like a lemming: the icon meme

[stargater]

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four/five (there is more than one version of this meme. let's just say 3-5, you know like a prison sentence) 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. Whoo!



For rithmah:


I just really like the cropping (and how you can see the patch on his arm) and colors for this icon. It's a great profile-ish shot for Jack :D


Mr. Burns poking Homer in the eye and Homer laughing about it... what's more to say?! The Simpsons amuse me so.


Raxacoricofallapatorius! I love this word. It's the home world of the Slitheen and not exactly the easiest name to pronounce. In this particular part, Rose finally said it properly and they were like yay! lol


The man has teh!hair of greatness! Not that it'd probably need any coffee, but I like to think there's some sort of permanent infusion of caffeine going on :P


Bad Wolf was the keyword in the first series that was either heard or seen (in this case a kid spray painted it on the side of the TARDIS) in nearly every episode. It was also the title of the first of the two part finale. It was a series of clues spread across time and space by Rose after absorbing the heart of the TARDIS (and time vortex energy) making sure that she'd lead herself back to the point to destroy the Dalek fleet and save the Doctor. He then took the energy from her before it killed her and put it back but doing so also caused him to regenerate. Bad Wolf was also mentioned a couple times in series 2.





For narniadear:


From the TNG episode The Pegasus when Riker & Troi are preparing for 'Captain Picard Day' and I've always just loved the smile on his face then. Plus it's just so amusing :P


Luke looking up at the twin sunset of Tatooine after his disagreement with Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru about leaving the farm. I love the setting of this scene and the music, it's just beautiful and poignant. As for the text, I'm really not sure where I got that from, I probably heard it somewhere but don't remember now (it's one of my oldest icons) but I thought it fit the mood perfectly.


The Tenth Doctor and his trusty ole' Sonic Screwdriver. Out of all the similar icons I've saw, I love the cropping and colors the most on this one.


From TOS episode The Trouble with Tribbles when Scotty was explaining that he transported the Tribbles to the Klingon ship and said "Where they'll be no tribble at all" and everyone is laughing but Spock looks unimpressed. The text captured it perfectly lol





For faithfulpuppy85:


hahaha this was inspired by a post on gaters.net looooong time ago about 'things you'd never hear on Stargate' and this one cracked me up so much that I had to icon it :P


I don't use this one all that much but sometimes it's just perfect. Teyla wearing hazmat suit but the text is perfect and so fitting for one fearing possible infection of teh!stupid. lol


We all know that he also has teh!hair of awesome and the look on his face so says 'I lol at you hahaha' so of course teh!hair would be mocking as well. I don't use it all that often either but it amuses me too much to get rid of it.


This one amuses me so much too, it's a combination of their facial expressions and the wording. Everyone's 'dream' is pretty normal (you know flying in space, making beautiful music) but Liz's is 'being invisible' and look on her face and everyone's like ... lolz. I have no idea what inspired the creator to do it, but I'm glad they did because it's just too funny.


It's McKay... and he's so Made of Awesome. Nuff said ;)





For starbuck92:


Spock (from the original Star Trek) often said "illogical" when things were, well, not logical (as many things were, he is a Vulcan after all). I love his facial expression here with the exclamation of illogical! because surely he is seeing/hearing something quite illogical.


Zoe, Mal & Jayne from Firefly. I like to think of this as their "big damn heroes" pose, though it's not from the episode where it's actually said. This time they were facing a mob after starting a fight in a bar and were rescued when Serenity (their ship) showed up.


Han & Leia = OTP :D


From Doctor Who, this is the TARDIS (time machine/spaceship) flying through time and space. The icon is fashioned like many other lol-type icons. I also like to think that the TARDIS has quite the sense of humor :P


Converse = teh!win This is actually a screencap from Doctor Who as the Tenth doctor exclusively wears Converse. What better way to save the universe while than wearing a pair of Chucks :D





For trekwriter:


Bill Adama from Battlestar Galactica. This icon makes me laugh so much. His facial expression is perfect for a zomg! icon and the hat is just so random and makes it so much funnier.


Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica. See while they were spending the year on New Caprica, Lee had just a bit too much pie and became quite pudgy. I liked referring to him as marshmallowy!lee. Of course he got back into shape when they realized the Cylons were coming again and pudgy Lee just wasn't going to cut it.


