#ffxiv stuff

[anneapocalypse]

The Scions are such a mess in ARR because Minfilia, Thancred, Alphinaud, Urianger, and Papalymo are all like "I, personally, have to be the next Louisoix" and no one is disabusing any of them of the notion.

Yda is like "I am also here. 😎" Alisiae is like "Fuck this shit actually." Y'shtola cannot be reached for comment. Moenbryda arrives and is like "Yeah I don't know about all that oh shit nevermind I have to be the next Louisoix."

Stormblood is great because you get to hang out with the girls who said "Fuck this shit actually."

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Zenos yae Galvus…

Propaganda for the mic skills:

The man only ever talks about how he wants to fight you.

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[osipopz]

But what if I started cooking up more FFXIV nonsense in the kitchen??? What if keychains were on the menu??? ✨👀

[hirokiyuu]

i dont normally ffxiv post here but look at the fruits of my madness

[risualto]

I was tagged by @orime-stories to do this quiz about Daemons for an OC. I picked Inky, because I want something light for her right now <3

She got:

Your daemon would take the form of a perching bird! Those who have perching bird daemons are intelligent and like finding patterns, though unlike other bird daemons they are more chatty and social. They enjoy putting their inner thoughts into words and wearing their heart on their sleeves.

Your daemon would take the form of a bluebird! You are a plucky and amicable individual with a determined, high-strung energy. More so than others with perching bird daemons, those with bluebirds are emotional people who freely express their feelings and appreciate vulnerability in their relationships. They are energetic and like staying busy to keep their mind off things; they tend to be more guarded around strangers, and like to come across as capable and perfectionistic.

I'm not sure if Inky comes off as necessarily perfectionistic to strangers, but I do think some people are off-put by just how much she is and how earnest and honest she can be, even with strangers. So I think this is mostly accurate.

Also, ah. Bluebird. Hm. *wink*

I'm exhausted and can't think of who to tag right now. If you're reading this and you have an OC, please do one of these and tag me so I can read it!

[leonawriter]

Me, thinking about how teleportation fees from Tuliyollal to the Azim Steppe (furthest West to furthest East on the map) suggests that they are far away from each other, and therefore cost more to teleport to and from

Me, thinking that this clearly means that those of Hydaelyn setting this up are either counting everything as having a central point in Ul'dah/Eorzea, or they ascribe to a Flat Earth Theory for Etheirys

Me: ....ok but do Flat Hydaelyn Truthers mean Hydaelyn is flat-chested,

[wentian]

i'm tired, boss

[g0g0mi]

Gogomi got lost in Toto-Rak and found her way into the FFXIV EU art contest final?! 😅

Im already so happy to have been shortlisted but if you want to vote for me I’m entry I-23 💕😭🙏 ➡️ sqex.to/LI9V2

[drowxiv]

If you only use Outfit Glamour Creation ONCE - use it for THIS! It saves so many slots and these are so good to have!

(also buy these from the vendor or have a friend buy them for you) The vendor is right here if you have a Level 15 DOH and complete the quest "Absolutley Glamourous"

[jonesylium]

using my incredibly reduced art power to do incredibly cursed redraws that cater only to me and like 3 other people...

[nocticulas]

finished dawntrail 😔✌️

[anneapocalypse]

The fundamental difference between Zenos and The Warrior of Light as Written--something that exists regardless of any particular WoL's disposition or motivations, all things subject to personal headcanon--is that the TWoLaW engages deeply with the world around them, and Zenos does not. The fundamental quality of Azem the Traveler, and the quality that is suggested to have been inherited by TWoLaW (and by Ardbert), is that they are deeply engaged with the world, and with its people.

Is it true that TWoLaW is disposed toward violence, sure, absolutely, for reasons of video game mechanics if nothing else. But I fundamentally disagree that violence is the core of TWoLaW regardless of how we roleplay them. At the core of TWoLaW is their engagement with the world. Yes, as a result of that, TWoLaW is willing to go kill people and things because they were asked to. You know what else they're willing to do because someone asked them to? Talk to people. Fetch things for them. Gather resources. Make things. Deliver gifts. Facilitate trade. Learn skills. Build community. Cross the seas to help a new friend. Explore. Uncover ancient mysteries. GO TO SPACE! And if you see Zenos as a foil for the player rather than the character, all this still very much applies.

You can roleplay the most curmudgeonly, antisocial, misanthropic WoL possible, you can even reject all side content and stick solely to MSQ, and you will still find yourself inhabiting a character who, as written, is fundamentally engaged with the world. They don't have to be happy. They don't have to be nice. They don't have to do any of what they're doing out of altruism. They're still making the choice to connect with other people, to invest themselves in the struggles and passions of others, to have a personal stake in shaping the world around them, because that is what the character is written to do.

Zenos's tragic flaw is his inability--and yes, perhaps, on some level, unwillingness--to connect with the world and the people around him. He finds no meaningful engagement with the world except to enact violence upon it. He has no personal investment in the Garlean Empire except as it allows him to enact violence, and by this disengagement he basically singlehandedly allows the entire empire to collapse because he doesn't care about it, only about fulfilling his own desires. The funny thing about Zenos as a foil for the protagonist is that he would make a terrible RPG protagonist. The archetypal RPG protagonist is so defined by their willingness to say yes to menial tasks that are only meaningful to some minor NPC that most modern RPGs end up lampshading that fact in some way, and it's endlessly memed upon. I struggle to imagine Zenos making it through the Company of Heroes fetch quests in ARR without getting bored and stabbing someone.

So all-encompassing is this worldview for him that even upon calling the WoL his only friend, he can find no meaningful engagement with them beyond "let us enact violence upon one another." Even the one person in the world he finds interesting enough to engage with, he is seemingly incapable of understanding on any other level. (And if you play a WoL with a desire to connect with Zenos on any other level, I think there's potential for a really interesting tragedy there! Because he either won't or can't.)

And we don't ever really get to challenge him on how narrow and stifling and miserable his engagement with the world truly is. Maybe there's a flicker of it at the very end, an acknowledgement that his life was fundamentally unfulfilling. Perhaps Zenos even sees, on some level, what the WoL has that he does not; maybe unconsciously in pursuing them, he seeks to figure out what that thing is. But then he dies, in his chosen manner, after getting the same one thing he's been pursuing as long as we've known him. That's what's sad about Zenos on a narrative level. Not that he dies, but that he dies unchanged and unchallenged.

And this is why I just can never quite get behind the idea that the core of the WoL is the same as the core of Zenos--no matter how many people the Warrior of Light has killed. I just don't believe that. When I look at TWoLaW, I see a character deeply engaged with the world. When I look at Zenos I see a character who never truly connects with anyone or anything outside himself.

[osipopz]

Just two scholars innocently minding their own business.

[deastrumquodvicis]

that moment when the Warrior of Light is accidentally very much in need of calling Maury because I look like a lost Fortemps brother

we droppin a rap album the likes of which ishgard has never heard

[risualto]

Who'll Hear the Echoes of Stories Never Told?

A follow-up to this ^_^

[leonawriter]

I've been focusing on my alts because honestly, they're more fun, and it's easier and therefore more relaxing, but I really should go back to DT's patches.

I stopped because the fights were going too quick, my reaction time wasn't fast enough, and it... honestly? Wasn't fun. I still don't know how much was me not being familiar with the fights and how much is that I've got dyspraxia, AKA a physical disability that interferes with reaction time and such.

It'd really suck if the devs trying to make things harder for normal players locked me out! :)