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finnygan:
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four 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.
I honestly can't remember how we found it, but one day I and a friend (probablycatnip_junkie) came across this wondrous site, which recommends behaving like certain animals, including locusts, according to Biblical texts. We were running it through a programme called Regender, which goes through a text and switches round the gender for all the pronouns, as well as changing the proper names and all gendered nouns. Results may be viewed here. Have you accepted Jessica Christ into your heart? We decided that "We as Christians can also learn a lot from the rock badger" should be immortalised in icon, so I put "rock badger" through Google Image and had fun making a few. I later learnt that this icon actually shows a standard badger, not a rock badger, but it was cute so I kept it.
This icon is the cover image from Kurkov's novel Death and the Penguin. One of the main characters in this book is Misha the penguin, the unusual pet of the protagonist. The Russian Mafia are involved too. There is also a human character called Misha, and the "Characters in the Story" page at the front lists him as "Misha-non-penguin - An associate of the Chief". Therefore the original penguin may be referred to as Misha-non-non-penguin.
I went through a phase a few years ago of lusting after early keyboard instruments. A Google Image search revealed this particular beastie, which really does look like it's rearing up to devour you. Hence the warning.
I can't find it now, but this picture came from an article about bisexuality in penguins. There was a study done at Edinburgh zoo some years ago where they decided to track the mating habits of the king penguins. So they waited until the penguins were all humping merrily and then tagged them, assuming that the ones on top were male and the ones underneath were female. The next year they observed the penguin mating again, and discovered that this was not the best assumption to make. No one had told the penguins that sex was meant to be between a male and a female with the male on top. There's a rather charming article about same-sex behaviour in animals here, which I found years ago when looking up the noble story of Dashik and Yehuda, the gay male griffon vulture couple which successfully raised a number of surrogate chicks in Jerusalem zoo.
(I have no objections to explaining further icons if anyone wants. In addition, if anyone can think of any websites which will be particularly funny to run through Regender, let me know. We've already done Shakespeare.)
finnygan:1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four 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.
I honestly can't remember how we found it, but one day I and a friend (probably
catnip_junkie) came across this wondrous site, which recommends behaving like certain animals, including locusts, according to Biblical texts. We were running it through a programme called Regender, which goes through a text and switches round the gender for all the pronouns, as well as changing the proper names and all gendered nouns. Results may be viewed here. Have you accepted Jessica Christ into your heart? We decided that "We as Christians can also learn a lot from the rock badger" should be immortalised in icon, so I put "rock badger" through Google Image and had fun making a few. I later learnt that this icon actually shows a standard badger, not a rock badger, but it was cute so I kept it.This icon is the cover image from Kurkov's novel Death and the Penguin. One of the main characters in this book is Misha the penguin, the unusual pet of the protagonist. The Russian Mafia are involved too. There is also a human character called Misha, and the "Characters in the Story" page at the front lists him as "Misha-non-penguin - An associate of the Chief". Therefore the original penguin may be referred to as Misha-non-non-penguin.
I went through a phase a few years ago of lusting after early keyboard instruments. A Google Image search revealed this particular beastie, which really does look like it's rearing up to devour you. Hence the warning.
I can't find it now, but this picture came from an article about bisexuality in penguins. There was a study done at Edinburgh zoo some years ago where they decided to track the mating habits of the king penguins. So they waited until the penguins were all humping merrily and then tagged them, assuming that the ones on top were male and the ones underneath were female. The next year they observed the penguin mating again, and discovered that this was not the best assumption to make. No one had told the penguins that sex was meant to be between a male and a female with the male on top. There's a rather charming article about same-sex behaviour in animals here, which I found years ago when looking up the noble story of Dashik and Yehuda, the gay male griffon vulture couple which successfully raised a number of surrogate chicks in Jerusalem zoo.
(I have no objections to explaining further icons if anyone wants. In addition, if anyone can think of any websites which will be particularly funny to run through Regender, let me know. We've already done Shakespeare.)
