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1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", 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.
caffienekitty asked about these five:
This is my own photo of the replica Sutton Hoo helmet (the reconstruction of fragments of a helmet found at the most impressive and varied Anglo-Saxon gravesite yet found). You can see more photos from that trip to England here. I'm particularly fond of the Sutton Hoo helmet. Its image graces half the editions and translations of Beowulf that I've seen. It is absolutely awesome.
I use this icon for some of my posts on Anglo-Saxon studies, and also occasionally for "ooh, shiny!"
That's our cat Sparky with her favorite toy mouse and glowing eyes. I particularly like the glowing eyes. She looks like a cat Goa'uld (from Stargate SG-1). She is a good and faithful cat. I often use this icon for pet- and animal-related posts and comments. We don't have many good pictures of her. Black cats seem to be terribly hard to photograph. She generally looks like a small pile of laundry, parts undifferentiated.
This is my Books icon; I often use it when posting or commenting about reading, and sometimes for Medieval Studies in general. It replaced a couple of other icons with the same name. I tried using pictures of my own shelves of books, but for some reason they looked terrible when made into icons, and one could hardly tell that they were books. I searched the web and found too many pictures of books, none of which seemed quite right. Then I found this one, which still isn't exactly right. It too seems a little pixilated. I'm an Anglo-Saxonist and wanted something Anglo-Saxon, and this is more a Roman style, and very early (sixth century). Still, the Parker Library is famous for its Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; you can see some images free here at low resolution or pay thousands of dollars a year for access to high-res images. (Apparently some universities can afford that. Mine can't.) It is, however, a good, early medieval manuscript. (It's open to the illumination for the Gospel of St. Luke, though it's really hard to tell.) You can see a little more about the manuscript and the library here.
Greatest American Hero! I loved that show when I was a kid. When it became available on Netflix Instant Queue, Small Child became hooked, and we all watched some together. It's hard to find shows that SC will watch with us. I find I still love the characters, although Ralph Hinkley seems more naïve and, well, annoying than I remember him being. Pam is still the awesome girlfriend who won't be kept in the dark (à la Lois Lane) but insists on helping. I'm fonder of Bill Maxwell than I have any reason to be. I think it's because he reminds me a little of my Dad, although I can't explain why. My Dad is a mild-mannered retired history professor rather than a slightly maniacal, Commie-hating FBI agent. (We had to explain Commies and the Soviet Union to SC.) I love their off-kilter friendships. This one just makes me happy. I don't use it often.
I went looking for a John Watson icon. What I really wanted was one with John looking at the head in the fridge that I could caption "What has been seen cannot be unseen." I couldn't find what I wanted and concluded that there is no frame in which one can see John looking appalled at the head in the fridge; you can see him putting his face in his hand later, after he has closed the fridge door, during or after his attempt to discuss the matter with Sherlock. I kept looking for icons and eventually found this one, and I've managed to keep its creator's name with it, and I'm sure I left a post thanking the creator, but I can't find where I found it originally.
To be honest, I'm pretty sure it's John Watson, standing between the mantle and one of the windows in front of the odd green wallpaper in 221B, but I can't tell with absolute certainty. The wallpaper looks too intense a green, but the maker may have just saturated the colors more. I found it with some other Sherlock icons, so I assume it is John in the flat. (If you know for sure, please let me know!) I love the quotation, which came from Ashleigh Brilliant (though I learned that later.)
I find this icon appropriate for many situations in my own life and other people's.
caffienekitty:1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", 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.
caffienekitty asked about these five:This is my own photo of the replica Sutton Hoo helmet (the reconstruction of fragments of a helmet found at the most impressive and varied Anglo-Saxon gravesite yet found). You can see more photos from that trip to England here. I'm particularly fond of the Sutton Hoo helmet. Its image graces half the editions and translations of Beowulf that I've seen. It is absolutely awesome.
I use this icon for some of my posts on Anglo-Saxon studies, and also occasionally for "ooh, shiny!"
That's our cat Sparky with her favorite toy mouse and glowing eyes. I particularly like the glowing eyes. She looks like a cat Goa'uld (from Stargate SG-1). She is a good and faithful cat. I often use this icon for pet- and animal-related posts and comments. We don't have many good pictures of her. Black cats seem to be terribly hard to photograph. She generally looks like a small pile of laundry, parts undifferentiated.
