Icon meme

Icon meme! If you want, leave a comment, I'll pick seven of your icons, and demand that you explain yourself.

apperception wanted to know about these ones:


This is by the fabulous arianadii. Seriously, go check out her artwork. Awhile back, she made a bunch of icons based on her work.

At the time, I was reading Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. If you haven't read it, a large part of the plot has to do with moths and nightmares. Hence, this is frequently my icon for creepy-ass shit, deep thoughts, and steampunk.


Like much of the internet, I can't get enough of panda kindergarten. The best panda kindergarten video is shot on their playground. They don't bother taking turns on the slide; they just sort of bash into each other and bounce off, because they're round little baby pandas. I watched this video repeatedly, mesmerized, because the line between sadistic and cute is often very blurred. Anyway, I asked someone to make me an icon of it, and earthlingmike complied. I use this icon to bump up the cute level of conversations.


This one needs an explanation? Really?

Since the dawn of time, women have had sex with giant tentacled monsters, but the earliest known depictions of tentacle porn can be found in 17th century Japanese netsuke. Tentacle porn was introduced to the West through a 19th century woodcut by Hokusai called The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. Recent years have seen an exponential growth in the quantity, if not the quality, of tentacle porn. With the advent of video streaming, a mass audience can watch two young women do highly inappropriate things with eels. (Don't Google it.)

At any rate, there's always room for it. And you'd be surprised how often it comes up in online forums, so this icon gets quite a bit of use.


Love hurts. I use this icon to show you just how much.


I have no idea from which cartoon this originated, but I stumbled upon the icon while harassing some Christofascist types in christianitysex. It's a black cat playing an organ in Hell, which means that its uses in conversation are practically limitless.


This is one of the first icons I made. The images are from Day of the Dead celebrations, and the quote is from some manifesto by Algerian anarchists, though eerily reminiscent of that scene in The Serpent and the Rainbow where the guy is screaming: "Don't bury me! I'm not dead!"

It applies to a number of topics, most notably zombies and Scandinavian black metal.


I'm pretty straight but once, I sort of fell for this woman. We met at a poetry reading. I looked a lot older than 17 and she looked a lot younger than 35. Anyway, once we found out each other's respective ages, it obviously didn't get romantic, but she took me under her wing and taught me about postmodernism. Since I was an art brat, the first book she loaned me was Foucault's This Is Not a Pipe. We had a little crowd of pretentious types who would gather to drink wine and watch Wim Wenders movies and talk about philosophy. They were, collectively, the coolest people I ever met in Newmarket.

Where was I? Oh yes, Foucault, and Magritte, I suppose. Also, Super Mario Brothers. I love this image, and I now have a t-shirt of it. I use the icon for discussions of philosophy, art, and general dorkiness.

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In other news, would you please check out the completely bizarre new milk ads that have been popping up all over the city?



I have difficulty imagining that they didn't know what they were saying with this. I mean, "Get a load of milk"? It's not just my dirty mind, right?

Icon meme

Icon meme! If you want, leave a comment, I'll pick seven of your icons, and demand that you explain yourself.

apperception wanted to know about these ones:


This is by the fabulous arianadii. Seriously, go check out her artwork. Awhile back, she made a bunch of icons based on her work.

At the time, I was reading Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. If you haven't read it, a large part of the plot has to do with moths and nightmares. Hence, this is frequently my icon for creepy-ass shit, deep thoughts, and steampunk.


Like much of the internet, I can't get enough of panda kindergarten. The best panda kindergarten video is shot on their playground. They don't bother taking turns on the slide; they just sort of bash into each other and bounce off, because they're round little baby pandas. I watched this video repeatedly, mesmerized, because the line between sadistic and cute is often very blurred. Anyway, I asked someone to make me an icon of it, and earthlingmike complied. I use this icon to bump up the cute level of conversations.


This one needs an explanation? Really?

Since the dawn of time, women have had sex with giant tentacled monsters, but the earliest known depictions of tentacle porn can be found in 17th century Japanese netsuke. Tentacle porn was introduced to the West through a 19th century woodcut by Hokusai called The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. Recent years have seen an exponential growth in the quantity, if not the quality, of tentacle porn. With the advent of video streaming, a mass audience can watch two young women do highly inappropriate things with eels. (Don't Google it.)

At any rate, there's always room for it. And you'd be surprised how often it comes up in online forums, so this icon gets quite a bit of use.


Love hurts. I use this icon to show you just how much.


I have no idea from which cartoon this originated, but I stumbled upon the icon while harassing some Christofascist types in christianitysex. It's a black cat playing an organ in Hell, which means that its uses in conversation are practically limitless.


This is one of the first icons I made. The images are from Day of the Dead celebrations, and the quote is from some manifesto by Algerian anarchists, though eerily reminiscent of that scene in The Serpent and the Rainbow where the guy is screaming: "Don't bury me! I'm not dead!"

It applies to a number of topics, most notably zombies and Scandinavian black metal.


I'm pretty straight but once, I sort of fell for this woman. We met at a poetry reading. I looked a lot older than 17 and she looked a lot younger than 35. Anyway, once we found out each other's respective ages, it obviously didn't get romantic, but she took me under her wing and taught me about postmodernism. Since I was an art brat, the first book she loaned me was Foucault's This Is Not a Pipe. We had a little crowd of pretentious types who would gather to drink wine and watch Wim Wenders movies and talk about philosophy. They were, collectively, the coolest people I ever met in Newmarket.

Where was I? Oh yes, Foucault, and Magritte, I suppose. Also, Super Mario Brothers. I love this image, and I now have a t-shirt of it. I use the icon for discussions of philosophy, art, and general dorkiness.

---

In other news, would you please check out the completely bizarre new milk ads that have been popping up all over the city?



I have difficulty imagining that they didn't know what they were saying with this. I mean, "Get a load of milk"? It's not just my dirty mind, right?