Empire Ants

Leather jackets and motorcycles... Honestly, what more could you possibly want?


( It's a five-year law program; you get your bachelor's and your JD all at once. )

Ngl, I went into this hoping Keenan would still look like he did in the Bates Motel era because that's the look needed for a specific character. But alas, he doesn't.

The majority of these icons come from Instagram with a few at the end from Google image searching. There may be duplicates, and there are definitely a few from the younger stuff - just not much of it. Please excuse the quality in a large chunk of these; I was working with heavily filtered (and/or poorly lit) images, some of which were so grainy I suspect they had photo-aging filters applied.


( Well, he’s a bit of a dingus. But a nice dingus, underneath it all. )

This all began with a random photo my parabatai found wherein Betty's hair looked blue from the lighting. Her Betty happens to be in a relationship with my Toni, which means this line of thinking kinda spiralled out of control and became Betty should dye her hair. But where were we going to find blue-haired icons? Exactly. Thus, I volunteered faster than Katniss when Prim was reaped and these icons were born.

It only took like a week of hand-painting the hair (and occasionally shirts/makeup) and individually adjusting the lighting on some of my previous icon sets to create these. This is a thing sane people do... right?


( I have a girlfriend and she is so blue. )

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. )

There isn't much to say about this set other than I suddenly want to re-watch Veronica Mars... again. Made with one of my new-ish muses in mind, these icons are one of what will ideally be many sets covering all of Weevil's appearances in the first two seasons.


( If I was gonna cheat, don't you think I'd pick somebody smart? )

Second half of Lili Reinhart in Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club for truebornstark's suggestion. This post features the LARP outfit and my desperate attempts not to descend into madness while bringing some light into the inky void of this show.


( The biker girl traded her leathers for a big lie. )

Created upon request/suggestion for truebornstark, these icons feature Lili Reinhart in Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club. Colouring and lighting vary quite a bit from scene to scene, but I tried to find a balance between 'probably a vampire' and 'spent too long in the sun.'

Though it's difficult to tell when they're laid out like this, the first five icons are slightly brighter and less pink variations of the five which follow.


( A bad girl from the wrong side of the tracks with enviable hair and no real friends. )

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This here's the second and final part of Cole Sprouse as FP Jones II FP Jones Jr. in Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club. These didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, thanks in large part to the horrible colouring and shadows in most of these scenes, but I think I'm happy with the outcome overall.

Made for truebornstark's request/suggestion. Thanks for the patience and being a joy to work with here! ♥


( The high school MVP became a greaser gang member. )