a murder of crows -- icons

This is chthonian's icon journal. Here, I'll be posting bunches of icons, of which 99% of those are bound to be people or PBs (Portrayed By's). Feel free to friend the journal if you want to see when new stuff comes up. If you want to request a particular PB, first check to see if I'm accepting requests, then simply leave a comment here!

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The quality on these is always kind of iffy, considering I'm mostly iconing cell phone pictures, but--! Consider this post my love song for Theresa Fucking Aguilar. :]

Also, LOL LOL FOREVER. I love Maria Mena.

MARIA MENA


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Welcome back to Julie's first 2009 instalment of late-night calming icon sprees, and also to one of the fastest little icon batches ever! Mostly made as a supplement to the other icons available here. She is so unusual-lookin'.

SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR


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My on-going quest to help out ye men of few icons continues. I'm going to marathon most of his movies soon. I ♥ this man so much.

Fun fact: I actually made the first 32 icons back in August 2007 in order to use a few on GJ. It's just been a slow progress since then! Some of these are repeats, simply because this batch had... such a long lifespan. I think I've pretty much exhausted the supply of generic images available (without, idk, getting a Wireimage account or something). Next up: possibly capping a movie? I don't knooooww. All I know is that the world needs more Gary icons, stat, and I am so happy to be PBing him right now.

More at baobabble, roonil, rpg_ink, and hot_fuzz. If you find more, please let me know!

GARY OLDMAN


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It's really hard to get back onto the iconing bandwagon after an extended hiatus, but I'm still workin' on it; it results in like, flailing over your own style and wondering if it's atrophied to shit while you've been away. I can't decide if I want to go the route of medium contrast and clear sharpening, or high contrast and softer lines, so instead I go for some horrific in-between. I can only hope it still looks fine.

Either way, I love Macfadyen so much -- he's so good at just looking so melancholy. See starboard & soconvinced for more! Also, it is worth mentioning that Death at a Funeral is probably one of my top favourite comedy films of all time, and I highly recommend people checking it out. So much love. I'm iconing a few other people from this film, too.

MATTHEW MACFADYEN


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Clearly I never learn. Dark and fast-moving action sci-fi flick != the right movie to icon after a five-month iconing hiatus. Why I did it, I'll never know.

----actually, wait, I do know! It has something to do with the fact that Mélanie looks like a beautiful, ethereal alien and I am pretty much hopelessly in love with her thanks to banlieue. ♥

MÉLANIE THIERRY


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A natural followup to my Don Cheadle post. This movie was so, so good. And surprisingly funny -- I mean, I went into it expecting to cry by the end, but not to giggle so much throughout! Annnnnnd this concludes my 4-part spam of my favourite actress on the globe. ♥

LIV TYLER


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I loooooved her long dark hair with the bangs. And the glasses. And plus, being in a Marvel superhero movie! Huzzah!

LIV TYLER


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See? I even found an incredibly dark, yellow horror flick easier to icon! Anyway. Liv was abso-frickin-gorgeous in this one, and it was ... probably the best horror/thriller I've ever, ever seen. It basically reduced me to a weeping gibbering mess on my housemate's arm.

No spoilers here, since when I was rewatching it to get screencaps -- on mute, with happy music in the background -- my nerves gave out halfway through. Which means I stopped capping right before all the crazy stuff started happening.

LIV TYLER


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I'm usually not the person to piss and moan about low-quality screencaps, but oh my god you can't believe how bad these were. I even capped them myself from the DVD, but the quality was still ridiculously dark and grainy! Steve Buscemi, why you gotta be so low-budget, huh?

Anyway. This is part one of tonight's epic 4-parter Liv spam. Like my quest with Hugh Jackman, I am intent on iconing almost everything she's been in.

LIV TYLER


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twatty and I were talking about him last night, and I can only conclude that this man is glorious.

RUFUS SEWELL


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The world needs more Monaghan icons! She has the same sort of beamy happiness that Liv Tyler does. I could've actually made more from the galleries, but I've put them on hold until later.

MICHELLE MONAGHAN


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Iconing this man = more enjoyable than sleep or schoolwork. Icons are an assortment of photoshoots, public appearances, Southern Belles, Cold Case, Zodiac, Hysterical Blindness, and a little The Wedding Planner. Which baaaaaasically means it is a happy grab-bag of deliciousness. HE IS LIKE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PBS AT THE MOMENT and he also solved one of my biggest pb dilemmas ever so I owe this man's face a lot.  /ramble

See icondust, starboard, laifana & textless for more.

JUSTIN CHAMBERS


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Oh no! A banner post! But Brandi requested some, so there's a first time for everything. :D

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Yes, even moar. I'm rewarding my friend Iain for how active he's being with the character. ;) Also, Reign Over Me is a pretty amazing film.

DON CHEADLE


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Ughhhh it's almost 3AM and I have uni in the morning but instead I'm iconing. This was a sort of quick batch. More at robins, frakkingcylon & roonil.

JEREMY IRONS


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I freaking love Gemma so hard, and the fact that I get to use her as a PB these days. I'll be over here desperately waiting to see Quantum of Solace and RocknRolla, 'kay. More icons at starboard, soconvinced, twatty, embargo, voldy, & chaoschick!

ETA: 3 icons added, as of Nov 9!

GEMMA ARTERTON


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It's so, so hard to get back into the habit of iconing after taking an unintentional ~sabbatical~. Anyway. I've got tonnes of unfinished & in-progress batches kicking around on my harddrive, and Cheadle is a classy dude.

DON CHEADLE


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24 Green Arrow and Black Canary icons assorted from various series (I love Paulo Siqueira's art so much it is ridiculous), and 9 archery-themed icons (specifically selected/edited/etc to fit for GA). I know, I know--I'm on a DC kick nowadays. Blame b8g8...

COMICS (GA & BC)


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