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The Icon Meme
6 Nov 2012 11:58 pmI saw this on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hogan_macgyver's page and couldn't help trying it!
Rules:
1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
Sohogan_macgyver picked these five... Apart from "Black", which is just a black square, all my icons are (from) drawings of mine.
Flash: About three or four years ago, the Justice League (Unlimited) cartoon was my main fandom, and my favourite character was the Flash, aka Wally West, a sweet goofball who originally hid his insecurities behind bravado and a somewhat childish sense of humour. He still remains my favourite character, because he fails, tries hard, sometimes does do amazing and selfless deeds and is one of the only heroes who actually knows the people in his city and is able to talk down a villain rather than use violence.
Sherlock: This particular drawing is from an unfinished Sherlock Holmes meme I started (and which I will post on DeviantArt as soon as it is finished). It's the 2010 BBC re-invention of Sherlock Holmes in modern London, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (♥!) - a show I really love, clever, witty, hilarious and surprisingly poignant.
Black and white me: I don't even remember when I drew this one. It must have been around 2007 or 2008; I had shortist hair (not that short, though), a new hat, and no tablet yet, so I did this one by mouse. It's the image I default to using, on LJ, on DeviantArt, on Facebook, on Tumblr... A five-minute doodle and so far I haven't been able to come up with a picture I like better. Ah well.
Louis LeBeau: (one of) my favourite character(s) from Hogan's Heroes. As a Frenchwoman I'm very sensitive to the way my countrymen are portrayed in English-speaking fiction (mostly American), if only because there is such a lot of it, although I try not to be. But it still rankles (a lot) whenever people think the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" thing is funny, especially where World War Two is concerned. I suppose one of the things I love most about LeBeau is that he so completely and utterly blows this stereotype to pieces. He has his shortcomings, some of his reactions (mostly when Marya is around, but also his and Newkirk's mocking of Carter's Sioux heritage) make me want to thump him over the head, but goodness, I love this character with all my heart.
Black: I only used this one twice, and I dearly hope I won't have to use it again in a long time. I created it when my granddad passed away in summer 2010, because the last thing I felt like doing was smiling and I wanted my icon to reflect that. Turns out I used it again a month later, when my grandma died, too, since I simply did not feel like putting up a picture of me smiling or something fandom-related. I haven't deleted it because I know that if I do LJ will replace it by the default icon.
And... that's it. Now - do you lot have some unicorns for me?
In other news, my contract ended last Halloween, so now I'm free as a bird again and getting back to normal (my right ring finger still gets sort of stuck in the morning), although there's a ton of stories to review I've saved in my tabs and I still haven't done much in the way of writing... But I'm working on changing that :o]
hogan_macgyver's page and couldn't help trying it!Rules:
1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
So
hogan_macgyver picked these five... Apart from "Black", which is just a black square, all my icons are (from) drawings of mine.Flash: About three or four years ago, the Justice League (Unlimited) cartoon was my main fandom, and my favourite character was the Flash, aka Wally West, a sweet goofball who originally hid his insecurities behind bravado and a somewhat childish sense of humour. He still remains my favourite character, because he fails, tries hard, sometimes does do amazing and selfless deeds and is one of the only heroes who actually knows the people in his city and is able to talk down a villain rather than use violence.
Sherlock: This particular drawing is from an unfinished Sherlock Holmes meme I started (and which I will post on DeviantArt as soon as it is finished). It's the 2010 BBC re-invention of Sherlock Holmes in modern London, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (♥!) - a show I really love, clever, witty, hilarious and surprisingly poignant.
Black and white me: I don't even remember when I drew this one. It must have been around 2007 or 2008; I had shortist hair (not that short, though), a new hat, and no tablet yet, so I did this one by mouse. It's the image I default to using, on LJ, on DeviantArt, on Facebook, on Tumblr... A five-minute doodle and so far I haven't been able to come up with a picture I like better. Ah well.
Louis LeBeau: (one of) my favourite character(s) from Hogan's Heroes. As a Frenchwoman I'm very sensitive to the way my countrymen are portrayed in English-speaking fiction (mostly American), if only because there is such a lot of it, although I try not to be. But it still rankles (a lot) whenever people think the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" thing is funny, especially where World War Two is concerned. I suppose one of the things I love most about LeBeau is that he so completely and utterly blows this stereotype to pieces. He has his shortcomings, some of his reactions (mostly when Marya is around, but also his and Newkirk's mocking of Carter's Sioux heritage) make me want to thump him over the head, but goodness, I love this character with all my heart.
Black: I only used this one twice, and I dearly hope I won't have to use it again in a long time. I created it when my granddad passed away in summer 2010, because the last thing I felt like doing was smiling and I wanted my icon to reflect that. Turns out I used it again a month later, when my grandma died, too, since I simply did not feel like putting up a picture of me smiling or something fandom-related. I haven't deleted it because I know that if I do LJ will replace it by the default icon.
And... that's it. Now - do you lot have some unicorns for me?
In other news, my contract ended last Halloween, so now I'm free as a bird again and getting back to normal (my right ring finger still gets sort of stuck in the morning), although there's a ton of stories to review I've saved in my tabs and I still haven't done much in the way of writing... But I'm working on changing that :o]
