icon meme redux
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skygiantsSo yes I already did this once this week. But am I ever going to turn down a chance to procrastinate more, on a Friday when I am counting down the hours until the arrival of a BUS (AND TRAIN) LOAD OF AWESOME PEOPLE? The answer is: NO.
The meme continues to be: 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.
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vivien529:
The cap is from the musical version of Notre-Dame de Paris; the gentleman there is Clopin, who in the book/musical is the leader of the Gypsies and, if all you know is the Disney movie, a SIGNIFICANTLY MORE BADASS figure. One of the things I really like about the musical is how they turn Clopin into a voice of critique and anger; his songs are about racism and classism and anti-immigrant sentiment, which is pretty awesome considering the, uh, epic racism of the source text. (He is also the only guy who is not at some point or another a creepy jerkface about Esmerelda. Go Clopin!) The keywords and the text on the icon come from one of my favorite songs, sung by the Gypsies after they've been deported from Paris. The full lyric is comment faire une monde sans misere, sans frontiere, which translates loosely to "how to make a world without misery, without borders." It is my anti-racist icon, hence the commentary, Clopin: fighting racism since 1492 (the year in which the story takes place).
This is Olive from Pushing Daisies! She and Emerson were basically tied for the position of "character of my heart" in this show. She is a tiny perky pie waitress with a knack for solving crimes, and also, singing. In this scene, she is disguised as a snotty rich lady in order to lure a Robin Hood-type into robbing her apartment so she can catch him out! AND SHE IS FABULOUS. Keywords: too fabulous, for obvious reasons! Commentary: as queen of everything Olive is officially too awesome to deal with you. Is there anything more to be said? :D
elspeth_vimes made this icon for me, after single-handedly getting me to read the Twelve Kingdoms books, both of which are things I OWE HER GREATLY for. :D Yoko is the heroine of Sea of Shadows, the first book in the series, an Ordinary Japanese Schoolgirl With a Secret Destiny. SPOILER ALERT: she is totally king of a magical land. (No, not queen.) The commentary and keywords are from Iron and Wine's song "Woman King" - someday you will see a woman king, sword in hand, swing at some evil and bleed. Which I like for Yoko both because she is epically badass and because it doesn't come easy for her.
More awesome ladies! This is Mei Chan from the new Fullmetal Alchemist series, right as she is in the process of yanking her BFF Scar out from under the noses of his enemies with her mad alkahestry skills. I love the composition of this icon, with the blue light and the magic, and how powerful she looks, and hence the keyword is ablaze. The comments are some of the things a girl can do, which are lyrics from a Noe Venable song, "Tinkerbell"; in the song, the line leads to a depressing and short list of options, and I kind of love that I can counter that in this icon with Mei Chan, the smallest and youngest of the FMA female characters who does a lot more with her power than just make pretty lights.
This is the main cast of Capital Scandal, a kdrama about Korea in the 1930's under Japanese rule. It involves swing dancing, romantic bets, and REVOLUTION. \o/ At one point near the end of the series, all the revolutionaries get together for dinner and snap a group photo, which, as my commentary says: such a dumb thing to do and yet so adorable! The keywords are children of the revolution, from the song of the same name. I like this icon but I rarely use it and I may switch it out at some point.
This is one of the icons thatfire_and_a_rose made for me. As you can see, it is of a creepy girl holding a teacup; the tea leaves are a monarch butterfly. The keywords, tea party, and the commentary, creepy butterfly tea party, okay, but when has that ever stopped me? are I think pretty self-explanatory. I use it for being creepy! Or for commentary involving tea.
Fromnewredshoes (who gave me seven, but two are the same as Viv's):
Another one fromfire_and_a_rose's icon set! It is from an illustration, I think, and I kind of love how unnerved/awkward the girl in the illustration looks. Kind of like she's about to raise her hand and go "I was just turned into an ostrich, can I be excused?" The keywords hence are artistically unnerved and the commentary is painting says it wasn't me!
