Userpics Meme

[tealin]

Dinner break means it's time once again for Farting Around on the Internet!

Today's installment of Farting Around on the Internet comes to you in the form of the Userpic Meme, which I am miming from Copperbadge, who is currently in the midst of a hacker crisis. With this meme I salute you! May the gods smile upon you and bring defeat to the Russian hacker poets!

Instructions (as best I remember them): Post an assortment of your userpics. If you have more than 20, post every other one. If you have more than 50, post every fifth one. Give the background for each of them.

I only have six, as I am a Basic user. (Basic Pride!) If I had more, the difference would probably be made up with Dr Horrible, so be grateful.

	Default - I'd always intended to do a portrait for my icon but didn't have any ideas at first, so I grabbed a snippet of what had been my desktop image as a placeholder until I came up with something. Three years later, during downtime on my first actual animation job, I drew this. I've always really liked how Mignola handles portraits so I thought I'd try one myself.
	Cheese - Back in 2006 I found solace in the TV adaptation of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen which I'd listen to while working, often several times a day. It was like drugs. I was introduced to Cheese at about the same time, and he seemed to personify my compulsive fixation on Copenhagen.
	Nerd - When I first visited Disney they had dressed up the Atlantis workspace to look like a museum, with a sepia portrait of each character and display case of props relating to them, which had me hooked instantly.* This was Milo's picture. I AM Milo (Act I Milo, anyway) so with this picture's nerdy backstory, what better way to signify a particularly obsessive or esoteric entry?
	Stress - Before Copenhagen, my comfort movie was Master and Commander, because there's nothing like the hardships of life at sea and beloved characters dying in battle to raise one's spirits. I particularly identified with Hollom at the time, for various reasons. This screencap is from one of the deleted scenes.
	Introspect - A screencap from Copenhagen, edited to fit into a square, this is Heisenberg seeing himself in the mirror from across the room. I use it on introspective posts, which I try to avoid, and tend to be friends-locked when they do appear.
	Catharsis - I am a catharsis junkie. Really, it says it all right there. I am extremely emotionally detached in real life so anything that can put me through the vicarious emotional wringer I will return to again and again like a crazed addict. Hit me up with some more of those feelings, man ... ahhhahahah, yeeaaaah.

*The Atlantis Hallway ended up being at least five times cooler than the movie itself. O, for a time machine.

Comments

[keyake.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way with Feelings. Appropriate to reply, I think, because I just watched the only one of the Dr Who episodes that is guaranteed, 100%, to make me weep like a teething baby.

I friended you because my roommate linked me to your eyeliner-batman comic (because I'd been ranting about it) and I loved it. As an illustrator and fellow nerd-catharsis-junkie (how many times have I seen that episode, I wonder... eek) I salute thee!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this ... sometimes I wonder if it's something I ought to be worried about, but then I listen to some Sherlock Holmes radio plays and feel immensely vindicated. :)

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

There are at least three of us then. I'm usually hiding my emotional weirdness behind an annoyingly cheerful disposition. Seriously, I never cry at movies that are *supposed* to be sad so scenarioes of the kind "Little Katie have been in a coma for over a year and life support os about to be shut off. The family are gathered around her bed to say the final goodbye's and her successful businessman father are lamenting not having spent more time while she was around. Then as the plugs are pulled little Katie opens her eyes and tells her father that she forgives him, she knowns he worked hard for his family's sake, and that now he knows how fragile life is so he can be a better dad to her little sister. The she *DIES*", they don't do it for me. It's like somebody holds up a big cardboard poster saying "IZ SAD: CRY NAO!" I prefer being taken by surprise, like I've been with several episodes of Dalziel and Pascoe, which is not a sentimental show at all.

But no cute animals suffering please. The waterworks are a bit leaky around animals.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh good, another one! We can hang out and be borderline unacceptably callous together! :D

For some reason the only thing that can make me cry, without fail, every single time I watch it, is the Firebird sequence in Fantasia 2000. I do not know why. It's like it has some secret knowledge of how to flick a switch in my brain that I didn't even know was there. But I rather perversely enjoy tragedy as long as it's authentically heartwrenching.

[(Anonymous)]

not just the firebird sequence, every time-EVERY TIME-I hear the finale, ... bam. Tears. It's ... embarassing. But it's the reason I'm going into music. And it was the Fantasia sequence that started it all. "Hey, I want to do that for other people--I want to make them CRY!"
Shoot, I should just make an LJ account so you can like, associate an avatar with these posts, ha, I do it often enough...

[karwei.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember that a while ago you had an avatar that I could never figure out what it was. Know what I'm taking about?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That was probably the placeholder that lasted for three years. It came from this painting (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=10733) – he's the kid under the tree on the far right. He's probably supposed to be just a kid with a monkey or something but I thought he looked like he was wearing a fireman's helmet and had a TV camera on his shoulder, which was delightfully anachronistic and absurd, hence the iconnage.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Just edited the entry to include the link, because I'm sure you're not the only one.

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

I'd do this, but how do you post the images of your user icons?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Go to your userpics page, right click on the image and select 'copy image location' or similar phrase from the menu. This will copy the url to your clipboard. In the post you type [img src="paste url here"] but swap the square brackets for these things: < and > . Tadaa!

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. I've been wondering about the "I like COPENHAGEN" one for a while now.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Ah, it all makes sense now...;)

People tell me I'm emotionally detached...actually, they tell me I never share my feelings, which I think stems directly from being emotionally detached. Which, upon further thought, probably stems directly from being mildly autistic. That and the fact that I never know how I feel about anything.