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alryssa, this time.
Icon meme:
1. Reply to this post, 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 Squee!
alryssa picked these:
Feminist:
A black and white photo of a middle-aged man with a bushy white beard, wearing a high black turban. The caption (in black and dark red lettering) reads: "This is what a feminist looks like."
This is Dadabhai Naoroji, a late-Nineteenth / early-Twentieth Century human rights activist and politician (the first British MP born in India). I got the picture, and the inspiration, for this icon from one of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spiralsheep's history posts, wherein she highlights history of women and People of Color. One of the causes Naoroji worked for was the equal education and civil rights of women.
No Tea. Thnx:
This is a Doctor Who Companion of Awesome: Zoe (She traveled with the Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton). In this scene from "The Invasion," the Doctor has gone off to confront the baddie, and she's worried that he's been gone too long, and (irrc) suggests that she go looking for him. The Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, old military man that he is, basically pats her on the head, says that's nothing for her to worry about, and suggests she calm down with a cup of nice tea.
This is the dirty look she shoots at his back.
The caption is my own wording of the unspoken subtext: "Patronize me again. I dare you!" (as a short-statured, wheelchair-using woman, it's a frustration I've often felt the need to snark about [or make an icon of]).
Mirth:
A holstein cow wearing a jester's cap-and-bells, standing in a cartoon meadow. The caption reads: "got mirth?" in lower-case ariel font. This is one of the first icons I ever made, years ago. It's a take-off on the American Dairy Association's "Got milk?" ad campaign of the time. And it's an expression of my belief that a trickster's attitude is as good for your health as the proper dosages of calcium and vitamins.
Our life:
An animated text icon, in a blue script font on a white background: "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."snowgrouse made it for me. The quote is from Shakespeare's As You Like It -- the opening speech of Act 2.
The duke has been usurped by his (mustache-twirling, evil) brother, and he and all his courtiers have been living in exile in the Forest of Arden. He's being all: "Yay! Exile is the Bestest thing Evah! I'm learning so much from Nature about how to be a good human being!" His courtiers, meanwhile, are rolling their eyes and muttering: "Yeah... Um. I'd quite like my warm bed, and proper food, and entertainment, thanks. I'm tired of moral lessons."
I like the quote because it expresses the notion that there's more to life than humanity and popular culture; it's both very Pagan (i.e. our "Bible" and our "Sermons" are in paying attention to Nature), and very Naturalistic-in-favor-of-biodiversity (there are no "Bad" species, or "Bad" weather). Also, I'm a cock-eyed optimist, too. Most of the time.
Affixed:
A black engraving-style illustration of Shakespeare (or an imaginary version of Shakespeare) on a white background with the caption in red: "Yea! My head hath been affixed!"
This was the graphic attatched to a Shakepeare quote meme that circulated a while back, where you insert your name (or any random word), and it gives you a famous Shakespeare quote with your text replacing a key noun.
Here it is, if you're curious: The Shakespeare Quote Generator (from the same folks who gave us the food monkey wars, irrc). A meme within a meme, yay!
There's just something about the pose in that image that struck me as suspicious (like it's a cropped illustration of a random Elizabethan Gentleman that someone stuck a vaguely Shakepeare-looking face onto). So I snagged it and added a vaguely Elizabethan version of "My hed is pastede on, yay!"
alryssa, this time.Icon meme:
1. Reply to this post, 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 Squee!
alryssa picked these:Feminist:
A black and white photo of a middle-aged man with a bushy white beard, wearing a high black turban. The caption (in black and dark red lettering) reads: "This is what a feminist looks like."
This is Dadabhai Naoroji, a late-Nineteenth / early-Twentieth Century human rights activist and politician (the first British MP born in India). I got the picture, and the inspiration, for this icon from one of
spiralsheep's history posts, wherein she highlights history of women and People of Color. One of the causes Naoroji worked for was the equal education and civil rights of women.No Tea. Thnx:
This is a Doctor Who Companion of Awesome: Zoe (She traveled with the Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton). In this scene from "The Invasion," the Doctor has gone off to confront the baddie, and she's worried that he's been gone too long, and (irrc) suggests that she go looking for him. The Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, old military man that he is, basically pats her on the head, says that's nothing for her to worry about, and suggests she calm down with a cup of nice tea.
This is the dirty look she shoots at his back.
The caption is my own wording of the unspoken subtext: "Patronize me again. I dare you!" (as a short-statured, wheelchair-using woman, it's a frustration I've often felt the need to snark about [or make an icon of]).
Mirth:
A holstein cow wearing a jester's cap-and-bells, standing in a cartoon meadow. The caption reads: "got mirth?" in lower-case ariel font. This is one of the first icons I ever made, years ago. It's a take-off on the American Dairy Association's "Got milk?" ad campaign of the time. And it's an expression of my belief that a trickster's attitude is as good for your health as the proper dosages of calcium and vitamins.
Our life:
An animated text icon, in a blue script font on a white background: "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
snowgrouse made it for me. The quote is from Shakespeare's As You Like It -- the opening speech of Act 2. The duke has been usurped by his (mustache-twirling, evil) brother, and he and all his courtiers have been living in exile in the Forest of Arden. He's being all: "Yay! Exile is the Bestest thing Evah! I'm learning so much from Nature about how to be a good human being!" His courtiers, meanwhile, are rolling their eyes and muttering: "Yeah... Um. I'd quite like my warm bed, and proper food, and entertainment, thanks. I'm tired of moral lessons."
I like the quote because it expresses the notion that there's more to life than humanity and popular culture; it's both very Pagan (i.e. our "Bible" and our "Sermons" are in paying attention to Nature), and very Naturalistic-in-favor-of-biodiversity (there are no "Bad" species, or "Bad" weather). Also, I'm a cock-eyed optimist, too. Most of the time.
Affixed:
A black engraving-style illustration of Shakespeare (or an imaginary version of Shakespeare) on a white background with the caption in red: "Yea! My head hath been affixed!"
This was the graphic attatched to a Shakepeare quote meme that circulated a while back, where you insert your name (or any random word), and it gives you a famous Shakespeare quote with your text replacing a key noun.
Here it is, if you're curious: The Shakespeare Quote Generator (from the same folks who gave us the food monkey wars, irrc). A meme within a meme, yay!
There's just something about the pose in that image that struck me as suspicious (like it's a cropped illustration of a random Elizabethan Gentleman that someone stuck a vaguely Shakepeare-looking face onto). So I snagged it and added a vaguely Elizabethan version of "My hed is pastede on, yay!"
