I think Shadowbringers is a great example of how knowing or guessing the "reveal" doesn't hurt a good story, and writers who understand that will write more confidently and tell better stories. That the Exarch is G'raha Tia is not hard to figure out. He has a distinctive lip shape, and he's the guy who was in the Crystal Tower! He's not even a very good liar at the end of the day. And none of that makes his arc as the Exarch any less powerful, imo. I don't think trying harder to obscure the Exarch's identity would make Shadowbringers a better story. Because the emotional core of his arc isn't in shock value. It's in the unfolding story of G'raha's journey, how he came to be here, why he is hiding his identity, why he pretends not to know you or who G'raha Tia is. It's in the culmination of a hundred years of planning and secrecy and loneliness, in how he's willing to die to save two worlds and you, in why it all goes wrong at the last minute, in how hard he tries to play the villain so you'll let him go, and in how unconvincing he is in that role. It's in the choices he makes when he realizes he doesn't have to die. It's in everything he chooses to be. He has a good story, and a good story doesn't lose its power when you know all or part of the ending, because a good story is about the journey.

Armored Lady Monday

this armor is probably not the best to jump flip and dance around in, but it looks so cool that i am probably making my viera suffer when i play dancer with a fur jacket, a vest, a turtle neck sweater and like 2 layers of pants

F!Emet-Selch 💜

for lesbian visibility week i bring you modern rynegaia

The endsinger (ffxiv) inprnt: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/hagushka/the-endsinger/

doodle log

drawings i did for friends of our ffxiv wols! @gembroni @julls <3

My graphics card is angry at me for finally playing a "real" game in so long and refuses to raise the fan speed even when overheating, preventing me from stripping Eorzea clean of all the flax I can get my hands on.

cats

RED MOTORCYCLE MOUNT

look how well it colours with my outfit!!!

WoL: You're offered 50 mil gil but if you accept it the person you hate most in the entire world gets 100 mil gil. Are you taking it?

Thancred: Yes, why wouldn't I want 150 million gil?

realistically, what would the warrior of light have done during the endsinger fight if shinryu hadn't popped up. like, fantasy world, you shoot laser beams out of flying turrets in your back or what have you, suspend your real world equivalency, but what could've happened other than dropping like a heavy stone into the abyss. embarrassing

Completed commissions recently! Thank you for the support!

I've gotten sick a lot due to the weather here while working on these so extra extra thanks to the commissioners here for being so patient with me ;v;

My commissions are currently open btw! If curious, feel free to visit my commissions info site !

I will make a separate post when I have the time with more links to my other socials to pin for easy access ;v;/

...You know. I am very surprised Y'shtola didn't figure the whole thing out when the Exarch was like "hey can I talk to Urianger privately for like 10 minutes" and then Urianger came out going "I HATH FORSEEN A FATE MOST TERRIBLE IN MY JOURNEY BETWIXT THE SHARDS"

Welcome to Junelezen 2024!

Just one month away, it's Junelezen again!

Throughout June, we invite you to participate in a prompt event celebrating all those beautiful Elezen OCs!

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Our current mod team would like to thank the previous mod team for running this event for several years, and we hope to do you proud! The mod team will monitor the tag throughout the month and reblog every entry we find - please be patient, it might be that our queue runs full or we miss an entry, but if your post doesn't get reblogged within three days, feel free to tag us!

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I still haven't unlocked the Lop Hop dance.... What am I doing.