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mirkemenagerie update

Lore Index

I’ve had my own lore compilations thread on the RPC for some time, and now I’m porting the Index over to @mirkemenagerie. So you will now be able to scroll through an itemized list of my lore posts here:

While still finding all lore-related reblogs under the Lore Tag here:

Hope you all like the changes!

Mirke’s Menagerie Lore Index

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Aether & Magic

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About Aether & Magic

Magical and Non-magical Healing Lore

Undead Lore, Ashkin and Necromancy

Voidsent Summoning Lore

Linkpearl Lore

The War of the Magi

Deities & Primals

Halone Lore

Menphina Lore

Thaliak Lore

Nymeia Lore

Llymlaen Lore

Oschon Lore

Byregot Lore

Rhalgr Lore

Azeyma Lore

Nald’thal Lore

Nophica Lore

Althyk Lore

Far Eastern Kami Lore

Mol’s Elder Gods Lore

Tempering Lore

Races of Man & Beastmen

Languages and Accents Lore

Spoken Terminology and Origin of Beastman Slur

Interracial and Inter-clan Heritage

Lalafell Lore

Viera Lore

Miqo’te Lore

Miqo’te Purring/Rolling R’s

Hellsguard and Roegadyn Lore

Highlander Lore

Xaela-Raen Relations

Hrothgar Lore

The Ashcrown Consortium

The Qiqirn

Guilds, Classes, & Jobs

Spiritbinding and Soul Crystal Lore with Links to Job Lore Compilations

Red Mage Lore

Bard Lore

Monk Lore

Black Magic Lore

Sultansworn and Paladin Lore

Dark Knight Lore

A Warrior’s Axe

Ul’dah, the Jewel of the Desert

Ul’dahn Law, Brass Blades, Stone Torches, and Immortal Flames Lore

Highbridge Executions?

The Order of Nald’thal

The Platinum Mirage and Pugilists’ Guild

Street Names and Districts in Ul'dah

Limsa Lominsa, the Navigator’s Veil

Lominsan Law, Yellowjacket, Cuda, Pirate, and Maelstrom Lore

Limsa Lominsa’s Government

Limsa’s Gun Control Laws

Arcanist & Mealvaan’s Gate Lore

Mistbeard Lore

Sastasha & Mistbeard Cove

Carvallain & Astalicia Lore

The Company of Heroes

Gridania, the Sylvan City-state

Gridanian Law, Wood Wailers, Gods’ Quiver, and Twin Adder Lore

Elementals, Conjury & Hearers, Hedge, Greenwrath, Wildling Lore

Padjal Lore

Tam-Tara Deepcroft

Mun-Tuy Beans

The Holy See of Ishgard

Ishgardian Heresy Lore

Dragon Blood Lore

Chocobo Lore

House Dzemael’s Roegadyn Knights

Sharlayan, the Old World

Nyunkrepf and Sharlayan’s Founding

Sharlayan Lore Compilation

Great Gubal Library Texts, Boy and the Dragon Gay Story

Saint Mocianne’s Arboretum

Ala Mhigo

Expanded Ala Mhigan Lore Part I: History and Culture of Ala Mhigo

Expanded Ala Mhigan Lore Part II: People of Ala Mhigo

Expanded Ala Mhigan Lore Part III: Common Misconceptions about Ala Mhigo

Garlemald

Sins of Garlemald: The Rise of an Empire

Sins of Garlemald: The Fall of an Empire

The Near East (Ilsabard & Thavnair)

The Near East and Thavnair Lore

The Far East (Othard & Hingashi)

The Kingdom of Dalmasca & the Royal City of Rabanastre

Far Eastern Geomancy

The Confederacy and the Ruby Tithe

Doma, Raen, Ninja Lore Compilation

Far Eastern Lalafell Lore

Far Eastern Miqo’te Lore

Ancient Allag

The Allagan Empire, Meteor Project, and Summoning

Meracydia, the Southern Continent

Meracydia Lore

Mamook, the New World

New World Lore

Miscellaneous

Levequest Lore

Fishing Lore

The Great Continents Map Labelled

Time Passage 4.0 - What year is it? 

