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- I'll choose six of your icons and kind of o.O at them.
- You'll explain what they mean, or why they exist, or why you use them.
- If you want to, post your answers and this explanation in your journal so others might play along.
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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.
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Date: 2008-01-21 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-01-21 01:45 am (UTC)You don't know me, but I added you because somehow I landed on your journal in the middle of the Australian elections. Given that I am so obsessed with Canadian politics and love to learn about other political systems around the world, I figured we have a passion of politics in common...
Other than that, from the other posts I've read, I think you're hilarious.
Anyways, what better post than a meme-type post for us to get to know each other,
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Date: 2008-01-21 01:48 am (UTC)Puppet Angel. Can't outweird me. Yays. Forgotten the question. Textbook with arms. And that Adam icon you just used.
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Date: 2008-01-21 02:06 am (UTC)And for pure WHYYY?, Amanda and the Hoff.
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Date: 2008-01-21 02:23 am (UTC)Hmm. This encourages me to spend the year posting at length about how the US electoral system MAKES NO SENSE. But! There is a meme, and icons must be chosen. So.
Cuter money. Dr McTightpants. Parliament (the one with the tulips). Katherine and TR. Tough PMs. Dr Feel.
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Date: 2008-01-21 02:56 am (UTC)I'm also Canadian, but am pretty oblivious to politics. Seems pretty much no matter what happens, we all end up fucked in the end.
Unless the Bloc somehow comes into power, then we'll all be "le fucked"
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Date: 2008-01-21 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:01 am (UTC)I figure that the only way we are fucked is we all give up on it. The more people that get involved to keep people accountable and tell them to smarten the hell up, the better. Much like a computer is only as smart as the person operating it, a political system is only as awesome as the people participating (or refusing to participate in it), no?
< / end cheesy sentimentalism >
It's what gets me through my day. I've been working on Parliament Hill since I got to Ottawa.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:01 am (UTC)Last Mistake. PotC Handshake. Cat and Also Cat. Terrible, er, Bee-Men. Ninjas Attack. Robot Phil.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:02 am (UTC)(Meme?)
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:04 am (UTC)Helping Hand. Naked-onna-Dinosaur. Pile-o'-Books. Wrath. The typewritery one. The Slytherin one.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:10 am (UTC)Paul as the Master. Adam as Adam Ant. Frank and Colin. Predestination Paradoxes. Simm-inna-Cape. DW Special.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:24 am (UTC)Hahahahaha no. Anti-squee. I are pant. *#@?!*# delete. One with the books. Spiderweb.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:28 am (UTC)HAHAHAHA no I found on Tinypic. I use it because it's useful for when I feel sarcastic.
Anti-Squee I found somewhere random, I don't remember. I use it when I'm greatly upset by something or other.
I Are Pant is from Ctrl + Alt + Del, which is my favorite webcomic besides Questionable Content. I use it when I feel random.
The one with the books I fell in love with as soon as I saw it while randomly browsing the icons of people who comment on LJ-Secret posts that aren't assholes. I use it because it's lovely and looks like what I'd like to do most of the time if I weren't distracted so easily by my evil computer.
And the spiderweb one I found on my friend Eli's computer and resized and accentuated the colors. And I think it's hot.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:30 am (UTC)Suck at life. Tetris. Crazy sometimes. Love with mouth. Pirate juice. Bohemian Jayne.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:34 am (UTC)And, hmm.
Beautiful animal. Ducky towel. Connect. Animal (Muppet). Clever Kermit.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 03:40 am (UTC)You can start with the general institutionalization of the political system. Things are so entrenched that nobody can make a real dent on it in the first place. Anyone who tries anything remotely radical will promptly find themselves facing a vote of non-confidence and an election... or simply removed from power, depending on the position they held.
Politics hates change, and it's self-insulating against that. Party politics forces you to tow the line or get out of the boat. Free votes are rarely on anything of real significance - they happen for publicity purposes, really. When is the last time a free vote actually instated any real change in anything?
Speaking of getting out of the boat... politics doesn't even give you the choice of Sink or Swim. Either you're on a Party boat, or you drown.
Yes, Andre Arthur was elected as a non-incumbent Independent. These things happen from time to time. Last time that happened was 1984 with Tony Roman. Sorry if I'm cynical, but if it takes 22 years to get elected as a genuine independent, I don't think I'm out of line in saying "You're with a party or you have no chance."
Once you're in, you can't be radical at all. Don't rock the boat, or it's political suicide. You have to pander to as wide a voting base as possible in order to keep your job, and this means having the most mushy, watered down, inoffensive policies possible.
