A few incredibly-random Giant icons. Mostly Jett. Mostly Jett drinking tea.

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02. 08. 12.

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Oh, for the love of... Well, if anybody's gonna make icons of Angel FUCKING Obregon, it might as well be me.

Lately I really seem to specialize in icons nobody but myself would ever want to use. I think I just start looking for icons for myself & am not able to find any (usually for good reason), so I end up just doing my own & making too many & "sharing" them with all of you, my unwitting victims. But really, I think this is more your problem than mine. It's not my fault you're so uncultured. Go out, rent whatever it is I'm talking about, fall in love with it, & come back & take an icon. It's for your own damn good! Heathens.

That being said, I've iconized the 1919 German silent film Anders als die Andern (Different From the Others). Co-written by renowned sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld & starring Conrad Veidt (my dead spindly German Hitler-bashing bisexual boyfriend!), Fritz Schulz, Reinhold Schünzel, & Anita Berber, this was the first movie in history to deal explicitly with the subject of homosexuality. It was created partially to educate the public about Hirschfeld's ideas on homosexuality (namely that it's, shock, perfectly natural) & to protest the German anti-gay laws entailed in Paragraph 175 (not fully repealed until 1994). It is available today only in a fragmented form; when the Nazis seized power, one of their first actions (May 6, 1933) was to destroy Hirschfeld's entire library, including many prints of the film. I got it from NetFlix, & you should too, because it's amazing.

I got real bored with fancy brushes, that's why all these are pretty clean & simple. And all greyscale, except one.

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07. 14. 15.

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I swear I'll make some good ones soon. Ones you'll actually want. Uh, maybe.

The following highly disturbing icons are from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. The fourth installment in the Apes series, this prequel/sequel takes place twenty years after Cornelius & Zira come back in time to pre-ape Earth & are brutally murdered by the human government. (Even though they were from the future, so no matter what humans do the world will still be taken over by apes eventually... Hasn't this movie seen any other movies?) Their super-intelligent baby was rescued & hidden away by a benevolent circus owner, brilliantly portrayed by the ever-subtle Ricardo Montalban. Conquest takes place in the bleak futuristic wasteland of 1991, where eight years prior a plague from space (that's what I said) has managed to wipe out every dog & cat in the world. Humans were forced to replace their beloved housepets with apes; they soon discovered that these new pets were very easy to train, & decided to enslave them. Now, for some reason, after allowing him to live in ignorant bliss for the past twenty years (but apparently teaching him American history as well as training him to speak with a British accent), the circus owner brings the highly-evolved son of Cornelius & Zira to the dangerous big city. The heir eventually names himself Caesar & leads the slaves in an ape revolution. (Yes, that's right; in an ironic twist, the son of the human-loving Cornelius & Zira is the very instigator who encourages the apes to subordinate the humans in the first place.) Have I mentioned this film is also an allegory for race relations? Oh yeah, it's magnificent.

This set is dedicated to molly_bot.

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03. 07. 13.

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I apologize for #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & maybe 10. This movie makes my brain go fuzzy.

"Caroline, did you stay up until 4AM making a set for abc_icons from the 2002 Britney Spears movie Crossroads with your own screencaps?"

"... No."

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c. f. j.

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Don't judge. YOU DON'T KNOW ME.

These icons/bases are from the 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce & Terence Stamp.

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01. 11. 17.

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Whew, a lotta work. Hope you like! ;)