Sarlania's Icon Meme

[anteros_lmc]

In reply to sarlania's icon meme.




The rules:
+ Reply to this post (specifically saying you wish to play) and I will pick six of your icons.
+ Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
+ Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
+ This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.

Here are the icon's sarlania picked...

This is Margaret Lockwood in The Wicked Lady, a film so fabulously cheesy you could put it on toast and have it for supper! It also happens to be one of my favourite films :) Lockwood plays the thoroughly unprincipled Lady Barbara Skelton who nicks her best friend's husband before taking up with the notorious highway man Captain Jack, played by the irresistable James Mason. Lady B gets to wear outrageously low cut frocks and to cross dress as a highwayman which is a bit like having your cake an eating it as far as I'm concerned. It's hard to say who makes the sexier highwayman, Lockwood or Mason and the chemistry between them awesome. Sadly the Wicked Lady Barbara comes to a thoroughly bad end, but she has a hell of a lot of fun along the way!

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This is a picture of one of my favourite childhood books The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper Feast by Alan Aldridge published in 1973. I was five when I got this book and it enchants me to this day :) The picture shows three caterpillers going to the ball and their poem begins as follows:

"Esmeralda, Seraphina and Camilla, Each a glad and glorious Caterpillar,
A live mosaic of orange, green and gold, What silks they wear! What bags they hold!"

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Miyamoto Musashi (1584 – 1645). Musashi was a Japanese swordsman and samurai famed for his distinctive two handed fighting style. He was also a Buddhist, an author and a philosopher. Musashi's life is being serialised by artist Takehiko Inoue in the manga series Vagabond. This is a beautiful and deeply thoughtful work and Inoue's art work is extraordinary. I'm a little bit in love with Musashi :)

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This is one of the Lewis chessmen, a large set of 12th century walrus ivory Viking chess pieces found on the island of Lewis in 1831. Every piece is distinct and the quality of the craftmanship is unparalleled. This piece is a pawn in the form of a berserk warrior. Currently the chesspieces are split between the British Museum in London and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Sadly there are none in Museum nan Eilean on Lewis. This icon reminds me of my home on Lewis and also my past career as an archaeologist.

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Captain Basil Hall (1788 - 1844). I adore Basil Hall for his humour and humanity and because he is an inspiring example of a Scottish man o' pairts, or renaissance man. Hall was a Naval captain, explorer, author, political commentator, geologist and a prominent member of Georgian Edinburgh's high society. He was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott and corresponded with Napoleon during his exile on St Helena. And as a midshipman he got into an awful lot of trouble ;)

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This is Horatio the selkie, a one-off icon to go with a story I wrote for the following_sea Kink and Crack Challenge. _likimeya asked for "Archie as a Merman" and I wrote The Selkie and the Merman. In Archie's words "...the selkies, you see, are half-man half-seal. It's said that they can shed their skin and take human form to come ashore to meet their lovers. But the selkie must conceal their sealskin because without it they are doomed to remain on land and can never return to the deep. It's also said that selkie men are darker and more handsome than any mortal men who walk the earth and that they come ashore to seek and to satisfy those that have been betrayed in love." Need I say more? ;)

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Archie Kennedy (1775 - 1802). Okay sarlania didn't actually pick this icon *shakes fist at sarlania* ;) but without Archie I wouldn't be here and I wouldn't have met all you lovely people. So here he is. :)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

Caterpillar icon = happy icon! :) So colourful and sunshiny, it always makes me smile.

Btw, just to get this straight: the mermaid prompt was for the crack part of that meme, it's not actually a kink of mine. :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I've always though the caterpillars would make an amazing tattoo back piece. It's such a gorgeous colourful image. The other plates in the book are stunning too although some of them are much darker than these pretty ladies!

the mermaid prompt was for the crack part of that meme, it's not actually a kink of mine. :D
You sure? ;)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I need to get more icons so I can play.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

You can play by telling us about your swan!

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Ok. My swan is one that I took a picture of, in a park in Brooklyn. The park is a big one with acres of swamp, and reeds, and little streams. It includes an estuary that goes out into salt water. Lots of wild birds, and little hermit crabs, and frogs and things.

The picture of the swan reminds me of how this whole place was before the people came and paved it all.

And it reminds me of the parts of my life where I lived in the country.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful :) And your park sounds like a real oasis in the city.

And it reminds me of the parts of my life where I lived in the country.
I think if you have lived in the country as a child it always says with you and the smallest things can recall it. You carry it with you always. The two icons above are where I spent a lot of time growing up.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Question: Is that the Basil Hall who went looking for Franklin?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Hmmm tbh I don't know! I have read more about Hall's earlier exploits than his later life. It's certainly possible though. If I find out more I shall let you know!

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

This is all very intruiging - and the extra icon just had to be ther of course....and the Selkie Horatio was the idea begind the notebook that a certain 4 year old appropriated - but the tale of The mermaid of Zennor is still on the stocks, as retold by one who heard it from the fishermen of Penzance.

I have plenty of icons but they tend to the predictable so it is as well I am not playing. Might inspire me to make some of the less obvious ones I have in mind however.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you don't want to play?? :) You have several icons in that collection I'd love to know the origins of!

and the extra icon just had to be ther of course
Of course he does. I owe it to Archie for finding all these wonderful people!

The mermaid of Zennor is still on the stocks
Hmmmm it must be quite tricky to put a mermaid in the stocks ;)

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you don't want to play?? :) You have several icons in that collection I'd love to know the origins of!

Ok - how do I go about playing then - you can pick six of mine if you like - :)

and I will try to explain -

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Yay! nodbear is playing! :)

Okay, so tell me about...

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

Will do -but i am struggling to know how I post these icons in my reply - I know ir must be a bit of code but I have not aspired to pictures in a reply yet!