Empire Ants

More Yoongi for northangerabbey, because apparently when I make icons I make icons. There is no chill in me.


( It is okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy. )

Look, I haven't really been making icons lately because it turns out there's only x amount of free time in a day and there's roughly x¹⁰ things I want to complete, but when Ace ran into a need for more dark-haired Yoongi without a gaint face scar I was happy to get back into the swing of things for a night. Because honestly? The internet could always use more Yoongi icons.

For northangerabbey, and everyone else. We don't gatekeep rap gods icons here.


( If you can’t return, go straight through your mistakes and forget them all. )

I am so mad with the quality of most of these, and the general lack of images online. But I guess that's what happens when the most interesting villain gets the least screen time. 😞

Includes 20 animated icons. And lots of blood.


( Aren't you glad I'm home? )

For my parabatai, perkyshadowgirl, who is even more epic than Joong's smirk (and that's pretty damn epic). Happy belated birthday! Sorry I didn't get these done on time, but you get 99 extra because I fail at numbers so... everyone wins? 💕


( There's no one like him~ )

This video holds a very special place in my heart, because Hongjoong's cover of Numb helped me overcome the hazy grief emotions I felt every time I listened to my fave Linkin Park songs after we lost Chester. It also cemented my love of Ateez before I was even overly familiar with their discography. I'm a sentimental person, what can I say?

Many thanks to Anya for the caps! Check out her public caps over at samanyana.


( Now I'm on my own. I cannot take it no more. I'll become sharper and more keen and more ruined in your own way. )

I can't tell if it's just because of the different timeframes, or his hair colour actually changes the way his face looks that drastically.


( If you have a dream, then you should never give up, no matter what. You can't be successful if you don't fail. )

My parabatai's bias for an ever so slightly belated birthday gift~ 💖 I love you, bb, and here's to another decade-plus of being besties!


( Trust yourself and just do it. If it's not very perfect, that's okay. It's meaningful that you try already. )

Love the song, love the video, hate working with the video's colour grading. 😭 Actually, tbh, I hate working with any colour grading these days. So much effort for such a small payoff... But here's an attempt at making myself get back in the swing of things.

Major thanks go to samanyana for capping this for me. 💖


( Behind the growing whisper, an instinct I can’t hide wakes me up. )

Pardon the weird cropping on some of these. I live capped the stream on a phone and Samsung for some reason thinks it's smart to capture the screencap success bar in subsequent caps. 🤦 I don't have the spoons to cap and icon the entire hour-long thing, so I just made do with those caps and cropped around the bar... and in some cases clone stamped or image-merged it away.


( Shine brighter than any stars. Don't forget that you're a good person and a valuable person. )

Blonde and orange hair in this set. Black, brown, and red/pink to come in the future.


( What others think is not important at all; we're perfect just the way we are. )