*waves* I meant to update sooner, but wanted to accumulate more pieces / finish all the WIPs first (still have, like, five of them unfinished, ugh). So, I'm sorry for the delay - I haven't forgotten this journal, I'm just unwell and too much of a perfectionist and a procrastinator at once. :)
In this post you'll find:
Seven wallpapers: Marvel movieverse 2 Loki 1 Loki/Tony Stark Doctor Who 1 The Doctor 1 episodic for 7.01 (spoilers!) Misc 1 Oz (feat. Ryan O'Reily) 1 The Hollow Crown (feat. Henry V)
37 icons: Marvel movieverse [1-11] Loki [12-14] Loki/Thor [15-21] Loki/Tony Stark [22-25] Tony Stark [26-27] The Avengers [28-31] Tom Hiddleston Buffy the Vampire Slayer [32-35] Spike/Buffy The Vampire Diaries [36-37] Damon/Elena
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Marvel movieverse
Graceless heart (feat. Loki) This was made for a challenge at BuffyForums. I'll copy my commentary from the board:
[(click to open)] My piece is about Loki's (failed) suicide and his attempt to "start anew" and conquer Earth.
In Thor, he felt unloved and tried to prove himself to his adoptive father, and did some awful things - lied, framed his brother, murdered his biological father etc. (I'll leave it to Odin's parenting fail that he actually thought this was the way to achieve Odin's approval.) When he realized that his horrible attempts to win love and acceptance were rejected, he let himself fall into the abyss between worlds. But against all odds he survived. When we see him again in The Avengers, he speaks with disdain about "sentiment", claims that he has no home or father, and tries to subjugate Earth to make it his kingdom.
I love him despite all the things that he's done, so I felt that these lines: I am done with my graceless heart / So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart - are a great reflection of how he views himself and his story.
I used caps from the scene when he is dangling over the abyss, then hears Odin's rejection, and lets go. I also used profiles of his two fathers (his biological father was a Jotun, a monster who had thrown him away to die, so his face is a looming shadow; his adoptive father wasn't there when Loki needed him, so he is shiny, but asleep). I added a cap of his adoptive mother hugging his brother Thor (and not him), while Thor looks at him angrily. Finally, in the bottom there is New York's skyline with explosions, symbolizing Loki's attempt to get himself a new kingdom, and Loki himself wearing his full war gear (which hopefully works as a symbol of how he's hardened and hidden his wounded feelings deep under the armor of anger and denial).
The Hollow Crown (feat. King Henry V) I know that technically the quote and the picture are from different plays; I made this wallpaper before the whole thing started airing and didn't realize it back then. So let's just pretend it's a part of the concept. :P
Mostly, requests that I've done over the summer, plus a couple of challenge entries. To be honest, I'm not terribly happy with how they turned out - but I wasted spent too much time on them not to post them, so... Oh, well. %) I'll really appreciate concrit though.
About the text on the icons: 15,18-20 - lyrics by Florence and the Machine ("[It's a fine romance, but it's] left me so undone") 16,17 - based on Tony's quip about Loki's, uh, perfornance :) 22, 23 - Tony's words from The Avengers and the first Iron Man movie respectively 27 - quote from The Avengers ("[If we can't protect the Earth,] you can be damn sure we'll avenge it") 28 - quote from Tom Hiddleston :) 32, 33 - lyrics by Blue Oyster Cult ("We've been living in the flames") 36 - lyrics by Within Temptation ("Make my heart a better place", the song played when Damon and Elena waltzed in the ep. Miss Mystic Falls) 37 - lyrics by Florence and the Machine ("[Sometimes I] wish for falling")
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