quick rant

[meganbmoore]

Incidentally, this post is, as far as I know, not referring to anyone on my flist here...heck, as far as personal friends go, I think my rarely used(and not even currently uploaded, I don't think) Dick Grayson icon is worse than anything you guys use.

Ok, I get that everyone likes their icons and chooses icons that, as a general rule, express their either themselves or thier likes, i just wish people would occassionally use a bit of...urm...discretion...when posting to communities.  I don't mean icons of two guys(or girls) staring at each other and phrases like "can you feel the subtext?" or "and A was like *beep* and then B was like *beep.*"  I mean ones that have the f-word in twenty pixel font, or two guys writhing in you-know-what, which seem to be being used more and more in comm posts.  I mean, forget the fact that some people might be offended by them(my general reaction is to roll my eyes at worst, but usually I just ignore it if I don't like it) but I KNOW I'm not the only person who checks LJ at work...I mean, some people only HAVE internet at work, and might end up getting tagged for looking at questionable content at work just for checking their flist.  It's especially annoying when the post has a cut to the effect of "may not be worksafe"

*toddles off to find something happier to ponder*

Comments

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Specially when you sit in the mall and what you look at is exposed to the world.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Or virtually every one of your coworkers is male as they think "see if we can ruffle Megan's feathers" is a sport...

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

Why do guys seem to find that so amusing? My guy friends, and Clueless boy, do that to me all the time. Then they try to one up each other..its never ending.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

try telling other girls around when they do it to them that they're like 5 year olds...it means they like you.

it's gotten to the point where it doesnt bother me unless it refers to my personal habits, or give false impressions about me.

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

I guess some of it is brotherly. Though I highly suspect some of it (in my direction from a certain one) is pigtail pulling.

Though, they like to scar me with things.. not just ruffle my feathers....

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a lot of it is like if my brother had never outgrown that stage.

As they all have SOs(I'M THE ONLY SINGLE ONE!!!!) I don't think any is REALLY pigtail pulling...one of them, you only know he likes you if he's kind of a jerk.

Would this certain someone be the one we agreed was a Bad Boy(in the "fangirls squee for in shows and books" way) a week or so ago?

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be Clueless Boy. Though he knows when he crosses the line from pigtail pulling to horrifying me. Sadly my other friends miss that line. Though since Anime Cons, that line is alot farther out then it used to be...I'm so jaded.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Your con tales, they scare me...

and hey, there's a reason you referred to him as your future OTP(specifically using OTP...)

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

I though we agreed the OTP thing never happened. Though it would be nice in real life if I could be the good girl that gets to OTP the woobie angsty bad boy and there is love and happiness. But we all know bad boys in RL means stay away... *sigh*

*just spent a good five minutes trying to find her Si icon, cause apparently she forgot her alphabet*

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The babble is proof of why the OTP thing can never go away...

*snort*

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

*thinks she should stop while she is almost ahead..or chokes herself with her foot*

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

comfort yourself with the knowledge that fictional men seem to have ruined me for normal guys. At least you have a candidate to fillthe fantasy criteria...

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

LOL. Oh goodness, I can totally sympathise with you, especially 'cause I only have internet at work!!

At first I was even a little embarrassed to use kissing icons :D But these ones that have the f-word in twenty pixel font, or two guys writhing in you-know-what, which seem to be being used more and more in comm posts.????????? Eeeek >_>

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And then the manga communities tend to post borderline overly explicit yaoi covers...

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

That are like freaking huge and plaster themselves all over the screen.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Andthen if your computer doesn't refresh immediately, you can get stuck w/ that on the screen until it finishes...

[forgottenpolish.livejournal.com]

Yes! I know the day will come when my parents walk into my room and that happens..I will die...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad I moved out before joining the comms...

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

The only manga comm I'm a member of is 0o_momiji_o0 and it's pretty much dead, I think :D

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

count yourself lucky...part of it is that the majority of vocal anime and manga fans are 13-16~ yr old yaoi fangirls(the older ones tend to be more discrete in anything pictoral not under a cut)

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

I'm straight and I don't have anything against homosexuality. But I'm glad I don't have anyone in my f-list who fall into the so-called category of young rabid yaoi fans XD

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

ditto. to the first part. I really should make a filter, but then i'll forget to check it...

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

I have only recently discovered the filtering method and it's certainly very useful :D

[fivil.livejournal.com]

People never consider what is and what isn't worksafe unless stuff is porny/nudity-related. Meh.

The f-part in my WTF icon should be an okay small font. :D

[carviangli.livejournal.com]

Heh yeh, I generally do not like swearing. I think some of my friends use it too liberally, especially my guy friends.

