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Randy
@rivaldi22.bsky.social
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cute & good. heir of Skorri: a writer, artist, & otherwise teller of stories. any pronouns.

🌐portfolio: http://circlestrafe.net
☕️ko-fi: http://bit.ly/41GugnA
🖼️prints: http://bit.ly/3DVxVo0
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First in-game mention of pupusas !!

Happy to see Kysurax's favorite street food get a minor shout-out.

(destination armor class item lore tab)
screenshot of the lore tab for the Shrewd Survivor class item from Renegades, text reads: "Lodi… is the future guaranteed?" He blinks, and stares into the middle-distance. Deep oak eye briefly flickering to burning blue. "You picked up pupusas for dinner," he prophesizes between sips of coffee. Ikora sighs, opens the bag, reveals his prize as she says, "I still don't believe you that cactus is edible but at least my death wouldn't be permanent."
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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f-for me? 🥹

(thank you to @bioluminosity.bsky.social for supplying me with little tidbits while I'm stuck at work for the next 5 hours 💚)
cropped screenshot of Service of Luzaku's hover tooltip, which shows its exotic trait: "Dichotomous Thinking — Healing allies with this weapon spawns Threadlings." more notably, it also features the flavor text, which reads: "This one made it for you. It brings death yet promises nothing beyond." —Luzaku
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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an illustrated backdrop showing a grayscale suburban scene. in the lower third, white text reads: "Please do not adjust your set. All the color has temporarily gone out of Garfield's life."
December 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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sneak peek exclusive look into dredgen bael's backstory renegages leaked cutscene
edited screenshot of the scene from Revenge of the Sith where Palpatine is telling Anakin about Darth Plagueis, but with Saturn (VI) superimposed over Palpatine's head, and Dredgen Bael's over Anakin's The subtitle "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?" is edited with "Darth Plagueis" replaced with "Dredgen Yor"
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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LRP: Conestoga-Susquehannock Tribe for me

www.whose.land/en/

is a good starting place
Screenshot of an email whose text reads: The Conestoga-Susquehannock Tribe Thank you for your donation. Hi Randy, Thank you for your generous contribution. Keep this email for your records. Donation Summary Donation Amount:$10.00 Made on November 27, 2025 for General Fund One time Order #85 PayPal
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Caught up on the Renegades stream last night and apparently my girl is getting a gun?!

“Service of Luzaku”

Good for her imo

#destiny2art #destiny2AOTW
A quick drawing of Luzaku, a Hive Lightbearer Wizard, from Destiny 2. She is holding “Service of Luzaku”, an Exotic Machine Gun. Promotional image of Service of Luzaku and an ornament for it. One is spiky and gothic-looking, in the style of Savathûn’s Throne World, and the other is a little more rugged-looking, with what looks like a drape of scales over the barrel.
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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finally rectifying a personal cultural gap 🙏
screenshot from Gone Home. a close-up of a blank VHS recorded over with X-Files episodes. The handwritten label reads: "X-FILES SEASON 1 EPS 18-21"
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Just thinking about how easily I could have been instantly won over on Renegades if Aunor Mahal showed up wearing the Heart of the Praxic Fire, or some variation thereof.

Truly I am a creature of sentimentality. 🥲
concept art of the Destiny 1 exotic armor "Heart of the Praxic Fire," a medieval-styled set of Warlock robes over a chainmail hauberk that looks like the raiments of perhaps a classical paladin or war cleric.
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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🫂🫂🫂

you've probably seen at least some of these, but some semi-recent karen gettin into mischief

hope the pain subsides soon 💚💚
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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the steamOS future we deserve
GameCube with foldable screen lid
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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gross
screenshot from my steam profile showing that my "years of service" badge hit 20 years as of November 6, 2005
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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buge

#silksong #hollowknight
Drawing of Hornet from Hollow Knight and Silksong. She is a bug woman with a cloak and a large needle weapon. She is standing facing away from the viewer and putting some of her weight on her needle.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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me when everything just keeps happening
Indrikis XIII from Latvian cartoon Fantadroms. He is a weird-looking robot cat-thing that is colored with primary colors. It looks like he is sneezing or something, I don't know; it is clear he's having a bad time.
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Hey there, #PortfolioDay! I’m Randy, a writer and artist with particular affection for engaging, emotional stories with monsters, robots, and other nontraditional characters.

I’m looking for illustration and narrative work in the games industry, especially in the indie sector!

