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I will probably have to get a paid account just so that I can have more userpics. My current choices are all text-heavy, and I'd like to have some that were just imagery, for balance.

It's probably wrong that I think about these things.

Someone really ought to write a Short Treatise on userpics. People's choices, design elements, creative solutions for size limitations, symbolic systems... I've seen such amazingly clever collages and layerings in that tiny 100 x 100 space. I love the way the stress of limitations makes people's creativity flower. It's a bit like Jane Austen's little bit of ivory, two inches wide.

Very fun evening looking at frock coat patterns with K. and going through her incredible collection of velvets. She is going to take the scattered scraps and scrapes of fabric remnants I have and make me a motley that Harlequin would envy.

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