rule three, and this is really important: SHOWWWWWERRRR.

[kaigou]

1. Reply that you wish to take part, and I will pick four 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 squee!

recession picked these four:



I don't recall who specifically had this one, but I went off to find the creator & get a copy of my own. It's from Ergo Proxy, and through the middle section of the series, Pino (an AI/robot character) reads her one book over and over, often while trying to drown out the noise of the annoying adult(s) in the background. The personal statement works without knowing the series, though, which is part of why I like it. It's a sort of sulky, pouty kind of disgruntlement, but it's one I use when my disgruntlement is more related to fiction rather than real life.



I found this image when sorting through stock photos for something else, and ended up iconifying it because I wanted an icon that expressed the sentiment "sucks to be you" (or sometimes even, sucks to be me) without being too obstreperous about it. I use this one when there's not really a true emotional investment in the bad news, more of a "them's the breaks" kind of bad/unwelcome/sucky information.



I think this one came from the HP fandom -- not really sure -- or possibly from one of those icon sets made up of random fan/crit comments. But I like it, though I don't use it that often. I mostly use it, I guess, when the discussion is fandom-based, and I'm disgusted not necessarily with someone being stupid, so much as going about something stupidly: a variation on "the premise was good but the execution sucked."



Ahhhhh, this one has its own entire LEGEND.

Every year, a group of us meet up at Akon, in Dallas. Two years ago -- well, three years ago come this summer -- we all went to dinner at the hotel restaurant on the first night of the con. A whole assortment of us, as I recall: sihaya, cosplayeriori, christeos_pir, pixiepilot, flamesword, haya5h1, and am I forgetting anyone? I can't recall, now. (Wasn't zealchan also with us?) Anyway, about halfway through dinner for some reason I had my room card out, and actually bothered to read it. The Adams Mark Hotel had a new advertising campaign and on the top of the card it said something like:

The most fungible guest program ever!

At which point I asked -- and I recall this brought the entire table's conversation to a dead halt -- "Just what the hell is fungible?"

CP's suggestion, I think, was that it sounded like some kind of bad rash. Haya5hi thought it had to do with banking, something about being as liquid as cash, and it was Flamesword who promptly brought out the laptop, declared she could get a signal, and googled it for us. (Of course, while she was going about trying to find the real meaning, the rest of us were riffing horribly off the original suggestions.)

[I still have that room card, incidentally. It even ended up going with me to Australia.]

"Fungible" has become a kind of Akon-related running gag. Cosplays are fungible, jager traditions are fungible, just about anything can be fungible -- it makes for a great word to just toss in at any point. It makes the little fanboys back away from us, almost as well as when two people stand behind a third and hiss, "shun the unbeliever! shun! shun! shunnnnnnnnnnnnnNUH!" Unless, of course, we can coax Duo into standing on a chair and reciting the Akon rant at the top of his lungs in the middle of the artists' gallery.

Comments

[pxcampbell.livejournal.com]

Ha! This is a pernicious meme.

Are you starting it?

I like to know where these things come from.....

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I don't know who recession riffed from, but someone was named... so you'd have to go back further than that. Some of these I think are self-propagating, anyway. ;-)

[pxcampbell.livejournal.com]

Ah -- the first is, of course, Denny Crane from Boston Legal. Shatner plays an aging attorney who claims he's suffering from Alzheimer's or Mad Cow disease. I use the icon when I'm saying something crazy.

The second is from Lord of the Rings. What's her name yells, "I am no man" and whacks the head off that scary dude. You can see that I know my LOTR really well - but I use that icon when I am defending women or women's rights.

The third is the Stanford University logo. I went to graduate school there. I use it when I post about Snodfart.

The fourth is from Practical Magic, and it quotes Sally telling the sheriff that things have power if we believe in them. So, I use that when the ocassion calls for believing in something -- as when I'm writing a post to encourage a fellow scribe to believe in herself.

Thanks for asking!

[cosplayeriori.livejournal.com]

I;ve done this one before...soooo~ if you wanna pick some of mine go for it~ and I'll reply here :3

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Does the prevalence of sea-ha mean future cosplay, or did I miss that one?

[cosplayeriori.livejournal.com]

that anon comment was me by the way..freaking LJ

[hokuton_punch]

I am weak for icon memes. Weeeeeeeeeak. Also I have way too many icons for extra variety. People are always baffled by different ones!

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I rotate through icons, but it's always the ones that I add with a sense of, "man, that's awesome!" that end up being the icons I never actually use. Hunh.

[hokuton_punch]

... and now that I think about it I'm pretty sure I've posted this in my own LJ twice at different times, so I'll just reply here. n.n;;

1. Ahhhhh, Choice - it's a popular one. XD I drew a strange character in a top hat for the hell of it, and liked the inks and general outcome enough to icon it. Decided that as a character it was a demon of Choice that tended to speak in different voices, but haven't done much with it, alas.

2. The lovely bravecows went on a spree making cousin icons for her flist, and I joined in the fun. XD I picked the boring Goth cousin, ah well. I'm still a strange silly thing, so it works!

3. While watching the Last Order OVA, I got a bit fixated on this screenshot of Sephiroth and his sad, sad face, so I wanted to make a bad-day kind of icon out of it. The shark thing is a college group in-joke about all the ridiculous hoops you have to go through to get anywhere in Resident Evil 2, and what the employee complaint box must've been like... "Dear Corporate, today I had to solve three puzzles and use five ancient relics just to get to the break room. And there were sharks."

4. An OC fox-demon character of mine who goes by Chelidon (Greek word for the swallow) and has a penchant for eating people who bother him or his ward Aedon (the nightingale and matching icon with this one). They're sort of inspired by the Procne/Philomela/Tereus myth - sort of. More that Chelidon feels a particular kinship with the story and thus associates himself with it and references it frequently. They don't have a Tereus-hoopoe, but that's probably just as well.

[haya5h1.livejournal.com]

...omg fungible. That reminds me that I need to use it in an article soon.

I wish to take part in the iconish squeedom!!

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall you were the only one with any guess near to the actual meaning (which CP noted I didn't explain here, and I told him, anyone wants to know, they can google it). At some point you need to set aside the Japan trips and look at a Dallas trip instead, babe. Come shun the unbelievers with us!

[pixiepilot.livejournal.com]

.... I have to learn the whole rant? I got one part down, because I EXPERIENCED it at AKon in a very real, and scarring way. It's like being in a FUNK SANDWICH! Can't wait for this year..? XD;