Icon Meme

[astarte59]

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icon meme

Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favorite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon.

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Comments

[lt_kitty]

*waves*

You can respond with icons I've made, as well as ones I'm using, if you like. :)

[astarte59]

Well, you could figure out my favorite, couldn't you? :-)

[lt_kitty]

Those are also two of my favorites; both for technique, and also for their simplicity and beauty. I have other far more processed icons that I enjoyed making but aren't nearly so striking.

And I am so, so glad you love the Q/P icon, since you are SO totally responsible for turning me to the dark side bringing me into the Q/P fandom. ;) I'm so glad I can give something back. :)

[astarte59]

you are SO totally responsible for turning me to the dark side bringing me into the Q/P fandom. ;)

Moi? ;-)

Oh, do tell. Elaborate. Trust me, my life is so completely in the toilet right now that some praise, even for 12-13 year old work, would be a benefit.

[novemberjane]

I was reading older entries in *feminist_sub, saw your intro post, and came to check out your journal. Wanted to add you - anyone who quotes Neil Gaiman and shoots fish in a barrel is probably gonna be a good time.

[astarte59]

Thanks! Wish I had more energy to write, period, but that article did help me get tenure (in an English department) lo these many years ago. And apparently Sheila Jeffries is a big name in lesbian theory, and she was such, excuse my Frence, a dick. :-)

Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon are my personal gods. I wrote an academic book w/ a large chunk about Sandman and Neil read the book and complimented it in his blog, so that's probably one of my top two fangirl moments. :-) If I were still teaching I'd find ways to teach the Sandman. I included two books of it in a grad seminar, but they're kinda expensive to make students get the whole thing. I hope they were inspired on their own. I got to teach it a couple times in earlier semesters in that class, but that was the semester I had to stop in the middle of (b/c of MS), which sucks. A former student of mine got to teach it instead.

[novemberjane]

They are expensive, but they're worth their weight in gold to me - Sandman was the first work I ever read that made me think, I want to tell stories for a living. If all the world's literature was destroyed tomorrow, I could live happily with fifteen books: "Sandman", and the five books of Laura Antoniou's "Marketplace" series.

I haven't met Neil or been complimented on his blog (lucky you!), but if I ever get really rich, I'm going to buy that man a house. Or a planet. $200 for infinite dreams? I think I got the better end of the deal.

[astarte59]

Well, you've seen the quote in my left hand column, right? Where it says 'Quotations" :-) I don't believe in objective rating of literature, but as for me, former English professor, I rate Sandman as the best piece of literature written in English in the 20th century. Not so wild about the Marketplace stuff. I wish I could find some smut that was really effective for me other than the really intense fanfic in my head (the stuff I won't ever write). I have to confess an occastional read of the Beauty books is enjoyable, but they certainly wouldn't be part of a fifteen book collection

[normaltrouble]

This may mean I'll need to update my icons or some such thing like that. I am sort of still in LJ lite phase ( lurking, responding to some posts in flist etc.), so won't post this for real until Monday sometime.

So, which of my icons that I've made is your favorite?

I have been rewatching season 3 of X Files. Such good skeptical action, especially the last half of the season.
Even a new romance category-- unresolved sexual snark.

[astarte59]

I've been cruising around palest_sepia, dl'ing here and there, but I'm so lseepy my eyes wont stay open. This is why I never get anything done. Fucking MS. Will answer this tomorrow b/c it won't be easy to choose.

[astarte59]

Well, it's a three-way tie for first. :-)

[normaltrouble]

#1 is one of my personal favorites. Break through and all that, that's why I like Angel, Scully*, Krychek, Buffy, Tara, River, 12 Monkeys in general esp. the marvelous Bruce Willis**, and a few other characters.

Angel--thanks to Mr. Boreanaz has such a great face and manner. I may lust after Spike, but somehow I seem to connect more with Angel.
*Ms. Anderson is soooo fun to icon. Addicting. Her face has all the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics, and I am 30% about aesethetics.

**who is one of absolute all time favorite actors, like next to Natalie Wood, Salma Hayek and Anne Devere Smith favorite level!!

Thank you! I'll go put this on my journal, after I ponder through what icon of my own is my favorite.