This is an icon of NELLIE BLY, dashing lady journalist, who did an enormous publicity-stunt trp around the world in less-than-80-days, beating Phileas Fogg's fictional record. It was such a hit that they made contemporary trading cards of her! Which is where this icon coes from. Both the commentary and the keywords are from text on the trading cards - 'Oh, Fogg, goodbye,' said Nellie Bly/'it takes a maiden to be spry' and The World looked on, and cried, 'Well done!/ The globe was bravely trotted!'
This is a screencap from Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which - look, you guys know my thing for Queen Elizabeth, it is no secret. I didn't think the movie was particularly fabulous, but I love that shot of her standing on top of the map of the world, directly over England. Unsubtle? Yes. Gorgeous? ALSO YES. The keywords are royaume inconnu, which translates to "kingdom unknown" and is from the song "Tango (Princesse)" by Julie Zenatti, because I like pretentious French keywords. In keeping with the theme of pretentiousness, the comments are she is an island, which is a play on both "no man is an island" and the fact that Britain is an island and as the Queen she officially is Britain. I THOUGHT I WAS BEING VERY CLEVER OKAY.
spellcoats made this one off the cover of the compilation of all four books of the Dalemark Quartet. The boy in the cover is Mitt, whose fictional career includes trying to blow up the government at age twelve, becoming a hired assassin at age fifteen, and shortly thereafter - SPOILER ALERT - becoming king of the country. The cover artist decided that the best way to represent all this was with a teenaged boy wearing a kitty-ears hat and being REALLY SULKY about it. spellcoats and I both find this really hilarious, because . . . we're easily amused? Um. Anyway, the keywords are DANGEROUS REVOLUTIONARY, because: LOL.
This is Al from Fullmetal Alchemist!genarti has pointed out that he is kind of unrecognizable in this icon, which is true; normally he looks like a giant suit of armor. Here, he looks like a ridiculous blobby cartoon because he is SO SHINY EYED WITH DELIGHT about having made friends with a tiny angry panda that is trying to bite his fingers off! The keywords are basically just *_* because: ADORABLE PANDA. Tiny ferocious creatures that try to snap off your fingers ARE the ultimate in cute!
Fromlittledust, two of whose picks were already requested:
This is Cowboy Guy Riley! I stole it fromshati back in the days when I was first using my LJ and had no idea what icons to take, and wanted something to convey ABSOLUTE GLEE. He just looks so happy! *fuzzles his hat* And I have never deleted it, because as the commentary says, there is nothing that conveys happiness better than Cowboy Guy Riley. The keywords, self-explanatorily, are cowboy glee!
fire_and_a_rose made this icon for me at my request. I love the poem "Song" by John Donne epically - not least because of the way it is used in Howl's Moving Castle - and the line teach me to hear mermaids singing is one of my favorites. And she illustrated it beautifully! The keywords are teach me to hear mermaids singing, creatively, and the commentary is til human voices wake John Donne and he drowns, because Eliot is awesome and I am a dork about poetical intertextuality.
This is Freddy Rodriguez, who was my PB for original character Preston Vasquez inmercuriasz's awesome postapocalyptic game The Wasteland. Preston is still my favorite OC ever; he was a super idealistic college student who liked playing bass and expositing on political theory, and also, was a werewolf. Did I rip half his character off Oz? MAYBE. The keywords are wasteland considering, because he looks very thoughtful here, and also hip and zen because it was replacing another icon I had, and because Preston is. The commentary is your ideas are interesting and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter because I mostly use it for interesting discussions!
Fromfuturesoon:
This is Tamaki from Ouran High School Host Club having his head slobbered upon by a large and affectionate dog. It is hilarious both because Tamaki thinks he is SUPER COOL and because generally Tamaki is the one slobbering upon other people like a large and affectionate dog . . . the keywords are EAT YOUR HEAD (with love!) because that is basically what is going on here. I use it for expressing LARGE AMOUNTS OF LOVE for other people who may or may not reciprocate. Tiny hearts, y'all! Your hair tastes good! Um.
This is an idea stolen offshati, who made this genius icon: 
I wanted a reciprocal one! And then I took this screencap from Notre-Dame de Paris with a gargoyle looming helpfully, and it seemed fitting. The gentleman in question is Quasimodo, by the way. I love Notre-Dame de Paris, as I have said before, but the DRAMATIC STAGING!!!! never fails to crack me up. The keywords are hello friend and the comments basically express my debt to shati.
