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Icon meme!
Icon meme, ganked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookelfe.
The Rules:
1. Reply to this post, 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 squee. Whoo!
Five from Becca:
1.
Keyword: fallen
Comments: none
This icon is cropped from a photo of Rodin's sculpture "Caryatid Fallen Beneath Her Stone". (This is what a caryatid is, if you were wondering.) It's the icon I use when someone -- sometimes myself, sometimes a friend -- has a burden that's just too damn heavy to bear.
From Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land:
Yeah.
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2.
Keyword: unreal city
Comments: I do love me some urban fantasy.
The phrase "unreal city" comes from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". I've wanted for ages to write something that turns the usage around, to write something about an unreal city within a real city, one that glories in its unrealness. (Unreality? Something.)
So -- urban fantasy. Yes.
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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.
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4.
Keyword: outside over there
Comments: none
When Papa was away at sea,
and Mama in the arbor,
Ida played her wonder horn
to rock the baby still --
but never watched.
This is from the cover of Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak's dark and terrifying and gorgeous short story for children. There was a time I had it memorized, and I probably still have most of it.
The thing about Outside Over There is that our heroine, the little girl Ida, screws up badly and as a result her baby sister is kidnapped by goblins -- and then Ida gets to go off and rescue her. Which she does by being both brave and clever. (I could also talk for hours about the continuous presence of the absent father, but I won't right here.)
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5.
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.
ETA: I tagged into a couple more people's, so I'm going to add them to this post instead of making a new one.
Five from Star:
1.
Keyword: Terra
Comments: the only sacred ground that I have ever known
The image is, of course, Earth as seen from space. The text is from the song "Via Astra", by the inimitable Cat Faber and Callie Hills of Echo's Children. The comment text is from Dave Carter's song "Gentle Arms of Eden".
This is an icon I frequently use for talking about the space program.
2.
Keyword: star of stone
Comments: none
It's a piece of a mosaic from the floor of a very very old synagogue. This is, of course, my Being Jewish icon. The image doesn't have specific significance to me, except in that it's a very beautiful representation of what has become the visual symbol of my religion.
3.
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.
4.
Keyword: evil laugh
Comments: none
The image is from The Emperor's New Groove, and no one has ever done a better evil laugh than Yzma In Kitten Form. The text is from the pilot episode of Firefly. They seemed to go together.
5.
Keyword: Lady Mondegreen
Comments: voulez-vous chantez avec moi?
This is the logo of my filk group, Lady Mondegreen. The comment text means, roughly, would you like to sing with me? and is a reference to our self-pimping song "Filker Lady Mondegreen," to the tune of "Lady Marmalade".
Five from Nomi:
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, though that's more often the next icon....
2.
Keyword: the world is quiet here
Comments: none
I think I found this image on Getty too. The keyword text is from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I use this icon to talk about academic/intellectual subjects, or quiet contemplation, or those moments when you just need the world to stop being so damn noisy.
3.
Keyword: colored lights
Comments: none
I forget whether this image is from Getty or Google images. It's a small cut of a much larger one, of an elaborate fountain with colored lights in. This is my icon of celebration, of "ooooh shiny!", or of just general happy. Because: it's a fountain! And there are colored lights!
4.
Keyword: crack bible
Comments: made for me byfire_and_a_rose
This is from a friend I made through the LJ-based roleplaying game![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar, who made them for a whole bunch of us -- text-only icons with lines purporting to be quotes from the New Crack Bible. The text on it ("and we did realize she was a geek playing a geek and no one dared to challenge her") refers to the fact that one of the characters I play in said game is Andrew Wells.
5.
Keyword: oblivious
Comments: From the webcomic Questionable Content
It's from this comic, but I had to jigger the text around to make it fit in a square panel.
I totally have days like this. Occasionally entire weeks. Sometimes being oblivious is protective and useful, but other times it's just really annoying.
There we go! Who wants me to pick five of yours?
bookelfe.The Rules:
1. Reply to this post, 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 squee. Whoo!
Five from Becca:
1.
