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

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*spies leetle flag*

For you: Sauron loves tea. Big hat. Splode. Cowsicle. Fight the system. Approved.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

1. This one was a product of ithurtsmybrain, forerunner of brain_asplode. I wrote a Sauron/Shepherd book drabble. There was tea. Naturally it required an icon. I use it as my default because I think it has just the right level of absurdity and hey - tea!

2. Hornblower. Also, hats. I think this is my random/cheerful icon, for the moment.

3. Also Hornblower! I keep it around for explosive references and occasionally sarcasm where my snark icon doesn't fit.

4. Ah, the cowsicle. woodburner googled steak for reasons unknown and came up with a picture of this statue in Europe somewhere. So she posted it on lj for people to O.o and of course I had to icon it because it was just so bizarre. I use it for bad-news posts, to sort of lighten the mood a bit - it's like a big exaggerated pout.

5. Discworld reference. Irony is always good.

6. Yet more Hornblower! This is a rotating spot for yay/well done/I like you icons. Currently inhabited by the saluting Lieutenant Bush.

5.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Bizarrely, the cowsicle makes so much more sense now.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Of course it does.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Indeed! It's a statement, a symbol of cow's inbovinity to cow.




...or a moderately-absurd LJ icon. One of the two.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Or a really really strange dessert.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That's what ice planets are for.