Empire Ants

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. )

I had to, in honour of my childhood idolization of Wednesday Addams. Also, y'know, this was a super easy set to icon because all you have to do to make monochrome look nice is brighten it a little. I can pretend I'm productive!

Screencaps by samanyana, who's a bit new to the "capping on IJ" game and totally deserves attention for the epic caps. ♥


( You severely underestimate my apathy. )

You think he makes silly faces? Just wait until you see what he can do with his ankles! I sorted by date when doing these, which means he's probably mid to late 20s in the beginning of the first half and he's in his 30s by the end of this half, which includes photos collected as recently as February 10, 2022.


( Don't be nibblin' on my giblets. )

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 woman's freckles so much, it makes me sad that they get lost to the small size of icons.


( Hold your head up, keep your head up! )

So, fun story: I discovered Luca while pb hunting on hollow-art and assumed the scarcity of icons there meant there weren't many icons of her online. I spent a week iconning every viable image from her Instagram account, thinking I was filling a void... only to discover I'm super late to the party and there's a ton of quality icons of her already available. But by time I realized this, I was already done, so... you get more anyway. Over a thousand, in fact - broken up into two posts. At this point, I may actually be insane.


( Let’s go on as many adventures together as possible. )

Also includes some random aesthetic type (socks, light bulb, coffee, etc.) and adorable pet icons from her Instagram account. And what's presumably a Harley Quinn cosplay but lowkey makes me think of VtM: Bloodlines.


( Should I save the world right now or should I save it in an hour? )

So, this is one of those cases where making icons from bases with decent lighting becomes a cathartic, repetitive thing. Which means there's a metric ass-ton of icons coming of Flávia, and that's despite only actually iconning roughly half of the photos I saved as potentials. What can I say? She's going to be the pb for a set of twins, so I wanted variety.


( I never knew why and you didn't care when. )

You think I'm kidding about there probably being something for everyone in these? There's literally a Lego Santa Deadpool icon. There's also a plethora of holiday cookies, glowing lights, ornaments, plushies, and even a cat who climbed into a Christmas tree. So, yeah, take a peek. Maybe you won't regret it~


( But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? )

So, I didn't get started on these until the 24th and had too much stuff to deal with to actually finish them in time. But y'know what? There's still plenty of winter left and we can just call the Christmas-specific ones very early contenders for use next year. Or something like that.

Icons feature everything from hot chocolate and holiday cookies to wrapped presents and cute snowmen. And many, many things in between - including adorable puppies and people skiing. Seriously, unless you dislike winter in general, there's probably something in here you'll like.


( Let it snow? )