F.A.Q.s (or, fun facts you never actually wondered about)
Uh. What the hell are these for? You know, the more I RP, the more I forget that there's a huge community of people out there who don't know what the hell it is we're doing over here, and occasionally one of them fine folks finds their way over here. So, if you're reading this and you're confused, hello! What's it like on the outside? Good, I trust. Anyways! These are PB icons! What does that mean? Well, lots of us are roleplayers, which means we create characters, put them in a community with lots of other characters, and let them interact. Where do the icons come in? In roleplaying, lots of people will create a character that looks a certain way, and they try to find a face to match that particular look and personality. When that happens, they need icons to represent that character and his/her expressions when playing with them! Most of you out there probably already know this, but we might as well be thorough, eh?
haggardassicons? sickcaticons? Are you trying to scare people away from your icons with those names? haggardassicons is a reference to our philosophy in life: Everything can be blamed on Bam. No, really, a good chunk of the subjects we icon can be traced back to the two makers knowing of Bam Margera, and "haggard ass" would, most definitely, be a Bam-ism. As for sickcaticons, in her own words, it's because "I make icons like a sick cat; all at once and very loudly."
What's with all the icons of crappy bands and the Jackass cast? Hey, we like those crappy bands. There's a good chance we've actually done our best to stalk that crappy band. In fact, most of the people we icon, unless we say otherwise, we kind of totally love. We love Jackass, we love our crappy bands, we love bad reality shows, we love skateboarders, so we icon them. Sorry.
Okay, seriously, are you two 12-year-old emo boys? We think one of us is, while the other is a 45-year-old stalker. Either way, we like to pretend to be 20-something-year-old women.
So are you, like, obsessed with Bam? Honestly, despite having about 2,000+ icons of him (combined with the icons at lovesilence), no. We just love Jackass and CKY, he's really easy to icon, and it's almost just a challenge now to see how many Bam icons can be made before we run out of resources for him.
What about wiL Francis? And Aiden? Oh, yeah. Totally. It wouldn't feel right to lie to you about that one.
Can we make requests? Yes and no. No: We won't icon just anyone. It's kind of pointless, considering places like icondust are very request friendly, and make awesome icons, while we have a tendency to forget what we're doing Yes: Obviously, we icon people we're interested in, and we have the resources to cap. If we have the movie or TV show available to cap, if we've already iconned someone else in the band, or they're a Suicide Girl or Gods Girl, you're more than welcome to ask us to icon them. ALSO! We will take suggestions for Scandinavian (which, in this instance, includes Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland) and Latin American (which covers a much wider area) PBs for the icontheworld challenge. You don't have to provide imagery or anything, unless you want specific pictures included. 24601 likes to think of herself as a master picture hunter, so hopefully just a name should suffice. No promises, though.
So what do you have available to cap? A semi-complete list can be found here!
Can I steal these and claim I made this shit? Please don't. You see the same rule everywhere, and it's there for a reason. We made these, so it would be stupid to call them your own, and credit is usually nice. We haven't exactly hunted down and strung a non-creditor up by their underwear in a while, and we're too lazy to probably get around to that anyways, but crediting allows people to follow links back here and find more or similar icons they might like.
Someone told me you had icons of so-and-so, but I don't see them on your list. Um, WTF? Before deciding the person must have been completely wrong, check lovesilence and see if they meant to send you over there. Before the GJ-IJ jump, 24601 was alexcicio. After the jump, all those icons were moved over to lovesilence, and 24601 and sickcaticons started anew on haggardassicons.
Why do you post your sets in 100-150 icon posts? Why not just all in one post? One of us makers is a loser and still has to work on dial up. My dial up is no more! But other people are still on it. Sucks, yeah, but that's the way it is, and I always hated having to try and load icon posts of 400 or 500 icons at a time on that slow connection. For the sake of dial up users everywhere, or people who just prefer to deal in smaller sets at a time, if a set has more than 150 icons in it, we post 100 at a time.
Hey! I took some of the pictures you iconned! Did you? Awesome. What would you like us to do about it? Take them down? Politely point out which ones and we'll do it. Credit you? Tell us how, and we'll take care of it. Really, to us, they're just pixels, but to you, they may be actual work, so we're more than willing to respect that. Just know that we don't mean any harm!
Why are some of your icons f-locked and the rest are open? We're not trying to lock down to keep people from stealing, because we're of the opinion that locking down a journal doesn't prevent thieves. Those are locked because of the amateur nature of the PBs, really. While some people are effing awesome about all of this, there's some drama that we really don't feel like being involved in. You can add us to see the icons and then delete them, you can make a random journal just to see what's up, you can do whatever you damn well please. This is just to keep our asses from getting into a few hard-to-explain situations.
Wanna affiliate? Dude, totally, just leave a note here and we'll stick you on that handy-dandy list.
Did you hear the one about Heisenberg getting pulled over? And when the cop asked him if he knew how fast he was going, he said, "No, but I can tell you where I am"? Totally. We love physics jokes.
Anything else? Comment here. We have no lives, we'll probably be online when you ask anyways.