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muccamukk
Apr. 13th, 2020 01:25 amThis meme has come around again! (I've changed it slightly because I'm not really in Highlander fandom.) It's always fun to see the stories behind people's icons. :D
1. Comment to this entry saying "Live long and prosper" or "Peace and long life" and I will pick 3 of your icons.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked.
muccamukk gave me:
This icon of a French traffic warning sign is from our trip to France in 2019. Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of Brittany, is accessible from the mainland by a causeway (Le Passage du Gois) that's underwater at high tide. At low tide it's a perfectly cromulent road, but when the tide comes in the road completely disappears under water, leaving you with this striking view of warning signs marching off into the sea. It struck me as the most hilarious thing. The sign is literally an exclamation mark inside a triangle. And, really, what else is there to say? You drive up, there's a string of !!! signs, and six feet of water where you expected your road to be, and I figure that tells you everything you need to know. You will not drive this road today.
(It turns out that this is a pretty common hazard sign in France, but this was the first time I'd noticed them, which made it even funnier to me. And, yes, there is also a bridge back to the mainland, which doesn't depend on the tides but which no one bothered to mention to me until after they showed us this. :D)
I use the icon for an "OMG!" or "WTFBBQ?" or "OH NOES" reaction. Anything where a big red triangle with a solid exclamation mark in the middle is a mood.
"Stop censoring ourfucking art" -- what it says on the tin. :D I think I uploaded it around the time of the AO3 Hugo Awards kerfuffle (for which I also made icons), but mostly because of the "you must be this pure to post" anti brigade who were going around saying that AO3 was terrible because it let people post dark fic. On an aesthetic level I enjoy how simple and clean the text is, and how the red line crossing out the swearword illustrates the point of the icon.
Radagast! From the Peter Jackson movies of The Hobbit. I found them to be a mix of delightful charm and extraneous filler with too much influence from PJ's horror roots for my taste, and I don't think I ever saw the third one. But casting Sylvester McCoy as Radagast was one of the things they got right, and I really enjoyed his few minutes on screen. I like the close zoom of his face in this icon, his bright eyes and cheerfully unkempt beard. I expect him to lean out of the icon and strike up a mildly befuddling conversation with me--or more likely, my cat or the nearest bird. It pleases me.
1. Comment to this entry saying "Live long and prosper" or "Peace and long life" and I will pick 3 of your icons.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked.
muccamukk gave me: This icon of a French traffic warning sign is from our trip to France in 2019. Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of Brittany, is accessible from the mainland by a causeway (Le Passage du Gois) that's underwater at high tide. At low tide it's a perfectly cromulent road, but when the tide comes in the road completely disappears under water, leaving you with this striking view of warning signs marching off into the sea. It struck me as the most hilarious thing. The sign is literally an exclamation mark inside a triangle. And, really, what else is there to say? You drive up, there's a string of !!! signs, and six feet of water where you expected your road to be, and I figure that tells you everything you need to know. You will not drive this road today.
(It turns out that this is a pretty common hazard sign in France, but this was the first time I'd noticed them, which made it even funnier to me. And, yes, there is also a bridge back to the mainland, which doesn't depend on the tides but which no one bothered to mention to me until after they showed us this. :D)
I use the icon for an "OMG!" or "WTFBBQ?" or "OH NOES" reaction. Anything where a big red triangle with a solid exclamation mark in the middle is a mood.
"Stop censoring our
Radagast! From the Peter Jackson movies of The Hobbit. I found them to be a mix of delightful charm and extraneous filler with too much influence from PJ's horror roots for my taste, and I don't think I ever saw the third one. But casting Sylvester McCoy as Radagast was one of the things they got right, and I really enjoyed his few minutes on screen. I like the close zoom of his face in this icon, his bright eyes and cheerfully unkempt beard. I expect him to lean out of the icon and strike up a mildly befuddling conversation with me--or more likely, my cat or the nearest bird. It pleases me.
