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I MOVED TO A NEW BLOG FOR MY FFXIV WRITING, RP AND GPOSES @mainscenarioquest

Please follow me over there!

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Uncensored and uncropped on my BSky! I'm beginning to post the lewds and nudes there that I can't post on Tumblr without massively cropping or censoring them. Yes, I'll probably even pose sex stuff, who cares at this point.

They/them for Sage please!

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I think it's been like six months since I did one of these, so...

Hey, if you're an xiv blog in some capacity (whether art, gposing, roleplaying, etc), please reblog this post with a short description about you/your ocs either in the tags or below this post! I like to put feelers out every couple of months to capture people who are active/new to the space for people to connect with each other. ✨

I can start. Hi! My name is Sea. I'm a jack-of-all trades gposer, writer and roleplayer, with far too many oc's.

You might know me from my various projects including, but not limited to: Sea's Community Compendium (with updates posted here); Sea's Character Questions, including my single-word fic drive; and The Fireside! I'm also an officer of Firelight Trading Company <FTC> on Balmung and run a casual Tumblr Community / Discord over at SEAFLOOR!

I also have a permanent interaction call you can like here for any dash games! I love chatting to people in the community when work and IRL allows.

Thanks for reading this far, have a great day. 🐋

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forever ping-ponging between 'I GOTTA JUST DO CONTENT AND NEVER RP OR WRITE FOR FFXIV AGAIN IN CASE I GET IGNORED AGAIN LOL' and 'I'M GONNA WRITE AND GPOSE SO MUCH FFXIV PORN AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME LOL'

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Oberon is very openly formerly promiscuous. He goes to bars and clubs and dances and gets involved in debauchery despite being in a relationship. He self-refers to himself as a queer faggot, which a lot of terminally online queers clutch their pearls about when I do it IRL so...

He's also trans which, lbr, makes some people hate him immediately anyway. Oberon tends to lean 'fem' despite being afab and trans masc, and hates the binary nature of gender. I guess that could be considered bad by some folks who want a clear cut binary??

Obie also hates making nice with people who wish him and other trans and queer people ill. He won't hesitate to fuck up someone's shit because they were anti-trans or racist or otherwise a bigot, whereas a lot of people think that us LGBTQIAP+ folks should 'play nicely' with those kind of people. Neither me nor Oberon believe that.

This was a fun question to think about, thanks OP!

Asked this in the gc, now asking ffxiv tumblr to celebrate pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

What is your WoL going to Bad Queer Rep Jail for? 🎤

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you may think ffxiv is an mmorpg but actually if you play a squishy dps in occult crescent you can experience a survival horror game instead

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Advanced searching on xiv.quest!

Using this Firefox extension!

My FFXIV script site works great if you already know exactly what you're looking for, but here's a solution for if you want to find something a little more vague. For example, the search in the screenshot says "find any time anyone except Urianger says "thou."

If you're familiar with regular expressions, this'll be pretty self-explanatory. If you're not, I'm putting a crash course under the cut to help you use this extension on the site!

Here's a basic setup for any and all searches you'll want to do:

Make sure all checkboxes are ticked (case sensitivity optional).

Put ^.* at the beginning of your expression (where it says "Type Regex here") to say "I want to see everything from the beginning of the line to my result!"

Put .*$ at the end of your expression to say "I want to see everything from my result to the end of the line!"

Type $0\n\n in the "custom template" field to put a line break in between results.

With that, you can start doing basic searches:

...but to do more complicated stuff is a little more work. Here's a small list of searches I've used myself — the useful ones written out below for those who don't want to leave Tumblr or if the link breaks, but this link to Google sheets is easier to read.

To find a specific character saying a specific word:

Format: Name:.*word

Example search: ^.*Zenos yae Galvus:.*beast.*$

Example result: Zenos yae Galvus: Man should fight for the joy of it. To live, to eat, to breed─lesser beasts snap and howl at one another for this. Only man has the wisdom and the clarity to embrace violence for its own sake.

To find a specific word said by anyone except a specific character:

Format: (?<!Name):.*word

Example search: ^.*(?<!Urianger):.*\bthou\b.*$

Example result: Ifrit: Thou art strong, mortal!

Note: Note the \b in the example search! It's not mandatory, but is very helpful in this particular case. It marks a "word boundary," so that you get results for "thou" but not for "thoughts" or "without" (basically like the "Whole Words" option in regular Ctrl+F). You can use this whenever/wherever it's helpful. Like it's not used in the above example with Zenos because I wanted it to return the plural "beasts."

