harborshore: (gotcha)
harborshore ([personal profile] harborshore) wrote2010-05-26 02:31 am

turn back the clock

My jetlag is awesome. I fell asleep at 8 pm with my clothes on and woke up at midnight wide awake; it's all very entertaining, this internal clock-fuckery. It means I'm not done with your beta, darling [livejournal.com profile] torakowalski, since I intended to do the last half tonight. But!

Today was somewhat okay, in terms of thesisness. I have a most adorable and helpful advisor, who keeps being so positive about my mess of a paper that I'm sometimes convinced she's reading a different one than the one I'm writing. At any rate, she told me she goes on vacation July 1st and asked if I want to keep working until then, and I said, "Yes, of course." So we went through the whole thing and she gave me good comments and told me to make an appendix in her very sweet but also pointed way. She's pretty awesome. She also gave me her cellphone number in case I needed anything, which for a Swedish professor is a highly unusual level of personal contact. Do you guys remember my supervisor issues of last year? Ahahaha. Night and day, I tell you.

Also, I have a defense date! October 4th, ladies and gentlemen. It's a ways away, but that's because a couple of the ones who weren't done now need a fair amount of time.

Because I cannot sleep, I will finally do the icon meme.


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 squee.


[livejournal.com profile] marksykins gave me these icons:





My default! I love it so. First because the red hair plus the bat t-shirt implies that it is Barbara Gordon, who was my childhood heroine and remains one of my most favorite characters ever. Additionally, using the icon is my way of saying, "Oh, you know who I like? Batgirl. In all incarnations." They are my favorites, Babs and Cass and Steph (and even Misfit, shortlived and unauthorized as her Batgirl time was). I LOVE THEM SO MUCH, it's very difficult to talk sensibly about it. Lastly, it's just a fucking beautiful icon, the end.



Ah, yes. hold me down, keep me whole are the keywords; this is my icon for, well, sex that involves holding someone down, but also for things that are about needing to be still, needing to be held still, made to stay. Which definitely can be a kinky sex thing but doesn't have to be. It can just be about love holding you together.



brightbright, ooops, tennessee--I love this icon. It was made especially for me and is my only The Like icon, technically (so far, anyway)--I also have a beautiful Charlotte one, but she isn't in the band anymore. (She still counts, I'm just saying.) This is simultaneously an icon for silly things, an icon for The Like matters, and an icon with Tennessee being really gorgeous (hence the brightbright keyword). If I didn't have Babs, it would have been my default. ♥



green, rain--a very pretty icon for when things are a bit tiresome, but not too bad. Like, you know, it's raining and cold, but you have a green coat and an umbrella. *grins* I really like it, and sometimes I use it just because green is my favorite color.



revolution girl-style--this was one of the first icons I found back when I was writing my big bang last year. Now, Maja is not in that story, but something about the attitude of this, the way it's fierce and sharp and dark-colored--it just fit the story perfectly. I use it for feminism and I sometimes use it for things related to that AU, which, you know, I love it a hell of a whole lot, and I haven't finished writing about or thinking about that revolution, where they take back the right to make art and music in the open, the right to sing and dance and live their own way. I love my group of revolutionaries, god, I fucking love them so much.



gotcha--hell yeah, Veronica Mars is smarter than everyone and she will get you good. I love this icon, I use it for being snarky and I use it to make fun of myself sometimes and--it's an awesome icon, basically.

[identity profile] liketheroad.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
You know how I am powerless before icon memes! Pick mine?
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (fucksobeautiful)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
You? NEVER. :D


[identity profile] torakowalski.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh icon meme! Can I play?

Also, don't worry about the beta! I am totally zen about this fic at the moment (mostly because final drafts are due in on Sunday omg and I haven't written half the thing yet).
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (must be love)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course you can! :D




Hee, okay! Yeah, I was sort of figuring, but I do want to get it done for you as soon as I can. ♥
Edited 2010-05-26 17:38 (UTC)

[identity profile] mahoni.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I've thought about asking you about that second one a couple of times. I really like it, but I've wondered what the story was behind it. :)

I'd like to do the meme plz!
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (smoking)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
T'is a favorite, it really is.


[identity profile] mahoni.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! I guessed you would pick the Parker one and the Teyla one; and I had a strong suspicion about the book one and the ET Highway one. O_o I'm psychic, yo.
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (Default)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! PSYCHIC ICON POWERS.

[identity profile] jubella.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I asked [livejournal.com profile] marksykins, but the more the merrier. Icon me!
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (Default)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
♥!


[identity profile] crowgirl13.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad to hear that the thesis process is going well. \o/

Your default always makes me smile and remember how much I love batgirl too. :D

Meme mez?
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (Default)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
For a given value of well, at any rate. *bites nails* It IS a lot easier when surrounding factors aren't completely fucked.

Is it not marvelous? As is she.


[identity profile] almostblue.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I've been sort of skimming this meme, but reading your comments about it made me realize that it's actually awesome. I love how much thought and effort you put into these tiny pieces of you ♥

I sort of want to play, but the reality is that I have stupid names for most of my icons and no history behind them other then HI SPENCER! HI! or Y HELLO THERE Z! Although I suppose I could make up tiny stories about them. That might be fun :D
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (tennessee)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ Yeah, I really do. It comes from having a basic account for a year: I became enormously particular about the icons I chose, and I just kept doing that when I suddenly had many more slots. Speaking of which, I think I haven't filled all mine yet!

You SHOULD do that variation, that's the one I did back when I only had six icons. It is awesome. I will try to give you ones that would serve that version.


[identity profile] kickingrad.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that hold me down, keep me whole icon, possibly because I have a bizarre Thing for grey marl tshirts. Seriously, of all things to focus on in that image.

Do me!
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (gotcha)

[identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com 2010-05-26 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The colors of it are awesome, aren't they? I love the softness of the gray t-shirt. ♥