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aelfgyfu_mead) wrote2009-04-11 08:55 pm
aelfgyfu_mead) wrote2009-04-11 08:55 pm
Icon meme!
I've had a very busy week, so I didn't reply to anyone on the icon meme until today. Naturally, three people replied very quickly!
Rules:
1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', 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 glee.
Note: some versions say "five," some say "six"; I plan to do five, but two of the people to whom I replied were doing six. If you want me to do six, let me know. (I realized after I'd replied to four people that I only have 52 icons, and those four people could conceivably pick 22 different ones, or nearly half my total. They haven't all chosen different ones, though.)
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or_mabinogi:
1.
This is me! This is the first or second userpic I made when I joined LiveJournal. Years ago I found a site that let one make South Park-style cartoons of people. I did one of someone at whom I felt angry to take out my resentment, but it didn't really help; in fact, it looked a little cute. So I made one of me instead. I've got my Sword of Truth (or Grammar, or Medieval Studies, or whatever I feel like at the time), my shield, and my glasses. My one regret is that I couldn't make the hair really dark blond; all the blond choices were too light. My hair is dark blond rather than brown.
2.
My buddy Geoff! This is Geoffrey Chaucer, from the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales; he's a little dumpy and wearing a silly hat, as he seems to be in all contemporary illustrations (though it's not always the same silly hat). I wish the picture were a little sharper, but the Huntingdon Library, which owns the manuscript, keeps tight control on the images from it.
3.
Waldorf and Statler, from The Muppet Show! I got them to use for heckling sorts of comments, but I don't often leave heckling sorts of comments. I do love those guys.
4.
Killer! My brother gave me Killer as a birthday gift, and I just love him! (He's a Killer Rabbit, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in case anyone didn't recognize him.) He's a stuffed animal, and surprisingly cuddly. He keeps leaping on Brilliant Husband without warning and biting him in the neck. BH still seems to find this funny, oddly enough, and it has now been months since my birthday. I love Killer so much that I made an icon from a picture at one of the websites that sell killer rabbits. I find I use him a surprising amount: when I'm responding with righteous indignation, usually shared with the original poster; when I'm being funny in a sick way; and for some responses to RaceFail, where I occasionally got the hat trick of sharing righteous indignation, being funny in a sick way (or admiring someone else being funny in a sick way, usually parodying some RaceFail), and acknowledging my own whiteness. (Okay, the latter is really obscure and non-obvious.)
5.
redbyrd_sgfic made me this one. She sent me the original quotation, and I was lamenting that it was too long to put in a userpic--so she made it into an animated one! I still don't know how to do that. (I should ask her; Redbyrd, if you see this--or if anyone else sees it who knows how--I could use simple instructions on how to animate an icon. I want my Camberwick Green Sam Tyler to lower his face into his hands, instead of the still I have now.) This complements my Monk OCD icon. I'm at least borderline OCD. I'm honestly not sure if I've been officially diagnosed. I've spent a little too much time with doctors and lost track of the minor stuff.
6.
I love Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. I made that for science and technology entries, but I guess I don't make many of those. I'm a big Muppet fan; did you guess?
Fromastrogirl2
A.
Another one of me! I think I'm one of the most self-centered LJ users I've seen, at least in terms of my userpics. A student did a sketch of me on a napkin one day before class and then gave it to me. He captioned it "Dr. Aelfgyfu teaches Beowulf" (with my real name, though). I was so thrilled! BH scanned it for me, and I used it as my icon for the SciFi Bulletin Board, which is where I got into online fandom: I started reading the SG-1 forum, and then I took a name so that I could post there, and then I fell down the slippery slope. I think it was one of my friends there who put the lettering on it, but it might have been more recent--if it was one of you LJ peeps, please remind me, and I'll edit this entry to credit you! At least three different people have dressed up the original sketch with my name in fancy fonts, two on the SciFi board and one on LJ. I can't remember which I used for this icon. Sorry!
(And if that student reads this entry, I could be so outed--please don't reveal my True Identity if you read this, man! Thanks!)
