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This will be the last Challenge for 2025. So, let's have some "roundup Challenge" again. :o)

You can actually icon everything that made your own year awesome. This may be your favourite TV show(s) watched in 2025, your favourite movie(s) watched in 2025, your favourite actor(s) / actress(es) in 2025, your favourite event(s) attended in 2025 or anything that you thought was awesome about your own year. You are still only able to choose 2 Favourites for this Challenge. However, if you choose one topic only you may choose 4 different things.

As examples below I used 4 movies that I watched more than once this year. :o)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 by

itsanonyx | John Wick (Media Franchise) by

sietepecados | Lilo & Stitch (2025) by KahlanAmnelle | Flow by MamadNobarii

* You may icon 2 Favourites in this challenge (in case you cannot decide which one is your absolute favorite).
* You may enter up to 4 icons (ICON+URL).
* Please submit your icons as new posts to this community. Every member has posting access.
* Please no animations or x-rated icons. Everything else is allowed.
* Icons must fit DW standards (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
* Tag your entries with challenge number and your username, or I can do it for you.
* Please put a description in your entry which Favourite you picked.
* Please ask questions if you have any.

* DEADLINE: Sunday, January 04th 2026 (04pm Central European Time). [countdown]

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mulhollands

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

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magicrubbish

Stranger things Season 5 X 4

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itsanonyx

Thank you so much for all your votes! Congratulations to all winners!
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FIRST tinny	SECOND tinny	THIRD mulhollands	MOD'S CHOICE holyscream

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itsanonyx

Challenge #228 - Martial Arts Movie

Challenge #227 Voting

[December 21 2025 (12pm Central European Time)]

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tinny

I went back to my "unused themes" list, and here we go with a theme we've not had before! wuxia/xianxia/martial arts movies! The Chinese categories are called wuxia/xianxia, where magical fighters and cultivators fight for dominance. The Western equivalent is martial arts - and if that's absolutely not your thing, I'm also going to allow anything where the main characters use their hands and feet and swords to fight more than they do guns. Looking at it that way, some of the MCU movies count in that category, so does Star Wars, and the wikipedia list also has wrestling as a martial art. I trust your judgement there as to what qualifies. I'm not very versed in superhero movies.

Here's a list from imdb: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000099643/
And the category from wikipedia: Category:Martial arts films - Wikipedia

the three musketeers by sallymn

crouching tiger hidden dragon by wickedgame

The Three Musketeers by

sallymn | Star Wars by

dbzxenaman2 | Police Story 3 SuperCop by

tinny | ~~Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon~~Teen Wolf by

wickedgame

* You may icon 2 different movies in this challenge (in case you cannot decide which one is your absolute favorite)
* If you use a franchise, you can count them as one movie.
* You may enter up to 4 icons (ICON+URL).
* Please submit your icons as new posts to this community. Every member has posting access.
* Please no animations or x-rated icons. Everything else is allowed.
* Icons must fit DW standards (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
* Tag your entries with challenge number and your username, or I can do it for you.
* Please put a description in your entry which movie(s) you picked.

* DEADLINE: Sunday, December 21 2025 (12pm Central European Time). [countdown]

tinny

* Vote for the best 3 icons in order of preference (f.e. 80, 66, 57). Voting is weighted, meaning first place gets 3 points, second place 2 points, third place 1 point.
* Don't vote for yourself or ask anyone to vote for you.
* Voting ends in two weeks, at the end of the next challenge.

( Voting Challenge #227 - Musician )

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tinny

Thank you so much for all your votes! Congratulations to all winners! What a beautiful set of primary colors! \o/
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tinny	picnicnic	mulhollands		innitmarvelous_og

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tinny

I opted to restrict myself to musicians who sing in a language other than English (I guess Johnny Clegg also qualifies, but I've iconed him enough...), and ended up with Hoshino Gen as my fave. Honorable mention for Francis Cabrel:

Hoshino Gen x3 | Francis Cabrel

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itsanonyx

Challenge #227 - Musician

Challenge #226 Voting

[December 07th 2025 (04pm Central European Time)]

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mulhollands

Tori Amos
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innitmarvelous_og

Loreena McKennitt / The Civil Wars (Bonus CW graphic here)

Alt for #2:
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1. https://i.imgur.com/gQ8F1Ck.jpg
2. https://i.imgur.com/4SUOX9s.jpg
3. https://i.imgur.com/HVhUHC9.jpg
4. https://i.imgur.com/TcqOjD3.png

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holyscream

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debris4spike

This has been an easy choice of favourites.

The first 2 are of James Marsters, and if you don't know, he played Spike in BtVS. I took these photos back in 2009.

The other 2 are of the original Glenn Miller Orchestra, taken in the 1940's. I love the music (although find it really hard to play!). However I had to share these early images, as one of Mum's memories was of hearing him play with the USAAF Band in Northamptonshire, not long before his final flight. So a favourite musician ... and a family memory.

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tinny

* Vote for the best 3 icons in order of preference (f.e. 80, 66, 57). Voting is weighted, meaning first place gets 3 points, second place 2 points, third place 1 point.
* Don't vote for yourself or ask anyone to vote for you.
* Voting ends in two weeks, at the end of the next challenge.

( Voting Challenge #226 - Masked Character )

Please vote in comments, comments are screened.

Current Mood: excited

tinny

We've had this challenge once before, in 2018. O_O Icon your favorite band/singer/musician/composer. Living, dead, modern, classical, fictional, who is your favorite music maker of all time?

If you want it to be a bit more challenging, I'm adding an optional bonus restriction: pick someone who sings in a language other than English. I don't know how to make this fit classical composers, maybe just someone less well-known?

lady gaga by ciuciuvaraworld

Lady Gaga by

ciuciuvaraworld | Charlie Puth by

hyacinthos | Suga by

adriftingsea | Orville Peck by

sietepecados

* You may icon 2 different musicians/bands/composers in this challenge (in case you cannot decide which one is your absolute favorite)
* You may enter up to 4 icons (ICON+URL).
* Please submit your icons as new posts to this community. Every member has posting access.
* Please no animations or x-rated icons. Everything else is allowed.
* Icons must fit DW standards (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
* Tag your entries with challenge number and your username, or I can do it for you.
* Please put a description in your entry which musician/band/etc you picked.

* DEADLINE: Sunday, December 07 2025 (12pm Central European Time). [countdown]

tinny

Thank you all for participating and voting in our anniversary challenge! Congratulations to all winners!
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