Icon Meme!
27/3/08 21:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eredienStolen from gaudior
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons. Pick five of my icons, too, if you so desire.
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. Whoo!
Transmet
This is an animated GIF which I made from some scenes I like in Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan comic. I use it when talking about comics, or about cities, or about the extremely beautiful things to be found where they are least expected in people and in life (which is what I secretly think Transmet is about. Unless it's about keeping us aware of those things and able to experience them for what they are, unjaded). I forget what she's actually waving around there. It might be a big, big, gun. But I wanted it to refer to the city.
The text reads: "...one of those little pauses in the coversation of the city, then: a sudden unexpected quiet as everyone stopped to take a breath...these are the ways my green city moves, and I learn to read her every strange dance step." It's something Spider Jerusalem says when he's being introspective.
Kenya - Tigers do not live in Kenya.
This is a gif I made after I saw the animated "Kenya" video. There are multiple versions; pick the original one on the weebls-stuff.com site. I saw this with esglaith and her proto-husband (at the time), kassidynet, at about 2 am. It was great fun. Warning: catchiest song ever.
However, I then decided that tigers did not live in Kenya (I knew this from my fifth-grade world history project), and set out to educate the entire internet. Hence the last frame of the animation before the credits, which says "Holy Crap! Geography! tours," instead of "Holy Crap! Tigers!" as it does in the original.
I still think it would be fun to remake this with someone saying "China, Indonesia," etc. really fast to fit it all in the allotted time.
BMC
This is my "I am talking about college-specific stuff" icon. I made this one from an owl animal cracker I found in my bag of animal crackers from the snack machine in the Rhoads North study lounge one procrastinaty evening. It was in with all the camels, etc., and seemed odd. So I scanned it before I ate it and turned it into this icon. I tend to forget to use it, though.
Calienshan
This is the only Eredien self-portrait I've ever done and really liked. It's a scan of a pencil sketch I drew. I like the sketchy look of it; I like the angle of the ears; I like the wings even though technically they're inaccurate; I like the fact that it shows my namekeep (the object that helps remind me who I was, am, and what I can potentially become. Other people have other things, piercings or jewelry or tattoos; I have a necklace. This is why I won't get a tattoo, BTW, even though I think they're gorgeous and important. I don't need/want two namekeeps).
It's a little out-of-date in terms of where I now think dragon culture is going in terms of clothing (this was drawn back when I was pretty sure they didn't have any clothes/fabric ornaments, but I wasn't sure yet, and the drapey thing over my shoulders/down the back between the wings was from an older iteration of the story, where it was symbolic of my chosen profession as a storyteller. They don't have clothes, I've decided finally, and that item wouldn't be practical anyway, as it would fall off if I were flying), but the clothing so symbolically loaded the picture would be incomplete without it.
She looks kind of pessimistic, but I drew it trying to capture the mood of a certain bit in the story, which is pensive; resigned but happy--and I think I got that well.
My wedding dress, which is going to be embroidered with flowers, is going to adapt the motifs of the drapey thing, in the correct colors.
Er. "Calienshan" (rhymes with "alien pan") means something like "star-back," literally translated, but is actually a title, the name for the village storyteller. Which I am. Also, "Calien" was the name of a certain star. There's a story I could tell you, if you want to hear it.
I'm Not Smiling
I used to use this one when I talked about really upsetting real-life stuff or was depressed. I'm not using it so much anymore for that. I titled it that because if you look at the picture long enough, you can't tell if it's a smirking expression or about to crumple into a frown, and I liked that dual reading and the mask it implied. I still like doing dual readings and talking about masks--I'm a furry and an English major, help me before I close-read again!--but I don't like wearing them so much anymore.
I should use some of these more often, and retire some of the ones I don't use.
I should also get a better program for making animated GIFs, and redo the horrible old ones so you can actually read them. Any suggestions?
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons. Pick five of my icons, too, if you so desire.
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. Whoo!
