So, I finally made myself some "Wind Breaker" icons. All Sakura for now.



Though I ended up making my own, thanks to vriddy for pointing me to others' icons, which were great too.

All images are from either the anime or manga. The first and second icons use background textures from wolfbane_icons' Blue Heaven and Zen Textures sets.

Well, since I already made the Black Hat icon to go with my drabble, I figured I might as well do icons for the entire "Villainous/Villanos" main cast. So, here's two of the eldritch horror, Black Hat; his chief mad scientist and eternal butt monkey, Dr. Flug; top assassin and chaos gremlin, Demencia; and the precious cinnamon roll that is 505:

All art is series screenshots. The second Black Hat icon background comes from wolfbane_icons', Horrorscapes 2 texture set and Demencia's background comes from the Neon Streets texture set.

So, since I'll probably have a few more Hetalia related things to post, I made myself some icons (that I can't use here, sadly, as I'm at my limit):

And, one silly one for mintysage:

..Yes, England/Arthur is my favorite character. I blame AnAppleofDiscord's "Kith and Kin" series where he's fantastically flawed yet somehow still endearing.

All art used is either from creator Hidekaz Himaruya, the artbook packaged with the anime or the anime. Texture bases come from wolfbane_icons' Nevermore and Haunted Mansion sets.

I've done far too few icons of the Ao no/Blue Exorcist cast not named Rin, Yukio, Shiro, and Shiemi. So, here are a few of Bon and Izumo taken from the animated Kyoto Arc and Kazue Kato's original art.



...Now I just need to do some of Konekomaru, who is the hardest because he just doesn't make as many entertaining faces.

So, the latest Ao no/Blue Exorcist chapters got me into icon mode again.

The animated Kyoto/Impure King Arc has started, and it's amazing! Okay, so it's a slow start, but it's nice to see that, with only twelve episodes, they're not rushing. Episode 2 was nothing but character establishment and development, and it gave me all the feels. Special love for the hilarity of Rin's drunken conversation with a panicked Shima.

Also, I can't help wondering if even the official subtitlers are making jokes about how Takara is always just there without contributing anything. (At least, not until much later anyway.) Because when Shura divides the kids up in episode 2, she clearly says his name... but it's not in the subtitles. I laughed at that probably more than I should have.

Simultaneously, the manga has been dropping bombshell after bombshell about the Order's past activities and the origins of the demon kings... while dropping only hints toward the answers we're all waiting for regarding the Okumura twins' birth. Evil, clever Kato.

( Spoilery comments behind the cut )

And, all the AnE joy lately has inspired icons:

It snowed! And, it was glorious. Hot chocolate and wondermous homemade tomato soup were consumed, blankets were snuggled into, and not much got done.

But, having finally gotten some entries, I did update the SWAT Kat Fanfiction Archive with one new oneshot and the first two chapters of a new ongoing story.

Also, in the spirit of snowy days, I made two snow-themed Ao no/Blue Exorcist icons using the latest color manga image:

Well, I finally got some inspiration to do something creative again. So, here's a little group of Ao no/Blue Exorcist icons.





The first two images are from the OST CD covers. The rest are original artwork from the creator, Kazue Kato. Yes, even the last two, which are from some little sketches she did of the cast as animals. Yukio (whose name means "snow man", I believe) as an abominable snowman/yeti was actually what started me. He makes such an adorable little "bumble".

And, yes, I mean to get around to doing the girls and the Kyoto Trio as animals eventually.

I've made several icons lately, so I thought I'd post them. Part of them are FMA icons I made for contests on fmadesignawards and some are FMA and AnE icons I made for myself.



( FMA:B and AnE icons behind the cut )

I realize now that I've made one oversight: I desperately need an icon of Father Fujimoto! For that matter, I don't have any Hughes icons in my current list. This must be corrected. I might even need to create a combination Hughes and Father Fujimoto icon, seeing as they're two of my favorite anime fathers.

Sage recently reminded me of one of my favorite, utterly random moments from Bleach. So, as I found it hysterically funny, here's an icon of Ichigo being a pyromaniac: