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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊

@emilylorange.bsky.social

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She/They. Illustration & 2D Game Art Reality Drift, Daylight Publications, and Blaseball TCG Portfolio: https://www.emilylorange.com/ [email protected]

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator and 2D artist currently working in the ttrpg and indie game spaces.

💌[email protected]
🔗 emilylorange.com

🥃 www.tumblr.com/emilylorange
🖼️ cara.app/emilylorange
🐘 mastodon.art/@emilylorange
🖨️ www.inprnt.com/gallery/emil...

a digital painting of a squat bird sitting on a branch in front of a green, abstracted background. he has a large black head and bill, black wings, and a red underbelly, with white spots throughout.

a digital painting of a scene looking across a bright, green mountain valley. the opposing hillside is covered in sun, the clouds behind are puffy and white, and the viewer stands in a forested hillside of greens blues and little yellow flowers

A digital illustration showing a floating landmass, grassy with evergreen trees. It appears thin, maybe six feet deep, and underneath it can be seen a starry night sky. a race track passes through the sky and travels through the forest. the sky above is ocher, with puffy white clouds.

a digital painting of the popular meme showing ben affleck standing outside his door, smoking a cigarette and visibly exhausted, but he has been turned into an anthropomorphic duck

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チェリ藻 @chelicot.bsky.social · 8h

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 15h

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?

I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶

Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 16h

Disco Elysium screenshot, wherein I am extremely rude to Harry (who I would... maybe?... date? but it isn't his looks it's more that he's self-destructive and also wearing piss-stained trousers)

Dialog as follows:

MIRROR - What are you doing with your die, why is your shirt hanging open like laundry on the line...

What does it even *mean*? What is the message you're trying to convey?

YOU - I'm twenty years old. My breasts are juicy and succulent. I am a god damn verdant field waiting to be ploughed, in a *tired 5 acres and an aging mule* kind of way. I possess a certain charm.

MIRROR - That might have been true thirty years ago, but the plot is fallow and the farmer left you for a larger, newer, factory-owned operation.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Impossible: Failure] - It's too late. Like an illuminated masterpiece by the modern master Thomas Kinkade, your value isn't what it used to be. You're dusty, poorly framed, and have lost the fleeting, almost quixotic appeal you had in the 90's.

The jugs have been milked, and you're no dairy maid. You're the mule.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10h

Indie devs! Time for another #ShowCasey DEMO EDITION!

Do you have a demo in the Steam Next Fest? Do you need some eyeballs? Reply below with a link to your steam page and a brief description of your game, and let's see if I can't GRANT YOU EYES!

(As usual, no GenAI)

do you hear our prayers ? grant us eyes !!

Alt: do you hear our prayers ? grant us eyes !!

media.tenor.com

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 10h

youtube is so bad for finding positive content, it really just wants to push you into a hole where you have to have a reactionary opinion about *everything* because it gets attention and reinforcement

Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 10h

man there's something about carbonation that really dazzles people, i remember being explicitly told in a sex ed class that cola is not an adequate contraceptive, and to this day i don't even understand the mechanism of delivery i was being warned against

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 10h

man i would not have made that substitution based on the pure cost of using that much vanilla

Nancy you can't be doing these things in this economy, get out of my house

Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 10h

lmao i wrote the part about showrunners to scream at before looking at their posts. predictable.

‪aintgettingdeader.bsky.social‬
‪@aintgettingdeader.bsky.social‬
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That just makes it all the shittier that Sugar is going to bastardize it into another "love and forgive your oppressors" sobfest that will deradicalize yet another generation suffering under the iron thumb of fascism.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 10h

its a social media thing of course where relative ease of access to the small community around the projects means their an easy target versus a big conglomerate with no clear figurehead outside of an occasional show runner to scream at, but also go do something productive with your life.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 10h

man if i were on a crusade about monopolistic behavior in animation i would not go after an organization that is supporting a handful of projects over, say, some far more obvious choices of the past 60 years 🙄

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Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 19d

My starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists is now FULL!

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tagged their friends, and submitted!

Please share this starter pack and support Black and Indigenous artists 💖

(NOTE: There are NSFW artists in this pack, myself included.)

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 13h

my favorite part of karen puzzles is when she opens the box and says 'oh i'm not sure i can do this one guys what have i gotten myself into'

she does it every video and damn if my little brain isn't like 'ooooh a narrative arc what if she can't this time even though she has every other time'

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 21h

SARAH WINNEMUCCA
Born in 1844, by age 14 she spoke five languages: English, Spanish, and three native dialects. She was an Outspoken Advocate for Native rights & the first Native American woman to produce a published book (Life Among the Piutes, 1883).
#IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 17h

it turns out the WoW killer was capitalism in the end, oops.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 17h

blizzard's 2019 classic servers appear to be in a state where they're accepting transactions but not delivering the services tied to them, the layoffs from both Actvision and Microsoft means no one is communicating with customers, and filing a chargeback gets your account permanently banned

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 18h

electro-gonorrhea, the noisy killer 😔

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18h

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 19h

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Gee @geewolf.bsky.social · 21h

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 19h

mirror universe borg fly around fixing people's printers, WHETHER THEY WANT IT OR NOT

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 19h

meme showing a gray 'NPC' person staring at nothing impassively, and then getting angry eyebrows

Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 20h

in 2004ish i had a discman that could read MP3s, which meant i could fit ~90 songs onto one CD and never have to change it, and the damn thing was built for joggers so you could drop it and not hear a skip. peak technology, never improved upon.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 20h

it's not a spelling mistake if you failed to read and repeated it twice, it's a comprehension error that you packed into a comment about how aloof you are 🤷

Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 20h

oh fuck

#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · 21h

The next #PortfolioDay is TOMORROW Tuesday, October 14th! If you’re a creative looking for work or someone looking to hire talent, this is the tag for you! Watch this video to find out how to participate.

👉 youtu.be/09cs_chctNk 👈

More info at portfolioday.art 💛

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 20h

the last time i felt rested was probably somewhere around 1993, you know before some asshole expected me to know long division

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 20h

well the combination covid and flu vaccines kicked my ass but the good news is i slept like a brick for the first time in weeks

'are you feeling rested'

lmao of course not

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