This is my Books icon; I often use it when posting or commenting about reading, and sometimes for Medieval Studies in general. It replaced a couple of other icons with the same name. I tried using pictures of my own shelves of books, but for some reason they looked terrible when made into icons, and one could hardly tell that they were books. I searched the web and found too many pictures of books, none of which seemed quite right. Then I found this one, which still isn't exactly right. It too seems a little pixilated. I'm an Anglo-Saxonist and wanted something Anglo-Saxon, and this is more a Roman style, and very early (sixth century). Still, the Parker Library is famous for its Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; you can see some images free here at low resolution or pay thousands of dollars a year for access to high-res images. (Apparently some universities can afford that. Mine can't.) It is, however, a good, early medieval manuscript. (It's open to the illumination for the Gospel of St. Luke, though it's really hard to tell.) You can see a little more about the manuscript and the library here.
Greatest American Hero! I loved that show when I was a kid. When it became available on Netflix Instant Queue, Small Child became hooked, and we all watched some together. It's hard to find shows that SC will watch with us. I find I still love the characters, although Ralph Hinkley seems more naïve and, well, annoying than I remember him being. Pam is still the awesome girlfriend who won't be kept in the dark (à la Lois Lane) but insists on helping. I'm fonder of Bill Maxwell than I have any reason to be. I think it's because he reminds me a little of my Dad, although I can't explain why. My Dad is a mild-mannered retired history professor rather than a slightly maniacal, Commie-hating FBI agent. (We had to explain Commies and the Soviet Union to SC.) I love their off-kilter friendships. This one just makes me happy. I don't use it often.
I went looking for a John Watson icon. What I really wanted was one with John looking at the head in the fridge that I could caption "What has been seen cannot be unseen." I couldn't find what I wanted and concluded that there is no frame in which one can see John looking appalled at the head in the fridge; you can see him putting his face in his hand later, after he has closed the fridge door, during or after his attempt to discuss the matter with Sherlock. I kept looking for icons and eventually found this one, and I've managed to keep its creator's name with it, and I'm sure I left a post thanking the creator, but I can't find where I found it originally.
To be honest, I'm pretty sure it's John Watson, standing between the mantle and one of the windows in front of the odd green wallpaper in 221B, but I can't tell with absolute certainty. The wallpaper looks too intense a green, but the maker may have just saturated the colors more. I found it with some other Sherlock icons, so I assume it is John in the flat. (If you know for sure, please let me know!) I love the quotation, which came from Ashleigh Brilliant (though I learned that later.)
I find this icon appropriate for many situations in my own life and other people's.
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UNICORNS!
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Okay, here are five for you:
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i watched that a few years ago. i wish i didn't.
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I have a black cat as well, and I know what you mean about photos. They just look like a black lump with eyes usually.
I loved Greatest American Hero as a child, and was crushed when it was cancelled. I haven't looked it up since the Internet yet.
That last one is definitely John Watson. It's in the Great Game, (at 26:24 on my DVD), he's just come back from meeting with Mycroft about the missing missile plans, and is standing in the kitchen next to the fridge, watching Sherlock rant about botulism and Carl Powers' shoes. The 'mantel' there is actually the fridge and a bit of the hanging light fixture over the table. The maker has indeed saturated it a bit and adjusted some colour levels. It's a very apt icon for many situations.
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I loved GAH and was pleasantly surprised to find that I could still enjoy it at my advanced age, but having a kid who enjoys it helps. Your mileage may vary, but I find Robert Culp even more amazing now.
Somehow, Sparky doesn't even look like a black lump with eyes. She usually just looks like a black lump. We delete most photos of her from the camera because they're abject failures.
Yes, I work on a very cool era of history! Obviously I took my name from there (although at least one famous Aelfgyfu earned a very bad reputation, and I think the other well-known one did too). I love the name, and I even have this manuscript illustration with my name on it!
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And yay for Greatest American Hero love! I don't know what the heck is it about Bill that makes him so ridiculously appealing, but whatever it is, he's got it in spades. :)
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It's hard to pick just five for you! I'll try. . . .
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Unicorns...?
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Well, this will have to do for my selection:
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UNICORNS!
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I still remember Bill eating Milk Bones as snacks. WTF, dude? Hee.
And, sure Unicorns, but I'm still in process of putting in more icons. :-D
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Well, here are five icons for now. Maybe I'll come back some time later when you have more! (Of course, I found that I needed a very long time to select from the people who have over 200!)
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[img src=""]—replace square brackets with angle brackets to put to real use.
To get the address for the icon, just right click the icon and choose "Copy Image Address." Put the whole thing in the quotation marks.
Et voilà:
It's working for me right now, at least in preview.