Meme.

[active_apathy]

1. Comment on this post.
2. I'll choose six of your icons and kind of o.O at them.
3. You'll explain what they mean, or why they exist, or why you use them.
4. If you want to, post your answers and this explanation in your journal so others might play along.

Today's selection of icon!explanations was made by kittydesade.




This one comes from Sugarshock! issue 3, which I'll elaborate more on when I get to...



this one, which is also - oddly enough - from Sugarshock!, an online comic written by the Whedon and freely available from Dark Horse Presents, or: the only part of MySpace I'll ever, ever use. It's fun, it's ridiculous, and it's very... Joss? Jossy? Josslike? However you turn the Whedon into an adjective, it's that.

There are, according to some sources, Plans afoot for more Sugarshock! when the Joss has time.

Note that Sugarshock! is properly spelt with the exclamation mark, kind of like SplatterCon!!!



This one was an attempt at making a fun, seasonal icon, which would've originally involved just some kind of Cylon with a hat. The eye-sweepy thing comes free with every Cylon raider (limited numbers! order now!), so the hat-sweepy thing seemed like an amusing follow-on from that.

I may or may not remake it with a centurion at some point.



This one was really just for fun, and was one of the three Serenity gag reel icons that I made (the others being the 'TRAP!' and 'fucking fly' ones). I've been told it looks like Mal goes over to get a new Inara every few seconds; it was entirely accidental, but quite fun.



This one was an idea that I had one day while doing something completely unrelated. And, once that had happened, I just wanted to see if I actually could make it like I wanted within the 40k limit. It took five different attempts - each time I gave up for anywhere from five minutes to an hour, but by the end of the fifth one the icon was made.

And then surprisingly popular - not in an 'I expected people to hate it' sense, but instead a little bit of surprise at the flood of 'OMGICONCANIHAVEITANDUSEITPLEASEPLEASEPRETTYPLEASE'.



And this one was the product of... um, random chance? I think I may have seen something that somehow related to Whitman somewhere, remembered the yawp thing, and then wondered how it'd work for a pirate. And a fo'c'sle can be as good as a roof, so. Icon.

Comments

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Can has meme?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You can has meme! For you:

Sucks like a horseshoe. Sodomy Redskins. Viconia/Shar-Teel. Meles Cupcakea. Hibiscus. Ginny.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Sucks like a horseshoe: The original quote is from the NaNoisms thread of (I think) NaNoWriMo 2006. Someone made this bizarre analogy and it caught on as the NaNoism of the year.

Sodomy Redskins: saikogrrl took the photo of the Redskins packet after we made the observation that it looked very much like the one Redskin was sodomising the other Redskin. Not an unusual observation coming from the two of us.

Viconia/Shar-Teel: I was going to write this whole big fanfic about how the two of them first met and developed an attraction towards each other and finally started sleeping together, but it got as far as a single PWP ficlet and this icon. Sigh.

Meles Cupcakea: One of the bazillion Hufflepuff icons I found through loyal_badger; gryps_celcus was experimenting with Latin, but I can't for the life of me remember what the alternative icons were. Other Latin names for various species of badger, I'd imagine.

Hibiscus: I love hibiscus-print anything. One of my beanbags is camo-print with hibiscuses on it. This was an excuse to experiment with different colours and filters and layers to make variations on this icon, and I liked this one best.

Ginny: bethyj made this one and posted it shortly after I first joined loyal_badger back in 2005 and I ganked it and have hung onto it ever since. It makes me laugh without fail.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hmm. If that can happen with one weird analogy, I wonder how long it'll be before NaNo starts having a theme item to include in the stories, kind of like Tropfest does with its films.

If ever I see a hedgehog with half a packet of Redskins impaled on its spines, I'll know why.

And, whee, shiny. Incidentally, "Cupcakea" sounds like some kind of Swedish packet-mix company.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Individual regions often have specific items. Melbourne's is wombats, and last year it was Elvis because we were stealing him from Memphis by beating their wordcount. Or something.