I do not know. Looked nicer at home than it does at work, hmm.
sqbr: pretty purple pi (Default)
Friday, October 12th, 2007 02:16 pm
I was going to make a "sick" one then remembered I never remember to change it when I'm sick :)

Made with Minifesto, with many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] lilysea for introducing me to it.

EDIT: It's rather surreal having three versions of this icon all going in sync on the same page (the one on this entry, the one on my sidebar, and a teeeeny illegible one on the navigation bar)
sqbr: pretty purple pi (no hugs!)
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 11:29 am
Made for me by [livejournal.com profile] nico_wolfwood, ironically one of the few people who can get away with hugging me (except not at the moment, because her arms aren't 4000km long)
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sqbr: pretty purple pi (existentialism)
Monday, July 2nd, 2007 08:28 pm
I feel a little self conscious posting a political comic about an issue I'm not that well informed about, but if I let that stop me I'd never do any at all(*). So: my latest Hapless comic, "Possibly not the best approach to child welfare".

Also, less controversially: new icon, inspired by [livejournal.com profile] capnoblivious posting a link to the comic in the comments to my "The Prestige" post.

(*)Yes, ok, so I do pretty much never do them, what's your point?
sqbr: "Creative genius" with an arrow pointing to a sketch of me (genius!)
Saturday, June 16th, 2007 06:15 pm
Well, after like a gazillion years I have finally gotten around to the next person I owe in the art meme, [livejournal.com profile] emma_in_oz:



It's designed to be shrunk into a usericon but of course she is free to use it as she sees fit!

EDIT: icon sized version: