http://emiels.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] emiels.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] thenightvale2016-02-17 11:03 pm

seven

10 x Dragon Age
10 x Mass Effect





01-05
06-10
11-15
16-20


Rolls: 1, 1, 3, 6, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 6, 2, 5, 2, 5, 4, 6, 4, 2, 3, 3

I didn't want to just take the first 10 rolls and use them for ME icons, and the next 10 for DA, or go down the path of least resistance and use each roll for the fandom it fits more, so I went with the theme of the challenge and used a d20 die to assign the rolls to fandoms.

I ended up with no texture themes, which is sad, and with what feels like ALL the song themes, which is even sadder, because none of the songs actually fit my chosen subjects. Or they did fit, but I hated the song, and therefore refused to use it. And I wanted to icon 20 different characters, 10 faves from each fandom, so I had to engage in some inspiration gymnastics to make it all work... But somehow it all turned out well in the end, I think ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My goal here was to experiment a bit, don't just go cut out/solid bg/subtle texture on top for every icon, and while they're not as creative as they could be, I think I didn't fail.... completely. I even tried that gradient map coloring that's popular these days, and it was surprisingly fun :U (next goal: try it on real people) (next next goal: try a crop that's not center)

1. (1) Box #1 technical theme - stock
2. (5) Box #6 song - Bebe Rexha - Gone
3. (12) Box #4 song - Thirty Seconds to Mars - Hurricane
4. (16) Box #2 song - Sia - Alive
5. (17) Box #5 color - the first one
6. (21) Box #6 technical theme - paint
7. (30) Box #4 technical theme - close crop
8. (46) Box #4 song - The Weeknd - In The Night
9. (52) Box #5 color - the second one
10. (60) Box #3 song - PVRIS - My House

11. (2) Box #5 word - lust
12. (11) Box #3 art - icons by adriftingsea & vai_rin
13. (22) Box #1 word - breakdown
14. (28) Box #3 color - the entire palette
15. (35) Box #5 art - icon by jsfunction
16. (37) Box #6 song - Let It Go/Let Her Go (Frozen/Passenger MASHUP) - Sam Tsui
17. (42) Box #2 art - icon by queen_bartonia
18. (58) Box #4 art - icon by barstr7
19. (63/1) Box #1 technical theme - frame
20 (66/4) Box #2 art - icon by sietepecados

neonspider: (cop!rin :>)

[personal profile] neonspider 2016-03-04 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, I'm happy you found out! I still need to watch Haikyuu but when I do, I'm all for that plan :>

Omg nooo you probably shouldn't read our ship rants since you're on the sanest side, as a multishipper. I so wish I could be too but in fandoms where shipping actually affects things and causes drama with the creators (like with the feel our hearts vs makoto's brithday box campaign fiasco wtfery), it's super difficult to not get annoyed by the 'opposite side' :S

I do love the friends to lovers trope sometimes, I actually started loving Swan Queen more when they became (awkwardish) friends instead of enemies. And if rinharu got together on s2 and not directly on s1, I'd still love it and that would be friends to lovers. But friendships that have lasted very long and gotten to that comfortable, always understanding each other, perfect trust, always supportive stage, it just starts feeling a bit too lukewarm for me to see any romantic tension there, kind of like if a couple would skip the romantic euphoria honeymoon stage and go right into the old married couple stage, which is just super boring to me :p ....but there are some exceptions to this too, I quite loved Kirk/Spock from the original star trek for a while and it's all of those things. Idk, shipping is complex! Anyway, I'm glad we have our own little Free! club here, now who do we recruit next? :3