#ffxiv 6.2

[cydanite]

in alexandria the ds lite won the console wars

[bara-izu]

[ ffxiv ┃ Patch 6.2 ] Keir meets Zero

Bonus: Y'shtola fashion advice

Double bonus, her actual glams (tho i've changed her shoes in her sage fit to the bonewicca boots...

[zakifairer]

I feel like trying to befriend Zero is like carefully rolling an apple at a wild animal and going pspspspspsp

[silverffxiv]

[impossible-rat-babies]

vierapril day 25--love

and you have a person in your life whose hand you like to hold? "yes, i do." it must surely, then, be very happy down there in your heart. "yes," i said. "it is." -- --mary oliver, "a voice from i don't know where" ,felicity

[magellanica]

FFXIV / FFIV Barbariccia

[bluetomatoart]

[kakushino]

I just spent 30 minutes ugly sobbing about Emet-Selch's tragedy. There is no way in canon world he could ever be happy, and that... I grieve his happiness. I'm a happy-end truther despite any angst I inflict as a fanfic writer, but this - him - is impossible.

I weep.

[bi-disastersoup]

Into the Void - Part 1

Welcome to a new VN series. These ones are much shorter, so I won't be doubling up the images.

Greatly recommended you read Shifters first if you haven't, or some of the stuff covered in this series might not make a ton of sense.

very mild CW for emetophobia and also spoilers for patch 6.2 MSQ (takes place right after the second fight with Scarmiglione)

Let's go.

Strap in, ya'll.

(Part 2)

[keicordelle]

Hildibrand's Adventures in Sports Anime: Haikyuu!!

[deathandthesoul]

FFXIV Endwalker 6.2 is really really feeling like Vampire the Masquerade it's awesome. The way Voidsent cannibalism works is just diablerie. I'm in familiar territory

[wind-up-thancred]

arch knight

[amaurotine-daydreaming]

XVIII. Fish Out of Water

“My friends!”

Amongst a flock of sheep stood young Varshahn, stray bits of wool and hay stuck to his clothes and a squirming baby lamb cradled in his arms. He was beaming.

Estinien and Zero were walking up the path toward him. All around, men and women tended to sheep in a wide-ranging pasture. Zero’s eyes flicked this way and that, taking in her surroundings without moving her head an ilm. Estinien, meanwhile, raised his hand in a short greeting.

“‘Tis well your Radiant Host keeps a close eye on your whereabouts, Your Excellency,” he said. “One almost cannot make you out amongst your flock.”

Varshahn laughed, hearing the note of humor under the straight face and stoic voice. “Mine apologies for bringing you out all this way.”

“‘Tis of no moment,” said Zero softly, watching closely as the baby lamb lifted its head and began to nurse from a small waterskin Varshahn carefully held to its lips. “It was…nice, to walk here. This land is very colorful.”

“We are come with an offer of joint training,” said Estinien. “Though mayhap we have not come at a good time.” He tilted his head slightly, indicating the lamb in Varshahn’s arms.

“Nay, I would be glad to accept,” said Varshahn. “I can conclude my time here but shortly, but pray do not wait on my account if it would cause you undue inconvenience.” He handed off the young lamb into the arms of a waiting caretaker. “However…” he turned back toward them, smiling, “if it please you, I would welcome you to share in the joy of new life.” 

“New life…” murmured Zero, her pale eyes a little wider as she took in the shepherds tending to some heavily pregnant ewes nearby.

“Aye, I can spare a few moments,” said Estinien, shrugging acquiescently. “'Tis some time since I have last seen a lambing.”

Two men knelt by a ewe laying on its side. As it bleated and grunted, they supported its body and offered the laboring ewe words of encouragement. From behind a sac of fluid the very top of the baby lamb’s head was beginning to emerge. “You are…familiar with this practice?” Zero asked him.

“Aye,” said Estinien, as they wove their way amongst the flock in Varshahn’s wake. “From my youth.”

No further elaboration came. Finally Zero pulled her gaze away from the ewe. “This creation of new life…such a thing no longer exists in the Void. Not in this way,” she said. “Temporary death is not the same as new life. Neither is it new life when voidsent consume one another–it is no more than two entities in uneasy coexistence.”

“My friends,” Varshahn said gently, pulling his two companions from their dark reveries. “Look over yonder.”

In a separate part of the pasture some young lambs frolicked about. Nearby, a mother was nudging her newborn to stand. It did so on shaky legs, took a few wobbly steps forward, and abruptly sat back down.

“‘Tis similar to my own experience,” Varshahn said, looking on fondly.

Faint surprise flitted across Zero’s features. “You remembered learning to walk?”

“As a simulacrum, yes,” Varshahn chuckles, resting his chin in his hand. “I wished to walk amongst my children, to know them in all of their joys and sorrows, their hopes and their labors…yet in the beginning, ‘twas as if I were a fish out of water.”

Zero looked pensive. “Did you struggle to understand them? Your people.”

“Nay,” said Varshahn. “Compassion I knew–‘twas the ambulation I struggled with, having only two legs to ground me instead of four. And an Au Ra’s tail is not used for balance to the same degree of that of a wyrm. And to be flightless….”

Estinien crossed his arms and watched as the lamb struggled back to its feet, its spindly limbs jerking like a wooden doll’s. “And for us dragoons, to learn the jumps and leaps is as if we are learning to fly, albeit only briefly.”

Varshahn politely hid his broadening smile behind his hand. “‘Tis difficult to imagine that you, like any other creature in this world, once had to learn to stand and walk.”

A smile quirked the corner of Estinien’s mouth. “Likewise.”

[farfromdaylight]

rune looks so lovely already, i can't wait to see her in the graphics update!!!

[gailiag]

So excited for SMN in 7.0 Sure, they probably won't fix any of the issues the job actually has but they ARE giving us another BIG FUCKOFF DRAGON that looks COOL AS SHIT and I for one am so on board.