Oh wow, it’s been a month since I said I was going to update and then didn’t. Sorry about that, guys. I’ve had some real life worries lately and spent what free time I got trying to get my mind off of them. Strictly speaking, getting ready for working this summer, looking for a new kitten, and other life-related things have pretty much eaten up my time. /sigh. Being an adult is hard! In my opinion, you guys that are still in school have no idea how easy you actually have it. lol. It’s like, “wow! The real world really sucks!” when you actually have to start fending for yourself.

Anyhoo, during the last month, I’ve gotten a forum up. This was done for various reasons, which would take to long to explain. In short, I will be posting all resources on the forum from now on. Resources being tutorials, lyrics (useful for text on icons/layouts!), scans, screencaps, etc. I might even post icon bases from time to time. However, the resource part of the forum is hidden to everyone but members, so you will have to join to see the resources. The resources are hidden so that no one can steal them easily. I’ve had that problem before and it’s a royal pain.

It’s more or less a general forum, so feel free to join and post around. I have a feeling it’ll more or less be used as a resource dump, but there’s no reason to not try to have general conversation too!

Also, since I hadn’t gotten a chance to check my email and it got spammed to high heaven, if you sent an affiliation/link exchange request and didn’t receive a reply, feel free to send it again! I couldn’t really sift through what was spam and what wasn’t so, in the end, everything got deleted.

Anyhoo, on to the icons. 53 icons, all Touhou. woo~!

Touhou Project

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
049	050	051	052
053	xxx	xxx	xxx

It seems as though quite a few people lately are iconing Starry Sky and it kinda makes me sad because my biases are almost always left out. Well, unless it’s Tomoe, but that’s beside the point. Why no love for Kotanii and Iku? And Miyaji is so moe and tsuntsun that it hurts. Oh man, my biases run deep.

Because of that, I decided to make some Starry Sky icons! I don’t even know what happened because this turned into a monster before I realized it. And before you guys go “she made how many?!?“, please note that most of these are sprite icons. I do have plans to make sprite icons of all the guys, but the winter ones will be a while since I refuse to look at them before I play in Winter. The sprites and CGs are half the fun!

I also want to note that, one, using the screenshot feature of the portable games to get CGs makes me rage. I had to use that for a few CGs and I just can’t with that anymore. My clone tool-fu is terrible. Two, with icons like this I tend to just pick a colouring that works best and stick with it until I need to revise it for a different character/picture. That said, there isn’t much variation in colouring here. My colouring also doesn’t effect white space and I don’t like going overboard with brightness/contrast. It’s there, but subtle if there’s a white background. Ironically enough, it seems a bit dark to me with mid-toned images. Buuuh, I can’t win, can I?

While I’m on the topic of Stasuka, while I stan the VNs like burning (maybe not so much with in Spring. Oh geez, the script was so bad…), my brain denies the anime on the most basic level. I just…I can’t. Way to make Tomoe sound like a stalker within the first ep. /facepalm. I didn’t stick with it long enough, but something tells me they didn’t make his dad as hilarious as he actually is. “Is that your girlfriend?! I WANNA TALK TO HER.” “NO DAD, NO. SHE’S MY GIRLFRIEND AND I WANNA TALK TO HER.” bahaha. I also laughed so hard whenever someone confused Kazuki for Kanata while lurking Minitokyo. This post was such an amusing experience for me. ♥

Icons:
272 ☆ Starry Sky
├ 187 × Autumn
├ 58 × Spring
├ 10 × Summer
├ 10 × Winter
└ 7 × General
272 ★ Total

in Autumn

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
049	050	051	052
053	054	055	056
057	058	059	060
061	062	063	064
065	066	067	068
069	070	071	072
073	074	075	076
077	078	079	080
081	082	083	084
085	086	087	088
089	090	091	092
093	094	095	096
097	098	099	100
101	102	103	104
105	106	107	108
109	110	111	112
113	114	115	116
117	118	119	120
121	122	123	124
125	126	127	128
129	130	131	132
133	134	135	136
137	138	139	140
141	142	143	144
145	146	147	148
149	150	151	152
153	154	155	156
157	158	159	160
161	162	163	164
165	166	167	168
169	170	171	172
173	174	175	176
177	178	179	180
181	182	183	184
185	186	187	xxx

in Spring

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
049	050	051	052
053	054	055	056
057	058	xxx	xxx

in Summer

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	xxx	xxx

in Winter

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	xxx	xxx

General

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	xxx

Before I go into the update details, I’d like to kind of talk about rhodesia for a bit. No, I am not closing the site. I’d just like to tell you all about what goes on behind the site.