BTW can u add me to friends list plz...if u want to...that is...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

*adds*

I once said "pissed off" at work and everyone who knew me just stopped and stared at me like I'd just gone into a 10 minute cussing streak. I said "POed" once in IMs and was told that was the closest the other person had heard me come to cussing.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

see, WTF is fine...it's not explicit...even this icon...it has the fword, but you have to actually LOOK at it to notice. And I think 2 guys nekkid showing all to the waist is close enough...

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Yep. I am all for freedom of speech but Sasha is often hovering about..

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

another consideration. I mean I don't even mind ones with "wtf" or even "badass" it's just the really bad ones that show up on communities.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

That has long been my complaint. I have nothing against people having offensive or risque icons, but there is a time and place for them and that's generally not in communities I would deem "safe". It has nothing to do with ME being offended or whatnot, but about how they're not work safe. If pictures have to be tagged whether work safe or not, I think people should show a little bit of discretion and hold off on the offensive icons in certain communities.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

lol...everyone's dragging out their worst icons in replies *is very amused*

I think this is the closest to a "bad" icon I have uploaded, and that's only because she's TECHNICALLY nekkid, but you can't really tell what with the masses of hair...

It's just...if someone has you personally on their flist, then they know what kind of icons you like and know whether or not they need to have you in a filter, but if it's a community, you SHOULD be able to assume that people will use "safe" icons. You SHOULDN'T have to worry that because its a community that says "manga" in the title you'll have huge yaoi covers plastered on your front page with *hem* borderline explicitily going on in the icon, or that because it's an icon community the teasers will have cussing and such(incidentally, what is it with Bleach icons? Bleach gets some of the weirdest icon makers...)

[chomiji]

Hmmm ... I have no naughty icons! I feel so depraved deprived! Should I get some, once I actually start paying for my account?   ;-)

- Cho

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

A mildly naughty icon is a fun thing to drag out on occassion, usually for replies. I need to reupload my mildly naughty one now that I have 105 userpics available. I don't really see the one above as naughty because a) you can't see anything anyway and b) if you hadn't seen it or weren't TOLD that she's actually naked, you probably wouldn't know.

Hmm...does this one count as mildly naughty?

[chomiji]

See, that one's so great as an illustration - because you have to know the series (and know the characters pretty well too) to know why it's naughty! In fact, if you haven't poked around on-line to get those later volume scans (or. alternatively, read Japanese well enough to have read the originals), you'd have to be pretty clever and perceptive to recognize "original body" Kyo, and Yuya not in her usual demure kimono, and therefore know what might have been grabbed ....

OK, so I'll avoid anything that might be described as "as subtle as a brick" (to quote one of the participants in what was threatening to become a yuri scene in what I was just reading ....)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

[chomiji]

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

And that's why I only really use that one(and this one) in replies to other SDK readers.

And by demure, do you mean the kimono that ends above her knees? (Course, she does dress much more conservatively than most other SDK females...or at least, have her stuff flaunted a bit less.

[chomiji]

But Megan-san, you're not showing her knees ... !   ;-)

Except when she's taking a bath (in which case Kamijyo-sensei turns us all into voyeurs ...) or Kyo is getting carried away (you notice, he usually does it after something stressful has happened?), she's pretty demure from the waist up.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have to check SDK before bringing it to work to read...

And yes, after the beginning(which I blame on 4 years of being locked in a closet) it's very much his own special kind of coping. Or faking that there are no warm fuzzies, just mildly sadistic hormones. Of course, when he DOES behave,t he poor girl is so shocked that she comments on it, making it that much harder on herself(such as when Bon and Akira fell in the pit and did the tossing thing with her...poor thing talked herself out of comfy-snuggly carrying into...well...that...)

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Yes, that IS my worst icon. Well, there is that "kinky sex" one I have of Will, but it's more funny than explicit in any way.

You sort of know the people on your own journal and who you're friends with, but the public communities I hate having to be so cautious about. I want to read a post and know that ten million groping boys will not show up in the reply icons.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

and now that LJ is working again, the REAL reply...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

See, that's the whole point, I know my flist so I had a good idea that everyone would be "hmm...do I have anything naughty or rude in my userpics" but that's in replies.

And...the communities have been really bad lately...it seems that all that gets posted in some is yaoi, and by that I mean giant and near-explicit covers, the worst in teaser icons, etc. I've even seen people apologize for NOT posting yaoi(which, to me, is insulting to both sides-yaoi fans for implying they could never like anything else, non-yaoi fans by implying they don't exist) It's like...you always KNOW that the bulk of anime/manga fans are underaged girls who see yaoi as fantasy fulfillment, but it's been really driven home of late. *is happy that her friends who like yaoi have a higher maturity level*

[gloryquest.livejournal.com]

Gah...I know it's a four-letter word, but I didn't think this icon bothered you so much!