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Im going to (remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health) release my entelechies to the stars to place mankind on trial and allow the universe to be swallowed whole by despair if they fail

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Can’t ever join the “they’re mean to me :(“ crowd, a character calls me a cunt and becomes a permanent party member

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It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack

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nice pair of characters who trust each other more than anyone else in the whole entire world it would sure be a shame if one of them betrayed that trust for the sake of trying to keep the other alive. it would sure be a shame to love someone so much you destroy them

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infamia

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Dark.

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1k words with inspiration: literally 10 minutes or less of writing. a breeze

1k words without inspiration: i will do it. i will take the ring to mordor

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sorry for being romantic, i‘ll go back to being scared of love. give me a second

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hey? can someone send me a screenshot of an ixali with a bow? i'll give you ten bucks please

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i was shopping for a new keyboard the other day and was crying over this item description with some friends

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listen, sometimes it's more powerful for a fictional relationship to be a friendship precisely because friendship is devalued in comparison to romance. anyone can sacrifice themself for the love of their life. but for a friend? if anything, that kind of devotion can be even more moving than if the relationship is romantic. there's a real dramatic power to prioritising friendship in your narratives sometimes.

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I always keep coming back to monk which was the first job I ever played. In HW I tried to be a machinist, ended back on monk, in shb I wanted to be a dancer, ended back on monk, in EW I wanted to be a reaper, ended back on monk, and now in DT I've been having fun on viper, but now I've eventually caved and gone back to monk.

It might be just a tumblr community thing, but I feel like everyone here are very attached to a certain job that they associate with their wol/oc

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Bro come look at the stars with me I am not feeling like myself

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it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure it out but. the summoner bahamut/phoenix phases are the enhanced version of aethercharge, which works by siphoning ambient aether to charge the ruin spell... because both bahamut and phoenix made lasting changes to the greater eorzean environment, meaning summoners attune to the ambiant radiation. unlocking the summoner job in, say, hingashi or tural without ever setting foot in eorzea would be an interesting experiment (i guess the closest we've seen so far is valigarmanda? that would be a fun egi to summon). and similarly, solar bahamut is a mix of bahamut and phoenix engineered by the wol in a mad scientist moment, because we know there isn't space for another egi in their soul, so i imagine they kinda combined them to maximize both bahamut's destructive power and phoenix's restorative abilities, but this will likely be the last enhancement we see (except some minor tweaks, probably)

on a related note, i only realized recently that the white mage "thin air" spell (allowing the next spell to be cast without expending MP) works by "thinning air" (i.e siphoning ambient aether); i wonder if this works similarly for both summoners and white mages. and of course there are only 2 charges of thin air because while you could theoretically cast all your spells by drawing upon ambient aether, we know what consequences it had in the past, and the wol is explicitly granted their white mage jobstone for their restraint and will to respect natural balance & the ways of nature as a whole. so in my opinion this is a chosen, self-imposed limit, not a technical one