Empire Ants

Part two of Madelaine Petsch as Penelope Blossom in Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club, made for truebornstark's request. Please pardon the graininess in some of these; I'm still trying to find a balance between brightening and combating the fuzziness on the show with nary a lightbulb to be found.


( The Game Master became the pawn. )

While Casey was the least featured in the flashbacks, Madelaine was the most. Add that to my inability to settle on a cropping style and, well... four days of work later, I have made 486 icons. Sorry, not sorry.

This is part one of two featuring Madelaine Petsch as Penelope Blossom in Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club. Created on request for truebornstark, but anyone's welcome to use them. ♥


( Were you born with that mouth, or is it something Southside mothers teach their bastard babies? )

Another of the sets for truebornstark, though of course anyone's welcome to use them: Casey Cott as Tom Keller in Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club. I think there may actually be more LARP and uniformed icons here than anything else, which isn't saying much because Tom had the least amount of screentime among all the requested characters. (Check out the set of Sierra for a few variations featuring both of them.)


( I'll wait for you, Sierra; I hope you'll do the same. )

Made upon request/suggestion for truebornstark: Ashleigh Murray as Sierra Samuels in Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club. My brain keeps trying to call it the Midnight Society, which is an entirely different thing. Also, apparently Ashleigh is 31 but playing a 16-year-old, so pardon the abundance of age tags.


( Tommy and I have been secretly dating for a few months now. )

This is probably my last set of Toni for a while, if only because I'm not overly interested in sifting through screencaps from the third season. Just like I wasn't particularly interested in snagging her instances in 2.21. What can I say? I'm a grump about several plot elements on this show lately, but I'll spare you guys the rant since to each their own.

Anyway, this is a set from Riverdale 2.20 and 2.22, featuring some hair style goals and plenty of Toni's Serpents jacket. Cheryl and Jug appear in a few icons, as well.


( Riverdale High is now suddenly overcrowded. )

Why did I miss posting on New Year's Day? I was too busy watching Markiplier videos. Sorry, not sorry.

Here's another self-serving icon set of Juggie, because I won't be happy until I've got enough icons to choose from that I curl up in a ball and cry instead of picking 100 for each of my muses with Cole as a pb. Also, in all fairness, I started this project when nobody else had made S2 icons for Riverdale.


( In times of crisis, some people lose their appetite. But me? Mine increases tenfold. )

You wanted the pink amped to eleven, right? No? Well, too late, I already did it. I honestly don't know how I didn't realize just how pink some of these came out when I was making them, but alas I'm a sucker for that hair. So here you go: Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz in Riverdale 2.10: The Blackboard Jungle (plus ten extras).

Aside from the first ten, which come from Instagram photos and my Photoshopping thereof, these icons were made using caps supplied by my friend Toby. ♥ They put a lot of time and effort into grabbing the caps and getting them to me despite my then-horrifically slow internet connection, and for that I'm super appreciative.


( It's very Lovecraftian... which I'm sure is the intention. But I gotta ask you: did you write this on a typewriter? )

This icon set brought to you by nostalgia and... no, that's pretty much all.

Teenage me was so ridiculously in love with Janice's Janis' aesthetic, I must have used her on at least three forum-based RP characters back in the day. So here's to you, my embarrassing past, without whom I'd have never discovered most of the things I know and love about online roleplay today.


( Your mom's chest hair! )

After yet another self-serving bout of iconning - in this case, the very first set I made while without internet access - I present (geddit, present, 'cause today's... oh never mind) Dom Sherwood in Don't Sleep. Unlike a majority of people on the internet, I really enjoyed this movie. It was intriguing, had very attractive people in it, and had an ending I absolutely never saw coming. It isn't particularly something I'd watch again unless having a viewing party, but it's worth one watch.

Also, the screencaps for this movie were an absolute dream to work with compared to the tv shows I normally icon. I'm very happy with how the vast majority of these came out, with obvious exceptions for a few blurry/grainy ones due to out of focus frames with expressions too good to skip.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and happy icon hunting!


( He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. )

A set of Mark Consuelos in Riverdale season two, using specific caps chosen by my lovely parabatai whose infinite patience and concern has been an immense help in navigating the stressful holiday season.

I wish I could say these all came out great, but the lighting on Riverdale is atrocious enough to make kittens cry - and, as it were, to make toning down the dramatic background colours nigh impossible without doing funky things to people's skin tones. I tried, and then I glared intensely and gave up when they were close enough.


( Fathers are forever. )