Love icons? Upload one for the Fanlore Icon article

[sherrold]

Love Icons -- sure, we (almost) all do!

And yet, the Icon article at Fanlore is a sad stub of an article.

I recently read a post by yourlibrarian that was a class presentation on icons, here:
http://yourlibrarian.dreamwidth.org/269539.html, and it made me realize all the Fanlore article could be.

It's possible that anyone looking at the article is just daunted by the problem of finding characteristic icons, getting permission, and uploading them -- which is why I'm posting.

If we each uploaded one of our own/one that we had permission for (using categories already in the article, categories in yourlibrarian's article, or new categories altogether), it would be awesome in no time.

Icon article:
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Icons

And plenty of other articles could be cheered up by the addition of an icon or three...

(Not a mod; not a gardener; not a formal member of Fanlore in any way.)

Comments

[kass]

That's an awesome idea. I should look back at the Fanfiction Symposium piece I wrote about icons a zillion years ago and see if it's worth quoting anywhere in the fanlore entry...

Definitely!

[sherrold]

Reuse, recycle!

Also you have so many awesome icons -- many of which are classic types. Your Texan Diaspora one, or Talk Nerdy To Me, or a hundred others!

Re: Definitely!

[kass]

I didn't make Talk Nerdy to Me, so I don't know about uploading it, but I did just upload two of my own -- Diaspora Texan and Judaism Is My Other Fandom. :-)

[kerravonsen]

I have icons that I've made that I could add, but, yes, I'm daunted by just figuring out what would suit!

Just do one or two!

[sherrold]

and I promise I will too! (Apparently my current enthusiasm was drained by posting about the problem -- but I'll be back!)

using icons to illustrate a point

[morgandawn]

I looked for icons that I could use to illustrate something: ex heidi's Fair Use icon went on the Fair Use page. An icon lithium doll made for one of her vids, went on that vid page. I even used my Starsky & Hutch icon to illustrate the point that, yes indeed, some SH fans migrated to LJ.

Re: using icons to illustrate a point

[sherrold]

I even used my Starsky & Hutch icon to illustrate the point that, yes indeed, some SH fans migrated to LJ.

Well, that's cuz you're awesome!

[kerravonsen]

I have added two icons to the article. It probably needs expressing better, but at least there are some examples now.

[unovis]

If I could figure out a category, I'd add this one. It's my first one and basically, what I thought we do -- changing a source, making the phalli dance.