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Bubbles
A Stardew Valley fan fiction about the relationship between Sebastian and my farmer, Lily. A sweet little one-shot that falls between chapters four and five of my longfic, My Everlasting Light.
Notes: Thanks to @krobusfan for giving me the inspiration for this story with their lovely art!
Synopsis: A silly little gift from Sam opens Seb's heart to new hope
Cast: Original Female Character, Sebastian, Sam
Contents: Friendship, Developing Relationship, Pining, Angst, Fluff
Warnings: None
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Sebastian glared at the cigarette he'd just lit and let out an annoyed huff.
"Ah shit!" He stubbed it out on the heel of his sneaker. "It's such a bad fucking habit, I'm doing it without even thinking!"
"What's up, dude?" Sam said breezily as he ferreted around in his coat pocket. They had just finished band practise for the day and were having their usual break outside before parting ways. "You're normally happily puffing away by now."
Seb muttered angrily under his breath. "Yeah, well, I'm quitting, okay?"
Sam looked up, finally seeming to have found what he was looking for. "Quitting? How come?"
"I've got my reasons…"
Sam grinned slyly. "Lily doesn't like it, huh?"
Sebastian flushed. "No, I just figured it's about time I stopped. It's not good for me."
"Whatever you say…"
Seb felt his face glow even more uncomfortably and tried to stop his hand from automatically reaching for his cigarette packet again.
"It's just, you've been spending so much time with her lately… and, well…"
"She hurt her ankle, dude, she needs help! I wouldn't be much of a friend if I didn't lend her a hand, would I?"
"Okay, okay…" Sam started shaking something and Seb peered over curiously.
"What have you got there anyway?"
Sam's eyes twinkled. "Watch…" he turned away for a moment and Seb could see him fiddling with something, then a stream of bubbles rose slowly into the air.
"What the…?" Seb's eyes widened. "Bubbles?"
Sam laughed and turned back, pursing his lips to blow through the little plastic wand he'd pulled from the bottle he held in his hand. "Cool, huh?" He puffed more purposefully, growing a bubble of almost impossible proportions before letting it sail silently away. "Haha, remember how we used to do this all the time when we were kids?"
"Yeah… I remember." It seemed like such a long time ago now. Another lifetime. It was one of the reasons he'd started smoking, almost like he was sticking two fingers up at the childhood that had hurt him so much.
"You want a go?" Sam raised a playful eyebrow.
"Ah, I'd feel stupid."
He did want a go. He really did. Dammit, was that another cigarette in his fingers? When had he even…?
Sam smiled knowingly. "Here ya go, dude." He shoved the wand back in the bottle and handed it over. "It's yours, I got plenty more. Pierre's selling them by the boatload and Vinnie's busy buying out his entire stock!"
For a long moment Seb just stared at his friend's outstretched hand, not sure he was allowed to own something like this.
"Go on, man, you might like it. Think of it as addiction therapy, every time you wanna light up, blow some bubbles instead!"
"Okay," he threw his cigarette away and took the proffered item. "Thanks, Sam."
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Sebastian sat on the steps leading up to Lily's porch, restlessly twisting the bottle Sam had given him between his fingers. He should be knocking at her door, starting his afternoon of work on her farm, but, for some reason, all he could do instead was stare at this stupid bottle, tears pricking suspiciously at his eyes.
Why the hell had he even accepted it? Blowing bubbles was just for kids and he hadn't been a kid for a long time. Wasn't sure he'd really been one even when he was. His hand itched to reach for his cigarettes again and he cursed himself for buying them that morning. He'd thrown all his others away when Lily had hurt herself so badly to get him the frozen tear he now wore around his neck, yet his dumb ass had still picked some up on his way to Sam's, just as he'd always done every day for Yoba knew how long.
He cursed again. The tear. Lily. Both so precious to him. More than he could ever admit.
This time he did reach for the packet. He pulled it out, threw it on the steps and ground it angrily underfoot.
The door behind him opened, he jumped guiltily and turned to see Lily hobbling her way out onto the porch, her little black cat, Nyx, scampering at her heels.
He shot immediately to his feet, alarmed by her limping when she should be resting, caught in the same agony of conflicting emotions he always felt on seeing her.
"Lily! You shouldn't be walking on that ankle yet!"
She smiled apologetically at him, the look on her pretty face making him want to cry. Ah shit. What the hell was wrong with him? First he was nearly blubbing over a bottle of bubble mix and now this?
"I'm sorry, Sebby," she sat on the steps with a little sigh. "I just thought I heard you, that's all."
