Icon meme!
6 Feb 2019 18:06How 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.
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naye, who asked about:
My default icon! I used to have a completely different default icon, actually, but I wanted to reinvent myself. As for where this icon came from, well, in 2016 I started modding![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
space_swap and needed a mod icon. My original icon for that was the Earthrise photo icon shown below, but I then decided I wanted something more jaunty – and edited a dinky hat onto a photo of the Horsehead Nebula I found:
Earthrise icon and current Space Swap mod icon.
The Space Mod icon had served me for years when I was in the midst of my icon identity crisis, so something based on that was the natural choice. I edited the colors to make it harmonize more with my theme, and slapped on a different hat. It's better than the previous one, though I'm still not quite convinced about it always. (After all, it's pink.)
( vagueish spoilers for Nirvana in Fire )
Yoko Tsuno is a French comic book series by Roger Leloup, about the titular Japanese-Chinese electrical engineer Yoko Tsuno and her adventures in Europe, China, and outer space (plus elsewhere, but mostly those three). Wherever she goes, she befriends at least one of the locals; the other person featured in the icon is the blue-skinned space alien Khâny, whose people have lived beneath the Earth's surface in exile for millennia.(This is the point where I realize the Guardian parallels. Leader of alien species who live under ground develops a relationship with nonhostile surface person who helps leader deal with power struggles! Khâny even has a twin...) The series features lots of female friendships and is built on Yoko's attitude of trying to figure out how weird stuff runs, rather than being baffled by it all. It was very formative for young me, with its excellent sense of wonder, Yoko being a good friend to everyone, the spirit of cooperation, and Yoko's ability to save the day, whether by talking or jiu-jitsu. Roger Leloup's nigh-photorealistic backgrounds are very appealing as well!
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naye, who asked about:My default icon! I used to have a completely different default icon, actually, but I wanted to reinvent myself. As for where this icon came from, well, in 2016 I started modding
space_swap and needed a mod icon. My original icon for that was the Earthrise photo icon shown below, but I then decided I wanted something more jaunty – and edited a dinky hat onto a photo of the Horsehead Nebula I found:Earthrise icon and current Space Swap mod icon.
The Space Mod icon had served me for years when I was in the midst of my icon identity crisis, so something based on that was the natural choice. I edited the colors to make it harmonize more with my theme, and slapped on a different hat. It's better than the previous one, though I'm still not quite convinced about it always. (After all, it's pink.)
( vagueish spoilers for Nirvana in Fire )
Yoko Tsuno is a French comic book series by Roger Leloup, about the titular Japanese-Chinese electrical engineer Yoko Tsuno and her adventures in Europe, China, and outer space (plus elsewhere, but mostly those three). Wherever she goes, she befriends at least one of the locals; the other person featured in the icon is the blue-skinned space alien Khâny, whose people have lived beneath the Earth's surface in exile for millennia.