Honestly, I’ve owned rhodesia for over four years now and for about the past two or three it has become somewhat of an afterthought for me. Something I update whenever I get around to it rather than actually setting aside some time for the site. The realization of that saddened me, to be honest. rhodesia has become something near and dear to me, so I don’t want to let it go. Or more like I won’t let it go. Not yet, at least.

rhodesia has become somewhat of a pillar in my life. If the going gets tough and I need an escape, this is what I’ve got. That said, rhodesia will probably stick around until I feel that I don’t need that type of pillar anymore. I started rhodesia back in 2006 to branch out and try to spread my own wings, so to speak, in the graphic design world. Now the site has become something so much more than that. It’s my creative outlet, it’s something that puts me at peace, it’s something I very much enjoy and treasure.

To be honest, I’m kind of a lazy person that never really sticks to one thing for very long. In that sense, I’m amazed rhodesia hasn’t died off because of my flighty personality. However, at the same time I’m also very stubborn and that stubbornness is probably a good part of the reason rhodesia is still here. From now on, I’m setting aside some time in my schedule to properly maintain this site. No more afterthought/only when I feel like it updates.

Note that this doesn’t actually mean I’ll be updating every week or few weeks. I’ll probably update at least once a month, however. I just feel really, really bad that I’ve been inadvertently treating this site so badly for the past few years.

Anyway, updates hoy.

Sitely:
- Cleared up affiliates. Affiliation is now open for 3 spots. Affiliates that have been removed are more than welcome to tell me when they come back, if they do, and I’ll be happy to re-affiliate!
- New layout. Darker this time, yay!

Icons:
06 ☆ Persona4
14 ★ STAR DRIVER: Kagayaki no Takuto
04 ☆ Tales of Destiny
44 ★ tales of Graces
07 ☆ Tales of Hearts
07 ★ Tales of the Abyss
16 ☆ Tales of Vesperia
05 ★ Other (Star Ocean & Starry Sky)
103 ☆ Total

Persona4

001	002	003	004
005	006	xxx	xxx

STAR DRIVER: Kagayaki no Takuto

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	xxx	xxx

Tales of Destiny

001	002	003	004

Tales of Graces

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044

Tales of Hearts

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	xxx

Tales of the Abyss

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	xxx

Tales of Vesperia

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016

Other (Star Ocean & Starry Sky)

001	002	003	004
005	xxx	xxx	xxx

It’s been a while, no? To be completely honest, this update is long overdue because I was wasting more time on vdex than working on an update. Also, my laptop got fixed so transferring stuff was time consuming as well.

On the upside, this update is fairly sizable! There’s a new layout because, while I really liked it, I was getting bored of the old one. It’s not too flashy or anything, but I like it. Easy to look at and puts emphasis on content rather than itself. /nod.

Layout aside, I have a question for everyone. What would you like to see on rhodesia? I do make larger icons for things like vdex and last.fm that I can post. While I don’t make one very often, I also make the occasional wallpaper if anyone is interested in stuff like that too. I’d love to expand the site a little from just icons, but icons are pretty much my go-to graphic. Whatever I do add will be an occasional thing, but I don’t want to add something that there’s no real demand for.

I’m up for pretty much any of the following:
- Larger sized icons (150×150, 150×200, 126×206 etc.)
- Wallpapers (both computer and PSP if anyone is interested in PSP ones)
- Resources (tutorials and the like. Not so much textures or patterns)
- Suggestions on what to icon etc. I’m open to anything, guys!

And no, I won’t do premade layouts again. I have a hard enough time getting myself to code my own layouts to begin with. orz.

Anyway, now that that’s out of the way, content time. Let’s just pretend my Green and Trial Triangle bias isn’t showing in the Pokemon icons. Okay? Okay!

