Icon meme

margaret_leigh posted the icon meme.
The LJ Icon meme rules:
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five 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. Woo.


nick, psycho


Nick is my pretty little psychopath. Naomi (nbrooks) made the icon because she (and her muses) adore Nick. He really is a psychopath. We see some of it in Nikolai and more in Niko-Chan (coming soon). The actor in the pic is Aaron Stanford who has been the face of my Nick Muse since I saw X3.


yippii-ki-yay

I saw this on a SW Icon site, up for grabs, so I did. It's a line from Die Hard but in my mind Han says it unironically.

jack-fictional


I made this one.
When Pirates came out, the kids promptly adopted Jack Sparrow as a fictional great-grandfather, despite the fact the pirates are on the Clark side of their dad's family and not the Sparrow. I like this, and use it as my default pirate icon


slash writes itself



The Gaze that Launched a Thousand Fics. Han staring down, Luke staring up, and their last scene together in the movie. I use this icon when I'm writing about slash or SW slash in particular.

zen2 natural bridge


This is one of my "calm and meditative icons." Lanning made a bunch of Zen Fen icons a while back
I use this when I'm being thoughtful. I just think it's pretty.

Plan of attack

April:
Lord Withycombe and the Curse of the Pharaoh's Manicurists
Min 50K, currently 22K
Polish Topaz
edit Emeralds
edit Frosted Hearts

May:
Shell Shocked
Peregrine
etc

June:
Edit Alive on the Inside

July:
Julnowrimo

Deadlines:
May 1, Topaz (EC)
Aug 31, Dark Fairy Tales (CDP)
Sept 30. Ellora's Cavemen (EC)

More Chuck for those who want it

The table held a roasted chicken, stuffing, peas, a salad and sweet potatoes. Seven sat down, realizing it was the first meal he’d had in a real kitchen, at a real table, in over two years. He flinched when the elder Hummingbirds folded their hands and bowed their heads, but noticed Chuck did the same out of respect. He braced but Charles just said a thank-you for the food, and for their safe journey addressed to a generic God. He could handle that.( Read more... )

More Nick

From Alive on the Inside

Lisa shivered at the sight of the posters for the World's Largest Rat! and The Beautiful Body Without Any Head! A Miracle of Science! that they passed. She smiled and blushed at the Hammer Throw, where several of the local football players had taken off their shirts in the September heat and were trying valiantly to ring the bell at the top of the backboard. A tall, very good-looking dark-haired boy rang it and his friends cheered. He handed the four-foot tall purple gorilla to his little blonde girlfriend who wasn't much taller than it was.

“Go do it, Nicky,” she said. “See where you rate.”

Nick left his shirt on and stepped up. He handed over his two quarters to the booth-man and picked up the hammer. He looked at the ratings on the backboard and scowled. “Girl” read the lowest, “pansy” above that, “drag queen” was followed by “light in the loafers." “Gym homo” and “Muscle queer” were near the top. The top, where the bell sat, just read “Super-fag." He didn't want to do this.
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