speaking of icons... we still want the name of the guy who did the one featured on the post .... :) please...

Oh! It's our friend Josh, toosuto. Contact info on his profile page. I'm sure he would be delighted to draw octopi or other things for you for modest remuneration...

I just got to catch up on the ones ordered before I moved, I'm hoping to have the octopi ordering turned back on by next weekend. And because I am that proud of it, I'll link to the whole piece: here

I find programming language icons work well. You could have a camel. Or a block of fiendishly clever code in 10000 pixels. Panel 3 might make a good icon.

I've only really figured out the 'emotion' ones, and possibly the Haus one. I know that the rat stamp relates to your Chinese horoscope (I'm a metal rat, you're wood). But I haven't noticed a pattern for the radioactive panda icon or a few others.

You may notice that I have plethora of icons myself, and I still need a few more, I feel. (One NSFW on the list). My computer related ones are the directory listing (I'm old school) and the sattelite dish for 'links' and communication.

As for others, your birth family and the TAMC are the only repeating subjects I don't really see an icon for.

Mostly I use the rat icon when I'm feeling contrarian or giving someone a hard time or something like that. When I'm being kind of a rat in one way or another, in other words. It also gets used if the conversation touches on animals.

Radioactive panda... how to explain it... mostly I use that when I'm seeing the world through glowing radioactive-green-colored welding goggles, rather than through my normal rose-colored glasses.

The picture from Radium is the one I generally use for birth family (if I'm using a particular icon). I was working on a TAMC icon. I should finish it.

I know what the cranky-pants icon means...