#ALSO I FORGOT TO QUEUE AAAA

[eldritchamy]

omg i completely forgot about the grand folia hotel. i read it when it came out, it rewired my whole dang brain, and then i moved on. aaaa im gonna go reread it right now even though I've been up all night and need to sleep (there aren't any plants around to stop me from making self-destructive sleep cycle decisions muahaha). thank you for your post about it! also if it's alright to offer a recommendation, Hospitable Takeover on Readonlymind.com was the second ever HDG fanfic and in my opinion greatly informed the tone of the setting in 2021 and 2022. It's also just super cozy and comfy and a perennial favorite of mine ^w^

You're welcome for the brainworms!

I understand completely, I'm not sure WHAT chapter 10 did to me but I think my brain is a torus now. I didn't THINK I had a free use kink (I PROBABLY still don't, at least as a participant), but I didn't think I had a PETPLAY kink either until this fucking universe started turning me inside out a few days ago.

I'm already rereading The Grand Folia Hotel myself because I feel like given the plot there's a lot more to get out of it by reading it through a second time (somehow I didn't realize that Phoebe was basically in a perpetual lesbian bluescreen from the moment she stepped into the garden in chapter 1).

Plus it was just EXTRAORDINARILY HOT and I can't wait to watch Phoebe/Amaranth get broken all over again.

It's a shame the story didn't keep going into the ongoing corruption and implantation past her initial surrender, the characters had such good chemistry with each other that I'm really craving more of them. Would have LOVED a chapter or two (or six) of newly implanted pinnates, especially with how amused Celosia was by the fact that they fucking tricked her into taking them at all. Celosia and Phoebe are fucking perfect for each other.

Her revenge must have been DELICIOUS.

And GOD Becca must have been so fucking smug about it once Phoebe was ACTUALLY a floret. I need to know the teasing that happened once she got her real implant.

This is what I meant in a previous post when I said I was "frothing at the cerebellum" to read it again. I'm going actually insane.

Which, as many new people are I'm sure rapidly learning about me, means it is Once Again Infodump Time, because I suffer from a terminal case of Someone Needs To Shut Me Up With A Kiss disease. (I am also a long sufferer of Capitalizes Letters For Emphasis syndrome.)

I'm like the free use kink of infodumping, a bunch of people seem to have figured out how to make me do it almost on queue, and they do it, because they think it's cute. I don't DENY that it's cute, but god does it seem to cost me a lot of the time that I meant to spend reading about the good little florets.

I CAN'T keep taking an hour to write every goddamn post I make about HDG. WHEN WILL I SLEEP? More importantly, WHEN WILL I FINISH REREADING CHAPTER TWO? It took me four extraneous paragraphs to even mention that the read more continues exactly from the train of thought I left off on an aforementioned four paragraphs ago! God, I need help.

AND Phoebe never even saw herself in a mirror ONCE in the story! I want to know what happened the first time she saw what the Class Gs were doing to her! (Do you think Celosia put her in Doll Mode and made Amaranth pose in front of a mirror and be perfectly still, watching her own blank expression obediently while Celosia and Jazz just relentlessly caressed her with every imaginable affection? Do you think Phoebe's wake up trigger was Amaranth saying "Good dolls know they are deserving of love. I'm a good doll and I am worthy of love"? Do you think, beyond the moment when she accepted she was meant to be broken by Celosia's will, that that was the moment she understood what it meant to be put back together, and it was the moment she truly felt, and for the first time could not deny or run away from, that she was the happiest she'd ever been? Because I DO think that happened. And I need it.)

It even would have been nice to see INDRA further along in her own corruption later on. Altiss seemed like a good influence on her, it was really sweet that she had that nice moment with Phoebe at the end of the Matinee.

I'm STARVING for more of that specific story, it was SO good. (Keysmasht, if you ever see this somehow, how much of my soul do you want for a few more chapters? I'll beg.)

Hell, I might beg for permission to write those chapters MYSELF someday. That story is too good for there to not be more of it.

Anyway.

Thanks for the recommendation! I can't BELIEVE I've never heard of this setting before now, it's extremely my shit (apparently) and I'm loving the discovery of new, interesting content that I can not fucking put down. Judging by the tags on my posts, and a friend on discord, flinging myself headfirst into all of this has inspired a few other little seedlings to follow me into florethood.

Recommendations from people more familiar with the setting and stories are definitely welcome, though I can't promise I'll get to any one particular story soon.

Abscission and Divaricated come up in a lot of recommendations for lore reasons? But I've been putting off some of the longer stories like those and Dog of War because they're HUGE commitments and it's so hard not to consume as many stories as possible.

