Empire Ants

Hope you're ready for a cuteness overload. 💙 These are Eunkwang-only crops of the images used for the set of him and Minhyuk together.


( The sun devours the deep darkness and moves forward. In the end, it becomes a light that makes me shine. )

Yeah, so, I accidentally became a bb Melody over the holidays and I'm not sorry. 😌 These precious dorks have brought me some much-needed joy in a really shitty time. Also, like, just look at Minhyuk and Eunkwang here. Their friendship is so cute I cannot even.


( Past the dark swamp, on this humid night, a gloomy air fills this place. The devil who has captured you is laughing at me, but it can't catch me. )

For my parabatai. 💚


( I'm kind of an enabler, tbh. )

Managed to recover most of these from the wayback machine, and just replaced the single watermarked one with the closest equivalent in my higher-quality remake of the set. But I just had to share these, because the death of hollow-art - how I miss it so - led me down a fascinating rabbit hole in which I've made new friends and discovered new things to read.


( It's really not as good as the hype would make you believe. Use the remake instead. )

These icons feature Lee Minhyuk (aka Huta), well known for being in the K-Pop group BtoB - not to be confused with the same-named Lee Minhyuk known for being in the group Monsta X. I'll probably make more of him in the future, since I still have a ton of images, but I wanted to focus mostly on bleached and dyed hair for a specific muse.


( I know, you may feel like crying. You don't need to pretend that you are okay tomorrow. I understand; you don't need to say anything. )

An attempt was made to fix the horrific lighting and colour grading on this episode. It worked really well in some scenes and... alright in others. But I tried, and that counts for something. Right?


( The energy's very faint. It's been dormant a long time, like me. )

I tried, I survived for so long... and then I lost all my mental energy and just rushed through the home stretch to be able to call this done. Not to say I didn't put in an effort, but you can tell I stopped being as picky about colour correction and lighting.


( What would you do if you were sentenced to a prison where half the inmates were put there by you? )

This particular batch took an entire week to finish. Here is where my attempts to turn this movie from a dark, blue-green mess into viable icons became whimpering at my computer and finding every possible excuse to do anything else.


( I know I'm not one of your favorites. I'm not even welcome in your house. But, I could use a little attention.  )

And here we have part two of my slow descent into madness...


( Take it from me, two minutes in hell is a lifetime. )

Making this massive, four-part set of two thousand and sixty-four icons nearly broke me. At several points, I threw my hands in the air and declared my attempts to fix lighting and colour grading good enough. So just know that I tried until I could not try anymore and suddenly understand why only a select few scenes were iconned by others who tackled this movie.


( Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look. )