This is another unrecognizable icon of an FMA person . . . someday I will get better ones! ANYWAY I still like it though. This is Riza Hawkeye, of Fullmetal Alchemist, who is so awesome I don't even have words to describe it. The keywords are one day more, which is actually from the Les Miserables song because you wouldn't know it but Riza is kind of a SECRET REVOLUTIONARY AGAINST INJUSTICE. But it's also because so much of her character is about getting through the day after the worst thing has happened, and the next day after that, and that's kind of what this icon is for. The commentary is don't wake me up without a master plan, which is a lyric from the song "The Light Before We Land" by the Delgados. Riza's boss is prone to making master plans; Riza is prone to snarking at him. (Also, their master master plan is the best thing ever, and tied into that secret revolutionary against injustice thing, and spoiler spoiler flail!)
The lady here is Nice from Baccano!, one of my favorite characters from that series! Why is she looking so happy? YOU MAY WELL ASK and the answer is, because she just exploded a train carriage. :D? The keywords are maybe too excited . . .? because the thrill she gets from explosions is not creepy at ALL, and real nice girl because I cannot resist a pun. The commentary is to be clear, it is an evil eye because there is a BOMB BEHIND IT which is a reference to my favorite Baccano! vid ever, which contains, among other things, the line she was standing there with that evil eye. Which is hilarious when applied to Nice, because behind the glasses and the eyepatch? In the empty eye socket? SHE KEEPS A SPARE BOMB. Yeah.
I made this icon from the manga 20th Century Boys; it shows Kenji, the hero of the series, who has found the BEST WAY to meet people in public while hiding from the cops . . . taking a job as the giant bunny mascot who passes out flyers for strip clubs. IT'S AN EFFECTIVE DISGUISE OKAY. Hence the commentary, for all your world-saving needs: THIS DUDE. As Kenji says: "This is the defender of justice who's gonna save the world from danger!" I love Kenji because he is the least officially badass hero ever; his strategy for saving the world is to play guitar hopefully at people. And yet, when it comes down to it, he is totally hardcore awesome. The keywords are love and peace are on hold today, which is another quote from a flashback in the series; Kenji is facing down bullies alone because his BFF Otcho is now a hippie who believes in love and peace, but when the chips are down, Otcho comes racing to the rescue! And then kicks ass. NEVER STOP BEING STEALTH AWESOME, GUYS. <3333
I rarely have a chance to use this icon, but I love it passionately. You guys know Sokka is my favorite, right? Because he is the comic relief, and the Normal One, but when it comes down to it, he can be legitimately hardcore and also legitimately heartbreaking. This is from the very beginning of the series, when he prepares to face the entire Fire Nation BY HIMSELF to defend his tribe, and <333333 SOKKA. The lyrics are soldier boy, which is the title of an old song about a little boy who goes with his father to war; the commentary is sometimes Sokka breaks my heart too, because he does.
Fromspellcoats:
This is Cha Song Joo, my favorite lady kdrama character EVER. Courtesan, revolutionary leader, and ASSASSIN, with by the way the most amazing collection of outfits in any TV show, ever. Here she is wearing a traditional Korean hanbok with an AMAZING hat (it is her outfit from the credits) and looks incredibly gorgeous, as always. The keywords are costume drama to convey my enormous love for the costume; the commentary is not the way I am likely to use it most often, but the prettiness! because normally the costume drama I am talking about is Western in nature. Though I am trying to change that! (SO PRETTY GUYS.)
Another one from the setfire_and_a_rose made for me. I like it because it conveys the sense of rambling through somewhere not-quite-known, with no set destination in mind. The keywords are my wandering days from the Belle and Sebastian song "My Wandering Days Are Over", because mine are not yet! And the commentary is fields of green and gold, because I think I had the song "Fields of Gold" in my head at the time.
