New default icon

[unfeathered]

So... new default icon. I've been going off 'Lick here' for a while now - no real reason, just that it doesn't really look like Jack to me any more (the picture is several years old) and that I feel for me it's very strongly emotionally tied to my early days on LJ, a time when I was very depressed and trying to escape RL by saturating myself with fandom.

I'm better than that now. Not completely recovered by any means but definitely on the way up - and most importantly, definitely more interested in RL than fandom, which can be seen by the fact that most of my posts are now RL-related, whereas when I started on LJ in 2007 they were nearly all fandom-related.

So, time for a new default icon. And I loved this one when I first saw it because it encapsulates everything DW is about for me (I started watching it at about Amelia's age, after all) and also because over the last year or so I have started to finally believe in myself again too. So it's still fandom-related but less fandom-specific and more applicable to RL - my life - too.

ETA: And huge thanks and hugs to my anonymous gifter!

Comments

[scarab-dynasty.livejournal.com]

Uh, hi. Hope you don't mind me waltzing in like this (I tend to track down fandom related posters every now and then just for the heck of it).

I'm chuffed that the icon I made is being used in this context :D Rock on you for your far more busy Real Life!

[unfeathered]

Heh, I don't mind at all! I wasn't sure that that was the icon I was going to change to my default when I took it (though I *had* been staring at it on and off ever since you posted it, which ought to have been quite a clue; I was just waiting to have enough money to reinstate my extra userpics so I could snaffle it up), but then I started thinking about what it could represent and it seemed like a really good choice! I love the childish wonder and joy in little Amy's face. It's just gorgeous.

[scarab-dynasty.livejournal.com]

Amelia is indeed the utest thing ever. I do hope at some point she accepts the whole thing enough to go by Amelia again.