River 🤠

Coming back a little to bsky, I know I've been pretty quiet-- a lot is going on right now, in the country and the world. I'm a visibly trans/queer person so shit is scary. I don't use bsky much outside of lurking and mentioning work stuff, but I am here. You are here. That's enough. Deep breaths.

Lol no worries, and yes! (I love any excuse for a good poem). The order is (shortened just bc of bsky's character limit):
Six swords did seal...
Six knights betrayed...
Death's queen...
"Arise, my love...
Six swords, six knights...
Remind them of...
Go seize your kingdom...
One spirit we shall be...

(Isolde is a goddess still though, albeit a broken one, so her magic has its own mystery to it!)

When Isolde was shattered, her power as queen went to him as the next in line for the throne of the Underworld! He now wields that magic (in her name), so yes the flowers and whatnot in the VFX are part of the Underworld's power. That (& his determination for vengeance/love) helped V come back

no it's totally fine! It was more the swords were so powerful that their combined might managed to do it, as a radical desperate act of the knights. (I will get to your other question too one moment lol)

Each one wielded in their treasonous act. So he wants to take back their swords in order both get revenge and also to try and reclaim what is left of her, so that he might take her soul into himself and never be parted from his beloved again. ❤️

There is only one Queen, she is this AU's Isolde! She was Queen of the Underworld, a goddess of death who he (a mortal king) fell deeply in love with and married, becoming King of the Underworld, too. When the knights betrayed Viego, they killed him and shattered her soul into the blades

It is because of the sword mechanic, we wove it into the narrative! He is a king who was betrayed by his own knights, each knight falling into a general "class" archetype. He perceives the enemy he is fighting as whichever knight of that class betrayed him, and so interacts with them accordingly.

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Hehe ty ty ❤️ I hope I do her justice!

Headline from The Conversation: More people are considering Al lovers, and we shouldn't judge

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

Some additional narrative credits for Battle of Koeshin and Koeshin's Courtyard:
- Narrative Lead: Riot JustALilGuy
- Narrative Producer: Riot Porosite
- Writer: @orkidian.bsky.social
- Writer: @tenpaces.bsky.social
- Writer/Editor: @missmayura.bsky.social
It was large group effort.

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sorry i'm not on here often rn it's the doomscrolling and mental health abyss for me, trying to take some distance from a lot of social media rn. I hope everyone is holding up ok, all things considered. ❤️

I just want to make things that get players excited, man.

Time to bring this one out again.

Aaaa congratulations!!!

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

Good warning.

I had a dude try VERY hard to get me to sign this. Was deceptive about the topic and cagey about who was behind it.

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.

Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

THERE ARE NO RIOTS

Guys. I'm in LA. I'm going to a variety show tonight across town. There are not riots happening. There are peaceful protests being fired upon.

Peaceful means nonviolent hut it does not mean sedate. No rioting, no looting is happening. LA is protecting neighbors.

we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

I want to report some good news from LA:

ICE picked a hotel in Pasadena to be their headquarters for this side of the city. The residents of Pasadena (myself included) would not stand for this and protested all yesterday in front of the hotel until, eventually, the hotel kicked out ICE!!

Trump using National Guard in LA is an 'abuse of power,' says national security expert The ACLU's National Security Project director worries President Trump is 'writing himself a blank check' to use the military on civilians in other U.S. cities.

The ACLU's National Security Project director worries President Trump is 'writing himself a blank check' to use the military on civilians in other U.S. cities.

#FightTheEmpire

The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.

Time to post it again.

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

look, I don’t have much positive to say about jobs right now. but growing your creative skills is never a waste. in a world that prioritizes “good enough for non-experts” and the simulacra of competence, growing a practice of critical and artistic thought helps you from sliding down into the muck.

It's wild seeing something i worked on at a con (at my first con since 2020 and nothing has changed but everything has changed)