Meme: Iconic

[nebroadwe]

Coming late to the game, but here's a meme that's making the rounds:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven userpics (or, if you are limited to six, two) from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

evil_little_dog picked out two of mine:

Ah, my very first icon. I wasn't even sure I wanted any to begin with (it took some little time for me to "get" the culture of LiveJournal) and I didn't know how to claim an icon of someone else's making. So I got out my very primitive drawing software and built my own, in honor of all the harassment I was then inflicting on c_b_syndrome over their FMA epic Balance of Power (which reminds me that I owe them some comments on the latest installment, as soon as I've survived my Japanese midterm, eek!). I'm not a professionally-trained editor, but a professionally-trained reader-of-text -- and attempting to edit other people's work has made that difference very clear to me. Hence the implicit disclaimer (none of us ever seriously believed that actor fellow's recommendations when it came to over-the-counter medication, now, did we?)

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I am a tremendous fan of Lois McMaster Bujold's work, particularly her Miles Vorkosigan books, so when I wanted an icon to mark fun and silliness in my blog, I modified the punchline to this moment from the incomparable Memory:

Miles came up out of the all-too-familiar colored confetti and blackness to find himself still lying on the examination table, head clamped in a scanner half the size of the room, body wired every which way. The three alert techs stationed around him had perhaps been placed to keep him from spasming off the table, but more likely to keep the monitors correctly adjusted. Colonel Dr. Chenko, the neurologist, and Captain Dr. D'Guise, the cryonicist, were bouncing up and down and chortling, loudly pointing out fascinating readouts to each other. It was apparently the best show since the bicycle-riding bear had come to the Hassadar Fair and spooked the horses.

This is another self-created icon on a program not intended to produce such, which explains why the text is slightly foggy rather than nice and sharp, but since it's an invitation to pleasant reminiscence, set against a background of blue sky, that formatting bug becomes a feature, doesn't it? (If anyone can recommend some free- or shareware icon-creating software that works on the MacOS platform, I'd be happy to hear about it.)

Thus me. Anyone else, or have you all been caught elsewhere?

BONUS: For a previous meme, I explained my default icon and produced a drabble in its honor, archived here.

Comments

[haleysings.livejournal.com]

Being one of the icon-addicted members of LJ, I'd love to take this meme. XD

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

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