Icon meme from 6 months ago
Got this from lefaym and unoriginal_liz way back in October/November. [Hey, everyone, Liz wrote the amazing post-series Narnia story about Susan "Imaginary Menagerie" that is totally worth reading.]
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, or reply here if you'd rather.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee!
Of my icons, lefaym chose the cow dress, Aeryn's "hee!", Dalek procrastinate, Sarah stil running, and TKD and unoriginal_liz chose ) Shakespeare-hands against our hearts, believe, fanpants, tardisfanart, and OTP shippiness:
From Fay:
This was my first icon and has always been my default icon. annlarimer drew this cartoon of me at MediaWest the year I was there, 8 1/2 months pregnant with my daughter. Ann was the first person we saw and, all excited to be a walking science experiment, I grabbed Ann's hands and pressed them to my belly and explained, "See? That's her butt. Here's her elbow. Isn't this COOL???" Ann, meanwhile, was nearly beginning a combat maneuver to Get The Hell Away From The Crazy Pregnant Friend. I did, much of the weekend, wear The Cow Jumper (I reduced a talkative colleague AND my principal to stunned silence the first morning I wore it to school) which I wore since, "Well, if I'm going to be the size of a barn, I may as well look like I belong in one." When I finally caved to LJ, finabair resized the cartoon for me so I could have my first icon. *grin*
I ADORE Aeryn Sun. I adore Claudia Black's face. I adore this manic grin here when she's come up with an idea SO far out of her normal range of how she thinks and how she "should" have thought and maneuvered as a Peacekeeper, and the delight she aims at John, still not quite able to see him, showing off that SHE had a plan. I think this is the earliest Aeryn-glee we have.
evillittletwit gave this to me. She told me at the time that she made it for me, but since I've seen it far and wide, I don't believe her on that point and wish she'd just said she found it and thought of me. I am, however, a terrible procrastinator and a long-time Whovian, so I still love the icon.
I love how much of Doctor Who is running (much like Remington Steele was). The moment of New Who that HAD me was the basement door opening, a hand grabbing Rose's, and the Doctor saying, "RUN!" ...it's so much a part of the Doctor Who (the post-blind-Katy-Manning DW) that I always watched. I love the stories of Jon looking back to tell Lis "slow down! slow down!" and her now doing the same with the kids. I love explosions. I love that in "The Lost Boy," Sarah is running, running...running like always, running from how she feels, running from connections to other people, running from her past and her present and her future and herself, still running after all these years from all the same things in spite of all she's seen and learned.
This icon also always reminds me of a Sam Carter story that I thought was called "Running for the Gate" where forever after, in every dream, at every deadline, in every danger, with every disappointment with herself, Sam is still, emotionally, running for the Gate, offworld, chased by hostiles, running, lungs burning, running, not knowing if she and the others will make it, but running, running...and I see that--perhaps even more strongly--in Sarah, too.
I enjoyed making the TKD icon. I had to search and search for the bowing silhouette I wanted, and then it had words on it, so devinlind took the red "sample" words off, and I drew in the dangling ends of the belt, and I found a site with "Tae Kwon Do" written in Korean and copy-pasted each letter block in, trying it with the bowing figure on the left and on the right before settling on this version. I like the simplicity of the image, the bowing (which is my favorite part of TKD), and the Korean lettering. I learned a bit of Korean alphabet and really enjoyed it. When/if I'm able to go back, I'll continue on with learning and re-learning the alphabet; I want to be able to read the other students' names on their shirts.
From Liz:
wiliqueen has had this one for ages, and got it from liminalliz. I've loved it and, when I was having a Shakespeare GLEEfest last year while in my All Shakespeare All the Time units in all my three of my classes, I decided I wanted to get Shakespeare icons. As I ADORE the Ken and Emma Much Ado film and as Much Ado is my favorite play (although its position as favorite is currently--for the first time in 20 years--endangered by Twelfth Night and Lear), this was one of the icons I wanted.
I wanted a hopeful, faith-based icon, so I made one that is, unsurprisingly, fannish. Since the Collier/MacMillian printings of the paperbacks don't have an image of Lucy looking into the wardrobe, I scanned in the image of Digory and Polly peering through the door into Uncle Andrew's study. Just recently, I made an icon of Elf peering into the TARDIS door in a similar way. These two icons are important to me because they express the idea of belief in, faith in, the surprises and magic and stories that one finds in the most unexpected of places, the magic of peering into a closet and smiling as I touch the back wall...this time; the magic of smiling at phone booths and police boxes that can host a superhero changing into disguise or a gateway to another world. I love the anticipation, especially in children's stories, of looking into the possibilities you can't even yet imagine.
