wish there was a better way to have the convo about the fact a lot of fans force queer subtext into big corporate IP that is comically devoid of it, champion it for being "so gay", and then turn around and go "mm idk, it isn't PERFECT rep" about indie stuff actually trying to include those themes

i will never accept the attempt at mommywashing yshtola by the fandom or the game. never ever. you know her ass has a burner account perusing r/childfree

📚🐸Matoya🧹📚 #ffxiv #XIVArt

I am afraid FFXIV is never going to do anything like the Bozja unlock solo duty again. “Barnstorm your friend’s psyche and bare-knuckle fistfight their trauma on their behalf” is *exactly* my power fantasy, actually.

i see there is a limit

S1 being “three timelines that converge late in the season” is both fun and an extremely practical way to handle ‘the source text is a handful of short stories in no particular order.’

good morning, my mind is back here. circeus.

Good day to all the beautiful people with bad sleep patterns

sometimes you gotta design and model a Linking Book-style e-reader, just for The Bit™ @gilespink.bsky.social kept insisting that we should make the panel match the tiiiiny proportions of the original Myst linking books, and he was correct:

ffxiv mod/rp spaces and also sometimes the literal canonical game itself 🙏

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw! *Faun *Heilung *Wardruna *Weird Al *The Chieftans

i love aspects so much as a concept lets talk about aspected damage. wounds from umbral light taking forever to heal, resistant to recovery magics , flesh stiff and hard to stitch. wounds from astral dark bleeding fast and much, turning to rot too quickly, aching and bruising long after

アルラミはいいぞ

Two barn owls hanging out in their house at the Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah #Birds #Owls #TwoForTuesday #Twofer #BirdNerd #Photography #Twosday

I'm always going to wonder how much of the subtext of the early expansions being 'Your crack team of world-saving experts is actually just a handful of scared, traumatized kids flying by the seat of their pants' is intentional vs not.

This is like... the most vital context for everything the Scions do in ARR-HW.

I have multiple "instances" of Strix: MSQ-as-written sole WoL, one of the Scions/Duty Support NPCs, and civilian. That gives me some flexibility re: this. For the former, I assume Strix is spending most of her downtime in Ala Mhigo with Raubahn, whose responsibilities keep him busy there.

Haven't drawn in a long time, some doodles of Eorzea leaders if their hats were fun historical ones. #AnachronisticCreations

AND ANOTHER THING, I think it's bullshit that you can trigger Fisherman's Intuition when you're outside of a fish's uptime window

Ul'dah. Garleans, Literal demons and people acting like demons (including her boss) were making a bad situation worse. Strix met up with the stablers and falconers in her extended family and rode like hell for the family bolthole in the South Sagolii.

Strix caries a single stave with a modular focus system, to swap between multiple disciplines of colormagic and avoid the Zenos golf bag look. I’m still iterating around on what I want it to look like/how I want to represent it in game.

Good morning! 🪶

every day I feel the “I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this” aqua teen hunger force screencap more and more

Not remotely. Strix and Y'shtola are on cordial coworker terms. Fair or not, she holds the Exarch's behavior in ShB against G'raha, and if she could find a *more* formal address to underline 'I am observing conventions of civility but we are absolutely not friends,' she would.

The big thing is, I need to know what they do. Not just their profession, but what they're interested in, how they choose to spend their non-survival-related free time. Combine that with their culture of origin and that gives me a lot to dig into.

Strix keeps her nails short and natural for sanitary reasons. If she didn't have to, I think she'd have fun with gold foil decals with arcane glyphs and sigils.

TFW you and your partner are about to start on the aftercare and suddenly the Revisit hits.

Too-old-for-this-shit nerd called in to do an adolescent chosen one’s job

day 3: reunion everyone meeting up in skyhold's own herald's rest! #alistairweek #alistairweek2025

tl;dr, No. Strix's extended family loves her in the abstract but even now, the intensive study in magic and the magnum opus, non-lethal tempering remediation, are a weird phase that they hope she grows out of. She copes by limiting her contact with them to a couple of visits a year.

she/her, [ˈstriːks]

#wolqotd SHOW ME YOUR ROEGADYN DUDES!!!! RIGHT NOW!!!!! 👊

Music easily exceeds Strix's overstim threshold when there's not other stuff going on. Focusing completely on her partner seems like the better deal.

Strix belongs to a tribe of nomadic herders. Pre Battle-of-Silvertear or so, they ranged over most of Thanalan. The fallout from the expulsion of the allied societies from Ul’dah and the modern primal summoning cycle have them mostly confined to the South Sagolii during the timeframe of the game.

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

the most low effort gpose of someones character paused mid basic emote with no lighting no shaders nothing will always be better than a gpose with ai editing done to it

One of my favourite quotes is "never date someone you have to hide your stuffed animals from." Never let a partner make you feel bad for your interests and hobbies. If they make fun of you for liking something, get bent out of shape over a hobby, they aren't worth your time.

Burrowing Owl at the Salton Sea #California #birds #owls #nature

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

what I imagine wol is like every time a villain in xiv now "traps" them in a boss arena

TFW you're not up for setting an alarm for a fish uptime window at 2am but your next chance is gonna be in 10 days 😔

LRP, even better, being Abnormal about *my friends'* fictional characters

being a pervert about fictional characters with my friends

Also, no shit, "palantir" is just "television" in Quenya elvish.

'Stand beneath the stained glass and I'll know it's you. The lights of your eyes burn from across the room.' Vault lighting is fun.

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"