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one of my favorite things to do in ffxiv of late is what my friends and i call "favorites roulette", which is that we go around and nominate 1-2 boss fights each that we like doing (up to a max of 5 because duty finder limitations), then queue up for all of them and see what we get. we only pick from normal trials and raids so it's always an 8-player story-difficulty fight, and due to personal preference we usually end up at level 80 or 90 (though there are sometimes a few 70s in there, and maybe a final steps of faith every now and again). the first time we did it, it was just for shits and giggles because we were bored, but now even though i prefer harder fights in general, Favorites Roulette is one of my favorite parts of the game. 10/10 would recommend.

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"No Way Home," Says Witch Motorcycling Appalachia, Killing Monsters

I'm challenging myself to twenty-eight days of a daily update schedule, and good news! One week of it is already up, and I think it's pretty good stuff. And if you write, you may know how unusual it is for someone to think that their work is good stuff.

Applicable content warnings: chronic illness, alcohol, gun violence, transphobia (offscreen), death.

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Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3

Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?

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I have my gripes with FFXIV but I have to admit the decision to use a longsword as the substitute for a crucifix when making Ishgard's French Catholic aesthetic was artistically fucking brilliant and I still haven't recovered from it almost a decade later.

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people with siblings: how do you feel about them?

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WE ARE SO BACK. it's been a while so lets do a full summary

Benji Dunn works as a physical therapist for all kinds of government agents. CIA, FBI, Secret Service— when anyone needs assistance getting their body back in order, they come to him. Periodically, though, a mysterious block appears on his schedule. No name, no medical history, nothing but the characters BE11. The year is 1996, and Benji meets Ethan Hunt under very different circumstances. And the ripples pull wider and wider as time moves on, until the familiar image becomes something new. A quick lesson on broken bones: If they heal wrong, you're going to have to break them again.

This is a Long Fic, reimagining the entire Mission Impossible timeline from the end of MI1 to [REDACTED]. Separated into Acts, we are now in Act Four, the last of the story. Shifts in the story begin small recontextualization, then expand over time to going further and further off-script. Thematically, in my opinion, this is a story about age and self-iteration and the age-old question what can change the nature of a person.

Chapter 31: MATCH. LIPREAD. PRE-MORTEM.

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Marcille: "Uhhh . . . I'm so hungry . . ."

Laios: "We should have waited until we were at the end of this maze to kill and eat the minotaur. Senshi, what do we have left?"

Senshi: "We're good on water due to that aquifer leaking into the maze, but otherwise all we have left is my spices and this unopened bottle of benadryl."

Laios: "Hmm . . ."

Marcille: "Laois, look at me. Benadryl isn't food."

Laios: "I know that, but what if we were to kill and eat the Hat Man?"

Chilchuck: "WHAT?"

Senshi: "What's the Hat Man?"

Marcille: *sighs* "It's a shared hallucination, generally induced by certain kinds of drug intake. Some mages have tried to study if it's real but were unable to prove that it stayed tangible or present after they sobered up."

Senshi: "So that benadryl would lure the Hat Man to us, and give us a chance to fight it? That will be tough. Sounds like we will have to kill, cook and eat it all before the medicine wears off if it will lose tangibility otherwise."

Laois: "That's it! If we need only one or two of us to kill the Hat Man, then the rest can be dosed up only right before the meal is done cooking."

Senshi: "There's one problem with that. Dwarves are basically immune to any tallmen drug that isn't prescription strength. I'll need half the bottle just to have enough time to eat the meal. Chilchuck, you'll be able to use it the most efficiently because of how little you weigh. I can make sure that the fire is ready, but you'll have to fight the Hat Man alone and dose Marcille afterwards to help you with the cooking prep. Laios and I shouldn't risk taking more than needed just to eat."

Chilchuck: "ARE YOU CRAZY?! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THE HAT MAN IS REAL! And I don't do the fighting in this group! There's NO WAY that-"

Narrator: And so with their plan formulated, Chilchuck took a heavy dose of benadryl and prepared to fight the Hat Man in single combat.

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enough with the forcefem and the forcemasc, I’m trying out forcestrange

I’m gonna turn you into something unrecognizable and inhuman, and you’re gonna like it

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Ok but I really must protest the incredible lack of Goblin Emperor fic where Maia’s household figure out how absolutely touch-starved and skin-hungry he is.

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Scariest things in FFXIV:

Julyan Manderville

Red Chocobos

Some dolls Matoya just left at the bottom of Antitower

Alchemists

Y'shtola

A small friendly bird child who discovered Nietzsche

Eldritch horrors and demons from the Apocalypse

A Shoebill

In that order

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I love Minfilia dearly and I think for the most part she is a strong leader with a particular talent for uniting people of disparate backgrounds and motivations toward a cause, but if ever there was a sign that the Scions were getting out of their depth in the ARR patches, it's that she sends Urianger to reassure the investors in Ul'dah that they've made a sound financial decision.

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X'rhun Tia is actually the funniest mentor in ffxiv you can't change my mind

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