Hi there, it's Ravanel. I'm a gamer girl playing Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) and Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). I'm also crazy with taking screenshots and finally found the perfect way to get rid of them: through this blog! Lately, I've also been spamming you guys with my drawings.
The picture
Yup, this is not actually me, but you can pretend it is. It vaguely resembles me in real life anyway. I did skip the body type 1 and emo makeup stuff, though!Contact
Note: I am not interested in unpaid content suggestions from commercial parties.e-mail: ravalation at hotmail dot com
google+: Ravanel Griffon
twitter: @Rav_Griffon
History of a gamer girl
My start in the gaming world was due to my fandom of Tolkien. When I heard an online game featuring Middle-earth (LotRO) was being developed, I was extremely excited. I had never played an MMO before, but I made many gamer friends and ended up in a raiding kinship. I also joined the Lotro-wiki team in 2009, and became a bureaucrat. LotRO has been very important to me, being the first MMO I played, but also being the place where I met my boyfriend. In the four year period that it did not release any new raids and became focused on casual players, I started playing Star Wars: the Old Republic (SWTOR).Ravalation features many different games and topics, but SWTOR and LOTRO form its core.
Ravanel online
Besides my work on Ravalation, I've contributed in the past to the multidisciplinary iRez - a virtual identity saloon (2012-2013). From 2016 to 2017, you could listen to me discussing SWTOR on the long running podcast Corellian Run Radio. Since the start of 2017, I have had the pleasure of writing professionally for the MMO collective MMO Bro.Copyright
Unless indicated otherwise, I take all screenshots on this blog myself. I would therefore appreciate it if you would link to ravalation.blogspot.com if you choose to use a picture for your own blog or any other public media. If you want to use material for commercial purposes, please contact me first and consider that a lot of content falls under the copyright of their respective game studios.Enjoy your stay!
Some more...
Badges
I've written the following NBI or blogging themed articles:
- A New Beginning - This blog's introductory post
- NBI: Nearing the end - A selection of my favourite NBI blogs
- NBI: In the head of a newbie - What the NBI taught me, new SWTOR/LotRO blogs and kind words of others
- NBI: One year and a week later - Looking back at the NBI
Related to the event is my post Writing about game characters.
I love this blog. It's beautiful and badass. Thank you for being awesome!
ReplyDeleteThank you for dropping by and the kind words!
DeleteI can only second that.
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DeleteI forget how I found this blog (though I'm pretty sure I was searching for something related to LOTRO), but I want to tell you that I love your layout. I started blogging about a year ago for Extra Life since my internet limitations prevent me from streaming on Twitch like I used to. I'm still trying to tweak my blog's appearance to look... well, a bit more like I know what I'm doing! Can you tell me if your navigation bar is a specific blog layout or if you did it yourself? I'd love to have a horizontal bar with page links instead of an endless side column! Keep up the great blogging work. :)
ReplyDeleteHi there! Sorry for the suuuuper slow response, but judging from your blog's layout you thankfully found out how to get the horizontal bar on your blog. (For anyone who's reading along: it's a Blogger feature; you can set a navbar widget under Layout.) Thanks for your kind words about Ravalation's layout. I'm not 100% happy with it myself, I'm still looking for the courage to change it again. It's an ongoing struggle! ;)
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