Me: Nah Riot, I am done

Riot: okay, but listen: Boyband

Me: ... o.o

Hi! Sorry for go missing, I forgot to update here! I got sick in the past few days, like really sick, most likely dengue so I've been resting and panicking in bed, but I'm a little better now

I still can't do much, but I'm still alive

A dump of doodles…

Queer League of Legends Champions (with explanations) - Part II

Check out Part I

Confirmed Pansexuals – Twisted Fate

Twisted Fate was always speculated to be part of the LGBTQ+ community due to his, uh, flamboyancy. The sentiment that he felt something more for Graves was always there, portrayed in their stories through regret, friendship, and loyalty. The Boys and Bombolini color story officially confirmed him as queer, making TFGraves the faces of Pride 2022. This year, he was also seen with the pansexual flag in official pride art, with Riot finally labeling him. It's worth noticing a cute detail (that I doubt was intentional) where his card deck's colors form the colors of his flag!

Confirmed Queers – Ahri, Ekko, Evelynn, Ezreal, Kayn, Nidalee, Renata Glasc, Samira, Taric, Udyr

Ok, this is a long category. Here we have every champion we know for sure is queer, either through external confirmation (Ekko, Ezreal, Kayn, Renata Glasc, Taric), in-game dialogue (Nidalee, Samira, Udyr), or basic lore (Ahri, Evelynn). Let's start with the first group.

Throughout the first half of 2020, Riot released multiple chapters of a Pulsifire color story focused on Ezreal. It explored his relationships with numerous champions of the universe, but especially Ekko. The subtext was strong in this one, and the writer later took to Twitter to talk about how tough it was to have queer stories be censored when working for IPs, not so subtly mentioning Ezreal and Ekko after doing so. Even though Riot might not have agreed with making the Ezko relationship undeniably romantic, their love for one another is still an important part of the story, not to mention that it was the creator's intended vision to begin with. 

Renata Glasc was confirmed as sapphic by one of her creators when sharing concept art of her design. Checking the link to the original post, they seem to have deleted the excerpt that mentions it, but people took screenshots before they edited it, most likely because of Riot. Taric, on the other hand, has been speculated to be queer since forever, although the motives are not that pure. Many people saw this hairless, beautiful man that likes jewels and was like, "Huh, that sounds kinda gay," which was the common dudebro mentality of the fandom at the time of his release that caused a lot of homophobia within the player base (more than usual). They weren't wrong, seeing as Riot did include Taric in official 2023 pride art, but he was not seen wearing or holding any flags. After all, it would make sense that he likes everything—and everyone—beautiful. But either way, both Taric and Renata are non-specified queers.

Shieda Kayn is a weirder case. I thought a lot about whether I should even include him in this category at all. There are many accounts of people affirming one of Kayn's writers pictured him as having fluid sexuality, but since then, wherever it was posted, it's gone now. I do believe it since we can still find Reddit threads on the subject, but the original source is nowhere to be found. I still decided to put him here, but take it with a grain of salt.

Moving on to our next category, we have Nidalee, Samira, and Udyr. Samira flirts more than once with Elegant Edge in Legends of Runeterra, and her attraction for her is not subtle. As far as I'm aware, she's never expressed interest in men, but we can't say for sure whether she's bi, pan, or gay. Nidalee and Udyr have had speculated romantic interests in other champions for a while now. Nidalee with Neeko, Udyr with Lee Sin. Nidalee and Neeko's story was first portrayed as one-sided, with Neeko rejected by her friend, prompting them to part ways. On the other hand, the addition of both champions to Legends of Runeterra explored their relationship once again, with the two reuniting and Nidalee finally realizing she did love Neeko and simply didn't know how to deal with it all those years ago. A love song, Shine On, even accompanied the update, which narrates their story beautifully. They have many romantic voice lines now, both in LoR and League.

With Udyr's rework, people started realizing he digs Lee Sin through voice lines expressing how he misses his "old friend" and that he's "loved twice, left twice" (which applies to his relationship with Lee Sin). Besides, his design includes memorabilia he exchanged with Lee Sin when they parted ways. It is also important to mention he's had a wife before, so he swings both ways. I think the context gives more than enough clues for us to safely say Udyr is queer. 

