Yes, well, your icons may have tons of brushes on them, but they certainly don't look it! That's entirely the point. Having to search for the whole purpose of the icon seriously pisses me off. It's just not good icon making.

And since I do the bases myself more often than not, I pay extra attention to that

Hee, I do as well. It's been a very, very long time since I used someone else's bases to make an icon... it's been a very long time since I've actually made an icon that I liked enough to keep around for a while, and I made the base myself. My tastes for icons (which basically means my taste in men :oP) is rather... er, eclectic, so there aren't many bases of the ones I want. Miyavi, who's my current favourite man, for example, I've only just started seeing bases of him. And it feels slightly odd for me to just take someone's base and do all the stuff I normally do to my bases... it doesn't feel right for some reason.

Did that make any sense? O.o

XD everyone's a potential Brad lover, they just haven't seen the right pic, maybe *winks*

Aww agreed. XD That's my philosophy on many of the people I find attractive and others do not. Well, either that or they haven't seen the right music video or movie.

it's interesting to see her interacting with Michael, I think her voice is deeper than his -- can't really know because he never seems to speak, all whispering and half-exasperated 'no, Nikita

Ahahaha, Michael freaked me out much of the time. I also felt (shallowly) that he wasn't attractive enough for Nikita. And he certainly wasn't animated enough to make up for that... there are a lot of people who aren't quite so pretty in the face, but their personalities just sparkle and you don't notice. Michael was not one of those people, dammit.

I don't mind them, but you're someone whose thoughts I really like knowing *smiles*

You totally made my day with that. :D And I feel the same about you, truth be told.