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ceitfianna gave me icons to babble about!

The meme: Comment here and I will pick six of your icons, you then copy and paste this in your LJ along with your explanations/comments/squeeage about each one.

winding_path made this icon for me for my birthday few years back after I commented wistfully that I wanted it, because she is amazing. This was right after I first saw Firefly and I was enchanted by the idea of Saffron TRAVELING IN TIME to marry King Henry the Eighth. (Come on, guys, you know that fic would be brilliant. Brilliant!) Anyway, I love Anne Boleyn despite her manifold and historically documented flaws (or maybe because of them . . .?) and the joke is that Anne::the Tudor court as Saffron::Serenity in terms of the bemusement of the peope around them as to why this person is suddenly Head of Household; hence the comments, anne boleyn and saffron = kindred spirits. I use it for Tudoriana and also for LOLhistory.

fire_and_a_rose made this one for me as part of a gift set. Unimaginatively, the keywords are birds are friends and the comments are we are friends too! I love it and hardly ever use it, because it is almost too sweet for me to feel comfortable using it on a regular basis. I cannot express affection without a protective screen of irony!

This is an icon I made from Princess Tutu, from a flashback in which the prince-character Mytho rescues a tiny puppy. (For those of you unfamiliar with Princess Tutu - rescuing small animals is all Mytho ever does. Sometimes he plummets out of windows to do it. Sometimes, he is not wearing pants when that happens.) Anyway, I really liked the way it came out and I use it mostly to indicate comforting hugs; the keywords are both tiny puppy and tiny kitten because I used to have a small-kitten-hug icon that I used for similar purposes and later deleted. The comments are it's okay puppy dog, tiny fakir will chase away the bad guys because my favorite part of the icon is how while Mytho soppily cuddles puppies in the foreround, you can see tiny six-year-old Fakir in the background fighting off puppy-tormenters with a giant stick.

This is my one Middleman icon! Someday I will make more. The scene is of Wendy Watson in the process of excitedly talking Ida's ear off about ART CRAWL, but the way it came out makes it look like she is making funny faces in long-suffering Ida's direction while the Middleman looks tolerantly on, hence the extremely mature keywords of neener neener. Because I am twelve, this pleases me. It is an icon for making funny faces at people. Also, for TEAM MIDDLEMAN. The comments are also doubles as ART CRAWL due to context, because I really wanted to make myself an ART CRAWL icon and could not find a screencap of people shouting ART CRAWL that I actually liked.

spellcoats made this icon in a fabulous book-cover-icon post (that also included some amazing Dalemark icons!) It's the cover of one of the Queen's Thief books - I believe an edition of The King of Attolia - which I love with a fiery passion for all the complicated emotions and politics and hardcore queens and smartass thieves. The icon shows Attolia's hand on the shoulder of her new husband and indicates to me that he is willingly submitting to her authority because she is badass and in charge. :D I haven't used it much yet, but just wait until I start rereading the books in preparation for the publication of the fourth one, and you will start seeing it ALL THE TIME. The keyword is queen's thief, unoriginally, because that is the name of the series. The comments are all my literary book covers are of kings because I'd just uploaded a bunch at the time, among them Mitt (Future King of Dalemark) and Yoko (Future King of Kei). I don't actually like either the keyword or the comments and will probably change them at some point.

This is an icon of Rachel from Baccano!, the most badass information agent of all time. In this scene, a serial killer has invited her to lunch and asked her for romantic advice, and over the ziti is enthusing about the expressionless, silent face of his beloved and how amazing she looked when she was cutting a swathe through twenty people. He doesn't know if she loves him or if she wants to kill him, but EVEN IF she wants to kill him, that doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't have a chance with her! Rachel's face I feel reflects the appropriate response to this, and thus the keyword is whut. The comments are even being a big damn hero does not prepare you for Claire Stanfield, because while Rachel can keep her poise in a lot of situations (including rescuing about five people from hostage situations in one day) this is a little bit beyond the pale.

I love babbling about my icons, especially since some of the ones I like best I never use. I love babbling about other people's icons, too!