Quick thread.... Laurel approved icons??

[Starfish]

Laurel, Madame, Darling Tweet,

If I took pics of my face with different expressions, made little tiny icons out of them like your smilies, and used them instead of your smilies would you be hurt?

I like your smilies, but I like my idea.

That way people will get a clearer impression of what I really mean. <<<<< See, I am not really smiling right now, but making a sort of smile/uncertain look cause I don't know what you think. See? You'd not know that, now would you? (See? Sarcasm! Yet not in the way that you'd think. I am actually kind of staring blankly with a bit of a complacent smugness in my eyes.)


Well, It wouldn't be anytime soon, but this way I'd be a bit more clear on whether I should bother doing it.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Oh my God that's a brilliant idea.

 

[Renegade]

It's a very interesting idea to say the least. Especialy since the smilies have become the same color with the exception of the frog one. This adds some variety.

 

[Cirrus]

Just so you don't use the ones they're using on another board I go to. I don't where they're coming from, but you might have seen them. Smiles that jump up and down, smilies that spank each other, smilies that eat, drink and poop. It's gone too far. At first they were clever but now it's nothin' but smilies over there.

I do like your idea, though. Tone is hard to read in text. That might help. Unfortunately I have one of those "if I show my face on a porn site, bye bye job" kind of jobs. I'm going to be an early childhood teacher. That should explain it. I student teach right now, and if Mrs. Jones finds out Johnny's student teacher posts on a porn board, well...so if you make them, can I bum them off you?

 

[cymbidia]

I'm a teacher too; there are a number of us here who are, as a matter of fact. None of us can show our faces.

My middle school (i teach science and sex ed to 13-14 year olds) is in a smallish town wherein every kid has thier own computer, as do all of thier parents. The odds that no one from that small, friendly, everyone-knows-everyone community will ever stumble into Lit, never read a thread on which my face was showing (should i toss it around carelessly) aren't good. In any case, there are people in my life who have *no* clue what i do behind closed doors. While i'm not opposed to talking about it, it's not what i shout from the rooftops, either.

So, here at Lit, i don't mind showing a pierced nipple or two, or the occasional BDSM-themed (carefully identity-concealed) pic, but i sure as hell can't show my face or any personally identifying marks. Never will.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I don't mind smilies, but I don't think I've ever used one myself. I find that if you pepper your posts with enough well chosen adjectives and adverbs "tone" comes through just fine.

 

[Tabby432]

There's no condescending smilie anyway.

 

[Renegade]

Ouch.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

There's no condescending smilie anyway.

When you realized that there were already 431 Tabbys on the Internet didn't it occur to you that "Pussy" would work just as well?

 

[Tabby432]

No. I'll go ask Laurel for that name change now. Perhaps, Dick would be more apt for you? I'll ask.

 

[Starfish]

Lol. You two are funny funny funny.


Redundancy isn't plural.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

LOL Yeah. Good one.

 

[Tabby432]

Starfish

Where are the smilies? It's a great idea.

 

[Bluetrain]

"where are the smilies.."

dear god; it sounds like a song...

anyway, I have a question and a comment

1. How do I change my side info? I've been a "virgin" for quite som etime. When does that change? Also, how can I put a nifty graphic (is that what an avatar is?) and a witty AKA beneath my screen name? And how can I change my location? Help me; i'm searching for identity..


2. I sympathize with Cymbidia and Cirrus inasmuch as I'm a teacher, too, and thus in a high risk profession when it comes to erotica. Like Cymbidia, I teach early adolescents, and rather than having a Lolita complex, I am usually so disgusted by their antics that I can't wait to get to adult material.....

cheers,

bluetrain

 

[ohiobbw]

You lose the virgin at 30 posts (your almost there!), you can have an avatar at 100 posts and you can't add a title until 1000 posts.
To edit your location, go to user cp at the top of the page, then edit profile.

1. How do I change my side info? I've been a "virgin" for quite som etime. When does that change? Also, how can I put a nifty graphic (is that what an avatar is?) and a witty AKA beneath my screen name? And how can I change my location? Help me; i'm searching for identity..

