"I could be your guardian, armor tight and weapons drawn, but I have a feeling you're already safe a

[larryhammer]

It's been a while since my last used this tag -- time to check in and see how things are doing in memespace. Via angevin2:

Comment on this post. I'll choose seven userpics from your profile and you'll reply here (or you know, your own journal, whichever), explaining what they mean and why you're using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along. Also, feel free to ask me about my other icons here, as well.

She asked for:

iceland, icon of awe, magic, protection, wonder: As the comment text says, it's a symbol for protection in traditional Icelandic magic, the name of which translates as "helm of awe." I use it for posts/comments about Iceland, that express awe, or plead for protection of some sort.

romance, shopping cart of love: It really is a sign from chain of Icelandic supermarkets (cropped: the woman also has a shopping cart full of love, but I prefer having them share). Used (infrequently) for comments/posts about romance, both the literary genre and the activity, and anything that could have the subject "Can't buy me love."

curlicues, revolutions, spirals, twirls, what tangled tales we weave: Used for "fluff" posts -- though it's been partially superceded by La!, which has taken over the more frivolous ones. The original quote is something like "It comes in revolutions, spirals as it twirls," only that's also wrong, and I can't remember at the moment which U2 song it's from.

fantasy, high fantasy, maps are sexy, worldbuilding: The picture is part of the working map for a medieval romantic fantasy I'm not working on, in part because I'm focusing on contemporary YA romance for now. (Chain mail is sexy also dates from that project.) Used for posts/comments about high fantasy, worldbuilding, craft of writing, cartography, poring over atlases, research, and outlining -- though less now than when I was writing that book.

astronomy, cassini, enceladus is sexy: In my profile, I like to code my interests metonymously: thus, Enceladus, one of the more mysterious moons of Saturn, stands in for astronomy as a whole. Used for posts/comments about astronomy and, sometimes, science -- and even my dark past as an astrophysics grad student.

disappearance, gone, vanished away / completed, done, finished: These two overlap more than a little in my mind, and I'm not always sure which to use. They both signify that something is over, and in theory "softly and suddenly" is over and gone, as in something is behind me, and "like smoke" is completion, as in something has been accomplished. The quote on "softly and suddenly" is, of course, from the end of The Hunting of the Snark.



Yup -- meme still means me! me!

I still wanna hear about about other people's icons, though.

---L.