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did a ton of upscales recently, to bibo and nino (the slightly smaller body variant that I maintain, it's basically bibo but with some shape differences), you can download them here!

I also updated Nino with some new sizes (including my personal KNiku medium chest sculpt I use) but if I include the preview pic then tumblr will yell at me about having women in their underwear on the screen. so just know that it also is something you can download.

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reblogged something on my main that has me thinking about how I personally write gender and sexuality in Ishgard (and to a lesser extent the rest of Eorzea) and I felt like yammering about it so.

the main impetus for me really thinking about and hammering it out in my brain is the sheer amount of Halonic church = Catholic church, and thus Ishgard is homophobic as hell, which felt reductive to me, so my take on it is that the Holy See doesn't give a shit who you sleep with as long as you are producing/raising heirs. the Dragonsong War has been going on for a thousand years, they always desperately need new soldiers. but at the same time, the tracing of bloodlines is absolutely important (presumably at least in part to prove that your bloodline is "pure" and free of Dravanian influence, which is extra funny when you know the truth about what happened to Ratatoskr) so you can't just go out and have babies with anyone. with that as a consideration, pre-marriage homosexual relationships are probably ENCOURAGED, at least for the upper class. can't dilute your family line if pregnancy isn't a concern.

there's no real textual basis that I can think of for institutional misogyny - women are allowed to fight, own property, head their own houses (house Valentione and the tiny baroness from the blacksmith quest being sadly our only real examples, so we don't really know if they practice male primogeniture or if it's just the oldest sibling, since the high houses are dominated by sons -_-) but the importance of reproducing and emphasis on marriage likely does lead to the lower percentages of women in the knighthoods. at the same time, adopting seems like an extremely respected and valid way of taking an heir (Aymeric, Heustienne, etc) and obviously there are a ton of war orphans in Ishgard. I think it likely there are a great number of marriages for political purposes only, that are "unable" to produce children, that adopt and co-parent while maintaining lovers of the same gender.

Gridania seems to have a similar emphasis on bloodlines as, if I remember right, they have an extensive system of nobility that we never see, plus the hyur families that typically produce padjals. Ul'dah is more focused on inheritance and the accumulation/control of wealth, so I imagine that manifests as requiring clear, legal lines of succession and extensive wills for any family of means. Limsa is probably the real "no one gives a fuck who you fuck" capital of Eorzea, which dovetails nicely with their general anarchic and individualistic spirit. family matters somewhat but not as much as your own accomplishments.

the only place I can think of as a true "daughters are passed over in favor of sons" example that indicates deeply ingrained misogyny is Garlemald, as the rank given to the emperor's eldest son (yae) is higher than that given to his younger sons or any daughters (wir). maybe that's something Emet-Selch added, but given the story's emphasis on "pureblood Garleans" and their general fascism I think it more likely that they've just always been like that.

obviously none of this is even getting into the unique situations of the asymmetrical birth rate races (miqo'te, viera, hrothgar) that necessitate their own unique cultural norms. frankly my biggest frustration with the hrothgar thus far is we have really only seen single pair nuclear families (GNB tutor talks about his wife, the trolley couple in two worlds, Wuk Lamat's birth family) as opposed to the interesting systems that the miqo'te and viera have on the other side of the spectrum, with male scarcity rather than female scarcity. where are the queens and their harems huh. ... anyway.

this was long and rambly BUT it's fun to think about a culture's history and primary motivations and how they affect people's roles in society.

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there she goes again

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Moon, tell me if I could send up my heart to you? 🌙✨

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I made a shirt and boots. I'm obsessed with them. also you can download them.

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Happy Pride from the Chorus!

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The combination of 'unnervingly flawless self-control' with 'occasional tendency to engage in reckless, dangerous, and borderline self-destructive or death-seeking behaviour' in a character is SUCH catnip to me

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the fall of night and the trail of dawn. (june 2025 > may 2024)

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The Parrock was unlike anything they've ever seen. An endless expanse of sky surrounded them at all sides; a sea of stars so close you could reach out your hand and touch them.

For the very first time since they left home, an unfamiliar feeling settled below their chest, right in their stomachs. The slow realization of that mysterious emotion caught them both unawares. The twins looked at each other, the silence hanging between them like stars in the endless night sky.

In that moment, in perfect synchronicity—they realized they could never go back.

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hi do you like romantic ruffles and tasteful cleavage? have I got a shirt for you.

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made a couple more mods. you can download them if you want.

roseblood coat

two-piece maxi

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swords and sorcery.

(paladin 2023 > red mage 2025)

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Occult Crescent: South Horn

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look ma, I remembered how to make mods. have a straight bang variant of my chunky braid, for the ladies. featuring the lovely @aethernoise modeling (and go see her page for the cute tunic in the pic!)

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𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢

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Mother, make me bird of prey So I can rise above this, let it fall away [x]

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Characters that are extremely honorable but extremely violent are always the hottest