Icon Meme

[thisbluespirit]

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

persiflage_1picked these for me:

I should say straight off that they were all made by other, very talented people, since I am completely useless at icon-making.



Harry! persiflage_1says I have to explain why I love him. Erm. I'm not sure there are reasons other than it seems to be the inevitable result of watching too much classic Who. (He's he not in any way as stupid or as useless as some people would like to claim. Yes, Doctor, that is you I'm looking at.)



And, of course, a Brigadier icon is also needed. This one is rather fun. Plus, I post largely about my fic and the Brigadier features one way or another in a lot of them. (Sometimes in ways that I'm still apologetic about. He wasn't amused by the whole Pride and Prejudice thing....)




Ditto this. Since over 2008 I wrote 8 or 9 Brig/Liz (or S7 with hints of Brig/Liz) fics, an icon was needed. This perfectly illustrates sleepysheep's point (I think it was) about the fact that it's very hard to take a still from Spearhead with the Brig and Liz that doesn't look shippy out of context. It's the sarky Liz vs unflappable Brig that had me addicted.



I like Eight. I love writing Eight and Charley, although they are currently in at least 3 partly written fics at the moment. I expect I went in search of a nice Eight icon when I posted Anarchist Sprites.



Nice quote from DW. I like nice quotes. There were a lot this icon maker did and it was very hard to choose, but I thought this made a nice general icon. 

 
 

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I ship Liz and the Brig SO hard. And I really need to read more of your Liz- & Brig-centric fics!

And Harry is lovely!

[thisbluespirit]

They are such fun to write. I got so addicted. Basically, there are oddments like Matchmaking and A Matter of Timing that are both little AUs from other people's ideas.

And then there's the whole Season 7 cycle (a story in between each episode. The shippiness varies, but it's there) here) and Only Visiting This Planet which fits between How to Say Goodbye and Unfinished, but is something a bit different).

Did I say insane amount of fic? Because I should have done. It's a bit scary, now that I look back on it. (Oh, and UNIT: Undercover. You can read just part 2, which is Liz and the Brig on a 'date'. Part 1 needs fixing, but I've given up hope. I may have to do something ruthless to it one day). *looks around* Where did persiflage_i go? ;-D

Anyway, thanks for the icons. That was fun. (And you really did go re-read my other story! :-D)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

persiflage_1 went to read - well, I will in a minute! :P

Anyway, thanks for the icons. That was fun.

Glad you had fun!

(And you really did go re-read my other story! :-D)

Well yeah, I said I would!

[thisbluespirit]

I was assuming you didn't want tagging back... ?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Um, well, since I've done the meme twice already, I think probably not - don't want to bore people!

[thisbluespirit]

That's what I assumed. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

I know. I'm all admiration for people who can do lovely icons!! Hang on and I'll be back with 5 for you - I have a feeling you have about 6 million... ;-)

[thisbluespirit]

5 for velvetfascism:

How do you paste any pics into a comment? I still can't do it, no matter how I try, so hopefully you can identify these!

Dalek in the hub
jo grant "you're quite the most infuriating man.."
spooks team (end of the world)
star wars - han solo
dw master

Sorry about that.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Thread jumping to say you use <*img src=url-of-image" /> - just take out the asterisk...

[thisbluespirit]

Ermmm. Me dim. I still don't quite get it. *blushes*

(And I was doing quite nicely with working out some of these lj bits and bobs). :-(

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Okay. Go to the userpics page. Right click on the userpic you want to post. Go to Properties. That will bring up a dialog box and on that is the link/URL of the userpic. Highlight and copy that URL, then paste it into the <*img src> code I gave you. You may find it helpful to open the userpics page in a separate browser window/tab - and I also used notepad to paste the URLs into...

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! I shall give it a try with the next person to take up this offer (assuming someone does). :-D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Welcome...

[clocketpatch]

*dances about* Me! Me! Me! ...though, I don't have a paid account so you won't have much to choose from. I've also always loved that sardonic head tilt the Brig has in her icon. And the Liz/Brig one; you introduced me to that ship, and now when I watch their episodes it's all that I can see. :)

[thisbluespirit]

I may learn how to do this properly, but in the meantime:

Two's looking at you
Miffed Giles
Four
The Brig sez...
Don't show my parents...

(And I don't have a paid account either.) :-D

[thisbluespirit]

And the Liz/Brig one; you introduced me to that ship, and now when I watch their episodes it's all that I can see. :)

It's not my fault!! It wasn't me what started it!! Although to be honest, I thought it for a long time before I found other people to encourage me. :lol:

[belantana.livejournal.com]

I love the "fab gear" one myself, so I'm glad you used that as your 'sixth' icon! (And I'll be passing on this one seeing as I only have a basic account...)

[thisbluespirit]

Are you sure? Because I only have a basic account, too - all the above icons are made by other people - I am fascinated by your icons, and persiflage_1 has just instructed me how to post the pics into a comment.

But only if you want to! ;-)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

You have a plus account - 15 icons to choose from - a basic account has only 6. Haha, thanks, but really, all I'd write about them is "this is a fractal. I like fractals" and "this is a lantana. I like lantanas". There, done! :) :)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh? I assumed whatever I had was the lowest you could get; it was free!! My ignorance, there's no end to it...

Well, thank you. You like fractals and lantanas. (I rather like your icons, anyway). :-D

[belantana.livejournal.com]

That's what lj wants you to think & they go to great lengths to hide it - if you downgrade to a basic account there aren't any ads. Oh, I also love that one of you being a poser! sweet :)

[thisbluespirit]

Ah. However, I am shallow and would find it hard to part with 9 of these lovely icons!!

Heh. Thanks. It was one of my first icons, when I was very very worried about what you did on LJ and thought i'd better have one that was definitely mine. (I was posing in my first school uniform for my Grandparents, so rather a while ago... :lol:) Then I learnt exactly what 'crediting' meant and I could safely use the brilliant DW icons made by far more talented types!