Towns Changed by the Calamity

The Adventurers’ Guild & Eorzea’s Forty Saints

Commoners’ Opinions of Adventurers and the City-states

Commoners’ Opinions of Adventurers and the City-states Pt2

Airship, Ceruleum, Highwind Skyways, and Garlond Ironworks Lore

The Prophet Urianger & The Seventh Umbral Era

All Saints’ Wake

Starlight, Winters’ Knell, and Heavensturn Lore

Formal Education in Eorzea

Orphanages in Hydaelyn

Sex Workers, Pleasure Barges, Pillowhouses

Hydaelyn Alcohol List

Diseases in Hydaelyn

Drugs in Eorzea

Areas with Harsh Winters in Hydaelyn

Eorzean Map Poem by Roddard Ironheart

Eorzea’s Rivers Lore

Eorzean Explosives and Firesand Lore

Zer'maat Five Lore

Paissa Lore

Are Fantasias Canon?

PAX West 2017 Lore Panel Notes

2018 Las Vegas Fanfest Lore Panel Q&A

The First: Norvrandt

The Crystarium, Lakeland, and the Church of Light

Eulmore, Kholusia, Sin Eaters, and the Oracle of Light

Nabaath Areng, Amh Araeng, and Daedalus Stoneworks

Voeburt, Il Mheg, the Fae, and Titania

Ronka, Rak’tika Greatwood, and the Night’s Blessed

The Tempest, Amaurot, the Ancients, and Ascians

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Well this one's a blast from the past

Do not blame the Exile, you betrayed yourself.

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the three most dramatic hoes you will meet on your travels

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Not to mention the Greatest Sorcerer of Eld picks a completely magically-null people out of which to build said empire.

Emet-Selch complains abt suffering the indignity of having his robes wet bc of a shallow water on Elpis and then builds an entire city in the depths of the ocean. Then he complains abt the cold and builds an entire empire in the middle of antartica. Honestly what a dude.

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enemies to lovers midpoint prompts

as the request stated, that ‘i am trying really hard to keep hating you‘ phase, or what i like to call the reluctant friend stage. feel free to use :)

“i think we’re friends now.” “God, don’t say that.”

“everything is just a competition for you… isn’t it?” “isn’t it for you, too?”

“h—” “don’t talk to me.”

“i’d pay good money for you to admit you tolerate me.” “tolerate being the operative word.”

“why can’t you open up to me?” “why do you want me to?”

they’re so used to hating each other sometimes the snide remarks just slip out LMAO

like “should i get you something too?” “you can get out of my fa— woah, hehe. sorry.”

“you’re still on that?” “still on that..??? STILL ON THAT?????? I CANT STAND YOU???!!!(!;!”

a whispered moment between them ; “i’m trying so hard to hate you.” “why?”

they’re trying hard to hate each other then something happens (plot) and they’re stuck together which makes it ten times harder

“be honest with me.” “but why? why would i do that?”

“stop.” “stop what?” “being so kind to me.”

remember… they hated each other a couple chapters back. what changed? why did it change? who did it start to change in first?

the moment where your character asks themselves; “when did this nuisance become so important to me?”

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At my show, we were in the "punk is dad" section--all of us Olds who'd brought our kids to see this amazing bunch of nerds we remembered from some type of wayback, whether it was prehistoric or just crazy MTV years or even a little more recently. We were old enough to know to go to the bathrooms before the last song of the openers (and also old enough to have to, LOL), old enough to get beers if we wanted, and old enough to have played their albums over and over so many times that our kids knew the words, and when they played the deep cuts, SO MANY of our kids were SCREAMING ALONG right alongside us. We might have screamed those old lyrics in basements or to the radio or at Warped Tours or music festivals in mud and sticky summer sweat...but our kids heard them in car seats, or while playing legos, or maybe even watching a Disney movie here or there.

We were screaming those lyrics right along as a legacy to our next generation. To show them that grubby, stinky kids in vans and in basements and garages with heart and not much more than insane crazy love for being able to just TRY something that came from their hearts found other grubby, stinky kids in vans and basements WHO REMEMBERED and shouted that love right back.

I want my own grubby, stinky kids to not be afraid to take something they love and scream it out to find other grubby, stinky kids who want to love that same thing and scream it back.

there's this element of them playing deep cuts and b-sides and forgotten songs and the crowd yelling back every single word at them that screams: we love all of you. all the ugly parts, the deep parts, the forgotten parts, the parts you thought you couldn't trust us with? you can. we love all of it and all of you. you are loved.

