Iconic Meme

[browngirl]

I got this from cereta

Go to my icons, and pick one. I'll tell you (a) what the icon is/means/etc, and (b) one thing I love about the person (or other entity) in that icon. I shall then pick one of your icons for the same.

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[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

This one!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Jack, Martha, and the Doctor's hands all piled atop each other. My roommate made me this, because in addition to loving the characters it felt like a great way to represent/promote fannish unity.

So, because the img tag doesn't like me today, I'm going to go by keywords: "mr confused the fuck out of my gay" What is that thing on his head?!

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear...

Many years ago, foreverdirt, louiselux and I went to see a certain Mr Neil Gaiman talk at Oxford Borders. Having been subject to the full blast of his charisma, foreverdirt and I staggered out complaining that, "Neil Gaiman stole my gay!" I did have an icon with that phrase at one point but it's vanished into the mists of time. (There was also talk of Neil's black silk boxer shorts with little orange pumpkins and the evening spurred the mysterious tinhat to create a journal.)

Anyway, I then proceeded to have a brief, dirty fling with Smallville, which involved watching Sorority Boys, which features Michael Rosenbaum looking insanely pretty as Adina, so the 'stole my gay' became 'confused the fuck out of my gay'.

It amuses ME, okay!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

That is adorable, you know.

*ducks and runs, grinning*

[mskatej.livejournal.com]

This:

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

My first fandom, one could say, are the Minoans of Bronze Age Crete. I have loved them ever since I first read about them in junior high. One of my favorite authors, Mary Renault, wrote a book set partially in Minoan Crete, so my sojurn in that fandom led me to this lovely icon made by baranduin.

And let me just say, I LOVE your icons. It took me awhile, but I decided to ask you about the beautiful "Maggie Gyllenhaal".

[mskatej.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes, that's one I can't imagine ever giving up. Maggie is my favourite film actress, mostly because of the movie "Secretary" which I love with the fire of a thousand suns. There are many things I love about her, but if I had to choose only one quality it would be her fearlessness. :)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Secretary! Oh, how I adore that movie.

[berreh.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to know who this person is:

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I have no earthly idea; I snagged it because I needed an Aitchpea icon, and the randomness continually pleases me.

And oh, the Icons of the Froot. I managed to keep from asking about Dom, Billy, or the glorious Jennifer Tilly, and instead went for "robbie: burns"

[berreh.livejournal.com]

YAY JENNIFER *displays 4 u*

But anyway, Robbie.

This is from the video for "Supreme," in which he plays a circa-1970s F1 driver, his homage to Sir Jackie Stewart. I love the way they did it, and the cap and pipe make me lolz. :D

[berreh.livejournal.com]

(I just realized he's not wearing the cap in this shot. But you can see the huge 70s hair and sideburns.)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

That is just so... I am overusing the word "adorable" today, but the fact that he did that really *is*.

[miakun.livejournal.com]

This one, cos it makes me lol.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

When I wrote a lot of LOTR fic I wrote a fair bit of interspecies, usually featuring Boromir or Faramir being climbed by one or both of the gentlehobbits in the icon I'm using for this comment. (This is because, among other reasons, because Sean Bean's Boromir was so noble and conflicted and human and beautiful that I wanted to give him as many orgasms as possible. I get that way about characters I love.) So I wanted an icon of Boromir being leapt on by hobbits, and that one came with a hilarious Simpsons quotation. Bonus!

As for your lovely icons: I was going to ask about Steph, but then I saw you had a Twi'lek! So, please tell me about the lass of "Aishie Sez - Wall Time (Kotor -OC)"

[miakun.livejournal.com]

If you have not yet played Knights of the Old Republic, you must! But I will write this comment presuming you haven't.

Basically it's this game by the lovlies at Bioware who set it 4,000 years before the movies, so they had all this range to play with and the Jedi Order and all the different things you can fiddle around with.

I think it's my most loyal fandom, even though it's not too loyal back (tarts).

Anyway, a long long time ago in a galaxy here, I and a bunch of authors in the fandom started this kind of RP which sort of evolved into it's own collabrative giant writing piece.

And now in it's (hopefully drama free) final development at thedrunkside (you can stare at the pretty, but I doubt even if you did play the game you'd know crap about what's going on).

Anyway, the Twi'lek. Basically I made up some OCs that I always like doing that developed their own life. She is one of them. And since I APPARENTLY have a nasty habit of killing off my female characters (too many comic books for me, I think) - this is one that's stuck around. She's a pink Twi'lek, because those are my favorite. And she's pretty much a very strong, determined kind of person who doesn't have an exceptional amount of Force talent, but uses her training to really put herself involved to advance in as many areas as she can. And she likes to wear white.

