More icons - perhaps I've gotten carried away :p
I've only gotten a few responses on the last batch of icons I made, but they were nice responses :p So, to those of you who were kind enough to give me good feedback on my first try: Thank you! :D (and you've created a monster ;)
Here's just a few:
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2.
3.
4.
And here's a few more ;) ( more Wes, a Wes/Fred, some Wes/Angel, and other version of my Gunn/"Cat Got Your Tongue" icon):
Wes icons:
5.
6.
7.
8.
Wes/Fred:
9.
Wes/Angel
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Other versions of my Gunn icon:
19.
20.
21.
22.
If you take some of these ( i may squee if you do, but don't let that stop you :) just comment/credit/you-know-the-drill :p
Notes/Disclaimers below:
Most of my screencaps came, again, from Screencap Paradise. But some of the caps from "Conviction" used in my Gunn icon came from Buffyworld. Those amazing photo manipulations of Wes/Angel kissing, used in my W/A icons, were created by the very talented Fractal Bat :) Who was kind enough to let me use them.
1. lyrics here from Godsmack's "I Stand Alone": "...everything that I believe is faded..." Various little pics here from Season 4/5 - the gang walking into W&H in "Home", Wes anguished and Fred dying in "Hole in the World", Gunn receiving his implant in "Conviction", and the contract Angel signed authorizing the mind wipes. Everyone Wesley believed in corrupted, betrayed, or seduced - in some way - away from him.
2. Wes/Lilah! With pics from "Home" of Lilah's contract burning and Wesley's discovery that the perpetuity contract is irreversible. Words: "...all I've struggled for has been in vain..."
3. my Gunn icon, which I call "Cat Got Your Tongue" :p I love this idea. If anyone feels like making a similar icon, but better, please be my guest :p Just let me know when you're finished so I can see it! The pics of Gunn here are from Angel's hallucination in "Soul Purpose", and the pic of the cat's eyes comes from "Home". The more I think about it, the more I wonder about that cat, and the fact that Angel hallucinated a Gunn with cat's eyes. Was he even Gunn in the end? Or someone different, having whatever the Senior Partners put into his head influencing him.
4. another icon I love the idea of, and wouldn't mind seeing someone else work with. Pics here from "Blind Date", "Dead End", and "Not Fade Away", and lyrics from "L.A.", sung by Christian Kane himself in "Dead End" :) "...warm, warm, it's always warm here...I can't take the cold..."
5. pics from "Not Fade Away"; lyrics from Love and Rockets' "So Alive": "...my head is full of magic, baby...I can share this with you...wish I could stop, switch off the clock...feeling I'm on the cross again lately..."
6. pics from "Origins"; lyrics from Lifehouse's "Somebody Else's Song": "...facing myself alone...I remind myself of somebody else now...got somebody else's thoughts in my head...I want some of my own..." See how the words fit in with the memory wipe situation? :p
7. same lyrics; this time with a pick of the Orlon Window, instead of it exploding. "...bring me back down...hiding behind my doubts, are they hiding behind me...closer to finding out it doesn't mean anything...I got somebody else's thoughts in my head...I can't be the only one misunderstood...I remind myself of somebody else now..."
8. pics, again, from "Origins" and one from "The Girl in Question"; the words are based on what Wesley said in "Not Fade Away": "The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do. The truth is that Fred is gone. To pretend anything else would be a lie. And since I don't actually intend to die tonight, I won't accept a lie." Words on icon: "...the first thing you learn...in the world of magics...I will not accept a lie."
9. Wes/Fred! :) Pics from "Smile Time"; lyrics from Staind's "So Far Away": "...please don't wake me...now that we're here, it's so far away...all the struggle...all the mistakes...this is the smile that I've never shown...these are the dreams I've never lived..."
10. and 11. Wes/Angel! :D Hee hee. (the best pairing for last, za? ;) These feature Fractal Bat's manipulation (as I said before :) Words from Blackhawk's "Strong Enough": "...I'm not man enough to walk away...if it ain't happened now, it just ain't happened yet..."
