First Post of 2019 - also icon meme
Hello and welcome to every one who has come (back) to Dreamwidth!
I am so happy to see a renaissance here! Do drop me a note if you want to know anything or have a topic for me to write about!
Sadly I haven't done much to contribute, it's only taken me *looks at watch* Over a month to write post something in THIS YEAR again.
BUT the icon meme going around was an interesting one, so I decided to take part in that one!
How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you, and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own journal. Spread it around.
kangeiko was so kind as to select three of my icons, so here are the answers:
by luluxa
Luluxa does the best Clarkson/Hammond/May fanart. Period. (Yes, there are other artists out there and they do good stuff but she's my favourite. Mostly because her art shines. Go check out her deviantart gallery. There's also more/slashier stuff on tumblr and I think she goes by luluxa there as well but I don't like tumblr anymore, not the least because it's impossible to find stuff (again), so no linkage, sorry.
Anyway this icon obviously get's deployed when this fandom comes up as it's wonderfully usable both in a friendshippy and slashy context.
by
jhava
PARKER! Oh, how I adore Parker. This is Leverage, the tv show about 5 thieves from a few years back. It never got me properly fannishly involved since there was never a "proper" OTP in it for me. But I did read lots of fanfic and my (and many people more) OTP in this fandom is an OT3 (Parker/Elliot/Hardison).
I love all the characters, this was a fabuluous ensemble show with some of the best chemistry.
on top of that you get a "mini"-heist movie basically every week and this makes for wonderful comfort viewing. The later seasons touched on deeper topics and there was the problem with one of the actresses getting pregnant (NOT a problem per se but instead of just writing her out they replaced her and that just didn't work, sigh.) Anyway, S1 is lovely to watch as are some of the later seasons despite the writers running out of ideas.
Yes, I love all the characters but Parker, Parker is very special. She actually (imho) has the most character development during the seasons going from this socially awkward but very capable cat burglar to a self-assured team leader. With the help and love of her friends.
At the same time PArker might be the most ruthless of the Quintett. So, yeah, very interesting character and I want to adopt her at the same time.
Get's deployed basically sadly never, which is why I choose this one for this post.
by
azure_horizon
Sherlock and John! Well, you recognized them. In retrospect I probably wouldn't choose this one anymore because it's out of focus too much. BUt I remember back then I wanted an icon where both of their heads were in it (and only their heads) and that was a bit meaningful and Sherlock looking like that at John certainly fits the bill :)
And once I have an icon I cannot get rid of it :)
Bonus icon:
by me
trobadora asked me - for bonus points - to recount the story of this icon.
It's the only icon I ever made myself but it was too good not to use it.
For those not fluent in German, it says "Cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock,Starbucks, cock, cock, cock, cock" (Yes, it's the same word as for tail but "cock" was definitely meant here)
Well, this is the story:
10ish(?) years ago there was a weekend fannish meetup of German fangirls from the old Querstrich Mailing List - and associates as I was never actually on that list.
I remember
trobadora ,
minavox ,
bing and
frogspace being in attendance. (If I'm wrong please correct me and I'm sure I'm forgetting people.
xkatjafx was surely there as well...and more.)
Anyway, we had a lovely discussion about why we write our porn in English (vs in German) and one argument was (and I still stand by it) that the German words for eg cock sound icky and we're more disassociated from the English ones, so can write the heavier porn more easily.
frogspace put forth the case that we were just not used them because we read too much porn in English and we'd just needed to get used to the German words.
so the next day after breakfast I sat myself down and wrote a whole sheet full of "cocks" (rainbow colours because why not?!)
This was a very meditative task so I only realised I'd written "Starbucks" after the fact. I did write Starbucks because there was a discussion going on about that at the next table ( I don't remember what it was actually about) and someone said "Starbucks" so my brain decided to use it. I do remember that it was about the coffee chain and not Battlestar Galactica :)
So there.
Due to the TOS change on LJ, my LJ is left on Crosspost only. Please comment on the Dreamwidth entry here.
