What are the things that bug you about your current one?
I have a few requirements: an uncluttered overall look, fairly wide entries (that's where a lot of the more tumblry layouts don't work for me; I like them on other people but not myself!), borders around icons, the icons being placed in entries such that there aren't weird text-wrapping effects, and the entry text being justified only on the left. I used funky circles for a long time and it satisfied most of those needs (though I also like multilevel tags and it doesn't format those well) but it justified text on both sides which looks terrible on a phone.
Anyway, yeah I always come back to blue, it's one of my favorite colors and all my other favorites don't work so we'll in large quantities for me.
I am totally back on a buffyverse kick. I mean I never lose interest in BtVS but I recently read a meta that was going around Tumblr, and it was all about how Joss Whedon writes women terribly, and while I have criticisms of many overall patterns in how he writes women and poc, I feel like there is also a lot of excellent characterization for Buffy and Willow, like some of the best character arcs I've ever seen for women or men, and obviously that's a subjective statement but I also feel like a wholesale dismissal of those characters is pretty damn unthoughtful. (And I don't buy that they're the exception to the rule, because theyre some of Whedons most famous characters, and I'd also argue that Faith, Zoe, Kaylee, Adele, and others are also great characters but that's for another day.) So then for comfort I went back and read some of my favorite Buffy meta (lol I always read meta for comfort, not fic, except for some reason Elementary) and all my Buffy feels resurged in full force.
That's good to know about icons, I totally didn't realize that. I've occasionally been tempted to buy more so I have more than 100, but I always have about 20% of my icons that I'm not using much so that's silly. However I do need to find an Abbie icon or two so I should clear out a couple of old ones that I don't use anymore.
I saw that you made a banner out of icons, which is awesome! I'd like to do that but since I'd be using mostly icons that other people made I'd have to ask permission and figure out how to credit properly.
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I have a few requirements: an uncluttered overall look, fairly wide entries (that's where a lot of the more tumblry layouts don't work for me; I like them on other people but not myself!), borders around icons, the icons being placed in entries such that there aren't weird text-wrapping effects, and the entry text being justified only on the left. I used funky circles for a long time and it satisfied most of those needs (though I also like multilevel tags and it doesn't format those well) but it justified text on both sides which looks terrible on a phone.
Anyway, yeah I always come back to blue, it's one of my favorite colors and all my other favorites don't work so we'll in large quantities for me.
I am totally back on a buffyverse kick. I mean I never lose interest in BtVS but I recently read a meta that was going around Tumblr, and it was all about how Joss Whedon writes women terribly, and while I have criticisms of many overall patterns in how he writes women and poc, I feel like there is also a lot of excellent characterization for Buffy and Willow, like some of the best character arcs I've ever seen for women or men, and obviously that's a subjective statement but I also feel like a wholesale dismissal of those characters is pretty damn unthoughtful. (And I don't buy that they're the exception to the rule, because theyre some of Whedons most famous characters, and I'd also argue that Faith, Zoe, Kaylee, Adele, and others are also great characters but that's for another day.) So then for comfort I went back and read some of my favorite Buffy meta (lol I always read meta for comfort, not fic, except for some reason Elementary) and all my Buffy feels resurged in full force.
That's good to know about icons, I totally didn't realize that. I've occasionally been tempted to buy more so I have more than 100, but I always have about 20% of my icons that I'm not using much so that's silly. However I do need to find an Abbie icon or two so I should clear out a couple of old ones that I don't use anymore.
I saw that you made a banner out of icons, which is awesome! I'd like to do that but since I'd be using mostly icons that other people made I'd have to ask permission and figure out how to credit properly.