... would you believe I started making these things sometime before Christmas?

Too bad my parents interrupted and insisted that I went over to theirs, because by the time I got back to London I'd got my second wind. I was just beginning to get bored with the whole process of icon making before I left, but I returned with a mad burning lust for icons (yes, I lust for icons. I am a strange woman.) and - well, I'll go into the gruesome details later. Needless to say I am here and I bring icons.



Brushes by (roll call!) colortone, perfetc__, twistedswanton, sugarplumkitten, joyfulsong, sheepy_hollow, snarkybecky, merely_anger forbiddenstorm, ghost_sheep, inxsominax, raynedanser, framedinblood, colorfilter, sinecure, lil_brokenangel, masquerademasks, fading_coal, nebulein, cool_graphix, nv1978, cae_prince, justmi, and mutsie_brushes, - sourced, as ever, in 100x100_brushes.

... seriously, don't ask me where this came from (apart from the new brushes, which were a sort of present to myself after I finished that FarfKen fic). I should have known that getting the urge to make that stupid Kase/Ken icon you can see up there... somewhere would spiral out of control. These things always do seem to spiral out of control.

Fifty-five icons later I finally decided I was bored.

References I Can Actually Remember Making:

• ... well, first off, there are more Guns n' Roses lyrics in there than you can shake a very large stick at. Some of them are supposed to be really deep, some of them I just thought sounded cool. I won't bother naming all the tracks individually, for the simple reason that there's just too many of them. This isn't my fault, mind, as I wasn't the one who introduced me to them. If anyone is responsible for this icon dump, it's the person who got me into them. Namely the ever-amazing cards_slash.
  
  
• Speaking of Card and her ever-present amazingness, if you have no idea why there's a Ken icon that says 'Oh Shit, It's Friday', you've obviously never read the Five Ways... series and must rectify this immediately.
  
  
• The lyric 'virtual insanity' comes from the Jamiroquai song of the same name. I don't even like that song, but after half an hour spent staring at that icon and wondering what to write on it, I took the first thing that seemed even partway apt.
  
  
• 'Just a Survivor' is the title of a song from the boysmutty anime Sukisho - the only link to Weiss is a couple of the voice artists - which I have never seen and don't feel I particularly want to. I have got a couple of the songs, though I don't think they're all that remarkable. Still, one of them is called 'Just a Survivor' and you can't tell me that doesn't suit Ken just wonderfully.
  
  
• The FarfKen fic referred to in the 'I'm not doing this' icon actually exists.
  
  
• Those purple icons: they're far more twisted than they look. See, the lyrics on them are from songs by, yes, Guns n' Roses again, all chosen for a deep and meaningful reason of deep meaningfulness which is again connected with a fanfic arc. Yes, again it's by Card. This is because Card is not so secretly awesome. Anyway, the arc in question is currently complicating my life with sequelitis, but I had to do something to prove how awesome it is, so I made some icons to... accompany it, I guess. The fics in question are being posted to aff.n under the title Witness to My Crime, but to Card and me they'll always be the Mindfuckery Fics. If you read only one piece of twisted WK fic this year and aren't interested in FarfKen, you need to read this arc.
  
  
• Oh yeah, and 'we were looking for badgers' was a really crap excuse given by Ron Davis, MP, as to why the police had caught him in the bushes with a young male constituent...
  

Same rules as ever: any and all of these icons are, of course, eminently gankable should anybody out there feel they so desire. Credit would be gratefully appreciated (oh so very gratefully) but is not necessary as I won't hound you down with pitchforks for deciding not to.