Meme with meeeee

[lielac]

Won't go on Tumblr, but by god I will emulate the experience

As a 'get to know the blogger' effort, let's play an icon meme!

Instructions:

1. Comment with 2-3 of my icons
2. I will talk about those icons and their descriptions
3. ???
4. Profit!

Meme provided by journalmemes via ladytharen.

Comments

[fibonacci_reminder]

I am curious about your default and your “life’s name” one.

Also, the human in your homestuck avatar is Dave, not John.

[lielac]

3. angry screaming that mistake has been there for half a decade what the fresh flaming hell -fix'd-

1. My default icon is a cropped and lightly edited picture of a lilac from Wikimedia Commons. Probably. I think. Possibly I got it off of Google Images. Anyway, it's a common lilac bunch-of-flowers with a GIMP "cartoonify" effect done to it before it was resized to 100x100. I have taken 8-year-old me's decision to name my Runescape account "Lielac" and run with it far past what 8yo!me probably meant by it.

2. Gosh. I got it off the Young Wizards website back in Fuck I Dunno When In Or Before 2010; it's not there in its original form anymore but I did find a page with a bunch of icons on the Young Wizards website, and bottom of the first column is the icon but as a .gif with a text overlay. It used to be my default icon, actually! Still is on the NaNoWriMo website. Young Wizards was my second fandom after Bionicle, and for a while it was solidly up there as my most active. Thus the thing.

"Life's name" is a quote from the Wizard's Oath, which is the oath wizards take in the YW universe when they agree to be wizards. "In Life’s name and for Life’s sake, I say that I will use the Art for nothing but the service of that Life...."

Oh also, another reason "life's name" is no longer my default icon is that on the Bay 12 Forums (forums of the guy who does Dwarf Fortress) there's a user called PeridexisErrant who has it as their avatar and the only way I will ever stop going "no that's MY icon why are you ME" is if I stop using it. :V Alas I cannot be bothered to change my NaNo avatar and so the weirdness remains.