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minkhollowMeme time twice over. First, a writing one:
If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
— Alfred Hitchcock
When I write a story, what do you immediately look for?
And then the 'explain your icons to people' one is going around again, and I've claimed so many that I'd best do a post this time. So!
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ceitfianna picked these:
rpgs will eat your brain - The oldest icon I still have around, and one I don't use anymore; it's just there to provide context on older posts, and because I don't have the heart to cut it. It's an inside joke from the Discworld RPG that ate my senior year of high school (and then most of us moved over to Milliways); Adrian Turnipseed had himself a fan club.
ready for a tweed leaf - The quote is from The Point, an animated (possibly done while people were high; this was 1971) fable thinger that's been a staple of my life since childhood. I made the leaf myself in Photoshop after Googling for a good green tweed. I don't use it much; it might go next time I futz with my icons.
smell them! - This is one of a few icons I made with quotes from a one-act play I was in in high school. One of the teachers wrote it; his working title was Aquaman vs. Frank Sinatra; Aquaman and Sinatra were the voices in the main character's head. It was hilarious and I still have the script. This particular line is from the main character's dad ranting about someone using TWO DRYER SHEETS AT ONCE when one will last a whole month (he's a bit... overly thrifty).
normally so discreet - This is... actually a misquote from Iron Man; I wanted a Jarvis icon and had to do it from memory. One of these days I might fix it.
two generations of win - Claudia Donovan and Rebecca St. Clair, my two complete favorite Warehouse 13 ladies, in one of the about three scenes total they actually share. I found this one on a shareable-icons post and couldn't resist grabbing it for just that reason.
live long and prosper - Another Warehouse 13 icon; this one's Steve, the new guy. Just about everyone made icons of this scene, and again, I couldn't resist grabbing one.
Andsilveraspen picked these (along with the fresh spring rain times two):
holy wood magic - The quote's a line from Moving Pictures that really stuck with me; the picture's one of my all-time favorite scenes from Daria, in which a number of people are sneaking around with flashlights and one of them has the good sense to wonder why.
phoebe's song -shati made the base and put it up with 'do what you will,' so I did. The quote's from Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center, another childhood staple that sadly seems to have been taken off Youtube, or I'd link it (you'd never think an hour of one guy screwing around in his apartment could be so entertaining). At that particular moment, he's making up a song for his girlfriend on the spot, based on things in his apartment (see also the subject line on this post). This icon's come to mean a lot to me and isn't going anywhere any time soon.
i won't worry my life away - Because "The Remedy" is totally about Angel, in a way, and I just had to make an icon with that line.
pls help? - Another Warehouse 13 icon; this particular one's from last year's Christmas episode, when Claudia's trying to convince Artie's dad to come out for a visit. I just think it's a gorgeous shot of her, and so.
anthill inside - The requisite tech-issues icon, by way of the Hogfather film adaptation. Even when Hex is gone and I've moved on to another computer, this icon will stick around; for now, it's just that much more appropriate. (I actually first used it around the time my dorm room got ants... coming in under the wall about where I kept Hex plugged in. I wasn't expecting it to be so literal!)
shrews! - This one's a D&D group injoke. I don't even know how it spawned, but suddenly the whole room was making a gesture and saying 'shrews!'; it became a running gag from there.
If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
— Alfred Hitchcock
When I write a story, what do you immediately look for?
And then the 'explain your icons to people' one is going around again, and I've claimed so many that I'd best do a post this time. So!
ceitfianna picked these:rpgs will eat your brain - The oldest icon I still have around, and one I don't use anymore; it's just there to provide context on older posts, and because I don't have the heart to cut it. It's an inside joke from the Discworld RPG that ate my senior year of high school (and then most of us moved over to Milliways); Adrian Turnipseed had himself a fan club.
ready for a tweed leaf - The quote is from The Point, an animated (possibly done while people were high; this was 1971) fable thinger that's been a staple of my life since childhood. I made the leaf myself in Photoshop after Googling for a good green tweed. I don't use it much; it might go next time I futz with my icons.
smell them! - This is one of a few icons I made with quotes from a one-act play I was in in high school. One of the teachers wrote it; his working title was Aquaman vs. Frank Sinatra; Aquaman and Sinatra were the voices in the main character's head. It was hilarious and I still have the script. This particular line is from the main character's dad ranting about someone using TWO DRYER SHEETS AT ONCE when one will last a whole month (he's a bit... overly thrifty).
normally so discreet - This is... actually a misquote from Iron Man; I wanted a Jarvis icon and had to do it from memory. One of these days I might fix it.
two generations of win - Claudia Donovan and Rebecca St. Clair, my two complete favorite Warehouse 13 ladies, in one of the about three scenes total they actually share. I found this one on a shareable-icons post and couldn't resist grabbing it for just that reason.
live long and prosper - Another Warehouse 13 icon; this one's Steve, the new guy. Just about everyone made icons of this scene, and again, I couldn't resist grabbing one.
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silveraspen picked these (along with the fresh spring rain times two):holy wood magic - The quote's a line from Moving Pictures that really stuck with me; the picture's one of my all-time favorite scenes from Daria, in which a number of people are sneaking around with flashlights and one of them has the good sense to wonder why.
phoebe's song -
shati made the base and put it up with 'do what you will,' so I did. The quote's from Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center, another childhood staple that sadly seems to have been taken off Youtube, or I'd link it (you'd never think an hour of one guy screwing around in his apartment could be so entertaining). At that particular moment, he's making up a song for his girlfriend on the spot, based on things in his apartment (see also the subject line on this post). This icon's come to mean a lot to me and isn't going anywhere any time soon.i won't worry my life away - Because "The Remedy" is totally about Angel, in a way, and I just had to make an icon with that line.
pls help? - Another Warehouse 13 icon; this particular one's from last year's Christmas episode, when Claudia's trying to convince Artie's dad to come out for a visit. I just think it's a gorgeous shot of her, and so.
anthill inside - The requisite tech-issues icon, by way of the Hogfather film adaptation. Even when Hex is gone and I've moved on to another computer, this icon will stick around; for now, it's just that much more appropriate. (I actually first used it around the time my dorm room got ants... coming in under the wall about where I kept Hex plugged in. I wasn't expecting it to be so literal!)
shrews! - This one's a D&D group injoke. I don't even know how it spawned, but suddenly the whole room was making a gesture and saying 'shrews!'; it became a running gag from there.
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Date: 2011-08-15 02:02 am (UTC)