Except, of course, for the fact that I keep rereading the ones I've already gone through because I like what they did to my brain.

I'm struggling not to make TWO other ones I've already read (the original and Inosculate) the next ones on the list after rereading Grand Folia.

Hospital Takeover sounds like an EXCELLENT recommendation, I LOVE cozy and comfy stuff within a primarily kink setting. I'm SO glad the second one I ever read was A Normal Grocery Run During Which No Domestication Occurs. I adore the way SapphicSounds writes dorkier more nervous Affini, and I'm glad I got to see THAT QUICKLY how much of a tonal range there was in HDG stories.

Sleepy Bitch also sounds cute, so I wanna do that one soon.

Also the reading of any particular one is slow going because unfortunately my brain is absolutely churning with ideas of my own. I'm VERY tempted to do a pinnates one because I'm absolutely HOOKED on that concept in particular. I already know one of their names and I just came up with a great title for the story while ...rather vividly imaging a very intense domming scene.

I do want to read a fair bit more before I try my hand at writing one, though. While I've got enough domme in me to feel like I could do some of the Affini taunting justice (seeing Akash in the first story use almost the exact domming style I go for was... enlightening, to say the least; now I know why I get such good keymashes out of my teasing victims), I want to have a bit more confidence in the world itself first to make sure I get it right.

But it's far from the first time I've considered writing erotica. I definitely have the brainworms for it at the moment.

[ask-andante]

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I ASKED DALL-E TO MAKE THE LESBIAN FROM WOY AND THE VIBES HERE ARE PHENOMENAL

[kittykalliarts]

Before I forget, some old Barney doodles of him mostly out of the CP uniform

And also with a cowboy hat let him be a cowboy gdi

[fistsoflightning]

light housekeeping: i am Back, Baby (but like i still have homework i have to scramble over and finish aaaa end of quarter....) and i will be refreshing my queue soon. probably. once i finish sorting through all my drafts. new ask meme! i might do a revamp of pages/theme soon? definitely one in the works for the writing page tho; i need to add all the ffxivwrite2020 posts

also of note:

i am an idiot and crave azim steppe content again, i may make a whole separate tag for it on this blog. 

i have three asks sitting in my inbox from three months ago i forgot to answer and i think there’s two more somewhere near the bottom of my drafts half-finished (brain really went Die sometime in august huh)

i’ll hopefully get the time to make screenshots soon!!! i’m shaking my fist at all the calc homework i have to do.... 

OH WAIT I WILL (HOPEFULLY) HAVE ART SOON! it is, technically, my ap art project, but shhh if college board can’t tell it’s fanart it can 100% count as a portfolio piece

i will inevitably be disappearing on november 20th to go on a loz: age of calamity adventure with my brother and it will eat our souls because i’m an idiot and set my save to ‘very hard’ for funsies. i’ve gotten us killed three times because i can’t fight wizrobes send help- 

IM LIKE. SIX CLASSES AWAY FROM ALL 80. THE MOMENT WARRIOR HITS 70 I LIVE IN BOZJA UNTIL I CAN GET AMARO

[compassionatereminders]

I FORGOT ABOUT THE BEDSHEETS AGAIN AAAA problem is i need like 12 hours of sleep to be my average level of functional so??? also i posted two more memes now. didn't bother waiting for them to be posted through the queue-machine. ive finished my energy drink at least so now i just need to close GIMP (the program i use to make memes) and,,,, slowly prepare for bed

Yeah then I see the issue - and you’re not the only one forgetting about laundry. I’ve been actively intending to do mine for like, three weeks at this point, especially towels and sheets. But because I have this ridiculously big duvet (2x2 meters) and am incredibly uncoordinated I cannot put the cover back on by myself, and thus I keep postponing washing my sheets till I have someone around to help me put them back on... and then I get distracted and forget about it until I’m on my own again. Oh well, my mom’s visiting tomorrow and at this point my bed is pretty gross so I am very motivated to remember it. Fingers crossed! And may you sleep well when you get so far.

[soreillia]

FFXIV Fan Festival Day 2

This was the last day of the two days event at Frankfurt! It was so much fun and people there were so nice?! (Like it never occurred to me people would just start a chat with strangers XD A lot of people were asking me to switch to their servers FFFF) I’m already amazed that FF14 players are so much more friendly than in any other MMORPGs I played. well it’s not free to play after all... tbh i miss p2p aion as well

Anyway! My day 2 report under the cut~

BEWARE OF MY MAGITEK ARMOR /SHOTHARD

I actually want to skip the stuff that was on livestream but DAMMMMN I’m still so surprised and happy for them, when they handed 3 Guinness World of Record Awards to FFXIV/SE!!

