The leader of Zaun 🚬

Silco from Arcane. Have more Silco fanart?

✨ Happy 1st Birthday, Arcane ✨

Jinx: Goodnight moon.

Jinx: Goodnight tree.

Jinx: Goodnight ghosts that only I can see

Mylo and claggor: night.

have i ever told you guys..

i really LIKE.. I Really like.. c-caitlyn kiramman

Powder 💙💜

I’ve just realised most blogs have some sort of pinned post to introduce themselves so i figured i might as well do one myself.

I’m Fizzie, i go by he/they pronouns and should not be trusted to have this much access to the internet.

I mostly make incorrect quotes or joke posts. Sometimes you might catch me writing fanfiction or drawing shitty fanart. If you lurk on the valorant tag you probably know me for being horny for cypher (yes that’s me. hi 👋) but regardless i’m apart of like,,, 30 fandoms, including but not limited to: baldurs gate 3, red dead redemption, bungou stray dogs, attack on titan, and jujutsu kaisen. Feel absolutely 100% free to message me at any time about any one of those because i will GLADLY talk. Honestly just message me if you want at all, i don’t bite (unless you want me to IM KIDDING-)

WIP

A gift for a friend; he and his main Sage (✿◡‿◡) luckily he doesn't use tumblr

ARCANE Season 2 - coming November 2024

Arcane. Season 2. November 2024. #GeekedWeek

Arcane: Season 2 | First Look

Season 2 of Arcane will premiere on Netflix in November 2024.

Marcus fanart 👮⭐

I know many people don't like this character, but even then he grew close to my heart 😔💓

Vi i drew waiting for season 2

do u think riot will tell me how she likes her eggs cooked if i email them enough

So, considering what's going on with Riot right now, do you think Arcane Season 2 got caught up in all of this restructuring?

Yes and no. Arcane season 2 is part of the reason for the restructuring.

As I understand it, internally at Riot, after Arcane was a huge (and more importantly: prestigious!) success, the decision was made to basically hand the entirety of the game's lore and story over to the Entertainment division within Riot. These are the people in large part responsible for projects like Arcane, K/DA, Heartsteel, that animated series China got, all that sort of thing.

The writers at Riot were basically told to flat out stop producing new content and lore for the game - that's why there's BEEN no new story content for League for over a year - because everything was going to be consolidated under the Entertainment division from now on. This is why Riot started talking about "One Runeterra" and "Arcane is going to be canon" and so on.

The success of Arcane convinced executives that what League of Legends needs is a singular cohesive brand with its most successful public property leading the charge, Arcane is going to be the gateway drug, the hook on the end of the line that brings new players and new paying customers into the exciting world of the League of Legends multimedia IP universe!

Nevermind that Arcane's story and worldbuilding is fundamentally incompatible with >checks notes< the overwhelming majority of Runeterra as it exists and enormous compromises would have to be made to either the world of Runeterra or Arcane itself to make it work. Arcane is the big shiny prestigious mainstream Emmy-award winning project that every executive wants to put their name next to, and like companies Pivoting To Video in 2015 because Facebook showed them inflated viewership stats, Riot Games is Pivoting To Arcane. It's better than them pivoting to crypto and NFTs, at least, although I know for a fact that high ranking people at Riot tried to make that happen too.

Now, the primary cause for all of these games industry layoffs is that interest rates aren't zero anymore. Borrowing money isn't free, the curve of constant growth has ever so slightly slowed, taking on debt is becoming a little tiny bit more risky than it was previously, and corporations are responding to this with massive rounds of layoffs and constriction to show "financial responsibility" and prove to shareholders that they are prioritizing core growth strategies and blah blah blah etc. They're also trying to kneecap the growing labor movement in the games industry and exert downwards pressure on wages, but the interest rates seem to have been the main thing.

In Riot's particular case, a secondary reason is they want to pivot the focus of the company to support their One Runeterra pipe dream, so a lot of the people who got fired at Riot are writers, artists, creative leads and sometimes extremely senior and successful staff who are now surplus to requirements. This is also why Riot shut down Riot Forge in the same round of layoffs - can't have a bunch of talented indie devs going off making video games that don't adhere to the new One Runeterra policy. What if someone played Mageseeker and got confused how there can be mages all over Demacia but somehow there are no mages in Arcane's Piltover and Zaun. That's a plot hole! People write snarky articles about that sort of thing. It turns off new consumers! What if Cinema Sins makes a video making fun of it?!?

So yeah. A bunch of cocaine-addled fame hungry executive vultures at Riot are absolutely gagging on their own d*cks to put their name next to Arcane related projects, and since they were going to be screwing hundreds of people out of their careers, healthcare, and in some cases their fucking visa status anyway, it seems to have presented a nice opportunity to clear the board for their latest Visionary Scheme for the company IP.

That is as I understand the situation, anyway. I'm a bitter old man and most of what I hear is second hand and anonymous gossip through my social networks, take what I say with a grain of salt, but I've followed this company for (oh god) twelve years now and I have developed a tragically keen understanding of how its executive class operates.

art by Fei ren

Hey.

This is it.

The Arcane season 2 year.