Transmet
This is an animated GIF which I made from some scenes I like in Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan comic. I use it when talking about comics, or about cities, or about the extremely beautiful things to be found where they are least expected in people and in life (which is what I secretly think Transmet is about. Unless it's about keeping us aware of those things and able to experience them for what they are, unjaded). I forget what she's actually waving around there. It might be a big, big, gun. But I wanted it to refer to the city.
The text reads: "...one of those little pauses in the coversation of the city, then: a sudden unexpected quiet as everyone stopped to take a breath...these are the ways my green city moves, and I learn to read her every strange dance step." It's something Spider Jerusalem says when he's being introspective.
Kenya - Tigers do not live in Kenya.
This is a gif I made after I saw the animated "Kenya" video. There are multiple versions; pick the original one on the weebls-stuff.com site. I saw this with esglaith and her proto-husband (at the time), kassidynet, at about 2 am. It was great fun. Warning: catchiest song ever.
However, I then decided that tigers did not live in Kenya (I knew this from my fifth-grade world history project), and set out to educate the entire internet. Hence the last frame of the animation before the credits, which says "Holy Crap! Geography! tours," instead of "Holy Crap! Tigers!" as it does in the original.
I still think it would be fun to remake this with someone saying "China, Indonesia," etc. really fast to fit it all in the allotted time.
BMC
This is my "I am talking about college-specific stuff" icon. I made this one from an owl animal cracker I found in my bag of animal crackers from the snack machine in the Rhoads North study lounge one procrastinaty evening. It was in with all the camels, etc., and seemed odd. So I scanned it before I ate it and turned it into this icon. I tend to forget to use it, though.
Calienshan
This is the only Eredien self-portrait I've ever done and really liked. It's a scan of a pencil sketch I drew. I like the sketchy look of it; I like the angle of the ears; I like the wings even though technically they're inaccurate; I like the fact that it shows my namekeep (the object that helps remind me who I was, am, and what I can potentially become. Other people have other things, piercings or jewelry or tattoos; I have a necklace. This is why I won't get a tattoo, BTW, even though I think they're gorgeous and important. I don't need/want two namekeeps).
It's a little out-of-date in terms of where I now think dragon culture is going in terms of clothing (this was drawn back when I was pretty sure they didn't have any clothes/fabric ornaments, but I wasn't sure yet, and the drapey thing over my shoulders/down the back between the wings was from an older iteration of the story, where it was symbolic of my chosen profession as a storyteller. They don't have clothes, I've decided finally, and that item wouldn't be practical anyway, as it would fall off if I were flying), but the clothing so symbolically loaded the picture would be incomplete without it.
She looks kind of pessimistic, but I drew it trying to capture the mood of a certain bit in the story, which is pensive; resigned but happy--and I think I got that well.
My wedding dress, which is going to be embroidered with flowers, is going to adapt the motifs of the drapey thing, in the correct colors.
Er. "Calienshan" (rhymes with "alien pan") means something like "star-back," literally translated, but is actually a title, the name for the village storyteller. Which I am. Also, "Calien" was the name of a certain star. There's a story I could tell you, if you want to hear it.
I'm Not Smiling
I used to use this one when I talked about really upsetting real-life stuff or was depressed. I'm not using it so much anymore for that. I titled it that because if you look at the picture long enough, you can't tell if it's a smirking expression or about to crumple into a frown, and I liked that dual reading and the mask it implied. I still like doing dual readings and talking about masks--I'm a furry and an English major, help me before I close-read again!--but I don't like wearing them so much anymore.
I should use some of these more often, and retire some of the ones I don't use.
I should also get a better program for making animated GIFs, and redo the horrible old ones so you can actually read them. Any suggestions?
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28/3/08 13:34 (UTC)except i don't have too much and haven't gotten around to creating new ones i was planning on..
