Pre-Calamity/Baelsar’s Wall going up, there were far more overland Near Eastern caravans self-owned & operated by itinerant Dunesfolk families, with some family members living in Ul’dah to handle the merchantile side.

Avenrhi shifts tactics depending on her intentions- Sometimes it's a tease of rallying reward & willing availibilty promised for a job well done, a strategic awareness of how she's bending over in the rows. Other times a direct plea for a favor, with unsubtle dips of her eyes.

Ruckus is a smoothtalker- he tends to humble brag a bit on his own accomplishments with charmingly boyish bashful confidence before laser-honing in with earnest curiousity on his interest’s hopes & dreams and how those could get done.

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

Avenrhi loves an herbed foccaccia 'tomato pie' that her local tavern turns out every summers with the height of colorful heirloom tomatoes and sliced peppers she supplies, cut thinly sliced and pressed into the top of the bake in floral-style decoration.

Okay but fr who stole Calyx's design straight out of the BBS Ienzo file in Nomura's desk.

summer delights🌸🩷🎀

The Lalafell Housing Experience

Avenrhi- Strictly body count? /gestures at the fields she grows her fucks (Summerford Farms, Roosterstead) most of those people, named and unnamed. Landenel of the Sixth Spear. Landebert (of Pearl Lane) Probably a few well of the well dressed Vinos at Wineport. A Merchant & Mender or three.

Avenrhi Foremost she is always an unlicensed Botanist, but- Tank- Warrior (with choose your own farm shed tool improvisation for what she goes berserker with) Healer - White Mage (apologies to the Gelmorrans) DPS- Rogue (with weeding knives)

Ruckus DPS- Bard/Machinist (canon) Tank- Gunbreaker Healer- Astrologian

It’s been two years but I gotta say- Voidcast Dais trial on normal still slaps every time it comes up in trial roulette as a satisfying challenge/fun experience and feels suitably epic every time. Shoutout to Golbez and his voice work, it’s genuinely enjoyable even when it takes a wipe or two.

Everything is better with a lalafell voiceover. Doomtrain & Arcadion proof of this. ....actually, shoutouts to Shale also. I absolutely love the start of Everkeep, could listen to her over my s9 linkpearl upgrade all day, but this turns to a withering scowl by the time we get to Calyx's goading.

Avenrhi's certainly good with a shovel, and unquestioningly loyal to her own, but even better at knowing where the carry on crows do quick work.

Ruckus has, albeit for a friend who regularly handles burials on the cheap.

Ruckus- green striped bar mop, tucked out of his apron. Food stained; really not for anybody’s face. Avenrhi- the handkerchief Theo hurriedly handed her the last time she got teary in front of him. It’s since been washed, probably lining the bottom of one of her smaller wicker baskets for gathering.

Avenrhi spirals through depression on the ends of her harvest season, measures her self worth in ponze of frost-kissed parsnips & gourds. Imagines the girl she'd been once, left buried under snow. Sleeps for roughly 12 weeks waiting for her heart to thaw.

Ruckus can never eat a Sohm Al tart without feeling a little sick to his stomach again... Luckily though, he had friends to surround him through his first real breakup. He's occasionally wistful about the first love he let grow on a different path than his, but buried himself in new experiences.

For all he’s very scattered with paperwork and where he’s set to go next on a whim, when it comes to pulling together ingredients for his menus Ruckus has developed trusty flexibility and a surprisingly sharp skill at mise en place. Just don’t ask him to explain it to anybody else.

a lalafell is like what if a whole grown up person was just a little creature and i'm like yeah i identify with that

(I’m at work, ironically, so leave me something fun come home to)

It's very hard to tierlist your expansion favorites As a Whole, as a period of time, when you joined in backpatch ShB and only experienced the excitement of Endwalker & Dawntrail on release, and DT has been ludicrously on brand for Ruckus specifically But I've truly loved the entire journey so far.