Ahri and Evelynn are spirits/demons that prey on their victims (regardless of gender) through charm and seduction. Ahri is essentially a succubus, and Evelynn is the Demon of Agony, with desire and lust being important parts of their characters. It is also worth noting that Evelynn is genderfluid/agender, taking the form of anyone (or anything) that might lure her victims. So their lore essentially confirms them as not straight and not cis (on Evelynn's case, at least).

can't believe i'm drawing ezko again. what YEAR is it (but also, we are in fact popping the biggest bottles over this skinline)

Well you draw tfgraves beautifully so I’d always be happy to see more of them :)

Ezko (Ezreal x Ekko) is my league OTP - tfgraves is a VERY close 2nd - but I also love the dynamics of piltover’s finest and LeBlanc-Swain

Oh thank you so much!! I actually think LeBlanc and Swain are hilarious, theyre sensational, this dynamic is everything

Twitter is fucking weird. IT’S FAN ART.

Haven’t posted my personal thoughts on tumblr in a LONG time and after seeing what I saw on my TL, I just wanted to get everything off my chest. I’ve been posting more settphel fan art on here, but as I’ve stated before, I’m not really a fan of the ship; however, I can appreciate the artists work who draw the ship. Something people on twitter can’t do. 

Apparently someone drew SB Sett & Aphelios with their own OC and it made Settphel-GayLeaguetwt explode? Of course, Bitches- I mean, Witches, is at the forefront (are we even surprised?). Here’s the art in question: 

Sett and Aphelios with Ace’s friend’s OC in the middle. Their oc is absolutely adorable, just vibin’ in the middle of Sett and Aphelios. 

Tweet that started it all:

a mutual of witches said they thought the artist’s oc was cute. This was their response:

Peak intelligence. Destroyed them with facts and knowledge. I don’t know if they’ll ever be able to recover. Even more quote retweets:

“Can we have anything?” How does this take away anything from you? A single piece of fan art in the PLETHORA of Settphel fan art. As someone else mentioned; GravesTF was confirmed this year, Ezko in pulsefire, Lee Sin & Udyr, Aphelios in Sett’s Firecracker splash and now Settpehl in SB? I guess all of these dont count anymore because someone drew fan art of Sett & Aphelios with someone in between them.

People calling the pic “homophobic” even though Sett was hinted to be Bisexual by his narrative writer for the skin line. While people HEADCANON that Aphelios is mlm or ace, he hasn’t been confirmed by Riot as either. So, no, not homophobic. This commenter biphobic? most likely. 

“I hate women making mlm relationships be about them”  “How dare someone draw these characters, that I don’t own, the way they want! They’re so selfish!” 

This was the comment that pushed me to making a post:

“Seems disrespectful” to who? Random people on twitter.com, who ship two fictional characters? How is this fan art ‘disrespectful’? Better, why do you feel disrespected by it? The fan art wasn’t made for YOU, so if you feel disrespected, that sounds like a you problem. Also implied (where?) =/= canon. No where in lore or voice lines, (as of right now) has stated that Aphelios is mlm. I would say that it’s headcanoned by a majority of the Settphel community, but remember, your head canon =/= canon.

They have since deleted their original thread but they’re still quote retweeting:

Again, how does this one piece of fan art erase your representation? This artist’s fan art isn’t canon. Riot themselves didn’t make official promo art of Sett with Soraka or changed his voice lines so he doesn’t call Aphelios mooncake. Settphel is still “canon” whether artists draw them with other characters or not. (also the “I was bi for half my life,” good for you? Dont know what that has to do with fictional characters and a piece of fan art = erasure. It’s giving “I have a black friend” energy.) Also, “people with too much free time,” yet you made a whole ass thread about how “disrespected” you felt about a piece of fan art and continued to talk about it in quote retweets AND in dms after you deleted said thread so...  

