Jan. 21st, 2023

regshoe: A folded red-and-green tartan scarf, with text 'certainly not philanthropy' (Philanthropy)
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[community profile] 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:

Orange-and-black illustration in the style of an Ancient Greek terracotta vase, showing head and upper body of a young man with Greek text '𝚨𝚲𝚬𝚵𝚰𝚨𝚺 𝚱𝚨𝚲𝚶𝚺'

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

A folded red-and-green tartan scarf, with text 'certainly not philanthropy'

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:

Photograph of a sunrise, with text 'honour's the sun of the mind'

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

Photo of a white chalk road bordered by green hedges, with text 'there are many paths to tread'

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