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In the dark of night, Alys finds her bar graced by one more patron...

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From atop Eulmore, Chai-Nuzz mulls about... well, really, nothing of substance at all.

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Unmute !

something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

going absolutely bonkers over how much this reddit thread is making me rethink lore

there are a LOT of things that make a LOT more sense when you separate "life force" into a third thing besides soul and memory. i still need time to process all of them. and i have questions about individual scenes/events still, like i want a list of times 生命力 was used in JP but life force wasn't in EN. but holy shit.

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Alone, Ardbert wanders a dying world...

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Random cruelty will always set Yen off, she's just seen too much of it. Runner-up is definitely people who wield their booksmarts like a cudgel, which means her and Y'shtola have had a tumultuous relationship for a while.

It's not that people can't be smarter than her; Yen has long accepted that she'll never be as educated as people who had access to it since childhood, and one of her closest friends was the wickedly smart Papalymo. It's more the arrogance, the assumption that she's some kind of child that needs to be guided along, that gets her goat.

But yeah, if someone is just being cruel, Yen won't resist the urge to intervene if she feels like she can.

9/21/24

What is something that quickly gets under your wol(oc)'s skin? or quickly irritates them?

SPOTTED:

GARY BUSTER HOLMES

THE OBATARIAN

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carbungle time

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Fordola, long before becoming leader of the Skulls, fights for the honor of being noticed...

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Day 2 - Horizons

(Written for @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast 's FFXIVWrite)

"Ama! Ama!" A red headed miqo'te toddled across the sands, chased by his mother.

"Aaaaand scoop!" The toddler giggled as his mother scooped him up, spinning him as he kicked his feet happily.

"A!" The toddler pointed towards the hill he'd been slowly making his way up and his mother obediently carried him, making her way towards the child's goal.

"There you are, Velore, is this what you wanted to see?"

Velore gasped happily, eyes sparkling as he looked out over the edge of the cliff.

The hill sloped away sharply, dirt and rocks giving way to greener shrub grasses and brush, down towards the beaches and the glittering green waters of the sound, stretching away to deep blue to where it met the horizon.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" His mother asked the stunned toddler. The child looked up at her, eyes as wide as dinner plates before looking back out over the water and pointing emphatically. "You want to go there?" His mother laughed "Not today, love, but one day. One day you'll cross that horizon...."

~~~

Waves splashed across the bow of the sailing vessel, the salt spraying across the smiling face of the red haired miqo'te as she looked over the waves.

"See it yet, A'rhya?" her mother asked, leaning against the railing of the fo'c'sle and looking out.

*'Not yet, but soon,'* she signed in return, eyes flicking across the horizon as she watched.

"Its quite a change, but hopefully it'll be the last for a while. Once we find somewhere to live we can finally stop living out of trunks."

*'It will be nice to find some stability,'* A'rhya signed slowly, hands half hidden from her mother as she thought back over the past months and the constant refugee villages.

*LAND HO!*

A'rhya's ears perked straight up at the hrothgar's gruff voice, eyes straining to find..... there!

Just visible as a bump over the water, the towers of Limsa Lominsa rose over the horizon, already imagined in A'rhya's minds eye. The pirate haven turned mercantile city state from the adventure stories of her teenage years. The throngs of merchants, ruffians, and adventurers crowding the towers and bridges. She smiled, imagining herself fighting pirates with her spell book in one hand, a floppy hat over her ears.

"Well my eyes arent good enough to spot it, but hopefully its not too much longer now then," her mother said, turning from the expanse to head back below deck.

*'A new home... Not much longer now,'* Arhya signed to herself as her eyes fixed on the slowly growing dot on the horizon.

~~~

A'rhya shifted the scarf over her mouth to better shield herself from the bite of the wind as she looked out into the snowy expanse before her.

"Well, its certainly a change, isnt it?" The white-haired girl beside her said, rubbing her hands together

*'Warm sands for icy snow. Not my favorite, but it will do,'* A'rhya signed back, her fingers fumbling over her words through the thick gloves.

