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promethia_tenkIt's that icon meme where people pick out some of your icons and you say why you have them. Rules:
1. Reply to this post, 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.
owlboy picked out these for me:
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parttimelurker
Ariadne from the movie Inception. I first saw Inception about a week after season five of Doctor Who finished and the parallels (both thematic and in clever, mind-twisty-ness) floored me right from the beginning. This icon thus comes in handy for talking about both works, as well as symbolic ideas like mirroring, through the looking glass, labyrinths and mazes, etc. I especially like that, moments after the shot here, when Ariadne touches the mirror, it shatters and Mol charges out of the crowd behind it and attacks her, thus setting up the two women as poles in a duality (between mind and heart, among other things). (Side note: the movie is even better if you think of them, symbolically, as the same character.)
It also tickles me that Ariadne is an architecture student, which I was too, once : )
By kathyh
I stole this one fromelisi and then proceeded to think of it as "ours." She asked kathyh to make it long ago when she noticed the mirroring between the two bedtime story scenes from Forests of the Dead and The Big Bang, and it is basically the perfect icon for anything ever: it's a shippy icon and a Library icon and it embodies the magic of this era of Who and a whole host of meta-y ideas about how storytelling functions on this show and also I love the circularity of it, which is entirely appropriate to this show, and I use it to talk about the writers of the show and other writers and how stories work in general and what we want out of stories and just talking about it is reminding me of everything that I love about this show and also it is yellow. *g*
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sealedcards
A new acquisition! Scarlett Johanson's character from Lost in Translation, one of my favorite movies of all time. A very self-indulgent movie for me: I watch it when I'm feeling drifting, angst-y, twenty-something angst, usually round about three in the morning, and me and ScarJo sit up and are conflicted and have insomnia together. This icon has so much of that quiet, contemplative, melancholy atmosphere that I love from the movie.
by we_use_cheats
Another new one, picked up after watching Downton Abbey. Mary Crawley is fantastically written and she says things like (paraphrasing) "I don't feel as sad as I ought to, and that's what makes me sad," which I think I've been waiting to hear a character say my whole life. Whether or not this one stays around will depend heavily on how long I find myself still talking about DA, but for the time being, I had to have an icon. I wanted a shot of her looking characteristically prim.
by yeahsoanyway
This icon makes me giggle. The pic is from Doctor Who, the quote is from How I Met Your Mother, and the combination is quite clever. (See: because Rory is kinda a robot in that scene, and he's in love, and Barney is funny when he says things like giving away hints about his absurdist play.) I'm not really in HIMYM fandom anymore, but I like having the little reminder around, and of course, it's an iconic scene for Rory. Serves triple-duty for talking about spoilers!
If you're curious about any of my other icons, feel free to ask in the comments, and let me know if you want me to pick out some of yours for commentary : )
1. Reply to this post, 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.
owlboy picked out these for me: By parttimelurkerAriadne from the movie Inception. I first saw Inception about a week after season five of Doctor Who finished and the parallels (both thematic and in clever, mind-twisty-ness) floored me right from the beginning. This icon thus comes in handy for talking about both works, as well as symbolic ideas like mirroring, through the looking glass, labyrinths and mazes, etc. I especially like that, moments after the shot here, when Ariadne touches the mirror, it shatters and Mol charges out of the crowd behind it and attacks her, thus setting up the two women as poles in a duality (between mind and heart, among other things). (Side note: the movie is even better if you think of them, symbolically, as the same character.)
