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stargatefangurl's recent Xena icon posts on dreamerland have reminded me how much I used to love Hercules and Xena...erm. Okay. Total honesty here. How much I loved Ares: God of War. Unlike SG-1, no matter how much I enjoyed the humor or the friendships between the heroes, this was a fandom I loved for a villain. I'm sure that I'll make Xena and Herc icons again, and when I do, I'll have something for fans of other characters.
As an Ares fangirl, though, I really wanted a collection of good icons devoted to him that I could either use as is or have on hand as bases if I wanted them. The PROBLEM with being an Ares fangirl is that Ares himself doesn't like being neglected. So, as penance for the fact that I've posted only ONE other set of Ares icons, the God of War demanded nothing less than a COMPLETE set. He wanted me to do the Young Herc eps too, but I managed to convince him that I should hold something in reserve for next time.
The day I started making this, my brain also produced a new story called "The Winds of Rhyiandanor. I suppose it was inevitable that Kevin Smith ends up doubling as Davron. Heh. So, whether you see the God of War or The Dragonborn Prince, I hope you'll enjoy.
I give you The Complete Ares, featuring icons from every episode of Herc or Xena in which he appeared.
*Although Xena is the only character I ever shipped with Ares, there are a few other pairings represented here because the caps just begged to be used. So, I hope you'll find something you like if you're looking for shippy icons.
*Sorry, I didn't separate by episode. These were done over a week at night when I was too braindead to write anymore. I just made them until I was ready for sleep and then saved and picked up the next day.
*I broke them up into posts of about 160 icons apiece in an attempt to make it a little more dialup friendly.
*Also backdated my posts this time to avoid being murdered by those who would rather not have to scroll through ten posts.
*I want to make one comm post for these rather than several over the course of the next few weeks, so I've made a link table again with teasers for each post. If you snag from more than one post and just want to comment at the table post, that's fine.
*As always, these can be used as bases.
Icon count: 1200 +
Total Posts: 9
Icons Per Post: Approx 160
Teasers:
Ares: God of War
Ares Post 1
Ares Post 2
Ares Post 3
Ares Post 4
Ares Post 5
Ares Post 6
Ares Post 7
Ares Post 8
Ares Post 9
--Edit--
Large Xena/Ares stuff here (header, walls, misc fanart.) Enjoy.
As an Ares fangirl, though, I really wanted a collection of good icons devoted to him that I could either use as is or have on hand as bases if I wanted them. The PROBLEM with being an Ares fangirl is that Ares himself doesn't like being neglected. So, as penance for the fact that I've posted only ONE other set of Ares icons, the God of War demanded nothing less than a COMPLETE set. He wanted me to do the Young Herc eps too, but I managed to convince him that I should hold something in reserve for next time.
The day I started making this, my brain also produced a new story called "The Winds of Rhyiandanor. I suppose it was inevitable that Kevin Smith ends up doubling as Davron. Heh. So, whether you see the God of War or The Dragonborn Prince, I hope you'll enjoy.
I give you The Complete Ares, featuring icons from every episode of Herc or Xena in which he appeared.
*Although Xena is the only character I ever shipped with Ares, there are a few other pairings represented here because the caps just begged to be used. So, I hope you'll find something you like if you're looking for shippy icons.
*Sorry, I didn't separate by episode. These were done over a week at night when I was too braindead to write anymore. I just made them until I was ready for sleep and then saved and picked up the next day.
*I broke them up into posts of about 160 icons apiece in an attempt to make it a little more dialup friendly.
*Also backdated my posts this time to avoid being murdered by those who would rather not have to scroll through ten posts.
*I want to make one comm post for these rather than several over the course of the next few weeks, so I've made a link table again with teasers for each post. If you snag from more than one post and just want to comment at the table post, that's fine.
*As always, these can be used as bases.
Icon count: 1200 +
Total Posts: 9
Icons Per Post: Approx 160
Teasers:
Ares: God of War
Ares Post 1
Ares Post 2
Ares Post 3
Ares Post 4
Ares Post 5
Ares Post 6
Ares Post 7
Ares Post 8
Ares Post 9
- Rules, Disclaimer, Resource and image credits can be found here
- Comments encourage more goodies
- Credit is up to you
- Make a request here
- Textless icons can be used as bases. Just please comment and let me know you're taking them, and feel free to show me what you've done. I enjoy seeing what folks do with this stuff.
- Although these folks are credited on my resource post, I would like to offer a special thanks to marycrawford for use of the Hercules caps at Mary Crawford's Vices and Mike at Mike's Images for both Xena and Herc caps.
- Coloring on these icons was achieved with variations on either this tutorial by fadeto (for the bluish mostly) this by patterne. I added a lot and changed some of the color layers in both depending on the particular cap, as well as altering the hue/sat settings, but this is where I started. Just experiment. ;)
--Edit--
Large Xena/Ares stuff here (header, walls, misc fanart.) Enjoy.