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[salinea]

Happy birthday rhole !

I can't believe it... i got second place at clamp_icontest ! woot ! *faints from joy*

clampstills, however, seems to be dead. Or possibly abducted by aliens. Who knows ? 'tis a sad, sad thing.

Kelsey write beautiful elizabetheen slash.

Yeah, that was a pretty pointless post, birthday wishing otherwise. 'Night.

Comments

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Congrats ^^

Yeah, I'm wondering what happened to clampstills as well :/ maybe she went off to vacations for Thanksgiving and forgot she runs a community?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Thanks <3

that would be irresponsible

maybe she still didn't make the banners for the previous one and thus didn't dare to post the results or something

or maybe something serious happened to her, it's not impossible either. I wish there was a way to try to get information.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with the internet: there's no way of knowing what happens to people.

But if she avoided posting the voting thread just because she hasn't made last week's banners... dude, that's a lame excuse! I'm still waiting for banners from two weeks ago, and those communities are running just fine.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Agreed, one both points. Well, it pisses me off because it was one icon i had put a lot of care in for this contest.

Did you make the "haunted" icon, for clamp icontest, i mean ?

I loved the one you did for the x contest.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

No, mine was "she is effervescence". Really ugly stuff.

Thank you, I liked that one too ^_^ There's a lack of Nataku icons these days. Poor little clone *hugs him/her*

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

lol the one with the same borders as mine :)

yes ! poor Nataku. He's very unloved for a dead character.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't noticed the borders O_o That's freaky!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

... we've got similar (good) taste ?

.. It's the art deco-iness of XXX-holic that brings it out ?

[sidecharacter.livejournal.com]

*cuts in* I TERRIBLY AGREE!

And, congrats! Your icon was so cool. ^__________^

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

thank you ^^

yes, yes, i know you love nataku-chan ^^ will write your drabble, sometime this week

[sidecharacter.livejournal.com]

Much love in the drabble writing. ^_^

[rhole.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for the birthday greetings! I didn't think anybody would remember (or care)...

[sakuraragi.livejournal.com]

I can see why you got second place! That is an awesome icon!! should have been 1st place >>

Congratulations!!!

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Agree, people in that community have this huge bias towards Sakura and/or Chii icons ¬___¬

It was a miracle something HOLiC got in the second spot, thank God.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

lol yes they do (well to be fair i voted for that icon that got first, so i'm not unhappy it won)
you'd believe there were a lot of men among the voters with their liking of cute, air-head girls. Scary (not that I dislike Sakura - well I do dislike Chii)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I don't dislike Sakura, I just dislike how some preteen girls idolize her stupidly. Just that, and the excess of her everywhere, make me a little bleh. Not Sakura's fault, although she exasperate me a little sometimes. A nice girl, just a bit dumb.

Now, Chii, I'm SICK of her! And Dark Chii as well, actually, as she seems like she came from an Evenescence video. But I digress.

I admit, when I see a challenge with more than three Sakuras o three Chiis, I tend not to vote for them, as I prefer to vote for more original things. And no matter how pretty an icon is, if it features Sakura then it's the same old thing.

Not biased, I just like refreshing things. The community is so full of kawaii-loving girls it's frustrating.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Oooh i see now. Kawaii-loving fangirls. Now it makes sense.
I seldom vote for them either too, I admit. Thought I try to rate the icon ideas and techniques and general beauty more than the subject of an icon itself. I get annoyed at how lots of icons are all about pretty techniques and have no content, original ideas or outlook - as I already ranted to you about the humour contest ^_^

(I do like Dark Chii - well let me correct this - I like watching Dark Chii because any pretty girls with fetishist clothing goes straight to an area that doesn't stop by my brain to say "oooh sexy !" We all have our weaknesses ^_~ )

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I'm more of a Yuzuki person myself. I think I liked Freya, but the Chii hate expanded to her. A shame, she's such a tragic anti-hero.

I think that happens to me with Yuuko's wardrobe. The woman is so ecclectic and elegant, unlike almost every CLAMP girl that likes clothes (Hokuto, Tomoyo, I love you, but... WTF at your outfits?)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*looks up who's Yuzuki* Err, I don't even remember the girl. Woah, I haven't read Chobit one year ago, and that's how much it marked me. Oh, well.

Oooh I love, love, LOVE Yuuko's style in general. She's so classy indeed. (gotta ask who made the "classy and sassy" icon too - wanna snatch it) And the whole attitude ! She's definitly my favourite clamp female character (stop me before i start shipping KujakuxYuuko) Tomoyo and Hokuto both had some very girly, "cute" taste, I love them both but not so much their taste in clothes. Yuuko dresses like one hell of a sexy woman. It's all the difference.
And let me rave again about the art deco love of xxxholic's art in general. <3 Makes me want to crossover Corto Maltese with it. Stop me, it would make no sense ! Oh, dear, except for how much it would make sense... Arggh.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Yuzuki is Minoru's one true persocon. The one with the pigtails and blueish hair.

Hell yeah! That woman has impecable taste <3 I don't know about Corto Maltese, so I'm free of the crack this time being.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Corto Maltese is a "gentillhomme de fortune", son of the "Niña de Gilbratar", an Andalusian Gypsy prostitute and of a sailor from Cornwall. As a child, a fortuneteller noticed he had no line of Fate. Corto took his father's razor and drew one for himself.
Corto wanders the first decennies of the XXth century, on the seven oceans, between wars and revolutions, chaos and romantism. He seeks treasures sometimes, or just watch and come along as others seek them. He has a knack for meeting cool women. Wether the Voodoo witch (three centuries old she said) called "Bouche Dorée", or young chinese revolutionnary girl. He is often seen in compagny of Raspoutine, a mad man who often tried to kill him and of whom he is nonetheless one of the only friend.
He often meets the occult, the dream-like, and the strange. In any case, it is always the atmosphere that stands out.

In my opinion, the Corto Maltese comic books by Hugo Pratt are easily among the very best of what this medium has had to offer (right there with Maus by Art Spielman, Gunnm, Akira, Sandman etc.)

A few links :
http://mapage.noos.fr/dardelf3/Corto.html
http://home.c2i.net/tzara/pratt/intro.html
http://www.iua.upf.es/formats/formats2/pin_a.htm

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

[checks links]

[glances at the pictures, specially on clothes]

[totally see what she means]

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

thank you ! you're too kind *blushes*