Fun and Games - The Five Icon Shuffle
Aug. 12th, 2010 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptThe icon game returned for a moment, and I thought it would be fun to play again. So, from syntheid, here’s a set of five to talk about.
This one was crafted by a very talented artist, either on the CRFH!!! boards or the Pocket Otaku boards, whose name/handle escapes me right now, of course. If you look carefully, you’ll find all the letters in my user name are there, in what looks kind of like a lily pad in a swamp. It’s usually a change of pace icon, or for when I’m introspective and talky and it doesn’t fit any of my other icons. It might also be the icon I use if I ever reveal lots of personal data about myself to the blog audience at large.
I think I got this one from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
2dlife or from a picture that he pointed me to. It’s not actually rain - I think it’s a light or cosmic phenomenon, but it looks like rain, and the image on it feels kind of rainy, so I’ll probably use it in situations where rain is the appropriate mood or element. You can probably guess that I don’t actually use all of my icons all that much.
Speaking of an icon without much use - that’s Mo Willems’ Pigeon, flapping his wings excitedly, as one of a set of three Pigeon icons I have. I’m sure that I’ll have reason to use that icon here and there, like I did when the Prop 8 decision was handed down. Perhaps I’m focusing on the wrong things in life, because I don’t usually have call to use that icon lots.
I think I got permission to use this icon from or throughsharkcowsheep, the Reverend behind The Egregious Adventures of the Wom-Wom Coconut, with sidekicks Bat-Radish and Space Durian*. It’s supposed to be Gamera the Turtle, tipsy on spirits but itching for a fight. It gets into the regular rotation when I feel like I want a change from Domo-kun or the trombonist kodoma.
Hey, speaking of! It’s my default icon, the kodoma with the spirit trombone. This particular icon started out as just the regular kodoma with a trombone, drawn as part of a shirt and mimicing Princess Mononoke. It was since spookified and given its eerie music as part of a “Halloweenize my icon” posting on the CRFH!!! boards, transforming the icon immensely and making it that much cooler. There’s also a Winter Holiday version and there was a Red/White Day version created as well. That icon has received the most usage over time than any other, and it still encapsulates me in an effective way, assuming you know how to peel the onion back.
syntheid, here’s a set of five to talk about.This one was crafted by a very talented artist, either on the CRFH!!! boards or the Pocket Otaku boards, whose name/handle escapes me right now, of course. If you look carefully, you’ll find all the letters in my user name are there, in what looks kind of like a lily pad in a swamp. It’s usually a change of pace icon, or for when I’m introspective and talky and it doesn’t fit any of my other icons. It might also be the icon I use if I ever reveal lots of personal data about myself to the blog audience at large.
I think I got this one from
2dlife or from a picture that he pointed me to. It’s not actually rain - I think it’s a light or cosmic phenomenon, but it looks like rain, and the image on it feels kind of rainy, so I’ll probably use it in situations where rain is the appropriate mood or element. You can probably guess that I don’t actually use all of my icons all that much.Speaking of an icon without much use - that’s Mo Willems’ Pigeon, flapping his wings excitedly, as one of a set of three Pigeon icons I have. I’m sure that I’ll have reason to use that icon here and there, like I did when the Prop 8 decision was handed down. Perhaps I’m focusing on the wrong things in life, because I don’t usually have call to use that icon lots.
I think I got permission to use this icon from or through
sharkcowsheep, the Reverend behind The Egregious Adventures of the Wom-Wom Coconut, with sidekicks Bat-Radish and Space Durian*. It’s supposed to be Gamera the Turtle, tipsy on spirits but itching for a fight. It gets into the regular rotation when I feel like I want a change from Domo-kun or the trombonist kodoma. Hey, speaking of! It’s my default icon, the kodoma with the spirit trombone. This particular icon started out as just the regular kodoma with a trombone, drawn as part of a shirt and mimicing Princess Mononoke. It was since spookified and given its eerie music as part of a “Halloweenize my icon” posting on the CRFH!!! boards, transforming the icon immensely and making it that much cooler. There’s also a Winter Holiday version and there was a Red/White Day version created as well. That icon has received the most usage over time than any other, and it still encapsulates me in an effective way, assuming you know how to peel the onion back.
