we'll marry our fortunes together
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ninkasa:• Reply to this post and I will pick six of your icons.
• Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
• Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
• This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.
The image comes from a random google search for pictures of people reading ; I liked her hair, the solid size of her body, and the color interaction between the soft rose tones and the sage green. I also think this one goes particularly well with my eljay layout :) text from Matthew Arnold. It's my generic reading things icon, and my icon for nostalgia and memory.
From the Waterhouse painting of Miranda, with text from Neruda. Miranda's one of my pet characters - I have this reading of "The Tempest" that exposes the tension between Miranda and Caliban as the propagandistic lie that it really is, the black male rapist narrative that both demonizes black men and at the same time deprives white women of any access to their own sexuality. Um. The Neruda because I love him, and because I'm living away from my big water right now, and because like Sam Gamgee the sound of the sea has sunk down deep into my heart, and I can never be free from the longing of it. So the icon as a whole means the sea, and wanting things, and rebellion, and hope, and naivete, and new chances. And Shakespeare.
I'm not entirely content with this icon, but I love the image so much that I've got it in rotation. It's an illustration by Trina Schart Hyman for Snow White, and her illustrations for that book are my favorite pictures in the world. They mean really a lot to me, for some reason. In this, the queen looks oddly like my mother, and she has a kitten!
River! Oh, River, my darling, most pet of all my pet characters! I love River because she deconstructs everything around her, just by being. The text on this one is Leonard Cohen, and I love it, because to me it means something about art, meaning, and complicity - that language is never innocent, to quote the songs. That we change the world around us, for good or for ill, with our art. And also with River, at a character level, because she also cannot help changing he space around herself, and she often doesn't even want to, but every word she speaks breaks open reality.
SamnDean, with text from my beloved Carl Sandburg. Sandburg fits with the Winchesters - often bleak, always workmanlike, plain, simple, and ultimately hopeful even in great weariness. I made this icon thinking about Dean in Hell, about Sam dead in Cold Oak - about just how far these two boys will go for one another, and about how that distance is the most concrete measure of their love.
ninkasa:• Reply to this post and I will pick six of your icons.• Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
• Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
• This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.
The image comes from a random google search for pictures of people reading ; I liked her hair, the solid size of her body, and the color interaction between the soft rose tones and the sage green. I also think this one goes particularly well with my eljay layout :) text from Matthew Arnold. It's my generic reading things icon, and my icon for nostalgia and memory.
From the Waterhouse painting of Miranda, with text from Neruda. Miranda's one of my pet characters - I have this reading of "The Tempest" that exposes the tension between Miranda and Caliban as the propagandistic lie that it really is, the black male rapist narrative that both demonizes black men and at the same time deprives white women of any access to their own sexuality. Um. The Neruda because I love him, and because I'm living away from my big water right now, and because like Sam Gamgee the sound of the sea has sunk down deep into my heart, and I can never be free from the longing of it. So the icon as a whole means the sea, and wanting things, and rebellion, and hope, and naivete, and new chances. And Shakespeare.
I'm not entirely content with this icon, but I love the image so much that I've got it in rotation. It's an illustration by Trina Schart Hyman for Snow White, and her illustrations for that book are my favorite pictures in the world. They mean really a lot to me, for some reason. In this, the queen looks oddly like my mother, and she has a kitten!
River! Oh, River, my darling, most pet of all my pet characters! I love River because she deconstructs everything around her, just by being. The text on this one is Leonard Cohen, and I love it, because to me it means something about art, meaning, and complicity - that language is never innocent, to quote the songs. That we change the world around us, for good or for ill, with our art. And also with River, at a character level, because she also cannot help changing he space around herself, and she often doesn't even want to, but every word she speaks breaks open reality.
SamnDean, with text from my beloved Carl Sandburg. Sandburg fits with the Winchesters - often bleak, always workmanlike, plain, simple, and ultimately hopeful even in great weariness. I made this icon thinking about Dean in Hell, about Sam dead in Cold Oak - about just how far these two boys will go for one another, and about how that distance is the most concrete measure of their love.
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Date: 2008-11-12 02:01 pm (UTC)And commenting for the icon-picking.