frequently used icons?

"My LJ" tells me what tags I use most frequently, which is kind of nifty (hp - 107 uses; i'm blogging this - 62 uses; severus - 60 uses; silly - 58 uses... tells you what I think about, eh?) Does anyone know of a page or tool that will similarly tell me which of my icons I use the most? It seems like the information should be there somewhere if one knew where to go digging for it, since according to this comment in suggestions LJ picks the most frequently used icons (on original posts in your own journal, not comments or communities) as the ones to stay active if you go from paid to a lower account status and lose all your extra icons.

frequently used icons?

"My LJ" tells me what tags I use most frequently, which is kind of nifty (hp - 107 uses; i'm blogging this - 62 uses; severus - 60 uses; silly - 58 uses... tells you what I think about, eh?) Does anyone know of a page or tool that will similarly tell me which of my icons I use the most? It seems like the information should be there somewhere if one knew where to go digging for it, since according to this comment in suggestions LJ picks the most frequently used icons (on original posts in your own journal, not comments or communities) as the ones to stay active if you go from paid to a lower account status and lose all your extra icons.

quirks meme

I'm not sure how many you're supposed to come up with -- I've seen both five and seven. I'm getting stumped, so have five.


1. I frequently reach out and touch whatever inanimate objects I happen to be passing as I walk by them. Walls, lamp-posts, trees, windows, benches, fences, whatever. I just stick my arms out and run my fingers over them, sometimes tapping or flicking them to see what sounds they make as well.

2. I only like mushrooms cooked, but I only like salmon raw. I acquired my taste for mushrooms rather unexpectedly, when one time I ate them and they had randomly transformed from "icky fungus, but I'll eat them in a mixture" to "hey, these are good" (Sam I Am, and I would eat them ... uh.. with your sister?). I acquired my taste for sashimi on purpose, trying to see what all the fuss was about, but it took my stomach a few tries to get over the "OMG I AM EATING RAW FLESH" idea.

3. I don't react well to unsolicited compliments (especially on my physical appearance) or praise for doing something well. If I post something where people will see it and they say "hey, I like this", that's okay, because I started it, but if you just walk up to me and say something like "I like your haircut", I will sputter and try to deflect it. Comments like that read to me as "unexpected attempt to engage with me; this person is now expecting me to do something", which I find threatening.

4. I occasionally chew on scraps of paper, although I rarely swallow anymore. In third grade I had quite a habit of actually eating it (come on, I was seven, what do you want? it beats eating dirt), and in eleventh grade I was still doing it often enough that on one occasion with a certain green-tinged notepad, my friend Bob remarked on it wryly, "Lisa eats green paper. This is proof that you don't need brains to get an A in Spanish class." (Which I did eight times in a row, and high-mark As at that. :P )

5. I am obsessive about crossing off the days on my desk calendar with parallel diagonal strokes, and get a little annoyed if people cross off days on the other calendars in the room before I get to them, as though they are invading my turf.

quirks meme

I'm not sure how many you're supposed to come up with -- I've seen both five and seven. I'm getting stumped, so have five.


1. I frequently reach out and touch whatever inanimate objects I happen to be passing as I walk by them. Walls, lamp-posts, trees, windows, benches, fences, whatever. I just stick my arms out and run my fingers over them, sometimes tapping or flicking them to see what sounds they make as well.

2. I only like mushrooms cooked, but I only like salmon raw. I acquired my taste for mushrooms rather unexpectedly, when one time I ate them and they had randomly transformed from "icky fungus, but I'll eat them in a mixture" to "hey, these are good" (Sam I Am, and I would eat them ... uh.. with your sister?). I acquired my taste for sashimi on purpose, trying to see what all the fuss was about, but it took my stomach a few tries to get over the "OMG I AM EATING RAW FLESH" idea.

3. I don't react well to unsolicited compliments (especially on my physical appearance) or praise for doing something well. If I post something where people will see it and they say "hey, I like this", that's okay, because I started it, but if you just walk up to me and say something like "I like your haircut", I will sputter and try to deflect it. Comments like that read to me as "unexpected attempt to engage with me; this person is now expecting me to do something", which I find threatening.

4. I occasionally chew on scraps of paper, although I rarely swallow anymore. In third grade I had quite a habit of actually eating it (come on, I was seven, what do you want? it beats eating dirt), and in eleventh grade I was still doing it often enough that on one occasion with a certain green-tinged notepad, my friend Bob remarked on it wryly, "Lisa eats green paper. This is proof that you don't need brains to get an A in Spanish class." (Which I did eight times in a row, and high-mark As at that. :P )

5. I am obsessive about crossing off the days on my desk calendar with parallel diagonal strokes, and get a little annoyed if people cross off days on the other calendars in the room before I get to them, as though they are invading my turf.

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unseelie:

"...I suffer from seasonal depression when and only when I don't have even the smallest bit of window in line-of-sight for most of the daylight hours. In the US, even maximum-security prisons are required to have windows for every cell."

Whoa. Industry is prison, indeed. I'm glad I'm not seasonally affective, because I spend at least half my life either underground or in the dark. I get exposed to sunlight for about two waking hours when I get up and go to work, although I suppose you could consider the hours between sunrise and that time when I am still sleeping as "exposure", in a sense (my room isn't all that dark except ~May-Sept, when I block my western window with a reflector so as to block the infrared, and the northern window obviously admits less light than western). Then, it's off to the dungeon (i.e. basement), and except for some time in June and July when it is twilight when I leave, it's always well after sunset by the time I go home.

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unseelie:

"...I suffer from seasonal depression when and only when I don't have even the smallest bit of window in line-of-sight for most of the daylight hours. In the US, even maximum-security prisons are required to have windows for every cell."

Whoa. Industry is prison, indeed. I'm glad I'm not seasonally affective, because I spend at least half my life either underground or in the dark. I get exposed to sunlight for about two waking hours when I get up and go to work, although I suppose you could consider the hours between sunrise and that time when I am still sleeping as "exposure", in a sense (my room isn't all that dark except ~May-Sept, when I block my western window with a reflector so as to block the infrared, and the northern window obviously admits less light than western). Then, it's off to the dungeon (i.e. basement), and except for some time in June and July when it is twilight when I leave, it's always well after sunset by the time I go home.

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Couples meme, from estaratshirai and some others: ( Read more... )

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Icons meme from bohemianspirit:



I like foxes. I am tentatively arriving at the conclusion that my "spirit animal" (take that phrase however you like -- there are many shades of meaning between "fetch", "totem", "power animal", etc that are outside the scope of this post) is a fox. Keyword on this is "general (fox)".

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Icons meme from bohemianspirit:



I like foxes. I am tentatively arriving at the conclusion that my "spirit animal" (take that phrase however you like -- there are many shades of meaning between "fetch", "totem", "power animal", etc that are outside the scope of this post) is a fox. Keyword on this is "general (fox)".

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ETA: I meant exclusively in the context of fanfiction, not gaming or other. Question has now been answered.

Please define for me the word "one-shot". Today I saw someone use it to mean "single chapter only; not a series". I had always thought a "one-shot" was a fanfic written in a single go, rather than multiple writing sessions; thus they would tend to be shorter, but something with several chapters could also be a "one-shot" if it was written all at once. Am I wrong?

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ETA: I meant exclusively in the context of fanfiction, not gaming or other. Question has now been answered.

Please define for me the word "one-shot". Today I saw someone use it to mean "single chapter only; not a series". I had always thought a "one-shot" was a fanfic written in a single go, rather than multiple writing sessions; thus they would tend to be shorter, but something with several chapters could also be a "one-shot" if it was written all at once. Am I wrong?