Lemony genius!

[eruthros]

Also, for those of you who were waiting with baited breath for my opinion on the important lemon issue, I think that cesperanza summed it up quite well when she said that it was "like the lemon was a JOHN SHEPPARD PUPPET" and then rustler imagined said scene as a little John face scribbled on a lemon, and then Cesperanza said other things and end result = this icon. I overlayed an image of John on the lemon and then made the broadest darn gestures I could with the brush, attempting to mimic sharpie-scribble-on-lemon. (I quite like the little lopsided grin, myself.) (Also, if that makes you wonder if I have ever tried to draw on lemons, the answer is no, but I have tried to draw on oranges. Prop thing, and I don't even remember why there were oranges-with-poetry in the show, but suffice it to say that the orange oil makes it hard to use a sharpie.) So, to recap: phrasing = cesperanza's, idea of drawing = "rustler's, bad photoshopping = me.

In other words, this is a silly attempt to de-GIPify this GIP, because none of you care in the slightest how I felt about said issue. Still: "be a genius, damnit!!!!" is funny, right?

ETA: Also, transcribing 19th century medical theses is incredibly difficult, not least because they are written in very bad longhand. On top of that, of course, there are puzzling out phrases, like "clitoridean crises" (needs iconage, doesn't it?), and weird sentence constructions, like "Inquire dilligently which precedes the same in enfeebled digestion." Eep.

ETA II: Also, it is free for the taking, if anyone else wants a strange and odd lemon icon.

Comments

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[eruthros]

Danke!

[rustler.livejournal.com]

Dude, that is so exactly what I pictured, it's almost frightening. *g*

[eruthros]

It's my Stargate-related psychic powers. A shadowy "They" tried to recruit me for the international spy game until They realized that I only homed in on musings about John and Rodney -- not very useful, unless They wanted to embarrass foreign dignitaries by discovering their penchant for imagining John as a bank robber and Rodney as the bank clerk.

Really, though, I'm glad you like it!

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

John as a bank robber and Rodney as the bank clerk

!!!!

I would especially love the part where John shoves a kumquat in his face and hisses, "Stick 'em up!"

[eruthros]

Or, oooh, John uses a pop-gun. Except with lemon slices instead of potatoes.

Also, then he would smell citrusy-fresh despite the dust and sweat of a long day's ride in the saddle (Western edition) or on a motorcycle (20th century edition).

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

Western edition, definitely, because then if there's any kidnapping involved, John can make Rodney sit behind him on his horse. That's loads funnier than sharing a motorcycle.

Full disclosure: someone else recently came up with this idea in the context of a stableboy!John/nobleman!Rodney virtual reality adventure, but I think it's too priceless to confine to one scenario.

[eruthros]

Or John can, in traditional romance-novel fashion, sling Rodney over the pommel. And be amused by Rodney's constant complaints -- "oh, great, push my nose into the horse, perfect technique, yes, you can stop pushing now" -- and squirming and explanations that he is a very important person and that he was designing safes for the bank and that they will come after John, no, really, look, John's not going to get away with this. (No matter how attractive he looks in the chaps.)

... stableboy!John/nobleman!Rodney. Man, that SGA Harlequin challenge really could have gone on forever.