He echoed her sigh and sat back down next to her. "Yeah, I'm sorry I'm a bit late. I was at band practise with Sam."
"That's okay," her voice was sweet and gentle. It always made him feel so… so…. "I know you have others things to do beside help me on the farm!"
His gaze shot up. "None of that is more important than you!"
Agh, what was he saying? His face blazed. His heart tried to beat its way out of his chest in shame.
"Ah… um… I mean…" his gaze fell to the ground again.
"What's that you have there?"
His entire body jerked. Had she seen the cigarettes? How could she not? They were an obvious, mushed mess on the ground. He'd told her only the other day he was quitting. What would she think of him?
He forced himself to look up.
"Sebby…" Oh Yoba, her eyes were so soft, so beautiful. "Is that bubble mix?"
His heartbeat slowed, his muscles relaxed. She wasn't judging him, she never did, never had. Not his Lily. Never his Lily.
"Can I have a go?" she asked shyly.
Of course she could. He handed the bottle over wordlessly, completely unable to tear his gaze away from her. He would give her anything. Had felt this way ever since he met her. Ever since they became friends. Ever since he had found himself wanting more.
Nyx climbed into her lap as she took off the lid, patting playfully at the wand, and Lily giggled as she lifted it to her lips and blew. Sebastian watched, entranced, as a stream of iridescent bubbles rose into the air, causing fresh delight in her pet who leapt up to chase them only to fall back with a look of utter feline surprise at the soapy pop that quickly followed.
"Oh Nyx!" Lily's laughter pealed out as Nyx hopped and meowed indignantly, scrubbing frantically at her nose with her paw. "But I just know you'll chase the next one anyway!"
More bubbles flew out and Sebastian couldn't help but laugh too as the little cat did exactly as Lily had predicted.
And then he stared, just stared, at the scene in front of him, not realising that the haze he looked through was the tears he was too afraid to shed.
The woman he had come to love, surrounded by bubbles, hazel eyes sparkling, auburn hair waving in the fragrant spring breeze, the sweet sound of her laughter reminding him of a time in his childhood he had almost forgotten, reminding him that it was never gone, never too late, the beauty he had thought forever lacking in his life was right there, right in front of him.
He just had to summon the courage to take it.
~The End~
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Cute little page dividers by @chachachannah / Boring old plain green ones by me!
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doctorsiren · 7 months
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I saw an interesting post a while back that said “Capcom made us [Miles and Diego/Godot] only have like two(?) interactions because they knew we would be unstoppable with a brother dynamic” and tbh it stuck with me bc it was intriguing.
So yeah that potential brotherhood, but that Godot/Diego AU I made (that I still need a name for)
Also I bet Gregory Edgeworth would have smelled like a bit like coffee, and so Diego just reminds Miles of that comforting presence 😭 (the von Karma estate was a tea household, so he didn’t smell much coffee after DL-6 and didn’t realize how much he missed it/reminded him of his father)
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o0o0thorn0o0o · 7 months
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Hello~
I'm curious, are you into chibi art style? I wonder if you drew any for Ichigo and Orihime.
I would love to see chibi ichihime tybw if you still take requests.
I’ve got more so chibi-esque styles, and I have drawn TYBW IchiHime in one before (the IH over the years post). I assume you mean something chibi-er, though + I’ve never posted IchiHime in this art style before + it’s been a year since that post + I’m always down to draw more IchiHime <3 <3 so here you are:
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You probably meant the second pair of outfits, but I decided, since I’m at it (and I tend to use this art style for bases often), to include the first pair, too.
Haven’t drawn in this style in a while, but I really hope you like it ^^ ‘Twas fun to work on!
And also decided to include a TYBW color palette version (and by that, I mean their hair/eyes/skin, eheh) since that’s an easy adjustment:
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carpisuns · 10 months
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gaining a new interest/joining a new fandom is always kind of intimidating it feels like there’s so much you’ve missed out on by not enjoying this thing before so you’re like GRAHHHH got to catch up so I can have peak enjoyment like all the Enjoying This Thing experts around here! which is so silly bc if you enjoy a thing you’re already there but. yknow
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rubenesque-as-fuck · 6 days
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Creativity demons please give me the energy to start a new painting tomorrow
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r2y9s-notartblog · 19 days
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evening/night boop! (how are you doing?)
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morning boop! (i've lost track of the time whoops!)
I'm doing well! have a cat butt!
