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chasingtides) wrote2008-03-29 10:54 pm
chasingtides) wrote2008-03-29 10:54 pm
Meme
The Rules:
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!
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red_handed asked me about:
1. Car
This is, of course, the Impala from Supernatural, which is its own character (much like the SUV in Torchwood and Serenity in Firefly). I started watching Supernatural, on and off, originally as a bonding activity with my father - we both like classic cars, classic rock and roll, and cheesy acting. Buffy was off the air and we sometimes needed a new weeknight father-daughter activity. Now I'm in the fandom, but seeing the Impala always reminds me of coming home and turning it on (or making him watch it on my laptop) and getting sidetracked into a discussion of car engines and the like. Because, really, nothing is better than that.
2. Kiss
Obviously, this is an illustrated take on the famous VJ Day Kiss Photograph. When my paid time ended, I didn't feel like paying LJ again and lost my ability to have 100 icons. (Woe, I say, woe.) I decided then that I would choose icons based on universal usefulness rather than momentary joy, as many icons give me momentary joy but few have universal usefulness. This would be the most universally useful icon I have. I love that photograph from VJ day - it expresses so many thing captured into a moment frozen in time. I like the joy and spontaneity of it. I need more sudden joy and spontaneous kisses from attractive people in my life and like to think that this icon bring a little bit more than would otherwise be there. Also, have a discussion of the photograph in question.
3. Bert/Ernie
I have this mostly because it delights me, despite my aforementioned vow to keep only useful icons. Yes, I am a slasher and yes, I would support Bert and Ernie if they were in a relationship, but I honestly think they're just roommates. Ernie was always my favourite character on Sesame Street. As children, I had a stuffed Ernie and my bother had a stuffed Bert. Or maybe it was the other way around. We had a way of exchanging toys at random. My teddy bear, Brown Bear that lives with me even at college was originally his. I had Brown Lion, but sometime around the age of six the toys got switched and now, 15 years later, I have Brown Bear and he has Brown Lion. In any case, Bert and Ernie were near and dear to our little twin hearts. I like this because it expresses this love in a slightly off way, it can express my slashing habits with humour, it can express my dismay that the two muppets no longer live together (WTF - heterolifemates and platonic roommates FTW) all in one icon. Also, I can easily make people laugh on the internet.
ETA: I just noticed that in this icon Ernie has no eyebrows. I could swear that the Ernie doll of my childhood had eyebrows. I am deeply bothered now by this discrepancy. I will need to check the doll when I go home in May. And I might need to go watch Sesame Street to check if he has eyebrows on the show.
4. Needles
I knit. I'm not sure that I need to say much more than that. I knit a lot. If you know me, I threaten people with whatever tool happens to be at hand: cane, spoon, foot, knitting needle. It just seems like a logical icon for me to have. (Note, however, that I have never injured anyone, myself included, with knitting needles to date.)
5. Dear Diary...
This icon expresses my medievalist soul. (I might like to add that I get to do amazing things to feed this medievalist soul of mine, like reading books on medieval demon possession.) I've actually been switching this one out fairly often because I haven't found one that I've really really liked. I don't think I really really like this one. I don't use it that often and I don't know from which manuscript it came (yes, this bothers me, stfu). I grabbed it here if anyone is curious. I used to have demon one and then an owl one, both from the same book of hours, and then I had a carved monk from a column in a church. Sadly, none of them really were terribly useful and none stayed. Then one day a few weeks ago I found this one and thought, "Huh, I could probably use a Dear Diary icon for posting in my own LJ." But, alas, it holds not my heart and neither do any of the others from that page. (No offense to the page. If I still had 100 icons, I'd probably have a couple of them.) I am still on the lookout for a good medieval icon. Perhaps I can find one of Chaucer being rude. Any suggestions of where to look?
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!
red_handed asked me about:1. Car
This is, of course, the Impala from Supernatural, which is its own character (much like the SUV in Torchwood and Serenity in Firefly). I started watching Supernatural, on and off, originally as a bonding activity with my father - we both like classic cars, classic rock and roll, and cheesy acting. Buffy was off the air and we sometimes needed a new weeknight father-daughter activity. Now I'm in the fandom, but seeing the Impala always reminds me of coming home and turning it on (or making him watch it on my laptop) and getting sidetracked into a discussion of car engines and the like. Because, really, nothing is better than that.
2. Kiss
Obviously, this is an illustrated take on the famous VJ Day Kiss Photograph. When my paid time ended, I didn't feel like paying LJ again and lost my ability to have 100 icons. (Woe, I say, woe.) I decided then that I would choose icons based on universal usefulness rather than momentary joy, as many icons give me momentary joy but few have universal usefulness. This would be the most universally useful icon I have. I love that photograph from VJ day - it expresses so many thing captured into a moment frozen in time. I like the joy and spontaneity of it. I need more sudden joy and spontaneous kisses from attractive people in my life and like to think that this icon bring a little bit more than would otherwise be there. Also, have a discussion of the photograph in question.
3. Bert/Ernie
I have this mostly because it delights me, despite my aforementioned vow to keep only useful icons. Yes, I am a slasher and yes, I would support Bert and Ernie if they were in a relationship, but I honestly think they're just roommates. Ernie was always my favourite character on Sesame Street. As children, I had a stuffed Ernie and my bother had a stuffed Bert. Or maybe it was the other way around. We had a way of exchanging toys at random. My teddy bear, Brown Bear that lives with me even at college was originally his. I had Brown Lion, but sometime around the age of six the toys got switched and now, 15 years later, I have Brown Bear and he has Brown Lion. In any case, Bert and Ernie were near and dear to our little twin hearts. I like this because it expresses this love in a slightly off way, it can express my slashing habits with humour, it can express my dismay that the two muppets no longer live together (WTF - heterolifemates and platonic roommates FTW) all in one icon. Also, I can easily make people laugh on the internet.
ETA: I just noticed that in this icon Ernie has no eyebrows. I could swear that the Ernie doll of my childhood had eyebrows. I am deeply bothered now by this discrepancy. I will need to check the doll when I go home in May. And I might need to go watch Sesame Street to check if he has eyebrows on the show.
4. Needles
I knit. I'm not sure that I need to say much more than that. I knit a lot. If you know me, I threaten people with whatever tool happens to be at hand: cane, spoon, foot, knitting needle. It just seems like a logical icon for me to have. (Note, however, that I have never injured anyone, myself included, with knitting needles to date.)
5. Dear Diary...
This icon expresses my medievalist soul. (I might like to add that I get to do amazing things to feed this medievalist soul of mine, like reading books on medieval demon possession.) I've actually been switching this one out fairly often because I haven't found one that I've really really liked. I don't think I really really like this one. I don't use it that often and I don't know from which manuscript it came (yes, this bothers me, stfu). I grabbed it here if anyone is curious. I used to have demon one and then an owl one, both from the same book of hours, and then I had a carved monk from a column in a church. Sadly, none of them really were terribly useful and none stayed. Then one day a few weeks ago I found this one and thought, "Huh, I could probably use a Dear Diary icon for posting in my own LJ." But, alas, it holds not my heart and neither do any of the others from that page. (No offense to the page. If I still had 100 icons, I'd probably have a couple of them.) I am still on the lookout for a good medieval icon. Perhaps I can find one of Chaucer being rude. Any suggestions of where to look?
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