Post Contents:
16 ☆ Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (which will be known as “pansuto” in the tags)
76 ★ Pokemon
92 ☆ Total

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016

Pokemon

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
049	050	051	052
053	054	055	056
057	058	059	060
061	062	063	064
065	066	067	068
069	070	071	072
063	074	075	076

rhodesia is officially over 4 years old now! \o/

This post is about a week and a half overdue from what I had originally planned. But that’s okay, right? I bring icons and the promised screencaps this time. I can’t help but feel as if I’ve been a bit lazy though. My Torchwood DVDs arrived on the 10th and as it is right now I’ve only capped up to episode 5 of series 1. :(

That said, I have about 21 more episodes to cap and 4 episodes capped that I can icon whenever. Yay! I have no idea if I’ll cap the deleted scenes and outtakes yet. It’s a very temping idea though.

This post contains a lot of my new love in the icon world—split icons. I don’t even know how to explain it, guys. There’s just something really nice about only using half the space in an icon or having two pictures half and half. I just love experimenting with different icon styles. ♥

Post Contents:
→ Icons
17 ☆ Muse – Undisclosed Desires MV
11 ★ Pokemon
06 ☆ Tales of Graces
21 ★ Torchwood 1×01 – Everything Changes
21 ☆ Vocaloid
76 ★ Total

→ Screencaps
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd
├ Ai Kotoba (愛言葉)
├Clover Club (クローバー♣クラブ)
├ Hajimete no Koi ga Owaru Toki (初めての恋が終わる時)
├ Popipo (ぽっぴっぽー)
├ Romeo and Cinderella (ロミオとシンデレラ)
├ Sound (サウンド)
└ Yellow

Muse – Undisclosed Desires MV

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	xxx	xxx	xxx

Pokemon

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	xxx

Tales of Graces

001	002	003	004
005	006	xxx	xxx

Torchwood 1×01 – Everything Changes

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	xxx	xxx	xxx

Vocaloid

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	xxx	xxx	xxx

Screencaps – Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd

Ai Kotoba | 63 caps | 7.44MB | DL

Clover Club | 84 caps | 8.39MB | DL

Hajimete no Koi ga Owaru Toki | 43 caps | 3.95MB | DL

Popipo | 62 caps | 7.03MB | DL

Romeo and Cinderella | 72 caps | 7.32MB | DL

Sound | 36 caps | 3.37MB | DL

Yellow | 57 caps | 5.46MB | DL

I have no real excuse for this! I’ve been really bored for the past week since I literally have nothing else to do outside of cleaning. Before I knew it, what I had been saving to post turned monstrous.

That’s not to say I don’t still have plans for rhodesia’s birthday. Oh-ho, no. I still have plans for that. Although that might be a bit delayed… Simply put, expect screen captures from Project Diva 2nd. Now, note that these screen captures will be taken straight from the game via the screen capture feature and will be the standard screen size for the PSP–480×272. It’s small, but the pictures are very iconable. :)

I’ll also be getting the box sets of series 1 and 2 of Torchwood within a week or so and I won’t not icon that. Needless to say, whenever I get DVDs, expect me to icon what I get. That said, expect a lot of Torchwood and Doctor Who. Bones, Supernatural, and Stargate Atlantis are on my want list. kekeke

Post Contains:
105 ☆ Doctor Who 5×01 – The Eleventh Hour (image & text)
022 ★ Project Diva 2nd
127 ☆ Total

Doctor Who 5×01 – The Eleventh Hour

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013	014	015	016
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029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
049	050	051	052
053	054	055	056
057	058	059	060
061	062	063	064
065	066	067	068
069	070	071	072
073	074	075	076
077	078	079	080
081	082	083	084
085	086	087	088
089	090	091	092
093	094	095	096
097	098	099	100
101	102	103	104
105	xxx	xxx	xxx

Project Diva 2nd

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	xxx	xxx

Hi guys! This is a pretty small update for two reasons. Firstly, rhodesia is turning 4-years-old in a few weeks! How exciting! Owning rhodesia thus far has been such a fun and rewarding experience. I never want to let it go! ♥

Secondly, I want to have a larger update ready for rhodesia’s birthday. I really didn’t want to wait another 2 weeks to get this layout up though, so I’m just posting what I already had made. /shrug. It’s not much, but it is substantial.

Once again, I’m going to say there is some mild language in the text icons. I doubt anyone cares, but I’ll point it out to be respectful to those who don’t wish to see it.