This shot (used twice in my icons, once for "My fandom flies by the seat of its pants" and "My fandom doesn't care what it's wearing") is of Lee and Amanda in the helicoptor near the end of the pilot episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King, which is my One True Fandom that I go back to over and over. In that scene, Lee is tied up with the "killick hitch," a knot that Amanda has just proved in Cub Scouts with her boys that she cannot untie, so SHE has to fly the helicoptor with Lee shouting instructions and encouragement...with his eyes closed. Amanda, for the whole series, uses creative problem solving to fly by the seat of her pants--usually metaphorically but, in this scene, literally--which is at the core of what I love about the character...using mundane knowledge and common sense to solve serious problems. In one moment in this same scene, Lee notices her Cub Scout leader shirt and asks, horrified, "WHAT are you WEARING?" and she replies, "What do you CARE???" as the helicopter dives down again. I love this moment.
My daughter drew this when she was about five. This icon, along with the one of her up against me, is all about how my daughter is, in one way, a Proper British Child (in spite of neither of us being British, more's the pity) because she's been growing up watching Doctor Who (from the properly safe spot of behind mummy and sofa cushions), AND has applied her (imo considerable for her age) artistic skills to recording this early fannish tendency. She drew Ten (in brown) and Rose (her favorite at the time, wearing purple), and wrote her name (I'm sure you can guess the spelling of it came from, if you're Who folks....) *grin*
I realized at some point that I didn't have any positive fannish icons--and I wanted some. I'd been thinking about whether I even HAD an OTP at this stage of my life and journey through fandom, and the only one I could come up with that I didn't feel was somehow tainted was Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson. Part of my feeling there is that a) I ADORE Barbara. Period. At the time that I made this icon, I'm pretty sure they were together in the comics but that it was clear that wasn't going to last long and they were going to break up. This leads to b) the fact that I believe they are good for each other and will end up together...even if it's DECADES from now...and I'm okay with that. It's a strange place to be in fandom, not to wish for couples to get together, to be okay with how it works (in most cases) and not to be connecting in case the producers or networks screw the show and its characters over (see the "We Can Take You Flying" icon).
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, or reply here if you'd rather.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee!
Of my icons, lefaym chose the cow dress, Aeryn's "hee!", Dalek procrastinate, Sarah stil running, and TKD and unoriginal_liz chose ) Shakespeare-hands against our hearts, believe, fanpants, tardisfanart, and OTP shippiness:
From Fay:
This was my first icon and has always been my default icon. annlarimer drew this cartoon of me at MediaWest the year I was there, 8 1/2 months pregnant with my daughter. Ann was the first person we saw and, all excited to be a walking science experiment, I grabbed Ann's hands and pressed them to my belly and explained, "See? That's her butt. Here's her elbow. Isn't this COOL???" Ann, meanwhile, was nearly beginning a combat maneuver to Get The Hell Away From The Crazy Pregnant Friend. I did, much of the weekend, wear The Cow Jumper (I reduced a talkative colleague AND my principal to stunned silence the first morning I wore it to school) which I wore since, "Well, if I'm going to be the size of a barn, I may as well look like I belong in one." When I finally caved to LJ, finabair resized the cartoon for me so I could have my first icon. *grin*
I ADORE Aeryn Sun. I adore Claudia Black's face. I adore this manic grin here when she's come up with an idea SO far out of her normal range of how she thinks and how she "should" have thought and maneuvered as a Peacekeeper, and the delight she aims at John, still not quite able to see him, showing off that SHE had a plan. I think this is the earliest Aeryn-glee we have.
evillittletwit gave this to me. She told me at the time that she made it for me, but since I've seen it far and wide, I don't believe her on that point and wish she'd just said she found it and thought of me. I am, however, a terrible procrastinator and a long-time Whovian, so I still love the icon.
I love how much of Doctor Who is running (much like Remington Steele was). The moment of New Who that HAD me was the basement door opening, a hand grabbing Rose's, and the Doctor saying, "RUN!" ...it's so much a part of the Doctor Who (the post-blind-Katy-Manning DW) that I always watched. I love the stories of Jon looking back to tell Lis "slow down! slow down!" and her now doing the same with the kids. I love explosions. I love that in "The Lost Boy," Sarah is running, running...running like always, running from how she feels, running from connections to other people, running from her past and her present and her future and herself, still running after all these years from all the same things in spite of all she's seen and learned.
