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dolorous_ettIt's the Icons Meme - bookwormsarahpicked out five of my icons and asked me to talk about them:
This lovely thing is my default icon. It was the first icon I picked when I got a paid account and could afford more. I like it because it has trees and birds and is more than a little trippy and implausible looking, with lovely, warm, comforting colours. I use it for pleasant things in general, and for when I can't think of anything more appropriate.
I use this one for memes, or when people are behaving in a particularly sheep-like manner. It is taken, of course, from the Borg in Star Trek.
Like a lot of people who spend time online, I found myself in need of a zombie icon. Unfortunately, I don't find traditional zombies particularly pleasing visually, so I was very happy when fungus_filescreated a series of zombie marsupial icons from old pictures, of which the zombie-roo is one. This is the icon I use when I'm feeling particularly zombie-like, or when reporting exceptionally brainless behaviour.
This is from the Korean Carrot Song. I don't speak a word of Korean, but I became fascinated by this strange song and its animation last year, and had quite a lot of fun speculating what it might actually be about. The kindly aeramamade me several icons from it, including this amimated one, which I use for posts of unusal festivity. My Very, Very Good News icon.
This one's from the wonderful mina_de_malfois series - a story of a rather flawed BNF in an imaginary fandom slowly stumbling towards something approaching common sense. If for any reason you haven't read mina_de_malfois yet, you really should - it's brilliantly funny, especially the first season, and is full of wonderful little quotes like this. When I use it, it's usually the icon equivalent of a facepalm.
If you want me to do this for your icons, leave me a comment!
bookwormsarahpicked out five of my icons and asked me to talk about them: This lovely thing is my default icon. It was the first icon I picked when I got a paid account and could afford more. I like it because it has trees and birds and is more than a little trippy and implausible looking, with lovely, warm, comforting colours. I use it for pleasant things in general, and for when I can't think of anything more appropriate. I use this one for memes, or when people are behaving in a particularly sheep-like manner. It is taken, of course, from the Borg in Star Trek. Like a lot of people who spend time online, I found myself in need of a zombie icon. Unfortunately, I don't find traditional zombies particularly pleasing visually, so I was very happy when fungus_filescreated a series of zombie marsupial icons from old pictures, of which the zombie-roo is one. This is the icon I use when I'm feeling particularly zombie-like, or when reporting exceptionally brainless behaviour. This is from the Korean Carrot Song. I don't speak a word of Korean, but I became fascinated by this strange song and its animation last year, and had quite a lot of fun speculating what it might actually be about. The kindly aeramamade me several icons from it, including this amimated one, which I use for posts of unusal festivity. My Very, Very Good News icon. This one's from the wonderful mina_de_malfois series - a story of a rather flawed BNF in an imaginary fandom slowly stumbling towards something approaching common sense. If for any reason you haven't read mina_de_malfois yet, you really should - it's brilliantly funny, especially the first season, and is full of wonderful little quotes like this. When I use it, it's usually the icon equivalent of a facepalm. If you want me to do this for your icons, leave me a comment!
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Date: 2008-04-17 09:50 pm (UTC)(Prob. not worth doing this one on me, since I've just got a basic account. Although, hmm, I don't think I've ever actually recced the story that my default icon comes from.)
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Date: 2008-04-17 10:04 pm (UTC)Oh, why not.
Date: 2008-04-17 09:55 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, why not.
Date: 2008-04-17 10:08 pm (UTC)muppetfoy, cold kitchen hill, cuppa, fotherington-tomas (just because I like it!), hot all-gelert wand action.
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Date: 2008-04-17 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-19 01:19 pm (UTC)Userpics: bad touch, Pedja with cigarette, elated overjoyed squee, sweet zombie jesus, cosplay (I hope these are identifiable - you have very long names for your userpics! And so many...)
