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Icon meme:
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!
alryssa picked:
My icon for discussions relating to cats, kittens, and teh cute. It was inspired by a limerick:
There once was a curate of Kew
Who found a small cat in a pew.
He taught it to speak
Alphabetical Greek
But it never got further than μ.
The kitten is a clip-art I found on the internet somewhere. I like the way it turned out so that it looks like the kitten is looking at the μ, which is completely accidental.
My default icon since I joined livejournal. My circle of LJ-friends has expanded over time, but in the beginning I joined up to keep in touch with a particular group of people who were all part of an online community where I had become known (for reasons that are unlikely to become clear again at the moment) for a fictional association with a small blue duck named Donald. I wanted to put Donald in my main icon, but I didn't have any good photos of him (and the real Donald doesn't look much like the fictional Donald anyway), so I used this duck instead. I don't know if it comes through in the icon, but in the full-size illustration he's got a cheerful and mischievous sort of gleam in his eye that I always imagine Donald having.
The picture is from a How To Draw book I got for Christmas when I was a child. I never did get the hang of how to draw any of the pictures in the book -- certainly not well enough to capture that gleam in the eye -- so I just scanned the original in. I did try tinting the picture blue, to make him more Donald-like, but at the time I didn't have enough grasp of Photoshop to make it not look dumb. I might do better now, but now I'm used to him the way he is.
I don't think I've ever used this icon for anything; I just loved it so much I had to have it. It's from an icon set created bylost_spook, based on the old-school 'Doctor Who' serial "Vengeance on Varos".
Mary Whitehouse was a campaigner against offensive material (sex, violence, profanity, etc.) on British television. She arguably had some good ideas (and some really terrible ideas), but a lot of the people she attacked regarded her as a sign that they were on the right track. (The Goodies, when they heard that their show had been praised by Whitehouse as wholesome entertainment, responded by making an episode deliberately aimed at bugging her.) 'Doctor Who' fans of a certain age remember her attacks on our favourite program with something approaching fondness.
"Vengeance on Varos" was exactly the kind of thing Mary Whitehouse didn't like. It was conceived as a kind of satire of the increasing mindless violence and sexualisation of television, but in execution it ended up containing quite a bit of mindless violence and sexualisation itself. (Although not profanity; 'Doctor Who' in those days may have been, as Whitehouse claimed, "sick", "horrible" and "brutal", but potty-mouthed it wasn't.)
I haven't used this icon as much as I expected when I made it; I am a great fan of science, but apparently it's not the kind of thing that moves me to blog.
The quote is from 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', and the picture is from the relevant scene in the TV version. On the left, Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast, the great fan of Science; on the right, Peter Jones as Arthur Dent; behind them, the architect's scale-model of the Earth.
Some years ago, there was a plan to revive 'Doctor Who' as an animated series starring Richard E. Grant. They made a six-part pilot serial, which was webcast on the BBC's web site, to reasonable success, and --
-- and then along came Russell T Davies and the revival of live-action TV 'Doctor Who', and that was that.
Anyway, this is the Richard E. Grant Doctor, who wasn't a very cheerful fellow.
The caption was inspired by one ofalryssa's icons, this one:
alryssaIcon meme:
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!
alryssa picked:My icon for discussions relating to cats, kittens, and teh cute. It was inspired by a limerick:
There once was a curate of Kew
Who found a small cat in a pew.
He taught it to speak
Alphabetical Greek
But it never got further than μ.
The kitten is a clip-art I found on the internet somewhere. I like the way it turned out so that it looks like the kitten is looking at the μ, which is completely accidental.
My default icon since I joined livejournal. My circle of LJ-friends has expanded over time, but in the beginning I joined up to keep in touch with a particular group of people who were all part of an online community where I had become known (for reasons that are unlikely to become clear again at the moment) for a fictional association with a small blue duck named Donald. I wanted to put Donald in my main icon, but I didn't have any good photos of him (and the real Donald doesn't look much like the fictional Donald anyway), so I used this duck instead. I don't know if it comes through in the icon, but in the full-size illustration he's got a cheerful and mischievous sort of gleam in his eye that I always imagine Donald having.