=P
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28/3/08 13:54 (UTC)(no subject)
9/4/08 13:30 (UTC)http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/36623008/8399795
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/57547493/8399795
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/68242574/8399795
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/43942519/8399795
Er, and I'm a little scared to ask, but this one:
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/41201975/8399795
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10/4/08 16:15 (UTC)1) Hypnokitty
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this one was cropped from artwork on Diana Sprinkle's website. It might've been her donations page, but damned if I can find it! I think the speech balloon originally said "donate" or something... but I brushed it out in MSPaint and added the "6". Sixes are sort of an in-joke from the Puzzlebox days. Did you ever meet Maichirona, the centauress? We had a romantic mental D/s thing going between her and my hyperreal ponygirl Celiel, and embedded numbers were one of Mai's triggers into suggestibility. So a few of the PBX vets still tease each other with 6urying the silly thin6s in random words when we want to imply su6tle mind-control is 6eing employed. :)
2) Mr. Flibble
This one's easy! It's the villainous Mr. Flibble, from the Red Dwarf episode "Quarantine." He's a cute little penguin hand puppet. He appears as on the hand of hologram Arnold Rimmer, after Rimmer contracts a "holovirus" that gives him sinister telekinetic powers and renders him thoroughly insane. Hasn't Mr. Flibble got the loveliest glower? I use his icon for general disapproval that doesn't require invoking somebody truly ruthless.
3) Toaster Repair
This is a simultaneous reference to two of my favorite PC games: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Interplay's Wasteland. Toaster Repair is a skill that appears early in the game and has ludicrously high prerequisites. It's deliberately absurd in the context of the other skills, and doesn't appear at all in the game... except in ONE place, where there's a very valuable key card jammed in a toaster. So Rik and I were
stonedgoofing around one day and came up with the idea of mocking up the whole thing as a fake tech tree entry for Alpha Centauri. The full image isn't handy, but the related technologies were things like "Prandial Engineering" and "The Will To Flour"; the associated Secret Project was the Great Space Toaster; it provided a +1 nutrient bonus to all solar collectors before 10 am; and had the accompanying flavor quote attributed to Plato's Socratic Dialogues: "Does it not then follow, Master, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?" (SMAC could be rather... pretentious. :) )4) Lavacoon
The simple version is that I used to play a character on TapestriesMUCK who was a sentient, animate lavalamp in the shape of a vixen. One of Peggy's recurring alter egos is that of a raccoon -- and I used to be raccoons too -- so somehow or another she wound up drawing this lavacoon boy. We never did establish if he was supposed to be an incarnation of me, or an incarnation of her. Link to the original image!
5) Pop-O-Matic
Yeah, you were right to be scared of this one. :) It was a random piece of pin-up art I found somewhere, portraying some generic furry female with... well, you already saw it and now nothing can make you unsee it! But I thought it was particularly interesting because once the LOLFURRYSNARK communities got a hold of it, their repressed sexual imaginations came up with FAR more disturbing explanations for the picture. The simple and obvious truth is that, you know, she's got a huge green plastic dome wedged in her ass! Happens all the time. Natural causes. (Incidentally, the title comes from joking with Rik and Peggy that it's one of those little pop-up die rollers from games like trouble. So between its almost magical ability to expose the dirty thoughts of prudes, and that fact she's mooning the audience, I felt it was a perfect icon to say "screw you" to furvert-bashers. Which I have to do rather often, it seems. :D
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14/4/08 03:32 (UTC)(no subject)
9/4/08 13:25 (UTC)http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/64941779/3505884
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/65395213/3505884
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/64942258/3505884
I can't read the text on that one that well.
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/66874743/3505884
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9/4/08 13:32 (UTC)(no subject)
28/3/08 13:47 (UTC)I also tag you to discuss your remaining two icons... Hello Cthulhu, and the other one that I forgot to write down... but it looked like a neatosupercool plush dragon...
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9/4/08 13:21 (UTC)The plush dragon is Hakuryuu, the dragon who transforms into a Jeep from the anime Saiyuki. It's only very loosely based on the ancient Chinese epic, as I am sure you already figured out from the Jeep part. I used that mostly when discussing anime but again am thinking of getting another icon for that.
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9/4/08 13:37 (UTC)http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/30447585/876881
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/30447736/876881
http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/63340224/876881
Yay!