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[ileliberte]

It sounds cheesy, but every time I look out an airplane window, it makes me love the world. That people built something so amazing as an airplane, and how gorgeous the landscapes of light are when flying over cities at night, and how much sky there is all around you.

Bought volume 19 of Ultimate Spiderman. Still in love with the art and I like the writing too. Anyone have recommendations for cool comic icon comms/journals/posts? Artwork style maybe sort of like the icon I'm using for this post. Female superheros/icons especially welcome, but anything good, really.

ETA: miss_porcupine is twisting my arm to confess that I confused Nightcrawler and Nightwing when trying to re-find the icon I used above. And that she laughed at me. In my defense, both names start with Night and both have something blue going on :/

Completely unrelatedly, my grocery store sells pillows.

ETA2: The problems I have with Katy Perry's "I kissed a girl" song are the lyrics, with the annoyance only being compounded by the fact that I really like the beats and the tune and love her voice. Apparently some other band made a cover of it with gender reversed lyrics, but as far as I could see, it was pretty much the same problem. Not sure why people are going gaga over it when they seem to hate Perry's original? What am I supposedly missing here?

Comments

[summertea.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty much 'what the fuck ever' over the original lyrics and have no interest in getting snippy over it. and i think gabe saporta is fucking hilarious. also, he is known for (kinda subtle-y) calling out (scene) bullshit.

.... at least, /i/ think the song is awesome because i think that's what he's doing? please tell me i'm not the only one that thinks so.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Haha, I have no clue, who knows what anyone's intentions actually are. Assuming that they're not meant to be taken at face value makes me happier.

[amore-di-libri.livejournal.com]

ETA2 - Step 1: Get drunk
Step 2: Listen to song.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Hehe, that's probably a surefire way to enjoy it XD

[cryptoxin.livejournal.com]

I pretty much agree with your take on the Katy Perry song, except my handwavey fanon-ish way of reconciling annoying lyrics with good song is that she's being ironic & mocking the idea that it's this huge deal for a girl to kiss another girl.

Which, hey, who knows -- it's not like I'm basing that reading on anything like interviews with her. But if the lyrics are instead meant to be taken at face value, I'd agree that Gabe Saporta's version doesn't seem like much of an improvement.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Yeah, somehow, I don't know, maybe because I love her voice so much, I kinda want to handwave it that way too. But who knows what the actual intent was. At face value speaks not particularly well of both songs, which is why some of the reactions surprised me.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

jillicons, fo sho, though there are many others. comicbook_icons is particularly good for getting a good peruse of a bunch of different iconmakers.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! Thank you so much! I get a periodic obsession for comics, miss_porcupine's been trying to educate me but the desire fluctuates :D The idea of it is always kind of attractive though.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

i got bit by that bug maybe four months ago? and i ate the entire DCU. if you have questions, you let me know. i'm a spectacular pimp. i'd be talking to you right now about continuity and e-comic programs and maybe even pasting specific scans at you, but y'know. mustn't trigger that fluctuation. :D

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Oh, I currently have quite a few digital copies of comics, courtesy of miss_p, and bought a few as well. Will be venturing in the direction of Jenny Sparks soonish, and will then probably hit you up for help :D