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Date: 2008-04-19 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-20 12:10 pm (UTC)I had this idea that your Cigarette Smoking man might have something to do with late period Sirius Black in his Gimmauld Place days - but there, just shows how wrong I can be!
I still don't get the Krum joke - but it is cute...
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Date: 2008-04-19 03:15 pm (UTC)http://tyra-elizabeth.livejournal.com/36147.html#cutid1
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Date: 2008-04-19 10:28 pm (UTC)Edit: Also, the artist who drew what's in your default icon is apparently Natasha Wescoat.
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Date: 2008-04-20 12:08 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2008-04-22 03:12 am (UTC)We have the Granada series as well and have been going through story after story for a little while now. I'm hooked all over again...and oh! When Jeremy Brett's hair is all rumpled instead of slicked back, I must say he's a FINE looking man.
Of course he is generally anyway...
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Date: 2008-04-17 10:33 pm (UTC)I'll play, nothing like a bit of procrasination in meme form. :)
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Date: 2008-04-19 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-18 02:11 am (UTC)And, well, I fear AND love the zombie kangaroo, because there's kangaroos around here, and I don't like to think of what would happen if they turned bad.
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Date: 2008-04-18 02:40 am (UTC)We loved it, but we would, given the obsession with monster movies and horror in general.
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Date: 2008-04-19 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-19 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-19 01:30 pm (UTC)It's hard to imagine a land where kangaroos just hop about wild - must be quite a place! About the most exciting things we get round here are squirrels, and the occasional magpie.
Please tell me about:
Baggins
Charlie pwns,
Snape likes to watch,
Drugs, pharmacy, work
mutable
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Date: 2008-04-18 02:36 am (UTC)Prolly won't play this time around as am meant to be incredibly heads-down busy...
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Date: 2008-04-19 01:33 pm (UTC)Will respect your wish not to play, but do let me know if you change your mind, as you have some gorgeous icons!
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Date: 2008-04-18 03:43 am (UTC)And I'm glad you still like all the crazy carrots. :)
You don't have to do this for me b/c I'm back to basic also, but if you want to, go right ahead!
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Date: 2008-04-19 01:35 pm (UTC)If you do want to play, how about
Gator Cafe
Miskatonic Mouse Club
So Fabulous
mouse
House (moth and flame)
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Date: 2008-04-22 03:23 am (UTC)Okay, time for long-windedness here on your journal.
Gator Cafe came from letterhead my dad had. I don't know where he got it from, but I always liked it, and to me it seemed that this 'gator was either at a table outside a restaurant or inside a smoky cafe/nightclub, and either way, he was listening to some good tunes!
Miskatonic Mouse Club is more hilarity-forming for Mr. Aerama than for me, but it all has to do with H.P. Lovecraft, and to me Lovecraft = Cthulhu because he's cute. And it's a fabulous pun. (I don't know how prevalent the Mickey Mouse Club is over there, but I grew up watching it on TV and being a "member" and all that. And of course now it seems to be mentioned with Britney Spears in every other sentence...)
So Fabulous is a modification on a tadpole - for that is supposed to be a tadpole - from the Pearls Before Swine comic, which has Pig and Goat and Rat and Zebra and idiot Crocodiles. To me the smile on this little guy equated fabulousness, and I tend to use it when people should have congratulations!
Mouse - our sole remaining cat, here snapped after being bombed out on catnip. She actually didn't mind the camera and seems to be posing. The vet worked out that she's 78 years old and in great shape...here's to more years with her!
House (Moth & Flame): In this particular scene, the girl also known as Cutthroat B*tch had just revealed she wasn't wearing any underwear. It had to do with a manipulative game they were playing to win a spot on House's team. So as House walks out, he looks her up and down, but it's when he's in the "up" position that his eyes burn the most with speculation, and I love that. She looks a little unsettled - yet who's the moth and who's the flame?
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Date: 2008-04-23 11:13 am (UTC)My personal favourite is still the Gator Club one... but only just!