I am so happy to see a renaissance here! Do drop me a note if you want to know anything or have a topic for me to write about!
Sadly I haven't done much to contribute, it's only taken me *looks at watch* Over a month to write post something in THIS YEAR again.
BUT the icon meme going around was an interesting one, so I decided to take part in that one!
How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you, and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own journal. Spread it around.
kangeiko was so kind as to select three of my icons, so here are the answers:
by luluxa
Luluxa does the best Clarkson/Hammond/May fanart. Period. (Yes, there are other artists out there and they do good stuff but she's my favourite. Mostly because her art shines. Go check out her deviantart gallery. There's also more/slashier stuff on tumblr and I think she goes by luluxa there as well but I don't like tumblr anymore, not the least because it's impossible to find stuff (again), so no linkage, sorry.
Anyway this icon obviously get's deployed when this fandom comes up as it's wonderfully usable both in a friendshippy and slashy context.
by
jhava
PARKER! Oh, how I adore Parker. This is Leverage, the tv show about 5 thieves from a few years back. It never got me properly fannishly involved since there was never a "proper" OTP in it for me. But I did read lots of fanfic and my (and many people more) OTP in this fandom is an OT3 (Parker/Elliot/Hardison).
I love all the characters, this was a fabuluous ensemble show with some of the best chemistry.
on top of that you get a "mini"-heist movie basically every week and this makes for wonderful comfort viewing. The later seasons touched on deeper topics and there was the problem with one of the actresses getting pregnant (NOT a problem per se but instead of just writing her out they replaced her and that just didn't work, sigh.) Anyway, S1 is lovely to watch as are some of the later seasons despite the writers running out of ideas.
Yes, I love all the characters but Parker, Parker is very special. She actually (imho) has the most character development during the seasons going from this socially awkward but very capable cat burglar to a self-assured team leader. With the help and love of her friends.
At the same time PArker might be the most ruthless of the Quintett. So, yeah, very interesting character and I want to adopt her at the same time.
Get's deployed basically sadly never, which is why I choose this one for this post.
by
azure_horizon
Sherlock and John! Well, you recognized them. In retrospect I probably wouldn't choose this one anymore because it's out of focus too much. BUt I remember back then I wanted an icon where both of their heads were in it (and only their heads) and that was a bit meaningful and Sherlock looking like that at John certainly fits the bill :)
And once I have an icon I cannot get rid of it :)
Bonus icon:
by me
trobadora asked me - for bonus points - to recount the story of this icon.
It's the only icon I ever made myself but it was too good not to use it.
For those not fluent in German, it says "Cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock,Starbucks, cock, cock, cock, cock" (Yes, it's the same word as for tail but "cock" was definitely meant here)
Well, this is the story:
10ish(?) years ago there was a weekend fannish meetup of German fangirls from the old Querstrich Mailing List - and associates as I was never actually on that list.
I remember
trobadora ,
minavox ,
bing and
frogspace being in attendance. (If I'm wrong please correct me and I'm sure I'm forgetting people.
xkatjafx was surely there as well...and more.)
Anyway, we had a lovely discussion about why we write our porn in English (vs in German) and one argument was (and I still stand by it) that the German words for eg cock sound icky and we're more disassociated from the English ones, so can write the heavier porn more easily.
frogspace put forth the case that we were just not used them because we read too much porn in English and we'd just needed to get used to the German words.
so the next day after breakfast I sat myself down and wrote a whole sheet full of "cocks" (rainbow colours because why not?!)
This was a very meditative task so I only realised I'd written "Starbucks" after the fact. I did write Starbucks because there was a discussion going on about that at the next table ( I don't remember what it was actually about) and someone said "Starbucks" so my brain decided to use it. I do remember that it was about the coffee chain and not Battlestar Galactica :)
So there.
Due to the TOS change on LJ, my LJ is left on Crosspost only. Please comment on the Dreamwidth entry here.