Beyond the Roundels

I knew when I posted the other day that I was forgetting something, and I was!

Anyway, while I was not really up to talking to people over the weekend, I worked on adding a lot more tables to 20icontables and it's now ready to go!



20icontables is a new icon community with no deadlines, claims or voting. Simply choose any of our 20 prompt tables and use it to inspire you to make icons! All levels of iconmakers and types of icons welcome.

For further details, see the comm's sticky post: https://20icontables.dreamwidth.org/617.html


Anyway, fingers crossed, and let's hope that people find it a useful resource and I thought hopefully it might also be nice for people who might be a bit deterred by more structured challenges, too. Anyway, as long as somebody else finds it inspiring, that's all that matters.


(Now I just need to put my icon making head back on again, because I still can't seem to stop myself dropping in and out of it in a very unhelpful way. But look! Not only do I have a timed & tricky challenge for retro_icontest to give me the much-needed shove, now I can have ongoing tables without a deadline, lol. I just have to choose...)

I'm not being terribly good at updating, but I am mostly okay, so that is good. Last week my Mum sent me a package in the post which, when I opened it, contained a small clear plastic packet with mystery white powder inside it. When I stopped laughing for long enough to read the accompanying note, I discovered it was washing powder. XD

Anyway, fannish things:

1. no_true_pair's four character mini round is open for sign-ups!

The prompts don't get posted till the 17th, so I have to think about which characters I shall put down this time, because I definitely find the four characters one weirder to do than the full-range glory of the eight-characters one, but it does usually kick off something unexpected and worth writing, whether fannish or original. It would only be more delightful if more of us also did it, of course. (No penalties, only fun prompts to use or not use! What is there to lose? ;-p)


2. edwardianspinsteraunt also wrote a little (Modern) AU for The Winslow Boy, which made yesterday evening a whole lot better immediately:

The Facts of the Case (634 words) by edwardianspinsteraunt
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Catherine Winslow, Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Arthur Winslow
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Coffee Shops, Lawyers
Summary: Catherine was well aware that Robert Morton hadn't taken her family's case out of principle.


3. I was thinking about what to do after I finished 100fandomicons. I remembered working through a set for an old icon comm (icons200, I think), doing 20 prompts at a time, but also that it is no fun to do such things alone for defunct comms.

Anyway, the upshot was that it struck me there was no current icon comm that had the kind of thing I was thinking of, so I have now very nearly finished making one!

It is called 20icontables. There are lots of 20 icon tables to choose from and you can suggest more at a suggestion post. There are no deadlines or limits and hopefully it will provide laid back inspiration for when needed, or no-deadline ongoing projects, or the excuse to icon a thing you've been meaning to icon etc. Or whatever. Speedy people who eat icon challenges for breakfast can work their way through every single table if they want. There will be more.

If people, especially any icon-makers, but anyone, want to poke around it and see if it looks okay, that would be great! It's fairly straight forward and I think it's okay, but stupid errors gratefully received as it were...

I need to add a few more tables before I start launching it officially, just because I don't want to be flooding it with tables once it has subscribers.

(So if there are there any obvious omissions in tables, especially technically then let me know here or go right ahead and submit to the suggestion post there already.)


4. I keep linking to SesskaSays's reactions, I know, but she reached Vengeance on Varos on Friday, which people round here with long memories will know I am a tad obsessed with and I was v gratified to see her completely blown away by Part One. \o/ I thought she'd probably like it, given her track record, but you never can tell.

I started this on 27th Feb 2021 for 100fandomicons and have finally completed it, after taking longer than anybody else ever has, which I suppose is one claim to fame. (You can see the fandoms if you hover over the icons.)

( 100fandoms table under here )

Another little batch of icons, with more Bleak Expectations text icons, a handful for retro_icontest (including one I forgot to post), and a few for 100fandomicons, plus some more Doctor Who.