Doesn’t matter if it’s canon or not, stop trying to police what artists can and cannot draw. Fan art DOESN’T HAVE TO BE CANON, IT CAN BE WHATEVER THE FUCK PEOPLE WANT IT TO BE BECAUSE IT’S *THEIR* FAN ART. I cant believe that has to be said. There are HUNDREDS of other artists on twitter actually drawing Sett and Aphelios together. I’ve only seen a couple of people draw Settraka and other art like this because psychos dogpile and harass these artists into either deleting the artwork or privating/deleting their account. Yummy, bullying people over fucking fan art. Someone pointed out, “people bully settphel artists too because they don’t like settphel” to which I say, don’t ever bully ANYONE. PERIOD. You don’t like what the artist drew? Block & mute, baby. Leave them alone, let them and mutuals enjoy their art/ship in peace. No one gives a fuck and needs to hear you announce that you don’t like it.  I’ll personally say on my own tumblr blog, “I’m not really a fan of [insert ship here]” but if I ever do make that comment, it’s usually followed by, “but I definitely can appreciate the artist’s work and I like the artist’s style.” Again, I’d never comment that under the artist’s post; I’ll say it in my own personal space. I’ll just give them a like, maybe a retweet and keep on scrolling. They don’t need to know that I’m not into that ship. They probably also dont care and have enough people already telling them that anyways. They didn’t draw it for me, they drew it because they liked it.  “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I’ve been being a lot better about typing up something to someone else and just thinking to myself, “its not worth it” and deleting the whole thing. I’m not gonna change their mind and they aren’t going to change mine so why bother, you know? Here is my own personal ranting space so it’s a bit different.

And yes, before you point out how this isn’t the only fandom that’s toxic and how toxic other fandoms are, like the genshin fandom, almost everyone pictured here is also part of the genshin fandom. Coincidence? No. Toxic individuals of a feather are gonna flock together lol. 

A cherry on top: 

“I’m going to need to take a break from the community because someone drew fan art of two characters, that I don’t own, with their own oc, and it made that me upset.” Bruh.💀 Fucking toddlers, man. Alright everyone, lesson of the day is: you’re not allowed to draw anyone with anyone else except their canon significant other or the most popular head canon. Yes, I’m going to police what you draw and if you draw what I dont like, it’s erasure and it hurts my feelings. :’c Y’all can only draw what I like, okay? Okay.  But seriously like... bruh. Over ONE. SINGLE. PIECE. of fan art. In the OCEAN of Settphel fan art that’s all over twitter, some settphel fans felt so attacked and butthurt that this person drew one picture of Sett and Aphelios with their OC.

The artist didn’t give a shit about their feelings and drew this in response. All I gotta say is power to ‘em.  

It’s giving:

You’ll always hear me say, as long as it’s not illegal, gore, incest, etc, ship what you want to ship. I’m also going to add to that, let other people ship what they want to ship. Someone drawing the two characters you like not together and with someone isn’t erasure or a personal attack. Sett and Aphelios aren’t your OCs, and artists can draw them doing whatever they want. 

Baaaack weee.

But also

I figured out that au devang that's like...well adjusted would deff be the next in line to take up the crown of rose kingdom and the thing about that is would she stick around or run?

well adjusted devang might stick around and that's wild to me

and the number of successions to that point is wILD

like domin gets imprisoned/dethroned, her mother's brothers are mia as hell and might be dead, jova would be king but i can guarantee you kairo would be matriarch and no one would be able to stop her from being that, and she's smart enough to be like maybe boy gendered ezkos and devangs don't need to be on a throne, and alan sure doesn't wanna be IT

so then devang's standing there getting tagged like 'fuq'.

