interesting meme

[kaydeefalls]

The avatar is like a Rorschach inkblot, or the Draw-a-House/Person/Tree Test, or any work of art. It is selected from personal imagination. Consciously or unconsciously, people condense a multitude of meaning into it. They project their personality into it - who they are, who they wish to be, what they fear, what moves them.

So here's an idea. Choose one of your icons, and post it up in your journal. Then ask people to comment with the first thing that comes to mind when they see that icon- whether it's associated with the image, the text, or with the identity/mood they project on you when you're using it, whatever. Free association. See if anything fits.

Comments

[newredshoes]

OSCAR WILDE.

Er, I mean...

Dangerous men, actually: the ones your mother warned about. Gilded panthers and the like.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Everything does somehow manage to make its way back to Wilde, doesn't it?

[newredshoes]

These days it does. Not even Sauron is safe.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Yuck.

(I dislike green apples.)

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fair enough.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the auditory impression of crunching into a crisp apple.

that just. overwhelms.