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

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

That's the emblem of the Order of the Eastern Star (http://www.easternstar.org), a fraternal service organization affiliated with Freemasonry. My wife was a Rainbow Girl (http://www.iorg.org/), and then a Star member: I joined Star so I could go to meetings with her.

Madness: I've been a Rocky Horror fan for a while, and it tickles me when people are overly literal...

Chemistry: Sometimes, people are just too obnoxious/clueless...

Technopeasant: A while back, the head of the Science Fiction Writers of America complained about members having the audacity to give their work away, and used the above phrase as an analogy with ink-stained copyists of days of yore. Said members took exception, and organized International PSTP Day, where they all released work for free. dduane did this icon, and posted her story "Parting Gifts" on her site.

Vegetable envy: There were so many quotable lines in the Doctor Who Children in Need special, "Time Crash", the iconmakers will have work for months. :-) The 10th Doctor was ragging on the 5th Doctor for his lapel "decoration".

Funky: Buffy the Vampire Slayer text meets Star Wars images. I can _so_ see Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson delivering those lines instead of Nick Brendon and Anthony Stewart Head...