What I like about that icon is that I did the manip all by myself (it's Rachel McAdams) and that Aishie is very easily an older-sister type to any of the boys hanging around if they fit the right mold. She's very Jedi in a lot of ways, but still manages to be kind of a cocktease without realizing it.

And good god, here I was thinking it was good you didn't pick Steph, because I might ramble.

Apparently IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT DO for me.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

OK, this is *wonderful*. I love the fictional universes people come up with, and I did find KotOR interesting when I was reading the comment.

What I like about that icon is that I did the manip all by myself

! OMG, flee from me before I beg you to manip Inara Serra as a Minoan lady. Because that's an *awesome* manip.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ming/]

eh? :D

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Rosie Cotton, made by me with one of the iconmakers being passed around some time ago. When I got into LOTR slashfandom a significant number of its members were living down to the awful stereotype of slash fans as hating female characters, especially Rosie Cotton, whom I adore because she gives us the sturdy, occasionally tart-tongued perspective of an ordinary hobbit on the Travellers' having been gone a year and all that happened in their absence (and because she's a female character, a relative rarity in LOTR). So I made myself a Rosie icon and resolved to use it a lot.

Meanwhile, your icons! I simply *must* hear about "u r my bff k??"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ming/]

hee! the picture base for "u r my bff k??" was taken from a rather bad scan of an old issue of world's finest, probably ganked from s_d, or possibly from a f-lister. for an artist, i can be a horrible picture thief.

anyway, the setup is that superman and batman have had a bit of a falling out (silver age, so it's nothing serious), and clark calls to talk it out/apologize. alfred picks up the phone and tells master bruce that mr. kent is on the line, but bruce (in full batgarb, though aboveground in the manor and deeply cloaked in shadows) says, "tell him... i'm not in." alfred rather reluctantly relays the news to clark, causing a crystalline tear to fall down the superman's cheek, behind the reporter's glasses, and batman... well, the batman clenches one hand into a fist of stymied remorse and frustration, and caresses a photo taken of him and his heroic fellow in happier times with the other. it should be noted that the photo in question is one of many on an ENTIRE WALL of photographs of superman and batman.

the text "u r my bff k??" was just right, considering, and the icon is both my b/s manifesto and a good way to let people on the intarnets know that i like them quite a lot, as is the case here. :)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God. I remember those scans! I remember howling with the sheer joyous emo boyfriendiness of it all!

And yes, the wood pannelling added a special touch.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ming/]

also, the wall of Superman Batman Love is WOOD-PANELED, which for several reasons i just found kind of hilarious!

[cereta.livejournal.com]

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I've always loved Uhura, because she's an awesome character in her own right, but also because I keep identifying with her; she shows that women can be interstellar explorers, that Black people can, that receptionists can. :D Plus in this icon, made by the awesome strawberryelfsp, she just has such a gloriously annoyed expression.

As for your icons, I'm going to succumb and ask about Joey Wilson, "jericho
Lanning"

[papervolcano]

This one!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I love stars; as a kid, even though I lived in the Bronx and wore cokebottle glasses, I read assiduously about astronomy. Stars and light imagery and all those good things.

You need more icons! :D Seriously, please tell me about, "My Little Slepnir"?

[papervolcano]

:D I'm such a geologist, I always forget to look up.

I'd love more icons, but that would mean buying a paid account, and I am stingy. Also, I generally forget to switch away from Mia.

My little Slepnir! My little Slepnir is both my religious and cracky icon. Way back when, the Aesir and the Vanir (the two tribes of Norse Gods) decided that their long-running feud was not the most productive way to spend their time, made peace, settled down, and being Norse Gods, looked about for someone else to pummel. Defence being part of a good offence, they hired a giant to come rebuild the fortifications of Asgard. As is the way of builders, as payment he wanted the sun, the moon, and Freya. Freya, being a Goddess of war as well as love, and not known for meekly going along with other people's plans, went 'HellfuckNO'. Loki, being Loki, had an idea - the giant would have to complete the wall in 6 months, and if he didn't, they'd kill him, because you can do that sort of thing if you're a god. The giant agreed, but asked that he could use his horse to help him out. Loki agreed before anyone else could argue.

6 months pass, and the giant is preparing to add the last stone. The Gods are in a godlike rage as they're about to lose the sun and the moon, and Freya in particular is explaining to Loki how if he doesn't come up with a plan 5 seconds ago, she will perpetrate an infinite number of inventively ungodly torments on him. Loki comes up with a plan. He turns himself into a white mare and frolics out to seduce the Giant's horse, who is duly seduced. The new couple elope, and the Giant can't complete the wall. Hed goes splat by big hammer.

Some time later, Loki comes back with his newborn son, Slepnir, the adorable 8-legged bestialty-mpreg assbaby of a god and a giant horse. Slepnir grows up big and strong and becomes Odin's warhorse, but I do like to remember where he came from.

