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Don't skip ARR. Please. I dunno why we need to keep having this conversation.
It sets up EVERYTHING and has great story moments in it. All the foundational lore and context is there. Including for example my lovely, cherished Ascians!
DON'T SKIP ARR!
I find it kinda amusing people thought they made Hades a good guy in Endwalker.
No, they just made him more complicated. He still killed a lot of people, fucked up a lot more people, and remained unrepentant about his invincible convictions. His actions. Or so he says anyway.
What's the most beautiful thing in the world? 🥹
Graphics update Convocation memory crystals. ✨
Holy fuck these are... words fail us they're so fucking GOOD!!! 😭💜🧡
Y'know I hope Yoshida never sees what the GShade devs just pulled because putting a malware tool into the game would be an IMMEDIATE no for a shader mod he was otherwise fine with in contrast to other mods.
And on the heels of the zoomhacking TOP debacle?
I know others might be apprehensive about the prospect of upcoming arguments about Endwalker's approach to the question of the Garlean Empire.
I hope we can all agree, however, that the writers handled the prospect of forgiveness here, and guilt and punishment, pretty damn well.
People starting in 6.1 are going to have zero idea who anyone is, what anything is, or why anything matters. They'll have skipped so many highs and lows in the story. Hell, they'll have skipped much of their WoL's potential growth.
This is a frankly stupid decision.
I love them both though prefer ShB Emet-Selch.
Before I pass out I'm gonna throw this question out there to my fellow Emetfuckers; with Endwalker firmly established, which Hades do you prefer?
Young Emet from Elpis or older Emet as Solus? Or do you like them both equally?
I was glad to see us use the Azem crystal as intended in a way that it now feels normalized for WoL as a useful tool.
The means by which we can always call allies to our side, particularly fellow WoLs/adventurers. Our friends.
I appreciate that a lot as flavour.
Was heading over to Ameliance for deliveries when we noticed something new from this post-patch? Alphinaud and Alisaie hanging out by the side of the Leveilleur Estate.
Plus interesting dialogue... Fourchenault wants to chat with us huh? I bet he does. 🤭
I will say that while I'm very happy to have Lahabrea and more Erichthonios and Themis, I'm also very much feeling like:
- please give me more women characters SE
- especially give me more Ancient and Ascian women SE (Athena please call me)
- inundate me with them in lead roles
tip for procrastinators: if you want to get work done just get an image of your favorite character saying "can you stop fucking around". it works everytime there is so much shit I would never get done if I didn't have vash the stampede telling me to get off my fucking phone
you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. and i think this is the last act of loving someone. and you realize that it will never end. you get to do this, to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life.
God forbid people should find joy in adulthood. They deserve it; they work hard to own the things they were often denied as children. That they find meaningful.
Life is short. Difficult. Be cringe and free. Buy that plushie or action figure. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Adults who buy toys for themselves are becoming one of the main contributors to growth in the toy industry, according to a new report by CNBC. This accounts for roughly 1/4 of all toy purchases, totaling $9 Billion annually.
I'm excited by Pandaemonium for many reasons but the big one is I wanna know how the fuck Azem knows WoL exists and is like, very enthusiastic about us and our ability to handle helping Themis with the prison's perils.
AND predicting we'd even show up at all, and how, in detail.
Friendly reminder as I fall asleep.
Elidibus is not a minor. Holy shit I cannot believe we keep having this conversation. Stupid drama.
He's over twelve thousand years old and referred to REPEATEDLY in ancient times as a young man. A talented mage. A Convocation member.
Got Orbonne for Alliance roulette and god damn does she hit different.
I bet Ultima is the Athena of another world, who was not stopped; Athena, had she succeeded, may very well have become another Ultima. Perhaps the auracite is how this entity type reproduces?
To the people upset the Shadowkeeper mount is a Mogstation item: cry more. I'm grateful our precious time and sanity won't be sapped trying to get it some hard way years from now (or never).
Not everything cool has to be gated. People have other things to do with their lives.
If anyone ever did this to us we would no joke delete the affected fic(s) from Ao3 and never post it publicly again.
Fic writers don't owe you updates on things they write first and foremost for themselves. You certainly don't get to use your word vomit generator to 'finish' it.
When Sarah defeated Tsukuyomi, Yotsuyu's spirit resisted the call of the Lifestream. Her desire to live fiercely clashing with her hatred of Doma.
It was in seeking the solace of the moon, the last place her spirit knew to flee to, that she came across an unlikely kindness.
Read that thing in the corner about:
- red masks were not seen among the general population
- white robes were Elidibus and advisory roles outside public office
Thing one seems silly since we see Emet and Lahabrea walk around with their red ones. Thing two though sounds logical.
Hi, so... The last few hours have been immensely emotional (positive); we arrived at our new home to gifts from partners and our system names adoring our new bedroom walls.
Words can't express how grateful we feel... We're finally home. With people we love and trust... 😭🫂💜✨
Ah.
It would seem that our little tale has, at long last, come to an end. And with it, my own little role.
I... am thankful. That it was you. My old, new friend.
Remember us. Remember that we once lived. 💜
I'm not gonna comment on the COVID at FanFest comic guy except to say, as someone who attended the convention immunocompromised: fuck people like that for willfully endangering the health of everyone around them.
They were stupid, selfish and should be ashamed of themselves.
Oh also one more thing before we pass out.
THEY GAVE US THE MOTHERFUCKING CONVOCATION OF FOURTEEN MEETING CHAMBER DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WE SCREAMED WITH TAMA IN VOICE CHAT WHEN WE SAW THIS ABSOLUTE BLESSING?!? IT WAS A LOT!!! AHHHHHHHHH
Okay we are now no longer mentally ill. 🙂
So the new dungeon's name made me curious...
From Wikipedia on Lapis Manalis: "A lapis manalis was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman religion. One covered a gate to Hades, abode of the dead; Sextus Pompeius Festus called it Ostium Orci, 'the gate of Orcus'." 1/2
I'm going to make a request now I don't make lightly, but this situation has disappointed us enough to ask this, now.
Mutuals/followers who follow Z*pla, please unfollow her or unfollow us instead. We do not want anyone willing to give her bullshit the time of day in our space.
We're happy to have an Athena minion but I'd definitely have liked it better if they'd also included Themis and Lahabrea minions. Like, as a end of raid quest reward or something.
That seems like such an oversight.
bro trust me i am an expert on girls i did years undercover at girl conventions. i know everything. women don’t want some cheugy shit like a provider or a protecter anymore that’s embarrassing. they want an ancient man with a thousand yard stare and no gag reflex
Look... I was on anti-depressants for years so I could literally function and get up in the morning after a suicide attempt.
I do not begrudge anyone who needs chemical assistance to get through life for any length of time; sunshine and sleep can't fix every fucking problem.
Balloons and such appear not to be working on here but. In a few minutes we'll be 33.
Happy birthday to us. ✨
Have our system pose for said occasion from last year before we pass out.
It pisses us off again to see Elpis ending very quickly shuffled along without the Scions acknowledging what happened.
A misstep of the narrative. Even if matters are urgent.
"Hmm... you all certainly took your time in the forest. I had wondered if I might need to light your way... hasten this little production along, yes?"
"Ah, but where are my manners... Amadeus het Soranus, at your service. My dear associates will be along shortly." 💜
But I don't honestly think I'd love his character half as much if he was good. I never expected him to change or become good.
I enjoy seeing him be what he is. And acknowledge his conflict of emotion and perception and doubts about his goals over time in other ways. Subtle ones.
@northgalis
It's very funny right up until you fall in love with him and his world and his whole self and then kill him.
And then he never leaves you.
And honestly I wouldn't want it to be otherwise.
A once in a lifetime antagonist.
