Empire Ants

He makes Fangs look so incredibly short, but nope. He's just an incredibly tall 6'3" standing near someone who's 5'10". Also, here's my obligatory fuck the lighting on Riverdale remark.


( Someone's sending us a message, Jones. )

I do not recommend trying to icon Riverdale if you enjoy being a sane human. What were they thinking when lighting and colour-grading this show?!

Sorry if any of these are grainy or overly brightened. I run my laptop on lowest brightness and tried to turn it up a few times to check these icons but it just made my eyes hurt.


( An ancient evil, long forgotten, has awoken. The embodiment of pure malice and cruelty. )

I didn't wanna throw out screencaps that were iconnable while I was digging for Jughead in this episode. So, have some icons of Joaquin in Riverdale 3.06: Manhunter.

The less said about my pure hatred for the related plotline, the better, but heads up that there's a few icons of a dead character who's been branded with a cult-like sigil.


( You do anything to survive.  )

I can't get Frontier Psychiatrist out of my head, and I blame the expressions Kurtz makes in this batch.


( Only the worthy will ascend. )

You know, if they'd filmed Jon solely from his right side, I'd almost believe his character was a teenager. (Is he supposed to be one? I mean, he's at the school and hanging with the other teenagers, so I presume he is.)


( I should have beaten you in the head with a branding iron when I had the chance. )

I needed a certain look for a werewolf character. That's it, that's the entire reason I did this. I haven't even seen the portion of Riverdale Kurtz is from, other than through a compilation video.

Note that the extra sections at the bottom contain work I'm not particularly proud of but thought someone might want for atmospheric purposes (and also because I didn't want to delete icons I'd already made). There wasn't much I could do with the atrocious lighting in that scene, so yeah...


( We are living a prophecy and you are all sacrifices waiting to be made )

Have I watched The Fosters yet? No. Will I watch it someday? Maybe. Did I spend fifteen minutes tracking down a clip wherein Jesus spoke a quoteworthy line for the lj-cut? Yes. Yes, I did. What even is my life?

Here we go: Jake T. Austin as Jesus Adams Foster in The Fosters 2.04: Say Something. (I thought it was spelled Jesús, but the wiki pages and most websites say otherwise, so... yeah.)


( If Brandon wants to use this as a studio, Brandon should clean it himself. )

Look, it's more dark-haired Cole from me! Is anyone surprised?

Screencaps from @galleriepeach, which unfortunately only has a small selection available right now. So if you were wondering why this stops after the first couple of scenes, that's why. I might make more if I ever find a full cap set.


( Fine isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement, but I’ll take some common ground where I can get it. )

Ah, yes, the wonderful world of 2000s-era teenage fashion! Considering I can't shake the vague "Adam Lambert mixed with Hot Topic kid who poses for 'stock photography' on deviantART" vibes coming off this aesthetic, I'd say the costume department did a decent job capturing the general look.

These come from Roswell, New Mexico episode 1.06: Smells Like Teen Spirit, the caps for which were made by capseroo. ♥ I'll be doing the rest of the set later, but figured I'd separate the young!Alex icons from everything else. (Tagging note: Tyler's in his early 30s, can easily pass as 20s, and is playing late 10s here. So age tag soup ensues.)


( With the lights out, it's less dangerous. )

The following icon set is roughly 23MB, so tread with caution if your internet is slow or limited!

This was an intense project the likes of which I'm not sure I'll undertake again, but I wanted a few of these as icons for myself and once I started I couldn't just skip the rest... And that's how I ended up with a set of 250 gif icons from To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Oops?

Created with gifs by lisemeinengifs on tumblr.


( You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person. )