tinny: Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine-Nine misquoting "eyes closed, head first, can't lose" (b99_jake eyesclosed headfirst)
[personal profile] tinny posting in [community profile] icontalking


Maybe it's the advent of Spring that's making my muse run into weird directions and coming up with increasingly hard challenges... but we'll try something that used to be a staple in LJ iconmaking and that I haven't seen in over ten years:

Song sets!

A song set consists of icons with the lyrics of one song. Since it's a really old (i.e. extinct) thing, the only example icons I have are my own:


"I don't want to worry whether we're going to stay together until we die"
(Cake, "Love You Madly" lyrics)

In my set, I tried to make every single icon contain meaningful text, but that's definitely not a requirement.
I've never seen a set so large that it contained a whole song - but I won't stop you!
Apart from the text, the icons don't have to look the same or fit together in any other way.

Thanks to [personal profile] yourlibrarian, who made me look into songsets some more, I found another example set:

"I want a girl with a voice that is dark like tinted glass, I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket"
by [livejournal.com profile] errantnotice here
(Ha, another Cake Song: "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" lyrics)


* Really the only rule is that the lyrics should be continuous within the song from one icon to the next.

* Every icon should contain at least one word.
* If you can't make a part of the lyrics work:
** not all words have to be readable!
** NEW: you can leave out short connecting words (like "and", "that",...)
* You can choose any song, or more than one song if you make more than one set.
* If you want to leave out parts of the lyrics, just make separate sets.

* This time there is a minimum of 2 icons: the smallest set is a set of two.
* You can make as many icons (and as many sets) as you like.
* Please link the song lyrics, and/or put the parts you used of them in your comment with your icons

* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible).
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community.
* I will collect all the icons from the comments and make a result post
* Everyone can leave comments on the inspiration and activity result posts
* There is no voting

Deadline: Saturday, April 20 2019, your end-of-day

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Date: 2019-04-08 07:00 pm (UTC)
colls: (GoT Sansa)
From: [personal profile] colls


Howling ghosts they reappear
In mountains that are stacked with fear
But you're a king and I'm a lionheart
A lionheart.

ETA: Song: King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men
Edited Date: 2019-04-08 07:03 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2019-04-09 12:29 pm (UTC)
colls: (GoT Daenerys You Rock)
From: [personal profile] colls
Thank you!

Tyrion ♥ - that one is my favorite of the set, too. :)

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Date: 2019-04-09 07:53 am (UTC)
extrapenguin: Northern lights in blue and purple above black horizon. (Default)
From: [personal profile] extrapenguin
This is very nice! I love the text placement and style throughout.

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Date: 2019-04-09 12:29 pm (UTC)
colls: (Trek T'Pol)
From: [personal profile] colls
Thank you! :)

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Date: 2019-04-09 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] timetobegin
good choice!!!! i especially like how good the last two fist, but the text and composition on that first one is great!

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Date: 2019-04-09 12:30 pm (UTC)
colls: (SG Flyboys)
From: [personal profile] colls
Thanks! This challenge was harder than I expected - not the song choice but the image choice once I got the song. Jon and Ygritte were the only ones I knew going in.

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Date: 2019-04-09 12:44 pm (UTC)
colls: (Default)
From: [personal profile] colls
I realized as I came back to reply to comments that I forgot to inlcude my urls.

Here they are:
https://i.imgur.com/4jOm9nQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/jvf2XYn.png
https://i.imgur.com/fZ3Y1Wk.png
https://i.imgur.com/9Pt93pJ.png
https://i.imgur.com/7OwPZ4X.png

Sorry about that! :) (I'm a pesky participant who can't read instructions - LOL)

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Date: 2019-04-10 06:48 pm (UTC)
seraphina_snape: Parker from the TV show Leverage. She is wearing a white shirt and is smiling. (Default)
From: [personal profile] seraphina_snape
They're all great, but I love the colours in the second one! *g*

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Date: 2019-04-10 07:03 pm (UTC)
colls: (SPN Dean FML)
From: [personal profile] colls
Thanks! :)

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Date: 2019-04-11 02:45 am (UTC)
breyzyyin: (Breyzy: best friends)
From: [personal profile] breyzyyin
This is a lovely song set! Your text placement is really awesome. ♥

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Date: 2019-04-11 12:59 pm (UTC)
colls: (KJ licensed to kill)
From: [personal profile] colls
Thank you!
Text is something I've struggled with since getting my new computer (and never felt it was my strength to start with), so I love hearing that!

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Date: 2019-04-12 08:07 am (UTC)
abyss_valkyrie: made by <user name=narnialover7> (Default)
From: [personal profile] abyss_valkyrie
What a perfect set,the lyrics and the style with the cap choice!Great work!

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Date: 2019-04-12 12:57 pm (UTC)
colls: (SW Rey TLJ)
From: [personal profile] colls
Thank you! :)

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Date: 2019-04-21 09:16 am (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thisbluespirit
These are beautiful! Excellent work. I really love the colouring and font you've used for the first one particularly, it fits really well.

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