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cute & good. heir of Skorri: a writer, artist, & otherwise teller of stories. any pronouns. 🌐portfolio: circlestrafe.net ☕️ko-fi: bit.ly/41GugnA 🖼️prints: bit.ly/3DVxVo0 💵comms currently closed

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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
RECOGNIZE BIDDY BLAS AIN'T A DAMN THING CHANGED
a screenshot of Biddy Blas, triumphant, arms raised. he is a little crocodile man from Star Wars: Galactic Racer, decked out in a racing helmet complete with goggles, and a generic flightsuit festooned with gold chains and medallions
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
INPRNT’s running a sale for free worldwide shipping! Fri, Sept. 25 — Free shipping, no minimum Sat–Sun, Sept. 26–27 — $30 minimum The site won’t let me change the discount from the default 10%, so use this code for 25% off: ZW0K4HLV Get yourself some Hive art ✨💚 www.inprnt.com/gallery/riva...
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Zazith and Rarzok, for @keviriksiskell.bsky.social ✨
Character reference front-and-back illustration of a Lucent Hive Acolyte based on a Destiny 2 Hunter. Her armor is purple, grey, and black, and is much in the Zdzisław Beksińsky-inspired Hive aesthetic.

In the center is an info block that reads:

ZAZITH
-Species: Lucent Hive
-Gender: Female
-Height: 7’8”
-Sexuality: Bisexual
Character reference front-and-back illustration of a Lucent Hive Acolyte based on a Destiny 2 Hunter. His armor is red, brown, and tan, and leans more towards the chitin-forward Hive aesthetic.

In the center is an info block that reads:

RARZOK
-Species: Lucent Hive
-Gender: Male
-Height: 10’
-Sexuality: Straight
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congrats on the milestone! As for OCs, it's dealer's choice between Heulog-12 and Kysurax :)
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hello! INPRNT is running a sale with $5 worldwide shipping, and all my prints are 20% off! 🎉 Including my recently-added Xivu Arath piece! ✨ www.inprnt.com/gallery/riva...
Screenshot of my INPRNT store page
An illustration of Xivu Arath, the Hive God of War from the game Destiny 2. She is a skeletal, chitinous humanoid being with three glowing green eyes, and she is wielding a Hive sword, which is similarly chitinous. Her head is wreathed in both a yellow-green glow and a stylized iridescent brushstroke halo. She wears a long, flowing cloak that wraps around her and she sits upon a shattered rock floating in a violet space. Cascading from where her cloak would drape down her back, a black-and-green gash in space reveals an alternate un-space with its own strange stars. Flanking her are two columns of moons that are more shattered the lower they are in the composition.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
surreal sights to be found on the road
the main sign for "South of the Border," which is a strange place I don't really know how to describe other than "roadside attraction resort"