This was originally an RP icon fortalkstohats, that I stole for my own use because I liked it so much. The screencap is from the film version of Howl's Moving Castle, and I altered it to make Sophie's hair red because SHE IS A REDHEAD, OKAY, and because in my heart that makes it relate to the book rather than the movie, which is not as good. >.> Although it is very pretty and good for making icons out of! The keywords are a life less ordinary from the Carbon Leaf song of the same name, which I love, about taking a step outside the everyday and the humdrum (which is basically Sophie's entire arc in the book), and also calcifer magic for more self-explanatory ones. The commentary is her hair is very orange, but it matches Calcifer but that's okay because I was not very good at changing hair color back then. (And hahaha, I say that like I am better at it now . . .)
Another one fromfire_and_a_rose's icon set for me! I like this one because of the light through the dark clouds; I use it for unexpected hope. Keywords: through the clouds, self-explanatory; commentary is and I could not ask again, from Dar Williams' song "I Saw A Bird Fly Away," which has the same kind feel for me. And because there is a bird. Flying away. In the icon. Yes.
dramaturgca made this for me from the Tin Man miniseries. I liked the series okay, but my favorite character hands-down was Baby Azkadellia (the flashback non-evil version of the villainness), who was a.) adorable and b.) demonstrated more sense than ANYONE ELSE IN HER ENTIRE FAMILY. I spent much of the story really annoyed at the rest of the cast for not being awesomer to her! Here she has just lit a magic lantern and is very proud of herself. The keywords are lantern lit, uncreatively, and the commentary is proving az is, in fact, the smartest, because she totally is.
- am I done? I think I'm done. I think that has also cured me of wanting to talk about my icons for a LONG TIME *laughing* Mad kudos to anyone who actually read all the way through that!
The meme continues to be: 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.
From
vivien529:The cap is from the musical version of Notre-Dame de Paris; the gentleman there is Clopin, who in the book/musical is the leader of the Gypsies and, if all you know is the Disney movie, a SIGNIFICANTLY MORE BADASS figure. One of the things I really like about the musical is how they turn Clopin into a voice of critique and anger; his songs are about racism and classism and anti-immigrant sentiment, which is pretty awesome considering the, uh, epic racism of the source text. (He is also the only guy who is not at some point or another a creepy jerkface about Esmerelda. Go Clopin!) The keywords and the text on the icon come from one of my favorite songs, sung by the Gypsies after they've been deported from Paris. The full lyric is comment faire une monde sans misere, sans frontiere, which translates loosely to "how to make a world without misery, without borders." It is my anti-racist icon, hence the commentary, Clopin: fighting racism since 1492 (the year in which the story takes place).
This is Olive from Pushing Daisies! She and Emerson were basically tied for the position of "character of my heart" in this show. She is a tiny perky pie waitress with a knack for solving crimes, and also, singing. In this scene, she is disguised as a snotty rich lady in order to lure a Robin Hood-type into robbing her apartment so she can catch him out! AND SHE IS FABULOUS. Keywords: too fabulous, for obvious reasons! Commentary: as queen of everything Olive is officially too awesome to deal with you. Is there anything more to be said? :D
elspeth_vimes made this icon for me, after single-handedly getting me to read the Twelve Kingdoms books, both of which are things I OWE HER GREATLY for. :D Yoko is the heroine of Sea of Shadows, the first book in the series, an Ordinary Japanese Schoolgirl With a Secret Destiny. SPOILER ALERT: she is totally king of a magical land. (No, not queen.) The commentary and keywords are from Iron and Wine's song "Woman King" - someday you will see a woman king, sword in hand, swing at some evil and bleed. Which I like for Yoko both because she is epically badass and because it doesn't come easy for her.More awesome ladies! This is Mei Chan from the new Fullmetal Alchemist series, right as she is in the process of yanking her BFF Scar out from under the noses of his enemies with her mad alkahestry skills. I love the composition of this icon, with the blue light and the magic, and how powerful she looks, and hence the keyword is ablaze. The comments are some of the things a girl can do, which are lyrics from a Noe Venable song, "Tinkerbell"; in the song, the line leads to a depressing and short list of options, and I kind of love that I can counter that in this icon with Mei Chan, the smallest and youngest of the FMA female characters who does a lot more with her power than just make pretty lights.
This is the main cast of Capital Scandal, a kdrama about Korea in the 1930's under Japanese rule. It involves swing dancing, romantic bets, and REVOLUTION. \o/ At one point near the end of the series, all the revolutionaries get together for dinner and snap a group photo, which, as my commentary says: such a dumb thing to do and yet so adorable! The keywords are children of the revolution, from the song of the same name. I like this icon but I rarely use it and I may switch it out at some point.
This is one of the icons that
fire_and_a_rose made for me. As you can see, it is of a creepy girl holding a teacup; the tea leaves are a monarch butterfly. The keywords, tea party, and the commentary, creepy butterfly tea party, okay, but when has that ever stopped me? are I think pretty self-explanatory. I use it for being creepy! Or for commentary involving tea.From
newredshoes (who gave me seven, but two are the same as Viv's):Another one from
fire_and_a_rose's icon set! It is from an illustration, I think, and I kind of love how unnerved/awkward the girl in the illustration looks. Kind of like she's about to raise her hand and go "I was just turned into an ostrich, can I be excused?" The keywords hence are artistically unnerved and the commentary is painting says it wasn't me!This is an icon of NELLIE BLY, dashing lady journalist, who did an enormous publicity-stunt trp around the world in less-than-80-days, beating Phileas Fogg's fictional record. It was such a hit that they made contemporary trading cards of her! Which is where this icon coes from. Both the commentary and the keywords are from text on the trading cards - 'Oh, Fogg, goodbye,' said Nellie Bly/'it takes a maiden to be spry' and The World looked on, and cried, 'Well done!/ The globe was bravely trotted!'
This is a screencap from Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which - look, you guys know my thing for Queen Elizabeth, it is no secret. I didn't think the movie was particularly fabulous, but I love that shot of her standing on top of the map of the world, directly over England. Unsubtle? Yes. Gorgeous? ALSO YES. The keywords are royaume inconnu, which translates to "kingdom unknown" and is from the song "Tango (Princesse)" by Julie Zenatti, because I like pretentious French keywords. In keeping with the theme of pretentiousness, the comments are she is an island, which is a play on both "no man is an island" and the fact that Britain is an island and as the Queen she officially is Britain. I THOUGHT I WAS BEING VERY CLEVER OKAY.
spellcoats made this one off the cover of the compilation of all four books of the Dalemark Quartet. The boy in the cover is Mitt, whose fictional career includes trying to blow up the government at age twelve, becoming a hired assassin at age fifteen, and shortly thereafter - SPOILER ALERT - becoming king of the country. The cover artist decided that the best way to represent all this was with a teenaged boy wearing a kitty-ears hat and being REALLY SULKY about it. spellcoats and I both find this really hilarious, because . . . we're easily amused? Um. Anyway, the keywords are DANGEROUS REVOLUTIONARY, because: LOL.This is Al from Fullmetal Alchemist!
genarti has pointed out that he is kind of unrecognizable in this icon, which is true; normally he looks like a giant suit of armor. Here, he looks like a ridiculous blobby cartoon because he is SO SHINY EYED WITH DELIGHT about having made friends with a tiny angry panda that is trying to bite his fingers off! The keywords are basically just *_* because: ADORABLE PANDA. Tiny ferocious creatures that try to snap off your fingers ARE the ultimate in cute!From
littledust, two of whose picks were already requested:This is Cowboy Guy Riley! I stole it from
shati back in the days when I was first using my LJ and had no idea what icons to take, and wanted something to convey ABSOLUTE GLEE. He just looks so happy! *fuzzles his hat* And I have never deleted it, because as the commentary says, there is nothing that conveys happiness better than Cowboy Guy Riley. The keywords, self-explanatorily, are cowboy glee! fire_and_a_rose made this icon for me at my request. I love the poem "Song" by John Donne epically - not least because of the way it is used in Howl's Moving Castle - and the line teach me to hear mermaids singing is one of my favorites. And she illustrated it beautifully! The keywords are teach me to hear mermaids singing, creatively, and the commentary is til human voices wake John Donne and he drowns, because Eliot is awesome and I am a dork about poetical intertextuality. This is Freddy Rodriguez, who was my PB for original character Preston Vasquez in
mercuriasz's awesome postapocalyptic game The Wasteland. Preston is still my favorite OC ever; he was a super idealistic college student who liked playing bass and expositing on political theory, and also, was a werewolf. Did I rip half his character off Oz? MAYBE. The keywords are wasteland considering, because he looks very thoughtful here, and also hip and zen because it was replacing another icon I had, and because Preston is. The commentary is your ideas are interesting and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter because I mostly use it for interesting discussions!From
futuresoon:This is Tamaki from Ouran High School Host Club having his head slobbered upon by a large and affectionate dog. It is hilarious both because Tamaki thinks he is SUPER COOL and because generally Tamaki is the one slobbering upon other people like a large and affectionate dog . . . the keywords are EAT YOUR HEAD (with love!) because that is basically what is going on here. I use it for expressing LARGE AMOUNTS OF LOVE for other people who may or may not reciprocate. Tiny hearts, y'all! Your hair tastes good! Um.
