Show Me Your Pottericons

[heidi]

The one that makes you most nostalgic for a fannish moment, creative work, event, person, place, ship or thought. Or your oldest one, or the one that makes you think of Harry Potter - the books, the movies, the fandom.

Bothering Snape was, for me, one of the first examples of animated fannish creativity that I saw, and possibly that there was in the HP fandom. Has anyone in HP fandom not seen it? If you haven't, it's here. It's not quite as catchy as The Mysterious Ticking Noise, which fans around the world do while waiting at premieres, or in the line at Universal for The Forbidden Journey, but it was original and ridiculous and I will always love it.

If I hadn't chosen this one, I would've used my "When Will I See You Again?" which mashes up the icons from most of the cons I've attended, with some Terminus thrown in because I wished I could've been there but my husband had had surgery that week, so I just read all the posts and looked northward with a bit of a green eye.

Oh, and did you see FictionAlley flash on the screen on the CBS Evening News last night? When I was 13 and 14, we had to watch the news nightly for my Debate class, and take specific notes and were quizzed on things large and small every Friday. Now, to have the site on the program that I watched conscientiously is bizarre and neat. (SQUEE for Jaida being interviewed for it about the Shoebox Project, too! Slash on the nightly news? O_O)

Comments

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

:D

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

WOOBIE!!!

[gorgeousnerd]

This has been my HP standard icon for years. But I still have some _hdcomic icons, and I only very recently thinned out my Shoebox icons.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Awww, woobie! Btw, did you see Shoebox on the CBS News last night?

[gorgeousnerd]

No, I didn't! I had no idea they were doing it. Sounds amazing, though.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I <3 this icon.

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

This is my oldest HP icon, that I've had since 2003 <3

[jlh.livejournal.com]

My default icon for a long time, and drawn by Val over the weekend we saw CoS at a party at my apartment—the one where Canadian Army bras were discussed. That was the first real Potter-related event I went to/hosted/planned.

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

I've always loved this one, tho it's not one of my earliest.

[zorb]

So many good choices, but here's a start.

[moonlight69]

The first one I made is rather juvenile in its humour, but I still have it as an icon, because...first icon I ever made. This one was the second or third, I made it in the same Photoshop session as my bad place icon, so I don't remember which came first. :)

[trinity_clare]

I'm going to do this in individual comments since I'm on my phone.

This icon was my very first default icon on LJ, back in 2004.

[trinity_clare]

This one is one of the many I stole from FAP, back when FAP was my primary fannish forum and I didn't understand LJ etiquette.

[trinity_clare]

There are several Shoebox icons I can't bring myself to get rid of. This one is probably my favorite, even though I think I use it the least.

[trinity_clare]

This is my wrock icon, which will probably become a Darren icon when I find one I like.

[trinity_clare]

And this is the one I added most recently.

There's probably ten more Potter icons on my icon page, but these are the ones I always gravitate to first.

[effervescent.livejournal.com]

This is such a wonderful icon. :D I associate it with you, always.

[effervescent.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I am trying to remember if this one is the oldest I have or the one I'll use in the next comment.

[effervescent.livejournal.com]

Then there's this one... Tbh I am not sure whether this or the one above is my favourite.

I used to have one made by nefeleo but I am not sure what happened to it.

[mizzy2k.livejournal.com]

Obv this is not one attached to my account, but this is always the one that gets me nostalgic:

http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/4673715/563909

(Not embedding because some people are still keeping nocturne_alley a secret :D)

I do need some HP icons for my account now I have icon space again, though. :D

[parkergray.livejournal.com]

This isn't my oldest by any means, but it reminds me of getting my Potter love back after the PoA movie.

I'd loved Potter for years (remember the hysteria before the first movie? Remember just hearing talk about it? Remember when fanfiction.net was the one place to get any fic? How did I get so OLD?!) but I'd sort-of calmed down, fallen into other fandoms, but that movie brought my love right back.

I still love it above all others. Alfonso just GOT IT, you know?

I can't believe it's almost over!

[ancarett]

I didn't see the news but it's so heartening to see the fandom get such love as the last movie releases!

[shakespearechic.livejournal.com]

This is my oldest HP icon. The other two are Draco (PoA and HBP) and then 1 text icon from DH. :-)

<3 Riddle

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

I've changed computers twice since I first joined LJ, so I don't actually have my oldest icon any more (I don't have any of my old fanart either, which is sad because even though plenty of it was rubbish there's still a lot of nostalgia in there!). This icon is a photo of me at the launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where I got to Borders at 6am and lined up with a bunch of strangers who were all just as excited as I was, and then got my face painted :)

[amaz0n-princess.livejournal.com]

This is the one I've had the longest, and it never ceases to make me laugh. A LOT.