Post Contains:
003 ☆ Doctor Who
013 ★ Never Mind the Buzzcocks (text)
016 ☆ Total

Doctor Who

001	002	003	xxx

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	xxx	xxx	xxx

EDIT:: I just noticed that if I had waited a few hours to post this all of my updates would have been on the 13th or 23rd of the month. How hilarious would that have been?

Look at me go! Updating again within a month. ♥

This post is mostly text icons. I haven’t really dabbled in the art of text icons much, but I do quite enjoy making them. I just hate adding text to icons that have an image in them. Does that make me odd? xD

Please do note that the Torchwood icons will have some mild language in them. I try to keep my site as clean as possible, but I’m 19 years old and for the love of god and I don’t watch nothing but child-friendly shows. I hardly think language is an issue anymore these days, but I’ll add a warning just in case for those that don’t want to see it.

And before I forget, I’ve added 1 new affiliate and 2 new link exchanges. Be sure to visit them if you haven’t already. ♥ヾ(＾ヮ＾； )

Post Contains:
011 ☆ Doctor Who (4 image, 7 text)
042 ★ Torchwood (all text)
053 ☆ Total

Doctor Who

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	xxx

Torchwood

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	xxx	xxx

Oh, what have we hereeee? New layout. Hooray~ \o/

This is kind of…belated. I’m so sorry for the lack of updates. Life has been kicking my butt. And one of my friends started playing Persona3 and decided to mention it to me so IHADTOPLAYITTOOOMG.

But yes! I come with not only the new layout, but icons too! I’m so proud of myself. ☆ヾ(≧ヮ≦)

Post Contains:
024 ☆ Bakemonogatari
005 ★ BLAZBLUE (ougawd. I fangirl Jin too much)
062 ☆ Hetalia
004 ★ Persona (3 & 4)
008 ☆ Pokemon
009 ★ Touhou
024 ☆ Vocaloid
136 ★ Total

Bakemonogatari

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024

BLAZBLUE

001	002	003	004
005	xxx	xxx	xxx

Hetalia

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
049	050	051	052
053	054	055	056
057	058	059	060
061	062	xxx	xxx

Persona

001	002	003	004

Pokemon

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008

Touhou

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	xxx	xxx	xxx

Vocaloid

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024

EDIT// 2010.03.14 @ 17:45
All icons and posts outside of this post have been purged and the new icons are up. D8 It took me over an hour to code these tables. No lie.

Some of the icons posted here have not yet been posted to colourpop. I was rushing this post so I didn’t finish the icon post I was working on for colourpop before posting this. :>

—————————————————————-

I’m basically just uploading the layout for now. It’s 11pm and I’m quite tired. xD

The update will consist of over 200 icons and I’m too lazy to code the tables for all of this before bed. I’m sitting at 234 atm. However, since I’m still working on more icons it’ll probably be closer to 300 knowing my iconing habits as of late. orz.

I’m also contemplating how I want to sort said icons. Having them all in one folder gets a bit…confusing? I guess that’d be the word. It’s sheer insanity to have over 300 icons in one folder. xD

Post Contains:
022 ☆ BLAZBLUE
007 ★ Evangelion
118 ☆ Axis Powers Hetalia
010 ★ Kingdom Hearts
024 ☆ Persona3
009 ★ Star Ocean
011 ☆ Tales of Hearts
017 ★ Tales of Symphonia
023 ☆ Tales of Vesperia
032 ★ Vocaloid
273 ☆ Total

BLAZBLUE

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	xxx	xxx

Evangelion

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	xxx

Axis Powers Hetalia

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
049	050	051	052
053	054	055	056
057	058	059	060
061	062	063	064
065	066	067	068
069	070	071	072
073	074	075	076
077	078	079	080
081	082	083	084
085	086	087	088
089	090	091	092
093	094	095	096
097	098	099	100
101	102	103	104
105	106	107	108
109	110	111	112
113	114	115	116
117	118	xxx	xxx

Kingdom Hearts

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	xxx	xxx

Persona3

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024

Star Ocean

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	xxx	xxx	xxx

Tales of Hearts

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	xxx

Tales of Symphonia

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	xxx	xxx	xxx

Tales of Vesperia

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	xxx

Vocaloid

001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024
025	026	027	028
029	030	031	032