notes about icons

Through completely unexpected route have discovered some icons I'm using have been adopted by others (not a bother) who are crediting me instead of the actual icon-maker (definitely a bother). If you're not sure whether me (or anyone else whose icon you like) made all their own icons, check the profile/iconnage page of the user, like so, and look for the credit info in the icon's comments. Several seemed to get the brunt, so here those are if that helps (if you're using & credited properly, disregard, of course).

I'm flattered (I guess), but I just don't like being credited for work I didn't do.

para_digm

jiatra

absolution_sky

[unknown]

peaces_icons

nefariouskitten

chibidrunksanzo

( A note about the last one. )

Comments are turned off because there's really no need to reply. If you've mis-credited, then fix it, that's all. Thanks, and I'm sure the iconmakers will also appreciate being properly acknowledged.

represent the result of harm, yo

While reading (hah, more like rapid scanning in slight boredom), hit a line in the story and it just suddenly popped out at me. I'm sure you've read it a hundred times yourself, pick the variation of your choosing:

it saddened/frustrated/angered him to think of a girl/boy so [imply speshul character trait here] being trapped/forced/hurt like that

The reason this stuck out was due to a comment on my own WiP, about the issue of the power-holding character (ie the detective, the cop, the lawyer, the doctor, the spy, the agent, etc) taking a protective and/or helpful attitude towards the endangered [eg non-powered] character. The observation was basically that noblesse oblige only goes so far, and is an impersonal thing. (I'm not saying that doctors and cops are operating under n.oblige, only that if you think in terms of "authority" = "power" then it's not a far stretch.)

Over and over in stories about spies, cops, and all the rest, our white-hatted hero gets characterized not just as someone doing good because it's the Right Thing, or doing good solely for the sake of doing good, but also acting purposefully for a specific character. Plenty of times this is also taken as the lead-in to a romantic subplot, too: the victim just has that extra 'something' that makes our White Hat sit up and want to be all extra-protective.

( The victim is not so much a character, at least at first, as symbolic of all the harm... so what would it do to our standard genre storylines if )

there is no connection and/or especial attachment to a symbolic victim? Would we believe a western-based character who has little to no care for the victim's eventual end, if we don't also get an entire biopic about the character's life to explain such dismissal?

Anyone?