Mucho iconage!

[kerravonsen]

Icons, icons, get yer icons here! This includes the request for izhilzha. No, I didn't do all these today, just one of them. The others have been lying around waiting for me to decide whether I would tweak them or post them or give up on them.

	Astrogeek from my digital art "Astrogeek" (Samantha Carter); want, take, comment, credit
	Simon (sigh) done for izhilzha -- she wanted Simon looking Simon-like, here he is. I fussed so much with the background, I finally gave up.
	Vor Love Miles and Ekatarin, from one of the covers of "Komarr" by LMB. Want, take, comment, credit
	No Santa I declare this a Santa-free zone! (this is my reaction to all the Santa-hats which will soon be breaking out all over LJ). The hat is from some clip-art. Want, take, comment, credit

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I love Christmas but I hate Santa, if you see what I mean.

I do! But I have my reservations about the whole thing as it carries so much emotional baggage I just don't want: family obligations, having to do things you don't want to because even aggressively pagan SILs want a special dinner (who knows why), having to buy presents for adults and get ones you don't particularly want back (yet more bottles of wine with cat labels; sigh); blah de blah blah. At least other religious festivals of whatever kind haven't taken over popular culture so one is free to celebrate them how one wants, or indeed not. Yes, there are the chocolate eggs and bunnies (urk) at Easter, but they're don't impermeate the whole environment for 2-3 months. [stab]

[kerravonsen]

yet more bottles of wine with cat labels

You too? Well, they didn't give me bottles of wine, at least they know I teatotle...

But I actually like buying presents for people if I'm not time-pressured. Or making things. One of my most popular presents was the year I'd just gotten my air-dryer and I made bottles of home-made dried fruit for people. That was a lot of work though. But I still like making up bottles of (non-home-made) dried fruit for people.

And I love getting together with the extended family.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Eep. I thought you were an INTP like me. I just want to get away from it all.

[kerravonsen]

I am like you; INTJ though.

Remember that I've only got one family to worry about -- no in-laws.
In a normal year, that would make only three Christmas "dos": the work Christmas party, the relatives-on-Mum's-side Christmas get-together, and Christmas dinner proper, which is usually Mum, Dad, me, my brother's family, and my mother's two sisters. Or my sister's family, or both. So I don't tend to get all partied out.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't either. It's the expectations people place on others that I find opressive.