Teaser:



( I shall give up evil science and take up evil gardening instead )

I'll probably repost these again in a larger set when I (hopefully!) have more - BUT over the last few days, post-doing some larger graphics, I tackled my new graphics editing software again, and managed to finally make some icons! I'm back at the 'child with crayons' stage, but that's usual for me when I've had one of my stupidly long breaks from it, and I'm actually getting an end result that is more or less what I intended now, and I'm SO relieved I could cry. I do like making 100x100 pixel shiny things, even if I'm not the best iconmaker in the world or anything.

Teaser:



( To go into battle the British soldier has to be incredibly drunk. Aiming is out of the question. )

Another icon batch! A lot of the first sets here were duplicates/ones I decided not to use for my 100fandomicons table, then a random iconcolors set, some text sets I started & haven't finished, and finally a bunch for perioddrama_ic (for the dark lighting challenge, which is why they look like that) and retro_icontest (for the nostalgia theme).

Teaser:

( Icons under here )

Icons I've made since I last posted a batch here. I don't think I've posted any of these here before, but some of them were made or posted elsewhere two years or more ago - this was a post I made to catch up on my delayed icon posting in April 2021 and then just... left. I'm pretty sure I have a few other odd ones in addition to the 100fandomicons ones I've made since (few, but some), but I think I ought to get on and post this one!

Mostly made for challenges for iconcolors, icontalking and iconthat but some just for fun, like the Malory Towers ones.
Fandoms - Malory Towers, Good Omens, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, OUaT, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 & Red Dwarf. (the Red Dwarf ones were made for another TV Tropes round, so I think this post got delayed because I wanted to find the trope template for that ETA: here.)

(Whyyyy am I so bad lately at making icons, posting the ones I do make, and reposting the lost ones??? idk. Will try to do better.)

Teaser:


( Stick 'em with the pointy end )

I've been feeling like making icons again at last (\o/) and have not only done a couple for iconcolors today, but thought I'd sign up for 100fandomicons:

( 100fandoms table under here )

I'm very tired (again) but I should mention fandomtrees, which went live all of 3 days ago. Under mine, I found:

* 3 Janeway icons from kingstoken

* liadt gave me some actual non-blurry pics of James Maxwell in the burninated Nigel Kneale TV play The Road here and also lovely fanart for the coffee shop bit of the AU Meme for Silver (& Liz Shaw).

* A lovely selection box of Blake's 7 icons from zephron1, so I need to decide which one(s) to use. I think I must find space for the Vila & Servalan one at the very least!

* and last but by no means least, hamsterwoman made me some great B7 quote icons in revenge repayment for me being the cause of them watching it earlier this year.

So, it was good fun. I did not manage to do much, but I did make zephron1 some Gan & Vila icons and recced some happy vids for, er, someone else. (I'm sorry, it was three days ago and I was randomly looking through the recs tag at the last minute for someone I could make a rec list for. I would know the entry again if I saw it!)

I keep forgetting to get around to reposting my icons from tinypic and photobucket, but kateoftheangels was asking after this Clare one, which reminded me, so this is the first of two old icon reposts, one for Enemy at the Door and a giant one for Public Eye to follow. There are a lot, so forgive me if I don't number them or order them as logically as I would usually try to. Please note: fairly obviously, contains images of WWII German uniforms.

Teaser:


( Why are you so afraid of ideas? )

24 icons made for fandom10in30's TV Tropes Challenge, all for Sapphire & Steel. I had fun with the tropes, so there are 12 extra icons (plus 2 alternates). (They were all taken from S&S's page at TV Tropes).

Teaser:



( You're supposed to lose sometimes// I wondered why I wasn't having any fun )

27 icons, all made for iconcolors (mostly for its amnesty round), including OUaT, Sapphire & Steel, and Lost.

Teaser:



( I looked into the eye of the island, and what I saw was beautiful )

Various icons made for iconcolors (for the last 2 palettes) and iconthat (for the Bingo challenge), including Doctor Who, Dracula (TV 2006), Sapphire & Steel, Spooks, Once Upon a Time & Poldark (1975). (Minus one posted to iconthat which is also part of my ongoing plan to icon Doctor Who using the lyrics of What About Everything.)



( I like to think there's not an institution in the country that's safe from me )