It was determined there were 5 final human model Cylons (4 have been revealed, the final has not yet) that were created. We don't know why or what their purpose is yet though. This icon is made in the Chuck Norris Facts fashion, because he is the man and he could be all 5 frakking Cylons without anyone else's help. He is Chuck Norris after all. :P


Luke looking up at the twin sunset of Tatooine after his disagreement with Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru about leaving the farm. I love the setting of this scene and the music, it's just beautiful and poignant. As for the text, I'm really not sure where I got that from, I probably heard it somewhere but don't remember now (it's one of my oldest icons) but I thought it fit the mood perfectly.


Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Specifically here as he is falling to the fires of Mount Doom after grappling with Frodo to get the Ring. And he also liked to eat fish. The text is actually from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (it's the title of 4th book of the series as well as a quote) as the beginning of a message the Dolphins left as they were leaving Earth because it had been scheduled to be destroyed to make room for hyperspace travel lanes. Merging the two together in this icon worked brilliantly :D





For black_raven_87:


Kara Thrace & Lee Adama from BSG. I was initially drawn to this icon because I really liked the coloring and the cropping. Though now after seeing the premiere episode, I've come to appreciate the text as well because Lee is probably the only one who believes/or is willing to follow Kara after her mysterious absence.


Jadzia Dax from DS9. One of the things I loved about Jadzia was that she was always smiling and her willingness to have fun and be able to make light of certain situations. Here she's grinning at something Sisko said and I really liked their friendship. I also made this, it was one that just sort of happened while I was working on another icon and I liked it so much that I decided to use it :P


Elizabeth Weir from Stargate Atlantis. This icon is one of my very favs. I love the cropping and coloring and how she is sort of just gazing out over things. The text 'imagine' works perfectly because that's just what they were doing in their initial days on Atlantis, imaging all the new stuff and adventure that lie in wait for them.


Luke, Leia & Han from Star Wars: A New Hope. The best trio ever! (sorry, I'll always be biased for Star Wars) ;) I just liked this icon mostly because it had all 3 of them, nice coloring/brush usage and the rebel symbol up top.


This is one of my most favorite Ten screenshots. It's from Tooth and Claw when they first arrive at the Torchwood house and he starts to suspect something might be amiss. I absolutely love the coloring and cropping of it, it's beautiful in it's simplicity. The creator actually made two (I saved them both) and the other one had text that read "I lost a world the other day" which is very Ten and would fit his expression quite well I think. I just preferred the one without any words.

Comments

Mememememe!!

[trekwriter.livejournal.com]

Ta da!

Re: Mememememe!!

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Alrighty, how about these:



:D

Re: Mememememe!!

[faithfulpuppy85.livejournal.com]

Seriously people! Wal-Mart is not that bad :(

[faithfulpuppy85.livejournal.com]

'ello mate! :D

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Here we go:



:D

[rithmah.livejournal.com]

Sweet thanks for letting me know about those. :D

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Indeed :D

[starbuck92.livejournal.com]

Me? :)

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Here we go:



:D

[starbuck92.livejournal.com]

I must have deleted two of the icons you picked because there's blank spaces, LOL. I had to make more room for the icons I'm sure are to come after tonight! For the ones that are still up:

Rocket boy - was made for me by prettypinkdork. She had an icon request post where she said she'd pick an interest and make an icon. She picked Homer Hickham, who is a NASA engineer who built rockets as a kid. See October Sky. :D

Sk8ter boy - I don't make many SGA icons, mostly because there are plenty of other people who do a way better job. But I had to have one relating to Flanigan and his love of skateboards.

Cylon beating heart - ummm... I stole this one from whyoffry, who snagged from...someone that I can't remember right now. It replaced my old Cylon icon of the two Centurions with the little heart in the center of them. 'cause Cylons are LOVE!

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Strange, I see all five. The other two were the 'light my fire' and 'oh, like we're not already going to hell'. *shrugs* ahhh didn't realize you'd replaced that Centurion one, it was cute too! heeh :D

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

I like how the dvd subtitle track for The End of the World didn't put Bad Wolf when it was said, but something entirely different. You could say that it wasn't Bad Wolf, but I'm positive that it was! xP

I is scared :p I don't know what I'd say.

