Meme - because I am helpless before the small tasty images

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Gakked from penny_lane_42.

Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favorite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon.

Choosing my own favorite was extremely difficult. It depends on the day, and even just today there are about five.

I finally settled on this one: one of indulging_breck's clever juxtapositions of image and dialogue from the same episode. It's from "School Hard," of course, and Buffy's talking to Spike, but I love it because I can as easily apply the line to Buffy herself, first in S2 (oh, Angelus arc of utter angst!) and then for her entire Slayer career. As often as she rebuilds herself piece by piece, Slaying shatters her again. There are moments of triumph, but also a great deal of brokeness.

(Of course, the line is also prescient about the nature of Spike's experiences with the Slayer - lots and lots of pain. However, since Buffy's the one pictured, I don't tend to think of the icon as being about him.)

All that from a cap and one line that was about something else entirely in canon.

On a visual level, the completely washed-out color gives Buffy a very ghostly, ethereal appearance that I really like.

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Me!

Your analysis of that line makes me sniffle. Poor Buffy! *huggles her*

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Oh, gosh. You have so many that are so pretty. Argh! But I think my very favorite one of yours is this:


I just love the coloring: whites and golds and blues. It's gorgeous.

(For honorable mentions, I also really like your Firefly "finding home" and "family" icons, and for something completely different I love the lighting in the cap of your XF - skeptic icon.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Ah, my default! You're the second one who's picked it! BUFFY'S HAIR.

(I'm so fond of the "finding home" one. And I love Mal and Zoe's friendship, and the family one gives me warm fuzzies. Can you tell that "Out of Gas" is my favorite episode?

_jems is really, really talented, and I love that XF one.

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Me!

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I want you to know that this was very difficult. I narrowed it down some by only considering icons that I don't know from other places. And from there I settled on this one, just because SMG is so darn cute in it:

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I'll play!

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Hahaha, this meme got SO MUCH HARDER now that everyone's expanded their userpic packages, didn't it?

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

ME!! And I guess you should be glad I'm broke so there isn't such variety in my userpics . . .

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It is the truth. Plus, now people suddenly have a lot of new icons I've never seen and have to evaluate on the spot.

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Hmm. Thees ees veddy deeficult...

I think I'm going to have to go with this one:


This, despite the fact that I've never even seen an episode of Community. And I don't like animated icon pretty much ever. It's just, she's so cute!

Honorable mention goes to your Crackpot Genius icon, which is just... genius.

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I think I'm gonna have to go with this one:


If for no other reason, I just really love that cap and am a sucker for pretty much any icon made from it.

Honorable mention goes to your Buffy-in-Restless "Not in Kansas anymore" icon, just because I love icons of Restless, especially of the less common sequences.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous icon. Love the shading and the text. I never saw this icon before and it does contain on of my favorite quotes of BTVS. I remember a short fic a long time ago that used the quote as a base but I can't recall the title.
I also liked you icon Spike Dawn sibs by ruuger
Spike-Dawn friendship is a lovely thing.

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Spike-Dawn friendship is indeed a wonderful thing. It's actually my very favorite ship, romantic or not, in the whole Buffyverse.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

I found that fic that used the quote in your icon. It is a very short 3 part by Miranda: "One Step Away" ‘It’s going to hurt a lot’ Spike/Buffy/Dru
http://web.archive.org/web/20071018012038/home.nc.rr.com/miranda2/onestep.htm

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Thank you! Of course Dru would see the foreshadowing; it's one of the things I love about her.