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jesse_the_k...is one of my favorites!
How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you, and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own journal. Spread it around.
ironymaiden asked me about:
It's an overhead view of a Japanese ceramic bowl in shades of white and blue, holding around 20 cooked green beans. I took the picture and made the icon in Mac Preview by cropping it to 100x100 and saving it as PNG. Moral: icons can be easy.
I love this style of pottery, and use it when I want to really appreciate what I'm eating. MyGuy makes delicious green beans—surrounded by masses of slivered garlic and nuked to al dente. It's one of my favorite cold snacks.
I deploy this icon when I'm talking about food, or happiness.
"Medieval proofreader"
Icon by ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
oraclegreen. It appears to be cropped from an actual marginal medieval illustration. It's the church lectern, with a person of indeterminate gender in a lively blue robe looking at something.
I've been an enthusiastic calligrapher most of my life, thanks to learning Johnston's foundational bookhand instead of that loopy Palmer script. (I started playing with Letraset rub-down lettering in sixth grade, and was deliriously happy when I worked setting type back in the early 80s.) I'm cursed with a great eye for typos (except in my own work, of course). I've noticed misspelled words on billboards while zooming past at 60mph.
I deploy this icon when the issue is details.
"blank"
This icon isn't exactly working yet. It posts a white square.
My goal was to create a 100x100 placeholder so that I could post without an icon sometimes. The alternative is to set no default icon, but then I often forget to define an icon. Is there a better way?
I want to be able to deploy an empty icon as a nod to whisper space. Perhaps I should abandon that and use
"there are no words" instead?
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Date: 2019-01-24 12:19 am (UTC)It's a hard choice because
Date: 2019-01-24 12:34 am (UTC)you've got such a delicious variety. So many punchy matches between theme and execution. I've whittled it down to these three:
"beyond_elechan"
"solutions"
"fit for a secretary"
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Date: 2019-01-24 01:34 am (UTC)Of course you do!
Date: 2019-01-24 05:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-24 07:52 am (UTC)Here you go
Date: 2019-01-24 08:22 pm (UTC)Fingers holding down a piece of meat (heart) as it's cut with a knife, on a bright red surface.
Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII.
I know my pulse has increased every time I've seen you posting, and (since 2010) I think of this as your default icon. You describe what appears quite clearly, but what's going on?
Re: Here you go
Date: 2019-01-29 08:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-24 01:17 pm (UTC)It's an artisanal group!
Date: 2019-01-24 08:24 pm (UTC)Is this really an 1800-year-old dodecahedral die? Where did you find it?
Re: It's an artisanal group!
Date: 2019-01-25 12:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-24 03:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-24 08:27 pm (UTC)Eclipses
Zen (is that Damian Lewis I spy?)
(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-25 09:34 pm (UTC)(and yes it totally is)
(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-24 04:49 pm (UTC)(sorry my icons are so dull)
I'll squeeze three questions out of it any way
Date: 2019-01-24 08:29 pm (UTC)What's the story of the base icon?
What's a transformation that you're missing?
Why did you choose this one for your default?
Re: I'll squeeze three questions out of it any way
Date: 2019-01-26 03:39 pm (UTC)As time went on, Gary got kind of paranoid and instead of playing music, he would go on long rants about the government. Then one day all of RFC fans tuned in to hear the Horst-Wessel-Leid* playing on a loop. Both he and Amy had disappeared from the forums. We RFCers on the forums were a-buzz...where was Gary? Was he okay? Where was Amy?
I had to dig it up, but here's my post about it from way back then: https://grayduck.dreamwidth.org/304939.html Anyway, he disappeared, it turned out that his assistant "Amy" didn't exist and all of the pictures were actually kind of blurry/unidentifiable pictures of Aimee Mann, lots of people had donated much more money than I did (I only donated about $30, I was a poor grad student) and over the next few weeks the story unraveled and it was very dramatic. Really good "early internet drama". Some people went to the station's office address and found nothing but an abandoned apartment. Years later Radio Free Colorado popped back up but there were no forums, no Amy (obviously) and Gary didn't seem like the Old Gary. Nothing lives on of old Radio Free Colorado other than my icon, which I just thought was a cool picture that kind of looked like me.
Anyway, that's the story of my icon. I've had it since (at least) 2006, when RFC went off the air. Long answer, sorry! I went down a nostalgia vortex.
2. I don't have one for use when I'm feeling angry or sad. The sunglasses one is kind of a "I don't want to talk about it" one, I guess. I started with just the base one and over the years added the others when I felt like it.
3. I chose this one because it's the base one. Some people love their icons, I couldn't be bothered with curating and finding the perfect one to illustrate my current mood.
Re: I'll squeeze three questions out of it any way
Date: 2019-01-28 12:32 am (UTC)I used to listen to Whole Wheat Radio, streamed live from Talkeetna AK. It was a laid-back, mom&pop operation, and it helped me imagine myself back in the early 50s and the dawn of what became Pacifica Radio.
I've always been a radio fan, and from 6th grade on I lived in a sweet spot where I could listen to NYC and Philadelphia stations.
If I see the right accessories for sadness and fury, I'll be sure to let you know.
philadelphia-specific
Date: 2019-01-29 09:43 pm (UTC)Re: philadelphia-specific
Date: 2019-01-29 10:22 pm (UTC)/googles, discovers that the KYW jingles I remember from the late 60s-early 70s aren't readily available, and that the call letters themselves took a trip to Cleveland for nine years
What do you miss about it?
Re: philadelphia-specific
Date: 2019-01-29 11:53 pm (UTC)Mostly, it's less missing KYW and more remembering the Philadelphia/New Jersey area of the 2 years I lived there (when I was 18-20 or so, so, vivid), and the doing frequent road trips down from Boston, afterwards. (So its advent was welcome.)
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Date: 2019-01-24 06:31 pm (UTC)The geek is strong in your icons
Date: 2019-01-24 08:30 pm (UTC)hacker traveling
Consonance
Re: The geek is strong in your icons
Date: 2019-01-24 10:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-26 05:25 am (UTC)(Or: Oh, shiny!)
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Date: 2019-01-27 11:48 pm (UTC)Can you explain why this image represents "existential threat"
I'm hypnotized by this elegant ruminant
(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-29 07:35 pm (UTC)(Answers here.)
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Date: 2019-01-26 08:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-27 01:07 am (UTC)Browsing your icons it's clear that you had LotRPS feelings! Did you have a particular vision for this moonless night?
Tell me more about this creepy little dog with a long blonde wig and oversized white plastic shades.
I associate this one with you so closely that it showed up to represent you in a dream. Where did you find this woman pressing earphones to her breasts?
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Date: 2025-01-13 04:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-01-26 05:37 pm (UTC)Thank you for your patience!
Tell me more—at your comfortable pace--about
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Date: 2025-01-26 08:02 pm (UTC)