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Sep. 4th, 2011 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spokeMeme from Snow, who got it from wrabbit! ...I could have sworn I had more icons. :/ *puts moar icons on the weekend's to-do list*
1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", 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.
This is my Pokemon icon! It is a Furret, which to me will always be my first Furret: Fluff, caught in Heartgold by my trainer named Seto. It is an icon of squeeing and glee, and also a reminder that the future can hold more squeeing, even when I think it won't.
The icon is from.. I don't even know where I found the image, but it's Parasite Eve - a lovely old Playstation game. The story is a sci-fi fantasy/horror mix (I think some people might say plain horror, but the way it appeals to me makes me think of fantasy) about stuff too complicated to go into while I'm sleepy. Suffice to say the two women pictured are enemies, though they could have been allies. I wrote a story set after the sequel for last year's Yuletide, but I still feel like I have a wonderful story for the first game in me, somewhere, if I could just reach it.
As far as use of the icon goes, and damn I do not use this one enough: a certain surreal floating feeling I get sometimes, when I am writing the things that later turn out to be my favorites. Also a reminder to myself that your worst enemies are sometimes your own thoughts.
Also, women. Because there is something about this story, and that icon, that makes me feel particularly female and happy about it.
..I did not realize it was so layered for me until this meme. ♥
Say hi to the cuddly stuffed spider! :D This is my default/all purpose one because that stuffed spider is still the best stuffed toy I own. After my knitted stuffed unicorn that my mom made me, at least. Also because who does not love a stuffed spider posing for a photo shoot on top of a book about Egypt while holding a pen! Erm, he's meant to be holding the pen, it's a little difficult to tell maybe.
This is also meant to be a reminder to write, because the spider was bought partly out of pure squee at finding a stuffed spider (they did not exist when I was a kid D: ) and partly because there is a character in the universe inside my head who metaphorically speaking is one.
And another who literally is/becomes one. ...spiders! I like them. That about sums it up. :D
I have no idea where this really awesome picture of stairs came from. I was just googling stairs one day, years back now, and made some icons out of them. And I really like this one! It's got that perfectly swirly, inside-of-a-spiral-shell look. I remember I meant to use it for contemplative/thoughtful posts, when I meant to be posting more, but now I'm just looking at it and thinking "Damn that is pretty. And a little dizzy-making. I would probably not look down on those stairs, at least not without sitting first. Hi vertigo!"
I vaugely remember uploading this icon! In a fit of nostalgic squee, because it is if not the very first icon I made, certainly the first I put any serious effort into. Coffee is serious business, you know. SRS! XD
Now it looks a little dated and slightly pixely, but I had so much fun making this thing, you do not know. I searched forever for a most awesome coffee cup, and then thought about the ingredients for a delicious fancy cup of coffee, and tried out lots of different fonts that to me looked kind of like the words taste, and and and. XD Also the little smiley is not originally part of the cup, but a smiley I placed there by typing the :) in some font I don't remember, and then making it italic. A stroke of genius! \o/
XD This is meant to be used for extra-silly things, and also possibly nostalgia, and maybe a certain pride in things that I have made because I made them! No matter how crappy they might appear to other people. This is my refrigerator-art coffee cup, dammit, and it is delicious. :9
I should maybe also redo my keywords for these, when uploading more icons.
1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", 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.
This is my Pokemon icon! It is a Furret, which to me will always be my first Furret: Fluff, caught in Heartgold by my trainer named Seto. It is an icon of squeeing and glee, and also a reminder that the future can hold more squeeing, even when I think it won't.
The icon is from.. I don't even know where I found the image, but it's Parasite Eve - a lovely old Playstation game. The story is a sci-fi fantasy/horror mix (I think some people might say plain horror, but the way it appeals to me makes me think of fantasy) about stuff too complicated to go into while I'm sleepy. Suffice to say the two women pictured are enemies, though they could have been allies. I wrote a story set after the sequel for last year's Yuletide, but I still feel like I have a wonderful story for the first game in me, somewhere, if I could just reach it.
As far as use of the icon goes, and damn I do not use this one enough: a certain surreal floating feeling I get sometimes, when I am writing the things that later turn out to be my favorites. Also a reminder to myself that your worst enemies are sometimes your own thoughts.
Also, women. Because there is something about this story, and that icon, that makes me feel particularly female and happy about it.
..I did not realize it was so layered for me until this meme. ♥
Say hi to the cuddly stuffed spider! :D This is my default/all purpose one because that stuffed spider is still the best stuffed toy I own. After my knitted stuffed unicorn that my mom made me, at least. Also because who does not love a stuffed spider posing for a photo shoot on top of a book about Egypt while holding a pen! Erm, he's meant to be holding the pen, it's a little difficult to tell maybe.
This is also meant to be a reminder to write, because the spider was bought partly out of pure squee at finding a stuffed spider (they did not exist when I was a kid D: ) and partly because there is a character in the universe inside my head who metaphorically speaking is one.
And another who literally is/becomes one. ...spiders! I like them. That about sums it up. :D
I have no idea where this really awesome picture of stairs came from. I was just googling stairs one day, years back now, and made some icons out of them. And I really like this one! It's got that perfectly swirly, inside-of-a-spiral-shell look. I remember I meant to use it for contemplative/thoughtful posts, when I meant to be posting more, but now I'm just looking at it and thinking "Damn that is pretty. And a little dizzy-making. I would probably not look down on those stairs, at least not without sitting first. Hi vertigo!"
I vaugely remember uploading this icon! In a fit of nostalgic squee, because it is if not the very first icon I made, certainly the first I put any serious effort into. Coffee is serious business, you know. SRS! XD
Now it looks a little dated and slightly pixely, but I had so much fun making this thing, you do not know. I searched forever for a most awesome coffee cup, and then thought about the ingredients for a delicious fancy cup of coffee, and tried out lots of different fonts that to me looked kind of like the words taste, and and and. XD Also the little smiley is not originally part of the cup, but a smiley I placed there by typing the :) in some font I don't remember, and then making it italic. A stroke of genius! \o/
XD This is meant to be used for extra-silly things, and also possibly nostalgia, and maybe a certain pride in things that I have made because I made them! No matter how crappy they might appear to other people. This is my refrigerator-art coffee cup, dammit, and it is delicious. :9
I should maybe also redo my keywords for these, when uploading more icons.