She and Alisae looked over the rampart of the castle that was Ishgard, watching as a seemingly endless grey snowstorm swallowed the horizon over western Coerthas.

"Bloody idiot of a brother, getting us into this mess.. He needs to think his plans through better," Alisae sighed, cutting herself off. "They're ready at the manor, I think. Lord Fortemps wanted to speak to us."

A'rhya nodded as her companion turned, trudging back over the snowy cobblestones to the manor. A'rhya gave one last look towards the grey and stormy horizon before turning to follow

~~~

A'rhya sheathed her rapier, clipping her focus to her belt as she stepped onto the walls of Porta Praetoria.

The captured Garlean stronghold sat behind her as she gazed over the expanse of the lochs up to where the Ala Mhigo Palace sat at the horizon, the glimmering palace from her childhood almost mocking her, just as opulent under Garlean control as it had been before the Mad King was overthrown.

Soon it would be free of their grasp, the new center of government for a free Ala Mhigo. She turned her gaze down to where alliance soldiers were hard at work fortifying the newly captured staging point, readying themselves to rebuff any Garlean counterattack. She took a last gaze over the horizon before turning to head down the steps to assist in any way she could...

~~~

The air even smelled different here, A'rhya realized as she sat at the edge of the balcony. Even something as little as that being different surprised her as she gazed out over the strange new world she found herself in.

A purple canopy of trees spread out towards the horizon ahead of her as she gazed out over Lakeland. The landscape felt achingly familiar to her, the rolling hills reminding her so nearly of the Shroud back in her home world. She sighed, remembering simpler times, before Scions, and reflections, and Warriors of Darkness..

She turned and gazed up at the monument of softly glimmering blue crystal, a lone point of near normalcy in this strange land.

She thought back to the Exarch- yet another thing that seemed achingly familiar, but somehow Not- and his explanations of the world of the First, and all of the others beside it.

She slowly pushed herself to her feet to find the chocob- amaro roost. She was to leave for a place called Amh Arang to find Alisae soon and she could hardly wait to see a familiar face. She gave the unending harshness of the horizon a final look before turning to the mercifully dimmer interior of the Crystal Tower to head down from the balcony

~~~

A'rhya sank to her knees, holding her head as tears streaked her cheeks. She sobbed in the dark dirt of the strange floating island, gazing out over the abyss.

Before her stretched the strange kaleidoscope of colours of space, stretching out to the horizons in every direction. The only break the pale, glowing staircase stretching before her. Her eyes followed it up, the path her friends- her love had bought for her so dearly as it stretched to the planet hanging abover her.

She brushed tears fron her eyes and the dirt crunched under her feet as she stood slowly.

She gritted her teeth and put a foot on the glowing staircase and began to ascend. Her hands found her sword and her shield and drew them, ready as she walked onward to the end...

~~~

Waves splashed across the bow of the sailing vessel, the salt spraying across the soft smile of the red haired miqo'te as she looked over the waves.

"We're nearly there, love," Mersi said, smiling at her side.

*'Nearly,'* A'rhya signed back as best she could, hampered by the sling across her chest.

"Are you ready to see it?" Mersi asked her, resting her head against A'rhya's shoulder

A'rhya looked down at her love and kissed her on the head before looking down at the tiny white-haired miqo'te in her sling. She smiled fondly and looked back up to the horizon

*'Whatever comes across our horizon, we'll face it together'*

gpose trick that i've never seen anyone mention!

maybe it's common knowledge, but maybe not, and i figured it out independently so i'm gonna share!!!

we've got these emotes like /vexed, that come with these extra visual effects, right? and they're very nice visual effects. but maybe they're not what you're going for. unfortunately, if you pause motion, it pauses too, and you can't get a clean shot without it.

but!!!!!!! if you use the deep freeze effect, the extra visual effects don't freeze. so you can wait it out for a couple seconds, unfreeze yourself, and voila!

pause motion and you've got a clean shot!

other emotes i can confirm it works with (i'm sure there are even more) include /consider, /wow, /frighten, /gratuity, /allsaintscharm, and /loveheart !!!

