*dies*

I should have been writing this weekend (or my cracked-out, student nurse's version of same). I wanted to be writing this weekend, but instead I spent most of the preceding two days trying to make icons, having been discovered by the fiends at 100x100_brushes. Who proceeded to kill me with their skill and make me want to try and make something prettiful.

Okay, so icons. Yeah. Experimental icons. Weiss and Schwarz. Yup, she made an actual icon set. It's the first time I've tried to use brushes, not having photoshop, and having to laboriously go through and turn all the image packs I grabbed into custom brush tips in Paint Shop Pro took absolutely ages. Not least of which because I didn't know how to do it and oh, the secret shame, resorted to USING THE HELP FILE.

[Brush credits: joyfulsong for the spatters and sugarplumkitten for the borders. You have mad skillz.]

If anyone out there sees these things and likes them, feel free to take them but please, please, please credit them to quietladybirman, if only because of all the sleep deprivation I went through for the sake of just goddamn well finishing the damned things.

All things considered, I don't think they came out so bad for all the trouble I had with them.

Anyway: the lyrics I used come from Hyde's Masquerade, and this is all his fault because if I hadn't been listening to that while coming home on the bus the other day I would never have made these icons and would have been able to write this weekend after all. So it's his fault and if it hadn't been for him I might have finished typing up the Bus Notes I've been making, which is what I really wanted to do with my time off and now probably won't get finished before I go back to work tomorrow. Damn the man.

... okay, I admit it, I made the Ken one first. And wouldn't have bothered making them at all if it hadn't been for the fact that the song in question made me think of Ken. Well, Ken first and foremost but all the others came a bit later. At about the point I realized I could use a few of the quotes for the others and decided to make 'em into a proper set as opposed to me shoving song lyrics on a series of images chosen totally at random then pointing at them and saying 'it's a set!'

Might go whore these things out on wk_icons in a bit (they took me long enough), but the jury's still out on that one. Because I like that comm and I got some good icons there, but they scare me because most of them are much better than I am.

Okay, so I kind of want to, but maybe I'll just leave it until I've done a few more and post 'em all together in a big batch. I want to make some more icons like the ones I've been doing which are very plain and have silly captions in the background, like that one I made of Ken having a bad day. And I want to make a few more badfic icons. There aren't enough Weiss badfic icons out there. And I think my OTP deserves more icon-love as well.

Yeah, I'm going to wait and then spam them with enough icons to choke a large badger.

Badfic-related side note: If you visit sue_confession, you'll see something terrible I have never before admitted to. THE STU. MY Stu. The hideous character I created aged twelve, not having the sense to realize I was doing, yet had the residual sense not to show anybody. Good thing, too; on cold reflection he's one of the biggest and most unsubtle Stus I've ever seen, heard or read about. Feel free to point and laugh - the little hellspawn, and the idiot I was at twelve, both deserve it.