Here's my entry for somein30 round 15, which was all about music! I went with Hard mode, which meant taking inspiration from music genres. I used my two absolute favorite genres: steampunk and dark cabaret. These are two obscure, closely related genres (many artists do both, and musically they sound similarish, the biggest differences are the visuals and themes in lyrics).

Steampunk music is obviously all about the steampunk aesthethics: vintage, tech-y, muted colors, lots of neutral tones like brown and beige, grunge, with some ingredients from scifi and westerns and the Victorian era. The songs are often funny and tell stories about crazy inventions and imaginative adventures.
Dark cabaret is a slightly darker genre where the lyrics are often about death and decadence, but as opposed to other dark genres like goth rock or black metal, it doesn't take itself seriously at all, it's kind of like the "dark humour" genre of music. The visuals are very often b&w with a vintage, burlesque look with some creepy/dark elements thrown in. Both genres also have some circus/carnival vibes to them. Musically both of these genres usually fall somewhere in the folk range, the songs tend to be catchy and even sound a bit like children's songs. The dark cabaret genre is particularly fun in that the creepy vibe comes from the clash of fun, catchy melodies combined with dark themes in the lyrics.

I ended up making an entire set of Farscape this time, because there are at least some visual elements in it that work for both genres, so my goal was just to twist the show even more towards these genres using suitable fonts and colors and lots of grunge. Some of these are more literal and some a bit more subtle, but the inspiration was strongly there in each icon. I had a ton of fun with this set, I really hope you like these results, I'm just happy to have a cohesive set after the last one which was all over the place.

This post also includes a few other icons that I've never posted before. They're not exactly new, but I've tried to include them in some post for AGES but they never fit :p but this time I think the somein30 entry is close enough in style that I can sneak these icons in without ruining the post, it just bugs me so much knowing I have these unposted icons that I quite like but never had the chance to share.

Hope you'll find something to like here! As always, take any you like, and please let me know what you think :)

SOMEIN30 ROUND 15
STEAMPUNK
					[01-05]
					[06-10]
DARK CABARET
					[11-15]
					[16-20]

Some song recs/examples of these genres:

OTHERS
					[21-25]
					[26-30]