Keyword: fallen
Comments: none
This icon is cropped from a photo of Rodin's sculpture "Caryatid Fallen Beneath Her Stone". (This is what a caryatid is, if you were wondering.) It's the icon I use when someone -- sometimes myself, sometimes a friend -- has a burden that's just too damn heavy to bear.
From Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land:
"Ben, for three thousand years architects designed buildings with columns shaped as female figures.... This poor little caryatid has fallen under the load. She's a good girl -- look at her face. Serious, unhappy at her failure, not blaming anyone, not even the gods ... and still trying to shoulder her load, after she's crumpled under it."
Yeah.
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2.
Keyword: unreal city
Comments: I do love me some urban fantasy.
The phrase "unreal city" comes from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". I've wanted for ages to write something that turns the usage around, to write something about an unreal city within a real city, one that glories in its unrealness. (Unreality? Something.)
So -- urban fantasy. Yes.
-----
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: outside over there
Comments: none
When Papa was away at sea,
and Mama in the arbor,
Ida played her wonder horn
to rock the baby still --
but never watched.
This is from the cover of Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak's dark and terrifying and gorgeous short story for children. There was a time I had it memorized, and I probably still have most of it.
The thing about Outside Over There is that our heroine, the little girl Ida, screws up badly and as a result her baby sister is kidnapped by goblins -- and then Ida gets to go off and rescue her. Which she does by being both brave and clever. (I could also talk for hours about the continuous presence of the absent father, but I won't right here.)
-----
5.
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.
ETA: I tagged into a couple more people's, so I'm going to add them to this post instead of making a new one.
Five from Star:
1.
Keyword: Terra
Comments: the only sacred ground that I have ever known
The image is, of course, Earth as seen from space. The text is from the song "Via Astra", by the inimitable Cat Faber and Callie Hills of Echo's Children. The comment text is from Dave Carter's song "Gentle Arms of Eden".
This is an icon I frequently use for talking about the space program.
2.
Keyword: star of stone
Comments: none
It's a piece of a mosaic from the floor of a very very old synagogue. This is, of course, my Being Jewish icon. The image doesn't have specific significance to me, except in that it's a very beautiful representation of what has become the visual symbol of my religion.
3.
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.
4.
Keyword: evil laugh
Comments: none
The image is from The Emperor's New Groove, and no one has ever done a better evil laugh than Yzma In Kitten Form. The text is from the pilot episode of Firefly. They seemed to go together.
5.
Keyword: Lady Mondegreen
Comments: voulez-vous chantez avec moi?
This is the logo of my filk group, Lady Mondegreen. The comment text means, roughly, would you like to sing with me? and is a reference to our self-pimping song "Filker Lady Mondegreen," to the tune of "Lady Marmalade".
Five from Nomi:
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, though that's more often the next icon....
2.
Keyword: the world is quiet here
Comments: none
I think I found this image on Getty too. The keyword text is from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I use this icon to talk about academic/intellectual subjects, or quiet contemplation, or those moments when you just need the world to stop being so damn noisy.
3.
Keyword: colored lights
Comments: none
I forget whether this image is from Getty or Google images. It's a small cut of a much larger one, of an elaborate fountain with colored lights in. This is my icon of celebration, of "ooooh shiny!", or of just general happy. Because: it's a fountain! And there are colored lights!
4.
Keyword: crack bible
Comments: made for me by
fire_and_a_roseThis is from a friend I made through the LJ-based roleplaying game
milliways_bar, who made them for a whole bunch of us -- text-only icons with lines purporting to be quotes from the New Crack Bible. The text on it ("and we did realize she was a geek playing a geek and no one dared to challenge her") refers to the fact that one of the characters I play in said game is Andrew Wells.5.
Keyword: oblivious
Comments: From the webcomic Questionable Content
It's from this comic, but I had to jigger the text around to make it fit in a square panel.
I totally have days like this. Occasionally entire weeks. Sometimes being oblivious is protective and useful, but other times it's just really annoying.
There we go! Who wants me to pick five of yours?