To find anything said by a specific character or any of their aliases:

Format: Name\)?:

Example search: ^.*Vrtra\)?:.*$

Example result: Varshahn (Vrtra): That is all I need know of thee for now.

Note: You have to have the "Show real names" option enabled on the website for this to work!

To find any two words used in the same line:

Format: (?=.*\bword1\b)(?=.*\bword2\b)

Example search: ^.*(?=.*\bFeo Ul\b)(?=.*\bthey\b).*$

Example result: G'raha Tia: By the way, have you spoken with Feo Ul of late? Some days ago, they appeared to me in a dream─of the sleeping persuasion, that is.

Note: This looks so complicated because it will find the words in either order! Putting "they" before "Feo Ul" would work exactly the same.

You can keep these examples as templates to use for yourself without having to understand how they work by using the extension's built-in Profiles, and just swapping in the words you want to search:

...but the possibilities really open up if you want to learn how they work! You can combine the above examples in different ways and built your own profiles. I have other tabs in the Google Sheet linked above for learning how to use regex, and the Firefox extension itself includes a cheat sheet under the "Help" button which is super useful!

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I'm answering this here rather than in tags cos it'll be long.

I've always used my MMO characters to explore gender and sexuality stuff. Since I started playing FFXIV over 10 years ago now, I've had male, female, nonbinary characters, but as a trans man myself I keep coming back to the dudes.

Whether they're fem model or masc model, a lot of my OCs are male or masculine in some way. Since I realised I am trans it's become an important part of my self exploration, along with shipping and fandom in general, (so not just FFXIV tbh!)

As for my main characters, I have 8 of them that I cycle through with fantasia (and glamourer settings when I can't afford to fantasia lol). They're all 'aspects' of Azem, splintered shards off from the being themselves, all on Hydaelyn/Eitherys. They're drawn together by an inexplicable bond, and are collectively my Warriors of Light.

They range from trans feminine to cis man, and everything in between. The idea is that they embody different facets, or aspects, of a whole u sundered being. So they all have quirks and likes and dislikes and of course gender and sexuality play into that, because I love writing smut and erotica and doing saucy things with my OCs, and I'm not ashamed of that, though I'm sure some people might say I should be!

My main OC, Oberon, has recently been changed to use the masc model because the female model using the Muse mod wasn't doing it for me anymore and just made me feel dysphoric in its own way - but he's still just Oberon! He's gone through a lot of names and iterations and races and genders but I think I'm where I'm comfy now - he's trans masculine and queer. Playing characters who ID similarly to myself has helped me OOC a lot to come to terms with who I am tbh.

I love my little queer Full Party of characters. One day I'll finish up their intros and post about them more here, haha.

I have a pride-themed WoLQoTD. :)

What does your character(s) gender/sexuality mean to you in the context of their stories and how you perceive them? Have they helped you come to terms with your own gender/sexuality, or let you explore a facet of it that you may not have done otherwise? Has your character's gender/sexuality changed over the course of their story or as a direct result of your own discoveries around your own identity?

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Searching for FFXIV artists with open character portrait/half body/bust/anything along those lines commissions who can draw my Viera lad for me! I'm bad at finding artists tbh. Bonus points if you have a fun colourful style, or something a little bit unusual maybe? I'm v much up for experimental styles and such.

Please reblog or reply or DM me! You can also reach me on Discord at werehounded if preferred.

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I also changed my url here cos somehow this wasn't taken???

Aspectsofazem -> mainscenarioquest

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Bagged an excellent cheap domain so now my lewd bsky account is here!

I'll start posting on it soonish!

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I made a lewdy/nudey FFXIV BSky cos I miss posing spicy stuff and I don't write enough accompaniment to always put them on AO3. So. Bluesky it is!

Same username as here but with the usual suffix of bsky.social

DMs are open over there, but behave yourselves.

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I made a lewdy/nudey FFXIV BSky cos I miss posing spicy stuff and I don't write enough accompaniment to always put them on AO3. So. Bluesky it is!

Same username as here but with the usual suffix of bsky.social

DMs are open over there, but behave yourselves.

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YOU!! YES, YOU!! GO WRITE THAT FANFIC YOU THINK NOBODY BUT YOU WILL READ!!

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I keep reblogging to the wrong blog again. If you saw me chronic illness posting no you didn't.

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Dancing Green 🕺🐰💚🕶️

He's called "Springhis Khan" in the German localization and I'm a little obsessed 😂