Commission from dee_alejk on Vgen! My former Heavyweight Arcadion girl, Phobia (Hoarfrost Howl). This is in-universe IC merch btw~ Your S9 OC can own a poster~! #ffxivart #werewolf #vgencomm

Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.

Every creative work is a map of the creator's choices while making it. They are making the art for a reason, and that reason is part of the art itself. I guess this is a hot take, but I don't think personal interpretation matters more than artist intent.

Separating the art from the artist is how people justify continuing to engage with the creative works of monsters and also how people justify art theft and plagiarism. When the artist doesn't matter and the art is seen as community property, people justify a lot of bad behavior that way.

I don't separate the art from the artist because the art IS the artist. Every single piece of art is a piece of an artist that they broke off and shared with you. The artist is not just the wrapper that you can throw away once you get what's inside.

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I'll sub for 1 million years if we get another volume of Eorzea academy #ffxiv #ffxivart

please don't put ai enhanced gposes on my timeline. I will smite you with my super laser eyes

Let this be a reminder that if you post your lewd screenshots make sure it doesn't have the "copyright of square enix" watermark on it and maybe if you're using carrd to host a gallery or smth stick "screenshots that differ from ingame are the result of photoshop and paintover" in your footer

Hey guys! Remember to say your characters names A LOT. Don't say "my oc". Call them by their name! And then use oc as hashtag or something like that. If you're jumping a meme bandwagon, do it too!

Yoshi-P is right about the censorship laws being passed rn so i hope m*dded players will at least not use the official tag when posting their screenshots if they want to keep seeing their wols/ocs.....

It'd be really funny if someone created a required click-thru window on any of those mods that said "UNDERSTAND THAT YOU SHOULD KEEP THESE THINGS A SECRET" in red, and at the bottom is the "Accept" button and it does this everytime you log in.

"I am also considering how to increase the freedom of choice players have in their gear they choose to equip" Cross class gear glamour equip and stop genderlocking and I will shutup

Let this be a reminder that if you post your lewd screenshots make sure it doesn't have the "copyright of square enix" watermark on it and maybe if you're using carrd to host a gallery or smth stick "screenshots that differ from ingame are the result of photoshop and paintover" in your footer

Also, re: the point he made about mog station losing profits Dear Square Enix I would be like 3000% more inclined to purchase items from the cash shop if gear, mounts, minions, and emotes were all account-wide. The only reason for you not to do this is greed.

REMEMBER, WHEN IT COMES TO DISCUSSING MODS IN-GAME:

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GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO CARRY ON 🎶 #art #bskyart #mochiart #sailormoon

a friend of mine who's worked on a somewhat recent free multiplayer game says this about player feedback that I feel like is very astute hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want

mods are asleep post perfect beautiful daughter taking selfies at the rapidly-expanding edges of the living world

I come to remind the fandom that if something a) is not stated in the source material and b) doesn't make sense you do not have to accept it as canon just because some intern said it.

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this generation of internet users needs to learn how to STFU on so many levels...

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50% of fanbase: NOOO mare dead 50% of fanbase: YESS mare dead guy on your timeline whos always fishing: ocean fishing in 38 minutes guys

By the way Mare going down is not an excuse to start running your screenshots through AI.

okay. this is a big one. do you want to learn how to MERGE MODPACKS in penumbra so you can make ONE ESSENTIAL MODPACK FOR YOUR BLORBO THAT YOU CAN SEND TO YOUR FRIENDS? if so I wrote up a shitty guide real quick. if anything is unclear please let me know! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

With the sunsetting of Mare Synchronos, I just want to remind everyone that I love FFXIV and I am more than happy to draw your blorbos how you envision them, mods or not. I even recently opened an option for reference sheets! I am also running a sale right now! #ffxivart #ffxiv vgen.co/wysticlipse

hello. want to go back to the olden days of sharing modded characters. this is a shit ass guide for that purpose. hope it helps docs.google.com/document/d/1...

50% of fanbase: NOOO mare dead 50% of fanbase: YESS mare dead guy in your fc whos always running baldesion arsenal: running baldesion arsenal tonight guys

art parties and rp venues happened long before mare ever existed some of you are getting a little carried away with the doomer takes

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From the texttools discord. Spot on. Its okay to be upset about Mare but at the end of the day, we're breaking ToS by doing it and we only can because SE hasn't actively put effort into stopping it.

if this truly affects you to the point that you cannot stand ppl seeing an unmodded vers of you, you can take basic stuff (hair, etc) and slap it all in one ttmp and give it to people to put as penumbra collections you can also share c+ profiles

okay okay one more i promise the idea just kept giving me the giggles

Use those feelings to start creating. Start drawing, writing, editing how you envision your character. Commission an artist to draw them. Bring them to life. There is so many ways to express yourself - and it's fun! Just don't be a "vanilla sucks!" person. We've had enough of that.

may I offer two simple solutions to this whole moon ordeal: - commission an artist to draw how you envision your character; and/or - learn to draw how you envision your character. these two options will never be taken away from you. remember that.

Also this is incidentally exactly why I have always made my characters as close to vanilla as possible, even when modded. Even outfit mods are usually just vanilla mashups, with some occasional exceptions. Because I knew they could be pulled from us at any moment. It's almost impossible that

Also shout out to the vanilla players who send artists they commission either notes or drawings of details that aren't on the in-game model. ♥︎ I, for one, will always pour over those to ensure I do my best to make your character how you envision them despite game limitations

OPH MY GODDDDD WHY ARE YALL PUTTING BAD REVIEWS OVER THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YALL ARE SO STUPIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

ALSO ALSO: It’s not the end of the world that Mare is gone, we still have mods for self expression. BUT Some of y’all are out here being way too fucking happy about Mare going away and slut shaming people for being upset about losing it. And I need that rancid fucking energy to stop.

they're review bombing on steam

it's possible to respectfully mourn the loss of something & acknowledge the widespread negative impact the loss will have while also being frustrated about behaviors that might have contributed to it happening. these things can and SHOULD coexist tbh.

Mare EOS just opens the door for more devs out there to come up with solutions. Its up to the community however to decide how they treat that tool. Square told us time and time again to not talk about it- you should have seen this coming with how bold people been lately.

can we reaffirm our agreement that we DO NOT TALK ABOUT MODS/PLUGINS IN GAME. they're already looking the other way when it comes to people posting pictures on social media, can we please not provoke them

Welp, I lived way before Mare and I'm sure I'll live just fine without it. Give it a week before a new plugin will show up to replace it. It's not the end of the world.