i understand the desire to have a locked space to share thoughts; i really do. i wish that bsky would institute something like circles even if priv accts are not in their roadmap. but y'all have got to get off of twitter. you just gotta.

twitter could literally add a feature that sprays acid in your eyes every time you post and people would still use it

gifts for friends

yells i finished all my holiday cards!! some of them will be postmarked after christmas shdgh but I GOT IT DONE!!!

remember to scare children into believing in santa so we won't have to fight the frost gigas again this year

u know what time it is (thank u @raadst.bsky.social for this perennial image)

idiots

i turned off the ears on meridian's cowl and it freaked me out ... ... i turned them back on ...

adra never has any money for Reasons which means all of their nice clothes are either gifts or borrowed ... meridian has an armorer he goes to in limsa but at this point he's going to need a tailor as well since most clothes off the rack cannot handle him

Happy Holidays from myself and @runehallow.bsky.social , and the Machine Sympathy cast ✨

🎄 CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY hello & happy holidays, i am just here to share some joy because i can. i will be giving away one fantasian outfit + hairstyle of your choice! - no need to follow, just like & repost - share your wol/oc with me! winner will be announced dec 24th 🔆

i truly love my local french bakery but they keep punking me on my scones and im gonna LOSE IT!! recently they just forgot it, which, okay. that happens. i decide to check my bag more carefully. today, i get my salad and there is a white box on top of the salad and i think, okay,

going over my health insurance claims for this year & just astonished at the cost of bloodwork alone. like the bill for my blood panels w/o my insurance/discounts is in the thousands. it's surreal

We printed a holiday card this year, and this was the full illustration for the wrap. 🎇

don't take this sinner from me 🎨 @sarenstone.com

im 'deathweaver' over there btw (a name i have had since 2010 and will clutch firmly in my fist for as long as i can)

So uh… a relative of mine fucked up big times and because of their fuckup I have to pay 2000€. And I have nobody I can lean on except myself in my life. I apologize but I will be prioritizing big commissions, the more costly ones. No character sketch. You can apply through the same form as usual.

what if i just decided to start posting on tumblr again. for giggles

D&D nite: DEMETRA: (rolls a 1 on Persusasion) MERIDIAN: (assisting via scary Loom & rolls a 20 on Intimidation) DM: [The NPC] doesn't believe you, but he's scared

the most wonderful time of the year

servants of the ninth holy pilgrimage.

nothing makes me feel more 'the internet is forever' than coming across references to soulbonding history (a term coined by a writing group i was in and which i helped spread thru my old website), esp when they reference my old pages

just in case it was unclear, i am talking ab machine sympathy, my work w @sarenstone.com that is what is cooking sjdgh

i still have stories i want to write in xiv-land (& maybe ... maybe wow-land, but we'll see); however, next year i want to focus much more on entirely original work. playing in sandboxes is fun and soothing but i ain't getting any younger & i want to detach from relying on big IPs for my work

im honestly so easy to buy for bc if you give me a gift card to any place that sells books or stationery im pretty golden. but everyone else in my family is not like that. they are all nightmares

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I may have almost slipped on the ice getting it from the mailbox, but… My copy of ‘Follow Me Down’ by @sarenstone.com and @runehallow.bsky.social has finally arrived! 🖤

heya 👋 finally got a job (graveyard shift) but i need to survive the first few weeks until i get paid so anything helps ‼️

the tickets for the chicago stationery fest sold out so fast 😭

some elf portraits I've done this year #art #worldofwarcraft

She's wrapped and ready for Starlight 🎀 #daneart

the thing w adra is that they naturally have a sharp tongue and a far more brittle patience than they let on; however, they make an active decision to try to behave w/ respect and courtesy bc they *value* those things, especially within themself - tho it is somewhat fraught

many people find it soothing to be around adra bc they're a good, active listener & have gentle manners. meanwhile, meridian does his best to ensure everyone around him is having a bad time.

i've always been quietly obsessed with lost/legendary cities (atlantis, ys, iram, etc) which is part of how XIV reeled me in, bc lost civilizations are such a huge part of the overall narrative. but XIV also loves introducing a lost city and then never developing it beyond one or two dungeons

A Priest of the Light to counter* that Void Abomination. *kiss

installed the patch and logged in briefly before lunch solely so i could put WHM adra in a red version of their PLD glam

WoW flavored Book as well, while I'm at it. He's checking in on an overdue balance.

*standing up like i have a brave opinion* the arcadion cutscenes should have been fully voiced

still pretty into that XIV game. wish i could play it

this is a universal anxiety i am pretty sure and i still feel it all the time. it does get under my skin when ppl just call meridian 'edgy' esp if it's pejorative or dismissive, for example. but i did get so insecure about adra that i pretty much shelved them for the better part of a year

would you pull for them.

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installed the patch and logged in briefly before lunch solely so i could put WHM adra in a red version of their PLD glam

Actually the most important item in the patch notes is that Meridian can now tuck his ears into his cowl. So people can stop asking to touch his ears

i do wish you could toggle btwn the fem/masc idle pose for drawn weapons in XIV. the fem white mage pose just does not fit adra. if they have their staff drawn then they are about to square up; they are not standing primly with a beatific smile

Reject AI and annoy a billionaire.

there's a boss in ulduar (old WoW raid) that's a giant robot w/ a childlike mentality who treats the fight like he's playing with a bunch of toys. when he kills a player he cries 'i guess it doesn't bend that way' and anyway that is how i constantly feel about my body these days

i used to have an 'i was here first and i'm not leaving until this place falls apart' mentality about twitter but like. idk i feel like it pretty much has fallen apart, at least in the ways that matter to me personally

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!