100fandoms challenge
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icontalkingDo you want to join me in a challenge? 100fandoms is actually a fic community, but I immediately thought of doing it for icons.
This is not an "official" icontalking activity, but a challenge I came up with in the course of Snowflake. I just thought I'd share here, because it sounds fun:
Make 100 icons in 100 different fandoms, following 100 one-word prompts.
If you want to make it extra-challenging, make those 100 icons within a year. (The fic challenge has no time limit, but I think icons are easier.) I took the fic prompts table from100fandoms, but it's not identical! I made a few changes to make it better suitable for icons.
Here is the prompts table:
I'm definitely doing this, and I am counting all the icons I'm making in 2019 towards this challenge. (I already have ten. Woot!)
Who else likes this idea?
100fandoms is actually a fic community, but I immediately thought of doing it for icons. This is not an "official" icontalking activity, but a challenge I came up with in the course of Snowflake. I just thought I'd share here, because it sounds fun:
Make 100 icons in 100 different fandoms, following 100 one-word prompts.
If you want to make it extra-challenging, make those 100 icons within a year. (The fic challenge has no time limit, but I think icons are easier.) I took the fic prompts table from
100fandoms, but it's not identical! I made a few changes to make it better suitable for icons.Here is the prompts table:
I'm definitely doing this, and I am counting all the icons I'm making in 2019 towards this challenge. (I already have ten. Woot!)
Who else likes this idea?
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Date: 2019-02-09 05:56 pm (UTC)I actually cannot approve of this idea any more than I am already able to!
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Date: 2019-02-10 09:24 am (UTC)I find that I only make icons for two or three fandoms myself, but all the challenges with provided caps start adding up, and before I know it, I've suddenly iconned fandoms I didn't even know existed. :D
(I checked my icons for last year, and without trying, I got to 75 fandoms. Seeing that, 100 seems doable.)
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Date: 2019-02-14 08:41 pm (UTC)It's kinda difficult. :) But the prompts are vague enough so that I think it's possible.
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Date: 2019-02-10 03:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-02-10 05:19 pm (UTC)This is exactly what I was looking for (except for one fandom instead of 100, but I can definitely work with 100 different fandoms instead...)
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Date: 2019-02-14 08:43 pm (UTC)Glad it works for you!
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Date: 2019-02-15 06:35 pm (UTC)Can you do me a favour? I need to make a set of 5 icons for a challenge and they need to have a common theme. Can you come up with one for me? (It can be anything - a fandom, a colour, a certain technique...)
Also I was thinking of starting a discussion post - unless you have something else planned for today?
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Date: 2019-02-15 06:53 pm (UTC)Nope, go ahead! (I had about 1000% more response to my 100fandoms post than I expected, I am happy for this month. :D)
A common theme... um.
I like color challenges, but five in the same color bore me like after three. :) Rainbows are fine, though. Another thing I like doing is using the same kind of texture, so I can come to the result from different angles and not have to use the same process over and over: like, e.g. floral, or stock, or scenery, or painted look. Do any of these strike your fancy? (If not, prompt me more! :D)
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Date: 2019-02-15 07:06 pm (UTC)Hmm, I think I might use floral textures. I don't think I've used them much (or at all) and it might be interesting to use floral imaging in the icons. Thanks!
Edit: Is there a lag between posting an entry and it appearing in the moderation queue? Because it's been more than five minutes and I can't find the entry to approve it. *is confused*
Edit #2: Of course, the second I ask, I get the notification. *sigh*
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Date: 2019-02-15 07:18 pm (UTC)I just checked all the boxes for you now, so your entries won't have to go through the moderation queue at all, and you can moderate other people's entries, too.
I usually give everyone I know, i.e. the makers who regularly participate here, permission to post unmoderated once they make a post. We're a nice bunch and I don't feel like hobbling conversation. (But I have had a few posts from random people asking random stuff, so I never removed the moderation, either.)
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Date: 2019-02-15 07:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-15 07:28 pm (UTC)https://imgur.com/a/ZqqUeRJ
(I think some of them didn't upload correctly, I hope you can still see the gallery. The icon-sized ones have the maker credit in the description. The rest... are from other sources, I have no idea who made them. *cough some obviously so cough*)
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Date: 2019-02-15 07:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-11 02:10 am (UTC)i watch way too much tv so i feel like i can definitely make one icon for each new show i watch, or i can at least try, lol.
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Date: 2019-02-14 08:43 pm (UTC)(I feel like I will be scrambling to fill the table at the end of the year, but there's nothing like a good challenge to get me to make more icons. :D)
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Date: 2019-02-11 06:10 am (UTC)By the way, I noticed a little mistake in the table (it's more like a typo than anything else XD) - #68 should be "blur", right?
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Date: 2019-02-14 08:45 pm (UTC)I noticed a little mistake in the table
Thank you so much for letting me know! Yes, you are absolutely right, it is supposed to say "blur". Fixed it!
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:13 pm (UTC)Just out of curiosity: do we count series like the four CSI series (always forget the last series, cause I've only seen the first three) as one fandom, or three seperate? Or a better example - the Marvel Cinematic Universe. All movies in one fandom, or every movie (series) in a seperate one?
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Date: 2019-02-15 06:55 am (UTC)do we count series like the four CSI series (always forget the last series, cause I've only seen the first three) as one fandom, or three seperate?
Hee, I should have anticipated this, since it's the most frequently asked question at
https://100fandoms.dreamwidth.org/702.html
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Date: 2019-03-19 09:31 am (UTC)I already have two! Fingers crossed I can keep it up. Thank you for sharing this challenge! :)
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Date: 2019-03-26 10:22 am (UTC)I have about a third of my table filled now, and I am pretty sure I can fill the rest until the end of the year. (I'll probably have to scramble in the last two weeks, but that's okay. :D)
For myself, I intended the challenge to include "all the icons I made this year", but you're free to set your own timelines (or none, like the fic challenge, which is completely unlimited).
I see your table is already slowly filling! Good luck!
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Date: 2019-03-26 04:06 pm (UTC)