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Norion | ♈︎ | ♀ | Spanish | Artblog and stuff. ✧⌣⌔⌣✧ Please, don't trace , recolor, take or claim my work as yours. Thank you.

[leecheedoodles]

Joining in on that ship dynamics meme hehe

[soupskkn]

Some old icons I made for my friends (except the Jinx one I made that for myself ofc)

I’m cool with anyone using these as long as there’s credit <3

[soupskkn]

Braid Buddies

[the-faequeen]

Adorkable trio 💕

[mysticsrose]

Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. 

[mintaero]

day 15! historical setting.

AU where simon and baz have to date in secret, which comes with bounds of love letters 💌 and quick kisses when no one’s looking

[simonsaysjeans]

yesssss

[arizonabay-deactivated20181114]

hey, so I have a lot of new followers from the Akali post, and just wanted to clarify: I didn’t work on the new skin at all, just base Akali. I made the post because I had disconnected from league for a while and the music video featuring Akali front and center sort of brought it all back for me. It blew up and got really popular and forced me to confront it.

Also, I was the lead engineer, not the “creator” as one person said – the gameplay designer was CertainlyT, and the actual concept art was done by TheBravoRay. There were a variety of others who worked on the visuals, sound, etc. For the record everyone on the Akali team was all great and I enjoyed working with them. The artists and designers were immensely kind, easy to work with, and excellent at their jobs.

Most of my work involved adding technical bits to the League engine, like the smoke shroud, working on tooling for the various artists, and adding some features like the triggers for the wall jump animation on her E. And the challenges I had were dealing with other engineers and managers at Riot, not the artists.

[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. :(

[rizurin]

oh take me back to the start

[rizurin]

learning russian with bf

[kiu1023]

klance

[doggosource]

S P I N 

[boingmann]

I made some chocolate planets 🌌

[mirayama]

[sosuperawesome]

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[closedforgoodbyelol]

[dancingwdinosaurs]

doodle~

[luftballons99]

i drew this to avoid writing an english paper