the sign is a large stylized Mexican man with a sombrero holding a sign that says "South of the Border." it is on the North/South Carolina border.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"But XIVU ARATH said, sister, I am already sharp, look, my sword cuts into another space. And she cut her way between moons through green fire and joyous screams." The Books of Sorrow — Verse 3:1 — an incision For #IshtarIllustratedvol2 by @ishtarillustrated.bsky.social ✨ #Destiny2Art
An illustration of Xivu Arath, the Hive God of War from the game Destiny 2. She is a skeletal, chitinous humanoid being with three glowing green eyes, and she is wielding a Hive sword, which is similarly chitinous. Her head is wreathed in both a yellow-green glow and a stylized iridescent brushstroke halo. She wears a long, flowing cloak that wraps around her and she sits upon a shattered rock floating in a violet space. Cascading from where her cloak would drape down her back, a black-and-green gash in space reveals an alternate un-space with its own strange stars. Flanking her are two columns of moons that are more shattered the lower they are in the composition.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A li’l sneak preview of what’s coming tomorrow ✨💚
A close-up of chitinous Hive hands, one clutching the hilt of a Hive sword and the other held over the subject’s chest.A close-up of the tip of a Hive sword and chitinous Hive legs, slightly crossed and elegant. Backgrounded by a rough-hewn divide of green and violet space.A close-up of a shattered moon, yellow-green and violently rent down the middle. Backgrounded by violet space.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!
A drawing of Exo Warlock 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.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Every time I see screenshots/footage of Machine Party I'm reminded of her...
The box art for the PSX game "Blast Chamber", featuring a guy in a motocross helmet and futuristic-looking armor with a bomb on the chest. He is standing in front of an explosion (while not looking at it, of course)
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
dug through my screenshots for these
ICbot (basically a monochrome CRT monitor on little plastic crab legs) saying "Umm.. there seems to be a problem."ICbot about to show us the maintenance hatch saying, "I love helping people who have no clue what they are doing."
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We like to joke around these parts whether any given Orb is or is not the Traveler, but this doesn't sound that far off from what could have been a pitch for a misguided Destiny show variety.com/2026/tv/news...
The logline for the pilot states, “When a mission to avert an imminent global cataclysm goes awry, a small band of teenagers from Earth’s past and future must join forces to confront a threat as vast and mysterious as time itself.”
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Unbound from Silk's cruel designs, the people of Pharloom are now free to rest, to heal, to weave from its once-gilded foundations a gentler truth. And for our heroine: a place to call home, golden and warm. A collab w @antlerlad.bsky.social, whose vibrant colors brought wondrous life to my lines🤍
An illustration of several characters from Silksong and Hollow Knight sat together in a cozy cuddle pile in front of the Bellhart central monument. The lighting is very warm, reflecting the brassy bells that surround them.

From left to right: the Hollow Knight (in whose eyes the Radiance corruption is much-diminished), the Vessel/Knight sitting in HK's lap, Lace leaning against Shakra's leg, Hornet kneeling with one hand around Lace's shoulder and the other resting on Shakra's thigh, Shakra behind Hornet resting her head between Hornet's horns, and behind them all sleeps the Bell Beast.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Truth did out.
A screenshot of the Stellaris game end screen.

At the top it shows that the Knife-Blessed Truth, the custom polity I was playing as, has won the game with 94,471 score.

Underneath it lists the other surviving polities and their respective scores. The 2nd, the Belmacosan Hegemony, had a score of 45,234 and the 3rd, the Synthoan Polity, had a score of 24,964, and so on.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
i am *reading* 💚
Screencap of Destiny 2 subtitles.

[Lodi] We're here for a reason, and it's not to write a eulogy for the Earth. It's not to watch it all turn into dust.Screencap of Destiny 2 subtitles.

[Lodi] Whatever's coming, I know what happens next: Every apocalypse has a day after.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
HEULOG-12 LEGS REVEAL
Screenshot of destiny 2 showing my character wearing swim shorts and swim shoes. Her legs are teal and robotic.

The significance here is that player character arms and legs have never been seen before in-game.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Partners in Light I wanted to have art ready for today, something that would bear testimony to everything that this game has meant to me over the past 12 years: the world, the characters, the mystery, and the hope. What better vector to convey my love than these two? #D2Legacy #PerAudaciaAdAstra
A digital drawing of two original Destiny 2 characters: Heulog-12, an Exo Warlock, and Kysurax, a Lucent Hive Lightbearer Wizard, embracing in front of the Traveler. They are in casual summery wear, t-shirts, tanktops, and lower-body wraps, and both of them are wearing numerous bits of gold jewelry, largely in the form of piercings.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
really looking forward to seeing the warlock's iteration of this set the ghosts of the deep set is immaculate, but it would be nice to have something closer to a 1:1 match of the lucent lightbearer styling 🙏💚
a Destiny 2 Hunter running on Nessus wearing an armor set that is heavily based on the Lucent Hive Lightbearer Acolyte
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'm glad I got to animate them a little bit on this MAP I participated in <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCU0... #Destiny2Art
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
They’ll always be some kind of everything to me #Destiny2Art
A romantic, illustrated portrait of Heulog-12, an Exo Warlock, and Kysurax, a Lucent Hive Lightbearer Wizard, posing in front of a window in the Tower on a starry evening. Heulog is wearing a gilded shawl with geometric patterns and glittering tassels over a sleek black dress that ends just above the knee. Kysurax is sitting so as to match Heulog's height, and is wearing a maroon dress of similar length. The both of them are also wearing copious amounts of gold jewelry on their hands, face, and in the case of Kysurax, her dorsal spines.

