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[selenak]

Back from skiing, which was great - just one day with bad sight and mixed weather, and the rest was beautiful. Am really tired and exhausted, though, as I went skiing for four hours this morning before jumping into the car back to Munich. eye_of_a_cat, your BSG episodes are finally on their way. Anyway, meme from penknife:

"I love looking at people's icons, but I don't always *get* them - I often wonder stuff like, "Who's that guy?" or "Where's that quote from?" but I tend not to ask, for various reasons. So come on, my icons are here. Pick one (or more!) you're curious about, and I'll try to explain it. Or at least explain what I like about it."

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[winter]

Okay, I'll bite: Why does your FangedFour icon say "Thankful" on it? It's... rather random.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The icon was made by wisteria_ as part of a series, after both BtVS and AtS had ended. Meaning we the fans were thankfull for the shows that were. I picked the Fanged Four icon as I had always adored that particular shot of them, and besides felt the emotion as well.*g*

[muffinmonster.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! I envy for the time you got to spend in the snow, what we got had always melted when I got back from work and would have had time to enjoy it :( Well, it's snowing once more right now, so maybe I'll have more luck this weekend ;) *snow addict*

And I'm curious about your default icon. I always thought that it was very pretty, and I really like the colors, but I can't place either the image or the text. Google says the line's from the poem "The Golden Journey to Samarkand", but what does it mean to you?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The image is taking from some amazing pictures by a Russian photographer whom the last Czar had told to travel through Imperialist Russia and depict it, years pre-WWI. shezan posted them some months ago, and they are all breathtaking, literally windows to another world. I took this one and asked Kathy to combine it with either this Flecker or with a Yeats quote (she chose the Flecker one). It symbolizes both travelling and history and the romance of both to me.

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Can you point me to those photos? I'd like to see them, but I can't find the LJ entry.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Excuse me for leaping in, but I have them in my memories and have spent lots of time browsing the websites mentioned.

The past is another country (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shezan/30615.html)
Russia: peoples of the empire (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shezan/30746.html)
Russia: times and places (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shezan/31027.html)

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Thank you! What amazing pictures.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are! I printed out 12 of them on good paper and made them into a calendar for a Russian friend.

[janewt.livejournal.com]

Glad the skiing was so nice.

Um, may I ask what some of them say? It's very embarrassing, but I can't read the text on some of them, lovely as they are. Like--Frodo, Shadows, DuncanAmanda, Dancing, and Godfather (does it say something below "Sicilia?").

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Frodo - "born and bled for you to hold", I believe. kathyh made it, like many of my icons, and used a song text, I think. You'll have to ask her which song, though. "Dancing" is using a Jossverse quote for a Highlander scene; "You think we're dancing?" - "It's all we've ever done" (Buffy and Spike in Fool for Love) for one of my favourite HL scenes, Duncan and Amanda on the Eiffel Tower, dancing. I've always loved their relationship, which never was a classic romance (Amanda never being the love of Duncan's life (tm)) - they were friends and occasional lovers, she brought an element of laughter and craziness in his life which he needed in pretty dark times, and he was always there for her when it counted.

The Godfather one has a text below Sicilia, but the icon maker herself said in the post offering the icon that she didn't mean it to be read, so it's a mystery to me as well.*g*

[janewt.livejournal.com]

Ah! Thank you.

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

Illyria?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

A character from the fifth season of Angel. She, or rather it, as the original gender is uncertain, was one of the Old Ones, a "God King" it says in the texts, and through some complicated plot twists ends up inhabiting the body of one of the series regulars, Fred, who dies in the process of transformation. Illyria was described by Joss Whedon as a "mixture between Elizabeth I and the Terminator" and gave Amy Acker the opportunity to show of some great acting skills. As one of the defining scenes is when Illyria returns to her old temples and finds them gone, thus realizing that she arrived millennia too late, kathyh who made the icon cleverly picked Abu Simbel and the Shelley quote from his poem Ozymandias as a background.

[wychwood]

Your keywords are too good - I don't need to ask *g*

I do like the Gaiman icon, though. Was it you who used the Fluffy Teddybear one?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was me. It was made by copperbadge and I used it until skywaterblue made this one. Alas for more icon space...

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

OK, what's the dancing one?

and, um, "The Immortal's eating cookie dough" is hilarious to me for reasons that you, and like three other people, would understand.

I have no idea why I thought "the dim-moon city of delight" was from "Kubla Khan." Oh well.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Dancing - points to reply to janewt above which explains in detail.

And hey, while not everyone else has your reasons for finding it hilarious, believe me, anyone both a Highlander fan and a Jossverse fan who saw the relevant episodes would smirk.*g*