sid_guardian | Jan. 26th, 2020

Reading one of the wonderful stories in the Guardian fandom, and squeeing over a particularly beautiful phrase, I thought, "Wouldn't this look great on an icon?" Let's find out! :) And what better time to do this than in the wake of the Sundial Exchange, with so many more good stories to quote from? So here's what we'll do:

Let's icon some quotes!

1) Collecting Quotes

Everyone can submit their favorite quotes by commenting to this post. And I mean everyone! You don't have to be an iconmaker to do this. If you have a quote you want to see on an icon, submit it! Hopefully, someone will want to make an icon for it.

Quotes can come from:

the Guardian drama

the Guardian novel

all Guardian-adjacent fandom canons (some examples in the FAQ here)

interviews with Zhu Yilong or Bai Yu

fanfic in any of the above fandoms!

If you have more ideas for where to draw quotes from, let me know!

If you're taking your quote from a fic, ideally you should link the fic, or at least the author's name. (You can easily link ao3 names with the new @ notation: [at]authorname.ao3 ) You don't have to, but wouldn't it be nice to turn this into a fic-rec fest on the side? You can submit quotes from your own fic or from other people's fic.

Please restrict each of your quotes to one or two sentences, don't quote whole pages. It's okay to quote a (short) paragraph for context and mark the part you want iconed in bold. In any case, iconmakers will later have the freedom to shorten/adapt the quotes.

If you want, you may add information on which character the quote is from, or what kind of imagery you imagine would fit the quote. But artists will be free to do their own take on every quote, potentially ignoring this extra information.

You can submit as many quotes as you like.

You have three weeks to submit your quotes:

Quotes deadline: Saturday, February 15, your end-of-day.

2) Making Icons

Iconmakers: make icons from the quotes that inspire you, and simply post them as replies to the person who submitted them.

You may shorten/adapt the quotes as you see fit. You can make icons from the canon the quotes are from, or you can go and make crossovers or text-only icons, there are no limits to your creativity. Icon the quote as it inspires you!

You may icon quotes that have already been iconed (by yourself or someone else), but I'm hoping everyone who submits quotes will get at least one icon in return, so maybe spread it out a little bit, if your muse is willing.

You can make as many icons as you like.

Iconmakers: you have one additional week after the quotes deadline to submit icons:

Icons deadline: Saturday, February 22, your end-of-day.

Have fun! If you have questions, ask them in the Questions thread.

Promote:

3) Repeat

You can still leave more quotes here, just comment to the post. I will start another round once we have collected enough.