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kittydesadeComment on this post. I will choose six userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post your answers (and this explanation of the meme) in your own journal (if you want) so others can play along.
Addendum: Feel free to ask about any of my other icons. Some of them kind of are a little obscure.
Never Deal with a Dragon
The words are a Shadowrun (tabletop roleplaying game) proverb, basically meaning that you should never make a deal with someone who is older, cleverer, and nastier than you. Dragons in Shadowrun have a very bad rep for getting people into way more trouble than they can handle. The picture is Shannyn Sossamon, and I think I spelled that right. I was using her as the face for a character, Astrid, who was a half-dragon. Kind of like a Merry Gentry heroine, but better written.
Waiting for the Night
The lyrics (those are lyrics in tiny text) are from a Depeche Mode song by the same name. The face behind the red is Ville Valo. It turned out nicer this way so I left it. I thought that Waiting for the Night was a very nice and pretty song and appropriate to Glaucon (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
demonbastard) in some moods. I use the icon for similar moods, that are dark but not at all depressed or gloomy.
Write like a Mofo
Because I do.copperbadge made this one year around Nanowrimo time, or used it round that time I don't remember, and I appropriated it. If you don't know that I can write like a mofo when I put my mind to it you haven't been hanging around me long enough.
Finery Not Boots
This may be one of those 'you had to have been there' things. I was watching a tour video for KMFDM and their frontman, Raymond Watts, was being shown off by one of their singers. She said "This is Raymond, who will be wearing his finery..." (i.e. a bright silver vinyl trenchcoat, cowboy hat, other similar ridiculous clothing) and Raymond popped out with "I don't wear finery, baby, I wear BOOTS." In a very pronounced but not thick London accent. And upon saying 'boots' he plonked one of them on a guitar stand (which actually put his leg at slightly greater than 90 degree angle, I was impressed by his balance) to demonstrate his boot. It amused me.
Death on Boats
One day, someone at (I think) the British Museum got the bright idea to promote an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts by floating a giant statue of Anubis down the Thames. I saw the article I think when I was actually logged in as Anubis (antsolutely and cracked right up. active_apathy and I had an extremely random, rambling discussion that somehow ended up (fittingly, for rambling discussions) on the quote of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. A sample passage from the same area as the quote is taken from goes:
"Death is the ultimate not-being. You can't not be on a boat."
"I've frequently not been on boats."
"No no, what you've been is not on boats."
Bob the Sorcerer
There are a lot of essays I've written on the subject of Sorcerers. For simplicity's sake we'll say that a Sorcerer is one of several Jungian/Campbellian archetypes that I've come up with in the last few years. Bob, the character in the icon, is one. An almost textbook case, actually. He's a character in the TV show Dresden Files (and I say TV show because the show Bob and the book Bob are actually two very different characters filling the same purpose. Book-Bob is not a Sorcerer.) and ... well, the text is fairly self explanatory. I made it one day on a whim contemplating Sorcerers, Bob, how Bob came to be a Sorcerer. And the hotness that is Terrence Mann, who plays Bob.
Addendum: Feel free to ask about any of my other icons. Some of them kind of are a little obscure.
The words are a Shadowrun (tabletop roleplaying game) proverb, basically meaning that you should never make a deal with someone who is older, cleverer, and nastier than you. Dragons in Shadowrun have a very bad rep for getting people into way more trouble than they can handle. The picture is Shannyn Sossamon, and I think I spelled that right. I was using her as the face for a character, Astrid, who was a half-dragon. Kind of like a Merry Gentry heroine, but better written.
The lyrics (those are lyrics in tiny text) are from a Depeche Mode song by the same name. The face behind the red is Ville Valo. It turned out nicer this way so I left it. I thought that Waiting for the Night was a very nice and pretty song and appropriate to Glaucon (
demonbastard) in some moods. I use the icon for similar moods, that are dark but not at all depressed or gloomy.Because I do.
copperbadge made this one year around Nanowrimo time, or used it round that time I don't remember, and I appropriated it. If you don't know that I can write like a mofo when I put my mind to it you haven't been hanging around me long enough.This may be one of those 'you had to have been there' things. I was watching a tour video for KMFDM and their frontman, Raymond Watts, was being shown off by one of their singers. She said "This is Raymond, who will be wearing his finery..." (i.e. a bright silver vinyl trenchcoat, cowboy hat, other similar ridiculous clothing) and Raymond popped out with "I don't wear finery, baby, I wear BOOTS." In a very pronounced but not thick London accent. And upon saying 'boots' he plonked one of them on a guitar stand (which actually put his leg at slightly greater than 90 degree angle, I was impressed by his balance) to demonstrate his boot. It amused me.
One day, someone at (I think) the British Museum got the bright idea to promote an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts by floating a giant statue of Anubis down the Thames. I saw the article I think when I was actually logged in as Anubis (
antsolutely and cracked right up. active_apathy and I had an extremely random, rambling discussion that somehow ended up (fittingly, for rambling discussions) on the quote of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. A sample passage from the same area as the quote is taken from goes:"Death is the ultimate not-being. You can't not be on a boat."
"I've frequently not been on boats."
"No no, what you've been is not on boats."
There are a lot of essays I've written on the subject of Sorcerers. For simplicity's sake we'll say that a Sorcerer is one of several Jungian/Campbellian archetypes that I've come up with in the last few years. Bob, the character in the icon, is one. An almost textbook case, actually. He's a character in the TV show Dresden Files (and I say TV show because the show Bob and the book Bob are actually two very different characters filling the same purpose. Book-Bob is not a Sorcerer.) and ... well, the text is fairly self explanatory. I made it one day on a whim contemplating Sorcerers, Bob, how Bob came to be a Sorcerer. And the hotness that is Terrence Mann, who plays Bob.