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 )

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 )

In February I took time off from everything icon-related, so I also never posted my results for bestof-icons. I don't think this is the first time it took me this long though.

The winner:


( Top 5, personal picks and explanation )

A couple of days ago the winners of bestof-icons were posted. Here are the results for 2019.

The winner:


( Top 13, personal picks and explanation )

The last two years I never got around to posting the results of the bestof-icons voting, even though I always wanted to. So here's the entry for 2018!

The winner:


( Top 9, personal picks and explanation )

I'm posting this as a separate entry since it's kinda long to put in an icon post, although I'm probably going to link it in the next one ;)

Anyway, as you may have noticed, I took another, longer and unplanned break. This time several things came together. It started with my laptop slowly dying. I noticed a weird clicking sound, brought it to the shop where I bought it (nearly seven years ago), they told me that the hard drive was starting to fail and one day it would just stop working. So I stopped using programs that put too much strain (i.e. Photoshop) on it and concentrated on saving data. Following that I went on a little vacation (with the old laptop^^) and then spend some time setting my new(/refurbished) laptop up. The good news is that this one is so much faster!

After that was done, my back pain (which I mentioned here before) came back full force. That meant a lot of lying down and I can't really make icons in that position. I also used that time to watch some shows, so even though I had icons I could post, I never did *blushes*

Since back pain alone isn't enough, I also noticed being very tired and a lack of motivation for the past couple of months. That was (or at least in part) untreated hypothyroidism or underactive thyroid. I must have developed it during the last 12 months since I get frequent checkups. I started taking medication a little over a week ago and I'm definitely less tired now.

Hopefully that all means I can go back to updating this community a little more frequently and making some icons again.

As I said in my last entry, I took a break last month, but I still wanted to post the results, even though it's been ages.

The Winner:


( Top 15, personal picks and explanation )

New layout! I've been 'over' the old one for a while, but couldn't find one I wanted to use right away. And I swear, the next update will include icons again. However, I wanted to post my Best of '14 results and it got a little too long for putting it into my next icons post.

The Winner


( Top 10, personal picks and explanation )