Empire Ants

Sometimes, I icon things that make me happy for no reason other than I find them aesthetically pleasing.




( I destroyed the universe and all I got was this stupid mug. )

And here we have the final set, because I couldn't very much leave the movie out, now, could I? I may (or may not; the process is annoying) make more in the future. I'm irked by how little Elektra features in these.

Contains a few spoilery things.

Content Warning: Some gifs include flashing, bright imagery and/or rapid movement. There are also anime characters actively shooting, stabbing, and/or beating the ever-loving crap out of each other - including the resulting blood and/or injuries.


( I have no fear of death. It just means dreaming in silence. )

Oh, you didn't think I stopped at just one set, did you...?

Contains a few spoilery things, and possibly a couple gifs that are technically from the movie.

Content Warning: Some gifs include flashing, bright imagery and/or rapid movement. There are also anime characters actively shooting, stabbing, and/or beating the ever-loving crap out of each other - including the resulting blood and/or injuries.


( Whatever happens, happens. )

I can, therefore I did. Contains a few spoilery things, and possibly a couple gifs that are technically from the movie.

Content Warning: Some gifs include flashing, bright imagery and/or rapid movement. There are also anime characters actively shooting, stabbing, and/or beating the ever-loving crap out of each other - including the resulting blood and/or injuries.


( See you, Space Cowboy... )

Turns out, some of the icons I made that are just micro-movements apart from one another don't actually look different at such a small size... and I may have potentially forgotten to prune a few screencaps that were very similar. But I do not have the mental energy required to prune and re-save the set, so just pretend it isn't slightly redundant in places.

No colour correction attempts - just a bit of toying around with shades and vibrancy of colours - went into this, because that would defeat the entire purpose of the aesthetic. Also, caps used are from the lovely capseroo whose image sets are an absolute dream to work with. Check 'em out, mkay?


( Bang. )

I love this show. I found screencaps. You know what that means!


( Witness my bean-chewing! )

If you don't love unicorns, you are wrong. Or you just don't like unicorns... in which case, it is my humble opinion that you are wrong.

This got way out of hand, and you can see the quality getting better as I tested different techniques while making these. By the end, I finally had the facepalm moment of realizing I could use Photoshop layer groups to maintain the different backgrounds and place the foregrounds on them. Oops!

Made with several sets of graphic assets from both The Hungry JPEG and Creative Fabrica, combined and altered in various ways.



( Be a unicorn in a field of horses! )

Just a simple set because I liked the vector (I think) illustrations in the Best Friend Collection over at Creative Fabrica. (Available free until sometime tomorrow, according to the site.) Lots of doggos and their human companions... and some semi-plant, semi-abstract extras that also came with the pack.


( Insert complex pattern of barking and howling here. )

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While digging through an old flash drive, I came across icons I made nine years ago for a long since deleted LJ account. Since they're still fairly decent, even if also very clearly dated in style, I'm sharing them here. Enjoy some random Cowboy Bebop icons from May ‎‎2010 while I get back to working on these Riverdale requests~

Content Warning: This icon set includes anime imagery of body horror featuring an eye with something sharp. Please proceed with caution if this might upset you. (If you've seen the show, you likely know exactly which scene it is from Sympathy for the Devil.)


( I've bled all that kind of blood away! )