12. and 13. These are similar for the same reason 10. and 11. are. I couldn't decide upon how much color to use. Collage of images here include manipulations by Fractal Bat, pics of Wes/Angel from "Heartthrob", "Deep Down", and "Just Rewards". There's also one pic each of Wes from "Time Bomb" and "Not Fade Away". Some of the words are Angel's from "Parting Gifts", which I thought would be ironic, as Angel was talking about Doyle when he said them and now... "I had somebody by my side...he's dead now." I also included the words "I can't go on/how do I go on alone." and a snippet from Offspring's "Gone Away" (which I would like to use more of in another icon): "if I could trade I would"
14. 15. and 16. there's those words again :p "if it ain't happened now, it just ain't happened yet" Hey - that's sorta the W/A mantra. It bears repeating ;p This time the indecision was over content. Can't tell what's cluttered and what's empty. Eh.
17. and 18. are inspired by Angel: No Limits :p the amazing virtual season 6 TBG, madpoetess, and others have created. the pic is from "Just Rewards" and the words are from NL 6.06 "A Temp is Just a Temp: "I think you're trying to make sure nobody ever takes his place. You never let us hire anybody else, no chance you ever lose track of that big empty spot just to your left. And no chance of you giving a damn about somebody new and them dying on you too."
(If I find out it's not okay to use the dialogue I'll take these icons off.)
19. 20. 21. and 22. I made so many versions because the words are more visible with a white background. I thought it would be cool to include pics from some Gunn eps, as I did in #21. There's the cat's eyes (again), Gunn getting his implant in "Conviction", and the first look we get of The New Gunn (or, rather, of his briefcase) in that same ep. If I could have found a way to work in a pic of him and the cat facing off in "Home", I would have :p I like the big pic of the cat's eyes those, too.
[ whew. here ends that ridiculously long post :p ]
My next project: maybe a Street/Gamble icon for my old S.W.A.T. fic :) and some icons in fandoms I used to be more active in (DA, the Faculty, ST:V)?
Here's just a few:
1.
2.
3.
4.
And here's a few more ;) ( more Wes, a Wes/Fred, some Wes/Angel, and other version of my Gunn/"Cat Got Your Tongue" icon):
Wes icons:
5.
6.
7.
8.
Wes/Fred:
9.
Wes/Angel
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Other versions of my Gunn icon:
19.
20.
21.
22.
If you take some of these ( i may squee if you do, but don't let that stop you :) just comment/credit/you-know-the-drill :p
Notes/Disclaimers below:
Most of my screencaps came, again, from Screencap Paradise. But some of the caps from "Conviction" used in my Gunn icon came from Buffyworld. Those amazing photo manipulations of Wes/Angel kissing, used in my W/A icons, were created by the very talented Fractal Bat :) Who was kind enough to let me use them.
1. lyrics here from Godsmack's "I Stand Alone": "...everything that I believe is faded..." Various little pics here from Season 4/5 - the gang walking into W&H in "Home", Wes anguished and Fred dying in "Hole in the World", Gunn receiving his implant in "Conviction", and the contract Angel signed authorizing the mind wipes. Everyone Wesley believed in corrupted, betrayed, or seduced - in some way - away from him.
2. Wes/Lilah! With pics from "Home" of Lilah's contract burning and Wesley's discovery that the perpetuity contract is irreversible. Words: "...all I've struggled for has been in vain..."
3. my Gunn icon, which I call "Cat Got Your Tongue" :p I love this idea. If anyone feels like making a similar icon, but better, please be my guest :p Just let me know when you're finished so I can see it! The pics of Gunn here are from Angel's hallucination in "Soul Purpose", and the pic of the cat's eyes comes from "Home". The more I think about it, the more I wonder about that cat, and the fact that Angel hallucinated a Gunn with cat's eyes. Was he even Gunn in the end? Or someone different, having whatever the Senior Partners put into his head influencing him.
