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. )

An attempt was made to fix the horrific lighting and colour grading on this episode. It worked really well in some scenes and... alright in others. But I tried, and that counts for something. Right?


( The energy's very faint. It's been dormant a long time, like me. )

These took a lot less time to make than expected! Suggested by truebornstark and made with caps from kissthemgoodbye.net.


( Do not feed the zombies. Beware the ghouls. Do not look the witches in the eye. )

The lighting and colouring on this show are nightmares. But hey, here's one more planned set finally tackled.


( Usually, you have more of a flourish to it. )

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? )

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This is the second and final set of Nicola Correia-Damude as Maryse Lightwood in Shadowhunters season two. At some point toward the end here, I got fed up with trying to make things look nice and decided that having greens that look blue and blues that look purple would just be the aesthetic I went with. To be honest, I don't think it turned out half bad, since I made sure not to turn Maryse herself into a smurf.

Contains a few icons featuring Alec (Matt Daddario).


( The Clave is handling things. )

This may actually be one of my favourite game franchises ever. There's just something about the lore and the gameplay that draws me in time after time (and tbh I'm quite excite for the next installment because Daud and Billie, my preciouses).


( Shoot him through the heart with a loaded pistol... )

Back in 2015, I decided Lindsey Stirling would make a decent pb for my Hawke (Dragon Age 2). Since then, I've forgotten all about this icon set and bought a new laptop. But seeing how that laptop's name is Hawke and I still kind of want to bring my badass mage to life in written form, I'm going to ignore the obnoxious amount of colouring experimentation and post this set. I think the majority are from the videos Lindsey did for Dragon Age: Inquisition and Skyrim.

NOTE: This is part one of two, since the post was too big when I tried to put all 300 in one set. Among both sets, there are only about 80 unique images. The rest are alternate colourations of the same icons with each subset grouped together for convenience when choosing.


( They keep coming. It's like they want to die! )