This is an idea stolen off
shati, who made this genius icon: shati.This is another unrecognizable icon of an FMA person . . . someday I will get better ones! ANYWAY I still like it though. This is Riza Hawkeye, of Fullmetal Alchemist, who is so awesome I don't even have words to describe it. The keywords are one day more, which is actually from the Les Miserables song because you wouldn't know it but Riza is kind of a SECRET REVOLUTIONARY AGAINST INJUSTICE. But it's also because so much of her character is about getting through the day after the worst thing has happened, and the next day after that, and that's kind of what this icon is for. The commentary is don't wake me up without a master plan, which is a lyric from the song "The Light Before We Land" by the Delgados. Riza's boss is prone to making master plans; Riza is prone to snarking at him. (Also, their master master plan is the best thing ever, and tied into that secret revolutionary against injustice thing, and spoiler spoiler flail!)
The lady here is Nice from Baccano!, one of my favorite characters from that series! Why is she looking so happy? YOU MAY WELL ASK and the answer is, because she just exploded a train carriage. :D? The keywords are maybe too excited . . .? because the thrill she gets from explosions is not creepy at ALL, and real nice girl because I cannot resist a pun. The commentary is to be clear, it is an evil eye because there is a BOMB BEHIND IT which is a reference to my favorite Baccano! vid ever, which contains, among other things, the line she was standing there with that evil eye. Which is hilarious when applied to Nice, because behind the glasses and the eyepatch? In the empty eye socket? SHE KEEPS A SPARE BOMB. Yeah.
I made this icon from the manga 20th Century Boys; it shows Kenji, the hero of the series, who has found the BEST WAY to meet people in public while hiding from the cops . . . taking a job as the giant bunny mascot who passes out flyers for strip clubs. IT'S AN EFFECTIVE DISGUISE OKAY. Hence the commentary, for all your world-saving needs: THIS DUDE. As Kenji says: "This is the defender of justice who's gonna save the world from danger!" I love Kenji because he is the least officially badass hero ever; his strategy for saving the world is to play guitar hopefully at people. And yet, when it comes down to it, he is totally hardcore awesome. The keywords are love and peace are on hold today, which is another quote from a flashback in the series; Kenji is facing down bullies alone because his BFF Otcho is now a hippie who believes in love and peace, but when the chips are down, Otcho comes racing to the rescue! And then kicks ass. NEVER STOP BEING STEALTH AWESOME, GUYS. <3333
I rarely have a chance to use this icon, but I love it passionately. You guys know Sokka is my favorite, right? Because he is the comic relief, and the Normal One, but when it comes down to it, he can be legitimately hardcore and also legitimately heartbreaking. This is from the very beginning of the series, when he prepares to face the entire Fire Nation BY HIMSELF to defend his tribe, and <333333 SOKKA. The lyrics are soldier boy, which is the title of an old song about a little boy who goes with his father to war; the commentary is sometimes Sokka breaks my heart too, because he does.
From
spellcoats:This is Cha Song Joo, my favorite lady kdrama character EVER. Courtesan, revolutionary leader, and ASSASSIN, with by the way the most amazing collection of outfits in any TV show, ever. Here she is wearing a traditional Korean hanbok with an AMAZING hat (it is her outfit from the credits) and looks incredibly gorgeous, as always. The keywords are costume drama to convey my enormous love for the costume; the commentary is not the way I am likely to use it most often, but the prettiness! because normally the costume drama I am talking about is Western in nature. Though I am trying to change that! (SO PRETTY GUYS.)
