5 of my favorite icons part 2: The Love is in the Air edition (slayerstillness)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I was trying to cull through all the 2015 slayerstillness entries when I realized that nearly half of the "top 5" from that comm actually came Challenge 39 "Love is in the Air" (the Valentine's challenge). So why fight it?  This was one of my favorite challenges/prompts from any of the icontests this year, in a completely "Can we do it again? Can we do it again?" way. Artists made icons of canon and non-canon pairings and everybody brought their A-game. So, herewith are 5 of my favorites from that round (with kudos to moderator starry_night for her inspired prompts:)

Once again, the list is ins alphabetical order of artists' names) and as with my previous post, I'll eschew my usual verbosity and let the images speak for themselves:



1) Buffy/Tara #3 (Please may I make a home in you?) by kwritten


2) Willow/Oz by rua1412


3) Cordy/Xander by sweet_lyri


4) Spuffy #2 by teragramm


 5) Fred/Gunn by tempertemper

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

These are splendid. Once again I say, "You have excellent taste!"


Gabrielle

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Once again I gratefully accept your assessment *lol*

These are lovely, and I could have added at least two more if I weren't limited to five. That challenge was a truly inspired one as were the entries that came forth.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

That Buffy/Tara icon is fabulous.

Thanks for posting.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

All of her Buffy/Tara icons were fabulous, truly! There was one other that was my runner up but this was my favorite of her set. No one does better Buffy/Tara icons than kwritten.

[kikimay]

Much prettiness! If only I had more space! Awwwwww

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

TELL ME ABOUT IT *LOL* I recently received 10 more spaces and I've almost filled them up already. Icons are SO ADDICTING!

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

Again thanks for the shout out and thanks for the great list.

I don't remember seeing tempertemper's Gunn/Fred icon before, it lovely!

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

It is indeed!

I've been trying to work with "pastel" colors and pink tones recently and having a devil of a time with it, this icon is just so flawlesssly colored.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I remember this challenge!

Great job choosing the top 5.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That was a fun challenge. I would love to have listed 7 icons from it.

[yourlibrarian]

Not so often I come across Gunn/Fred icons! Thanks for the recs.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

For a canon pairing it's hard to find icons of them isn't it? (Perhaps because one half of the pairing is a MOC?)

[yourlibrarian]

I would hope it's more of a comment about people's interest in their ship, but I think there's no question he's not written about as often or vidded about as often as Wesley. I think the reason that the fabulous Jesus Walks video is remembered so well is that there aren't many vids about Gunn (and sadly that one seems to have vanished).

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I was about to say "what video?" but oh well, nevah mind....

I would hope it's more of a comment about people's interest in their ship

The question still being, WHY aren't people as interested in that ship to begin with? And I will say that I haven't watched AtS so I haven't checked out Gunn, nor have I checked out Wesley's arc there so I don't have a dog in that fight. But I know that people are affected by prejudices and they will twist themselves into pretzel knots to assert that they aren't. (Nobody on earth is 100% unprejudiced. Nobody. That doesn't make someone a bad person, it makes them human. Acting on those prejudices in ways that hurt others or pretending that inequalities don't exist to protect ones self-image 's the problem.

I also know that lots of people think Wesley is a total "bad ass" for going "dark". Because it's cool when male characters do that. I've never heard of anyone speak of Gunn in the same terms, but then I hear very few people speak of him at all.