Let's talk about icons.

[cimorene]

girl_clone picked out seven of my current icons and I'm going to explain them under the cut. Holler if you want me to do the same for you.





This is one of my oldest icons. The keyword is "tea", and I sort of use it on posts when I'm feeling that sense of zen and calm you get sometimes from enjoying the perfect cup of tea. I found the source image by Google-imaging "tea" years ago; it was originally the logo or packaging of some brand of tea.



This icon is by cleolinda and comes from her The Phantom of the Opera in 15 Minutes, which can be read at m15m. It's my favourite movie in fifteen minutes, I think, and one of the funniest parts is how, as she points out, in the movie during the "Point of No Return" scene, performing the phantom's opera, Christine seems more intrigued and a little turned on - as here - by the phantom singing about "No turning back!" and "Taking you off to my lair to sex you up". I use it when I kind of dig something, pretty much.



A classic feminist tshirt from the Northern Sun catalog's stock online. They sell politically liberal tshirts and bumperstickers and buttons and have been a mainstay of entertainment in my parents' house my entire childhood. I more often use it about typos and failing at grammar than about misogyny, though.



An image I scanned from the instruction booklet that comes with Ikea furniture that you have to assemble. It doesn't contain any words at all, just helpful diagrams, and I really appreciate how the little cartoon man's thought bubble of ":( ?" turns into this satisfied smile when he calls Ikea up.



This is the cover image from one of She Wants Revenge's singles. This is their album cover: so you can see that the single is just the back side of the main image. I like the image of the knife a lot, though. Sometimes it's a nice way to express rage. Also, they're one of my favourite bands of the ones I've discovered in the past few years. Their whole band is one gigantic and hilarious joke and a lot of Joy Division parodies, basically. Contrary to their sound, the dudes look like Simon & Garfunkel.



This is Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance in a tiara, which is probably why I identify with it. We're both princesses! I think my keywords are "angst" and "emo". He's a sad princess. In a tshirt. And he's really cute.



This is one of fooish_icons's great icons of things and objects as opposed to people, and I like those a lot. I love old places that look more or less like this, and the composition is fabulous. My keywords are "modern girl", but they are obviously ironic.

Comments

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Comment!

Bwah. I love hoarding icons for myself almost as much as I love looking at other people's userpic pages. But it makes me more than slightly anxious that I keep deleting/uploading/reuploading icons. The world is so full of awesome things that I can't possibly have icons of all of them. :P

:D there you go!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

I love your icons so much!! :D

[cimness.livejournal.com]

will you do it too if i pick some of your icons? :D

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

Sure, of course!

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[cimness.livejournal.com]