/// he him, 20, 20+ only, queer bipoc ///

—🖤 hey! my name is sluuze, and i’m here in hopes of finding someone to write League of Legends stuff with! specifically heartsteel/music vers ngl—the brainrot is so strong. but first, please keep these in mind!:

important to note (ooc): i will be sporadic with rp replies bc “my brain doesn’t fucking work” (adhd), life is inane, etc (ooc interaction is simpler—i love chatting n rp talk ooc!!). i also usually default at novella, but for reasons as mentioned above, i can only provide shortform to semi-lit atm </3 i am also still very new to LoL and am still getting a grasp on the lore. so pls, go easy on me 💀

overall pls be patient and understanding, and i will be for you as well ofc!

here are the characters im looking to write! muses: aphelios, yone, ekko, ezreal, hwei, (kinda sorta maybe) kayn

and here are the pairings im hoping to write stuff for—bold is who i would prefer to write! ships: settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel willing to try different pairings with aphelios, yone, and hwei! (mxm only pls)

verses: og verse/runeterra (settphel) spiritblossom vers (settphel) heartsteel/“music vers” (settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel) if you have any ideas please do tell me!! i’m totally down to hear out other ideas and or brainstorm something together (:

writing style:

3rd person, usually novella but for the time being shortform to semi-lit length

exclusively writing on discord with a private server for our rp

love having multiple threads

love having full investment—tons of headcanons for our characters and the pairings, discussing other potential scenarios for them, playlists, etc etc. just getting real immersed and hyped for our characters n rp!

looking for:

nsfw involvement is a must/highly preferred !

being open to dark themes: gritty settings, action/violence, depressing/dark situations/elements, deaddove to an extent. [absolutely NO “proship” type shit] we will discuss limits of course!!

cool with t4t and/or trans male character headcanons and such like that (ok with erp involvement also)!

overall lookin for someone who's just as inane for this shit as i am <3

/// i think that’s all? if you’re interested hmu on discord “@ sluuze”!! ///

sluuze

/// he him, 20, 20+ only, queer bipoc ///

—🖤 hey! my name is sluuze, and i’m here in hopes of finding someone to write League of Legends stuff with! specifically heartsteel/music vers ngl—the brainrot is so strong. but first, please keep these in mind!:

important to note (ooc): i will be sporadic with rp replies bc “my brain doesn’t fucking work” (adhd), life is inane, etc (ooc interaction is simpler—i love chatting n rp talk ooc!!). i also usually default at novella, but for reasons as mentioned above, i can only provide shortform to semi-lit atm </3 i am also still very new to LoL and am still getting a grasp on the lore. so pls, go easy on me 💀

overall pls be patient and understanding, and i will be for you as well ofc!

here are the characters im looking to write! muses: aphelios, yone, ekko, ezreal, hwei, (kinda sorta maybe) kayn

and here are the pairings im hoping to write stuff for—bold is who i would prefer to write! ships: settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel willing to try different pairings with aphelios, yone, and hwei! (mxm only pls)

verses: og verse/runeterra (settphel) spiritblossom vers (settphel) heartsteel/“music vers” (settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel) if you have any ideas please do tell me!! i’m totally down to hear out other ideas and or brainstorm something together (:

writing style:

3rd person, usually novella but for the time being shortform to semi-lit length

exclusively writing on discord with a private server for our rp

love having multiple threads

love having full investment—tons of headcanons for our characters and the pairings, discussing other potential scenarios for them, playlists, etc etc. just getting real immersed and hyped for our characters n rp!

looking for:

nsfw involvement is a must/highly preferred !

being open to dark themes: gritty settings, action/violence, depressing/dark situations/elements, etc. we will discuss limits of course!!

cool with t4t and/or trans male character headcanons and such like that (ok with erp involvement also)!

overall lookin for someone who's just as inane for this shit as i am <3

/// i think that’s all? if you’re interested hmu on discord “@ sluuze”!! ///

✒

/// he him, 20, 20+ only, queer bipoc ///

—🖤 hey! my name is sluuze, and i’m here in hopes of finding someone to write League of Legends stuff with! specifically heartsteel/music vers ngl—the brainrot is so strong. but first, please keep these in mind!:

important to note (ooc): i will be sporadic with rp replies bc “my brain doesn’t fucking work” (adhd), life is inane, etc (ooc interaction is simpler—i love chatting n rp talk ooc!!). i also usually default at novella, but for reasons as mentioned above, i can only provide shortform to semi-lit atm </3 i am also still very new to LoL and am still getting a grasp on the lore. so pls, go easy on me 💀

overall pls be patient and understanding, and i will be for you as well ofc!

