I'm still heads over heel enthralled by Foundation, and as it is so very pretty, I made some icons.







( Lee Pace and other dashing folk under the cut )

If anyone wants to use these icons, a comment would be nice, and you can have them.

* Reply to this post with ICON ME! and I will pick five of your icons.
* Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
* Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
* This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee...


wee_warrior picked the following:

( Hidden under the cut )

1. 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 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).

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	wrongest
use the most	favorite

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 123
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 123
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: Err, yes.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: There are hardly any without text. Finding a "best textless" was hard!
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Doctor Who, even discounting Torchwood and mixed fandom icons - 22 in all!
AND THE SECOND MOST: Babylon 5, again even discounting crossfandom icons and Crusade: 9 icons.
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: The TARDIS, no question about it. Hence my choice of "favourite ship" icon as well.
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Exclusively so. Not a single one was made by me.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: No.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: See above.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Fun!

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

Still with a one track mind (see new icon by laurashapiro), I present some links:


Meta on the Master/Slave dynamic according to Hegel, as applied to THAT scene, by communicator. Fascinating to read even if you don't see the slash at all.


Fanfic: Paleolinguistics is a terrific gen piece on the Doctor's state of mind during the episode: short, concise and multi-layered at the same time.

Speaking of short and concise: a two-sentence summary of THAT scene which also says it all. Enjoy.*g*

ETA: And how long, pray, before someone gives us excerpts from this masterpiece, bad pun intended?

Moving on to another fandom: since John Locke is my favourite character on Lost, I was delighted to see an icon post all about him up. I've currently reached my icon limit, but other Locke fans on my list, hurry and admire!