Icons!

[tiger_spot]

The way this works is, you say "Icons!" and I pick out a couple of yours and then you talk about them a bit.

Here, the_siobhan and I will demonstrate.





This is actually camera-flash from taking a picture in the mirror, as described here.

I usually use it for posts about creating things.



This one's me in the bath, taken by one or the other of my parents. Oddly, the original picture (at least the scan they sent me) is about the same aspect ratio as the icon. I'm not sure if they cropped it or if it was originally a Polaroid or something.

I often use it for comments where I'm giving someone sympathy, because the hand full of bubbles looks sort of giving to me. I also sometimes use it as my "innocent face", or when I'm just talking about babies.



Here we have a female red river hog from the San Diego Zoo. I took this picture the month before I started this LiveJournal, because I got the LJ account on suggestion of folks I'd met at the San Diego alt.polycon (hi, folks!).

I put this on posts in which I am particularly weird. It also turns up on comments about bacon. I used to use it for grumpy things, but now I mostly use the next icon for that.



Description here.

In practice it signifies sardonicism more than suspiciousness.



This is one of the things I made for the first round of Tiny Art; its finishing is described here. I'm terribly pleased with it.

I use this one when talking about things I've created, too. It's been going on a lot of the posts about the Nobilis game I'm running.

Comments

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

1) When we found out I was going to be getting radioactive iodine as a cancer treatment, James said, "Do you at least get some superpowers? I mean, you should at least get the proportional size and strength of the Morton salt girl!" :-)

2) That's the one I use for feminism stuff. It's from the webcomic Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net/index.php).

3) I don't know where I got that one, but it cracks me up.

4) We had a three-year-old friend once who really loved Shrimp, but couldn't say the word. She called me "Meen" instead of Serene, too. One day, we were eating piles of shrimp, and she kept going "MMmmmmm, MIMP!" and offering everyone some to share with her. Her dad declined, and she said, "But dad, you WUV Mimp!" Nowadays, James will say to me, if I say no thanks to something like popcorn or something, "But Meen, you WUV popcorn!" Anyway, this icon is what I use when I am talking about how great something is, how much I love it.

5) The Sweet Potato Queens (http://sweetpotatoqueens.com/) say if someone is past 30 years old and doesn't have a tiara and majorette boots, she's got no one to blame but herself. For the life of me, I can't remember where I got that tiara, but I love it.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Hee. 4 is an awfully cute story.