schmerica. icons far as the eye can see (Reply)

Wow, the computer cooperated long enough for me to type up my icon explanations! Yay!

keywords: 2004

daughtershade made a bunch of themed icons for the regular #discourse folks, all ending with "since 2004">. Mine is, obviously, based on my massive pleading for ds threesome fic earlier in the summer. I don't actually use this one much -- I don't really post about threesomes very often -- but it's still darling.

keywords: alan cumming

Made by

thete1 so far back now I can't quite remember the date. Sometime in late 2002 or early 2003, I believe. It's easily the icon I've had the longest without ever switching it out. Mmmmmmm, Alan.

keywords: benton fraser

My self-made ones are divided into the ones I like and the ones that kind of suck. This is one of the ones I like -- Fraser black and white and far away seeming, against the lovely screencap from Odds, and the name small and bright. (This icon, like all my ds ones, was made using screencaps from http://callumkeithrennie.net.)

keywords: books

fox1013 made this for me when we were working on starting a booklog together. The booklog fell apart, but I still post often enough about reading to make this worthwhile. Plus, it combines three loves for me: books, Edward Gorey, and Fox.

keywords: boot

Another self-made one, screencap from "Bird in the Hand." I had to edit out Gerrard's chest to make a usable icon, so it doesn't have quite the same hotness impact as that, but it still does my heart good. So much good.

keywords: breakfast club

liviapenn icon! One of many, actually. This was from the set of Breakfast Club ones she made after she finally saw the movie, 20 years after the rest of the world. I don't use this hardly at all, but when I do, it's just *perfectly* apt.

keywords: callum keith rennie

This icon was a gift from

sathinks -- I had mentioned in my livejournal that I really needed a non-due South CKR icon, and she left this one for me in a comment. Oh, the hotness.

keywords: clark kent, smallville

I have not used this icon in I don't know *how* long, but I can't quite bring myself to get rid of it. These are my roots, man! My wonderful crazy-ass first fandom of joy and PAIN! Plus, you know, he still is *very* pretty, even if he's no longer my woobie. Made, again, by

liviapenn

keywords: college

Birthday present from

sprkid. Really, you can never have too much Alan.

keywords: crazy space incest

...Look, I don't need to explain myself to you all, all right? Nyah. *snugs her most fucked-up twisted pairing close* A few of you understand it, I know, and I love you for it.

taraljc made this last spring, I think, when I was really getting into firefly -- it might be part of a matched set.

keywords: dan rydell

Dan is teh pretty. I love him a lot.

scrunchy made this one, and I hold it close.

keywords: due south

FRANNIE! *heart* Vault is probably my favorite Frannie episode, actually.

fox1013 made this one on my poky and specific instructions. My general due South one just for the hell of it, more than anything else. Also because I have another Frannie one under "francesca vecchio".

keywords: edward gorey

I was complaining

dammitcarl, I think, about how I couldn't manage to turn any of the Gashlycrumb Tinies into an icon for myself. This obviously shows just how much more brilliant than me she is. The choice of Tiny is not due to an antipathy towards people named Kate, but rather my amusement at bloody children's book violence.

keywords: femslash

Another Smallville one, except this one I actually still use. It's my general "femslash" icon, because ... girls, touching. Gayly. I was one of the few people who really dug that episode, too, I believe. Made by

jess79 during the middle of some kerfuffle about slash being bad characterization -- on BBF, maybe?

keywords: firefly

Another self-made one I like. Kaylee staring after Inara and her glamorous female bedmate in War Stories. Mmmmmmm, canonical girlsex.

keywords: francesca vecchio

A self-made one I don't like as much, but the love of Frannie almost makes up for it. Also, the Frannie/Turnbull subplot in "Mountie Sings the Blues" is so cute it fucking hurts.

keywords: fraser window

My favorite icon I have ever made for myself. I'm not sure what I did or how it turned out like this, but I love it. Fraser, in case you have never met me before, is my fucking woobie. God.

keyword: geek

Because he is, and I am, and I love Ray-with-glasses, and I love this bit of "Eclipse". Self made.

keywords: girly

Slod-icon! General, non-fannish, and purty.

keywords: ian mckellen

Another

slodwick creation. Ian McKellen is my superhot old gay boyfriend. And here? He's scruffy.

keywords: inara

It took the dvds of Firefly for me to start digging Inara, but the love came soon enough. I love this scene from "Trash", and this expression is perfect for my general "SQUEE" moments. Self-made.

keywords: joan girardi

Self-made. Two things here: first, my pressing need to have a general "Joan of Arcadia" icon, because it's an awesome show and I was talking about a lot. And then there's the bit where it's a stupid joke on my part based on the layers of some comment of

harriet_spy's about my love for sullen teenage boys, a Lindsay Weir icon I used to have on that theme ("not *just*", etc), and then this one. Also, sometimes I feel sullen.

keywords: katharine hepburn

Once my computer started playing dvds, I looked forward very very much to screencaps of Lion in Winter to make a kick-ass Eleanor of Aquitaine icon. But then my computer foiled my plans, time and again. This was a present in my comments from some very kindly anonymous folk. I don't use it as much as I'd like, actually.

keywords: keira knightley

Keira Knightley is kind of my number one girlcrush. I snatched this from

jess79's pretty Bend It Like Beckham set; it was my default for quite a long tmie.

keywords: keira hee

Made for me by darling

sprkid. Look, pretty!

keywords: keira laugh

Made for me by another anonymous commenter. I don't know if people just figure Keira is a safe bet for me, but I don't mind at all. *pets it*

keywords: kim kelly is my friend

A self-made one that I really don't like at all. It's more of a holding place till I get a better one, actually.

keywords: maggie gyllenhaal

Eeeeeee, I love this icon *so much*. Made by

blunaris just a couple weeks ago -- it's Maggie Gyllenhaal being gorgeous and 50s-y and collegiate and just, I *love* this icon. Thus the defaultness.

keywords: margo tenenbaum

I have much love for the Royal Tenenbaums, as well as Margo Tenenbaum. Plus, it's just pretty. By

jess79.

keywords: monkey drinking coke

This one I've had for quite a long time. It combines, though, two wonderful things: monkeys and Coke. Seriously, how does it get better than that? Made by

katemonkey.

keywords: nutty muse

Another Slodicon. Pretty and bright and quirky, and quite nice for general writing posts.

keywords: otp

fox1013 +

pearl_o = BFF! Or something to that effect, anyway.

keywords: pearl-o

A birthday present from

scrunchy. It's clever and Simpsons-y and all about *me*! Is it any wonder I love?

keywords: princess bride

Self-made. I ... really don't have an excuse for this, I don't think. Still, it makes me giggle.

keywords: ray kowalski

My first due South icon, from when I finally gave in to the obsession and poked

liviapenn for something pretty.

keywords: school

My newest icon! Made by the glorious

slodwick, right in time for my return to college.

keywords: sesame street

Um. Yes. This is an elaborate inside joke that is funny to no one else but me. Basically, I babysitted all last fall, and watched a lot of Sesame Street, and the little film about the singing Inuit girl and her winter clothes made me think of Fraser and giggle. So I poked

liviapenn for yet another icon, and I love it and cherish it despite everyone else's lack of caring.

keywords: six point four

silverakira left me this in her comments to my RayK/Frannie story "Six Point Four Ounces" for absolutely no reason. This is one of many reasons silverakira is pretty fucking cool.

keywords: sleater-kinney

Self-made. S-K rock my socks hardcore, yo. I'm not sure I quite post about music enough to need a seperate icon, but it comes in handy anyway.

keywords: sports night

Self-made. The caption is a quote from "Shoe Money Tonight", which is also where the cap is taken from. It reminds me why I love that episode, why I love Natalie in general, and most of all, how much I love the damn show. "Comeback" is one of those words I always associate with SN, anyway.