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

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

It's because I'm a permanent member, they give us more icons than any healthy human could ever find a use for. I just make one out of whatever strikes my fancy. Like this little dude:


I just liked the looks of it. I use it for nautical themes or just whenever.


This is the head of a cemetery angel from a picture I took in California. I like cemeteries very much and angels are one of my favorite things about them. I believe I may have found this particular one while searching for Emperor Norton (whom I eventually found).


This is a sixteenth-century woodblock print by a guy named Claude Paradin, called "In Hunc Intuens," which is Latin for "Look at This." "This" is a reminder of your mortality, of course, though as a commenter in my journal once pointed out, if the hand of God appeared waving a skeleton at you, the remark "Look at this" would seem superfluous.


I wrote a whole journal entry about this one.


I just thought this one was funny. I got it from the propaganda page of Ban Comic Sans, a group whose work I wholly endorse.


Look how happy that kidney is! This is a good one for talking about the body, especially the ways it can go wrong. Also good for posts about cats, whose kidneys tend to be the first part of them to fail.