Now that I am back from my short trip over Easter, I can reply to the meme that I came across in __kali__'s journal.

# Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.

# Make a post (including the meme 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 squee. Whoo!



This doesn't require much of an explanation: I love vintage photography, and I also love god-awful puns, so I chose this as my personal fan-girl icon for posts and comments on my various obsessions in media fandom.



This is a scene from the ITV show Sharpe. There is probably no excuse for the fact that I own the complete boxset with all 15 episodes on DVD. It's full of bad writing and historical mistakes and token women who all want to get into the hero's breeches and, well, lots of shirtless Sean Bean. (Does the latter count as an excuse?)

The first of the aforementioned token women is Teresa "La Aguja" Moreno, a guerilla leader in Napoleonic spain, and, flat characterization aside, I love her to bits. (She's no-nonsense and carries a gun and is a commanding officer and can stand up for herself, and I might have a bit of a One True Character type there.) Sharpe/Teresa is also one of my more or less secret OTPs, but I'd have gleefully watched a whole show about her and her alone. If it had Assumpta Serna as the leading lady and perhaps some decent screenplays. I'm not that picky about the last one, though.



This is another icon that basically explains itself. It reveals my love for things that are awfully twee, but I thought a cute little girl with a heart-shaped balloon would be a good way of expressing happiness or affection.



Doesn't the quote speak for itself? :) It's the one and only proper m/m slash icon in my collection. I will never be a slasher (it's gen first and my het OTPs a close second), but there are some pairings where even I can see the subtext.

In the case of Angel/Spike, the subtext was rapidly becoming text in season 5 of Angel: the Series (nerdy academic NB: indeed so rapidly that I think one could and should illustrate Eve Sedgwick's concept of the homosocial triangle and male homosexuality with episodes like Destiny or The Girl in Question). Some user over at Whedonesque, though, still insisted that Angel and Spike were his (?) heroes and therefore Totally Not Gay until Joss Whedon himself joined the discussion with exactly that comment. Heh.



Speaking of Angel: the Series, that's taken from one of my favourite bits in season one, with Cordelia the would-be actress butchering a part in Ibsen's Doll House. It's a piece of marvellously bad acting and over-the-top melodrama. Hence, this picture is usually used for my more histrionic temper tantrums.