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Randy

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cute & good. heir of Skorri: a writer, artist, & otherwise teller of stories. any pronouns.

🌐portfolio: http://circlestrafe.net
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · Oct 14

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.

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Huffslove

@huffslove.bsky.social

Silksong!

October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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24x36, acrylic on stretched canvas

ko-fi.com/s/e946d13c59

November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM

Randy

@rivaldi22.bsky.social

for other referential ibuprofen-related humor:

Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · Jan 4

The Curse of the Dreaming City might be neverending, but that doesn't mean your aches and pains have to be

#Destiny2Art

Stylized, colorful magenta-hued drawing of Dûl Incaru. She is reaching towards the viewer with a hand open palm-up. There are green sparkles arcing from the extended arm and gathered around her face. Text at the top reads: "Let's take ibuprofen together" Bottom text reads: "Every three weeks"

November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM

Randy

@rivaldi22.bsky.social

me: *has a headache*

also me: "help me, Ibu-pro Fenobi, you're my only hope"

November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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Colin Spacetwinks

@spacetwinks.bsky.social

brain: drew scanlon voice "motorbike for the playstation three retails for $14.99"

me, nodding sagely: jeff gerstmann voice "yeah, that's pretty much fifteen dollars"

November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM

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@bioluminosity.bsky.social

missing the old oryx again 🥺

oryx's body in the ghosts of the deep dungeon visited by xivu (art by me 2023-2025)

November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM

Randy

@rivaldi22.bsky.social

There is an uncanny quality to the Renegades marketing; all these oblique references to Star Wars really shine a light on how strange a space the expansion occupies: officially licensed, yet bearing the hallmark qualities of legally-distinct imitations.

Has there been another game that does this?

Destiny 2 @destinythegame.bungie.net · 3d

Settle the debate with the new Uncivil Discourse Hand Cannon.

Destiny 2: Renegades // December 2, 2025

🌙 bung.ie/renegades

November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Randy

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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

Randy

@rivaldi22.bsky.social

turns out that the government clerk's somewhat-cavalier assurance that this will have been resolved within 48 hours was wrong! who could have predicted that?

(me; I could have, and did.)

Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 8d

having a great deal of anxiety about a work-related problem :<

November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM