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[tinny]

After the poll at icontalking was unanimously in favor of creating a community where we could enjoy old icon challenges again, I've created this comm for this purpose.

I'm currently in the process of setting it up, so please bear with me.

Rough idea: monthly challenges from all over the place, mostly/preferably from very old, dead LJ icon challenge comms. We'll adapt the rules (specifically voting: none, number of icons: unlimited, and allowed fandoms: all) for each challenge so we have the same rules for every challenge here in this comm, overriding the restrictions of the original challenge comm. This is done so everyone can enjoy our challenges without the rules changing too much from month to month.

The main goal of this comm is to celebrate the iconmaker community and the immense creativity of its members over the last 25+ years.

1) If you are an administrator of an active icon challenge comm, or used to run one that is now closed, feel free to let me know if you would allow us (or not allow us) to reuse your challenges in the context of retro_icontest. That will save me the trouble of coming to ask you separately. :)

2) If you would like to be a co-mod, please let me know.

3) If you have any questions, please comment to this post.

Comments

[ella_rose88]

Just letting you know that I’m happy for you to use our past challenges from perioddrama_ic, particularly the challenges from when we hosted on LJ :)

[tinny]

Thank you so much! <3 I'll put the comm on the masterlist and make a note about using the LJ challenges.

(I really appreciate the info, it turns out it takes guts to PM mods and ask for permission :), and I'm going a lot slower than I'd like.)

[luminousdaze]

Hi, if you'd like to you could use challenges from my two old icontests. They are island_rumble and shire_icontest. They were both focused on one fandom, Island Rumble was for the TV series Lost and Shire Icontest was for the Peter Jackson Middle-earth movies, so some of the themes may not work for a general icon challenge, but some of them might. Shire Icontest probably has better themes for general challenges. Island Rumble was a rumble style challenge (the rules & info are in the profile) so I had individual themes within the overall rumble.

[tinny]

Thank you so much!

I checked out the challenges, they're amazing, thank you!

Even if not all of the challenges are suited for retro_icontest, some of them definitely are. And I really only need one (for now). There were so many good comms and I want to revisit them all! :D

I'll add these two comms to the masterlist.

[luminousdaze]

You're welcome! 😊 I'm glad you liked some of my old challenges, thank you.