Week 116 Challenge

[missy42]

Anyone have an oil can handy? Because boy am I rusty!

Theme Challenge

This week's theme:
shiny
There are only three rules for these icons:

1. You must use an image from the 1982 animated film The Last Unicorn
   
2. The icon must somehow emphasize the theme.
   
3. If you're confused by anything, or have any questions, just ask. My contact info can be found in the community's info page.

Other notes: Any text is acceptable, though quotes from The Last Unicorn, either the movie or the novel, are preferable. Brushes, borders, etc. are perfectly fine. Also, it is perfectly acceptable for the text and/or brushes etc. in the icon convey the theme. Of course, all the usual rules also apply (you can't show your icon to anyone until after the winners have been announced, icons must be up to lj's standards, no animation, etc.).

Tarot Challenge

This week's card:
16 The Tower

This is another one of my favourite Tarot cards, not so much because it's positive, but because it's another one of the few cards I can actually interpret without having to look it up. The Tower (sometimes called "The Lightning-Struck Tower") depicts a tower planted on shaky ground. It is crumbling, having been struck by lightning, and figures can be seen falling from it. At it's most basic level, it stands for "a sudden change, abandonment of past, ending a friendship, unexpected events, disruption, bankruptcy, downfall, loss of money or security", according to The Mystic Eye, and inverted it stands for "following old ways, a rut, entrapment, caught in a bad situation, imprisonment."

My understanding of this card is that The Tower represents the illusion and impermanence of the feeble material world. If this card it drawn, it means that the querant is on shaky ground, and it may appear as though the world around him or her is crumbling. True, it means a major upheaval for the querant, but keep in mind, sometimes things need to crumble in order to build something new. A more detailed description for The Hanged Man can be found at both Aeclectic Tarot and Lost and Found.

There are only four rules for these icons:

1. You must include the name of the card - in this case, "The Tower" - somewhere on the icon. (The number - 16, in this case - is optional, and Roman Numerals are acceptable.)
   
2. The icon must somehow convey the traditional meaning of the Major Arcana card it is meant to represent.
   
3. You must use an image from the 1982 animated film The Last Unicorn. Use of multiple images is acceptable, so long as they're from the 1982 animated film The Last Unicorn.
   
4. If you're confused by anything, or have any questions, just ask. My contact info can be found in the community's info page.

Other notes: Any text is acceptable, though quotes from The Last Unicorn, either the movie or the novel, are preferable. That being said, I do want to reiterate to everyone that Tarot cards were made for an illiterate society, and thus heavily image-based. So I would like to encourage our icon-makers to keep with this tradition, but I won't throw out any icons with additional text on them. Brushes, borders, etc. are perfectly fine. Also, it is perfectly acceptable for the text and/or brushes etc. in the icon to convey the themes of the card. Of course, all the usual rules also apply (you can't show your icon to anyone until after the winners have been announced, icons must be up to lj's standards, no animation, etc.).

A maximum of TWO entries for the Theme Challenge, and TWO for the Tarot Challenge, please.

Be sure to

read the rules

keep your icon to yourself once you've submitted until voting has closed.

get them in by midnight Pacific time this Saturday, December 1st, 2007 Monday, December 3rd, 2007.

ask me any questions if you're confused about anything.

submit entries for this challenge to this post only. Comments will be screened.

Now go forth and create icons!

♥

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