Old school iconage!

[melissatreglia]

So, I've been trawling the old, defunct FK comms over on LJ, and at fk_icons I found a few (wait for it) icons. Of the ones that were posted, these were the ones that don't give a broken image error.

I decided to "rescue" them by gathering them into a nice, neat little folder under my Photobucket account. Credit has been given to the appropriate icon-creators, with my little notes tacked on & each creator of multiple icons has their own subfolder. There's a grand total of 82 83 icons in the fk_icons folder.

A quick sample:


Check out the iconage here.

I'm going to continue checking the old comms to see if there's anything else worth "bringing over." Which reminds me...

If you're a creator and you decide you don't want your stuff in my public Photobucket, just let me know via PM and I'll be happy to take it down. I don't want to upset my fellow fans; I'm just trying to preserve some of the best our fandom has to offer.

Comments

[ride_4ever]

Thank you for this!

(And LOL at "bringing them over".)

[melissatreglia]

You're quite welcome! They're such a lovely selection of icons, it would be a shame for them to ever disappear.

I just regret that I couldn't preserve ALL of the icons that had been posted at fk_icons. A lot of them were dead links/broken images. But I'm glad I was able to snap these up.

[greerwatson]

I gather the ones you've saved were those posted directly to FK_Icons, since there are certainly others on people's personal journals. (It was just the links they posted on the comm.)

There is another icon you might like to save. It's by the mod of the comm, who posted it as an example on the very first FK Icons post. Although today it deadlinks, you can find it on the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040229022553/http://www.caffeineoverdose.com/~dark_ravenette/thefix.gif

[melissatreglia]

Thank you for linking me to that icon. I've added it to the bucket.

Yes, the icons in the bucket were all within the posts of the fk_icons comm, or in posts directly linked to the posts within the comm (in a "fake cut," if you will). The icon artists gave their permission in their posts to share their work at the time they had posted them.

I'll eventually be sharing some of my own here @ fksquee, as well.

[greerwatson]

I've now made wiki articles for the icon artists. :D