Icon Meme
1. Comment to this entry saying 'SNOW!' and I will pick 3 of your icons/userpics.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!
Courtesy of aletheiafelinea, here be some explanations:
One of my oldest user pics still in use, first added when I still had a different account. Going by the fact that it's a Black Butler character, I'm guessing I added it to the roster around 2010 when I first watched/read the series and went on a hunt for some user icons :D The character in question was an early favourite of mine, an obfuscatingly ever-smiling Chinese mafia overlord with dubious allegiances who hits several of the character tropes I tend to gravitate towards. I don't remember where this panel is from in the manga as that's an unusual expression for him, but it is my go-to for more D: mood comments/posts.
Oh, CSI: Vatican :') :') How do I even explain this series... Basically, Vatican Miracle Examiners is a series of Japanese novels about, well, two priests who get sent by the Vatican to examine alleged miracles world-wide. Sounds harmless enough, until you hear that the case in the first novel turns out not to be a virgin conception but a cult of Nazis in South America pretending to be Catholics and raising Hitler's kids via brainwashed surrogate mothers and dealing drugs ┐(‘～`；)┌ And it only gets more insane from there! (One time the solution is literally "It was cocaine", idk what to tell you.) The series got an anime adaptation in 2017 that had the budget of 200 yen and a potato, crammed 3 500-page novels into 10 25-minute episodes and consequently felt like getting whacked in the face with a sparksnotes summary written by someone high on meth. So of course I had a GREAT TIME with it :D Sadly, the 200 yen and a potato budget means that there's barely any material for icons to work with, so this coverart for the soundtrack was the closest I could get in terms of an ~aesthetic~ icon, so I have one to use for any topics that may involve religious stuff.
Rin Setsu A is a horrible, horrible goose of a character, but a very entertaining horrible goose :'D While Thunderbolt Fantasy due to its super detailed puppet designs doesn't lend itself to icon-making, the official 4-panel-comics the production team posted on social media had some quality illustrations to use, so I went for this one radiating peak "I had nothing whatsoever to do with this problem that just came to pass, I just happened to arrive at the scene while everyone was already on fire, I swear :3c"-energy.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!
Courtesy of aletheiafelinea, here be some explanations:
One of my oldest user pics still in use, first added when I still had a different account. Going by the fact that it's a Black Butler character, I'm guessing I added it to the roster around 2010 when I first watched/read the series and went on a hunt for some user icons :D The character in question was an early favourite of mine, an obfuscatingly ever-smiling Chinese mafia overlord with dubious allegiances who hits several of the character tropes I tend to gravitate towards. I don't remember where this panel is from in the manga as that's an unusual expression for him, but it is my go-to for more D: mood comments/posts.
Oh, CSI: Vatican :') :') How do I even explain this series... Basically, Vatican Miracle Examiners is a series of Japanese novels about, well, two priests who get sent by the Vatican to examine alleged miracles world-wide. Sounds harmless enough, until you hear that the case in the first novel turns out not to be a virgin conception but a cult of Nazis in South America pretending to be Catholics and raising Hitler's kids via brainwashed surrogate mothers and dealing drugs ┐(‘～`；)┌ And it only gets more insane from there! (One time the solution is literally "It was cocaine", idk what to tell you.) The series got an anime adaptation in 2017 that had the budget of 200 yen and a potato, crammed 3 500-page novels into 10 25-minute episodes and consequently felt like getting whacked in the face with a sparksnotes summary written by someone high on meth. So of course I had a GREAT TIME with it :D Sadly, the 200 yen and a potato budget means that there's barely any material for icons to work with, so this coverart for the soundtrack was the closest I could get in terms of an ~aesthetic~ icon, so I have one to use for any topics that may involve religious stuff.
Rin Setsu A is a horrible, horrible goose of a character, but a very entertaining horrible goose :'D While Thunderbolt Fantasy due to its super detailed puppet designs doesn't lend itself to icon-making, the official 4-panel-comics the production team posted on social media had some quality illustrations to use, so I went for this one radiating peak "I had nothing whatsoever to do with this problem that just came to pass, I just happened to arrive at the scene while everyone was already on fire, I swear :3c"-energy.