Icon Meme

[alias_sqbr]

1. Comment to this entry asking, and I will pick 3 of your icons/userpics.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!

Icons chosen by hokuton_punch:

1:

Ok so back when I made this, like...15 years ago, there was a fashion for icons with flowery quotes over images of nature with a bazillion colour filters over the top, and I was curious to try making one myself based on this tutorial.

And I kept thinking about the pretentious-yet-nonsensical wording of the quote "Down by the sea, as the clouds shone, the sun through the day I strolled upon this naughty shell", which I saw every day because it was printed...on my toilet paper.

So I combined the two, because it amused me.

2:

This is me cosplaying many years ago as the bearded female dwarf Cheery Longbottom from Discworld. The original version said "expressing my femininity with an axe", and was about expressing myself as a somewhat gnc cis woman. When I started identifying as non-binary felt I weird about it so changed the wording, and I think it still works as a broader "expressing yourself despite expected gender roles" thing.

3:

OH MAN this is olllld Australian political commentary I barely remembered the context for. *pokes about to find the original post*

I read this post by nixwilliams suggesting people make icons of Family First senator Steve Fielding not existing (since he doesn't believe in climate change the greenhouse effect), so I googled him with a vague thought of just putting Nix's text over an image of him or something(*). And then this image of him dressed as a beer bottle was so perfect I had to make an icon of it.

Comments

[wychwood]

Me!

[alias_sqbr]

I got the meaning/reference with most of your icons but these three were intriguingly puzzling :)

[wychwood]

Thank you, that was fun! :) My post is up.

Would you like me to pick some of yours in return? :)

[alias_sqbr]

Sure!

[wychwood]

Hahaha, your icons are too well-annotated!


Is this A-Tuin-related or just generally turtles? Tell me more about your turtle-related feelings?


I'm not sure I knew you'd been in SGA fandom - what did/does it mean for you, what did you like, etc?


Feel free to tell me what you like about the flying rats, and them in particular

[alias_sqbr]

Nice choices! Posted.

[hokuton_punch]

I love the stories behind all of these! That is some beautiful nonsense poetry for the first one. ♥

[alias_sqbr]

I love how it almost makes sense, like it was written by predictive text.

[got_quiet]

That first one amuses me too! The all amuse me but that quote is something else.

[alias_sqbr]

I'm glad this meme gave me a chance to share it's brilliance with people again :) Do you want me to choose your icons for the meme?

[(Anonymous)]

I think I have three icons and my explanation for all of them is "he's pretty" lol. I need to up my icon game but my desires are simple.

[polarissruler]

The first one is pretty funny!

[alias_sqbr]

Glad to know other people agree :) Do you want me to choose some of your icons?

[polarissruler]

Sorry that I'm replying a tad late! To be honest, most of my icons don't have an interesting story behind them. I just decided I want an icon with a specific character and looked for it/made it. So, you don'y have to choose.

[alias_sqbr]

Fair enough!

Me me me

[jesse_the_k]

Iconing is my second favorite part of DW (people come first) so please choose!

(I love how that decade-old discourse is captured in our memes.)

Re: Me me me

[alias_sqbr]

Ha yes it's been fun looking through my and other people's icons and going "Ah, yes, 2002 vintage fandom injoke, I remember it well..." Yours in particular have some great stuff :) But for ones that made me curious...

Also I thought about asking about some of the shoe and food pics but thought they might just be simple aesthetics. But if any aren't, I'm curious!