 

[Bluetrain]

thanks, ohiobbw. now I have a modicum of control here and that makes me feel a bit more secure...

so i have to post a thousand times to get a title? That's crazy! What the fuck am I going to talk about....

 

[cymbidia]

so i have to post a thousand times to get a title? That's crazy! What the fuck am I going to talk about....

~smirk~ If you can talk to early adolescents all day, you can talk to the people here. It's just about the same thing.

You toss something out.
It goes or it doesn't.
If it does, you keep it going until it stops.
If it doesn't, you try again, slightly different subject.
After a couple weeks, you test everyone on what you've been saying.

See?
You can do it.

 

[Starfish]

Oh goodie, another Dead Head? Hi Blue! If so, all I have to say is, help me in the fight to save horny Dead Heads everywhere..... Promote Lit!


Okay, really.... I've put a very little bit of thought into this, and I take Laurel's not responding as a clue that she hasn't seen this thread. Now, Laurel is a busy ass woman. There are easier ways for me to get ahold of her, but this is a dumb question and not worth much effort.

Alright, first off. DCL's comment, the first post to this thread, was a statment. A statement in which no set tone could be found. Oh, I know he did this to mystify me, and put me on edge about what he really meant, to get me all pent up and lusty, so when I did this, I'd be glowing with lust for his mystique, but the whole deal is just to common. So much of that going on around here that this poor Mid western Farm Girl, that lives in a State that actually has a town called Hicksville, can't get to pulled in cause I am not smart enough to see the true mystery. (I would use a smilie here, but I am not going to now.)

Okay, so, at that, I had some tech problems to work out in my mind, because doing a photo shoot isn't to be taken lightly, as I'll exemplify with a picture below, where an several hours prep was called for before a series of six photos where taken.

Well, so I decided to go for it. Laurel could give a cancerous rat testicle from the overexposure to Loreal nail polish. So I am on the task...Jack!

So You wanna know what a pain in the ass Lucas has to put up with, with details and such. Well, you take my delimma on how to go about this, and you blow it up about as big as my ego, and you've got a near miss.

So, I think that I, since my hair is so long, that I am going Neiman Marcus catalog with this and I will do it up right. You may not even recognize me. So, I have to ask, if exposing myself to yellow #5 and blue #whatever, and some more silver and a bit of hairclips and some goo worth me making stupid icons of my head?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Okay, Starfish, your posts are getting harder and harder to understand. Either your brain is working faster than your fingers, or this heat wave is really taking its toll on you.

My first comment was a serious one. I think it's a brilliant idea.

 

[Never]

I understood her perfectly.

 

[cymbidia]

I think it's a great idea too, Starfish but... well... umm...see, i'm not sure...
Okay.
Well.
I'm not sure *what* look or emotion or expression or mood you were going for in that pic but i'm pretty sure i've never felt like that.

Are all the icons going to be so... obtuse? I mean, with regard to the emotion being conveyed?

And what *was* that white stuff?
Did wash right off, leaving you skin younger and fresher-looking, or was it (like it looks) something deeply gooey that just clung and clung and even hot water and good soap had a tough time getting it off?

I liked the material on your head, though. Looks like some curtains my big girl has in her room.

 

[Never]

I know exactly what emotion she was going for.

 

[Starfish]

Oh Chriminy,

I am thinking you're right. I am in a self induced delirium.

I meant nothing, but that I am gonna do it. Not that I think you had alterior motive in your words.

How's that?

s'all good!

 

[Mensa]

Join the club

so i have to post a thousand times to get a title? That's crazy! What the fuck am I going to talk about.... [/B]

Nothing! Just like the rest of us.

 

[Mensa]

Does she take requests?

So, here at Lit, i don't mind showing a pierced nipple or two, or the occasional BDSM-themed (carefully identity-concealed) pic, but i sure as hell can't show my face or any personally identifying marks. Never will. [/B]

She will? COOL!