Some new icons

[regshoe]

snowflake_challenge #10 is to create a fanwork. The challenge post encourages us to consider all sorts of different types of fanworks, not just fic, and since most of the fanworks I create are fic I thought I'd try something different and make some icons! Now, I am not very good at making icons, but I like making them, and I firmly believe in doing things that bring fannish joy even if one isn't very good at them; also the ability to have multiple icons and match them to the post or comment is one of my favourite things about Dreamwidth, but I don't think I really make the most of it, and clearly having a wider range of icons will help me to do so.

This is from the cover illustration of the edition of The Last of the Wine that I read a while ago, because I totally need a Mary Renault icon. I think those lambdas are upside down—unless it varies? I don't actually know the Greek alphabet—but never mind:



This line from The Flight of the Heron delights me and I've wanted an icon with it for ages. Ideal for all sorts of Ewen/Keith posts and comments :D



The text here is a line from the Jacobite song 'Both Sides the Tweed'. I like it a lot (I have also used it as a fic title before), and I foresee wide applicability to D. K. Broster books and other historical fandoms:



And a Tolkien icon! The background is my own photograph of the Ridgeway, which seemed like an appropriate Road to use here:

Comments

[dr_zook]

I firmly believe in doing things that bring fannish joy even if one isn't very good at them - that's such an important reminder, thank you! I also love what you did there, especially with your own scarf, ha! ♥

[regshoe]

:)

Thank you—I had been trying to think of what background to use with that quote for a while, and then I thought of the scarf... :D