Icon meme, from artaxastra and likeadeuce

[selenak]

Click on my icons, pick out one that looks interesting to you, and ask me something about it. Why I chose it, what it is, what the quote is from, anything!

Comments

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

I think I've officially known you long enough to get all of these. . .but is there a story behind the Grima/Eowyn as Xander/Buffy? or alternatively, why is Sir Nicholas Fury so awesome?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The talented creator who made that icon originally did an entire set with LotR characters to the lyrics from OMWF (I also downloaded a Sam 'n Frodo one ("The only trouble is I'll never tell") but then, back in the days before I got gifted with additional pictures, had to delete again), and this particular one completely cracked me up.

(This was also in the days before I found out what "credit icon" means - I thought it meant mentioning who made it the first time you post that icon, dumb me, and by the time I had figured out about the keywords, I had forgotten the lj name! Have been trying to find it again in vain.)

Sir Nicholas Fury is tough, sarcastic, and disillusioned with the goverment he works for. Also, he's a bastard. How can he be anything but awesome?

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

Fury/Bester = OTP cop buddies (Garibaldi is the closest I have, but he can totally tag along).

[selenak.livejournal.com]

He can. Also, I must find some Bester icons for you - muffinmonster is the expert, I think.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

this comment is about 3 degrees removed from what you actually said, but I was recently giggling to realize that Star Trek got a "Chekov" at roughly the same time X-men got a "Rasputin". Oh, goofy gestures toward detente in popular culture. At least X-men spelled hte name right.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

Of all the Methos icons in all the world, why the immortal and his ice cream?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

COOOOKIES! Not icecream.

Well, you know, like many a HL fan, I couldn't resist thinking of the HL style Immortals when The Girl in Question was broadcast. This apparantly also happened to kathyh who made this icon (and incidentally is probably my oldest fannish friend online, ever since she wrote feedback to one of my HL stories) and used the clip from Til Death with the Jossverse quote.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

**laughs** MY BAD.

I never saw the final season of Angel, but now I'll be especially keeping an eye out for this ep ^_~

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

What exactly caused the icon with Garak and "The Business of Space Pants" to come into existence and/or your use? *curious*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The icon was made by fellow DS9 lover iamsab and I loved it, so I asked her whether I could use it.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Who's the "call me Tom"? Ripley?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Nope. Tom Zarek, a semi-regular character on the new BSG. Zarek's a former freedom fighter/terrorist (depends whom you ask) who was on a prison ship for blowing up a public building. As in his middle age, he turned skillful politician after due to post-apocalyptic circumstances getting out of jail in the episode Bastille Day. He was elected as a representative in the new Quorum of Twelve and quickly became the main opposition to President Laura Roslin, but when Roslin had her end of season 1 fallout (to use a euphemism) with the military in the form of Commander Adama and in early s2 was on the run for a while, she and Zarek had an uneasy political alliance. Their very first exchange after said alliance started was: "Mr. Zarek." "Call me Tom." The icon shows that moment.

Shamefaced sidenote: Zarek is played by Richard Hatch, who was the original Apollo in the old BSG, and this had an effect a bit similar to seeing Walter Koenig as Bester after being familiar with him only as Pavel Chekov - to wit, lots of people, including yours truly, going "wow, he can act".

P.S.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The people depicted in the icon are: Tom Zarek, Lee Adama (aka Apollo in the new show), Elosha (the African-looking woman whose head is barely visible) the high priestess and Laura Roslin. Zarek and Roslin are looking at each other.

[titania-le-fey.livejournal.com]

I have always wondered about the "Dork" icon. I know enough to get the fandom based ones.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

When I was in Brazil, to be more specific, in Rio, for the carnival, I was able to participate in one of the parades through the sambadrome. You can if you're willing to wear one of the costumes and promise to try dancing and smiling the entire time.*g* Anyway, it was great fun, partly because I looked like a dork in that costume. (Or as a friend of mine put it like a bumblebee in Hufflepuff colours:


(http://photobucket.com)

So iamsab made that icon for me and I mostly use it when talking about my travels.

[titania-le-fey.livejournal.com]

That is a pretty strange outfit. At least everyone else on the bus/train looks dressed up too. :)

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Who is "The Spectre at the banquet"?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Emily Sloane, from Alias. Wife of Arvin Sloane, who in the first season is the main villain and later becomes something more complicated. For complicated plot reasons, the people he work for want Emily dead near the end of the first season. He appears to oblige them, but in reality, instead of killing her, he faked her death and then started a complicated scheme which managed to screw over bad guys and good guys at the same time. Then, this being Sloane's life which has a tendency to go that way, once he had succeeded in achieving all he wanted and was reunited with Emily, another chain of events was set in motion which ended with Emily actually dying because of him (she caught a bullet meant for him).

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Werid...

If I may ask another, where does the phrase itself come from?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Macbeth, referring to Banquo.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

*smacks forehead* dammit! I knew that, too.. I was wondering why it was so fmailiar...