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I am holding a double Shadowbringers artwork minions giveaway!!

Hiya! I'm Nocti! I draw! And today i'll be giving away a wind up Runar and a wind up Dulia Chai to my audience! Why, you ask? Three simple reasons!

I mostly got the artworks to have references on hand of my favorite two blorbobingus oracles that i draw all the time.

My wol has wing accessories 24/7 i can't wear them AND have these critters run around at the same time

I lost my 8k+ audience after leaving twitter </3 ouch! I have to find you guys again! Hihi hello hi!! I am being perceived!

To enter, it's simple! Like, Reblog and Follow! One winner will be drawn randomly on june 15th 2025, a month after posting! (note: i won't count empty blogs to eliminate the possibility of bots)

Tumblr will be hosting the giveaway for the wind up Dulia-chai! For Runar, head on over to my >Bluesky< to give it a try! reminder that you MUST have an active sub in game to enter, as free trial players cannot put paid minions into their accounts!

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chaos conductor

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G’raha :3

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We only fly when falling, falling far from grace (Hell take us, heaven can wait)

the fragmented selves of the "unsundered"

emet | elidibus | lahabrea (soon)

some notes!

elidibus was very straightforward to plan out! as the known Memory Issues Man, it was clear to me that the biggest slice of his "sense of self" should be his time in the seat of emissary, set on the moon where he had his fun little talks with the warriors of darkness. this elidibus is also the most fractured - though it's the biggest portion of his self-awareness, it is also the most fraught with incongruities and doubt.

next, his form as the warrior of light, where he challenges us to a final confrontation at the crystal tower.

and at last, his truest and oldest self - themis, under the blue skies of elpis. this is also the smallest "slice", threatening to disappear altogether.

yay!

bonus (spot the difference)

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scroll down, it's just a painting of a normal garlean soldier

what do you mean he will get possessed soon? no no no he's normal, there's no suspicious thing about him

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tsuki

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The next episide of Coffee & Carbuncles will be released Sunday, June 15th. The topic will be about using theater as a way to not only develop community but allow various voices within the community to be heard! I hope everyone looks forward to it!

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Some pretty tricky designs in this batch, but I'm fond of the outcome. Just over a third of the way to having a full deck now, and given just how long and hard I've worked on each card I'm very tempted to compile an A5 artbook as well... if funds and interest allows, of course!

If you have just a couple of bucks a month to spare and would like to see this deck made, please consider joining us on Patreon. And if you happen to have a few more dollars than that, prints of completed cards are available on the $20 tier. Literally nothing I do is possible without the fine folks over there, so please consider helping out if you can.

Previously: FF playing cards | FFVII playing cards | FFXV Tarots | FFVII Tarots | FFXV Playing cards | FFVII Full Tarots | FF Hanafuda deck | FFVII Shinra photo book

Patreon | Bluesky

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G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn Illustrator: domco.

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Pride Backlighting Tutorial

A few people have shown interest in replicating the pride backlighting I did, so hey, here’s a quick tutorial below the cut.

Enjoy, and happy Pride Month. 🏳️‍🌈

STEP 1 — SETUP

First thing you’ll want to do is find a suitably dark background to bounce the light off of. I use the White Screen housing item dyed Soot Black, available from the Housing Merchant or Apartment Merchant in any of the housing zones for 3000 gil.

I line up 2-3 of them for coverage, but one will do if you're trying to be frugal.

If you don’t have an apartment or an FC room to use, try asking friends, FC mates, or even folks you share a Discord server with. You might even find someone who already has a studio space set up and is willing to let you use it!

Lighting in your studio space should be 0 (though you might have success at 1 as well), so make sure to adjust that or ask the studio owner if they can make that change before you start posing.

STEP 2 — GPOSE

Position your character(s) just a little ways back from the edge of the screen. You want some space between them and the screen so that the lighting can float there without casting a weird circle on the wall.

Hop into /gpose and bump up the “Manual brightness adjustment” to about 120 or whatever level allows you to see your character well enough to pose them. Pose to your heart's content.

