Icon meme!
From daegaer:
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.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!
daegaer picked these:
1)
(icon by attempt_unique)
This is my new default icon. It portrays Elisabeth Sladen in her role as Sarah Jane Smith. I'm not sure what the schematic that she's standing in front of portrays. I've never seen this shot in any of the Doctor Who stories, so I presume it's either a publicity still or, more likely, a clip from one of the episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which isn't on TV in my area.
Anyway, I like this icon because it portrays an older woman who's attractive without being glamorous and suggests that she's intelligent and quite capable of dealing with whatever technical or scientific snarl life throws at her. The problem is there, but she can deal with it and she will--with her head held high.
(Oh, yeah, I identify just a little. I want to be Sarah Jane when I grow up.)
2)
(icon by copperbadge)
I know this is from an anime somewhere, but, despite the fact that I have two icons with the character, I freely admit that I have no clue who the character is. I've always thought of him as teenaged Remus Lupin, either feeling all "WTF?" or wondering how he got into a mess THIS time and how the hell is is going to get out of it?
I don't have to user this icon nearly as much as I do the "WTF?" one. Fortunately.
3)
I freely admit that I have no clue who made this one, and I've been asking around for about two years. Even the person I got it from didn't know who made it originally.
I have it because, as regular readers of this LJ know, I support LGBT (or LGBTQ--I've seen it both ways) rights. Opponents of such rights tend to drag out Leviticus 18:22 as if it were a trump card; the icon simply points out that there are a LOT of things abominated by the Lord in Leviticus that most people these days (not all, but most) cheerfully ignore--so why focus on this one particular thing?
(For the record, bunnies are not forbidden from existing, which the icon might make you believe; eating coneys and hares is, along with about fifty other animals, birds and insects. Likewise, vegetable gardens are not forbidden--but planting more than one kind of crop together or sowing hybrid seed is. I suspect the creator of the icon was subject to constraints--the icon itself is not very big, and if you don't want to cover the entire picture with writing, you have to summarize.)
4)
(icon by mscongeniality)
This is a clip from the movie 1776. That's William Daniels as John Adams, who spends most of the movie being exasperated at the rest of the Continental Congress, which he views as slow, wishy-washy on the subject of American independence, and downright impossible. I use the icon on those occasions when I'm dealing with situations where I just can't believe that a person or organization is doing something this dumb, this wrong or, most likely, both.
5)
(icon by yours truly)
This is a clip from the banner the Sci-Fi channel (it had not yet become SyFy) used to advertise the TV show The Dresden Files. That's Paul Blackthorne as Harry Dresden, private investigator and wizard. I like it because of his smile--he's so very obviously enjoying doing magic and taking a great deal of pleasure in who and what he is. So I use this one when I'm pleased, or when things are going well.
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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.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!
daegaer picked these:
1)
(icon by attempt_unique)
This is my new default icon. It portrays Elisabeth Sladen in her role as Sarah Jane Smith. I'm not sure what the schematic that she's standing in front of portrays. I've never seen this shot in any of the Doctor Who stories, so I presume it's either a publicity still or, more likely, a clip from one of the episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which isn't on TV in my area.
Anyway, I like this icon because it portrays an older woman who's attractive without being glamorous and suggests that she's intelligent and quite capable of dealing with whatever technical or scientific snarl life throws at her. The problem is there, but she can deal with it and she will--with her head held high.
(Oh, yeah, I identify just a little. I want to be Sarah Jane when I grow up.)
2)
(icon by copperbadge)
I know this is from an anime somewhere, but, despite the fact that I have two icons with the character, I freely admit that I have no clue who the character is. I've always thought of him as teenaged Remus Lupin, either feeling all "WTF?" or wondering how he got into a mess THIS time and how the hell is is going to get out of it?
I don't have to user this icon nearly as much as I do the "WTF?" one. Fortunately.
3)
I freely admit that I have no clue who made this one, and I've been asking around for about two years. Even the person I got it from didn't know who made it originally.
I have it because, as regular readers of this LJ know, I support LGBT (or LGBTQ--I've seen it both ways) rights. Opponents of such rights tend to drag out Leviticus 18:22 as if it were a trump card; the icon simply points out that there are a LOT of things abominated by the Lord in Leviticus that most people these days (not all, but most) cheerfully ignore--so why focus on this one particular thing?
(For the record, bunnies are not forbidden from existing, which the icon might make you believe; eating coneys and hares is, along with about fifty other animals, birds and insects. Likewise, vegetable gardens are not forbidden--but planting more than one kind of crop together or sowing hybrid seed is. I suspect the creator of the icon was subject to constraints--the icon itself is not very big, and if you don't want to cover the entire picture with writing, you have to summarize.)
4)
(icon by mscongeniality)
This is a clip from the movie 1776. That's William Daniels as John Adams, who spends most of the movie being exasperated at the rest of the Continental Congress, which he views as slow, wishy-washy on the subject of American independence, and downright impossible. I use the icon on those occasions when I'm dealing with situations where I just can't believe that a person or organization is doing something this dumb, this wrong or, most likely, both.
5)
(icon by yours truly)
This is a clip from the banner the Sci-Fi channel (it had not yet become SyFy) used to advertise the TV show The Dresden Files. That's Paul Blackthorne as Harry Dresden, private investigator and wizard. I like it because of his smile--he's so very obviously enjoying doing magic and taking a great deal of pleasure in who and what he is. So I use this one when I'm pleased, or when things are going well.
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