January Talk -- My Alice Icon

[chelseagirl]

January 12: Tell me about your icon and where and why you got it! Alice is one of my favourites too. (kore)

I have a couple of altered Alice icons (one with an astrolabe and one where she's putting on a tophat with goggles, from my steampunk days) which a friend made for me, but this one I actually made myself. Hence its stark simplicity. *cough*

The first chapter of my dissertation was on representations of the legal system in the Alice books. (There was later an article version, in a journal called Law and Literature.) At one of the colleges where I was teaching as an adjunct, I taught a seminar on Lewis Carroll a couple of times. And while I'd always collected a bit on Alice, around that time, I started to seek out different illustrated editions; people started giving me Alice-themed gifts, and so on. So it seemed appropriate to have an Alice icon -- and this was always one of my favorite Tenniel images.

I identify with Alice so much in this picture -- so often life feels like a session of Flamingo-wrangling!

Comments

[lunabee34]

I love hearing the story behind people's default avatars. So often, I picture people as their default avatars even if I've met them and know what they look like.

[chelseagirl]

When I was little, my parents bought me a lot of Alice stuff. I was a little blonde girl who liked blue, just like the classic Alice's blue dress. So it reminded them of me.

[oracne]

I love the Tenniel illustrations. An Alice-loving friend covets a very fancy themed chess set.

[chelseagirl]

Oooh, that would be very cool!

[corvidology]

It's a great default icon to have and I love the reasoning behind it about life. :D

[chelseagirl]

So very much flamingo wrangling, really.

[kore]

The first chapter of my dissertation was on representations of the legal system in the Alice books

Oh, that's very cool!

[chelseagirl]

It was fun to work on, but I was really neurotic about it. I think I spent as much time on that chapter as I did on the whole rest of the dissertation. On the up side, when I sent it to a journal, they didn't make any changes because it was so thoroughly worked through!