I've been making... lots and lots of icons lately since my internet connection's been too bad for much else. All I had handy was the Diabolo manga to mess around with, so... XD

( More Diabolo icons! )

You don't have to credit if you don't want to, but if you want, credit ruriruri! And if anyone wants me to make them an icon, if you'll just give me a picture to work with I'll be glad to do my best!

Ren of Diabolo

A.k.a. the hot, teenaged homeless dude that kills in the name of salvation. (Only three new icons-- I'm lazy. I never said I'd do it fast, I just said I'd do it.) I think I'm getting better at this. Current total at eighty-two out of one hundred... my love for you may wax cold if it takes this long to finish one next time, Ren... last update was August 15!

As for credit policies... don't worry about crediting unless you really want to; seriously, I'd be thrilled enough if someone actually used any of these. =) I generally don't do textless icons so I probably won't make many, but if you want to use them as bases that's fine, too. =)



( Ashes to ashes, and all that... )

( Credits for the terminally bored! )

Table done during Banking and Finance. I wouldn't do another one if you paid me.

On second thought, anyone want me to table up their icons? I'd be glad to. Only twenty more icons to go.

This is mostly just to show off the new icon. Dang, even I didn't realize Hiromi was that pretty until I made it. XD It actually only took ten minutes! Tell you how for a dollar. Or, heck, tell you how if you ask.

Mama thinks I'm still woeful and promises to take me out to Dairy Queen where we can make idle threats to castrate all men within twenty miles and, if we get really perky, discuss religion over strawberry milkshakes. I can't stand discussing religion with anyone but Mama, mainly because, surprise, surprise, no one else agrees with me quite so often. Heck, the only thing we don't agree on is the death penalty, and if I get her in just the right, perfectly sour mood she'll agree with me even on that.

I've gotten her into Death Note against her will. See, I told her about Mello's un-deadness, and she goes:

"So, does that mean there's still a chance for ______ to come back?"

"Oh, Mama, there's always a chance. If lame old conniving Mello can escape the Death Note, then surely..."

This came from the picture I mentioned finding of Rai and Mio... if you want the original, feel free to ask me for them and I'll be sure to say sure (also a couple of other color pics of Ren, Rai, and even a shaded Six Spirits one). But no Hiromi. Sheesh, there's a colored Chiaki picture, but not a Hiromi one!

I've made a couple of Ren icons to tide you over. I realized that I didn't have very many icons with anyone but Ren in them, so I made some with Rai stuck in there, too.

( Most of this batch isn't depressing, no worries )

Also, I've noticed something peculiar. Most of the time, you know me, other than pairing fics that seem so odd that you'd think they'd have to be good, I'll stick to my preferred pairing, or, more often than that, I'll stick to gin gen. And most of the time, barring equally-balanced love triangles, I'll be inclined to believe Character A goes with Character B, and not C, D, E, F, and so on.

However, maybe it's because the Fruits Basket fandom is royally messed up anyway, but for some reason it doesn't matter to me which male Sohma Tohru's with, it doesn't matter how many of them she's with (so long as it's in-character), I'm still the joyful little fangirl.

... Yes, I found that mildly disturbing myself... I'm thinking it's because Tohru's so undeniably sweet that she meshes with anyone, but still.

Still annoying the heck out of fanfiction.net's staff campaigning for a Diabolo category; I've sent them four e-mails total. While it does kind of occur to me that if I spent half the energy I do making icons and writing fanfiction into something productive, that I could probably be something really great by now, I... I just am not.

And in a way, that does depress me. "Ava dear, what'd you do with your years in high school?"

"Oh, I spent them on the internet!"

That's not what I want to wind up saying to God when I'm dead or anyone else, for that matter. I do want to have some kind of point to my life, I do want to write Medea Six and Tipalo and sell a million copies, and... I don't know. It's never bothered me so much before (guilt generally takes precedence over anything else I figure's wrong with me), but-- like the song says, "have I done any good in the world today?" Have I made someone smile, have I made someone feel happy, or have I just been laying around the house all day watching T.V. and eating ice cream? Well?

I'm not saying I'm going to shut down on the internet because I love the internet-- actually, I love the friends I've made on the internet more than I love the internet itself (you know who you are and I love you). But... I don't know, something makes me think too much longer and what little's left of my innocence, at least, will totally disappate. If not that, than my will to help people, to be a good person. Do you know what I mean? I'm not sure.

I blame Jacob, he called me out and berated me for sleeping during church (he thinks my whole problem is I watch too much anime, which isn't really my problem but still), which I deserved...!

But seriously, I'm going to try to cut back, all right? I'll still be on my icon challenges, gosh knows I'll still write, gosh knows I'll still be on MSNIM and AIM, but-- you know? Okay.

Yes, I know, been slacking on the one hundred icons thing, but I can't help it, I love this one of Rai I made...! So very... well, morbid/funny.



And don't worry, I have made a couple more Ren icons. The mischief in me wants to make Ren/Tsukiko and more Ren/Hiromi icons (I still say if you only looked at the pictures it seems like he's a world-class, bar none, player), but I'll satiate this urge with only a couple of those... plus a fair amount of the fifty premade themes are more or less meant to be used with pairings (I mean, Kiss, Hug, So far away, Are you there?, Comfort, and Hold My Hand?). Not that that's much of an excuse to pair him with no canonical evidence whatsoever. Wait, yes, it is.

Rai's semi-malevolent face is telling me I need to icon more...

You guys are lucky I post here first. Or, rather, you would be if my icons were actually good. But I do think I'm getting a bit better, seriously! Hover for the themes, you know the drill.

( Six, including two little kid Ren! )

Now on to useful things! Like planning what junk to eat during the Twilight Zone marathon!