I Can Haz Dreamwidth!

Thank you, oursin!

If and when I get invite codes I'll share the love, so let me know if you want one.

For now, I'm just going to use it as a mirror of this journal - and I'm intertext if anyone wants to find me :)

Icons!

Via oursin

The Rules:


Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.

Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.

Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.

This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

Here are the ones oursin chose for me:

I can't remember where I snagged this originally. It's a very clever animated Escher effect. I don't use it very often, but have used it for posts about creativity or imagination.





This is one of my own photographs taken from the top of the bell tower of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. I use it for posts about Paris or travelling, or to illustrate some complicated thinking (which doesn't happen in my blog all that often!)




This is the Fillyjonk as drawn by Tove Jansson for her Moomin stories and books. Fillyjonks are the suburban housewives of the Moomin world, and sometimes are represented as either rather silly or rather set in their ways. I always liked the one who is featured in "The Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters" - she has big ideas and dreams about life but is afraid to do a lot because she's terrified that something terrible will happen. One day, it does, and she is free to live an adventurous and slightly bohemian life. I think I see quite a bit of myself in there, so I use this icon mostly when writing about domestic things, or when being most kind of middle-aged woman-ish.

I think I got this from coffeeem. What can I say? Skinhead Hamlet! What's not to like :) If I ever teach a Shakespeare course, I shall use it.





Talk about another strange role-model. This is an icon I made myself of the inimitable Miss Jean Brodie as played by Maggie Smith. I use it for posts about teaching. Um... yes, I know she was a fascist and mental and everything, but somehow I identify with her. Maybe it's the idealism, the love of art and poetry (though I'm nowhere near as opinionated). And I, too, am in my Prime.

Dream A Dream!

Here's one for frumpy middle-aged women everywhere. Rock on!!

DREAM

Thanks to sartorias for the link.

Dream a Dream

An appropriate entry for my first post on Dreamwidth.

Here's one for frumpy middle-aged women everywhere. Rock on!!

DREAM

Thanks to sartorias for the link.