[stargater.livejournal.com]

hehe I'll have to look at that, I've not watched it with subtitles :P I really liked the Bad Wolf references and how they included it as they did, kinda like figuring out a mystery and all :D

So are you wanting to participate in the meme, shall I choose some icons? ;P

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

Indeed ;) It's become a habit of mine, watching stuff with subs if available. Sometimes I do make exceptions, but yeah. :P Me too, and I like that it still popped up after Series 1, I mean it'd have to, but still. I don't remember, do you recall anything in Series 3? :)

*sigh* yes, go aheads. :p

[stargater.livejournal.com]

I don't remember anything of it from season 3 though I do remember reading on a website that in Gridlock when the Doctor borrows the handkerchief from the two Japanese girls that there's supposed to be a poster in the background (in Japanese) that says Bad Wolf but obviously I can't read Japanense so I have no idea if it's true or not lol.

I also read a spoiler awhile back on what the possible keyword/phrase might be for the new season which I think sort of relates to Bad Wolf. If it's true of course :P I'll tell you if you'd like but I didn't want to purposefully spoil you or anything :P

lol, you don't have to do the icon meme if yah don't wanna ;P And you really don't have that many to choose from lol, I think I know most of them but here we go:



:D

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

I believe it, but I've only just now heard about it.

Red Riding Hood right? I remember a post referring to on-location shooting, and one of the dressing rooms was labeled that. If that's not it, fire away. :)

Yeah yeah, just rub it in. ;p Not gonna do it now, but maybe tomorrow. :P and I was wondering whether you'd choose that troughton icon or not.

[stargater.livejournal.com]

hehe yep that's it and I think you read the same thing I did. I like to think it pertains somehow to Bad Wolf. =D

okies no hurry and yes I choose that one because it's one I've liked since the first time I saw you use it :D

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

Yeah possibly. No reason not to :)

10-4 , and yeah I liked it immediately as well.

Thanks :)

[trekwriter.livejournal.com]

Hey I appreciate you filling me in on BG because I've fallen behind with it. :( Also, I LOVE Chuck Norris! Have you read any of his books?

Re: Thanks :)

[stargater.livejournal.com]

No prob :) Ooooh, it's too bad about falling behind in BSG, it's really very good right now! Yay for Chuck! I've never read any of his books, but I like his movies/tv shows :D

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

So she ends up in Atlantis; I watched Lost City tonight, though I see it's a different actress. Anyways, good info thanks. :)

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Yep on both accounts. And your welcome :) I'd be glad to pass on any SG info (un-biased on my feelings about events of course :P) that you might like :D

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

I still would rather not spoil myself, so only watching the show & any possible accidents if they were to occur. :P

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Okies :) I'll make sure if I post anything, it's under a cut so as to not accidentally spoil you :P

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

thanks, though you already seem to have doing that down. :)

[stargater.livejournal.com]

I try :P

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

Do you know why there was a change though?

[stargater.livejournal.com]

The original actress to play Weir (Jessica Steen was her name I think) wasn't able to commit to the series. She was alright but I really came to like Torri Higginson as Weir nearly immediately :P

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

I see; how on earth they were going to end the series with just that two-part slot, I have no idea. :P I suppose they may of intended to do what they are doing now, with possibly more movie-length specials/home video releases; I know it possibly ending had to do with the unknown of it getting picked up. Anyways, yeah she was alright. Let me ask one more thing, will it be weird not watching the two shows simultaneously? I know Atlantis takes off from the SG-1 S8 premiere, right? , so that'll be at least good, getting that first.

[stargater.livejournal.com]

They had thrown around a couple ways of ending it (all of which is preferable to me over how they actually did end it) but yeah I know :P And yes, movie length specials have been a plan since like season 5 so I'm sure they had that in mind.

Nah, you won't have any problem. There are a few references to going-ons in Atlantis in SG-1 but nothing that you have to have been watching to really get or anything. There are several things from Atlantis though that it helps to have watched SG-1, which you have so you're good. As long as you've seen up to the Lost City finale, you'll be fine. Atlantis isn't mentioned in SG-1 as much as SG-1 is in Atlantis.

[black-raven-87.livejournal.com]

oh ok.

I see, makes sense. thanks :)

[stargater.livejournal.com]

Np :)