It's apparently my birthday. Oh. Well, that's interesting - and you know you're getting old when your birthday becomes a day it would be nice to massively celebrate but the world won't end if it ain't.

I'm 24. Shouldn't I be more mature than this at 24?

Shouldn't I have had at least one decent offline relationship, and perhaps be thinking about getting on the property ladder and starting a pension scheme? Shouldn't I have a better idea of my own sexuality than 'probably bi shading to gay but I don't know'? Shouldn't I not be fangirling out over Ken Hidaka every hour God sends and some he don't, and have more productive pastimes than the writing of fic, the snarking at badfic, the making of icons and the drawing of fanart?

Shouldn't I, in short, be an adolescent with pastimes like this? Wow, guess what? I'm an adult geek. This is both a bad thing, because the shamelessly geeky aren't particularly popular, and a good thing because hey, who but a geek appreciates the joys of hunting down drama CD transcripts and fangirling out over OAVs at three in the morning?

Here: have some icons.

Brushes by masquerademasks, merely_anger and sugarplumkitten - at least I think they are - and a few other souls whose names I can't recall and wish I could so I could give credit, but I got them all from 100x100_brushes aroud December.

... I think I'm finally getting the hang of this icon thing.

References - because there are plenty:

• Lyrics in the first and only set come from Yuki Kajiura's Aura because I wanted to make an icon set using them since I first heard the song. The lyric 'way too close to the edge' is from See-Saw's Edge. I really hope I never decide I like .hack//sign or I'm screwed for icon quotes.



• The Ouka icon was inspired by way too many terrible Suefics in which some annoying OC flaunts her Kewl Credentials by immediately explaining how much she hates one of the canon women and how much cooler than her she is - and usually it's Ouka. I doubt Ouka likes your Sue either, fanbrat. Oh, and Yuriko? Way cooler than any of the girls you habitually aim at Ken.



• Ken and the cosmic authors? A joke on fanficcers including myself, as well as series canon: series canon was also the rationale behind 'Canon will fuck you up' - the image on that is (unsurprisingly) from one of the Dramatic Precious CD covers.



• All the things I've referenced in the animated Ken icon come from fics I personally have read (come on, RanKen shippers - they don't like each other. Doesn't mean they can't have sex, but for God's sake explain yourselves instead of just telling us Ken Wants On all of a sudden). Yes, I'm scared too.



• Ten points to anyone out there who worked out where the quote on that Youji icon came from. For those who didn't: Lord Flashheart in Britcom Blackadder The Second and you can't tell me it doesn't suit Youji...

The only one of these icons I would appreciate it if people didn't gank is 'White' and that's only because it's my new default and I'd kind of like to keep that unique to me - not bad for an icon I made on the spur of the moment because I was in an experimental kind of mood. Not that I can stop you, of course (just don't tell me because I'll be annoyed). Feel free to use any of the others if general-you like; credit would be appreciated but is by no means essential.

Oh yeah, and I apparently have an OTP.

Brushes by snarkybecky in 100x100_brushes, yet again.

... and we all know what 'subtext' is an anagram of.

I apologize for the use of the same image. Blame the lack of decent images of Youji and Ken together (Omi's always getting in the way) and my own inability to stop thinking up silly captions. All of course gankable if anyone wants them, because my OTP needs far more love than it's presently getting.

Right, that's me done. Going to go save a fic for sporking purposes and eat something now, and maybe crosspost these things to the amazingly torpid weiss_icons. But not right now.