You're going to step on someone's toes, but if you do it very gently, you're at less risk next election. The best policy of all is to blow lots of hot air, and posture wildly, while actually doing nothing. Rattle on and on about abortion, and then take no action. Your talk gets you the conservative votes, your lack of action keeps your liberal ones.
Politics is a machine, and the politicians are simply interchangeable parts - cogs and gears that make it go, but easily replaceable with functionally identical parts.
The proof is in the scandal. More accurately, the constant string of scandals, corruption, exposes and other shenanigans that are par for the course up on the Hill. No matter how bad things get, no matter how many people are sacked, no matter how many reprimands issued, no matter how many by-elections there are... nothing changes.
Same shit, different day, different names. There's still scandal, corruption, lobby abuse, backroom dealing, empty campaign promises and an overwhelming lack of real change or action going on.
Politics is ruled by the old. The old and wealthy. Only the young have the enthusiasm and naivete to think that things can be changed for the better, the grand delusion that they can fix things from within. Only they truly believe that the little people, the blue collar shlubs living from paycheque to paycheque, have any real political power. I can't do shit in Ottawa - I have no money. I can't even do squat in Victoria for the same reason.
But last election, we had the ultimate proof that we, the voters, mean jack shit all in this system.
This proof is called David Emerson. Less than 24 hours after being elected as a Liberal, he crosses the floor and joins the direct opposition. On top of that, the Ethics Commission found his innocent of any wrongdoing in this act.
So really... you're telling me that I can cast my all important vote to support the party I believe best represents my interests... and that the person my vote elects can then join the enemy and support everything I'm opposed to...
And this is perfectly legal and ETHICAL... Yet somehow, my vote matters?
Yes. I'm cynical. I haven't seen a damn thing come out of the political system since my birth to give me one whit of reason to not be cynical.
You are more than welcome to try - I encourage debate and discourse, and you can see that I have a lot to say on politics for someone oblivious to politics.
No, I won't be able to debate specific people or bills or votes - I don't pay any mind to those things. But I can discuss politics in general, the failings of democracy and other related issues and would be happy to.
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:46 am (UTC)Adam as Adam Ant: Festival Club! It's a tradition now for Adam to sing Antmusic during Scardies Superband - that year, he happened to be dressed in full costume XD
Frank and Colin: From the Gala one year. Colin snaps to Frank, "Just STAND SOMEWHERE!". Frank stands somewhere :p
Predestination paradoxes: Someone had made icons of the TARDIS with things like, 'Time travel makes my head hurt' and 'Jack's timeline makes my head hurt'. And, well, predestination paradoxes make MY head hurt XD
Simm-inna-Cape: It's a screencap from the preview after Utopia. Basically, it looked like a cape, more specifically, it looked a LOT like one of the capes the Third Doctor wore XD
DW Special: A response to everyone going, "Yes, well, Rose was special!" There was an earlier version by... nostalgia_lj, I THINK, but it didn't have all the companions. So I corrected that :p
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Date: 2008-01-21 03:52 am (UTC)1: That icon pretty much sums me up. Apparently to a decent number of people, I am indeed "wicked cool" in various and sundry ways. Despite this, I continue to fail at life, on a very consistent and regular basis. No matter how much effort, planning and good intention I put into things, they go sour on me. Typically within a year, often less. Doesn't matter if this is a relationship, housing situation, job, hobby, friendship, craft, whatever. It always goes bad, and it's always directly my personal fault to some extent. Pretty much, I am fail.
2: Who doesn't love Tetris? This icon sums up how all of us feel, all of the time, while playing. It's also a general commentary on life. No matter how much work you put into it, making all the pieces of your life fit together... it's ultimately pointless, and you'll probably screw it up anyways.
3: I've never been one to walk the path society follows. While I generally go along with them, I'm the one who walks to the side... along with the crowd, but not part of it. I just don't fit in, and my peculiarities will generate some shocked reactions now and then. This icon is the simplest explanation for that.
4: Come on, it's from the EMAIL! cartoon, need I say more? Well fine. Pretty much, it's an amusing and offbeat way of expressing a great deal of fondness and affection. It's not just generic "love" or "hugs" - it has MOUTH!
5: I'm a ninja fan. Nothing against pirates, but ninja are just better. Except for White Ninja, he doesn't count. He's part of our expertly crafted, webwide disinformation campaign. Not only do we discredit pirates by implying that they drink poison (who wants to join them now?) but we show off the badassitude of the ninja by showing White Ninja, completely unharmed by the poison he just consumed.
6: Jayne. Bohemian Rhapsody. Come on. Unlike #4, I actively refuse to explain this, because no explanation is necessary or possible.