Icon madness

[sara_tanaquil]

Have been back from Japan just over a week, am back in CT trying to console three resentful abandoned cats, and slowly recovering from the usual jet lag from hell. I owe all kinds of catch-up posts, including a trip report, but in the meantime, have a meme from firesign10:

1. Reply to this post and I will pick five 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 glee.

Five chosen by firesign10 (who cleverly managed to pick all the ones I never get to use, so now I can talk about why I have them in the first place):

Scanned from a volume of Ryuu no Yuigon, a sadly underappreciated manga, because I thought the picture of the mushi freaking out was hilarious. It's a dragon story from a fantasy universe, and the mushi are little... random cute pet-critters, which I think I once described as a rabbit crossed with a marshmallow. One of two icons I use to express SHOCK!

From One Piece, as are approximately half my icons. Luffy as a little kid refusing to listen to... something, I don't remember what. I wish I had more opportunities to use this, but how often do you want to comment with an icon that says "lalala not listening"?

I love this cartoon-icon of chibi John and Rodney from Stargate Atlantis which I snagged from fellow SGA fan pentapus, and it makes me sad that I hardly ever have reason to use it any more. It just captures their personalities so beautifully - John goofing around, and Rodney, oh-so-serious.

One Piece again - Luffy chewing on Jinbei because he's mad about something. A monument to failed html! The story behind this one was, I wanted to make an animated gif icon from an absolutely hilarious animated gif a fellow fan created, but I never managed to make the animation work, and just left it as a single image, which I rarely have reason to use. It makes me smile every time I look at it, though, since I can just hear Jinbei roaring "I'm not fish food, Luffy!"

I used to be able to use this a lot more back when I was doing Fujimi summaries (ignore the adult content warning, I should really disable that since the site is about as offensive as sparkle ponies). It's a scan from the cover of one of the drama CDs, showing Kei and Yuuki as stuffed animals (a dog and a rabbit - Yuuki is the rabbit) kissing. I love Fujimi, you guys.

Comments

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

I thought the one of the stuffies was so very cute, and I LOVED the John/Rodney one, which I may have to steal from you! Also love the one you used for this post, the Flashing Gay Clue! So appropriate at times!

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! The John/Rodney one has been multiply stolen, I believe, so steal away. Now I get to ask you about yours, right?







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[gnine.livejournal.com]

Hee, these are great (heee, Fujimi!! and Ryuu no Yuigon!)

But oh, the OP one, hilarious and painful at the same time (cause if I remember correctly, isn't Luffy mad about Jimbei insisting Ace is dead and Luffy does not want to be listening? I know it's somewhere around then. OH LUFFY! Oh OP *sniffles* ^___-)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Aww, you're right! *sniffle* I knew it was around then, but I suppressed the sad part of the memory in favor of remembering how awesome Jinbei is during that arc (and always). Because he IS.

And now I choose five of yours, right? Normally I try to pick ones that I don't know the background to, but you have such awesome explanations on your icon page sooo.... I'll just pick a few of my favorites and let you babble at your discretion. :-)





(because I recognize some but not all of the images)

(definitely missing some context on this one...)

Guessing this involves spoilers? You may or may not want to explain. I really need to get back into Doctor Who fandom someday. I still don't know any of them past the guy with the long scarf.

Loved revisiting your chibi comics through the icon gallery! Your chibi John/Rodney will always be the best.

[gnine.livejournal.com]

Yes, Jinbei is forever awesome!!

And yay, those will be fun! And awww, thanks 'bout the McShep chibis, I had so much fun with those, miss doing 'em a bit. I actually have one more half finished that I should actually complete some time, seeing as it was actually for the Help_Japan auction...like 3 years ago...*sweatdrop*

[serrende.livejournal.com]

Ooh, can I play? I did this meme ages ago, but I've gotten new icons since then - and could likely still find something to say about the old ones! :D

I'll have to point to the ones at my Dreamwidth account, though, as I no longer have a paid LJ account.

Haha, I hear you about having an icon you really like that can be hard to use because it might seem impolite! :D

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun icons! As so often, it's hard to choose (and this is a combination of icons I want to know more about, and icons I just love).



(I'm sure you explained this before, but I don't remember all the details)



(so hard to pick only one One Piece icon...)

[serrende.livejournal.com]

:DD Posted now! Warning: lots of babbling!

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I've always loved that McShep icon, awww. (Someday I should actually watch the end of SGA. I have it on DVD and everything.)

It's been a while since I've done a meme, so I guess I'll play along!

(edited because "been a meme," haha)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Crisis! You have so many icons I love, many of which I do know stories behind... it's going to be really hard to pick.

Starting with the one you commented with (I love that icon so much, and I've half-forgotten the story):











(Aw, no room for Ishuca's Demons are People Too. I never, ever get tired of looking at that icon.)