We've been using icons this whole time, so we probably don't need to explain what they add to a tag. "A picture is worth a thousand words", and all. If you're playing from a visual canon, sometimes it's easier and more effective to just show the expression a character is making or what they're doing than it is to try to describe it.
Icons are part of Dreamwidth's layout, and you select one when you make a post or comment. A free account gets 15, which is pretty good for most characters, and people are usually fine with secondary accounts that hold more icons, or embedding icons into tags if you don't have room for more.
Or, you can get a paid account, which can hold up to a hundred icons. Paid accounts are three US dollars per month, and you have to have a credit card - Paypal requires any site it works with to put, uh, certain content restrictions in place that the fandom communities on Dreamwidth wouldn't be too happy about, and Dreamwidth's staff isn't interested in restricting them.
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We've been using icons this whole time, so we probably don't need to explain what they add to a tag. "A picture is worth a thousand words", and all. If you're playing from a visual canon, sometimes it's easier and more effective to just show the expression a character is making or what they're doing than it is to try to describe it.
Icons are part of Dreamwidth's layout, and you select one when you make a post or comment. A free account gets 15, which is pretty good for most characters, and people are usually fine with secondary accounts that hold more icons, or embedding icons into tags if you don't have room for more.
Or, you can get a paid account, which can hold up to a hundred icons. Paid accounts are three US dollars per month, and you have to have a credit card - Paypal requires any site it works with to put, uh, certain content restrictions in place that the fandom communities on Dreamwidth wouldn't be too happy about, and Dreamwidth's staff isn't interested in restricting them.