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#229: Icons

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:45:37 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

I think these are the first icons I made since April 2025. Like I said in my previous post, I'm not completely gone from the icon community.
These were made for retro_icontest. Round 35 uses an old challenge from somein30, called Icon Crossing. I also entered the original round here. Just like the first time, I'm using normal mode. I'm far too rusty by now to try anything else. I'm also not super happy with most of these, but I have to start somewhere if I want to get back into making icons. Since I was not sure I'd manage to enter, I didn't even ask tinny to randomize the pairs for me and just used the instructions posted with the challenge to do it myself ;)

Round 35 at retro_icontest : The Diplomat, Heated Rivalry, KPop Demon Hunters

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#228: Icons

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:27:15 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Happy New Year!
What can I say? I made 27 icons this year. I don't really feel like putting this community "officially" on hiatus, because I'm still interested in making icons and I'm still around, commenting on icon posts, voting, and making praise posts. So I'm not 100% inactive...anyway, here are the 15 icons I haven't posted yet, most of them were made for stocklove much earlier this year.

001-011 Stock
012-015 Electric Callboy

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#227: Icons

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:45:55 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

I was already preparing excuses for why my first update of 2025 is so late, but apparently I'm still earlier than last year. When retro_icontest posted this round based on an old technique20in20 challenge, I really wanted to enter. I loved this community back in the day and always thought I made pretty good icons for it. You can find the set I originally made for that challenge here. I'm not super happy with these, but considering how rusty I am, it's okay ;)

Round 25 at retro_icontest : Lockwood & Co., Ghost (band)

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#226: Icons

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:48:11 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Happy New Year! Finally, the icons I made for various challenges during the second half of 2024. I wish I could say I'll update more frequently in 2025, but I have no idea if that will happen. I hope I'll at least be as active as I was in 2024 ;)

001-009 Stock
010-015 Agatha All Along
016-020 Fallout
021-037 Interview with the Vampire
038-040 Lucifer
041-053 My Lady Jane
054-058 Supernatural

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#225: Icons

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:34:59 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

I actually made more icons during the second half of 2024, but never got around to posting them here. Instead of unceremoniously dumping +70 icons at the end of the year, I at least wanted to make a separate post for the icons from the My Lady Jane battle. Big thank you to tinny for hosting this battle (I helped a bit with the banner and themes)! You can find the icons from the other participants and the themes here.

[28] My Lady Jane

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#224: Icons

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:48:50 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Look at me entering monthlyinspo! The theme is Me and My Best Friend. My plan was to only use show I'm currently watching/watched recently, but I couldn't find the screencaps I wanted. So I threw in Only Murders in the Building since that will start again soon. I feel like I did manage to end up with a somewhat coherent set by removing the backgrounds that I am rather happy with.

Round 62 at monthlyinspo: Evil, Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building

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#223: Icons

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:55:05 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

So, first update this year. In case you're wondering what took so long: I could still feel the effects of Covid until February/March and didn't do much besides work, I booked a vacation which I then prepared for months on the weekends (yes, you can "overplan" a trip), and then came back from that vacation with Covid. Yay. At least this time the effects don't seem to last as long. For the first half of 2024, I can only share 25 icons, but that's better than nothing I guess...

001-020 Stock
021-025 Movies (Barbie; Red, White & Royal Blue; Tenet)

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Best of '23 Promo

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:44:15 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

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#222: Icons

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:06:55 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

In the end it was not my new job that prevented me from making more icons and updating this community in 2023, but getting Covid in October. Even though it was a mild case (or what is typically referred to as one), it reduced my energy levels. That effect is still persisting. Icons and related activities, and keeping up with DW/LJ in general, had to fall by the wayside. I hope to get back into icon making some time next year or at least keep up with what everyone else is doing. For now, here are all the unposted icons I made until September.

