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wiggiemomsi .
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six 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.
I love this icon. It's very Five. When anyone else would be swearing their hats off, he simply gets rather terse and snide. And the language used - 'expletives' as opposed to 'swearwords,' for example - is very him. Five is one of my three favorite Doctors, so this icon win to me. The coloring is very nice, too.
This icon shows a clip from bloopers and outtakes from the Series Two box set of New Doctor Who. I though it was funny when I first watched it, and the idea of 'doing the Cyberman' as a dance, as captioned, is funny.
Here we have the fantastic Susan Sto Helit from the Discworld series. She's the granddaughter of Death, a duchess - and a severe and sensible governess usually drawn wearing Victorian-era dress. Black, of course.
Susan is one of my favorite fictional characters ever. We first see her in
Soul Music, I think it is, as a confused young schoolgirl who finds herself plucked from boarding school to fill in for Death when he goes AWOL. She doesn't really understand people, and she's fiercely analytical and intelligent; and yet she's going through the bewildeirng hormonal world of puberty, and has just found out her grandfather is a skeletal anthropomorphic personification of Death, which totally messes up her ideas of reality. She's a jumbled-up mess of humanity, emotions and perceptions, and the side she inherited from her grandfather, cold and unempathetic and logical.
Later, in Hogfather, she's grown up and working as a governess, very practical and competent. She still doesn't relate to other people, really, but she's come into herself, and her personality is as strong and piercing as a rapier. She reluctantly helps Death out with a problem, but is upset because he disrupts her fragile facade of a normal life.
In
Thief of Time, things are awkward and not-quite-hostile between them because Susan likes to think she wants to be normal. She doesn't fit in anywhere. The only person she really relates to at all is her grandfather... and she is painfully aware of that fact. It's part of why she's so hard on him, because she knows that in the end, if she's lonely, she always comes back to him.
I don't understand people very well, and always had an intelligence that had developed far beyond my emotional maturity. The jumbled up feelings of emotion and reason Susan feels in the first book I related to a lot when I first read it. Since then... Susan is intelligent and doesn't udnerstand people or emotions that well, and doesn't fit in, and I guess I understood that. At the same time, in a lot of ways - her competence, her coolness in a crisis, her force of will and certainty - she is what I want to be.
The caption for this icon expresses Susan quite well, and the picture itself is what she looks like when she reluctantly lets go of the governess persona, lets her hair uncoil from the tight bun and fully takes on the personality and responsibility that comes with being Death's granddaughter.
And now an entirely different Susan - the Doctor's granddaughter. She combines a bright intelligence and Time Lord logic, with an ever-present curiosity, passionate emotions, and a certain amount of innocence. I like the contrast between the traditional Time Lord qualities - casual superiority, logic, intelligence, dispassionate analysis - with rebellion and passion and strong ideals and an adventurous spirit. It's kind of funny that she wasn't that much like the first Doctor, who she travelled with, but later Doctors shared a lot of similarities with her. I tihnk Ten in particular is quite like her in some ways.
This particular icon is very cute, and it's from that picture of all the companions going "Doctor!' and thne Rose saying "I thought I was special!" in tears... I'll need to find the link....
*grin* This is an icon I made myself. At Supanova 09 there was a trip of girls dressed in Dalek mini-dresses. Apparently in the cosplay competition (which I missed, sadly) they did this dance to "The Time Warp" and posed with a Doctor and everything. (Go
here to see one of the Dalek Girl's posts about the day.) I turned one of the best photos into an itty-bitty icon. Yeah. I thought the costumes were the most original I'd ever seen, and cute, too.
I love novel-verse Eight and his propensity for inappropriately-timed hugs, among other things.
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