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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033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
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049	050	051	052
053	xxx	xxx	xxx

Hiiii~ I’ve uploaded a new layout, but I haven’t actually made any icons yet. That said, I’ll edit this post with icons once I’ve made some. Which should be in a day or two since I have absolutely nothing else to waste my time doing.

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve added a twitter feed to the site. Take note that this is my personal/everything twitter and what the feed shows might not be site related. Considering I tweet about everything and often times what I’m doing/planning on doing, I figure it’d be useful enough. Now you guys can know I’m not dead when I don’t update for a few months. Which is inevitably going to happen this summer when I’m away from home for days/weeks at at time. :Va

By all means, chat at me or ask me questions on twitter. So long as you say who you are, I’ll respond. Affiliates can also use this as a way to keep in touch/contact me if they don’t have msn. I have a really bad habit of not checking my email like I should. ;;;

If anyone is curious, I’m okay now. I obviously still miss my cat, but I’m not as depressed as I was.

2011.04.17 EDIT:\\ Okay, I take that back. I have absolutely no idea when I will update next as of right now. I had to have my cat euthanized today and I’ll probably be mourning for a while. She was my baby and this was just so sudden. I really don’t want to do much beyond cry right now. I still subconsciously wander around the house looking for her before I realize “oh, she’s not here anymore.” I grew up with that cat and I really, really miss her now that she’s gone. At least now she’s not suffering anymore. ;_;

This is just a notice to let everyone know that I haven’t forgotten about rhodesia. Admittedly, I have nothing new to add at the moment and might not for a while, but I figured I’d at least let everyone know why I haven’t been updating.

1. I was sick for a good two weeks and didn’t want to get out of bed or do anything at all, really.
2. I’ve been having to take some classes for my soon to be job on top of my casual studies.
3. I’ve been a bit preoccupied with other things online.
4. My cat is sick and, on top of worrying, I’m having to make sure she eats/drinks well.

Needless to say, I’m pretty stressed out at the moment. I hope to have an update up within the next few weeks, but it all really depends on how everything pans out right now.

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

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STAR DRIVER: Kagayaki no Takuto

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	012
013	014	xxx	xxx

Tales of Destiny

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Tales of Graces

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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

Tales of Hearts

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005	006	007	xxx

Tales of the Abyss

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005	006	007	xxx

Tales of Vesperia

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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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009	010	011	012
013	014	015	016
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021	022	023	024
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029	030	031	032
033	034	035	036
037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044
045	046	047	048
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061	062	063	064
065	066	067	068
069	070	071	072
063	074	075	076

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

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks

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009	010	011	012
013	xxx	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

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BLAZBLUE

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Hetalia

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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

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Pokemon

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005	006	007	008

Touhou

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005	006	007	008
009	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	022	023	024

This is a bloggish post to let you guys know I’m not dead. It’s quite the opposite, actually. I can assure you that I’m not “tired of graphic design and don’t want to do it anymore.” It’s just that my second favorite thing ever, gaming, has taken the front burner as of late. Oh yes.

In early May I finally bought SoulSilver (which I held out on buying, haha!) and was caught up playing that for a few weeks. Then I started replaying Tales of Hearts. Then on my birthday I got the current love of my life: a PS3 slimline. Oh, it’s so shiny and nice. /loves on it. ♥

Needless to say I was inseperable from that thing for a good week and am just now prying myself away from it a bit thanks to buying Ace Attorney Investgations (which I’m almost done with… ffffff—). I’ve gone through 15 out of 16 chapters on Resonance of Fate and 9 out of 16 chapters on Bayonetta and I just bought myself Star Ocean 4 International. fffffff—-. I’m currently in the process of getting myself Eternal Sonata as well. I’d say Tales of Vesperia too, but that’s probably going to be the last game on my list I get due to costs. Needless to say, I’ve got somewhat of a backlog.

To be completely honest with you guys, I have a long list of games outside of those I’ve listed (10+) I want to obtain and play through. I’m also going to my aunts sometime this summer, but I need to arrange a time where I won’t have to go camping. I get super sick in extreme heat and can’t handle that junk. I’ve actually nearly passed out in a store before because of the heat. And we live in the valley to boot so we normally doesn’t see the high 80/90s and rarely see the 100s that where they live gets up to. :(

Anyway, I have some icons made that I’ll undoubtedly add to the site as soon as I have the time to sit down and code the tables for a good 100-200 icons.

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. :>

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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

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013	014	015	016
017	018	019	020
021	022	xxx	xxx

Evangelion

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Axis Powers Hetalia

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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	106	107	108
109	110	111	112
113	114	115	116
117	118	xxx	xxx

Kingdom Hearts

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005	006	007	008
009	010	xxx	xxx

Persona3

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

Star Ocean

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005	006	007	008
009	xxx	xxx	xxx

Tales of Hearts

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005	006	007	008
009	010	011	xxx

Tales of Symphonia

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

Tales of Vesperia

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

Vocaloid

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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