I looked that up, and it sounds beautiful. Southeastern Wisconsin, maybe I can get up there someday. I noticed that it was created by a glacier. Down here is the boundary of the ice's farthest reach south. We have some magnificent deep black soil courtesy of that. Farther south it turns to yellow and red clay.
>>I didn't realize that about heart-shaped figures.<<
You can put almost anything into "I (image) (name)" but people are use to seeing "I (heart) Chicago" or whatever. So the closer something is to a heart shape, the easier and faster it is to parse. The Canadian maple leaf has three lobes to the heart's two but there are still those left and right lobes visible to evoke the connection. A cheese wedge has the wide rounded top and the sharp point at the bottom, if oriented correctly, just missing the upper notch.
>>The cheese wedge idea would probably be the easier to a) find or b) articulate to someone sketching or printing, though.<<
I think so, yes.
>>I have to admit, my first thought on hearing you'd been up to Madison for conventions is ooh, have you ever been to WisCon? <<
I have been to WisCon several times. It was wonderful at first. Later on, I don't know, something changed. It went from very tolerant to stuffy and uncomfortable. They hassled the transfolk and the men and the conservatives. I'm not comfortable with people hassling my friends. Also I'm not a perfect match for the female body I'm wearing, and that made the space very weird for me. So I quit going. I think I'd be more inclined to go back to Madison than to WisCon. We loved the city.
>>As for Bailey noticing Quinn, he might not be the only one Bailey notices in some way or other, though I have the... ahem clearest idea of things regarding those two.<<
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Re: Welcome!
Date: 2012-12-02 02:06 am (UTC)I looked that up, and it sounds beautiful. Southeastern Wisconsin, maybe I can get up there someday. I noticed that it was created by a glacier. Down here is the boundary of the ice's farthest reach south. We have some magnificent deep black soil courtesy of that. Farther south it turns to yellow and red clay.
>>I didn't realize that about heart-shaped figures.<<
You can put almost anything into "I (image) (name)" but people are use to seeing "I (heart) Chicago" or whatever. So the closer something is to a heart shape, the easier and faster it is to parse. The Canadian maple leaf has three lobes to the heart's two but there are still those left and right lobes visible to evoke the connection. A cheese wedge has the wide rounded top and the sharp point at the bottom, if oriented correctly, just missing the upper notch.
>>The cheese wedge idea would probably be the easier to a) find or b) articulate to someone sketching or printing, though.<<
I think so, yes.
>>I have to admit, my first thought on hearing you'd been up to Madison for conventions is ooh, have you ever been to WisCon? <<
I have been to WisCon several times. It was wonderful at first. Later on, I don't know, something changed. It went from very tolerant to stuffy and uncomfortable. They hassled the transfolk and the men and the conservatives. I'm not comfortable with people hassling my friends. Also I'm not a perfect match for the female body I'm wearing, and that made the space very weird for me. So I quit going. I think I'd be more inclined to go back to Madison than to WisCon. We loved the city.
>>As for Bailey noticing Quinn, he might not be the only one Bailey notices in some way or other, though I have the... ahem clearest idea of things regarding those two.<<
That sounds like fun.