icon meme

[ironymaiden]

(is this my new five questions? mmmmmmaybe.)

via musyc:

1. Comment to this entry saying 'Ooo Shiney!' and I will pick 3 of your icons/userpics.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!

musyc chose:

image of Rachel Bloom in a cactus dress, looking pensive.
keywords: arty, cactus, CxG kernels

this one is relatively new, i made it after abandoning my LJ to the Russian TOS. i use it for artiness and surrealism, sometimes for being a fashion victim or being prickly or awkward.
it's a still from the big song in the Craxy Ex-Girlfriend season 2 opener, Love Kernels.

"Love Kernels - feat. Rachel Bloom - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"" (Watch on YouTube)

image of a US "Don't Walk" sign that has been vandalized to resemble ASL for "I love you"
keywords: don't walk/i love you
this was an actual Don't Walk sign in Seattle. it was across from the old Capitol Hill Bauhaus Coffee (for folks who know where that was). that sort of charming vandalism is something that used to be Very Seattle. IIRC solcita took the original picture. most often used when i want to say "I love you" or "I love this" or otherwise express support.


image of a Japanese condom label featuring koalas wearing little condom hats
keywords: bears
back in the day, someone linked to an article with a gallery of charming Japanese condom label art. i loved how sweet and wholesome this image was. this is an icon that is sadly underused, but when i remember it comes out for discussions of birth control, STIs, and sex education (and sometimes bears).

Comments

Ooo Shiney!

[buhrger]

i'd always assumed that your don't walk sign was meant to be throwing the goat. which still works for "i love this". :-) (and i was vaguely aware of the ASL, but apparently my lurking metalhead past still influences?)

inre: meme, recommend picking different userpics than last time. hit me!

this is throwing the goat

[ironymaiden]

(i made several of your icons, so a perverse part of me wanted to ask about them, but i basically know about them. that would just be getting you to perform for other folks. which does amuse me, but no.)

[musyc]

Hee! That's why I picked that condom one. It just looked so CHEERY. There's something about the Japanese frankness for bodily functions, like that kid's book, Everybody Poops. Making these things almost cute!

[jesse_the_k]

The Rachel Bloom vid has very high production values and it makes me want to scream with the misery it communicates. I guess there's a reason I don't watch that show. (Although the broom-as-manager was A+++)

Ooh shiny! Pick some icons!

[ironymaiden]

the show can be very intense, but that's one of the things i like about it - it talks about experiences that we don't talk about on television. (there's a song about UTIs, and a song about having heavy boobs, and a not-quite-a-song about period sex. i have no idea how this thing got greenlighted nor how it's been allowed to finish its planned four seasons. but yay, i've loved Rachel Bloom since "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury".)

i loved looking through your icons. (hooray for dogs and swimming and tea and Saga.)

[jesse_the_k]

And hooray for Firefly, which was clearly happening just as you stocked up on icons :,)

As is my tendency, I rambled on at great length:

https://jesse-the-k.dreamwidth.org/284284.html

[ironymaiden]

I was a little bit obsessed with the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial :D

[buhrger]

(makes a man out of a mouse)