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Best of Icons is running their main event! Maker threads close tonight; nominations in existing threads run until the 15th the 18th. You don't have to be a maker to go to the threads and nominate five icons that you like for each maker (or for one favorite maker, or anything in between). After the 18th, there'll be polls to pick each maker's best/most popular icon.

I like seeing which of mine people pick, and getting a look at other makers' styles!


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If you're here for bestof_icons, icons 1-17 are from 2025. Icons 18-25 are from 2026, starting with the glass-punching.

( 15 icons )

This was going around a bit ago—I forgot about the draft and didn't finish it until now.

A — Armored in Fire, Armed with Memory (Star Wars: Republic, Zule Xiss, canon divergence, 3k)
B — The Broken Shell, The Breaking Clouds (Angel's Egg, Boy, post-canon, 1k)
C – Cat and the Dear Replacements (Chronicles of Chrestomanci, postcanon gen about Cat and Gwendolen and her doubles, 3k)
D – Dancers on the Knife's Edge (Chronicles of the Kencyrath, Jame/Kindrie, genderswap femslash set at the beginning of Seeker's Mask, 2.6k)
E – Ecdysis (SCP Foundation, Kalmaktama-era Lovataar and Nadox, 1.3k)
F – Fire Lessons (Dreaming of Sunshine, Shikako & Sasuke & Madara, recursive mentoring cuteness, 1k; entirely explicably the most popular thing I've done in terms of kudos)
G – The Ghost of Gothregor (Chronicles of the Kencyrath, canon-compliant Tieri angst, ~600 words)
H – How the Goddesses Gambled (Glorantha, myths about several goddesses, 3k)
I – In the Script of the Future (X-Men Comicsverse, Raven/Irene, shapeshifting Braille on skin, ~700 words; my favorite thing I've done for sensuality)
J
K – The Katabasis of Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, rescuing Farrell from the underworld; 1k)
L – Lowest Tides (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sokka/Yue, time loop, ~700 words)
M – The Mountain's Daughter Makes a King (Glorantha, Kallyr Starbrow/Vistera, canon divergence, ~800 words)
N – Name and Nest (Star Trek: Crossroad, Karetha & Khethi & Varos, 1.5k; I'm still proud of the alien POV I did here)
O – Of the Errors of Nameforgot (Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, 1.6k, the end of the North Clan and the beginning of the Yanadlings)
P – Promise Knots (Chronicles of the Kencyrath, Aerulan/Brenwyr backstory romance, 1k)
Q
R – A Rejection (Bleach/Fallen London crossover, Orihime healing Mr Eaten; ~600 words; someday I will finish the long version of this)
S – Scattered Teeth and Ashes (Naruto, Kisame/Tobirama time travel fixit, most popular thing I've done in terms of comments.)
T – Thread and Web (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Tavra and the Arathim, 1k)
U – An Unexpected Rescue (Naruto, Sakura and Kisame, time travel, ~600 words)
V – Variations on the Theme of Fire Lizards (Dragonriders of Pern, Menolly and her fire lizards and music, ~700 words)
W — Woven Vengeance (Star Trek: Rihannsu, genfic about Thala t'Kaveth, ~300 words; the first thing I ever posted on my AO3 account)
X
Y
Z

21/26 (out of 98 fics—the other 17 works on my account are art)

(I had 10 fics starting with D, which was a surprise. I suspect that if I'd included art E would have taken the day, due to my emoji series.)

No cut, since I just did the one.

Tail end of the month, didn't icon, busy with Battleship signup, so: have a single icon of Talita from RTTS being relatable. (Text could use some work, ah well.)


ETA: Reworked the speech bubble a bit in early July. Not perfect, but at least I don't feel as if I should zoom in to read the text.

The game's not out yet; it's in kickstarter. But it looks really fun—a gonzo space opera setting, elective monarchy politics IN SPACE—the creator's several kickstarted games have all apparently came out when she said they would, and I did like Long Live the Queen a lot. So! Excitement. And icons.

( 40 icons from promotional screenshots + trailer )

Letter under construction; please pardon the dust. (I may make additions up until assignments go out, at which point I will stop.)

I'm Sheliak on AO3 too.

Treats are enabled and welcome.

I'm a slow commenter, so please don't take the lack of a comment early on as an indication I hate what you made me!

For this exchange I'm requesting art for all fandoms.

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My dad and I just attempted to do rock-paper-scissors.

First round, we both chose scissors.

Second round, we both chose rock.

Third round, we both chose paper.

Clearly, we are too much alike.