001-011 Stock
012-017 Video games (The Curse of Monkey Island, The Sims)
018-020 Linkin Park
021-032 Ghosts
033-046 TV Shows (His Dark Materials, Interview with the Vampire, The Last of Us, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, The Witcher, The X-Files)
047-052 Movies (Glass Onion, Hamilton, Lightyear, Zootopia)

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#221: Icons

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 12:44:38 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

It hasn't actually been thaaaaat long since my last entry (I definitely think it has been worse before^^) and I have been making icons (as recent as July!). However, my laptop with Photoshop is on its last legs. I did actually get a new one already, but I haven't set up anything yet. The resolution is higher though, so now icons look really small...I do still have a backlog of icons I can post here. Let's start simple with just two different sections. Stock (made for stocklove_ic) and Shadow and Bone icons made for various challenges. The majority come from the battle sietepecados organized. Go here to see the corresponding episodes and everyone else's icons!

001-030 Stock
031-059 Shadow and Bone

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#220: Icons

Sun, 28 May 2023 14:37:15 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Here is my entry for monthlyinspo's The Cropping Game. I did one icon per theme and made them muted for cohesion and convenience. I also picked Andor because I thought that it would work well for this challenge. That's it ;)

Round 48 at monthlyinspo: Andor

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#219: Icons

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 10:19:30 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Happy Easter! The long weekend seems like a good time to finally post the icons from the Top Gun: Maverick battle (click the link to see all icons). Big thank you to narnialover7 for hosting this awesome battle! I ended up with 13 alts, so I didn't add them to my original submission. It seemed a bit excessive lol
Style-wise these are all over the place because I really took my time with them. I started a day after the themes were posted and submitted a couple of days before the deadline. I really just made 1-2 icons per day. The format is very similar to a 20in20, so this is how I decided to post them here.

[33] Top Gun: Maverick

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Best of '22: Result

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:11:37 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

This time I was much faster posting my best of result! Before I'm starting though, I want to mention some "admin" stuff. I'm starting a new, my first full-time, job tomorrow. While I don't want to stop iconing, I can't say how frequently I will do so in the future. You know that I sometimes forget to post on here for months. So it's possible that I'm around to make icons, but it might get even quieter here. That said, I do have a bunch of icons from the Top Gun: Maverick battle that still need to be posted, but then I finished the monthlyinspo icons and figured to space them out some ;)

And now to the main event. My best of 2022 results.
The winner:

( Top 9, personal picks and explanation )

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#218: Icons

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:42:00 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

The first new icons I'm posting this year! Not the first ones I made, but you know what happens here lol
I didn't even think I would enter this round of monthlyinspo . Then I decided to just look for some screencaps that would do most of the work for me which is how I settled on the fandoms. Nothing fancy here. I think they turned out okay and I liked making the full 20 this time.

Round 45 at monthlyinspo : Annihilation, Our Flag Means Death

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#217: Icons

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:12:04 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Happy New Year! Here are (as always?) my unposted icons of 2022. For some reason I have not posted any of the stock icons I made last year.

001-041 Stock
042-052 Movies (Arrival, Lightyear, The Lost City, Tenet)
053-075 TV Shows (A Discovery of Witches, Babylon Berlin, Ghosts, The Good Place, The Orville, Our Flag Means Death, Russian Doll, Schitt's Creek, Shadow and Bone, Westworld)

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#216: Icons

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:59:08 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

No matter what theme/prompt/challenge I sat in front of this month, nothing happened. I really wanted to enter both of these though. monthlyinspo had a grab bag and when I ask for one, I'll make something for it! Round 20 is the final round of somein30, so I also had to enter that one. I only did five icons when my personal minimum is usually ten. Like I said, nothing worked for me this month. I'm not happy with the first five icons, but then I decided to go with the same approach as tinny which worked much better for me :D

Round 43 at monthlyinspo: Top Gun: Maverick

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Round 20 at somein30: Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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#215: Icons

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 16:02:19 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

After the MCU-only post, here is a Star Wars-only post. Again, it includes icons from two different movieslims rounds. So there are two sections for alternates. On January 1 I'll post all other leftovers from 2022 which will be a bigger post. Hopefully I'll manage to enter at least monthlyinspo before that though.