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Beneath the lake he called home, The Writer finds a port to which he's never been - Limsa Lominsa.

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(I promise there will be a makeup for yesterday this weekend <3)

Hello and welcome to A'rhya Writes! A little bit about me:

A'rhya Velorë, Warrior of Light

Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te

Astrologian and Paladin main, but I play most jobs! (<- Terminal omnicrafter [affectionate] )

Data Center Primal, Server Behemoth

I've been playing since just before Endwalker dropped and finally caught up to MSQ just as Dawntrail was gearing up to drop. Ive been writing snippets for nearly that long, even more since my beautiful wife @mersi-kokhavasheva started playing and I could smoosh our WoLs together like dolls.

I'm planning to post original writing and screenshots here, as well as hopefully taking commissions eventually! Please send me asks and interact so I can get to know the community!

B-but...

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Before becoming commander of Camp Dragonhead, Haurchefant rides into battle...

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Before the Calamity, a future airship captain competes to find promotion in Limsa Lominsa's Armada...

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Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

Post for today's (er, yesterday's, really) ffxiv write will be slightly delayed as AO3 is down and I can't upload anything ;-;

Soon, promise!

When I came out as transgender to my family, both of my parents admitted to something along the lines of "I always had a feeling". And I wish that, instead of just accepting it as a sign that I 'really was' a woman, that I'd asked them a question, "Why was I seemingly the only person who didn't know?"

"Why did nobody think to tell me that was possible? Why did nobody think to ask me if that was something I wanted? Why was I just left to figure it out on my own, left alone for so long that I was forced to go through so many changes that I never wanted, before I realized?"

Realistically speaking, I completely understand -- I get it, I really do. "What if she wasn't actually trans?". How could they know, unless I came out and told them myself? If I felt like was transgender, at the age of 5, surely I would just tell them "I am transgender", so that they could know for sure before helping me with that feeling. Of course it would've been so embarrassing for them, to bring up the idea of transition to a young boy who dresses up in his sisters' clothes, because "How can we know that he wants to be a girl?". How could they have been sure that it was the right choice? How could they have know whether or not 4-year-old me, saying "I'm a girl sewn up in a boy-suit", actually meant I felt like I should've been a girl? How could they have known that me spending the first roughly 7 years of my life wishing out-loud that I could've been a girl -- that it mean I actually wanted to be one, for real?

I understand. It would've been so uncomfortable for them to have a conversation with me about what being transgender was, at that age. Really, it was my fault. I didn't actually say "I am transgender", when I was 4 or 5 or 6 years old. Surely I could've just known that term and what it meant and that it existed, without anybody every having spoken to me about it before. Surely if it were a phase, then I'd just eventually stop talking about it, right? All they had to do was wait. Surely most children's 'phases' last for nearly 10 years, right?

I'm sure they felt like they'd made the right choice, in letting me decide to bring it up for myself. I'm sure they felt like they made the right choice, not to 'influence' my decision by telling me that sometimes boys do become girls, and putting 'ideas' in my head. I'm sure they felt so proud of me, when I actually did finally come out more than 10 years later. Not even a full year after I got a therapist -- for entirely unrelated reasons -- who was the first person in my entire life to even suggest to me that I COULD be a girl, if I wanted to. I remember telling her, the first time she brought it up, "I don't think I'm transgender," I said, "I've never felt like I wanted to be a girl before.". My parents had nothing to say, when I told them about this.

"Thank goodness she finally figured it out," I'm sure they thought, after I did finally come out, "we were wondering when it would finally happen, and were beginning to think that she might never figure it out! Thank goodness for her therapist, for helping her work through those feelings with her -- thank goodness for her therapist, so that WE didn't have to do it ourselves."

I'm sure they felt very supportive, when they thought that.