Pre-Post Poll

[odditycollector]

I've been thinking a bit about my icons, lately. More specifically, I've been thinking about *how* I think of them. It's actually pretty interesting.

Of course, before I can come to any proper conclusions, I'd like to know what *other* people think about them...



[Poll #933278]


Thanks a lot!

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

(1) I don't envision anyone or anything when reading posts.

(2) I recognize the 1602 icon not as a scene from 1602, but as an abstract pattern of colors. I think this has something to do with how often I see default icons--eventually they lose visual meaning for me unless I stop and look at them carefully.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

(1) *nods* I almost had that as an option. (And the wording is a bit weird, I admit. "Mental image" might have been a better way to explain what I was asking about.)

(2) Heh! *gestures at yours* I know what you mean. (It's actually one of the things that I was pondering when I posted this poll.)

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

(2) Mine is pretty abstract to start with (I think so, anyway), but I actually get a fair number of comments on the text from Swedish people. Go figure.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm kind of weird!

See, there are icons I associate with you sort of vaguely, but like everyone else on my friends list - like everyone I know - to me, you're actually a specific assemblage of colors and pattern that means you. For online people, this is based entirely on their usernames unless I know them so well that I think of them entirely as their real names. (This is why I have a nervous breakdown whenever anyone on my friends list changes usernames: it's a new color set! Soon, it will acquire a new color/pattern all its own, because it's a name! Which means that this is OMG a whole new person!)

For this to make any sense, you have to know - numbers, letters, and certain words are colors to me. (Like, the letters T, U, E, S, D, A, Y all are their own colors - yellow-brown, murky gray-blue, yellow, white with a black outline, blue, bright red, off-white - but the word Tuesday, and the day itself, is greenish yellow.)

So the letters of your username are their own colors, but I've been reading you long enough for you to acquire your very own color and pattern. And that is how I picture you, and think of you, and so it was hard to answer this when I kept thinking, "But my mental image of Karen/odditycollector has nothing to do with her icons!"

But, you know, I made the effort. Because I cannot resist the lure of a poll.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

That's really cool!

(What about colour words? Are they associated with the colours they mean? What about rarely used except in badfic colour words, like verdant or ochre or saffron? Or things that *are* a colour, like bananas? Or... I'll shut up now.)

Well, one more question. What *is* the pattern you imagine me as? :D