The lighting is very atmospheric, like a moody, romantic dinner.A digital drawing of Exo Warlock Heulog-12 and Lucent Hive Lightbearer Wizard Kysurax lounging on a sunny beach under an umbrella that is decorated like a Hive ritual circle. Kysurax has much of her chitin removed, save for a waist garment and a lightweight version of her mask/helmet and is wearing a large sun hat, and is lying prone while Heulog applies some sort of glowy-green Hive ointment to her skin. Heulog is sitting cross-legged, and is wearing a simple green two-piece bikini. A redrawing of the recent "draw your OC in this" meme, wherein artists are challenged to draw characters wearing a sleek black dress that has bold, exposed hips and is festooned with gold chains. Exo Warlock Heulog-12 and Lucent Hive Lightbearer Wizard Kysurax are depicted each from one of the angles depicted in the source image, with supplemental gold jewelry and chitin-polish to match the chains. Heulog has one hand on her hip and is affecting a semi-glamourous pose, and her jewerly includes matching hoop earrings that have a Hive rune made of golden bars suspended by silver chains. Kysurax fits slightly more awkwardly into the dress and is admiring the gold paint on her claws, while a faint soulfire tiara floats above her head.Dialogue only, for character limit.

Page1:

Panel 1:

H:Do the Hive have methods for physically showing affection? Other than trying to kill each other, I mean.
K:Like your various means of embracing one another? Your hugs and your kisses?
H: Yeah.
K: We do.

P2: 
K:There is one in particular—a minor liturgy—that most Hive refrain from, as it is a corruption of a heretical rite, not unlike your ‘minced oaths’. The Inquisition of Self is a hated ritual in which one can transfer the essence of one being into the body of another—considered blasphemous for its attempts to circumvent the Sword Logic. This truncated form—this Yielding Inquisition—is a defanged reduction of the concept to a metaphorical expression of trust and love. There is no Unmaking, no loss of Self, only the symbolic exchange of Essence. A mingling of Soulfire.

P3: H:Have you done this?
K:I have.
H:Would you show me what it's like?

Page2:
P1:
Kysurax (looking down at Heulog): You are not Hive. You have no Soulfire. It would almost certainly kill you—and it would be a poor death.

P2:
Heulog-12 (looking up at Kysurax): I'm also not strictly mortal, either. I'm willing to try it—that is, if it's something you'd even want to do with me in the first place?
K: ...It is.

P3:
Ritual recitation: SING, O SISTER, OF DEATH AND ITS MANY GIFTS

P4:
R: A SONG OF LIFE / A SONG OF DEATH

P5:
R: IN THESE NOTES, BEAUTIFUL OBLIVION

P6:
R: AND REBIRTH

Page3: 
P1:
K: I have Yielded to your Inquisition and given freely of my Self such that we the two of us are permitted—however briefly—to share one body. This brings me joy.
Narration: THY SONG SHALL BECOME DEATH

P2:
K: To the extent of my understanding of how Humans use the word: I love you ,Heulog-12 of Earth, whose name invokes the Sun.

P3:
H: I love you well, Kysurax of Fundament, whose name invokes the God-wave.
K: This too brings me joy.

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N: AS OUR CHORUS SHALL BECOME LIFE

P5:
N: AIAT.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I had stopped drawing for over a decade, more-or-less given up entirely, and Destiny is what finally got me to pick up the stylus again. #Destiny2Art
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 drawing of Eris Morn in her Hive-magic-begotten transformation. The lines are sketchy pencils, and the shading is raw. Her head is turned slightly up and to the side to face the viewer.A drawing of Dûl Incaru, Hive Wizard and daughter of Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2, ruminating in her arena atop the tower of the Shattered Throne of Eleusinia.A painting of Eris protecting herself as three Hive Wizards perform a ritual, holding Omar Agah aloft as he is transfigured into the weapon Xenophage. Toland also is there, in his already-transfigured Taken Wisp form.

