icon meme

[fileg]

as we approach the trick or treat icon post, I thought I would try this game from all over my flist:


Go here and choose the following.....

1. One that makes you automatically think of me.
2. One that you think I should TOTALLY use more often.
3. One that you don't get/needs more explanation/you have no idea why the hell I have it.

I'd like to add - what are you surprised I don't have (or have, for that matter)

Comment using an icon of yours that you LOVE, and tell me why

Comments

[droston.livejournal.com]

1.), definitely. You're one of the few people who I can recognize instantly by icon. Usually I'm familiar with them, but you've always had the little brown birdlet, and I love it.

2.) you have so many wonderful icons that I think you should use them all more often. But this one, I think I just found for the first time, and it's so pretty...

basically, anything that's not Lord of the Rings, or directly related, or cephelaPod...but I would desperately like to know more about North and who...North is?

I am surprised that you don't use more of your own icons, because they're terrific.

My icon: I am using it because secretly, it is my favorite icon. This is a secret because I made it before I had any idea what I was doing, and it's fairly artless. But then, it's been around as long as my journal has, and I mysteriously love it to pieces especially if you don't try to see Aragorn's face anywhere but the middle diamond.

Look how much space I've taken D:

[fileg.livejournal.com]

I have cut any number of bird icons, but I really do think of myself as that sparrow.

The book stack lighthouse is newish. Chris found this image on a postcard and bought it for the found tarot. She is using it as an icon, so I didn't, but since she only posts about 4 times a year, I decided I would make one too.

not only do I like the idea that books are a beacon, but when I was 5 and I went for my interview to get into Catholic School, one of the questions they asked me was "what do you want to be when you grow up?" and I answered "a Lighthouse." I took almost fourty years of telling that story before I told it to someone who understood it right away. (It was Robin Williamson, no surprise)


I talked about the cephelapod just above. How many levels can I cram into a single image? Hmmm, will we ever know...

North is --- that question is getting harder to answer since I actually started putting her words on paper. She is my original Arda-verse character, and she has over the years become my alter ego.

She came into being when I was about 15 as what I can now recognize as my method of Mary per-Sueing Faramir (who was clearly available at that time! damn!) but she has become my way to both examine the things about Arda that fascinate me most (I can almost boil this down to - how do races of different life spans manage to coexist, interact and love each other? though there are, as I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear since it's me, numerous side trips. That's why she had to be an elf.)

She is also my way of having a voice inside that universe that lets me examine and speak up about the things I rage about from time to time. Like the Valar, who she has no use for except Ulmo; or class structure among the elves - which is why she needed to be Avari. And to explore how my natural spirituality translates when I land in Arda - and how I feel about deserters.

And she has become my evil twin/sidekick since I have had a livejournal, allowing me to make parenthetical remarks to myself (because, you know, I don't digress enough on my own...)


She has a journal, but it is virtually empty. I keep toying with the idea of getting at least her notes in order and collected where I can let that handful of you in, but there are never enough hours in my day (and my day is pretty long since I often don't sleep if I'm busy)

I never wrote down anything before those poems in Denethor's voice when I first snuck in to HASA - and when I started to write them down, I realized how much who I was at 15 wasn't going to work for the me that's 50. But I never let go of the idea of showing some of the bits that I love, if I can just organize some sort of introduction to her that would stand.

Kortirion has allowed her to pass through some of her arc now, and I am so crazy about the way she comes off there that I am anxious to try the actual writing of some of her story without my young horror of bending canon.



I love your Aragorn icon - it really touches on his mythology --hidden in plain sight, seen and unseen, watching everything, holding the center together.

[kortirion.livejournal.com]

I hope that it's crazy in a good way...? ;)