It also tickles me that Ariadne is an architecture student, which I was too, once : )
By kathyhI stole this one from
elisi and then proceeded to think of it as "ours." She asked kathyh to make it long ago when she noticed the mirroring between the two bedtime story scenes from Forests of the Dead and The Big Bang, and it is basically the perfect icon for anything ever: it's a shippy icon and a Library icon and it embodies the magic of this era of Who and a whole host of meta-y ideas about how storytelling functions on this show and also I love the circularity of it, which is entirely appropriate to this show, and I use it to talk about the writers of the show and other writers and how stories work in general and what we want out of stories and just talking about it is reminding me of everything that I love about this show and also it is yellow. *g* by sealedcardsA new acquisition! Scarlett Johanson's character from Lost in Translation, one of my favorite movies of all time. A very self-indulgent movie for me: I watch it when I'm feeling drifting, angst-y, twenty-something angst, usually round about three in the morning, and me and ScarJo sit up and are conflicted and have insomnia together. This icon has so much of that quiet, contemplative, melancholy atmosphere that I love from the movie.
by we_use_cheatsAnother new one, picked up after watching Downton Abbey. Mary Crawley is fantastically written and she says things like (paraphrasing) "I don't feel as sad as I ought to, and that's what makes me sad," which I think I've been waiting to hear a character say my whole life. Whether or not this one stays around will depend heavily on how long I find myself still talking about DA, but for the time being, I had to have an icon. I wanted a shot of her looking characteristically prim.
by yeahsoanywayThis icon makes me giggle. The pic is from Doctor Who, the quote is from How I Met Your Mother, and the combination is quite clever. (See: because Rory is kinda a robot in that scene, and he's in love, and Barney is funny when he says things like giving away hints about his absurdist play.) I'm not really in HIMYM fandom anymore, but I like having the little reminder around, and of course, it's an iconic scene for Rory. Serves triple-duty for talking about spoilers!
If you're curious about any of my other icons, feel free to ask in the comments, and let me know if you want me to pick out some of yours for commentary : )
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Date: 18 Jan 2012 03:42 am (UTC)MIND IS BLOWN. I feel like I need to watch Inception again just to appreciate this. Do you have any other words of wisdom about its themes and symbolism?
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Date: 29 Jan 2012 02:29 am (UTC)That alone justifies this post, I think *g* I love doing that.
Do you have any other words of wisdom about its themes and symbolism?
Oooo, boy. It's been awhile. I remember being impressed with how much the movie played with the same ideas as Moff Who: what that movie did with dreams and the idea of building in dreams bears so much resemblance to the role of storytelling and time travel in Who. The ways that both made identity and reality about the choices of people and both the problematic and the liberating aspects of that. I thought there were a good number of parallels between Doctor/River and the relationship between Leonardo DiCaprio's character and Ariadne/Mol--that play of mutual supervision and excess, obsession, being almost trapped together in a mutual story, death being used as a transition between worlds, their attempts to rewrite the story to their own wishes. The Ariadne/Mol divide plays on the same dualities and the relationship between conscience and beast that keeps coming up--the reconciling of those divides.
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Date: 29 Jan 2012 02:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18 Jan 2012 03:52 am (UTC)I have basically no icons on Dreamwidth so if you want to do me it'll have to be from Lj where I still don't have that many but at least more than here haha.
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Date: 29 Jan 2012 02:20 am (UTC)Hmmmm *looks at your icons* I feel like I know why most of your Doctor Who ones. I would like to know what's up with "cricket," "snitch," Wilf Skywalker, the Voldemort Glee one, and why half your icons are of kissing, lol =D
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Date: 18 Jan 2012 06:45 am (UTC)I think I might watch Downtown Abbey now...
I also need to watch Inception again, because when I saw it at the movies I kept falling asleep from exhaustian and I had no idea what the HELL was going on.
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Date: 29 Jan 2012 02:11 am (UTC)Yes, yes you must!
I also need to watch Inception again, because when I saw it at the movies I kept falling asleep from exhaustian and I had no idea what the HELL was going on.
Damn! Frankly, it's a tricky enough movie to follow wide awake and will all cylinders firing. You should definitely try it again because it is . . . *kisses fingers*
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Date: 21 Jan 2012 09:49 pm (UTC)Also: I haven't been able to place that "spoiler alert" quote and it's been bothering me. Of course it's from HIMYM. *facepalm* (By which I, of course, mean: that icon is fab in every way.)
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Date: 29 Jan 2012 02:07 am (UTC)And thank you! Glad I could clear up that annoying feeling--I always hate that.