Icon squee

[altivo]

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your userpics.
2. Make a post 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.

These are the ones aerofox picked for me:

This one is, of course, THE Altivo whose name I stole. From the Dreamworks animated film, The Road to El Dorado, in which he upstages both his human costars. Actually, the name is a Spanish name almost as typical for a stallion as "Rover" or "Fido" might be for a dog. It means "proud" or "elevated" (or "conceited" but we won't talk about that.) I still love the original character, though I don't usually RP his sort of personality. I use this icon particularly for "Oh Really?" kinds of comments or posts.

The next one is from a commissioned drawing by Kaijima Frostfang, and shows me as an inflatable toy. The original drawing is much larger and also features goldenstallion as an inflatable pegasus, since he and I were long time playmates on Tapestries. I use this one when I'm being pompous or preachy, in case you hadn't noticed. ;p

I made this one by doctoring up an actual photo of an angry Clydesdale. The original appeared on the cover of one of my horse training magazines, and had a lot of text plastered all over it, so I unplastered it with The GIMP (open source program similar to Photoshop.) The meaning is obvious, I hope: rage, great irritation, vengefulness. I don't use it a lot, but when I do, I mean it.

Gift art from miktar, who, sadly, has abandoned both his LJ and his FA accounts. He's a good artist, a good writer, and a good dragotaur whom I am proud to call a friend, at least in the electronic sense. I hope to meet him in person some day. I use this one when I'm feeling old and greymuzzly, but I'm actually quite fond of it. I think it captures me in many different senses.

This one and another one depict me as a plush toy, which is an aspect I've been known to RP at times. I'm not always a passive person, but I can be. As it happens, this photo was a replacement provided by songcoyote for a less attractive version I had been using. It's special to me because it was a gift, but it also represents mirth and gentle amusement. I guess the rockers look like smiles to me or something silly like that.

Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

I don't know why or how, but I initially read "conceited" as "constipated" - I wonder what that says about me. :P

Anyhow, very interesting! ^^

Only five?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Canis! You have a lot of them to choose from. OK, here are five I haven't seen you use that make me curious.







(The last one is snipped from the full size image I just happen to have as a backdrop on both my home and my work machines.)

Re: Only five?

[schnee.livejournal.com]

The first one's a "sock" icon that archadia drew for me. I don't really use it, though, to be honest - I don't usually post about socks anymore, among other things, so it just doesn't see any real use. Ah well. :)

The second's an icon from a trend of sorts that once existed (a minor one, admittedly); I occasionally use it when I'm feeling really good, but it's been mostly replaced by this one these days. Maybe I should dig it out again some time, though. :)

The third one's from another trend - I mostly use that one for posts that are both silly *and* sex-related, but of course, needless to say, there aren't too many of that. ^.^

The fourth one's just a crop from an arctic wolf picture; I uploaded it, but never really used it at all as far as I recall. I probably would if the picture had been taken in sunlight rather than in the shade (as it apparently has), though; I'm not particularly fond of it right now just because the wolves' coats look so grey.

And the last one's from a raytraced picture, of course, as you not(ic)ed. It's one I use when I'm feeling sad/blue/depressed, although it does not signify quite as much sadness as this icon does.

Re: Only five?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The oddest thing about that last picture isn't visible in the icon. It's the shrub with blue flowers growing in the dim light, which just makes no botanical sense. ;p

Thanks for the commentary.

Re: Only five?

[schnee.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)

Hmmm, interesting - do you have a link to the original version handy, perchance?

Re: Only five?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'll try to find it. If not, I can upload it.

Re: Only five?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

This is where I got it:

http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/1226

Re: Only five?

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)