SINGLE-FANDOM POST

It's been a disappointingly long time since I posted, hasn't it? I was feeling uninspired, but while on a long overdue rewatch of How I Met Your Mother, I realized that that show has a LOT of icon potential. So here I am.

I'll allow textless icons as bases. Comment, credit, cool.

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( Just once when I say 'Suit up' I wish you would put on a suit! )

Thanks!

Yuki

PS. DARY!

Cheer for me? ;D

Yuki

SINGLE-FANDOM POST

So about two weeks ago I went to a Fastball concert. Yeah, the band who wrote "The Way"? Right. Them. Everybody knows that song. Anyway, it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to (and I've been to some awesome concerts), in this little Yoga studio. I was in the front row and I got to meet Miles and Tony afterwards. Yay! Over the next few days, which eventually turned into the last two weeks, I made a ton of icons. So here they are!

They also recorded a cd that night, which I bought… But I haven't gotten it yet. When I do, expect more.

The usual rules apply. Comment, credit. :)

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( The road that they walk on is paved in ICONS! )

Thank you!

Yuki

NEWS

Once again, I'm putting the request threads on hold. Because WOW is it a failure. I'm going to start a new policy of "if you want it, just ask for it, mmk?" around here. XD;

( But here are the icons I promised. )

Again, sorry for the delay. ♥

…But I don't want to make them. So, since we've grown a little in popularity, I figured it's time to bring back the

SUGGESTION THREAD!

Hopefully this will go over a little better now. :]

And yeah, I really do have like…25 text icons to make (I keep a list), but I made something close to 30 in the last few days. I'm sick of it. XD

So go nuts, you guys!

Yuki

Requested icons will be posted on Monday, 16.
Next request thread will be on Thursday, June 19, given that it goes well this time.

I decided it was time to crank out a few more of these so I'd have enough to make a post.

100 ICON CHALLENGE

Once again, the favors I ask of you:

1. Please do not use the textless ones here as bases. I'll more than make up for that in the future. ♥
2. Please, please, please, please credit. ♥
3. No haranguing! (That's such an awesome word.)

( Another 12 down, and a TON of alternates. )

23/100 down. Only 77 more to go.

-facepalm-

Yuki

Most teenage girls would not spend their Saturday mornings listening to Michael Jackson and making Iron Man icons.

I, however, am not most teenage girls.

100 ICON CHALLENGE

So it begins. This means a few different things, but they will ONLY apply to these posts:

1. Please do not use textless challenge icons as bases.
2. Please give credit for all challenge icons you take. (I figured I was too lazy to stick with the "I'll send out the hounds if you don't credit" thing, but I'm going to be protective of these, as they are a very time-consuming project that I'm pretty proud of so far.)
3. Please don't harangue me about this not being the original 100 Icon Challenge. I know. I didn't want to choose a theme, so I sent the lists to a friend of mine and said, "Hey, pick, like, eighty."

( 11/100 completed so far! )

Well, now I'm (actually, honestly) off to go see this movie. Again. XD!

Thank you! ^____^

Yuki

We make icons.

SINGLE-FANDOM POST

So today it's Iron Man, because since this movie's come out, I've just been going nuts. I love it to drill bits. *rimshot* Per usual, I've done a lot of different text versions, so I'm allowing all textless icons to be used as bases.

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( I'm actually having a hard time not looking at you, now. Is that weird? )

I feel accomplished. And now I'm going to sleep.

Yuki

Or, "Look at all the shinies!"

NEWS

Wow, I haven't been on top of things lately. I meant to post this a couple days ago. You should notice a change in layout. That might be happening a lot over the next few days, to find one that we like. Kitsune and I adored the first one, but it wouldn't put up with 5-across icon tables, which kinda irked me. I do like this one, though. I might roll with it. If there are any suggestions... I'd love to hear. :)

Also, I'm figuring that since we're not that big yet, Kitsune and I won't do a request thread for a while. But since we did get two, here they are.

missjcchinadoll's bubbles and redbrunja's Kakashi x Sakura:

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MULTI-FANDOM POST

I've had a lot of these sitting around for a few months. Some are new, but…

By renegadekitsune:
1-4: Avatar: The Last Airbender
5-6: Saiyuki

By me:
7-23: Antic Café
24-27: Gackt Kamui
28-32: Flogging Molly
33-34: Christian Bale
35-37: Public Enemies
38-43: Iron Man
44-47: Full Metal Panic!
48-50: Ouran High School Host Club

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( As seen in the last post... I tend to do text variations on the same icon. I'd be a jerk if I said not to use my textless icons as bases, so go ahead. Just credit us for the base. )

Wow. I'm proud of myself.

Yuki

SUGGESTION THREAD THE FIRST

Like I said, here's our first suggestion post, because we love you just that much.

INSTRUCTIONS? If you want a certain picture from something, you're probably gonna have to give it to us. Or at least let us know very specifically what you want so we can track it down. Unless, and I'll just say this now, it's a picture of Christian Bale. Because I probably have them all. :)

So... Yeah, that's about it. Go ahead! Go nuts. Go wild.

So, as promised, though a bit late, here's our giant Avatar post! This one goes out to redbrunja, because she provided the caps for over half of these.

( Made by Kitsune — includes one amusing Naruto anti-spoiler icon )

( Made by me )

Woohoo, first post done! Thanks for coming by. ^_^

Yuki

Welcome to icon_benders, an icon journal where myself (yukitheawesome) and renegadekitsune spam your flists with Photoshop delight!

HOW WE ROLL:

I will go ahead and say that this journal will not strictly be Avatar avatars icons.

SINGLE-FANDOM POSTS But this one is pretty self-explanatory. Where one or both of us go on an icon spree for a certain fandom, and then make a big-ass post to share the love.

MULTI-FANDOM POSTS Also self-explanatory. Just with more than one fandom, and probably less icons of each than would be in a single-fandom.

SPAM DUMPS These posts will be for the random shit we dream up and laugh at. Think ten thousand icons that say "SPARTAAAAA!"

REQUEST WEEKS Each week, we'll post a request thread. This is for you guys. We'll do anything! Anything you want!... Within reason. Honestly, though, anything. I once made an icon of an artichoke for someone.

NEWS FOR YOUS:

All we're asking is that you love us. Is that so very hard? But no, really—if you take our stuff, please let us know! (Comments are ♥.) And if you don't let us know, then please credit whichever one of us is the artist! If we see our stuff throughout LiveJournal or the rest of the interweb without due credit, we'll bother you and bother you and bother you until we get it. I will say here and now, that nobody wants that.

First real icon post will be either later tonight or in the morning. It will be an enormous Avatar: The Last Airbender post in honor of Boiling Rock FINALLY being released.

First request thread will be Thursday, May 1.

Credit goes to redbrunja for our name!

In the meantime, thanks for checking us out, and we hope you'll check back... when... there's... stuff!

Yuki