Everybody's doing it, I'll do it too.

Basically, once upon a day off some time back, I once again had writer's block. Instead of staring at my monitor doing MSTs, I had a certifiably stupid notion for which I should have been shot on general principle brilliant idea. This idea was that, as everyone else seemed to make icons for their OTPs, I'd do it too, because my OTP was easily as good as all the ones I'd seen knocking about the place and din't seem to have any icon-love at all.

Never mind that I didn't know quite what OTP stood for. I did know, however, that it was Youji and Ken and that, what the hell, I wanted to make icons anyway, they looked damned cute together and it wasn't like I had anything better to do, so why on Earth not?

Okay, I edited the images. The first one is really edited. Youji and Ken are together in the original images I took them from, but in both cases one half of the pairing came out looking a little crazy, so I just went for the decent pictures and brought them together. And I edited out a load of speech bubbles and drew half Ken's shirt. In the second two the guys were already next to one another - I just brought them a little bit closer. Well, I had to, she said, clinging to holier-than-thou jusifications in a desperate attempt to camoflage her true dark slash fanatic's intentions. I only have a 100 x 100 canvas to play with, I can't be doing with empty space...

It's totally incidental that I happen to think Youji and Ken look damned cute together. And anyway Kyoko Tsuchiya agrees with me going by a lot of her artwork, she has them stand rather too close to one another a lot and OMGTHERELUVISSEWCANON!!!1!111!1!one!!

*stuffs Inner Slash Fangirl in a closet* Ignore her, she's a loony. Um... Icons!

Why do I have so many similar images, only with different text underneath? Because I like it like that. Because I thought of far too many captions and didn't have enough patience to sit there making OTP icon images all afternoon. But mainly it was because I wanted to.

If anyone out there is crazy enough to want to take any of these icons (or, in fact, any of my icons, all of which were made by my own fair hands which is why they're none of them all that great) and use them, feel free. I won't be beating a path to lj_abuse with pitchforks and firebrands as a result, complaining that someone has 'stolen' my 'art'. I mean, god damn, they're only icons. They're little 100 x 100 glyphs which took me little enough effort to make, and they're not even animated.

Besides, I'd be kinda pleased if this wasn't just my OTP, yaknow?