I would unkindly ask anyone in my follower count to kick @/TransEmet and @/Carvallain to the curb.
They've had plenty of chances from myself and others to show basic human decency towards others in shared fandom spaces and have failed miserably. Especially lately.
Walking alone with the whole world on your shoulders is not always the uplifting/empowering thing it appears to be, in a 'suffering builds character' kind of way.
Sometimes it is just the world crushing you like a bug. I think this is part of where Endwalker didn't quite get it.
Full offense to anyone upset that women, non-binary/GNC folks and others you don't like have the audacity to take up space and oxygen in a game tailor made for OCs and self inserts.
Continue to be impotently mad as we all continue to share our lore and joy unimpeded and happy.
The Corevocation cordially invites you to an informal, chill/vibes party in Elpis! Dress code is Ancient themed, so feel free to get creative beyond just Sophist robes. ✨💜✨
Where and When:
April 28th, 7 pm EST - 11 pm EST
Elpis | Lethe ☄️🌳
Hyperion | Primal DC 🌟
#LetheParty
Persephone tradwife discourse is certainly not how I wanted this week to begin and yet here we are.
Block liberally friends. I know I am.
This assumption that choosing Persephone as an Azem name somehow equals tradwife bullshit is laughable to me. You don't fucking know me.
@CelesteElran
I'm still expecting this to be a promise made to Azem and/or us, the WoL, in the context of Pandaemonium's conclusion.
And then this will sting with the bite of a thousand angry hornets. A sublime pain. To know his fate and our role in its ending. 🥲
The first Mitron is a historical figure. Not the Artemis of the Elpis/Final Days era or the Ascian we meet in Eden. Just to ensure people read correctly.
I'm curious why this change was made, but good for her.
oh in-case anyone didn't know, they changed mitron's pronouns from he/him to she/her in the akadaemia anyder! (this happened in 6.3 or 6.4 i believe? feel free to correct me)
Ultimately what I took away from Endwalker is there are things about his character that have always been true. And others that developed during that horrifying burden period between Final Days and ShB.
And that is immensely valuable to know to study his trajectory of change.
Fucking around with gouache paints for the first time in many years. As I tend to like abstractions, I decided to take a crack at Venat and her flowing hair.
This is def a rough, practice WIP to feel out the paint, but I like it already. Gives us angry ocean deity vibes. 🤍💙🖤
Possessiveness of ships has always been and always will be silly to me. We should lift one another's creations up, and share in others joy, not tear them down in a vain attempt to hoard something fictional to ourselves.
I would hope love conquers fear more often in this case.
#FFXIVSelfie
Day again? Bear witness, then, to our pretty new blouse from a few weeks ago. 💜🧡
Black is an Ascian's best pal (except in summer or the Mojave Desert 😵💫).
@VirunSeptimus
@summoningbell
He's on an elaborate date and doesn't even realize it yet.
Vrtra got feelings during Thavnair part two. Estinien is basically his Shiva now.
(I say this as a joke but I like the idea as a ship and do expect Estinien to be in Thavnair from this point forward, whatever happens.)
Azem: I disagree vehemently with the concept of summoning primals.
*Several millennium later*
WoL: Okay and so now I weave from Ifrit to Phoenix and then back to Bahamut to really light their fire!
There's been so much justified negative backlash against people playing that game and defending it. And that is good. We appreciate that.
What we'll add, before we head to sleep, is this: thank you, all of you, who stood up for trans people and also didn't play that shitty game.
@FF_XlV_EN_
"Perhaps now I can finally catch forty winks without further inane prattle ringing in my ears. Or hapless heroes dunking me in waterfalls..."
"I played my part to perfection. I have earned my rest. Pray enjoy the mediocrity your little 'game' will experience in my absence."
Getting our hair done for FanFest today. Stay tuned for pics later. :3 💜
We'll do our best to preserve it for next week. We'll be in Vegas starting the day prior to the beginning of the con, if anyone happens to be around at that time. ✨ - Azarak