Return of the Revenge of the Son of the Bride of the Icon Meme

[batyatoon]

This meme's rolling around again and I picked it up from bookelfe. It goes like this:

Comment here saying PICK ME and I will pick six of your icons. You then copy and paste this in your LJ along with your explanations/comments/squeeage about each one.

I am cheerfully going to reuse any still-valid explanations/comments/squeeage from last time I did this meme. Because why not.

Here are the ones bookelfe picked, and flatteringly enough they're all icons I made myself. :D

1.
Keyword: bookhenge
Comments: none

Image found on Gettyimages -- obviously, it's a Stonehenge built out of books. The caption text, "build," has a lot to do with how I use this icon; to me it means creativity and intertextuality, and how different texts can be put together to make something that couldn't exist without the originals but can be stronger than the originals are by themselves. I've also been known to use it for academia.

2.
Keyword: come further in
Comments: Central Park is bigger on the inside

This is one of my New York icons. The text is, yes, from the final Narnia book, and I chose it largely because it's talking about a place that's bigger inside than out ... and, as the comment text says, so is Central Park.
I love my city.

3.
Keyword: bee girl
Comments: to where there's no more rain and I can be me

I actually have a post where I write about why and how I came to make this icon.

4.
Keyword: *innocent!*
Comments: wud nevar plot evilz. iz becca's fault.

I was sent this image as part of an OH LOOK CUTE KITTIES email from a coworker, and knew immediately what I had to caption it. Because let's face it, I need an icon with that sentiment.
I blame Becca because she's convenient. AND BECAUSE SHE HAS EARNED IT A THOUSAND TIMES OVER I mean what. >.>

5.
Keyword: those are our angels
Comments: none

Pictured here is the radiant Zoe Warren of Firefly, Unification War era. The caption is a bit of layering that I'm still kinda proud of: "Independent" of course refers to the side Zoe was on in the war, and the line in parentheses "throw your hands up at me" is from the chorus of the song "Independent Women" by Destiny's Child (following the line "All the women who're independent"). And, in a final bit of layering, the keyword is a quote from Mal at Serenity Valley ... and also refers to the fact that "Independent Women" was the theme song for the 2000 movie Charlie's Angels.

Some people say I'm easily amused.

6.
Keyword: music: sing
Comments: lyric from "Sing" by the Dresden Dolls

Yes, that's me in the caption. Specifically, me singing in concert at a filk convention. As the comments say, "Sing for the teachers who told you that you couldn't sing" is from a Dresden Dolls song. (For the record, I don't recall ever having been told that I couldn't sing.)
I use this icon to rejoice in singing, and/or to encourage myself or others toward some creative endeavor in the face of, well, discouragement.

Comments

[skygiants]

RIDICULOUS. 999 at most.

[batyatoon]

I stand by my math.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Pick me! Pick me!

[batyatoon]

I choose you!

More specifically, I choose , , , , , and .

I am actually really tempted to steal that last one.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I am going to cheat and post the answer here, because I may be so far behind on LJ at this point that I will never die.

When I woke, you were gone:
This is the only one out of the set that I actually made. The illustration is, unsurprisingly, from a fairy tale. This is my icon for dreams, or for the weird sensation that air travel often gives me of "but, you were just here, and now you're all the way across the country/the world". I frequently use it comment on other people's posts about dreams. I think I made up the text, as sort of a reverse of the bit in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy says "and you were there, and you were there ..."

City love:
This is a borrowed icon from siren.org. For me it epitomizes the glamor and simplicity of city life, with a bit of the melancholy that I get from unrelenting gray days, where all I can see is concrete. I usually use this icon to talk about New York, but sometimes other cities creep into the mix.

D Minor:
This is a quote from This Is Spinal Tap which I frequently use for commentary about ose, or if I'm posting something about music. Generally it's not my main music icon, but I use it fairly regularly in discussions about filk. I gakked it from grrliz_icons.

Patterns:
If there's a standard pattern type that fits my aesthetic, it's the spiral. Here the maze-like intricacy is shown from above, revealing the picture in full, in a way that we rarely can see when we're walking the pattern. This icon is about that moment of clarity when we recognize that what we're going is something we've done before. Hopefully that's a moment of insight and not, "oh no, not here again!" This icon was made by ch_photoshopped.

Ducks:
This is largely a reference to a reference. The whole 'nibbled to death by ducks' idea, which shows up everywhere (most prominently for me on B5), tends to be my icon for when a friend is being nibbled to death by life needs, and is trying to fend off the ducks. I sometimes use the trouble icon instead.

The Future:
LJ is frequently a conduit for news, especially technology news, and sometimes sometime is so awesome that it's happened in lifetime that it strikes me as 'wow, that's from the future". I also use it a bit for life-cycle events I had hoped for, like when friends get married, or make long term plans.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I forgot to say that the Ducks icon is by liquiddatura and the Future icon is by neke. I believe swiping that one with credit to the artist is fine.