After Goya's "Witches Flight"
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
back on my shit!! ✨🌌 I almost never do aggressive/"evil" polities in these games, so we'll see how it goes lol 0 points if you can divine the inspiration at work here (okay, maybe 1 points 💚) #stellaris
Empire creation screen from Stellaris, which contains a summary of information about the custom faction that was just created, right before starting the game.

The empire in question is called the "Knife-Blessed Truth," made up of a custom Necroid species called "Keshkk". They have the Necrophage origin, and the custom bio for them reads:

"We are the knife, and the universe's true shape will be found in the ragged impressions we leave upon it."

Their Arid homeworld is called "The Source". They are a Divine Empire with an Imperial Authority, (single absolute ruler with inherited rule) with the Imperial Cult and Philosopher King [sic, as all Keshkka are female] civics, which increase Edict budget/adds additional Priests (amenities + unity production) and increase the effective level of the Ruler (in this case, the God-Empress), respectively. The empires' ethics are Authoritarian, Xenophobe, and Spiritual.

The Keshkkiri species traits are Organic, Necrophage (population growth comes from conversion of a servile species, the Khoressha, not pictured here), Slow Breeders (they don't really reproduce through normal means anyway), Decadent (Elite- and Specialist-tier workers get bonuses while Worker-tier workers get negatives, but Keshkka do not work Worker jobs, that's the Khoressha's role in society), Talented (Leaders get bonuses). I don't necessarily remember off the top of my head, but I believe the off-screen ones are Charismatic (increased efficiency for "influential" jobs, the kind the Keshkka do) and Intelligent (increased Leader experience gain).
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Whitney Houston from the "I wanna dance with somebody" video, looking like the most beautiful woman in the world
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
no new star wars art or anything today, just my rodian smuggling sharpshooter, Durmen Veesto, whom I really haven’t drawn enough (that colored art is 6 years old, a lifetime ago) #maythe
A digital sketch of a Rodian woman standing with one hand on her hip, dressed in typical Star Wars Scoundrelweardigital pencil sketch of a Rodian woman caught by surprise in mid-step, her torso half-twisted to look behind her. She has a blaster in her right hand and is wearing standard Star Wars pilot/smuggler attire: boots, pants, jacket with the sleeves pushed up past her elbows. She has piercings in her ears and antennae. The tresses on her head are styled in a short, mohawk-like fashion.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
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Warlock / Hunter / Titan
Tina Fey, Timothee Chalamet, and Kylie Jenner sit courtside at a basketball game
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hello, #PortfolioDay! I'm Randy, a writer/artist with particular affection for engaging, emotional stories about monsters, robots, & other nontrad. characters. I'm looking for illustration/narrative work in games, esp. in the indie sector! Let's build something small together! 🔗: 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.A colorful portrait of Dûl Incaru, Hive Wizard and daughter of Savathûn. The backdrop is a simple orange-pink-purple sunset gradient, and she is framed by scraped half-tone shading. She is surrounded by floating Hive runes, and above her head like a halo is a Hive summoning circle, the flames from which are rendered in a distorted half-tone pattern and rise up in the vague shape of a crown. The soulfire glow from her eyes is also rendered with this same distorted half-tone pattern.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.”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.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Strictly speaking, I do not know precisely what I am. Maybe I never will! I am broke, stressed, disheartened, and afraid. I am also whimsical, loving, curious, and loyal. But—crucially—I am *alive*. #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️
A pair of mirror selfies of me, a nonbinary person. 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 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 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.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.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
#tbt
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Traxus logotype from Marathon mixed with the Upright Citizens Brigade logomark, because that is what I see literally every time I see the in-game logo
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
fench
4"x6" sketchbook open to a pencil sketch of a society finch
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
as it always is with these things, whittling it down to nine involves some arbitrary cuts that would likely slice different if you asked me in an hour from now; there's probably a cloud of 20 that could just as easily make the grade. sometimes a different game from the same series, even #my9games
#my9games trend image, which is a 3x3 grid of box art from games

