over years i've created a number of custom emoji, mainly for discord. i like the expressive power of a good graphic, though a lot of these fall into the category of "literally just text" - but it's useful to be able to react post with an oft-repeated line.
in this post i want to catalog the emojis i've made, though i'll be omitting emojis that i was only responsible for cropping, recoloring, or otherwise polishing for use. now, on to the pngs.
i'll start this off with one of the undoubtedly most important:
next, for context, a poster in several servers i frequent has a :notwrong: emoji:
i did NOT create this emoji, it's just one of those images that floats around, endlessly re-stolen
it's extremely useful for expressing a "not wrong, i guess, but" sentiment, often toward jokes and hyperbolic statements. to oversimplify, it means "i agree, by technicality."
but sometimes, you someone says something that isn't necessarily wrong but it's kinda off. it's tempting to reach for an inverse "not right" emoji - but that means something different, doesn't it? we want something that conveys "i disagree, by technicality." anyway, that resulted in this:
a theme among a lot of emojis i've created is that they express various flavors of agreement. a few servers have a :agree: emoji that's just a green checkmark. i have uncountable variants of :this:, usually designed as the word beneath an arrow pointing upward, though i do have one maverick :that: emoji of the same mold, which i feel has a certian je ne sais quoi. there's also :thistbh:, which is just the text "this tbh", but no one seems to agree whether it should be pink, red, or yellow - one of them is even recolored in pride colors.
i digress. the thing about "this" is that they are, ultimately, some form of emphatic endorsement. if you just want to convey compromise or acknowledgement? i've found this emoji useful:
in a similar vein, i created this design to mean :bad_on_purpose: - people liked it, though it's use fell off after a while.
the next two require a big of context i can't fully convey in a blogpost with so many other emojis to get through. they were made for the alexanderwales discord, inspired by his series Thresholder. the fourth book of that series sees the protagonist visit a world dominated by "the culture", which i will oversimplify as a kind of high fantasy communism.
key to how the culture functions is there are idioms of self-policing. you say "that's the culture" or "that's not the culture" to declare, essentially, whether it's philosophy pro-social or not.
early in the story, for instance, the protagonist needs clothes, and encounters a "library" of clothes where he can just take the garments he needs. they're free? what's stopping people from just greedily taking all the clothes for themselves?
"that's not the culture"
these emojis could server as a way for a community to indicate what suits its vibes and what doesn't. :thatsculture: kind of works - but a lot of people can't resist reacting :notculture: to things they just disagree with
similarly, that server briefly had a problem where some users would have overly personal conversations in public in a way that made people uncomfortable or irritate those used to reading through every message in a channel. it inspired the creation of these emojis, but they were never adopted or used:
next, one server i'm in has a :msc: emojis, which stands for "many such cases", but the emoji itself is an inscurtable design. i think it's a ship? with crates ("cases"?) above the text "msc". very hard to parse.
my answer is simple, and people seem to like it:
but sometimes, the such cases aren't actually many. what do you say then? "few such cases"? "some such cases"? then i had an idea - i've known nerdy people who say "n=1" when giving personal anecdotes, a gesture at the statistics-speaks for sample sizes. thus, how about an emoji that says "N>1"?
but it took some thinking to come up with a design even after figuring that out. the text alone leaves big gaps, and arranging the letters along a diagonal looked awful when i tried it. in the end, i came up with this, and i'm a bit proud of it
these two emojis were created as my take on existing emojis, but i don't think they turned out that well ultimately
the next trio of emojis were created for fics i'm big fans of. first is a thonk-ified emoji (tracing some author-commisioned art) of Shanyi from Reach Heaven Via Feng Shui Engineering, Drug Trade And Tax Evasion, and the text two are autism creature renditions of Atzi and Terra from Atzi
finally, i almost forgot to share emoji that are. uh. of my own work.
i will not be sharing the endless stars emoji because they were poorly drawn
anyway, these three are the mantis protagonists of my fic A Chimerical Hope, drawn by myself. Awelah is a brooding, hot-tempered avenger inspired by Sasuke, Makuja is a meek and demure young girl (dw about why she's giving you that look) and Ooliri is trying his best
next, we have :vesper:. this symbol was designed to convey the nature of the vespers, symbiotic magical chimeras central to the setting, especially as they relate to the magical substance called Black Nerve (which gives the setting its name).
it evokes a sun setting, orbited by motes of enervate and emitting rays of enervation, and the rays emerging resemble the royal brand of the sun-cutter king, creator of magic and beloved by the vespers. every vesperbane summons a similar glyph in their hand when they wield their power over black nerve. (i'm not lying or trying to deny the murder drones influence.)
finally, there is :weevil:
i'm not sure why i created this emoji. the weevils in black nerve are perfectly ordinary and have never done anything eldritch or objectionable.
LGBTQ+ color coded tags — part of my AO3 Tweaks collection
an Add-on that color-codes LGBTQ+ tags on AO3 using their corresponding pride flag colors — so you can see at a glance what identities are in a fic while you're browsing✨
covers up to 30 orientations and the code is really detailed so hopefully any related tag variation will get picked up!
How to install?
Log into AO3 and go to Dashboard → Skins → My Site Skins → Create Site Skin (or click on the link it will take you straight to it)
Give it a name, then paste the code into the CSS field
Click Submit and then Use to activate it!
Code found here :
lgbt-tags-light.css — for light themes
lgbt-tags-dark.css — for dark themes
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- based on a CSS by @blackbatcats
- inspired by Highlight AO3 Tags by @mistbornhero
Hiii! Would you mind making some bird themed graphics? like userboxes, stamps, and blinkies preferably in a style similar to some of the stamps youve made in the past (like the ones on the "stamps i made a while ago" & "some older stamps that i like" posts) but anythings fine really! Thank you!!
i Think this is the style i did for those? i was kind of doing it normal style minus coloring the borders (which i did on some of these oops. realized after rereading the ask) so i hope they turned out like you wanted ^^;; also sorry i really like bearded vultures
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