Icon Meme!
Oct. 28th, 2008 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chomijiFrom telophase!
The directions:
- Reply to this post with the word MEME and I will pick six 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.
| I got this one from meganbmoore. It's Shiina Yuya (blonde) and Mahiro (brunette) from Samurai Deeper Kyo, shown in a light-hearted and - sadly - completely imaginary moment. In the series, Yuya and Mahiro are essentially enemies. However, like the mangaka, I think the two young women could have been friends. I use this icon in posts to people I know well, when I want to emphasize that what I'm saying is meant in a friendly way. | |
| This is Koumyou, Sanzo's master - and some might say, adoptive father - in Saiyuki. The quote is based on the caption of one of Brian Andreas' "Story People" prints, and I liked it for Koumyou, who is unflappable and seems to find hate futile. The full quote: "Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning & loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero." This is for discussions of people who are unusually fine human beings. | |
| Daisy Parker is an extremely precocious, obnoxious little girl who is the cousin of Jack Bagthorpe, protagonist of the over-the-top hilarious Bagthorpe Saga, a children's series by Helen Cresswell. Daisy's parents indulge her in all sorts of antisocial behavior, including writing on walls - which is where Jack found this statement scrawled. I usually use this when things don't make sense! | |
| Kuro Karatsu, an average student in an average Buddhist university, is the impoverished, long-suffering, and mystically talented lead of the manga Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. I hand-colored this image scanned from vol. 1, and I think that statement is his first line (or close to it, anyway). I use this when I'm being forced to be philosophical whether I want to or not! | |
| The Roman Emperor Augustus is a cool dude, no? Especially in expensive Italian shades lifted from an ad and Photoshopped in ... minus the caption, and originally a bit larger, this was put together for a human interest article about the month of August - history of the name and so on - for our agency's intranet site. I sometimes dig this out for other fine dudes, or to punctuate discussions about someone pompous. | |
| Saiyuki's sexy half-breed kappa (water sprite) Gojyo meets the popular line of ever-so-cool clothing boutiques, and the store logo suffers a train wreck ... sadly, no one ever seemed to get the joke on this one, and I'm considering dropping it. Gojyo is just about my favorite Saiyuki character. I used to use this one regularly in my many obsessive discussions of the series, but I now have a couple of other Gojyo icons that I like better. |
I can't make any guarantees how fast I'll pick stuff out for you ... but I'll do my best!
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Date: 2008-10-29 01:15 am (UTC)(MEME!)
... I might start reading Saiyuki tonight, actually >>
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Date: 2008-10-29 02:46 am (UTC)OK ....
Go!
:-)
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Date: 2008-10-29 02:52 am (UTC)Also there is a song by a little San Francisco duo called Vermillion Lies called "First The Bees" that your icon totally made me think of. Yay random association!
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Date: 2008-10-29 03:02 am (UTC)BTW - Some thoughts/warnings about Saiyuki .... one, as a femslash fan, you will no doubt note the dearth of female characters (which is not to say that MInekura-san is totally unaware of the concept); two, it takes a while to get up to steam (if you don't love it by vol. 5, though, give up); and three, her drawing style changes radically in the first few volumes, although it starts to settle by vol. 3 and is in good shape by vol. 6 or so. But you won't see the spiffy look that usually shows up in peoples' icons for a while.
Oh, and I really love Rangiku also - but my attempts at immortalizing her in an icons have all failed thus far ... >sigh<
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Date: 2008-10-29 03:35 am (UTC)Ummm ... that's Dr. Hwan (or whatever her name is), not Rasetsunyo, isn't it? I never thought it was Kou's mom.
(And um, shit yes ... good thing her hair's so dark or someone would start insisting that somehow Kanan had survived and turned into a youkai and ended up working for Nii ... . )
Rasetsunyo / Gyokumen / Dr. Hwan
Date: 2008-10-31 04:28 pm (UTC)I'm glad you explained about the mask! Really, so many of the works of modern lit and comics are devoid of nifty symbols. (Did you see emungere's story for my auction win? The connection is, she did symbolic names - and some other stuff - in there.)
Re: Rasetsunyo / Gyokumen / Dr. Hwan
Date: 2008-11-01 01:31 am (UTC)Oddly enough, I was looking at that Hakkai pic last night ... on my saiyuki_time story, macavitykitsune had an icon that sharpeslass was admiring. mac didn't know where it had come from originally, but s0hmam0miji stepped in and said she'd made it, from art on that site! So I've bookmarked it ... I think I was there once before, when you linked the pic of Gojyo with the traditional tattoos.
And you can find some strange things looking up those shibari terms on Google pix ... I didn't quite expect the cutesy cartoon diagram of how to tie yourself up like that!
(EGS doujinshi art .. WAS: Re: Rasetsunyo / Gyokumen / Dr. Hwan)
Date: 2008-11-09 03:28 am (UTC)The pictures are cute/hot, but Hakkai's face is too weak in the jaw and delicate, which goes along with their insistence on 58. I notice they have him just as pale when he's youkai, which isn't canon, but that may have been before that "double exposure" pic came out in SD V - it's much more clear there.
Yeah, that one picture of Hakkai tied up and bleeding and 2 out of 3 limiters gone is kind of whack.
(Sorry this is so late ... I couldn't answer it at work, and I already carried on about how evenings at home have been lately.)
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Date: 2008-10-29 03:25 am (UTC)I've heard a few people say that iconing her is tricky... I cannot use photoshop to save my life, though, so as it is I just have to pester :P
Rangiku = love.
(icons of Rangiku)
Date: 2008-10-30 10:10 pm (UTC)meganb tells me that it's the boobage, but I'm beginning to think it's her hair ... I'll just have to cut heartlessly close to her face. I see that most of yours seem to be from the anime rather than the manga - anime artwork has stronger, more simple linework.
Re: (icons of Rangiku)
Date: 2008-10-31 05:11 am (UTC)This icon, however, is so her~
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Date: 2008-10-29 01:53 am (UTC)(Yuya and Mahiro are over the enemies thing after the first meeting pretty much, though. It only lasts as long as Mahiro is trying to kill Kyo.)
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Date: 2008-10-29 02:55 am (UTC)(Errr, that was my primitive attempt at being un-spoilery, I think.)
Hai, dozo!
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Date: 2008-10-29 02:58 am (UTC)telophase got the third and fifth of those...do you want 2 others?
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Date: 2008-10-29 03:07 am (UTC)Ooohhh noooooes~!
All better?
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Date: 2008-10-29 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-29 05:48 am (UTC)(sorry getting too excited ^_^)
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Date: 2008-10-29 11:25 am (UTC)Here you are!
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-29 11:33 am (UTC)Exactly! Why not??
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Date: 2008-11-02 12:19 am (UTC)I really must read Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.
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Date: 2008-11-02 03:37 am (UTC)Kurosagi has gruesome humor, a sense of justice, and a warm, compassionate heart - a weird mixture that I find really appealing.
And ... here you go!