Empire Ants

Idk what happened to my download of this video, or VLC, or... whatever part went wrong in the process, but I had to trash about a quarter of the caps made and over half the icons because they were just too fuzzy and low quality to justify saving. It looks fine on YouTube, even on a 4k television, so... That's weird af. Maybe I caught all the off-frames or something? I mostly did these to capture Ethan being a flaily dork, though, and I think I managed alright. Or at least alright enough not to endure the effort of re-downloading and re-capping.


( I need water! I need sustenance! My body needs something! There's too much athletics; I'm gonna pass out! )

I hate working with Riverdale's lighting and colour grading so fucking much, I legit put this set on hold for nearly two years to avoid having to edit the images. Then I made myself finally tackle the project today... and it essentially took over my entire day and destroyed everything I actually planned to do. But at least I'm done with it, ugh!


( People have already seen what's underneath, and it's terrifying. )

More of the blue floof, made from random images (and a few gifs) I had laying around. He's adorable, okay?


( Commit once, measure... nonce. )

Have some more of Jon Whitesell, whose face intrigues me. Most of these come from his Instagram with some at the end from varied sources. There's probably some duplicates in here along with several from his various roles on television.


( Who needs subtlety, right? )

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. )

There's a surprising variety of expressions here (and in the first set) from smiling to goofing off to grumpy and some really niche things - like drinking from a gigantic bottle of water - in between. That's my excuse for the absurdity, and I'm sticking to it.


( Knock, knock, knock... Don't have to knock to get into my own home. )

Microexpressions! I got overwhelmed with pruning these and just rolled with everything that made a reasonably clear icon. I'm sorry both to my future self and anyone else who has to pick icons from this set... which was actually large enough I had to break it into two pieces even with my new post format. Oops~


( Knock, knock, knock... Don't have to knock to get into my own home. )

Is his hair green or yellow? Yes.


( I predicted it! I'm a Nostradamus... or a Nostra-dumbass. )

So, here's the dilemma: I absolutely love the clothing and hair in this video, but that Santa hat is incredibly situational. The solution, apparently, is to icon and post these during the winter holidays and pretend that makes them relevant. And to desperately attempt to crop the hat out of a few in a way that makes it less obviously a festive thing.

Here's my first gigantic set since changing display formats. If you see this, then it successfully all fit into one post!

Update: This is my only icon set still using http image links instead of https - ironically due to post size limits. Let me know if the images break.


( My whole life has been a cringefest, so why would this be any different? )

More Ethan, from back in 2017 when he had partially blue-dyed hair. I can't tell if I overdid the adjustments or didn't apply enough, so I'm sorry if any came out too blueish or pinkish.

Caps made by me from "THE IKEA ADVENTURE" in which Ethan and some of his friends vlog a trip to the titular furniture store.


( Commit to the bit! )