23 July 2012 @ 11:37 pm
the i-cave: various colo(u)rbars
Colourbars are rather passé these days, I know, but I'm an old-fashioned---and unfashionable---girl at heart, and I periodically prowl around lj looking for new ones to add to my collection. Occasionally, when I think of a particular theme that I'd like to personalize, I even make my own.

These have been in the works for quite some time, and I've only just now finished the last of them. So just in case anyone should share my peculiar interests, I thought I'd post them:

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(and alternate)
Night Calls by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel | Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith | The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis | Illusion by Paula Volsky | Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb | A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin | Deerskin by Robin McKinley | The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer | quote by R.A. Salvatore (shortened)


(and alternate)
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy | An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott | Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen | The Rake by Mary Jo Putney | Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase | Sweet Everlasting by Patricia Gaffney | Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (trans. by Brian Hooker) | With This Ring by Carla Kelly | A Room with a View by E.M. Forster | quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


(and alternate)
Dune by Frank Herbert | Mojave Wells by L. Dean James | Impossible Things by Connie Willis | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank | A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury | More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | quote by Ray Bradbury


(and alternate)
The Monk by Matthew Lewis | World War Z by Max Brooks | Coraline by Neil Gaiman | I Am Legend by Richard Matheson | A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb | Dark Ladies by Fritz Leiber | Dracula by Bram Stoker | Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury | John Dies at the End by David Wong | quote by Mark Twain



Methos from Highlander: The Series | Faramir from The Lord of the Rings (art by Catherine Chmiel) | Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride & Prejudice | Hatter from Alice | Severus Snape from Harry Potter (art by Makani) | Logan Huntzberger from Gilmore Girls


(Because my acceptance of Star Wars pro-fic pretty much starts and ends with Timothy Zahn's books....)

I might eventually do a "Mystery is Literature" or "Faery Tale Retellings Are Love," but I have a feeling those are a ways in the future. Perhaps when I'm not feeling so beset by my graphics program. Or when the urge strikes to create a "Labyrinth is Love" or "Being Erica is Love" colourbar....
 
 
Prepare a Face: hungry
Love Song: Dala - Life On Earth
 
 
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[identity profile] ludzu-alus.livejournal.com on July 24th, 2012 04:07 pm (UTC)
Omg, this makes me wish my computer had not crashed (ok, in truth, nearly everything makes me wish that!) and I still had my graphics program. I have never seen these, but I want to make them!
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[identity profile] in-omnia.livejournal.com on July 25th, 2012 01:47 am (UTC)
Perhaps if we work together, you and I can single-handedly bring colourbar/lovebars back into fashion. :) I don't know why I like them so much...there's just something about picking your favorite 5-10 images on a given theme and tagging them with the words "is love" that makes me happy.

And while I know it can't make up for the loss of your awesome graphics program (and computer), I use The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/), which is fairly reliable and easy to use and, moreover, is free. :D I just wish I could figure out why my graphics shrink whenever I upload them to photobucket. Is it photobucket's fault? Do graphics just *do* that? I am such an amateur....
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[identity profile] janeite723.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2012 02:23 am (UTC)
So many of my favorite books are in these colorbars, it's not even funny! P&P, A Room with a View, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Connie Willis, Robin McKinley...awesome!
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[identity profile] in-omnia.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2012 12:51 am (UTC)
It's 'cuz we have superb taste in Literature. ;) Though I did have fun reading other fantasy, romance, sci-fi, and horror books that didn't quite make it into the colorbars....
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