A meme of icons

From ceitfianna:

Comment here and I will pick six of your icons, you then copy and paste this in your LJ along with your explanations/comments/squeeage about each one.

I can't say for certain, but I think this is one of the icons I've had up the longest. I like it mostly because I love stories, and I love math, and it juxtaposes them in a way that should be nonsensical, but isn't.

This is my last remaining Potterpuff icon, after the cleaning-out I did a bit ago. I don't know why I had so very many, as I was never very much in the Potter fandom. This one I keep, though, because there are so many uses for a "brain explode" icon. I'd probably swap it out if I found a "brain explode" icon I like in another fandom, but for now it's staying.

This one has something of a story behind it. For those who don't know, in Final Fantasy 6 (originally released in the US as Final Fantasy 3) one of your party members is Celes, a general in the Gestahlian Imperial Army and one of two playable characters who can use magic before about a third of the way through the game. Shortly after magic becomes accessible, there is a rather bizarre scene in which Celes impersonates the world-famous opera singer Maria, whom she resembles exactly. I don't know whether standing_inside intended it to be a Celes icon or a Maria icon, but either way it's quite cute and musical.

Incidentally, it appears that every one of the FFVI icons I've downloaded is of Celes/Maria at the opera.

I don't know lienne personally, although I'm aware she is/was a fellow Milliwayser. I don't even remember specifically how I found her icon comm, icon_pythagoras, through which I located her personal journal. However, even if I don't take very many of them, I tend to be entranced by her icons. This one in particular, from a set of similar ones, speaks to me of glory and light and hope.

This I got through kippurbird's journal. I forget the occasion, but she posted a picture of her cat, Chaucer, sitting in a box, and someone (evidently veetvoojagig) integrated it with some stills from the first season of Heroes. Curiously, I think this is the only icon I've ever had that involves profanity.

There is no possibility I would have had this icon if not for Milliways. I think it was in my first month there, December '05, that bigfluffball proposed the "Sheep Distraction Miniplot" for Snowball (scapepig), which involved various characters going to his old farm in animal shapes. Felix went as a cat, and so when I was home for winter break I took several pictures of my cats. I'm no longer certain, but I think that's the cat who died a few months after the picture was taken.