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[avevale_intelligencer]

The more I read Professor Zamorra the more aware I get that we are not dealing with quality lit here. Strictly first-draft stuff bashed out by someone who is probably working on six different titles in three different genres under twelve different names while simultaneously regrouting the bathroom and minding the kids. Ah, the heady days of the pulp era are not dead. The Spirit of the Badger lives on.

It is, however, an excellent source of Evil Overlord-type clichés such as this latest icon. A small no-prize to the first guess at its meaning from a non-German-speaking reader...

EDIT: Icon removed to avoid giving offence, and because (to use another EOC) it has served its purpose...

Comments

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

Erm.
I feel kinda uneasy if I see an icon like that - o.k., I know it's just YOU. But maybe you shouldn't use these colours and these letters together. It looks kinda Nazi flaggish to me, so people could assume you're some kind of right extremist supporter...
:o/

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Good point. How can I make it acceptable and still keep the point of it?

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

Use other colours and another font. Primarily the font - if you use other letters the colours won't be so prominent anymore.
You could also try black courier on yellow ground - that's how information signs on construction sites are designed.
:o)

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

If you take pink you'll be on the safe side - something that matches your journal, maybe... :o))

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Spirit of the Badger?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

The Badger who published the Books that bear his name. The Badger who sustained the Fanthorpe. The emblem of quality sf piblishing.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

First pass: "Am I then only (from? with?) idiots (something)-given??"

Tradtional EO catchphrase that might fit: "Why am I surrounded by idiots?"

Bablefish says: "Am I surrounded only by idiots?"

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

That was the one.

[armb.livejournal.com]

Had I realised that was "Id" at the start of that word, I might have guessed. As it was, I resorted to Babelfish and then realised what that word must be.