from left to right, top to bottom: Fallout 2 (1998), Destiny (2014), Super Metroid (1994), Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997), Hollow Knight (2017), Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (2015), King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (1994), SimCity 2000 (1993), Final Fantasy VII (1997)
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
if you *do* want to look at any point: it's (presumably, if it's not a weird bait & switch) a s'pht compiler from old marathon which is also the 30th anniv marathon armor that warlocks got 🙏
sprites of the s'pht compiler from marathonscreenshot of a warlock wearing the s'pht compiler armor in destiny 2
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
got a little 4x6" sketchbook in hopes that it would get me to actually draw at all gotta stave off the atrophy if I am to have any hope of surviving
pencil drawing of an iguana's head
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
12 hours to get free shipping on orders over $30 on INPRNT! A great time to pick up prints if you’ve wanted to get things from multiple artists (such as my friend bio down there 💚) & would like to support an artist who just had to replace their 16yo car (such as me 💔) www.inprnt.com/gallery/riva...
Screenshot of my INPRNT shop, which includes art pieces featuring characters from Destiny and Elden Ring
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
pareidolia
coil binding crimping tool, closed. kinda looks like a li'l reptile or something.coil binding crimping tool, open. kinda looks like a li'l reptile or something, but excited.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
post your contextless photoshops
screenshot of the photograph of teddy from "memento," which has written on the margin "don't believe his lies he is the one KILL HIM," but instead it's a photo of the traveler"eric andre dnc let me in" meme but he’s in front of the closed door to the gatekeeper/atheon arena from vault of glassScreenshot from “McDonald’s is pdresident” vine, but it’s telestoedit of the cover art for "mario is missing," renamed "osiris is missing. bowser is nabbing mario through a door while luigi, oblivious, searches in the opposite direction with a lantern.

text overlaid the characters:

bowser = savathûn
mario = osiris
luigi = saint-14
luigi's lantern = the guardian
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If you see this post a goth girl
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.A colorful portrait of Dûl Incaru, Hive Wizard and daughter of Savathûn. The backdrop is a simple orange-pink-purple sunset gradient, and she is framed by scraped half-tone shading. She is surrounded by floating Hive runes, and above her head like a halo is a Hive summoning circle, the flames from which are rendered in a distorted half-tone pattern and rise up in the vague shape of a crown. The soulfire glow from her eyes is also rendered with this same distorted half-tone pattern.A drawing of Dûl Incaru, Hive Wizard and daughter of Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2, ruminating in her arena atop the tower of the Shattered Throne of Eleusinia.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
thank you for the tag bio ✨💚 4 pieces, 4 tags art train 🎉 @antlerlad.bsky.social @renaissanciing.com @kosmicwraith.bsky.social @vallaragna.bsky.social
A colorful illustrative portrait of Kulve Taroth from Monster Hunter: World. She is a dragon with black scales, who[ is covered in gold that was melted and cooled, so it drips from her ram-like horns, neck and face. She is lit from below by a soft greenish-blue light. There is a glow from within her mouth which portends her use of her incredibly high-temperature breath weapon. Most importantly: she is beautiful.A digital illustration depicting the descent of the Osmium Princesses (Aurash, Sathona, and Xi Ro) into the depths of the seas of Fundament aboard their recovered needle ship. As they descend, three of the Worm Gods rise up to coil around them like a grasping claw. In the wake of the ship’s descent, a radial pattern associated with the Witness can be seen emanating.A painting of Eris protecting herself as three Hive Wizards perform a ritual, holding Omar Agah aloft as he is transfigured into the weapon Xenophage. Toland also is there, in his already-transfigured Taken Wisp form.

