Oh my god this comment is so wonderful!!!! Thank you so much *___* ♥ but, the first thing I must address is that you never, ever have ANYTHING to make up for and I never want commenting on my sets to be a chore for anyone, much less my friends and favorite lj people like you. So please don't even consider that aspect. But of course I am indeed super happy and flattered that you chose to write all of this!

I'm particularly happy that you see some sort of theme in all this chaos, and one that sounds very cool when described like that. Seriously, now I kinda want to intentionally go for 'futuristic vintage' but I have no idea how :D
oohh I forgot that my icons used to be slightly darker. That was not a stylistical choice but simply the fact that my monitor was different :p I got this new one about a year ago and suddenly my older work seemed dark, muted and badly contrasted, and kind of yellow... So if there's been a shift to more vibrant colors and brightness, that's why. Now if I only knew which monitor is closer to the iconmakers' average monitor!

Thanks again for taking the time, I know you're busy so I'm extra honored. ♥

I must have phrased this poorly. Writing this comment was definitely not a chore, don't worry, it was fun. :) What I meant was I always look at your posts and go "wow, I adore so many of these" and then life and stuff get in the way and I never get to let you know. I should make a js praise post, or go back and redo my pre-selection of your icons for my bestof_icons nomination comment! Anyway, I'm glad I have some time to spend on iconning and commenting on posts, that window of free time might close soon so I should make the most of it.

Of course brightness and vibrancy are my favourite things, so I really appreciated that evolution of your style but I never got a 'too yellow' or poorly contrasted feel from your icons. Though I got a new laptop in 2013 and may not have gotten back and looked at older icons since then, so Idk. Monitors are a tricky thing though. On my iPad, icons look more vibrant, less sharpened and better contrasted. On my sister's computer's screen everything looks more yellow and red. So, meh. I try to forget that what looks good on my monitor might look terrible on someone else's. ;) Though really good icons with look good on any monitor, even if the colour or contrast are slightly different, so I wouldn't worry about yours either way!

♥

Oh, good! LOL definitely don't make a js praise post, that would probably make a lot of people side eye both of us :D

I'm glad my old stuff doesn't seem quite as ugly to you as it does to me! I try not to think about monitor differences either as it's something I can't really do anything about, but I definitely had a 'ugh, why is everyone muted yellow?' reaction when I first saw my icons on the new monitor. And I bet my current icons would look too saturated and red on the old one...