B.
Everyone else has a "books" icon, so I tried to make one myself. I took a picture of one of my shelves of books at my campus office, but it pixelated badly. I finally made a medieval book icon. I got this image from The Parker Library. It's actually late antique rather than Anglo-Saxon illustration, but hey.
C.
A quotation from Noah Wyle's character, Flynn Carson, in The Librarian 3: Curse of the Judas Chalice. I enjoy those movies more than I should! I'm not actually a librarian myself, but I have worked in libraries, in high school and college, and at least two (three?) of my friends are librarians. I use it mostly in responding to them.
D.
It's Shaun the Sheep! It's Shaun the Sheep! (theme song) I think Shaun the Sheep is hilarious; if you haven't seen these, they're five-minute long claymations by the geniuses behind Wallace and Gromit, and they really are fun for the whole family. I made a Shaun and other sheep icon because I feel like such a sheep when I do memes! (To be fair, Shaun is not your typical sheep--he's not a follower. He goes his own way.)
E.
See #5, above.
Fromaurora_novarum:
I.
That was me mouthing off.redbyrd_sgfic made a comment somewhere about doing something when she got "a round tuit," so I immediately did a Google image search, found this, and made an icon so that I could reply with it. That's what happens when someone with OCD gets too many icon slots. (Now I can't even remember what Redbyrd had said that sparked this.)
II.
See #1, above.
III.
See #6, above.
IV.
See #5, above. I'm a little disturbed that you picked three of the same ones that Mabi did--and that none of them is directly SG-1 related, though I know you both because of SG-1. You and Mabi aren't very much alike! Perhaps you two have more in common than I thought?
V.
Bill! I think you are one of the big reasons I'm such a Bill Lee fan! I read your "Just a Scientist" fairly early when I came to online fandom for the first time, and I was also new to Stargate fandom; I only began watching in s7. I'm quite a Bill partisan and get miffed when they write him as too much of a buffoon. I think I made this icon to reply to something you had said. It's just a publicity photo I found using Google Images, which I used to find pictures for almost all my userpics, but I think it's a very nice one. It makes Bill look suitably thoughtful and heroic.
Rules:
1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', 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 glee.
Note: some versions say "five," some say "six"; I plan to do five, but two of the people to whom I replied were doing six. If you want me to do six, let me know. (I realized after I'd replied to four people that I only have 52 icons, and those four people could conceivably pick 22 different ones, or nearly half my total. They haven't all chosen different ones, though.)
From
or_mabinogi:1.
This is me! This is the first or second userpic I made when I joined LiveJournal. Years ago I found a site that let one make South Park-style cartoons of people. I did one of someone at whom I felt angry to take out my resentment, but it didn't really help; in fact, it looked a little cute. So I made one of me instead. I've got my Sword of Truth (or Grammar, or Medieval Studies, or whatever I feel like at the time), my shield, and my glasses. My one regret is that I couldn't make the hair really dark blond; all the blond choices were too light. My hair is dark blond rather than brown.
2.
My buddy Geoff! This is Geoffrey Chaucer, from the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales; he's a little dumpy and wearing a silly hat, as he seems to be in all contemporary illustrations (though it's not always the same silly hat). I wish the picture were a little sharper, but the Huntingdon Library, which owns the manuscript, keeps tight control on the images from it.
3.
Waldorf and Statler, from The Muppet Show! I got them to use for heckling sorts of comments, but I don't often leave heckling sorts of comments. I do love those guys.
4.
Killer! My brother gave me Killer as a birthday gift, and I just love him! (He's a Killer Rabbit, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in case anyone didn't recognize him.) He's a stuffed animal, and surprisingly cuddly. He keeps leaping on Brilliant Husband without warning and biting him in the neck. BH still seems to find this funny, oddly enough, and it has now been months since my birthday. I love Killer so much that I made an icon from a picture at one of the websites that sell killer rabbits. I find I use him a surprising amount: when I'm responding with righteous indignation, usually shared with the original poster; when I'm being funny in a sick way; and for some responses to RaceFail, where I occasionally got the hat trick of sharing righteous indignation, being funny in a sick way (or admiring someone else being funny in a sick way, usually parodying some RaceFail), and acknowledging my own whiteness. (Okay, the latter is really obscure and non-obvious.)