This icon also always reminds me of a Sam Carter story that I thought was called "Running for the Gate" where forever after, in every dream, at every deadline, in every danger, with every disappointment with herself, Sam is still, emotionally, running for the Gate, offworld, chased by hostiles, running, lungs burning, running, not knowing if she and the others will make it, but running, running...and I see that--perhaps even more strongly--in Sarah, too.
I enjoyed making the TKD icon. I had to search and search for the bowing silhouette I wanted, and then it had words on it, so devinlind took the red "sample" words off, and I drew in the dangling ends of the belt, and I found a site with "Tae Kwon Do" written in Korean and copy-pasted each letter block in, trying it with the bowing figure on the left and on the right before settling on this version. I like the simplicity of the image, the bowing (which is my favorite part of TKD), and the Korean lettering. I learned a bit of Korean alphabet and really enjoyed it. When/if I'm able to go back, I'll continue on with learning and re-learning the alphabet; I want to be able to read the other students' names on their shirts.
From Liz:
wiliqueen has had this one for ages, and got it from liminalliz. I've loved it and, when I was having a Shakespeare GLEEfest last year while in my All Shakespeare All the Time units in all my three of my classes, I decided I wanted to get Shakespeare icons. As I ADORE the Ken and Emma Much Ado film and as Much Ado is my favorite play (although its position as favorite is currently--for the first time in 20 years--endangered by Twelfth Night and Lear), this was one of the icons I wanted.
I wanted a hopeful, faith-based icon, so I made one that is, unsurprisingly, fannish. Since the Collier/MacMillian printings of the paperbacks don't have an image of Lucy looking into the wardrobe, I scanned in the image of Digory and Polly peering through the door into Uncle Andrew's study. Just recently, I made an icon of Elf peering into the TARDIS door in a similar way. These two icons are important to me because they express the idea of belief in, faith in, the surprises and magic and stories that one finds in the most unexpected of places, the magic of peering into a closet and smiling as I touch the back wall...this time; the magic of smiling at phone booths and police boxes that can host a superhero changing into disguise or a gateway to another world. I love the anticipation, especially in children's stories, of looking into the possibilities you can't even yet imagine.
This shot (used twice in my icons, once for "My fandom flies by the seat of its pants" and "My fandom doesn't care what it's wearing") is of Lee and Amanda in the helicoptor near the end of the pilot episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King, which is my One True Fandom that I go back to over and over. In that scene, Lee is tied up with the "killick hitch," a knot that Amanda has just proved in Cub Scouts with her boys that she cannot untie, so SHE has to fly the helicoptor with Lee shouting instructions and encouragement...with his eyes closed. Amanda, for the whole series, uses creative problem solving to fly by the seat of her pants--usually metaphorically but, in this scene, literally--which is at the core of what I love about the character...using mundane knowledge and common sense to solve serious problems. In one moment in this same scene, Lee notices her Cub Scout leader shirt and asks, horrified, "WHAT are you WEARING?" and she replies, "What do you CARE???" as the helicopter dives down again. I love this moment.
My daughter drew this when she was about five. This icon, along with the one of her up against me, is all about how my daughter is, in one way, a Proper British Child (in spite of neither of us being British, more's the pity) because she's been growing up watching Doctor Who (from the properly safe spot of behind mummy and sofa cushions), AND has applied her (imo considerable for her age) artistic skills to recording this early fannish tendency. She drew Ten (in brown) and Rose (her favorite at the time, wearing purple), and wrote her name (I'm sure you can guess the spelling of it came from, if you're Who folks....) *grin*
I realized at some point that I didn't have any positive fannish icons--and I wanted some. I'd been thinking about whether I even HAD an OTP at this stage of my life and journey through fandom, and the only one I could come up with that I didn't feel was somehow tainted was Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson. Part of my feeling there is that a) I ADORE Barbara. Period. At the time that I made this icon, I'm pretty sure they were together in the comics but that it was clear that wasn't going to last long and they were going to break up. This leads to b) the fact that I believe they are good for each other and will end up together...even if it's DECADES from now...and I'm okay with that. It's a strange place to be in fandom, not to wish for couples to get together, to be okay with how it works (in most cases) and not to be connecting in case the producers or networks screw the show and its characters over (see the "We Can Take You Flying" icon).