And that is the story of My Little Slepnir, the artwork of which I can no longer remember where I got. Also, it my explain my love for DC, especially when they're on the good drugs.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Some time later, Loki comes back with his newborn son, Slepnir, the adorable 8-legged bestialty-mpreg assbaby of a god and a giant horse.

ZomG.

My brain is broke, I must lie down.

(So that's why it has 8 legs!)

Also, it my explain my love for DC, especially when they're on the good drugs.

BeeheeheeohmyYES.

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

I can guess its uses, but its existence baffles!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*uses icon of pseudoincest to discuss icon of assorted-wrongnesses-including-incest*

The gentleman facepalming in that icon is Professor Charles Eppes from the show NUMB3RS, whom I adore for being geeky and brilliant and puppyish and yet having his firm almost sinister side. And the icon lists references to his now-canon girlfriend (despite her having been his student), his best friend/former professor/kinda sorta mentor, and way down in small lettering at the bottom...

*cackles*

And now, one of your icons. *contemplates* Tell me about "the girl who sold the world", please.

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, it's NUMB3RS, that . . . actually explains everything. I've never seen the show and never been interested enough to watch it, either, but I have seen meta about it, and oh, that explains much.

The "girl" in question is Eureka, the titular figure/object of interest/object of manipulation/main character/observed figure in EUREKA SEVEN, which . . . I have gone on about at some length in the past, I believe, but never quite really delved into my adventures reading into/against the text; case in point being that very icon. Eureka is one of my favorite kinds of character, in that she is terrible at dealing with her emotions, pretends she doesn't have them and when she can't pretend pretends they mean something else entirely, spends most of her time alone and aloof, and is wracked with guilt over events she . . . could actually have stopped, come to think of it, but didn't, because she didn't comprehend enough to know why she should have, but at the same time she obsessively needs family (for reasons that would spoil the entire series if I delved into them right now), and builds herself a surrogate one that she will kill to protect. She has done bad things, for which she feels she must atone for, or else she's worth nothing, nothing at all, and there is a truly terrifying moment where she realizes that all her efforts up to that point were ineffective and, to her, useless, and she . . . does something very drastic, and barely survives.

pt. 2: the spoilers!

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

Spoilers follow, highlight to read:

All of which is to say that if Eureka could, she'd give her heritage - and by extension the world - up in a heartbeat, if she just knew she had a place in the world that nobody could take from her.

By the end of the series, of course, she finds one, and it makes me cry every damned time.

Re: pt. 2: the spoilers!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's what was going on in Eureka Seven.

Thank you for finally making that show make sense to me.

*huggles you*

Re: pt. 2: the spoilers!

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much! Among . . . other things, but that was the main reasoning behind it all.

*is huggled, yay!*

[ilyena_sylph]

Can i play?

The 'Don't come cheap' one. Just because I wanna hear why you still have it. *G*

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Because I'm not done with Dick and Slade. Not by a long shot. I love Dick for (among many other reasons) his convictions, and his willingness to break himself for/on them, and I love Slade for his organized amorality. Being a naturally idealistic girl from a big city I waver between these two viewpoints, so when I write Dick/Slade I get to write about that conflict, with hot sex added. :D

And so, of your icons I will ask about "tough chick". :D

[ilyena_sylph]

Because I'm not done with Dick and Slade. Not by a long shot.

YAAY! *grins* I tend to squee insanely when I see Slade/Dick from you, because I know they'll be them, in all of Slade's shades of gray and Dick's purity of conviction and glorious well Dick-ness.

Oh, that's an interesting background for writing them, neat!

*grins* My "tough chick" is the Raven from one of the splash page of Teen Titans 40. Kid Devil scared her and she whipped up and around (yelling 'Get Away from Me!!) and flung him away with her soul self (of course, she thought he was her dad). It's some of the most gorgeous Raven art I've seen since Perez was drawing her, so I just had to have an icon of it. I kinda love Raven a lot.

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll bite. :-)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Pippin is one of the most distinct characters I've ever met, and I love him. And unlike the fanon conception of him, he can TOO think! As someone many people expect to be unable to think (I'm Black, female, and giggle overmuch) I really wanted that icon as soon as I saw it.

Your icons are wonderful, you know. I had to restrain myself for asking about, among others, Gimli, Bashir, and the bare leg of "Gondor needs no pants". Instead I will ask about a character I've adored for over a decade: "Garak squee"

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

*nods* re: Pippin. I agree wholeheartedly - he's always been one of my favorite hobbits, for precisely those reasons.

I think I like Garak because he is so complex. That inability to be pinned down is really appealing to a philosopher like me. He is not truly good, but nor is he truly evil. But he is definitely serious, and that *squee* is such a juxtaposition, it was an icon that grabbed my attention almost immediately. (The one I'm using for this post is rather similar in that way, but with a slightly different emotion.)