Empire Ants

For my parabatai. 💚


( I'm kind of an enabler, tbh. )

Either I've unlearned how to search for images effectively, or there's a disappointing deficit of images available. But I did what I could with what I found!


( Click here for the icons. )

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. )

The second I saw this video today, I knew I had to icon Ethan's new look.


( There's so much that even I don't know! )

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. )

I had a rough time trying to make these look right and I'm kind of in a quitting mood lately so I settled on close enough for most of them. Hopefully I still managed to land somewhere in the ballpark of "actually worth using."


( So you do exist. )

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. )

The end of this one is going to be really confusing for people who haven't seen the show, and that amuses me more than it should. Also, the lighting is terrible but I gave up giving a shit after fighting it for a day and a half. Don't blame me, blame the show's lighting department... okay, and my intense need to counteract yellow or overly warm lighting everywhere I see it.


( Mom, the cops are here. )

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? )