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.

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1. When I first got into archery, my friend glasshopper made me this icon. He's a talented ascii artist and this is still one of my most-used icons.

2. The lovely Athena, goddess of war and civilisation. A reminder to THINK, already.

3. A crop from the film _The Day Watch_, sequel to _The Night Watch_, which is more-or-less a vampire film set in modern-day Moscow. I fell in love with _The Night Watch_ and now own the book it's adapted from and two of the three sequels (still got to pick up a copy of _The Final Watch_). That particular icon shows a character writing the word NYET (NO!), and it's basically my DO NOT WANT icon.

4. Oh! I forget the context for this one. Agent Weasel noticed that hammerhead sharks always look sad, and said "Don't cry, emo shark." bunyip made this icon for her. Used for emo posts (of which I tend to make very few).

5. From an old WWII poster. Used for posts about growing vegetables.

6. deyo wants a titanium battle spork. He's made a prototype from another metal (forget what), and it turns out that titanium is both expensive and a pain in the arse to weld. But anyway. xenogram was taken with the idea of titanium battle sporks, and made this icon based on a picture from the Bayeux Tapestry. Used mostly when I'm irritated but still able to keep a sense of humour about it.