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Patriot icons, anyway?

Want an icon like the above? Comment with a link to a photo of you (unless I know what you look like already) or with a doll of you, and what flag you want. I know that many of you guys are multiracial, so you get to choose which origin you want to flaunt.

I can't do multiple flags in one icon, sorry. ♥

So, as most of you know, I was born in LA, travelled around the world until I was four, spent a year in Australia, then lived in Austria until I was eighteen, at which point I moved to America for college.

And yet, my patriot pride icon is a Sri Lankan one, even though I'm only Sri Lankan genetically and fly down there twice a year at the most. I'm not a good Sri Lankan girl -- I don't have long hair, have no plans on getting married, am not Buddhist, wear inappropriate clothing, have no interest in tele-dramas and think the civil war is stupid. I think Sri Lanka has too many mosquitoes and I hate the way guys stare at me when I'm there. The crime rate is appalling and the Sri Lankan tendency to create traffic jams out of nothing more than a cart and a bullock is insane.

None of that really matters, though, because when it comes down to it, Sri Lanka is a tiny little island shaped like a teardrop, and it's where I come from. That's why my icon doesn't say 'American Pride'; there are already enough Americans around to be proud of their homeland. I think it's time someone took a turn at being proud of being Sri Lankan.

~~And hey, at least we never invaded Iraq.~~

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Because I'm completely stupid on the topic "wear inappropriate clothing" ... should I do a google search? XDD

I think the icons are very awesome, though. xD When y'can do one of a "fangirl pride" ^_~ I kid, I kid.

>.> I'm back. I love these. A lot. xD I think... I think I'll choose... ~~Texas. Germany.~~ Good old' Poland. Polish Pride, sure. xD *nods* At least I did research on Poland in school before. Now, this'll push me to do it again and then some! >D

DUH. Forgot to add: Pick whichever look of mine you want to use or what you vibe with me with xD

Queen of the Gutter sexy-style! XD

Oh yes. Look at me and my sexyness with my Polish Pride.

BWHAHAHA.

If you can't tell, I love it.

Sexy Dani! Queen of the Gutter has to inspire lustful thoughts, after all, right? XDDDD

YAY for you liking it!

&BEAMS* XDDD yeah, except is the Queen of the Gutter and Dani so much alike in that? XD

I LOVE it. I should show my mom.

Oh wow, these are really cool! :D I'd love it if you could make one for me... photo here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/lfangor/my_photos/hair02.jpg), with the Scottish flag (the Saltire, not the Rampant Lion). It's totally awesome of you to offer to make these~ ♥

So much icon love. XD

And tada! Here you go.

Hope it's to your liking -- changing your hair to try to match the photo took surprisingly long but I think it came out decently in the end!

Hee, awesomeness! Thanks so much! :3

You're welcome, glad you like it! XD

There are a couple of pictures of me on my LJ picspace<3 How about the Israeli flag with "Jew Pride"?

And on a different note... I'm thinking of leaving MA on Monday, which means I'd need a polace to crash on Sunday night. Or something. If I can figure out a way to get to your college from Chelmsford... ♥

I actually had to make it Jewish Pride to fit properly with the rest of the icons, but apart from that, I hope it's what you want. XD Your hair is SO SHORT!

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=52624946

Navajo. Be creative if you must. ^^

And dernit, log on more often! I miss you. =P

I can't see the pictures, it says I have to be logged-in. *doesn't have a MySpace account!*

And MSN has been weird for me lately. Add me again or give me whatever e-mail addy you use and I'll try adding you again?

Okay.... it's LTaylor112524@hotmail.com...

Tada!

Booyah! Thank you! <3

You're welcome! Credit it to

icon_d in your keywords, if possible, please. XD

Link to Flag (http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/flag_of_trinidad_and_tobago.shtml). The Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. (It'd be Trini Pride)

And I sent you the doll image. It's from -ages- ago. But there yah'go. Me at my best in my doll version ;p

Tada! Here you go, doll. ♥ That has got to be the longest country name I've done for icons so far.

WHeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

*hugs and loves and adores and stamps on you* Thanks, hon.

...I've been STAMPED on? XD That doesn't sound too loving to me!

But wheeeeeeeeeeeee back. ♥ Glad you like it.

I was admiring that Sri Lanka icon of yours recently, too. ^_________^

The Dude!~ME~! icon. Do I look more Polish, Irish, English, Russian, Austrian or Hungarian? xD

My last name is teh long, wtf-this-doesn't-even-look-how-you-say-it last name (aka., aaah~~!!-why-the-hell-is-there-a-z-there-?), so I suppose Poland wins. It's the first thing people see on my paperwork, anyway. And I speak a tiny bit of Polish (though I can't spell it to save my life). xD

And in case the green of that icon throws you off on my true complexion/hair colour:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/ego_chan/Image6.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/ego_chan/Image5.png
Pics of me and my Young Sherlock Holmes camera whoring for

measuringlife, who sent that book to me.

And if the book destracted you, some flat out camera whoring:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/ego_chan/Image1.png

*shameless*

I tried to find pics where my hair was down or visible. I love pictures of me, but I never realised that I hardly got my hair into the fun. That's so horrible, right? I love my hair. It needs to speak up some more.

And if you're bored, you can always make me an Irish icon, too, even if I only know two words of Irish and a whole lot of nothing about Ireland.

Hm. Any chance you'd rather have an Irish one? XD Because I already made Poland for Dani and if I make Poland again for you, I'll end up having to use the same background/flag and it's more fun if all the icons are unique.

If it really bugs you to make another Polish, go ahead and make an Irish one. I am as much Irish as I am Polish as far as I care, even if people never consider me to be Irish (my father was 50/50 Polish/Irish, but our last name is 100%). I usually just claim Polish because of the very obvious last name and the fact that over half my heritage is Eastern European. Still, I may yet change my last name to Kelly, and two random guys I met were debating with each other becasue one thought I looked Polish and the other though I looked Irish. xD

But, if you ever have any inspiration to remake the Polish icon, consider it? You see, for superficial reasons, the Irish flag tragically has none of my favourite colours. My favourite colour is red. lol.

Tada. You got an Irish one :P But I really do think it's cooler than the Polish one because I tend to associate you with green, weirdly enough.

The question I thought you were going to answer under the cut is: how come your pride is so much less specific than the others? The Welsh icon doesn't have "European pride", and I would have thought that you of all people would be reluctant to be lumped together with Russians, Kazakhs, Japanese and a couple of billion other people with whom you have relatively little in common.

I might even say that's the kind of thing an American would do. :)

Malcolm

XD Honestly? It's because my icon is the one that I made first, ages ago. If you watch it carefully, you'll see that firstly, the animation for the flag isn't as smooth so there's a white, jagged outline around it and that I missed out on erasing bits of the doll so it's white between her arm and body, and between her legs. So I put up 'Asian Pride' there just because I couldn't get 'Sri Lankan Pride' to fit in a way that looked good.

The second icon I made is the Kiwi Pride one -- the guy I made it for pointed out that in order to be consistant, I'd have to say 'Oceania Pride', but I decided that sounded stupid and didn't fit properly on the space available so I just stuck down Kiwi Pride instead. Sri Lanka doesn't have a quick little nickname like that, alas. Still, there's no way that I would have used 'New Zealander Pride' since it's just too long.

The 'Welsh Pride' icon nearly ended up with 'British Pride', since it was the third one I made, but I decided that it made more sense to stick to keeping it country themed. Alex asked specifically for 'Tribal Pride' on his icon, so that's why it says that instead of 'Navajo Pride'. XD

Basically, it comes down to what looks good and what people want. And in the case of my icon, I didn't think too deeply about it, I just figured 'Asian Pride' looked better and hey, at least it's a good reminder that there are other countries out there besides Japan in Asia!

I don't know if you have time for another, but if you do:

Barbados: Bajan Pride (flag (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Barbados.svg/750px-Flag_of_Barbados.svg.png))

Thanks!

adrian

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Wow!