One of the world records was “having the longest credits in an online game” with 1h and 48 min. Yes. Almost 2h of credits.

The 2nd award was for having the most music tracks for a game with 384. Soken seemed so surprised about creating that many xDD But as they pointed out in the talk between Uematsu and Soken even Titan Theme has for every of 5 phases its own track then it was no wonder haha

Also since it was the last day I wanted to finish collecting my stamps you get from Mini Games and Ingame Events. So I picked the “Battle Challenge” to get 3 more stamps (you get 5 if you succeed). In this challenge 24 people can join and have to fight “Proto Ultima” together (split in 3 alliances).

There were many people standing there queuing for it so I wondered how long it will take for my turn. But as I was waiting for about 2 minutes a woman came to me asking if I was solo and that one of the alliances still needed a healer! So I pretty much got instant queue like ingame healer queue... XDD The people seemed to know each other and I was so nervous!! I didn’t have any idea how the fight was gonna be and what the mechanics are. I asked them if I should play SCH or WHM-- (hoping I can play SCH and let my fairy carry my heals /SHOT) but the other healer already picked SCH, so they asked me to play WHM. Well... I was cosplaying White Mage already so... it was fitting.

The fight was pretty stressy-- the other SCH died so many times and the DRG died first as usual, these LOLDRG pls so we wiped on the first try, but on the second try we made it!! I had no idea what was going on--- where to run to-- everywhere AoE-- but HEY WE DID IT!! 5 STAMPS GET!!

So after I got the 9+ stamps I was able to pick up my rewards! It was the Fat Chocobo Keyring and cute stickers of minions and stickers of the Grand Companies and Stormblood.

I past the signature wall once again to see what people wrote and......

PEOPLE.

WHY.

WHAT.

THE.

HELL.

YOU.

DOING.

Yes, I can’t believe they added more to the Haurchey Memorial.

Also wanted to check on what I wrote the day before AND SOME PERSON WROTE OVER MY WRITING FFFF SO I ADDED A CACTUAR NEXT TO IT DOING 1K NEEDLES ATTACK but I forgot how cactuar look like and it became very derp. Also thank you random person adding Haurchey next to it.

After I finished being in rage about my writing being overwrote BY SOME SLOPPY LAD’S

I...

actually...

managed to take a picture together with Susan Calloway. /MEL PLS U LUCKY GETTING ALL THESE SIGNATURES THO

She also signed for me-- AND IT SO CUTE!! WITH THAT “: )” AAA She also complimented me for the costume that I’m looking great so I was super blushu AAAA Q//////////Q

Then I went to check on the drawing of Mogi again-- how far he got today AND FFF I thought he would still work on the other drawing he started the day before, but he actually started another drawing on this day and...

HE DREW THIS IN 90 MINUTES. WEW. 

The festival ended with a concert by The Primals. Oh man hearing all these tracks live was such an amazing experience!! ESPECIALLY RAVANA THEME. THE VOCALS PLS.

Also Susan Calloway sung Shiva’s Theme together with The Primals AAAAAA

Sadly after their final song (Alexander Boss Theme Locus) there was no encore. But after seeing their performance THEY REALLY DESERVED A BREAK LOL my throat would hurt so badly trying to sing these xD

I’m sad it is over now and I really hope there will be another of these events in the future, the ticket was REALLY REALLY WORTH THE PRICE!! > 3<b

Well and I couldn’t stop myself from buying two more merchandise-

[dannifielding]

Happy Danni-versary! I would’ve sent this in at the same time as the edit but that was on queue (time difference). Thank you so much for writing this story for the past 5 years! The Time Child was one of, if not the first Doctor Who fic I read and I’m so glad that it’s continued to this day. And the anniversary story... AAAA! (1/2)

I already left a review, but I forgot some stuff haha. It was so cool and meta to see Danni react to 11 and 12’s departure and replacements. I think most of us had bet on Kris Marshall XD. The fact that she stopped ageing too was something I wondered about. Hopefully this Danni was able to get back before she got much older. And I really liked how she’s seeking out the Doctor herself this time. I’ll stop rambling now, but thank you for 5 years of this, and I can’t wait to see what’s next!!

It’s alright! Thank you for reading! :D :D

I’m glad you liked the anniversary fic as well! I was worried that it didn’t include enough, but I only wanted to show snapshots of her life, you know?

