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selenak1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', 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.
My second oldest online friend picked these for me (with the result that this post could be called "in praise of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kathyh, who is my oldest online friend":
1.
The library of St. Gallen, in a photo taken by my Aged Parent when we were there, and made into a pretty icon complete with Sandman quote bykathyh. Lucien's library of written and unwritten books can take all sorts of shapes, I'm sure, but when I saw this particular library, it became my default imagining for it. It has also been my default icon for a good while now.
2.
I am that oddity, someone who did see Star Wars at the right age, and in the cinema (being born in 1969, I could manage that) but still didn't become a real fan, though I was entertained enough and thought Darth Vader was the most interesting character, whose backstory I wanted to know about. Fast-forward, and it gets even freakier, because lo and behold, I liked the prequels, so much so that I went repeatedly (which I didn't do for the original movies), and not only did I like the prequels but I liked Anakin. This icon (bytiedyedress) was one I found after Attack of the Clones was released, when liking Anakin was about as rare as, well, liking Wesley Crusher was in TNG's hayday. (It still tickles me that my first prompt for the Multiverse challenges was to write a crossover featuring them both.)
3.
Some years back,shezan linked a couple of drop dead gorgeous Russian pre WWI photographs. That's Samarkand, with appropriate James Elroy Fletcher quote, icon courtesy of kathyh. It became my default icon for a while and still is one of my travel report icons.
4.
Morekathyh! One of my all time favourite m/f relationships, Duncan and Amanda from Highlander, in one of my all time favourite scenes from the show, their tango on top of the Eiffel Tower in the s3 episode Finale. I've already rambled at length and repeatedly why I dig Duncan/Amanda so much (in short: Batman and Catwoman if Batman had a sense of humour; also, it was never sold as the show's big romance, or Amanda as the One True Love, which benefited the relationship to no end). The quote, however, is from another show; kathyh took it from Buffy and Spike in BTVS's season 5 Fool for Love.
5.
Aaaaace. Supposedly one imprints on one's first Doctor and first Companion, but that never happened to me. I first saw two Fourth Doctor serials, one Sixth Doctor serial and the tv movie of doom with pretty Paul McGann and, err, not a lot of other things to recommend it, and was still at a "well, that's nice, but I'm not going to be a fan, I think" stage with DW, when I saw a Seventh Doctor era story, Curse of Fenric, featuring the Seventh Doctor (whom I had already seen die unceremoniously in the tv movie of doom) and Ace. And I definitely fell in love with a) the two of them and their relationship, and b) the originality of a show that would do a WWII story NOT featuring blitz or war time heroics but a vicar plagued with doubt about the bombings of Dresden, sympathetic Russians, and cold war preparations seen as a bad thing. The icon (bycheesygirl) shows Ace in that serial (one of the few times when you see her in historical outfits).
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.
My second oldest online friend picked these for me (with the result that this post could be called "in praise of
kathyh, who is my oldest online friend": 1.
The library of St. Gallen, in a photo taken by my Aged Parent when we were there, and made into a pretty icon complete with Sandman quote by
kathyh. Lucien's library of written and unwritten books can take all sorts of shapes, I'm sure, but when I saw this particular library, it became my default imagining for it. It has also been my default icon for a good while now. 2.
I am that oddity, someone who did see Star Wars at the right age, and in the cinema (being born in 1969, I could manage that) but still didn't become a real fan, though I was entertained enough and thought Darth Vader was the most interesting character, whose backstory I wanted to know about. Fast-forward, and it gets even freakier, because lo and behold, I liked the prequels, so much so that I went repeatedly (which I didn't do for the original movies), and not only did I like the prequels but I liked Anakin. This icon (by
tiedyedress) was one I found after Attack of the Clones was released, when liking Anakin was about as rare as, well, liking Wesley Crusher was in TNG's hayday. (It still tickles me that my first prompt for the Multiverse challenges was to write a crossover featuring them both.) 3.
Some years back,
shezan linked a couple of drop dead gorgeous Russian pre WWI photographs. That's Samarkand, with appropriate James Elroy Fletcher quote, icon courtesy of kathyh. It became my default icon for a while and still is one of my travel report icons. 4.
More
kathyh! One of my all time favourite m/f relationships, Duncan and Amanda from Highlander, in one of my all time favourite scenes from the show, their tango on top of the Eiffel Tower in the s3 episode Finale. I've already rambled at length and repeatedly why I dig Duncan/Amanda so much (in short: Batman and Catwoman if Batman had a sense of humour; also, it was never sold as the show's big romance, or Amanda as the One True Love, which benefited the relationship to no end). The quote, however, is from another show; kathyh took it from Buffy and Spike in BTVS's season 5 Fool for Love. 5.
Aaaaace. Supposedly one imprints on one's first Doctor and first Companion, but that never happened to me. I first saw two Fourth Doctor serials, one Sixth Doctor serial and the tv movie of doom with pretty Paul McGann and, err, not a lot of other things to recommend it, and was still at a "well, that's nice, but I'm not going to be a fan, I think" stage with DW, when I saw a Seventh Doctor era story, Curse of Fenric, featuring the Seventh Doctor (whom I had already seen die unceremoniously in the tv movie of doom) and Ace. And I definitely fell in love with a) the two of them and their relationship, and b) the originality of a show that would do a WWII story NOT featuring blitz or war time heroics but a vicar plagued with doubt about the bombings of Dresden, sympathetic Russians, and cold war preparations seen as a bad thing. The icon (by
cheesygirl) shows Ace in that serial (one of the few times when you see her in historical outfits).
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:15 am (UTC)Icons!
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 07:44 am (UTC)Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!
And all the Russians (except one, I think) have names from Chekhov. I liked that touch.
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Date: 2009-04-08 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 10:55 am (UTC)"That's all we've ever done."
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Date: 2009-04-08 09:50 am (UTC)All praise gratefully accepted *g*.
Those Russian photographs were so stunning that it's nice to be reminded of them.
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Date: 2009-04-08 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 11:09 am (UTC)Icons, as they say.
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Date: 2009-04-08 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 12:25 pm (UTC)I really love that fifth icon you talked about, it's lovely.
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Date: 2009-04-08 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 01:07 pm (UTC)Glad to oblige!
Date: 2009-04-08 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 01:21 pm (UTC)Icons please!
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Date: 2009-04-08 02:18 pm (UTC)Icons: