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So one of the things that happened at the CSOI show which sparked this whole terrible figure skating feelings spiral was that Joannie Rochette skated to Robyn's Indestructible. In a shiny black catsuit. (Here's video of the Vancouver version.)

I've been in a lot of internetless places lately, wherein I coped with boredom by making icons. Credit for the original photos goes to Tina Tyan, Brett Barden and David Carmichael, and Andrea Chempinski.

Preview:

( Wanna love you like I'm indestructible )

Icon meme via

evewithanapple

1. Reply to this post with PIXELS!, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.

( I like talking about icons, okay )

(Content Note: In-context, the ~sexy photos~ are taken coercively, but that's not apparent from the caps I chose?)

I have a lot of Thoughts about this scene, how it is about queer ladies co-opting the male gaze narrative inherent to pin-ups, but I'm not particularly articulate at the moment, so you're getting icons instead.

Preview:

( I used to be so much better at coming up with appropriate quotes/lyrics/etc for cut texts I am drawing a blank here... )

(The ones I posted earlier are being reposted as part of this because 100 is a nice round number.)

[01-19] Betty McRae
[20-24] Edith McAllum
[25-43] Gladys Witham
[44-65] Kate Andrews
[66-81] Lorna Corbett
[82-90] Vera Burr
[90-99] Kate/Betty
+1 Kate/Gladys

( And this is just the first episode. Oops? )

I guess this is my More Joy Day post? I sort of forgot that was today whoops.

Do you want a show all about women and their relationships? How about a period piece with a budding queer romance in? A show about the 1940s that deals with the war on a more complex level than "we fought those evil Germans"? Because it turns out that's a thing you can be watching!!

Bomb Girls, Wednesday nights on Global (if you're in Canada; if you aren't check out

bomb_girls, they can help you)

Anyway, icons! Betty, Kate, and Betty/Kate, because I am the most predictable human. Thanks to

evewithanapple/

evewithanapple for the caps!

( You're safe here now. I'll make sure. )

( & so, a meme )

12 icons of Batkids in/getting into/getting out of the shower or bath.

( Ft. Babs, Cass, Dick, Jason, Steph, and Tim. )

70 Bechdel-passing DC Comics icons for

halfamoon. Featuring Bats, Birds, Outsiders, Young Justice, the Secret Six, a few Justice Leaguers and Titans past and present.

( Insert song lyrics here )

So during the time I was waiting for my Wolf House book to show up, I made a bunch of icons out of Audrey Fox's glorious covers and promo art and such. Twenty icons, to be exact.

( All You Need Is Love )
In conclusion I love angry queer punk nerd vampires and their kittens and so should you. Also I love messing about in photoshop.

So um I kinda made fifty icons from the latest issue of Tiny Titans?
It is the Tiny Adorable Batkids issue, of course I did.

[01-07] Batgirls
[08-13] Girl Robins
[14-23] Dick
[24-29] Jason Toddler
[30-37] Tim and Jay
[38-47] Misc. Robins
[48-50] Just Plain Misc.
( I can't see a thing in this bucket. )

There's this Female Character Flowchart out there that I'm sure most of you have heard of already. If you haven't, let me sum it up for you: basically, all fictional female characters fall into stereotypes and aren't "realistic." Also, this flowchart is done in a way that basically anyone can be crammed into one of their categories, as long as you ignore the more three-dimensional aspects of her characterization and focus on the most two-dimensional details available.

Seriously, people who are much more articulate than me have ranted on this subject and explained why it's such a bad thing. That's not what this post is about. You see, this post? Is simply a chance for me to go through my DW/LJ icons and post the ones that I have that feature female characters, whether by themselves, with other women, with men, or simply as part of a group (which wouldn't be whole without them).

Why? Because the thing is, these women are all awesome, in their own unique ways.

( I won't be your Yoko Ono if you're not good enough for me. )

Sick of me yet?

[01-03] Connor Hawke (Green Arrow)
[04-09] Mia Dearden (Speedy)
[10-13] Ollie Queen (Green Arrow)
[14-17] Roy Harper (Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow)
[18-20] Misc. Arrows
[21-24] Death
[25-28] Delirium
[29-31] Misc. Endless
[32-34] Grace Choi
[35-37] Dr. Soranik Natu (Green Lantern)
[38-42] Kara Zor-L (Power Girl)
[43-51] Misc. DCU

( Last one, I promise. )

There's still another one coming after this, too. When I get started making icons I find it very hard to stop.

[01-03] Barda Free
[04-06] Guy Gardner/Tora Olafsdotter
[07-17] Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle)
[18-27] Misc. JLI/Blue Beetle
[28-36] Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl)
[37-42] Koriand'r (Starfire)
[43-46] Rose Wilson (Ravager)
[47-49] Tara Markov (Terra)
[50-62] Misc. Titans/Young Justice

( You've got a forehead full of justice? What does that even mean? )

Gwen Posts A Truly Ridiculous Amount Of Icons, part two.

[01-08] Barbara Gordon (Oracle)
[09-13] Babs/Dinah
[14-17] Charlie Gage-Radcliffe (Misfit)
[18-25] Dinah Lance (Black Canary)
[26-32] Misc. BoP
[33-36] Catman
[37-41] Jeannette
[42-45] Knockout/Scandal
[46-52] Ragdoll
[53-58] Scandal Savage
[59-67] Misc. Secret Six

( No-one does it better than the Birds of Prey... )

So yesterday I realised I never posted any of the half-billion DC icons I made over the course of the summer. And I'm going to be internetless for the weekend, so if I'm going to do this I should do it now!

[01-05] Barbara Gordon (Batgirl)
[06-10] Cass Cain (Batgirl)
[11-13] Damian Wayne (Robin)
[14-25] Dick Grayson (Robin, Nightwing)
[26-30] Jason Todd (Robin, Red Hood, Nightwing)
[31-33] Kate Kane (Batwoman)
[34-39] Steph Brown (Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl)
[40-44] Steph/Cass
[45-51] Tim Drake (Robin)
[52-60] Misc. Batfamily

( The City that Never Shuts Up )

I made 30 icons out of the various Trigger promo images, because of course I did. God, this film is just fucking gorgeous.

[01-05] Vic/Kat
[06-16] Kat (Molly Parker)
[17-29] Vic (Tracy Wright)
+ one of Don and Tracy being adorable on-set

( The Shut Ups were when we were pure. )
...Okay, I know I get fannish about some pretty obscure things, but a film that literally nobody outside of Toronto has seen is a little much even for me. Oops?

(There's one more batch after this, as well. I wasn't kidding when I said I was making them compulsively.)

[01-15] Barbara Gordon (Oracle)
[16-26] Babs/Dinah
[27-36] Charlie Gage-Radcliffe (Misfit)
[37-54] Dinah Lance (Black Canary)
[55-67] Helena Bertinelli (Huntress + one from NML when she was Batgirl)
[68-76] Zinda Blake (Lady Blackhawk
[77-80] Misc. BoP

( Sitting in my glass house, watching all the little birds fly... )

I make sort of compulsively make icons to deal with stress, anger, or just generally feeling like shit. And then they pile up and nothing ever happens to them. Except that I'm not letting that happen right now! I am sharing them with you, the internet! Don't you feel loved.

[001-010] Barbara Gordon (Batgirl)
[011-020] Cass Cain (Batgirl)
[021-031] Damian Wayne (Robin)
[032-039] Dick Grayson (Robin/Nightwing)
[040-050] Jason Todd (Robin/Red Hood)
[051-057] Kate Kane (Batwoman)
[058-072] Steph Brown (Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl)
[073-076] Steph/Cass
[077-085] Tim Drake (Robin/Red Robin)
[086-100] Misc. Batfamily
( Gotham City: More Superheroes Per Capita Than Any Other City In The DCU. )

I have not forgotten to do this! It's just that the beginning of May is stupid-busy, what with Free Comic Book Day and all.

( A Wizard of Mars, Diane Duane )( Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy and the History of Comic Book Heroines, Mike Madrid )( Callahan's Lady, Spider Robinson )
Not on the list due to Paypal problems that can't be resolved until my mom gets back from B.C.: The Wolf House: Fair Game, Mary Borsellino.

And now, for something completely different: The meme where people pick icons for you to talk about is going around!
Via

mrs_laugh_track:
( four icons + blather )So, yeah! Comment if you want me to pick some icons!

THESE BOOKS HAVE EATEN MY BRAIN, YOU GUYS.

[01-11] Macdonald Hall quotes
[12-16] Macdonald Hall covers
[17-20] Who Is Bugs Potter?

Teasers:

( Riots are our specialty. )

Indestructible: 30 icons (KB free square/leather latex rubber)

(no subject)

12 Bomb Girls icons, KB square: Pictures

Bomb Girls 1x01 Jumping Tracks: 100 icons

17 Bomb Girls Icons

Just pruned my icons & added new and exciting ones

12 Batfamily icons (KB prompt: washing/cleaning)

Icon post: Half A Moon 2011

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I am a sucker for icon memes even when they aren't For A Good Cause.

Icon Dump pt. 4: Arrows, Sandman, Misc. DCU

Icon Dump pt. 3: JLI/Blue Beetle and YJ/Titans

Icon Dump pt. 2: BoP + Secret Six

Icon Dump pt. 1: Batfamily

Icons of a film nobody has seen but me.

Icon Dump pt. 2: BoP

Icon Dump: Batfamily

April Books Roundup + Icon Meme

Icons: Classic Gordon Korman

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