Empire Ants

Sometimes, I icon things that make me happy for no reason other than I find them aesthetically pleasing.




( I destroyed the universe and all I got was this stupid mug. )

Wtf did I just watch? I haven't the foggiest idea. Haven't been following Kollok, so your guess is as good as mine. But I felt like iconning the aesthetic, which lowkey reminds me of early 2000s music videos. So here we are.

From a cursory googling adventure, these videos - Sink, Shock, Succumb, and Swim - appeared to be promos for Kollok 1.09: Mammon, so that's how I saved and labelled them. Then I realized the promos were released a couple weeks after Mammon, so. Uhm. Oops? I guess these are actually promos for 1.11: Forward, featuring a scenario from 1.09. Or... something. Mammon has a stillframe from these promos as its thumbnail on the wiki, hence the confusion. Also, round two of utterly confounding myself: apparently the character Ethan's playing is AJ Greer, though I swear he's called Jay or Jade in these videos by what I hear - possibly JA, according to a wiki page. (Look, I tried, okay?)


( Even if this is just me on my death bed, dreaming... Why can't I dream my friends? These rocks will do. )

Finally got around to making the icons from brunette Instagram photos. I sorted by date when doing these, which means he's probably mid to late 20s in the beginning of this half and he's in his 30s by the end of the second half, which includes photos collected as recently as February 10, 2022.


( You do you, and I'll do me. And we won't do each other... probably. )

If you don't love unicorns, you are wrong. Or you just don't like unicorns... in which case, it is my humble opinion that you are wrong.

This got way out of hand, and you can see the quality getting better as I tested different techniques while making these. By the end, I finally had the facepalm moment of realizing I could use Photoshop layer groups to maintain the different backgrounds and place the foregrounds on them. Oops!

Made with several sets of graphic assets from both The Hungry JPEG and Creative Fabrica, combined and altered in various ways.



( Be a unicorn in a field of horses! )

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While digging through an old flash drive, I came across icons I made nine years ago for a long since deleted LJ account. Since they're still fairly decent, even if also very clearly dated in style, I'm sharing them here. Enjoy some random Cowboy Bebop icons from May ‎‎2010 while I get back to working on these Riverdale requests~

Content Warning: This icon set includes anime imagery of body horror featuring an eye with something sharp. Please proceed with caution if this might upset you. (If you've seen the show, you likely know exactly which scene it is from Sympathy for the Devil.)


( I've bled all that kind of blood away! )

Just a quick start to the icons requested/suggested by truebornstark. These are general aesthetics and group shots from Riverdale 3.04: The Midnight Club and will certainly be the smallest of the sets I make from this episode. I just couldn't pass up iconning these screencaps even though they didn't qualify for individual character sets.


( 'Gryphons and Gargoyles.' I thought this was an urban legend. )