Current mood:	accomplished
Entry tags:	eye candy, h/i subtext, hercules, hercules the legendary journeys, htlj, icons, michael hurst, xena, xena warrior princess, xwp

30 HTLJ and XWP icons
A mere nibble of the delectable Herculean and Xenite treats that await:

1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30

Icon table by 77words

Note for #1: I posted this icon a long time ago (about two years!) all by its lonesome, along with a somewhat pretentious commentary about the ways Michael Hurst--the director of "Greece is Burning"--plays with the critical cliché of the "male gaze." If you are or were a graduate student and were exposed to the extremely-overused appearance of these two words together (or used them yourself--it's OK; we all did things we aren't proud of in order to get a good grade on a paper or an article published) and want to read what I had to say at the time about the icon, you can find it here. Give it a read, pretty please; I'd like to think I had something useful to say about the episode, Michael Hurst's directing skills, and his skillful wielding of H/I subtext.

Just as a more recent note, with regard to #12, if you watch "The Warrior Princess" on the HTLJ Season 1 DVD and listen to the audio commentary, during the sweaty scene in the forge, Hurst innocently comments: "It's quite, sort of... It's homoerotic, isn't it?" as if he had never noticed before. As if . . . Toward the end of the episode, when our heroes have defeated the Warrior Princess, we hear Hurst on the commentary saying (while we see Iolaus speaking), "I love you Hercules. Let's go home. Will you sleep on top tonight? I don't know."

Another note: You'll occasionally see two icons that look, well, sort of familiar. Sometimes, I have the hardest time deciding b/t two versions b/c I like them both, so I leave the burden of choosing up to you.

And now for something completely different:

All of the icons in this post are completed works, not bases, whether they contain text or not.

Resources are in my Resource Post, and each icon has individual credits here.

Please read the first two entries in this journal, fading_coal, for complete information and rules.

Take, use, and enjoy, but please credit astarte59 or fading_coal, and comments are highly desired, greatly appreciated, and good manners to boot.