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1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five (or four or three) 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!
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nicole_anell
Geeks are sexy, featuring the very sexy Shigure from Fruits Basket. It's an icon because it's true, there's nothing quite as attractive as intelligence, and also because I'm pretty proud of belonging to the geek subculture. Represents! Also a random Shigure icon because I like him a lot, he does kind of fit one of my ideal of characters, what with being the sleazy, manipulative bastard that he is with a bad sense of humour and a kind of ruthless sense of caring. Also, he's a dog.
That reminds me I still lack of Xelloss icon...
I've been somewhat more interested in CLAMP in general lately, so I searched a bit for images and found a series of chibi characters for xxxholic and tsubasa. I of course pounced on the Yuuko one because Yuuko is one of the most awesome character by CLAMP. Spent a long time cleaning up the background (for my meagre iconmaking ability that is), and there you go. She has a little crop, so I have an alternative version of that icon with "Mistress Yuuko" on it instead of the butterfly, but I didn't feel dom enough to use it myself ;) I use it mostly as a generic sassy, CLAMP-related icon.
The picture (of Snape of course!) was made byrexluscus and iconized for the first Snarry Olympics, back when they were the Snarry Olympics and not the Snarry Games. Initially it said "Team Angst" in support for that team during the games. It was very nice of that comm, to order the teams between the kind of snape/harry fics I liked and the kind of snape/harry fics I disliked! Sadly since then all the various games have been less handy for me D: so I was a supporter of the Team Angst of course and I especially asked rex for the modification of text. "Bring on the angst" is one of my motto, especially since BtVS's Season 6 when everyone was whining about how dark the season was so that's what I was thinking back to when I asked for that. Generally speaking, I just love dark and angsty fanfics - not because I think they're better, I acutally think that writing good fluff is harder than writing good angst - I just like them. I kinda pisses me off when there's a sense of being appologetic about having any kind of sadness or darkness in a story, which I sometimes see. So for this I have this icon :)
Also it's my last Harry Potter icon since I'm almost entirely out of the fandom right now :( I only readbusaikko's and mistful's fics right now ... ^_^;;
My silly icon. I've no idea from which episode it was taken from, but it's just so adorably dorky! Baltar's one of my two favourite character in BSG. Both for his funny moments and for his most angsty. It helps that the actor is OMFG so good, but there's also something I like about a deeply despisable, narcissist, responsability-denying sleazy character. I think I always like those (like I always adored Gilderoy Lockhart in HP :D) but Baltar's the first time I see a character be so central and well built in a fiction, and I totally love BSG for that. He' a very compelling character with an interesting story of descent into darkness the more he tries to not be such a wretched human being anymore. And many, many hilarious moments :D
This is my icon for when I want to be wanky and flame people, so I don't use it often! Lyrics by and image of Tori Amos. I love their irony. That meaning of "fuck you piss me off so much but I want to be better than that so I'm going to try to contain myself. But I still think you're an asshole!" The song overall is lovely that way, about the times when you get frustrated and angry at people, it might be more because it's a bad day and you're stressed or whatever, and you want to lash out... it's good to remember then, that you do believe in peace. Even if right now you can't find in yourself much kindness for those people. Anger is a very blinding feeling.
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five (or four or three) 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!
Icons picked by
nicole_anellGeeks are sexy, featuring the very sexy Shigure from Fruits Basket. It's an icon because it's true, there's nothing quite as attractive as intelligence, and also because I'm pretty proud of belonging to the geek subculture. Represents! Also a random Shigure icon because I like him a lot, he does kind of fit one of my ideal of characters, what with being the sleazy, manipulative bastard that he is with a bad sense of humour and a kind of ruthless sense of caring. Also, he's a dog.
That reminds me I still lack of Xelloss icon...
I've been somewhat more interested in CLAMP in general lately, so I searched a bit for images and found a series of chibi characters for xxxholic and tsubasa. I of course pounced on the Yuuko one because Yuuko is one of the most awesome character by CLAMP. Spent a long time cleaning up the background (for my meagre iconmaking ability that is), and there you go. She has a little crop, so I have an alternative version of that icon with "Mistress Yuuko" on it instead of the butterfly, but I didn't feel dom enough to use it myself ;) I use it mostly as a generic sassy, CLAMP-related icon.
The picture (of Snape of course!) was made by
rexluscus and iconized for the first Snarry Olympics, back when they were the Snarry Olympics and not the Snarry Games. Initially it said "Team Angst" in support for that team during the games. It was very nice of that comm, to order the teams between the kind of snape/harry fics I liked and the kind of snape/harry fics I disliked! Sadly since then all the various games have been less handy for me D: so I was a supporter of the Team Angst of course and I especially asked rex for the modification of text. "Bring on the angst" is one of my motto, especially since BtVS's Season 6 when everyone was whining about how dark the season was so that's what I was thinking back to when I asked for that. Generally speaking, I just love dark and angsty fanfics - not because I think they're better, I acutally think that writing good fluff is harder than writing good angst - I just like them. I kinda pisses me off when there's a sense of being appologetic about having any kind of sadness or darkness in a story, which I sometimes see. So for this I have this icon :)Also it's my last Harry Potter icon since I'm almost entirely out of the fandom right now :( I only read
busaikko's and mistful's fics right now ... ^_^;;My silly icon. I've no idea from which episode it was taken from, but it's just so adorably dorky! Baltar's one of my two favourite character in BSG. Both for his funny moments and for his most angsty. It helps that the actor is OMFG so good, but there's also something I like about a deeply despisable, narcissist, responsability-denying sleazy character. I think I always like those (like I always adored Gilderoy Lockhart in HP :D) but Baltar's the first time I see a character be so central and well built in a fiction, and I totally love BSG for that. He' a very compelling character with an interesting story of descent into darkness the more he tries to not be such a wretched human being anymore. And many, many hilarious moments :D
This is my icon for when I want to be wanky and flame people, so I don't use it often! Lyrics by and image of Tori Amos. I love their irony. That meaning of "fuck you piss me off so much but I want to be better than that so I'm going to try to contain myself. But I still think you're an asshole!" The song overall is lovely that way, about the times when you get frustrated and angry at people, it might be more because it's a bad day and you're stressed or whatever, and you want to lash out... it's good to remember then, that you do believe in peace. Even if right now you can't find in yourself much kindness for those people. Anger is a very blinding feeling.
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Date: 12 June 2008 12:29 am (UTC)Only anime characters can have fringes that awesome. If I tried that, the results would not be good :-(
And I really like Tori Amos too. Need to listen to more of her music, which, to satisfy my Geek Quotient, I only got into because of reading her intro to Sandman: Book of Dreams :-)
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Date: 12 June 2008 10:09 am (UTC)I discovered Tori Amos before Neil Gaiman, she's been my favourite singer ever since :)
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Date: 12 June 2008 07:43 am (UTC)[fanon]And his crush on Roslin is so sweet. [/fanon]
Are you up to date in Battlestar Galactica?
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Date: 12 June 2008 10:09 am (UTC)Yes, I'm finally up to date with BSG!
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Date: 12 June 2008 11:52 am (UTC)OMG! How did you like The Hub? Roslin ♥! Gaius/Centurion OTP! I loved it so much...
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Date: 12 June 2008 12:00 pm (UTC)Hehe, I saw you posted about the episode, but it was all in polish so I couldn't read.
The Gaius/Centurion discussion (?) was definitely the highlight of the episode. Awesome! All the interaction with Roslin were fascinating. Loved the bickering, and when he was all high and confident. They have a fascinating relationship in many ways :) he does look up to her in a very unique way, I'm not sure I'd call it a crush, but it's sexualized because he's Gaius and he sees everything in sexual terms XD Then I was of two minds, because I don't want Baltar to die, but I kinda couldn't believe Roslin wouldn't kill him, not even with Magical!Elosha in her head to try to convince her otherwise.
Did I tell you I had a dream the other day where Baltar and Roslin were helping a kid with his geometry home works and they were totally bonding and having awesome chemistry? :D
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Date: 12 June 2008 12:16 pm (UTC)Oh of course by calling it a crush I'm going well into fanon territory - but it is sexualized in canon, so why not ;)
Oh, yes, sorry about that - I just have a couple of friends who are into BSG and don't read in English. It was basically dialogues from the episode according to me ;)
I am also writing a long Polish crackfic in which all Centurions have fallen in love with Gaius and worship him ;)
Yay the dream! The only one I had related to BSG was about Gaius squatting at my Grandparents' place. I'm pretty much sure he was gay in that dream, though :(
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Date: 12 June 2008 08:44 pm (UTC)I don't think there's any easy solution about language in blogging when you're bilingual, and you should write in whatever language you want anyway. It's your journal, don't apologize.
I hope you'll translate that fic XDDD
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Date: 12 June 2008 11:40 am (UTC)Manga/anime hairstyles are among the things whichs fictionality I deeply lament. Seconding Ad on the fringe. Also, Manga geeks can do all those great reflection things with their glasses. I want glasses like that.
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Date: 12 June 2008 11:47 am (UTC)So, so true about glasses. I'm very happy to wear contacts and no glasses now, but if I could do the scary shiny glasses I'd consider wearing them again :)
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Date: 12 June 2008 03:03 pm (UTC)Choose some of mine nao =D
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Date: 12 June 2008 08:41 pm (UTC)Tell me about:
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Date: 12 June 2008 08:43 pm (UTC)Yuuko's a character from xxxholic. She's the Witch of Dimension, she keeps a shop that gives people their wish, against an equal price. She's loads of fun - likes drinking and teasing with people a lot and dressing in outlandlish yet always classy outfits. I'd reccomend reading that manga if you like urban fantasy.