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[tree_and_leaf]

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.

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 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 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 royaldawn_uk.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Icons!

[tree_and_leaf]

Icons!

[mk-tortie.livejournal.com]

I really like your Freiburg Minster icon... it's very pretty :)

Re: Icons!

[tree_and_leaf]

Thank you! I'm fond of it myself.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Ooo, shiny.

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

[tree_and_leaf]

LoM is brilliant!

[shoebox2.livejournal.com]

Yep, definitely glee-worthy. Especially the last two. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

[easter.livejournal.com]

Icons!

[tree_and_leaf]

[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.

[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...

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

I'll play... icons!

[tree_and_leaf]

[sally_maria]

Icons!

[tree_and_leaf]

(I really love the last one...)

[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...

[tree_and_leaf]

Poor Charles. He was a brave man and apparently a decent one. Unfortunately, he was also utter pants at being king, and the whole thing was almost entirely his own fault... (Or, to quote my parish priest - who was speaking from the pulpit, with a picture of Charles regarding him mournfully from the wall - 'Let's face it, he was a martyr to his own stupidity.')

[grey_gazania]

Ooh, icons! I'll play.

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

Here you go!

[tree_and_leaf]

I love your keywords, by the way!

F'burg?

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

Never seen Salisbury, then, have they?

Oh, very well: icons, if you like.

Re: F'burg?

[tree_and_leaf]

Objectively, I admit that Salisbury is as good, though of a different style; subjectively, having lived in Freiburg and, on occasion, worshiped at the Minster, I feel obliged to give them the palm...