Icon Warz!

[womzilla]

I am past my bedtime and short on sleep, but I just caused myself actual pain laughing at the icon war in this comment thread.

Alas, the post is friends-locked. You should be Graham's friend. He's very nice.

Comments

[pnh.livejournal.com]

What a load of utter horseshit.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should reiterate that I was praising the icon war, not the comments which started it. I have no judgement on any of the books under discussion because, like most important books, I have not read any of them.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

But but but . . . what can you tell me of the icon war, since I don't know any of the rest?

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

It's an amusing conversational back-and-forth conducted completely in captioned icons, spinning off of a deliberately over-the-top insult of a recent prominent work of sf. (Specifically, Peter Watts's Blindsight, which, actually, despite my statement above, I have some reason to believe is a pretty good book. But I haven't read it, nor the books to which it is compared.)

[del-c.livejournal.com]

I have been for some time, but he's not mine back.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

When I saw the title of this post, I thought it was referring to the Japanese animation at http://www.xs4all.nl/~jvdkuyp/flash/see.htm that I posted about last week!

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Sorry, what is?

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Fixed.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Apologies for friendslocking, but I have (as they say) Reasons for not wanting most of my LJ to be Googleable. Let me know if you'd like to be friended.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Now to see what all the laughing is about.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I can see the obvious grounds for confusion.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Isn't that up to you?

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

snowking and I are pleased to have caused so much amusement. :)

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Done.