Well, I'm a bit late with this icon dump - but a few hours can be forgiven when I had at least 100 icons to upload and HTML-Table-Ize (there must be a neater way of saying this) - at least I hope they can, because late is what I am. I blame... I don't know, I blame the sheer boredom that is dealing with all this HTML, and Photobucket's decision to strip the image names from their uploads. Makes the whole business so much more long-winded and troublesome than it has to be.

Oh well, at least it's done, or as done as it's going to get. Now watch me decide to make another icon in two weeks' time and not post it for public use for another year.


Brushes by all the usual suspects - namely 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 in 100x100_brushes.

References I Can Remember Making:

Far more song lyrics in this batch than I would care to count...

• Lyrics on the first (slightly washed-out) set of four Weiss icons come from Hyde's '666'.


• Lyrics on the second set of four Weiss icons come from 'Everybody Wants The Same Thing' by the Scissor Sisters. As usual, Youji proved to be an utter bitch to find lyrics for. Why it's always Youji who gives me headaches regarding brushes, color schemes and quotes whenever I do a Weiss icon set I have no idea.


• Further Scissor Sisters lyrics can be found on six other icons.


• By contrast, the lyrics on the Schwarz icon set come from 'Future' by Leonard Cohen. (Whose songs are, of course, made of Purest Win and Awesome: there are lyrics from 'The Partisan' on one of the Aya icons in this batch, too.) What this says about my conception of Weiss and Schwarz I hardly like to contemplate. The first time I heard that song I wanted to make a Schwarz icon set for it, something I am sure I wouldn't have done if I had never put my MP3 player onto Shuffle in the first place, which says more about me than I might like to think, too.


• For some reason, the Pet Shop Boys song 'Opportunities' makes me think of Omi, and to this end I stuck lyrics from it on an Omi icon.


• Other artists and groups whose lyrics I have shamelessly appropriated include Duran Duran, The Killers, Don Henley, Heaven Seventeen, Jessica Riddle, Blur, Barenaked Ladies, Dashboard Confessional and at least one more group whose name totally slips my mind now. And that's even without including the text brushes I've been using, most of which also involve song lyrics.


• And finally, 'Sepia Lady' is of course the title of one of Omi's image songs

Other random references...

• 'We are the dead' is a line from 1984. George Orwell no doubt thought that having his prose raped for the sake of a really crappy Reality TV show was the nadir of his posthumous career, but that was before he ended up on a Weiss Kreuz icon. I suspect he is spinning in his grave.


• 'Oh shit, we're trapped in a plot hole' - do I even need to explain this one?


• Aya Fujimiya is Inigo Montoya. Except he's not, because if I ever get round to writing that Princess Bride parody I randomly worked out the castings for once upon a lengthy shower, he's actually going to be Buttercup. Youji is Inigo in that. But that wouldn't make for a funny icon.


• As regards it sucking to be Ken, this is a private joke that has ill-advisedly gone public. Once again the source is cards_slash and her awesome, though these days she is largely aiming her awesome at the Dukes of Hazzard fandom. Her Five Ways series is still some of the funniest things the Weiss Kreuz fandom has going for it, though. Anyway, the joke in question relates to Ken's total inability to catch a break, at least where fanfic goes - if he's not being horribly tormented, it's because he's being completely sidelined. Because he hits Aya, you know.


• The story referred to in 'Omi and Ken discover slash fiction' exists. The original is actually a fic arc, but that's really not much of an excuse. I think just about the only person who got away without being raped was the cat.


• The OC referrred to in 'Aya Sues: The Truth!' also exists. Her full name is Serenity Raven Kath'rynn Sakura Enigma Hikari Akegata and, if that wasn't clue enough, she was conceived (though, admittedly, it was by me) as The Ultimate Weiss Sue. She really is meant to be that bad.

Usual rules apply - take them if you like them if you don't just pretend I never posted. Credit to quietladybirman would be gratefully appreciated, but I get enough of a kick out of just seeing these icons showing up in random places, so it's really not essential. It would just make me *glee* a bit.