this is a Venom blog now i guess

| 22 | (They/Them) | filmmaker, cat parent, monster fucker |

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[lessercosmicbeing]

[arizonabay-deactivated20181114]

Worked on this girl for 9 months. Now this new music video comes out and she’s immensely popular, arguably one of the most popular characters in the LoL universe.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad she’s a huge hit, it’s super exciting to see so many people love the character design and the gameplay, and know that I contributed directly and significantly to the behind-the-scenes engineering that makes it all work. It’s validating.

But it’s also so fucking melancholy to know I did so much work and put in so much time for such a shitty company, run by shitty people, and the reward I got for it was unemployment. 

I threw a lot into this character. I cried at work. I started getting panic attacks, which I’ve never gotten before. I developed persistent heart palpitations from the daily overwhelming stress and had to go to the hospital (this is true, seriously.) I basically dropped all my friends outside of work. My manager (and his manager!) lied to me constantly to keep me working. They said I was doing a great job but to keep it up. Don’t worry, it’s going to turn out great, and it’ll all be worth it in the end – recognition, a raise, probably a promotion in short order. They promised me the world. When she was finally finished, I didn’t even get to go to the release party, they just walked me out. 

I remember a quote from my last day, it sticks out in my mind: “I know you realize this is really hard for me,” my manager said. Yes, in the end, when he awkwardly informed me I didn’t have my dream job anymore – or any job at all – and then stared back at my shell-shocked face, my thousand-yard stare, the only thing he felt was sorry for himself.

She launched with no major bugs and was considered a technical success. Doesn’t matter. Get the fuck out.

I don’t know how I feel. A weird sensation of pride and intense bitterness. I did a good job; at least, I think I did. Unfortunately, internal validation is the only kind I’m going to get.

[hexcolour]

Everyone reposting KDA should see this. Riot has successfully distracted everyone into forgetting their culture of sexism, exploitation, and toxicity mere months after it was all revealed.

Look, I get it. Akali is EXTREMELY my type. It’s obvious how much love and care was put into her development. But it makes me furious to see all the free advertising that Riot is getting from people who I thought would know better.  And now? One of the people who is arguably responsible for all that free advertising? Who’s work is undoubtedly making Riot hundreds of thousands of dollars a day? Who was overworked to the point of near breaking? They get nothing. WORSE than the scant bit of credit that most devs can get in a big company like Riot. They got let go.

Fuck Riot Games.

[maxofs2d]

One thing that I thought really sucked a lot is that the production company who made the KDA video isn’t even credited. They credit a lot of other people on their videos, usually, but the actual animators of the video are hidden; almost a lie by omission. At best it’s a honest mistake, at worst it’s sneakily trying to pass off the video as something made in-house when it’s not. :(

[pangobox]

and they’re currently being sued for gender discrimination. you can read the whole lawsuit at the bottom of that page, and boy is it a mess 🙃🙃

[quiet-nymph]

Photography by WAHYU MAHENDRA

[ondoinganevildeedblues]

[lizteph]

Jupiter Jones aka the space princess

[mrsfrollein-blog]

the curse of the Toy Story generation

[sushinfood]

someone understands

[the-knights-who-say-book]

when i grow up i want to be a library goblin. i get paid to wander the shelves and be discovered curled up and reading in unlikely places, perhaps hissing if i am interrupted in the middle of a good part. why would a library pay for this service you ask? because it will add to the ambiance next question

[showerthoughtsofficial]

Your future self is hating you for the poor decisions you’re making today.

[soupcowboy]

bold of you to assume current me isnt also hating myself for making the decisions that i am making

[catchymemes]

[curioscurio]

The Four Comandments

[speedlimit15]

[theshitneyspears]

Too real

[womaninthehighlands]

It took me a solid 3 minutes to process this venn diagram and I loved every second of it.

[meanplastic]

[demonius-darkblade]

this reopens the ages old pokemon debate “is it ethical to catch a mr.mime? is mr.mime just a guy?”

[aidashakur]

fuck u, next

[honey-kink]

Peter Parker dressed up as Thor for halloween. While Peter is adjusting his ridiculously oversized cape in the mirror before heading out, Thor jokingly offers to let him use Mjolnir as a prop.

He holds out the handle for Peter to take, knowing that the kid is distracted and will forget that no one can lift it, and it will immediately drop to the ground and it’ll be hysterical. How could the kid not know Thor was gonna have to mess with him a bit, it’s just a perfect opportunity.

What Thor did not expect was Peter easily taking the hammer in hand, giving it a little twirl with his wrist. Thor is… notably stunned.

“You sure dude? Isn’t this thing kind of important??” Peter questions, unsure. Thor is too dumbfounded to respond, the other Avengers in the room are also still realing, and poor Peter just wanted to get to his halloween party

[flickofthewrist]

You’re a legend, Fred. We’re all legends.

[just-shower-thoughts]

It is an unspoken rule that if a little kid is hiding under a blanket or couch cushions, you are required to comment on how lumpy the blanket is and pretend to sit on it to try and “smooth it out.”

[tgmember]

Also, if you’re playing hide-and-seek with them, it is critical that you search every other possible (and impossible) hiding spot, all the while wondering out loud how they managed to disappear just like magic, before walking right past their hiding spot.

[the-catholic-geek]

And if a baby starts playing peekaboo you are required to act surprised when they show their face again

[pornhubstepmom-deactivated20191]

If a kid hands you a phone, you answer it

[a-trashcan-made-out-of-fandoms]

If a kid shoots you with a Nerf Gun you are supposed to Die a dramatic death and explain “ugh you shot me blaahh”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

when you push a kid on the swings ya gotta do the woosh

[zetsubonna]

I literally just blocked about a dozen people on this post for being cranky about children.

Being a joyless shitbeast to kids isn’t cool. They’re kids. If you want to be Oscar the Grouch, that’s fine, but do it in a way they understand and explain it to them.

“I don’t want to play, I’m grumpy. Thank you, though, that was kind.”

It’s literally not hard. Kids are small people. Treat them with common fucking decency.