The picture is from a How To Draw book I got for Christmas when I was a child. I never did get the hang of how to draw any of the pictures in the book -- certainly not well enough to capture that gleam in the eye -- so I just scanned the original in. I did try tinting the picture blue, to make him more Donald-like, but at the time I didn't have enough grasp of Photoshop to make it not look dumb. I might do better now, but now I'm used to him the way he is.
I don't think I've ever used this icon for anything; I just loved it so much I had to have it. It's from an icon set created by
lost_spook, based on the old-school 'Doctor Who' serial "Vengeance on Varos".Mary Whitehouse was a campaigner against offensive material (sex, violence, profanity, etc.) on British television. She arguably had some good ideas (and some really terrible ideas), but a lot of the people she attacked regarded her as a sign that they were on the right track. (The Goodies, when they heard that their show had been praised by Whitehouse as wholesome entertainment, responded by making an episode deliberately aimed at bugging her.) 'Doctor Who' fans of a certain age remember her attacks on our favourite program with something approaching fondness.
"Vengeance on Varos" was exactly the kind of thing Mary Whitehouse didn't like. It was conceived as a kind of satire of the increasing mindless violence and sexualisation of television, but in execution it ended up containing quite a bit of mindless violence and sexualisation itself. (Although not profanity; 'Doctor Who' in those days may have been, as Whitehouse claimed, "sick", "horrible" and "brutal", but potty-mouthed it wasn't.)
I haven't used this icon as much as I expected when I made it; I am a great fan of science, but apparently it's not the kind of thing that moves me to blog.
The quote is from 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', and the picture is from the relevant scene in the TV version. On the left, Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast, the great fan of Science; on the right, Peter Jones as Arthur Dent; behind them, the architect's scale-model of the Earth.
Some years ago, there was a plan to revive 'Doctor Who' as an animated series starring Richard E. Grant. They made a six-part pilot serial, which was webcast on the BBC's web site, to reasonable success, and --
-- and then along came Russell T Davies and the revival of live-action TV 'Doctor Who', and that was that.
Anyway, this is the Richard E. Grant Doctor, who wasn't a very cheerful fellow.
The caption was inspired by one of
alryssa's icons, this one:
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Date: 2010-12-30 03:45 pm (UTC)I know that feeling! And, aw, one of my first icons! :-)
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Date: 2010-12-30 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-30 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-31 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-31 07:29 pm (UTC)1. Mary from P & P who is Talulah Riley, who I cast in my invented
2. I was icon-making and in a silly mood? What can I say? I like this one because it amuses me, and also because via another person on my flist, it inspired daft fic by
3. Another I made. I like that you picked this one, because this remains my favourite icon by me. It's Carol Hawkins from Carry On Abroad. I did very little to it, it just worked out like this, and I love the crop and the two smiles making it an all-purpose happy-icon.
4. Made by
5. One of the many, many great DWJ quote icons made by
Thank you! I liked your choices there.
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Date: 2011-01-01 04:15 am (UTC)Probably 'Deep Secret' - that's the one that's set at an SF convention. I can't remember any situation in 'A Sudden Wild Magic' where the quote would be appropriate.
('Hexwood' also has a mention of hobbits, but only in the context of Harrison complaining that there aren't any - which didn't stop one of the foreign publishers sticking it with cover art recycled from an earlier edition of LoTR.)
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Date: 2011-01-01 10:03 am (UTC)Thanks - thought it was Deep Secret, but sinec I can't remember either of those (or if I even actually read Deep Secret), I always get them completely muddled.
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Date: 2010-12-30 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-30 05:28 pm (UTC)Do you want me to pick five icons for you, or are you done with this particular meme for now?
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Date: 2011-01-01 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 05:48 am (UTC)