After Goya's "Witches Flight"A digital illustration of Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. He is an emaciated figure, with a blazing yellow flame instead of a skull, draped in yellow rags and surrounded by swirling yellow flames. His pose appears somewhat rapturous, like a dancer's.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“In that last moment she seemed as wholly luminescent as the Sun, and I wished to be so brave." — “The Heart of the Praxic Fire is the Guardian: without the Guardian, the Fire does not ask or act. Be the Fire, or be smoke on the wind.” Heulog-12, Exo Warlock #Destiny2Art
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.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
In the auroral splendor of the Traveler's Light, all things are possible, such as getting all the Brays together long enough to take a family photo. A commission for @vallaragna.bsky.social from 2024 (that she’s currently making into an incredible embroidery piece!) #Destiny2Art
Illustrated portrait of the Brays from Destiny 2, framed as a family photo. From left to right in the front is Rasputin, who has a full exo body, is wearing a black trenchcoat, and is hiding behind Ana Bray, ineffectually covering his face with the coat's collar in an attempt to hide from Felwinter. Next is Ana Bray crouched in front of him, smiling, and is the only one really looking directly at the viewer. She has her arms around Archangel ("Archie") the robotic exo-dog. Then there is Felwinter, wearing his helmet and Iron Banner robes. He is leaning towards Rasputin, fist angrily clenched as Void energy gathers within. To the rightmost is Elsie, who is side-eying everyone else and generally looks like she doesn't want to be there. Looming behind everyone is Clovis Bray's giant exo head, and the setting for the photo is his spot at the bottom of the Bray Exoscience Labs down on Europa.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hello, #PortfolioDay! I'm Randy, a writer/artist with particular affection for engaging, emotional stories about monsters, robots, & other nontrad. characters. I'm looking for illustration/narrative work in games, esp. in the indie sector! Let's build something small together! 🔗: circlestrafe.net
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.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.”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.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.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
the lineart, if you're curious 💚
lineart-only version of the image in the prior post. a destiny 2 warlock wearing sunbracers and holding a solar grenade in her left hand
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My gift for @grandarc.bsky.social for the D2 Gift Exchange of their warlock Ren! Much like the exchange itself, it was a collab with @bioluminosity.bsky.social—I laid down the linework & bio came in to truly imbue the Traveler's Solar Light into the piece with their colors 🔥🤍 #D2GE2025 #destiny2art
A digital illustration of a warlock from Destiny 2. They are wielding a Solar grenade as they are gliding through the air. Their armor is brassy and red, and they are wearing Sunbracers, which along with their helmet and bond, has flaming accents the same color as the Solar energy being cast off of the grenade.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It is upsetting that I don't have enough art this year for a month-by-month summary. It was a terrible, soul-fracturing year for multiple reasons, and I can count the finished, polished pieces I produced on one hand. But I still made art, and I would do well not to disregard that.
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.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.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.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
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The original Sparrow Racing League
anakin as a child in his podracer, where he says "now THIS is podracing"

the subtitles read:

-Now THIS is Poggers!
- [ Whistles ]
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Found a drawing from almost two years ago of a tabletop character from a campaign that never ended up materializing. A human-sized warforged artificer built by a community of dragon-worshipping kobolds. Her name is Coriander.
A digital drawing of a humanoid warforged artificer. She has a bronze shell with grey metal accents on joints and the abdomen. She has green fire in place of traditional eyes in her dark eye-sockets, which are capped with flaps that can swing down to protect the flames within. Her head is crested with two dragon-like horns.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
it's always a bit surreal when I am reminded that After the Eulogy is a meme now. that whole record—amidst the context of the post-9/11 warmongering wherein it felt like the entire country was losing its mind—helped me find my own lefty truths. I got my first pit kick-to-the-face during this song.
The meme that is a screenshot of a text screen in which a father is quoting lyrics from "After the Eulogy" to their child, to the child's bafflement.

full transcript:

Dad: RISE
RISE
RISE
Where's your anger?
Where's your fucking rage?

Child: dad what the fuck are you talking about

Dad: RISE
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
QRP something with horns Jodariel really old no.2-pencil-on-copy-paper drawing from like 2017 I still think Pyre is far and away Supergiant's most interesting game
pencil drawing of Jodariel from Supergiant's Pyre. She is an imposing Demon woman with pallid skin, dark circles around her eyes, and massive ram-like horns curling away from her temples. Her blond hair is in a braid laid forward over her shoulder, and she is wearing assorted tattered robes and fabrics over a breastplate
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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."
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