Challenge 186: My favorite in 2023: Zhu Yilong

[tinny]

Obviously ;), my favorite is Zhu Yilong, so here are four icons of him, all from this year:



"Lost in the Stars" and "Only The River Flows" - his two new movies from 2023
Zhu Yilong in a kilt from last month, and the last icon is from his latest weibo post from yesterday


https://tinpix.de/2023/zyl_lost_01.01.16.png
https://tinpix.de/2023/zyl_river_still37239_3.png
https://tinpix.de/2023/zyl_kilt_119622_1.png
https://tinpix.de/2023/zyl_524402_1.png

Comments

[itsanonyx]

Pretty icons. <3

Are 3 and 4 with fake background? It looks awesome. <3

[tinny]

Thank you! <3

Yes, the backgrounds in 1, 3, and 4 are fake. Here are the original images, if you're interested:

[magicrubbish]

Crop of 2 and the bg of 4 ( and the way it matches with the outfit perfectly ) - lovely.

[tinny]

Thank you so much! <3

[itsanonyx]

Hey,

I just noticed that all your icons don't show up anymore. :o(

Did you delete those?

[tinny]

No, no, I did not. ;(

But my old image host has gone bankrupt in December and I decided to move to squidge.org, a fan-run site.

Apparently the fact that it's fan-run means the server is standing in someone's basement in Oregon, and they've been without power since Saturday (like most of the Portland area). ;(

I'm hoping they'll come up again in time for the next challenge deadlines.

p.s.: I've also already made the icons for the special color challenge, but don't want to upload them anywhere else or I'll get confused which icons are where.

[itsanonyx]

Have you tried imgur? That's what I use.

[tinny]

the whole reason everyone went away from imgur is because they changed their TOS and are now deleting old "unused" images.

I'm having lots of trouble finding old challenge posts for retro_icontest where the inspo icons haven't vanished.

(although i think that only happens if you use it without an account. but when given the choice between creating a new account with imgur, who i don't like and don't trust, and creating a new account with squidge, who's a decent guy, even if he's running the whole thing from his basement rn, i chose squidge.)

[itsanonyx]

Oh, I didn't even know that imgur started deleting images. It only happened with superhero_land's mod account. But those were all new from 2023. With my private account it seems that images are still there. Or if they deleted some then there are from like 10 years ago.

[tinny]

It's up again now, finally! \o/

[itsanonyx]

Great. :D