here are the characters im looking to write! muses: aphelios, yone, ekko, ezreal, hwei, (kinda sorta maybe) kayn

and here are the pairings im hoping to write stuff for—bold is who i would prefer to write! ships: settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel willing to try different pairings with aphelios, yone, and hwei! (mxm only pls)

verses: og verse/runeterra (settphel) spiritblossom vers (settphel) heartsteel/“music vers” (settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel) if you have any ideas please do tell me!! i’m totally down to hear out other ideas and or brainstorm something together (:

writing style:

3rd person, usually novella but for the time being shortform to semi-lit length

exclusively writing on discord with a private server for our rp

love having multiple threads

love having full investment—tons of headcanons for our characters and the pairings, discussing other potential scenarios for them, playlists, etc etc. just getting real immersed and hyped for our characters n rp!

looking for:

nsfw involvement is a must/highly preferred !

being open to dark themes: gritty settings, action/violence, depressing/dark situations/elements, deaddove to an extent. [absolutely NO “proship” type shit] we will discuss limits of course!!

cool with t4t and/or trans male character headcanons and such like that (ok with erp involvement also)!

overall lookin for someone who's just as inane for this shit as i am <3

/// i think that’s all? if you’re interested hmu on discord “@ sluuze”!! ///

-

/// he him, 20, 20+ only, queer bipoc ///

—🖤 hey! my name is sluuze, and i’m here in hopes of finding someone to write League of Legends stuff with! specifically heartsteel/music vers ngl—the brainrot is so strong. but first, please keep these in mind!:

important to note (ooc): i will be sporadic with rp replies bc “my brain doesn’t fucking work” (adhd), life is inane, etc (ooc interaction is simpler—i love chatting n rp talk ooc!!). i also usually default at novella, but for reasons as mentioned above, i can only provide shortform to semi-lit atm </3 i am also still very new to LoL and am still getting a grasp on the lore. so pls, go easy on me 💀

overall pls be patient and understanding, and i will be for you as well ofc!

here are the characters im looking to write! muses: aphelios, yone, ekko, ezreal, hwei, (kinda sorta maybe) kayn

and here are the pairings im hoping to write stuff for—bold is who i would prefer to write! ships: settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel willing to try different pairings with aphelios, yone, and hwei! (mxm only pls)

verses: og verse/runeterra (settphel) spiritblossom vers (settphel) heartsteel/“music vers” (settphel, ezko, kayone, kaynphel) if you have any ideas please do tell me!! i’m totally down to hear out other ideas and or brainstorm something together (:

writing style:

3rd person, usually novella but for the time being shortform to semi-lit length

exclusively writing on discord with a private server for our rp

love having multiple threads

love having full investment—tons of headcanons for our characters and the pairings, discussing other potential scenarios for them, playlists, etc etc. just getting real immersed and hyped for our characters n rp!

looking for:

nsfw involvement is a must/highly preferred !

being open to dark themes: gritty settings, action/violence, depressing/dark situations/elements, deaddove to an extent. [absolutely NO “proship” type shit] we will discuss limits of course!!

cool with t4t and/or trans male character headcanons and such like that (ok with erp involvement also)!

overall lookin for someone who's just as inane for this shit as i am <3

/// i think that’s all? if you’re interested hmu on discord “@ sluuze”!! ///

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I just wanted to tell you that your Ezko art brings me such joy. They’re such an underrepresented couple in the fandom it’s nice to see an artist making so much awesome art of them.

Thank u! I'm glad people enjoy it as much as I do!

maybe arcane universe ezko please 🥺👉👈

also i love your sketches tysm for posting them

OMG the timing… I was just rewatching Arcane recently and craving some Arcane-set ezko-

I’m a sucker for coat sharing…

And tysm for enjoying my stuff! I love posting what I make if it means it makes another person smile tbh

@prodigal-ezreal holding a gun to my head until I read the new pulsefire lore

A special Project Ekko for @projectekko! Thank you for all your nice comments! ( •⌄• ू )✧

Bonus cyborg bf’s: