Stolen from mistressrenet

[40cakes]

I love looking at people's icons, but I don't always *get* them - I often wonder stuff like, "Who's that guy?" or "Where's that quote from?" but I tend not to ask, for various reasons. So come on, here are my icons. Pick one (or more!) you're curious about, and I'll try to explain it. Or at least explain what I like about it.

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[cheekybaby.livejournal.com]

The cat licking the moon, 'cause it says "Don't ask." :)

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

XD It's licking a banana!

When I used to visit Stileproject.com, I picked up a picture of a cat making that awful face. I was bored and in an icon-making mood one night, so I tried to figure out what sort of icon I could make from it. Then the thought process connected to "It looks like it's licking something," to "It should lick the banana from Don Hertzfeldt's 'Rejected'!" (which, btw, is a fantastic animated short)

See, that's why you shouldn't ask. Because the real story is boring.

Um, that's my cat, and one day an animated banana wandered into the house and I snapped a quick picture of the cat eating it.

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[k-diddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Explain plz, kthnx.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, I decided I needed a fun wacky Coupling icon (Coupling being a funny britcom). The only good picture I had of a character I liked was Jeff.

A few weeks or so before, I had visited irenak and watched Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill. One of the bits of his schtick was talking about religions and...well, an excerpt:

And then the Romans came along with their gods that they had borrowed from the Greeks. They invaded Greece and conquered them and – and stole all their gods…and renamed them with Roman names. Cause the Roman gods before that were kind of crap, you know – Jeff, the god of biscuits. And Simon, the god of hairdos. And uh, you know, they had the god of war, the god of thunder, the god of running around and jumping and stuff and uh, “Oh, let’s get some of those! Thank God they’ve got some gods, cause we have these crap gods, you know…”

The quote came back and the two things just meshed in my head.

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[jaina.livejournal.com]

Casey vs. Cone!

(Yes, I know the story. I just like hearing it.)

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Don't make me repeat myself, wench!

We were at...Otakon? Yeah, because it was the sports game that lost our parking spot. The hotel lot was full, and we had returned from an unfruitful mall search for DDR. We drove around and around, looking for a place to park, and happened upon a seedy little underground place that had spaces. Once we got inside, we found the level with open spots had NO LIGHTS inside. NONE. This place was the perfect set for a rape/mugging/murder scene in a Lifetime movie.

So we're looking for a spot, and there's one that has an orange cone in the way. Declaring war on the orange cone, because dammit, we need a spot, I get out of arafel's car, leap at the cone, and gleefully kick it out of the way. Then I kicked it again, and threw up my arms in victory as if I had just trounced an extremely large, threatening cone.

I hear the cone's family has a reward out for my arrest, which is why I try to lay low in Baltimore now.

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[andmydog.livejournal.com]

The ballgown "And she wasn't even there" one. It's puuuurty... but I don' get it.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I don't have credit for making that one. I even forgot who did, but it's in the comments or something. The dress is Anthy's, the Rose Bride, from Revolutionary Girl Utena, which is an amazing anime with lots of "whuh?" moments, that being one of the final ones. Thus, I don't want to say too much so ye not be spoiled. But I found it really pretty and cool-looking too, so I stoleded it. I tend to use it on strange or whimsy posts or when another icon just don't fit none.

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[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

ISP Maraca. The hell does that stand for?

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Hee. From Queen of Wands, which has recently ended, but is now in repeats with writer commentary, which I think is a neat, if not egocentric, idea. Kudos to aeire. It was a one-shot strip, in which Kestrel (red-head) received the new AOL 9.0 cd in a shiny tin, and was poking at it to see if it transformed (the joke being that if the hype is to be believed, AOL 9.0 must be so wonderful and amazing and stupendous that surely it's more than just an internet provider and web browser! And the metal packaging! That HAS to do something!). In the last frame, we see her just shaking the tin, shouting "ISP MARACA!" and rattling away. I needed a fun fun happy hooray icon, and her expression is just so pricelessly gleeful, it worked. I used to have a ton of QoW icons that I've phased out for one reason or another, but this one has staying power.

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[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I knew it was from Queen of Wands, but I'd never seen that strip (I should check out the repeats, it's funny). That's really funny.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Here's the actual strip:

http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20031121.html

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