Also I wasn’t sure who it was going to be, I just remember hoping it wasn’t Tilda Swinton. She just didn’t feel Doctor-y enough for me XD

[fistsoflightning]

live letter trailer

ok taking a break from homework in the hotel time to say this: WHAT IS GOING ON YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO RUN THAT BY ME AGAIN AAAAAAA--

I DON’T GET TO PLAY THIS PATCH CYCLE FOR ANOTHER WEEK FROM RELEASE IMMA DIE FROM ANTICIPATION

spoilers for the trailer under the cut!

list of things that made me want to scream:

-  mecha red demon! i forgot the name but oh boi that raid will make me want to die inside. also, gaius development! cool beans.

- SCIONS BACK TO AMAUROT AAAAAA THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL.

-  glowy rak’tika tree!!!! beast tribes are fun

- THERE’S THE BOAT WE’RE GONNA STEAL PIRATE TIME YALL

- GAIA HAS A LOOK AND ALSO LIGHT BIRDS MAKE ME AFRAID. RAMUH HORSE MAKES ME AFRAID. IF IFRIT AND GARUDA TEAM UP FOR ONE ENCOUNTER AND THE LAST ONE IS SHIVA INSTEAD OF ANOTHER SIN EATER IMMA CRY SO HARD.

- if y’shtola’s saying that raha’s experience of the eighth umbral calamity’s gonna bring that to the first imma die. if she means that the wol’s soul’s memory of amaurot imitated the seventh umbral calamity i will still die. conclusion: msq for 5.2 WILL kill me

- please explain WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE CLOUDS NOO CRYSTARIUM BLEASE BE SAFE

- gaia???? what’s happening. please don’t kill her in the same patch she’s introduced.

- hhrrg ghost amaurotines. thancred. ryne. im so worried asaihbsoinldsjnbiow

- what the hell does that floaty place have to do with anything??? is it for msq? for raid? ITS ON THE SOURCE BC CID BUT WHY????? STOP MAKING ME MORE CONFUSED PLEASE GAOEIGHXKNBSIOEGN

- oh no alternate universe ardbert? WAS THAT A MOSAIC OF HYDAELYN??? CID AND AN AU’RA GIRL???? MY HEAD’S SPINNING IN FIFTY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS STOP

- what was that crystal in wol’s hand/??

- DID CID JUST GET **STABBED** WAIT DONT DO THAT PLEASE I LOVE IRONWORKS TOO MUCH TO LET IT GO

- wol faceoff in the crystarium?? is this like a hologram/deltascape sort of deal bc no one really reacted or is it another ghost deal... AAAA

- SCIONS GET PORTED TO WHEREEVER CID IS LIKE THE ENDING OF SHB WITH HADES AND THE WOLS AND IM AGGAOIEGHOIDBNOISENBIONEIJE

- RYNE. RYNE’S THERE. IF CID IS STILL IN THE SOURCE AND NOT ANOTHER IN-BETWEEN DIMENSION IMMA DIE BECAUSE IT MEANS RYNE MIGHT STAY FOR LONGER.... AOGIEHOIBNOIENHOI*JETP

- gaia WHERE ARE YOU GOING WAIT STOP

- ew. zenos. (sorry i really just don’t like him.... don’t care for him at all and would rather he stayed dead. don’t care if he wants to be my rival, please go back into your grave. sorry zenos fans) the fact that he’s in the amaurot final days vision worries me because that means he chasing us and i don’t want that....

- WAIT THATS THE GRABBY ARM THING CARMELA MENTIONED. THATS A HISS OF PAIN ARE YOU DYING RAHA AFTER WE DID THE WHOLE DONT THROW YOUR LIFE AWAY DUDE NOOO DONT

- that. that is dalamud. over a garlean structure. alphinaud what are you looking at. what is that mural and why do i see a moon shape.... WAIT THAT IS ABSOLUTELY THE METEOR VISION FROM 2.0 BUT IN AMAUROT NOW WAIT WAIT WAIT DID AMAUROTINE!WOL’S PERCEPTION OF THE FINAL DAYS INFLUENCE THE CALAMITY STOP THE TRAIN I NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND CONSPIRACY THEORY MY WAY UNTIL I CAN PLAY 5.2

- the fact that elidibus is in the patch art yet doesn’t show up in the trailer makes me think he’s inhabiting ardbert’s dead body like lahabread did thancred and that makes me uncomfy :(((

anyways; im going to die from shadowbringers content and that’s ok. thanks for listening to my ted talk, i need to do my calc homework. back to regularly scheduled queue hours!