I'll cut this out soon enough, I promise. It's just that I'm kind of having fun with icons about now and while the impulse lasts, I might as well indulge it. It's not like this happens to me often, so I might as well just go with the impulse while it lasts.

Anyway, I made those grayscale Youji icons shiny, too, because now I'd updated all the Ken ones, it just made the Youji ones look even less inspired than they had been doing already, which really wasn't very fair since Youji is hot and has very pretty hair and as such deserves to look good at all times. And, since I was there, I made a couple of extra ones. I have a horrible feeling I want rather more Youji icons. Especially of manga Youji, because he's just so pretty.

See, look, he's pretty, damn it.

Brush credits are, as before, snarkybecky in 100x100_brushes.

And then, of course, there is this.

Yeah. This. Which is just... well, the idea came to me completely at random last night, so I just had to see what I could do with it. Turned out what I could do with it was, um, this. Forgive me, I was overtired. Or something.

It wasn't originally going to be animated. But that would have just been boring.

Anyway, it took me like... four goes to get this thing working properly. The first one's file size was so small it meant I could get a few more frames in and get the thing looking a lot less choppy. The second, inevitably, had too many frames so the file was far too large. Decreasing the color depth only worked in that it made the file size smaller, because it meant the colors changed from frame to frame. Third time round, I got the right color depth and the right number of frames, only to discover that I should have been making the animation from the bottom up in order to get everything even.

Though I have a horrible feeling if I hadn't been working on a fanservice!Ken icon I wouldn't have bothered doing the thing over four times so it was just right. Oh shut up.

This isn't my fault. I blame fanficrants.

You see, girl needs a good 'WTF' icon when she haunts a comm dedicated to plunging a spork deep into the heart of badfics everywhere and exposing the batshit crazy for all the world to see. The fact that my 'WTF' icon happens to have Ken in the shower on it is neither here nor there!

Anyway - I notice LJ now boasts a 'current location' feature. Which baffles me a bit. How many computers do these people think the average user makes the habit of posting from? For me it's a grand total of one. How interesting is it going to be to know that yup, I'm still posting from the corner of a dining room in south London?

Call me cynical, but I honestly can't see many people getting much use out of this thing...