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no reason, just wanna stare at patrick's legs forever (omaha 04.05.24)

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@earlgreytea68 in case you hadn't seen this...

as someone who experienced the fall out boy hiatus in real time i can't explain how magical it feels to witness everything about tourdust. not that they ever had bad blood between them even during the hiatus but there's something so special about seeing your four favorite artists make a conscious decision to go back to making art together, and not only survive the hiatus but thrive. to not just try to recapture the magic of before but to build something even better. to become better friends, the closest knit family, after being there for one another through unimaginable ups and downs. to clock how much every single special touch on this tour means to the fans and not say "ok, that's probably enough for now" but to raise the stakes and make the show better every single day. anyways fall out boy forever

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what if i cried

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Alternatively, Anonymous, the answer is simple: PARENT YOUR OWN FUCKING KIDS. Stop making strangers on the internet do it.

sorry if you've talked about it already, but what is it that makes KOSA's idea of online safety wrong? I don't know much about the bill, what does it intend to do?

What do you think is a good way to protect kids from things like online predators or just seeing things that they shouldn't be seeing? (By which I mean sex and graphic violence, things which you'd need to be 16+ to see in a movie theater so I think it makes sense to not want pre-teens to see it)

From stopkosa.com:

Why is KOSA a bad bill? KOSA uses two methods to “protect” kids, and both of them are awful. First, KOSA would incentivize social media platforms to erase content that could be deemed “inappropriate” for minors. The problem is: there is no consensus on what is inappropriate for minors. All across the country we are seeing how lawmakers are attacking young people’s access to gender affirming healthcare, sex education, birth control, and abortion. Online communities and resources that queer and trans youth depend on as lifelines should not be subject to the whims of the most rightwing extremist powers and we shouldn’t give them another tool to harm marginalized communities.  Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by expanding the use of age verification and parental monitoring tools. Not only are these tools needlessly invasive, they’re a massive safety risk for young people who could be trying to escape domestic violence and abuse.

I’ve heard there’s a new version of KOSA. What’s the deal? The new version of KOSA makes some good changes: narrowing the ability of rightwing attorneys general to weaponize KOSA to target content they don’t like and limiting the problematic “duty of care. However, because the bill is still not content neutral, KOSA still invites the harms that civil rights advocates have warned about. As LGBTQ and reproductive rights groups have said for months, the fundamental problem with KOSA is that its “duty of care” covers content specific aspects of content recommendation systems, and the new changes fail to address that. In fact, personalized recommendation systems are explicitly listed under the definition of a design feature covered by the duty of care in the new version. This means that a future Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could still use KOSA to pressure platforms into automated filtering of important, but controversial topics like LGBTQ issues and abortion, by claiming that algorithmically recommending such content “causes” mental health outcomes that are covered by the duty of care like anxiety and depression. Bans on inclusive books, abortion, and gender affirming healthcare have been passed on exactly that kind of rhetoric in many states recently. And we know that already existing content filtering systems impact content from marginalized creators exponentially more, resulting in discrimination and censorship. It’s also important to remember that algorithmic recommendation includes, for example, showing a user a post from a friend that they follow, since most platforms do not show all users all posts, but curate them in some way. As long as KOSA’s duty of care isn’t content neutral, platforms will be likely to react the same way that they did to the broad liability imposed by SESTA/FOSTA: by engaging in aggressive filtering and suppression of important, and in some cases lifesaving, content.

Why it's bad:

The way it's written (even after being changed, which the website also goes over), it is still possible for this law to be used to restrict things like queer content, discussion of reproductive rights and resources, and sexual education.

It will restrict youth's ability to use the Internet independently, essentially cutting off life support to many vulnerable people who rely on the Internet to learn that they are queer, being abused, disabled, etc.

Better alternatives:

Stop relying on ageist ideas of purity and innocence. When we focus on protecting the "purity" of youth, we dehumanize them and it becomes more about soothing adult anxieties than actually improving the lives of children.

Making sure content (sexual, violent, etc.) is marked/tagged and made avoidable for anyone who doesn't want to engage with it.

Teach children why certain things may be upsetting and how best to avoid those things.

Teach children how to recognize grooming and abuse and empower them to stop it themselves.

Teach children how to recognize fear, discomfort, trauma, and how to cope with those experiences.

The Internet makes a great boogeyman. But the idea that it is uniquely corrupting the Pure Innocent Youth relies on the idea that all children are middle-class suburban White kids from otherwise happy homes. What about the children who see police brutality on their front lawns, against their family members? How are we protecting them from being traumatized? Or children who are seeing and experiencing physical and sexual violence in their own homes, by the parents who prevent them from realizing what's happening by restricting their Internet usage? How does strengthening parent's rights stop those kids from being groomed? Or the kids who grow up in evangelical Christian homes and are given graphic descriptions of the horrors of the Apocalypse and told if they ever question their parents, they'll be left behind?

