Icon Meme

[astarte59]

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icon meme

Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favorite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon.

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[astarte59]

Well, you could figure out my favorite, couldn't you? :-)



Aside from the subjects, and the text, I like the touch of red in Q's uniform, emphasizing both that he's dressed (and Picard isn't), but also Q's flamboyance and hard-to-ignorability.

I also really like this one--the technique you used.

[lt_kitty]

Those are also two of my favorites; both for technique, and also for their simplicity and beauty. I have other far more processed icons that I enjoyed making but aren't nearly so striking.

And I am so, so glad you love the Q/P icon, since you are SO totally responsible for turning me to the dark side bringing me into the Q/P fandom. ;) I'm so glad I can give something back. :)

[astarte59]

you are SO totally responsible for turning me to the dark side bringing me into the Q/P fandom. ;)

Moi? ;-)

Oh, do tell. Elaborate. Trust me, my life is so completely in the toilet right now that some praise, even for 12-13 year old work, would be a benefit.

Anytime, my dear! :)

[lt_kitty]

When I was in college about 13 years ago, I'd recently been introduced to both TNG and the Trek fandom. It was around the time of Generations, DS9 already running and Voyager starting shortly after, so I had a lot to catch up on. One of the first TNG episodes I remember catching in its entirety - but not understanding in context - was Tapestry. For a number of reasons - one being that I was a theology student - I was utterly fascinated with the character of Q. Utterly. I sought out every episode I could find, grabbed every ST novel featuring Q from my friend's ST library, searched the internet to make sure I didn't miss a thing, and found your essays on the nature of Q and Picard's relationship.

Which I vehemently and completely disagreed with. I think I was rather angry about it, actually. At the time, I had already become intrigued by Q and Picard's dynamic - I have *always* gotten a charge out of good banter - but I didn't ascribe anything sexual to it and was offended by more than a joshing implication that there could be something sexual there.

In any case, me being me, I reread and rewatched novels and episodes so I could write long essays - one of which may have been adapted into a pop culture studies assignment, I don't recall - deconstructing your arguments point by point and proposing that our culture had lost touch with the concept of deeply bonded and purely platonic male friendships. My obsession with Q the character morphed into an obsession with figuring out Q and Picard, the relationship, but even after I researched and wrote out my response (thank god I didn't have a livejournal or geocities account at the time and kept the damn thing to myself), I wan't satisfied with my own response. Partly because I had the niggling feeling in the back of my mind that you were right, and mostly because I knew I'd gone through rather convoluted logical gymnastics to prove my point.

Later - I don't know if it was the third time I saw Q-pid or the fourth time I saw Tapestry - I caught one of the "Q acts like a dominating sex god to annoy Picard" and something fundamental shifted. I think I finally noticed Picard's side, saw that his reaction was complicated and mixed up and included underpinnings of something other than annoyance and threat.

Eventually, I had to accept that the subtext was there, and intentionally so, and that if looking for it was kinda weird, trying to pretend it wasn't there was way freakier.

So, seriously? The Q/P fic from you and Alara and your ex and the rest of the group from those years did do a lot to shape my views on how a Q/P relationship might actually work out (especially HBP, I can't get dom!Q out of my head), but your essays laid the groundwork for allowing me to even approach slash or gay erotica seriously let alone enjoy the hell out of it, or, hell, come out as bi several years down the road.

So, thank you. :)