help! need iconage.

[dragonlady7]

I am attempting to make myself an icon out of a perverse whim to have something slashy.

(I'm still not promising anything but there may be LotR slash involved in Valentine's Day this year. At the very least, there's an experiment in progress while I procrastinate on Chapter 7 and associated earlier-chapter edits for the Novel. Fanfic, thou art an almighty and tempting time-suck.)

I have the text for this slashy icon, and am convinced I am the wittiest person ever.

But I need some sort of really slashy imagery. Naked bodies, perhaps? Slashy men juxtaposed? B/F, B/A, E/F, E/A, Maedhros/Fingon, Merry/Pippin, Frodo/Sam, Glorfindel/Ecthelion (as brilliantly written by tehta and if you haven't read Flawed and Fair you are missing just about the funniest thing ever), Eowyn/Arwen, Eowyn/Lothiriel, Galadriel/Eowyn (they're the only three women in the book, so you gotta try it... Oh wait! Arwen/Rosie...) bizarre Silm pairings I don't even know about but would probably find hawt if I were less ignornat? [edit: I just noticed the mispelling and am going to consider it deliberate.] I am not wed (huh huh) to any particular pairing, and rather would seek to glorify the genre of slash itself. But I am not particularly at one with the slash community, and particularly not with the fanart communities, so I am sadly at a loss when it comes to finding really good slashy stuff that would come across well in an icon setting. Hell, even anonymous rude bits would probably work. Oh, RPS stuff would probably be amusing, visually, much though most RPS stories just make me scratch my head. (You know what I said about genres? Definitely the case, here. I don't object, I just don't get it.)

Oh, sword imagery would be particularly apt.

If anyone can help me in my quest for good graphical sense, do please, as I am in many ways graphics-challenged. I just need something suitably iconic, preferably several iconic things as I seem to have a fondness for icons that have several frames ever since (o horrible day, the readers exclaim) i found out how to make animated .gif files. Something that says... Man-flesh. Something that says... Swords. Something that says... Yes. Manhoods. Manhoods! Throbbing ones! Mua-ha-ha! (As of yet that word has not been used in any of my smut scenes. Er, either of those words.)

Although i wouldn't be averse to something femmeslashy either (as I am still not promising anything but there may be some of that for the Share The Love festival next Monday).

And have no fear: duty will return, and I will rewrite Ch. 7 before next week, because however degenerate I am, I cannot, cannot write slash at work, and I have my usual Friday and Sunday 15 Hours Of Utter Stupefying Boredom God I Hope Somebody Buys A Drink To Keep Me Awake. During which I get the only real work done that I do in a week anymore. Pfeh.

So yes, please help me by pointing me to good, really slashy pictures of hawt mostly-naked people,

Comments

[ellbee804.livejournal.com]

I just happen to have a couple of pictures that might amuse you, but I can't seem to upload them to my photo site thingy. May I email you? Don't want to freak out the boyfriend or anything.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oh please do email. :) I think it's in my profile.
>freak out the boyfriend

Snort. He doesn't read my email. :)

I read your icon and thought it said, "het". LOL.

[ellbee804.livejournal.com]

Done. Hope there's something that pleases.

You really have got slash on the brain, don't you? :-)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, but can you blame me? I've spent much of the day ignoring what I was supposed to be doing and playing with a naked Eomer, a naked Faramir, a large pool of water, some soap, and a straight razor.

What else is going to be on my brain? Kittens? Puppies?

No.

[tehta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks! Just saw your rec.

I don't know of any slashy pics I really like, unfortunately. Most of the fanart elves are too girly for me. Let me know if you find any!

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

I suppose you've already hit the Theban Band trove?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I'v e never heard of the Theban Band trove...
?

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

Do a google search for Theban Band (I'd do it right now, but I'm at work and don't really fancy the IT guy knowing that I like to look at multiple naked men). Anyway, they're the best photomanippers I've seen.

[amyjessica.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, I second the Theban band analysis. Yummers.

http://www.squidge.org/~praxisters/TBlotr.html