🌐: circlestrafe.net
A digital illustration of an Exo Warlock from Destiny. Her chassis is teal with brown/maroon markings on her shoulders, fingers, and a stripe down the middle of her face, where she also has a single horn protuding from her forehead. She is wearing an olive green dress with bits of lace, and her hands are up grasping her shoulders. Heulog holds herself as close as she can and continues to hum. She couldn’t yet form the vocalizations, and maybe would never be able to do so, but she hoped that for now the acrid notes alone would suffice. That through the burgeoning haze of unchecked anxiety Kysurax would be able to recall the invoking words and hear the earnest appeal to her inner strength, the words that define that strength as extant and obligate it to come forth, to inhabit her bones and manifest as the truest form of her will. The words that assert that she, as a single unified force of will and body—in defiance of all existence—shall persist. Heulog feels the thrumming slow, its rhythmic cadence aligning with her own deep breaths. She gently removes her hand from Kysurax’s torso and feels the Wizard’s arms close around her, pulling her into a tight embrace. “I am afraid,” Kysurax finally says, calm returned to her voice. “But I temper that fear with the certainty that I will be alright, because you are with me.” She looks down at the Exo in her arms, into the starblue flames that are her eyes, and smiles. “I do not doubt, for I have seen your heart. As you have seen mine. That is the power intrinsic to the Yielding Inquisition: there is no obfuscating act of misdirection, no factor of deceit that can withstand the abrading blade of trust conjured by the ritual. Truly, I have known you, and that secret knowledge is a weapon with which I joyfully flense and cast aside any and all flesh given over to the rot of doubt.” A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes. Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite.
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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alas, I don't remember the specific area then unfortunately. "stairs" made me think of these sections through the Hanging Crypts (first image, Sunless Cell strike) and the "swinging platforms" made me think of these from the Crux (second image, King's Fall raid) which you access via Big Portal
October 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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I did the art for the current season, and can attest that Gary and Kaye are great to work with! The brainstorming process involved a lot of "yes, and"ing, and it resulted to a really fun project imho
Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite
October 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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silksung
game completion screen from silksong. white text on a grey, ethereal and smoky backdrop Text reads: "GAME COMPLETION PERCENTAGE: 100% TIME: 61h 42m 05s"
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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imagining now a text-oriented rotary phone with three dials
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Some more Summer 2020 art because I’m feeling candid. In addition to Durmen Veesto (the Rodian) above, I drew other characters from my TTRPG exploits (having original token/NPC art was a motivator): Nephmys Roycedale II, or “The Kharlifex,” and her infernal patron, Mephistopheles, or “Queen Trash”
A digital drawing a Tielfing woman with red skin and gnarled wood-like horns/antlers. She has her hands on her hips, and she is wearing a seafoam green coat over purple leathers, and there is silver and gold jewelry on her hands. Her hair is a very long undercut, with it tied into a ponytail. Around her arm is a binding scroll, which reads in abyssal script: “I NAME THEE / MEPHISTOPHELES / MY COMPANION / MY PROTECTOR" A digital illustration of an archdevil. Her appearance is a bit atypical: instead of skin, her body consists of a constantly dripping cascade of sludge in the vague form of a tiefling. Where her eyes, mouth and other facial features would be, there are cracks and openings from which a magma-like glow emits. There are such cracks on her forehead where horns might originate, but instead, horn-shaped plumes of black smoke billow from the openings.
September 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I don’t have anything from the *very* beginning of COVID, as it took getting laid off from my “essential“ job a few months in for me to finally have the energy to re-attempt digital art for the first time in years.

Working full-time again since early this year, I struggle to make anything anymore.😔
Art at beginning of COVID A digital illustration of a Rodian woman, crouched with her weight leaning on a sniper rifle. Her skin is a pale brown-yellow, and her tresses form a mohawk of sorts, which terminates in a braid draped over the front of her left shoulder. She has many silver piercings in her ears, face, and antennae. She’s wearing blue pants and a purple poncho with a pink wrap around her neck. Vs. Now! A digital half body portrait of Chioma Esi and Maya Sundaresh from Destiny 2. Chioma is holding Maya close, and holding her chin in one hand, looking at her very romantically. Maya, with a slight smirk, is distracted, looking down at a glowing tablet. They are framed in pink and turquoise light, and are surrounded by glowing turquoise particles.
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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#eccoposting
box art for ecco the dolphin on the genesis. he's jumping out of the water, looking majestic in the midst of his joyful frolic title screen of ecco the dolphin. gorgeously rendered pixel art of an otherwise nondescript image of a dolphin peeking his head out of the water japanese box art for ecco the dolphin 2 for the sega genesis. mid-dive, ecco swims proudly through a serene seascape with all his friends, including other dolphins, some orcas, and even a blue whale has joined the fun
September 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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tbh I need to draw more of them kissing, in my humble imho
A combined image of the three pages of my "cultural exchange" comic, wherein Heulog-12 and Kysurax, an exo and a Lucent Hive Lightbearer wizard, discuss Hive courting rituals, express their love for one another, and kiss. Heulog-12, an exo woman, kissing Kysurax, a Lucent Hive Lightbearer Wizard. They are both naked and embracing.
September 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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hehe sickos' delight

(i'm sickos)
September 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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the icon // the artist // the work
A drawing of Heulog-12 in the air casting her Dawnblade, stylized with bright colors: the backdrop is a purple gradient, with half-tone action lines pointing at the sword. An ink-brush-like set of flaming wings flanks her, which have a purple-to-red-to-orange-to-yellow gradient. The lighting is very stark, and is especially noticeable on her metallic gold Luxe Soles, the light from the blade playing across the highlights in soft glow. The blade itself is rimmed in stylised ink-brush yellow-to-red flames bursting from the center and causing faint coronal lens flares. A pair of mirror selfies, in one I am wearing the Root of Nightmares raid jacket, the other I am holding my pet ball python Karen around my neck. A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes.
September 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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tomorrow and
tomorrow

“…and tomorrow we’ll have the altered substrate samples. So let’s go to bed, shall we?”

“Tonight. We have them tonight, look.”

“And they’ll be here tomorrow. So come to bed.”

“Heh. Yes, tomorrow, and…”

tomorrow
and tomorrow

Art trade for @eiramew.bsky.social💚
#Destiny2Art
A digital half body portrait of Chioma Esi and Maya Sundaresh from Destiny 2. Chioma is holding Maya close, and holding her chin in one hand, looking at her very romantically. Maya, with a slight smirk, is distracted, looking down at a glowing tablet. They are framed in pink and turquoise light, and are surrounded by glowing turquoise particles.
August 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM