Doing more roleplay of late, some of that involves slow-walking or just existing in those ARR and Heavensward zones and enjoying the ambiance and it's genuinely magical. We've seen it for years so it's easy to be sorta desensitized, but this game is genuinely, truly beautiful.

Alisaie Leveilleur | Scion of the Seventh Dawn ____________ The red twin! #ffxivart

Hey followers! I’m putting out a call. I am currently working on putting together a primer on the discipline of Arcanima in FFXIV, a guide for lorehounds and roleplayers. I’m already using Mirke’s Menagerie and the Encyclopedia Eorzea to pull from. Does anyone have any other resources?

🌿🌿🌿 [ #bloodmoonmods ]

being obsessed with your friends oc is the best ever. its like loving canon characters but you have a direct line to the author.

A close tie between Painted Skies and Drowning in the Horizon. Both pieces have such a sense of place that fit their environments extremely well and highlight both the vastness and grandeur of their respective locales and the lives of the people that call it home.

nice simulacrum bro

Today, I learned that my partners had been conspiring together to get me an upgraded PC - something I have needed for a good while, but had to put off to pay for my hearing aids instead. I am verklempt. I feel lucky and so loved.

>:3 Bloody G'raha... BLOODY G'RAHA WOOOOO!!!

Aside from the obvious applications of healing magic for a good ol' "you're done when I say you're done," I like to think that somanoutics has the potential for some very targeted pain play.

More and more I see people say "it's ONLY used for translation" when it comes to genAI in games. As if the act of writing into another language is not worth respecting. As if people in other countries (both gamers and workers) don't matter at all. Translation IS writing. Translation IS art.

Prishe and Alxaal! [ #ffxiv #ffxi #prishe #alxaal #joyeart ]

My first published fic from a few months back has reached an important milestone.

I don’t know what’s going on but I had THREE cases of shingles at work today. Tell your eligible family members to get their shongles shit.

Gonna pipe up again that if you went to FanFest and want more of that gathering of community, or you couldn’t attend and feel FOMO about it, please consider attending GATEway FATE in October! gatewayfate.carrd.co

The idea that the WoL is a god killing invasive species is funnier if you play as a Miqo'te or Hrothgar. Like yes, my cat roams outdoors and sometimes brings me dead Gods as a gift and likely fucked up the local ecosystem

Alright friends and folks, as requested a thread on various "Norse" symbols (and other potential misrepresentations), with a focus on where they are from and if they were co-opted. First! The Valknut.

HEY FRIENDS! your local pagan here to add into this! Because fuck white supremacists and fuck Nazis! WATCH OUT FOR THESE THINGS!! I will transcribe the info in a thread below when I am at my PC but tl:dr; Fuck Odinists and Folkish! It's Allfather not some-father!!

This is from a panel on writing lyrics for game music. In an official Square Enix panel

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

🫶🏻 happy saturday nerds 🫶🏻

Roll out the ship manifestos and dust off your "hear me out"s: Rarepair Week is back for its fourth year! As with previous years, you have a choice of two words for each day. Pick whichever one speaks to you more, or do both if you feel so moved! #XIVRarepairWeek #XIVRarepairWeek2026

Been thinking about the use of imagination in video games lately, or how I feel there are few and increasingly fewer games that ask the player to use their imagination to engage with them. This post Kazuya Niinou wrote to accompany Etrian Odyssey often comes to mind so I decided to remake it.

my favorite lizard pairing #ff14 #ffxiv

I was wearing my new hearing aids last night under my headset when I arrived in Rak'tika on my Shadowbringers replay, and I don't think I had ever really noticed before what a richly layered track Civilizations is. I always liked it, but holy shit? It's not just lahee, y'all. I was missing so much.

Am I making hyper-specific memes just for myself to cope with my feelings about getting my first pair of hearing aids tomorrow? Yes.

Rain'li is a transgender man! <3

happy #transdayofvisibility 🏳️‍⚧️ my name is mimi and i'm a disabled gay trans male artist who loves my silly guys. i draw trans men in a 'nontraditional' manner because it gives me gender euphoria to be seen and desirable the way i am. 💖 my kofi if you'd like to send tips! ko-fi.com/heirakka

Florists in Gridania:

[been in the expac for practically 5 minutes] when does he go freakmode im sick of waiting

#marchofxiv Lyse 🧡

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Earlier in his adventuring days, Rain'li was in a relationship with Tahla Molkoh, a sidequest NPC from Stormblood aether current unlocks and, later, the Ananta quests. I've written two fics about the two of them so far! archiveofourown.org/works/75044226 archiveofourown.org/works/76435216

Banging my drum about LRP. Go read some excellent Gridania worldbuilding and one of my favorite depictions of Foulques.

Finally got a new chapter for this out, mainly focusing on the day of Greenbliss itself, the reappearance of Foulques and the setup for the rest of Sahri's journey. I did a lot of research for this one to try to flesh out the Greenbliss holiday, hope you enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/794592...

When I was a newbie healer, I queued into Aurum and said “I’ve never healed here, please bear with me” And the tank simply said “I’ve never known fear” and did the cleanest run I’ve ever seen It was magical. I miss your tanky cradle arms, stranger

I suppose an upside is that the type of hearing loss I have is referred to as "cookie bite" hearing loss, because on an audiogram it looks like someone took a bite out of where the mid-range frequency hearing is supposed to be. So at least I have a type with a cute name?

Found out definitively today that I have moderate hearing loss. While I'm processing what this means for me, if you wanted to send your WoLs and/or your pets that would be nice. Or even some words of wisdom if (ONLY if) you should happen to have relevant lived experience.

It's here! It's here! Presenting version 1.0 of "The food and drink of Hydaelyn and beyon", a culinary compendium of FFXIV's food- and drink-related lore, to use, elaborate on, or ignore as you please. I can't wait to see what you all do with this. Happy cooking!

I've been slowly working my way through Shadowbringers again and I just reached the explanation of the Minfilias. And because I had somewhat recently rewatched Buffy, I couldn't help but think about how similar the Slayers and the Minfilias are. Young women destined to fight - and die.

Celestial opposition 💫 #FFXIV

This zine was born out of the desire to fight queer art censorship. We even got a Kickstarter warning that exposed breasts (non-sexual, same you’d see in any art museum!) makes our project ‘at risk adult content.’ It’s so important that we fund so we can keep creating uncensored print projects!

you have to #art #ffxiv

And here is B'alith's pack so you can find even more great writers to read, follow, and support! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Ok I've been a lil absent but getting back to it so FANFIC FRIENDOS I'm always looking for more people to add to my fanfic peeps pack, to go alongside B'alith's pack (I'll link below) If you wanna be added, give me a shout! And RT this too so more fanfic peeps see it ;) go.bsky.app/N7dC5cV