Iconses!

[dolorous_ett]

It'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! 

Comments

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Offhand I don't know... but I can trace the links back and show you where I got it from, at least. I'm sure it's still there.

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...)

[perosha.livejournal.com]

All right, let's see here:

Made this because it amused me far more than it should have. I guess the shot was only supposed to look creepy, but instead it looks creepy and sexually inappropriate (*grope!*), which makes it prime fodder for putting on LiveJournal.

My response to the fact that everyone seems to have at least one icon of their favorite actor or actress. As I don't know much about movie stars myself I thought I'd just use one of Pedja Bjelac. I think this is from one of his Serbian films, but I can't remember which one.

My all-purpose "yay awesome!" icon. The character is Kaorin (a generic Japanese schoolgirl) from the slice-of-life comedy Azumanga Daioh.

I think the actual phrase "Sweet Zombie Jesus!" is from The Simpsons, which I don't watch, but the rest of the icon is self-explanatory. (Well, self-explanatory if you're among the Disney generation. :P) Icon used for those rare but potent "OH GOD, I CAN'T UNSEE IT" moments.

From the defunct Potter webcomic pottercon. It's supposed to be Viktor Krum...dressed as a narwhal...for Christmas. I don't get it either, but it was funny.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Thank you - most enlightening!

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...