TASTE MY LANCE!

TASTE MY LANCE!

mildly regretting joining a writer's discord because I am realizing that I'm just a kid scribbling with crayons as the cool adults around me have outlines and plot and characters and I'm over in the corner, on the floor, drawing stick figures

also applies to every other art form I am vaguely interested in. not good at anything, no patience to try

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

Lamp design by Carlo Nason (1969)

FFXIV Lore: Ishgard

Final Fantasy XIV Lore: Ishgard A Compilation and Roleplayer’s Resource. This document contains my interpretation of lore I have found relating to Ishgard and Coerthas in the video game Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, Stormblood, and affiliated materials. I compiled this informat...

BEHOLD: a 118-page compilation of (almost) every scrap of lore about Ishgard I could find – its social organization, history, religious beliefs, and culture.

Every piece of lore is sourced with a footnote in order to make it easy to look up – and to tell canon from my informed inferences and wild speculations. This makes the doc a little heavy and slow to load; my apologies! To look up a topic of interest, I recommend giving it a second to load, then using Ctrl+F to search.

Don’t feel shy about getting in touch with comments and corrections! If you have a question about Ishgard that isn’t answered in the doc…… I probably don’t know the answer, since I’ve put everything I know in there, but I’m always happy to theorize!