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for my entertainment

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine

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I always keep coming back to monk which was the first job I ever played. In HW I tried to be a machinist, ended back on monk, in shb I wanted to be a dancer, ended back on monk, in EW I wanted to be a reaper, ended back on monk, and now in DT I've been having fun on viper, but now I've eventually caved and gone back to monk.

It might be just a tumblr community thing, but I feel like everyone here are very attached to a certain job that they associate with their wol/oc

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listen, sometimes it's more powerful for a fictional relationship to be a friendship precisely because friendship is devalued in comparison to romance. anyone can sacrifice themself for the love of their life. but for a friend? if anything, that kind of devotion can be even more moving than if the relationship is romantic. there's a real dramatic power to prioritising friendship in your narratives sometimes.

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it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure it out but. the summoner bahamut/phoenix phases are the enhanced version of aethercharge, which works by siphoning ambient aether to charge the ruin spell... because both bahamut and phoenix made lasting changes to the greater eorzean environment, meaning summoners attune to the ambiant radiation. unlocking the summoner job in, say, hingashi or tural without ever setting foot in eorzea would be an interesting experiment (i guess the closest we've seen so far is valigarmanda? that would be a fun egi to summon). and similarly, solar bahamut is a mix of bahamut and phoenix engineered by the wol in a mad scientist moment, because we know there isn't space for another egi in their soul, so i imagine they kinda combined them to maximize both bahamut's destructive power and phoenix's restorative abilities, but this will likely be the last enhancement we see (except some minor tweaks, probably)

on a related note, i only realized recently that the white mage "thin air" spell (allowing the next spell to be cast without expending MP) works by "thinning air" (i.e siphoning ambient aether); i wonder if this works similarly for both summoners and white mages. and of course there are only 2 charges of thin air because while you could theoretically cast all your spells by drawing upon ambient aether, we know what consequences it had in the past, and the wol is explicitly granted their white mage jobstone for their restraint and will to respect natural balance & the ways of nature as a whole. so in my opinion this is a chosen, self-imposed limit, not a technical one

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if anyone makes you feel bad or stupid over something harmless that makes you happy you need to beat them with a hammer and then never speak to them again

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Best things for a ship to have or be:

Horny

Insane

Religious/spiritual themes

Obsession

Age gap

Doomed

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It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

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don't mind me i'm just obsessed with this glam

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he’s always like this

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The apple of her father's eye

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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Certified family disappointment accidentally outs himself while finally meeting with the first of multiple marriegeable girls his parents expect him to choose from. Everyone disappointed, but not surprised.

(The incident haunts Evan for years to come, even after his defection from Garlemald.)

Inspired by below:

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i like to think that when you queue up in duty finder, flyers go up at the adventurer’s guilds and it’s kind of ridiculous and people keep wanting to know just what the fuck your player character gets up to in his daily life

“HELP WANTED: three stout fighters up for adventure in an abandoned mansion. must not fear voidsent, demon-slaying experience a plus”

“LOOKING FOR WORK? i need a team of seven other adventurers to raid an empire fortress and murder one of their top-ranking generals. knowledge of Garlean technology preferred but not required”

“NEED SOME EXTRA GIL IN YOUR POCKETS? try taking on the Lord of Crags! eight brave souls needed to slay the Kobolds’ god, must be immune to tempering”

“THERE IS CURRENTLY A WARRANT FOR MY ARREST IN UL’DAH ON ALLEGATIONS OF REGICIDE. three budding adventurers needed to rescue a giant turtle because i need to practice my fisticuffs while i’m on the lam. pay’s not great but it’s easy work”

“DRAGONSLAYERS NEEDED! three stalwart companions needed to raid the Aery. highly experimental, barely-tested aircraft will be provided as transportation. high chance of running into Nidhogg and he’s gonna be pissed we’re even here so dragonslaying experience is preferred”

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would you like a nice glass of