Are you obsessed with Ishgard's lore? Because I know that I'm obsessed with Ishgard's lore! I present to you a 116 page PDF that compiles all of the levequest descriptions from Coerthas Central Highlands (Observatorium and Whitebrim) and Ishgard (Temple Leves).
There's tons of fun little bits of useless silly trivia to downright harrowing worldbuilding about Ishgard's religion and military practices. So, enjoy!
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really actually kind of enjoy how the big lore moments are sort of quiet on a singular stream (or a small group!) instead of the events solely being the lore; i think there would be this hesitation to develop anything solo if the server reinforced this idea that Big Lore could only happen during scheduled events and days. instead the more narrative-progressing moments (take the baghera hybrid experiments revelation or the philza birdnapping for recent example) are very low-key and almost unhyped up— there’s no expectation for that kind of lore necessarily at the time which makes it more rewarding to experience as a viewer. big fan of how they do the events as player bonding time rather than serious narrative progression because it allows all the players (especially the ones who don’t engage in the rp side that much) to participate and get to know each another more; it’s very neat it’s really smart it’s nicely executed
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You know that you are a human…
You know that you are a human.
You know that, or do you not?
That smile of yours is unique to you,
That torment of yours is unique to you,
Your eyes no other person has got.
Tomorrow you won’t be here present.
Tomorrow on this blessed land
Others’ll be running and laughing,
Others’ll be feeling and loving;
Good people and bad ones, my friend.
Today all the world is for you:
Forests and hills, valleys deep.
So hurry to live, please, hurry!
So hurry to love, please, hurry!
Don’t miss out on it, don’t oversleep!
‘Cause you on this Earth are a human.
And whether you want it or not,
That smile of yours is unique to you,
That torment of yours is unique to you,
Your eyes no other person has got.
Author: Vasyl Symonenko
Translator: Kyrylo Snizhko
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i think it’s peak comedy that like, yes jarlaxle is textually very beautiful and demonstratably Has Fucked A Lot and then here’s kimmuriel who is tiny and intense and prefers logic to squishy feelings and has seen Jarlaxle at his absolute worst and most annoying and fucked up
and kimmuriel went
“Yes, that’s the guy I want to spend the rest of my life with. I like him for his personality.”
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this is only vaguely related to my last ask but it got me thinking again how much i don't like the type of scrutiny that some people engage with when it comes to headcanons. don't get me wrong, there is plenty of headcanons that i despite when they appear in a particular context because they clearly come from a place of total ignorance and sometimes even borderline malice; and there are ways of writing about characters that are very obviously rooted in reactionary attitudes. but i have also seen situations in which people of specific ethnicities were told they were not supposed to hc a character to be said ethnicity because of the classist implications. i have seen people saying that headcanoning a particular character to be trans is too stereotypical and that it makes them "sick." i've seen people annoyed about characters being a particular religion because "there's another character who was said to be that religion before" (shocking and upsetting to some americans especially: religions are real and usually have more than one follower so they don't have to be assigned to a single character per title as their token.) and idk i think we should all pause for a moment and remember that the pieces of identity that people assign their favourite characters are often their own. there are ways to reclaim these cliches too. it's a matter of intention. people often read themselves into their beloved pieces of art. and maybe it does not always create the truest image of the author's intention nor a revolutionary picture of minority rep, but no one claims it does.
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It’s a real shame Madrid won, not even because I hate Madrid with every fiber of my being, but because they weren’t even the better team out there. Throughout the competition Madrid hasn’t been nearly as dominant I think as people have been portraying them to be, yet they win because they manage to score goals in the dying minutes of the game no matter how shit they played before that and people eat it up. I’m not a BVB fan, but I sympathize because the better team didn’t win and they should’ve. Makes it all the worse that the two Madrid players who scored are literally the two scummiest players on the team, a fascist team wins because of fascist players. What a joke of a club Madrid is.
that's the thing with real madrid every time though, isn't it???? they never play "better" than the other team, and yet
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told my wife i will finally win against her in our annual anniversary sparring matches and of course, she laughs, since i always lose every year lmao
but she doesn't know i've been going to jiu jitsu classes while she's deployed
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