#mihriqotd #mihripose mihri got dragged along to the occasional formal party in sharlayan after endwalker. she's not much of a fan of high society, but at least she had the scions for company

its incredible how like every idea I've seen people have for FFXIV sounds like the worst thing ever that would almost instantly kill the game

Being your own OC's biggest fan means putting them in the same outfit (or lack thereof) and similar pose you've seen/done a hundred times and still going "OUGH" at how beautiful they are

i think i'm gonna join the mystic knight/rune knight/spellblade/rune fencer tank alisaie prayer circle

hey anyone want to join a map pf i'm in on midgardsormr (aether). there's only one other person in it and they need mogtomes...

When your sword is a square:

hal

Ryne ryne ryne ryne ryne ryne ryne ryne bananaphone One of these days I will actually finish a thing instead of just starting 3 more things

Quick sketch of Halmarut my beloved to celebrate the keynote tomorrow!! 💖

THEY DIDN'T

Ardbert: If you need a push, I’ll be right there behind you; if you lose control, I’ll do my best to stop you. So—let us be about it, hero.

finally got around to this after (checks notes) six years of playing

a powerful relationship on the computer is two people who arent mutuals because they both think the other's feed is too annoying and each "like" they give each other is a sign of respect on the battlefield of Posting, a delicate dance of courtly intrigue within their venn diagram of friend groups

Shadowbringers

I mean literally this

“I dont think my art is good enough to make this comic/webtoon/visual novel/game” You should make it, because even if your art isnt where you want it to be, the constant practice you gain while working on a project will rapidly improve your skills as oppose to just waiting

always thinking about Yshtola: the scions should not have a leader. we are scholars, not a paramilitary unit Yshtola: anyway Im about to take charge of this meeting and assign everyone critical roles for stormblood completely uncontested Graha: shtola nunh… Yshtola: you are not in this story yet

i was genuinely so happy when Endwalker tripled down on the theater theming from shadowbringers because it made me think “wow it’s so nice to know the people who are writing the story I’m devoting hundreds of hours of my life to have seen a play”

#mihriqotd mihrifilia got together quickly enough that neither of them were hugely yearning although mihri was deeply deeply worried for the duration of minfilia being captured during arr. and then the whole minfilia emotional situation meant that y'shtola was the yearner in mihrishtola

Our fictions say "someone has to die, choose now. no time to think, react. react. react." Consciously or not, people engage with this stuff as a sandbox for finding passive equilibrium with a fascist world. It is practice for feeling solemn comfort that "someone else" will be killed or tortured.

Good piece on fictions that contrive scenarios requiring Necessary Cruelty, which are exceptionally popular in America as fascism normalizes nihilistic violence & people scramble to rationalize that as if it were the ordinary business of life: Just Calling Brutally Violent & Cruel Balls and Strikes.

and while i'm still on the subject of trans reads people need to stop treating interpreting a female character as a trans man as an act of betrayal of womanhood or inherently regressive to feminism

i was doing frontlines on call with a friend and i was like "i love when i find a lone member of the enemy team and hunt them down and kill them in single combat" and they were like "this is why you have zenos enabled in the pvp announcer plugin"

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase hot rotisserie chicken with their benefits.

Excuse me, I need to tag for clothes that I could wear 100% legally outside??? You're joking, right? This is a late April fool's prank. We're not policing fictional bodies. We're not slut shaming pixels. Vgen, are Visa and Mastercard in the room right now? Blink twice if you need help.

This 1,800 year-old Roman glass cup is so well preserved that the railway construction worker who found it in the 1800s used it as a flower vase not realising its age! 💐 😲 From Himlingøje, Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Ardbert: Take it. We fight as one!

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

graha is helping with ada…king shit

Final Fantasy XIV: Stargate SG-14

I wish all independent creators artists and actors a very "please have a supportive fandom that isn't trying to tear you to shreds every other month"

i've talked about this issue with approaching queer readings before but i think there's an extent to which people project a level of personal agency onto fictional characters that is actively counterintuitive to any kind of analysis of them as *characters*, and i think that's sometimes at play here

Anyway here’s Calline if she went to a ren faire in the 1970s #callinemachinegobrrr

luciaaaaaaa 😭

And you will benefit from it too! I was so disgusted the last time I went to NYC to realize that Penn Station had virtually no benches. Nowhere to sit down. It’s hideously inaccessible to disabled people, and it’s hostile to everyone who might be tired or need to set their stuff down a moment

fiction lets us present things as very fun and cool when in reality they are quite evil, such as pirates, cowboys, mediaeval knights, and the sport of golf.

another one for lesbian visibility week!

" you will, i'm sure... no matter where we are or how much time passes , our bond will endure . this i believe ." [ #mioonglyphs #ioxiv #remyzero #wolzero #ffxiv ]

finished commission for @unmoogled.bsky.social 💖💓💖 #mioonglyphs

a lot of queer & trans people functionally make watsonian vs doylist arguments or thermian arguments on the question of "rep" and it makes media critique and analysis basically impossible. characters are not real human beings.

ilsabard liberation army #rjvpose

You guys ain't ready for this

Thesis defense visualized

Day 23: Lost One day, you'll figure me out And I'll meet judgement by the hounds #gposers #bbposes #tbnpose #lalafell #lalapril

endsong #ffxiv

i do not trust anyone who writes an oc of ishgardian nobility but doesn't want to broach the topic of class politics in their writing

some will act personally offended that their character is being scrutinized thru the lens of class politics. like the fact their character has benefited from privilege or institutions of political power is insulting them personally as a writer. like hhuhhh