001-005 Obi-Wan Kenobi
006-040 The Book of Boba Fett
041-051 The Rise of Skywalker

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Best of '21: Result

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:40:01 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Best of is starting again soon and I never made an entry for last year's result. I had the icons neatly tucked away in a folder, but never made an entry for it. Then when all that LJ/DW stuff happened, I also kinda forgot about it. Well, this is the perfect opportunity to also promote this year's activities, I guess ;)

The winner:

( Top 12, personal picks and explanation )

bestof_icons || activities start December 16

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#214: Icons

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 18:22:23 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Last day of the extended deadline and I'm finally posting my entry for monthlyinspo. First I wasn't sure what fandom to use. Thor: Love and Thunder seemed perfect, but initially I was too lazy to go through 80 pages of caps. I thought I'd use another fandom which had a gallery that I could sort by most viewed. That didn't happen and in the end I went through 80 pages of caps. When I had them and finally started my set, I got some neck/shoulder pain which made using Photoshop kinda difficult. My set was original 10 icons, but there were some I wanted to redo since they didn't really fit in with the rest (keeping the original background and mainly monochrome coloring), these are icons 11 and 12.

Round 42 at monthlyinspo: Thor: Love and Thunder

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#213: Icons

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:51:51 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

I haven't made that many icons over the Summer, so I guess it's not too bad that there are icons from February I haven't posted yet. I did also forget to crosspost older entries for a while. These are only MCU icons and it's been a looong time since I made a MCU only post. To be fair, this one does include icons from two different movieslims rounds. That's why there are two sections for alternates ;)

001-008 TV Shows (Agent Carter, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, The Punisher, WandaVision)
009-023 Hawkeye
024-030 Movies (Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok)
031-058 Black Widow

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#212: Icons

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:00:48 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

I made it! I finished a second set for somein30, this time with a TV show. Recently I watched Schitt's Creek and it did seem perfect for this challenge. I did the last season and used hard mode. My original plan was to represent the episode titles in some way, but I ended with what I think are recognizable caps.

Round 18 at somein30: Schitt's Creek

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#211: Icons

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:17:53 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

During the Summer months I barely made any icons, but I also neglected to update this community with the (by now) old icons have still laying around *sighs*
So here is my entry for somein30. I picked Extra Hard Mode. I'm in a bit of a Star Wars mood after playing the Lego Skywalker Saga which makes this mode much easier. They are in chronological order since that's also how I played the game. I tried to tie them all together by adding some grunge to every icon. The icons from the new movies still look very different with their more vibrant coloring. I'd love to do another set which fits a bit more with the theme and use a TV show, but I'm not sure if that will happen. I also feel a tad bit rusty, so these are pretty simple overall, but it still took me a while to make them.

Round 18 at somein30: Star Wars

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#210: Icons

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:15:18 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

I have not made any post that wasn't made for a specific challenge here this year yet. Sorry!? The Witcher icons are actually from the same LIMS as the icons I posted on January 2. They have been a couple of LIMS icons since then which always means I make a lot of alternates. I'll be making a couple of smaller posts, 30-40 icons, but probably not in quick succession. At least all icons made in January are out of the way...

001-004 Free Guy
005-011 TV Shows (The Boys, Evil, Good Girls, Kin, Westworld)
012-016 The Expanse
017-034 The Witcher

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#209: Icons

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:49:17 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

Here is what I refer to as my main set for the current somein30 challenge. It uses hard mode and I have to say that I'm rather proud of it. Not because the icons are particularly usable, but it was quite the project. Again, not even the icons itself, but finding the right subjects/screencaps, how to interpret certain songs, and make it all fit together. Since I already made a mini set for the challenge, I did take my time for this one and doesn't matter how close to the deadline I enter. That said, I did not work on it for a month after initially starting like a day after it was posted. Below the icon table is lengthy(?) write-up about the album itself and the inspiration for each icon.

Round 16 at somein30: The Blacklist, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Handmaid's Tale, Person of Interest, Snowpiercer

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Animated icons

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:43:00 GMT

Posted by: violateraindrop

LJ increased the size of userpics a while ago to 100kb. I only noticed that DW's limit was smaller when I transferred over my own userpics. I have now changed the size of the nine icons this applied to. They are all under 60kb now. I have switched them out in their respective posts, but also posted them below for easy access.

( all 9 icons )

Someone graciously purchased some paid account time for me. Thank you! Now I can upload some more icons :D

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