I didn't really get icons until I got into a fandom that was audiovisual. I'd made some before that, sure, but they were more "labels on which fandom is being talkes about" and "I am wearing my mod hat now". Then Guardian happened, and I actually got into iconmaking! *g*

(My default is only a year or so old. I'm less unhappy with it than with the prior one, but I don't know what could replace it. Who *is* ExtraPenguin, anyway?)