STEP 3 — LIGHTS

Here’s the fun part. In the Light tab of the Gpose menu, switch all of your Light sources to Type 1, which has the shortest falloff radius (meaning it doesn't reach as far as Type 2 or 3). I also set all of my lights to one strong color to differentiate them while I worked on lighting—red, green, and blue, all maxed out at 255 (for now).

Swing your camera (still on all default settings) around to your character’s back and up above their head a little ways. This is where Light 1 (red) will go.

Now pan your camera down at about mid-back height and set Light 2 (green) there.

Pan your camera down one last time until you have a nice shot of your character’s butt and set Light 3 (blue).

If you have "circles" that appear on the background behind your character, your lights are little too close to the backdrop. Pull your camera in towards your character just a bit more to reposition your lights. I recommend doing this at a Camera Position setting of 100 so that your sense of "close" and "far" aren't skewed by extreme Field of View (FOV). You can adjust that once you're happy with light positions.

Spin your camera back around and enjoy this nice little macaw-colored gradient.

STEP 4 — CAMERA

Set your camera angle.

The way FFIXV’s lighting works is partially dependent on how much light is in a shot. It will adjust a lot like your eyes do when you’re entering a dark room from a bright room, or vice versa. Your zoom level and camera angle are going to directly affect the lighting, so set this before you start messing with light strength and color. Sometimes this means weaker lighting will actually light your character better.

I ended up bringing my lights down to around ~160 and boosted the "Manual brightness adjustment" up quite a bit to get lighting I was happier with.

For a straightforward vertical shot, I like to have my Camera Position/FOV at 200 and of course my rotation is set to 90. Zoom in or out as needed. Remember to save your camera angle if you plan to pan around and fix things!

STEP 5 — COLOR

Make it ~queer~.

Take your flag of choice and pick out 2-3 “main” hues. Generally these will be the strongest hues in the flag, if not the only ones. Some flags, like the Pride/Progress/Intersex-Inclusive flag itself, are difficult to replicate for the sheer number of colors that are in it. You can loosely represent a rainbow with some adjustment to the RGB colors, if you’re determined to have a whole rainbow in there.

Shader Note: I recommend picking a shader preset that doesn’t mess too much with color so that colors are represented correctly. You may need to adjust light strength and “Manual brightness adjustment” to be compatible with your preset of choice. Bloom will also heavily affect the way your colors are showing up, so you may need to tone down the bloom FX or toggle it off entirely. This all depends on your preset, however.

If you’re not into RGB math, here are some cheat sheets! Not every flag is represented here of course, but I tried to cover as many colors as I could so that you could grab a color from another flag as needed! Please note that colors will need some adjustment for your own screenshot, presets, and preferences.

And that’s it, y’all! 🏳️‍🌈

(Open this image up in a new tab for more detail.)

These were taken using a heavily customized shader for that nice glowy effect.

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Support for Sena Bryer

Wuk Lamat's voice actor could use a hand. Voice actors, like most actors and those in the entertainment industry, actually don't make a ton of money and rely on the limited times they're on a job and any residuals that come in (which get smaller and smaller over the years; Mica Burton has said she was paid the same amount of money on Star Trek: Picard that her dad made on Roots over 45 years ago). Add in the discrimination of trans actors when seeking roles.

Pop on over to her Ko-fi (Tumblr suppressing links doesn't help here) and give our Vow of Resolve a hand.

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I am delighted to say that after fighting illness all month my new interview with Morgana Mitsuki regarding the wonderful group Silver Valkyrie Events is now live! We discuss life on EU DC, why RP matters, and their motivation for hosting events!

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[ Day 2: Faith ]

𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ. 𝐴𝑡 𝑑𝑢𝑡𝑦'𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑑, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙.

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Lulu 💜

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Let's go on a journey with Azem! ☀

We are glad to invite you on #TravelerApril with a prompts list of a new type. Now it's up to you which prompt to use, what order to choose and combine it or not. Hope you'll have fun! (Also join our discord: https://discord.gg/mqe52h7K)

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Sadu \ Magnai

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Kan-E-Senna