Another one from the set
fire_and_a_rose made for me. I like it because it conveys the sense of rambling through somewhere not-quite-known, with no set destination in mind. The keywords are my wandering days from the Belle and Sebastian song "My Wandering Days Are Over", because mine are not yet! And the commentary is fields of green and gold, because I think I had the song "Fields of Gold" in my head at the time.This was originally an RP icon for
talkstohats, that I stole for my own use because I liked it so much. The screencap is from the film version of Howl's Moving Castle, and I altered it to make Sophie's hair red because SHE IS A REDHEAD, OKAY, and because in my heart that makes it relate to the book rather than the movie, which is not as good. >.> Although it is very pretty and good for making icons out of! The keywords are a life less ordinary from the Carbon Leaf song of the same name, which I love, about taking a step outside the everyday and the humdrum (which is basically Sophie's entire arc in the book), and also calcifer magic for more self-explanatory ones. The commentary is her hair is very orange, but it matches Calcifer but that's okay because I was not very good at changing hair color back then. (And hahaha, I say that like I am better at it now . . .)Another one from
fire_and_a_rose's icon set for me! I like this one because of the light through the dark clouds; I use it for unexpected hope. Keywords: through the clouds, self-explanatory; commentary is and I could not ask again, from Dar Williams' song "I Saw A Bird Fly Away," which has the same kind feel for me. And because there is a bird. Flying away. In the icon. Yes.dramaturgca made this for me from the Tin Man miniseries. I liked the series okay, but my favorite character hands-down was Baby Azkadellia (the flashback non-evil version of the villainness), who was a.) adorable and b.) demonstrated more sense than ANYONE ELSE IN HER ENTIRE FAMILY. I spent much of the story really annoyed at the rest of the cast for not being awesomer to her! Here she has just lit a magic lantern and is very proud of herself. The keywords are lantern lit, uncreatively, and the commentary is proving az is, in fact, the smartest, because she totally is.- am I done? I think I'm done. I think that has also cured me of wanting to talk about my icons for a LONG TIME *laughing* Mad kudos to anyone who actually read all the way through that!
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Date: 2010-02-12 08:33 pm (UTC)(Also to the second power: I totally agree with you re: Az.)
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Date: 2010-02-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(Basically I finished Tin Man with the desire to write epic amounts of fic about how much awesomer Az was than everyone else! Which . . . never happened, and probably never will because I don't care enough to rewatch it. But still.)
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Date: 2010-02-12 09:55 pm (UTC)Uh, if there are any of my icons you are still curious about, feel free to comment on them/have me comment on them!
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Date: 2010-02-12 10:01 pm (UTC)I want to give you more icons but I also have to run out the door! CONSIDER THIS A PLACEHOLDER for Monday evening when I will have internet time again to give you some. :D
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Date: 2010-02-16 01:01 am (UTC)I should remember this monologue better than I do. TALK TO ME ABOUT IT.
I also think you should talk to me about Plath. Who has never been a touchstone for me but I know is immensely important to many people.
I talked about my Prufrock mermaid icon! Where did yours come from?
Rose is so joyous in this icon. It is everything I loved about her, and it makes me happy to see.
Meg is such a polarizing topic in SPN, it seems to me. I would like to hear your thoughts. (Also, I think it is a gorgeous icon.)
There is something immensely creepy and beautiful and compelling about this icon.
So, here is the depressing thing: all I know about Gossip Girl is from TWOP recaps. That's Vanessa, right? The Token Not Rich One? I would like to hear your thesis on modern voyeurism!
HOW does God ship Puck/Rachel? Has Glee actually turned into "Ten Things I Hate About Commandments"? Because that would be awesome, I won't lie.
IC doodles make me laugh THE MOST.
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Date: 2010-02-12 10:52 pm (UTC)I'm going to be doing a long rambly post about the awesome research center I was just in and this book Fudoki, I may send you my copy since so good.
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Date: 2010-02-16 12:48 am (UTC)(I HAVE GIVEN YOU THIS ONE BEFORE. I STILL PROTEST THE KEYWORDS OF INJUSTICE >:O)