Ruddle Fuddle is his birth name and he’ll answer to it in his hometown and with kinfolk. But the Ul’dahn Adventuring ledger names him Ruckus Fiddlesticks. This is how he files his taxes. When he’s signing off, he sometimes adds a T. Initial and a a flourish of a Gobbie -ix ending instead of -ticks

Post-Calamital hustle culture hits a try everything guy hard like an ADHD diagnosis cut loose at the Hometown Buffet.

An insecure sense of impermanency, about her desirability & belonging, and therefore her survival. #avenrhi

Self-indulgently sapphic Hadestown, but Persephone & Eurydice get to exist as the same entity within an identity crisis over code shifting & unpaid labor.

Peeking into the state of the pantry/larder, at a home where they're staying as a guest. (Avenrhi) Same, but a commercial kitchen. (Ruckus)

Spinning fancy, gathering wool #Temenha

In certain circumstances, Avenrhi's keen to be quick on the uptake of reading social cues, in for a spot of ludic play. She likes being clued into the generation of a bit (sometimes she's even responsible for establishing a spring circus bonding!)

Ruckus respects the bit commitment unless it’s overtly vulgar- then he tends to get a little embarrassed/upset (he still hasn’t realized his own translation of lomo soltado qualifies- or does he?) He’ll happily play along with a joke until it’s beaten into the ground.

Gratuitious foodporn, poetry/lyric oral traditions, coming of age in multiple phases, community building & social contracts.

#MayDay is a reminder for workers to stand together. If you’re going to a May Day event, you can download this graphic and use it as a sign.

going to test shading styles but comm example sample very generously offered by @/miqotanking.bsky.social! it was a joy to draw her! #myart #ffxiv #ffxivart #miqote

THANKYOU, YOU, YOU KNOW WHOEVER YOU ARE!!

What’s still a little funny about the title is that we just spent the back 2/3rds of an expansion in a place called Everkeep and now we’re headin’ to the ever cold are we’re sure this isn’t the s9 ice rink?

finally, they named a whole expansion out of my seasonal depression experience.

Avenrhi can appreciate a garden variety of body shapes, but the attractiveness krytonite is a bare back or femme posture with hands perched anywhere on the waist to hip ratio.

lesbians come in so many shapes, use so many different kinds of labels or pronouns, and have such differing presentations - and if you try to gatekeep any of them out of their own identities i'll come to your house and kick your ass personally

Controller PS5, with a wired 20 year old keyboard plugged into the USB primarily for Roleplaying

Kefka jumpscare bullying me, personally

Coffee & Carbuncles is a great listen, featuring casual conversations with players across the ffxiv community!

Linda Pastan

Avenrhi- Manifesting

Does anybody have any emote rp traditions while running dungeons? I usually do a /cry -> /panic -> /aback sequence for the Vanaspati village clearing pause Always /dote the Amaro and /toast Giott in Heroes Gauntlet & throw down some /hknight /respect & /loveheart rpwalk honorariums in Aitascope

After some talk of how she feels about being watched while sleeping, Avenrhi's enthusiastically given her lover the go-ahead to touch her as she wishes. She's far less pleased about the prospects of this with more casual sex partners, and knows how to hold a firm boundary there, however-

BIG FAT TACOS🎵 BIG FAT TACOS🎶 BIG FAT TACOS🎵 SO BIIIIIIIG🌮 #FF14 #FFXIVART

rphub.co/u/whippetpuli Hey ffxiv roleplayers! Feel free to check out the blorbos & add me as a friend on here! (Still noodling around casually with the notion of making a Community for Cactuar Cantina, but it's exciting to see the platform expanding features.)

The Fallow Field by Richard Church (from Lyrical Poems, 1942-47)

Making a 🧵 of all the Persian/Iranian mythology and cultural references I've noticed in FFXIV here: But before I get into it, a lil bit about me! I was born and raised in Iran for 14 years. As you may know, the current regime in charge which came into power 47 years ago has made life uninhabitable