tree_and_leaf: Cartoon of Pope Gregory and two slave children.  Caption flashes"Non Angli sed Angeli" and "Not angels but Anglicans." (Anglicans not angels)
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1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) 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 glee.


[livejournal.com profile] rivrea gave me:


Showing Charles I, quoting the description of the Cavaliers in 1066 And All That by Sellars and Yeatman, the best parodic history book ever written. I am not, in fact, much of a fan of Charles I (I may be an Anglo-Catholic, but I don't have much time for the cult of Charles King and Martyr, though he's a classic case of 'naught became him in life but the losing of it). However, I do have a great sympathy for doomed loyalties. I don't weep for Bonny Prince Charlie, either, but the fate of the Jacobites does move me, even if I think the House of Stewart, by and large, was a disaster we're better off without. Wrong but Wromantic, in fact. the icon is by [livejournal.com profile] angevin2, who has made a number of good Sellars and Yeatman icons (including the Not Angels but Anglicans one).


The pierced gothic of the Minster at Freiburg, with the sun setting behind it (and the Vogesen). The inhabitants of Freiburg know it as 'the most beautiful tower in Christendom', and I think they might well be right. A memory of a beautiful city and a very happy year - even if the tower is actually hidden behind scaffolding at the moment (I also use it for my more serious religious posts, where the snarky ones don't work...)


Surely this one doesn't need explained? I am an Anglican, and a socialist, and.... well, you've been following my journal. The icon's by [livejournal.com profile] commodorified; I tend to use it for political posts, or ones on Anglicanism (when I'm not using John Keble or Alan-Rickman-as-Slope)


Harriet Walters as Harriet Vane, one of my favourite characters in any medium, because of her honesty, stubborness, and way with a quotation. Also, my life looks pretty much exactly like this at the moment, only with a laptop.


Gene Hunt, in Life on Mars, on spotting-the-bleeding-obvious. I use it for being sarcastic and/ or gloomy about academia, mostly (actually, a worryingly high proportion of my icons are ironic or sarcastic). The icon's by [livejournal.com profile] royaldawn_uk.

Icons!

Date: 2009-04-09 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mk-tortie.livejournal.com
I really like your Freiburg Minster icon... it's very pretty :)

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Date: 2009-04-09 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] izhilzha.livejournal.com
Ooo, shiny.

I can't wait for Life on Mars to come out in my region DVDs.

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Date: 2009-04-09 05:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shoebox2.livejournal.com
Yep, definitely glee-worthy. Especially the last two. :)

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Date: 2009-04-10 09:42 pm (UTC)
grey_gazania: black-and-white photo of a gazania (Default)
From: [personal profile] grey_gazania
I liked your Jersey Girl icon, so I took a gander at your other icons, and I just have to say, your Betsy-Tacy icon is adorable.

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Date: 2009-04-11 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] easter.livejournal.com
Thank you! Betsy-Tacy was a huge part of my childhood. I still go back and read them all at least once a year. I've had "Elizabeth Rae" in the back of my head as a potential future daughter name for years. We'd call her Betsy, of course...

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Date: 2009-04-09 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telperion1.livejournal.com
I'll play... icons!

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Date: 2009-04-09 06:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sally_maria
Icons!

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Date: 2009-04-09 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rivrea.livejournal.com
though he's a classic case of 'naught became him in life but the losing of it

Heh! A sentence that applies to quite a few so-called martyrs for a cause...

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Date: 2009-04-09 09:23 pm (UTC)
grey_gazania: black-and-white photo of a gazania (Default)
From: [personal profile] grey_gazania
Ooh, icons! I'll play.

Also, your "applied bollocks" icon never fails to make me giggle.

F'burg?

Date: 2009-04-11 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wemyss.livejournal.com
Never seen Salisbury, then, have they?

Oh, very well: icons, if you like.

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