Need a 'Harsh Critique' Picture!

[Andy]

In response to Alex's old thread (http://www.youngwritersonline.net/showthread.php?t=1724) and my time getting freed up, I'm looking for a small picture that people can use to say that their piece of writing is open to merciless critiques. Basically, they don't care about critics going easy on them or their morale getting hurt. This image would appear next to all threads marked with this icon, and when critiquing it, a message would appear beside it.

A 16 x 16 pixel image would be best. My main problem is deciding what the picture should be of: I'd like something that indicates toughness without seeming irrelevant or confusing (a sword or a red 'X' would be irrelevant or confusing). Something like three red pens would be okay.

[Shaun]

Maybe we could just have an image that looks like someone stabbing a book?

[GeorgeMichael]

... how about Link doing a Triforce Smash on a book? :P

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/hyperactiveboi/untitled-3.jpg

or maybe

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd90/hyperactiveboi/CatGun.jpg

with a book instead of the cat...


(My dog is insanely attacking and molesting her little bed... it's frightening...)

or are we looking for just a simple icon?

[Elvenscholar]

http://www.redquill.co.za/quill2.GIF

Maybe that would work if it was re-sized. It doesn't look bad smaller, I've tried it.

[Nyx]

I think a book being stabbed would be a cool pic if we could find one?

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(My dog is insanely attacking and molesting her little bed... it's frightening...)


O_o Hahaha.

[phytoxoeia]

I like the stabbed book. Maybe stabbed with a quill? I would fiddle around with the idea in image editting, but it's too late tonight... tomorrow.

EDIT: I found this online. It's the title artword for chapter 17 in Harry Potter 2.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/images/chapters/cs/c17--the-heir-of-slytherin.jpg

[Andy]

How about one of these?

http://www.sonsplacerestaurant.com/images/icon_pepper.gif

http://www.airsci.net/client230/client230/MapTest/pics/fireIcon.png

[Nyx]

Neither of the pages load for me!

[Zombified]

How about for the different stages of crits we have different kinds of books.

Soft crit- Pink book

Regular crit- Blue book

Harsh crit- Black book on fire

[Diocletian]

Eh, I think that different levels is too complicated, at least right now. Either a person wants a hard critique or he/she doesn't.

And why would someone want a "soft" critique intentionally anyway? That's a sign of an insecure/bad writer and honestly, I don't believe we should be encouraging that behavior.

[Nyx]

^ agrees with what he said,