5.
redbyrd_sgfic made me this one. She sent me the original quotation, and I was lamenting that it was too long to put in a userpic--so she made it into an animated one! I still don't know how to do that. (I should ask her; Redbyrd, if you see this--or if anyone else sees it who knows how--I could use simple instructions on how to animate an icon. I want my Camberwick Green Sam Tyler to lower his face into his hands, instead of the still I have now.) This complements my Monk OCD icon. I'm at least borderline OCD. I'm honestly not sure if I've been officially diagnosed. I've spent a little too much time with doctors and lost track of the minor stuff. 6.
I love Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. I made that for science and technology entries, but I guess I don't make many of those. I'm a big Muppet fan; did you guess?
From
astrogirl2A.
Another one of me! I think I'm one of the most self-centered LJ users I've seen, at least in terms of my userpics. A student did a sketch of me on a napkin one day before class and then gave it to me. He captioned it "Dr. Aelfgyfu teaches Beowulf" (with my real name, though). I was so thrilled! BH scanned it for me, and I used it as my icon for the SciFi Bulletin Board, which is where I got into online fandom: I started reading the SG-1 forum, and then I took a name so that I could post there, and then I fell down the slippery slope. I think it was one of my friends there who put the lettering on it, but it might have been more recent--if it was one of you LJ peeps, please remind me, and I'll edit this entry to credit you! At least three different people have dressed up the original sketch with my name in fancy fonts, two on the SciFi board and one on LJ. I can't remember which I used for this icon. Sorry!
(And if that student reads this entry, I could be so outed--please don't reveal my True Identity if you read this, man! Thanks!)
B.
Everyone else has a "books" icon, so I tried to make one myself. I took a picture of one of my shelves of books at my campus office, but it pixelated badly. I finally made a medieval book icon. I got this image from The Parker Library. It's actually late antique rather than Anglo-Saxon illustration, but hey.
C.
A quotation from Noah Wyle's character, Flynn Carson, in The Librarian 3: Curse of the Judas Chalice. I enjoy those movies more than I should! I'm not actually a librarian myself, but I have worked in libraries, in high school and college, and at least two (three?) of my friends are librarians. I use it mostly in responding to them.
D.
It's Shaun the Sheep! It's Shaun the Sheep! (theme song) I think Shaun the Sheep is hilarious; if you haven't seen these, they're five-minute long claymations by the geniuses behind Wallace and Gromit, and they really are fun for the whole family. I made a Shaun and other sheep icon because I feel like such a sheep when I do memes! (To be fair, Shaun is not your typical sheep--he's not a follower. He goes his own way.)
E.
See #5, above.
From
aurora_novarum:I.
That was me mouthing off.
redbyrd_sgfic made a comment somewhere about doing something when she got "a round tuit," so I immediately did a Google image search, found this, and made an icon so that I could reply with it. That's what happens when someone with OCD gets too many icon slots. (Now I can't even remember what Redbyrd had said that sparked this.)II.
See #1, above.
III.
See #6, above.
IV.
See #5, above. I'm a little disturbed that you picked three of the same ones that Mabi did--and that none of them is directly SG-1 related, though I know you both because of SG-1. You and Mabi aren't very much alike! Perhaps you two have more in common than I thought?
V.
Bill! I think you are one of the big reasons I'm such a Bill Lee fan! I read your "Just a Scientist" fairly early when I came to online fandom for the first time, and I was also new to Stargate fandom; I only began watching in s7. I'm quite a Bill partisan and get miffed when they write him as too much of a buffoon. I think I made this icon to reply to something you had said. It's just a publicity photo I found using Google Images, which I used to find pictures for almost all my userpics, but I think it's a very nice one. It makes Bill look suitably thoughtful and heroic.