14valentines Day #3 - Kanji icons #208 - #273

[darkhavens]

Day three of 14valentines focusses on Body Image.

Kanji Icons #001 - #102
Kanji icons #103 - #207

Kanji icons #208 - #273

This is the halfway point in the alphabet. More soon!

As before, comments are nice - credit is only necessary for the icons with text - the textless ones may be used as bases.


home, family
208 209 210

honesty, integrity, loyalty
211 212

hunter
213 214

infinite
215 216

inner sanctuary
217 218

inspiration
219 220

integrity, uprightness
221 222

inventor
223 224

joy
225 226

justice, righteousness
227 228

karma
229 230

key
231 232

laugh, smile
233 234 235

leader, chief, boss
236 237

238 239

learn
240 241

life
242 243

literature
244 245

living only for the pleasures of the moment
246 247 248

logic
249 250

love, affection
251 252

love, be in love, beloved
253 254

loyal, faithful
255 256 257

memory, remembrance, remember
258 259 260

mirror
261 262

mom
263 264

morality, integrity
265 266 267

mother
268 269

mother nature
270 271

music
272 273




Body Image is a subject I know something about, being, as the medical profession puts it, 'morbidly obese'. If I go to see the doc, my weight is always the first thing the he focusses on, no matter what ailment I'm suffering from, and if my blood pressure and cholesterol levels get checked, they always end up being redone because the results come back fine and normal and that can't possibly be right, now can it? (Though it invariably, repeatably, is.)

I grew up hearing, 'If you just lost the puppy fat you'd be pretty' and 'She'd be lovely if she weren't so... you know'. I spent a lot of my childhood depressed and on diets, none of which worked worth a damn and did nothing but screw up my metabolism.

The thing is, if I want to, I can still kiss my own toes. *g* Big doesn't mean inflexible. I can still dance the night away, and I can still take home a pretty young thing or a big strapping bodybuilder if I so desire because, yeah, I'm flexible and I have stamina.

I've learned to do what makes me happy, and if that means eating an extra chocolate or three and buying a blouse a size bigger than I need to, just because I like the wiggle room, I smile while I do it.

Nobody's perfect, and real life doesn't come with an airbrush artist ready to smooth away the odd wrinkle or stray hair. Most of the time, the only person who sees your 'flaws' is you. Stop looking for them, please.



Day #4 Kanji Icons #274 - #370
V-Day Kanji Icons #371 - #602

Comments

[literati.livejournal.com]

yay! they're all so lovely!

::tackles::

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

thank you, baybee! :D

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

First, I have to thank you for doing body image. That hit home like a ton of bricks. After reading that, I'm done calling myself fat. I am now going to be zaftig. It sounds less like a moral judgment.

I've been loving these icons; I don't think I told you. I've been waiting for the right word to take for my default icon, but it hasn't come up yet. I know I'll know it when I see it. I was hoping you'd do Hope.

I took literature. I thought it would be cool to use with my 50bookchallenge.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the icons, and that what I've said has hit home. Curves are nothing to be ashamed of. Look at ancient fertility symbol - if it's female, she has curves and rolls and bulges. She's zaftig! (Such a wonderful word. :D )


I don't have a 'hope' kanji in the collection I amassed from online, but I have just googled and found this (http://kanji.sapp.org/cgi-bin/kinfo?a=s&en=hope&order=&ordertype=seq&strokemin=1&strokemax=22&submit=search), which is a collection of six different possibilities. If you want to choose one, I'll make it up and add it to the next batch. We all need a bit of hope!

[spikedluv]

Lovely! I snagged another handful. Some of them I liked, and some I thought would be perfect for some of my favorite characters. *g* Thanks so much for sharing them!

(And your comment about self-image struck a chord. Thank you for saying it, because I need to hear things like that. Over and over. *g*)

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Character icons, what a wonderful idea. :D

{{{hugs you}}} I wavered about adding a personal body image viewpoint to this post, but I'm glad I did. You're the second person to thank me for it and that's two more than I really expected, not because it wouldn't resonate with others, but because it's still almost a taboo to say 'I'm not a twiglet, and I don't care!'

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Snagging 226 and 241. And what you wrote about yourself, matches much about me as well. Only much more eloquently put. :)

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And {{{hugs}}}

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

I love these icons.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Me too, though i never expected to post 602 of them. (My hand still aches from all the copying and pasting of code. *g*)

[sparrowhawk17.livejournal.com]

These are great!! I really like what you said about body image...I think it's something a lot of people need to hear.

Thanks.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! {{{hugs}}}