Children live in the same world we do. There are children who are already intimately aware of violence and "adult" topics because of their lived experiences. Actually protecting children means being concerned about THEIR human rights, it means empowering them to save themselves, it means giving them the tools to understand their own feelings and traumas. KOSA is just another in a long line of attempts to "save the children!" by dehumanizing them and giving more power to the people most likely to abuse them. We need to stop trying to protect children's "innocence" and appreciate that children are already growing, changing people, learning to deal with discomfort and pain and the weight of the world the same as everyone else. What people often think keeps kids safe really just keeps them ignorant and quiet.

Another explanation as to why it's bad:

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to you (unfinished, off the top of my head)

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Spoilers for ARR, Endwalker, Shadowbringers and the new short story Days Gone By, Days Yet to Come (but only vaguely)

Replaying ARR as I am wont to do, I thought about how the three unsundered went about trying to cause the next rejoining and how their ascian forms are a sort of twisted mirror image of what we learn is their duty/purpose in Elpis. Their passions? The dark side of it, if you will.

Lahabrea taught the peoples of Eorzea the art of summoning, aka creation magic - the very thing he was tasked to guard in Pandæmonium and that led to his personality split and subsequent rather gruesome divorce from his ex-wife.

Then there's Elidibus whose main focus is to create heroes, protectors - he appeals to their hearts (and him being the heart of Zodiark) sends them forth to protect their people against whatever villain he creates for them and to sacrifice themselves in the process. Like he sacrificed himself.

Then there's Emet Selch who creates empires. Who travels. Who, to his own admittance, does exactly what Azem used to do; he tries to get to know the people, become one of them, only to fail miserably time and again and that fuels his hatred. Knowing who Hades used to be, why did he try so incredibly hard to become more like Azem?

Much later: So I found this text in my drafts from ages ago and after having read Days Gone By, Days Yet To Come I got my answer didn't I? The fuck Creative Business Unit III, do you do this to me for? Why does it fit together in a way that hurts so much?

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The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.

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I'm going to start this post off by saying that I write fic, and I know the pain of putting something out there and not getting a response. It sucks and it hurts and it puts a dent in my self-confidence. If I have the choice between posting a work on AO3 and getting only comments or posting a work on AO3 and getting only kudos, I'll probably choose comments let's say 8 times out of 10.

But with that in mind, posts that attempt to shame or guilt readers into commenting don't actually work.

Negative reinforcement (in the form of shame, guilt, or other worse emotions) doesn't make anyone want to do the thing. It just makes them want to avoid the guilt, etc. Rather than encouraging someone to talk to you about your writing, you're making that person want to avoid you so that they don't have to feel bad. That's just human nature.

I've said before that I think a lot of writers are looking for community rather than comments, and I still think that's true. The reason I love both writing and receiving comments is because it makes me feel like I've made a connection with someone. I may never know their real name or what they look like or where they live or anything else but what fandom we have in common, but we've reached out to each other in this text-based medium and we've shared words that made each other feel something.

I know that these posts are written out of frustration or loneliness or needing support or a hundred other reasons I could list off the top of my head. But when I read "you should be grateful for the things I give you and show me proper appreciation" it just reminds me of my parents telling me to clean my room or to follow the rules while I live under their roof.

It's so much more vulnerable to admit, "I don't know if this story is any good and I really wish someone would reassure me right now."

It's much harder to say, "I feel so alone in this fandom, and I want to make friends with someone."

It's difficult to admit, "I worked so hard on this for so long and I'm so tired, but if someone out there likes it then all of that effort will be worthwhile - and if no one says anything, then I'll feel like my effort was wasted."

I'm not trying to shame the people who made those posts, and if that's how this comes across then I'm sorry. I'm just trying to explain why I think those posts will harm more than they help.

I also hope that any readers who see this post will understand that those writers are just people who are feeling a lot of different ways, and they're venting their frustrations. I've been there. I've reblogged those posts before when I was feeling frustrated like that too.

If you're able to comment, those comments are appreciated. If you're not able to comment (for whatever reason), that's okay too. ❤️

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Big fan of characters realizing they don't get to die. They have to live. And grow. And be a person. And deal with shit they thought they'd never have to. And be fucked up about it. I would like more of this. Enough dying for honor or as redemption. It ain't. You're just a corpse. There is no moral value in dirt time.