4. another icon I love the idea of, and wouldn't mind seeing someone else work with. Pics here from "Blind Date", "Dead End", and "Not Fade Away", and lyrics from "L.A.", sung by Christian Kane himself in "Dead End" :) "...warm, warm, it's always warm here...I can't take the cold..."
5. pics from "Not Fade Away"; lyrics from Love and Rockets' "So Alive": "...my head is full of magic, baby...I can share this with you...wish I could stop, switch off the clock...feeling I'm on the cross again lately..."
6. pics from "Origins"; lyrics from Lifehouse's "Somebody Else's Song": "...facing myself alone...I remind myself of somebody else now...got somebody else's thoughts in my head...I want some of my own..." See how the words fit in with the memory wipe situation? :p
7. same lyrics; this time with a pick of the Orlon Window, instead of it exploding. "...bring me back down...hiding behind my doubts, are they hiding behind me...closer to finding out it doesn't mean anything...I got somebody else's thoughts in my head...I can't be the only one misunderstood...I remind myself of somebody else now..."
8. pics, again, from "Origins" and one from "The Girl in Question"; the words are based on what Wesley said in "Not Fade Away": "The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do. The truth is that Fred is gone. To pretend anything else would be a lie. And since I don't actually intend to die tonight, I won't accept a lie." Words on icon: "...the first thing you learn...in the world of magics...I will not accept a lie."
9. Wes/Fred! :) Pics from "Smile Time"; lyrics from Staind's "So Far Away": "...please don't wake me...now that we're here, it's so far away...all the struggle...all the mistakes...this is the smile that I've never shown...these are the dreams I've never lived..."
10. and 11. Wes/Angel! :D Hee hee. (the best pairing for last, za? ;) These feature Fractal Bat's manipulation (as I said before :) Words from Blackhawk's "Strong Enough": "...I'm not man enough to walk away...if it ain't happened now, it just ain't happened yet..."
12. and 13. These are similar for the same reason 10. and 11. are. I couldn't decide upon how much color to use. Collage of images here include manipulations by Fractal Bat, pics of Wes/Angel from "Heartthrob", "Deep Down", and "Just Rewards". There's also one pic each of Wes from "Time Bomb" and "Not Fade Away". Some of the words are Angel's from "Parting Gifts", which I thought would be ironic, as Angel was talking about Doyle when he said them and now... "I had somebody by my side...he's dead now." I also included the words "I can't go on/how do I go on alone." and a snippet from Offspring's "Gone Away" (which I would like to use more of in another icon): "if I could trade I would"
14. 15. and 16. there's those words again :p "if it ain't happened now, it just ain't happened yet" Hey - that's sorta the W/A mantra. It bears repeating ;p This time the indecision was over content. Can't tell what's cluttered and what's empty. Eh.
17. and 18. are inspired by Angel: No Limits :p the amazing virtual season 6 TBG, madpoetess, and others have created. the pic is from "Just Rewards" and the words are from NL 6.06 "A Temp is Just a Temp: "I think you're trying to make sure nobody ever takes his place. You never let us hire anybody else, no chance you ever lose track of that big empty spot just to your left. And no chance of you giving a damn about somebody new and them dying on you too."
(If I find out it's not okay to use the dialogue I'll take these icons off.)
19. 20. 21. and 22. I made so many versions because the words are more visible with a white background. I thought it would be cool to include pics from some Gunn eps, as I did in #21. There's the cat's eyes (again), Gunn getting his implant in "Conviction", and the first look we get of The New Gunn (or, rather, of his briefcase) in that same ep. If I could have found a way to work in a pic of him and the cat facing off in "Home", I would have :p I like the big pic of the cat's eyes those, too.
[ whew. here ends that ridiculously long post :p ]
My next project: maybe a Street/Gamble icon for my old S.W.A.T. fic :) and some icons in fandoms I used to be more active in (DA, the Faculty, ST:V)?