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ryonello · 2 years
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🧤
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fragmentedblade · 6 months
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It's sort of ironic how fans often link the leaf 🍁 to Dan Heng, considering "Feng" means "maple", but it's also so fitting
#The leaf following Dan Heng on his idle animation like the past identity he can't entirely leave behind because it always catches up to him#How the imagery appears on his splash art and his ultimate because it's irrevocably linked to who he is#even if in his trying to reclaim his right to be himself#The way he catches the leaf‚ looks at it thoughtfully and then lets it go...#I always loved his idle but after finding out the meaning I thought like I was being hit with a club#The fact that apparently according to some magazine he named himself after the 'Dan' engraved on Cloud Piercer is also very juicy#Because he chose himself to be linked to that past he is trying to break free from. It really enhances how the past is not something he is#negating entirely but something he wants to move on from. Likewise we see him try to get responsibility from his past and make things better#while he keeps reminding people he is himself and no one else#I've seen people read under romantic lens the fact that 'Dan' in engraved on the spear and that it marks how it's Dan Fen.g's#tied to the fact that Dan Feng too struggled with that reclamation of the self vs. giving up on himself entirely for a role#And it surprised me tbh. Romantic or platonic I didn't read it under that view at all maybe because I had read like in July#that the High Elders are named using the first character of their past ('Bai'‚ 'Dan'). I don't remember that appearing in canon explicitly#but it's a repeated pattern and back in the early Bail.u/Bai.heng theories it was something very often brought up#So my reading was that Yingxin.g was acting like a Furnace Master there#He had made a spear for the High Elder‚ and that role would transcend Dan Feng as a person and fall onto someone else eventually#As it does in some way onto Dan Heng now‚ to whom the spear responds#Yingxin.g the Furnace Master more than the friend had made a spear for the High Elder‚ and that role would transcend Dan Fen.g#I don't know... I've often read very sweet interpretations of this but the way I saw it I can't help but find it heartbreaking haha#Anyway I'm saying this because read this way his other idle animation‚ the one with the spear‚#also enhances the continuity of his self with Dan Fen.g's not just in personhood but in role#And considering Dan Heng's voiceline about Cloud Piercer is also a choice he makes even if the spear preceded him#So again a choice that is perhaps somewhat conditioned by the preexisting context but a choice he makes nonetheless#Like how he takes responsibility from his past but also decides to move on and reclaims his identity as something separate#Anyway... the Cloud Piercer thing is all theories for now. I don't think we know for sure if the continuity of the same first character#is something established in canon. Maybe it just happened these two times with Dan Heng and Bailu#because of the particularity of their cases#But I think it is coherent and that it would enhance this narrative motif or subject in Dan Hen.g's characterisation and arc#I find that concept of his very intriguing I hope it will be well developed in the future#As of now I find what they've done with it thus far a bit dull most of the time considering the potential it has
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eldenbeastt · 5 months
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the struggle of an artist is working for hours on a piece only to get zero fucking comments on it
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moenmomentsthemoe-en · 9 months
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TW // vent art, blood, (referenced) suicide attempts + heavy vent in tags
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(lyrics from saint bernard)
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flamboyant-king · 2 years
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I’ve been hearing different kinds of art advice and I’m torn on them.
Should you go through and finish something even though it doesn’t look good and is flawed in many ways OR scrap the piece and do it a different way/abandon the idea altogether?
#im a person who doesnt want to waste resources. If im unsure of the outcome then i dont do it#i dont know how to sew or bake because i dont want to waste fabric or ingredients on a fuck up#but i want to have fun DOING SOMETHING. Like haha baking cupcakes would be fun haha oh no its burnt#i havent gone through with ANY STORY IDEA ive had because i dont know how it willbegin all the way to the end#and im hearing advice like make that shitty make that shitty game but i cant bring myself to even start it#like i CANT make things without a purpose. If i dont have the finished product in mind#im too afraid to mess up im too afraid to fail#but like doing nothing is worse than failing no?#the other advice i saw was just leaving things as sketches. Not everything needs to be finished and not everything needs to be seen#and thats another issue i have. Not only will i not do things unless i know the productis good#i wont show you guys anything unless its appealing. And combining those two..li just dont make anything anymore#like…i cant take either advice because of how embarassed ashamed and afraid of failure i am#i want to let loose. I want to be free. I want to create nonsense from the heart rather than thinking everything through and through#every meticulous detail. Every sketch upon sketch upon sketchto deliver on something no one will see#i get that. I get that im not hot shit. Im not big or important. I have nothing left to bring to the table and#i guess knowing that stops me from doing anything because i think that the only thing im allowed/forced to do is make things worthy#i dont display my art in my room anymore. I dont doodle random things anymore. I open commissions because my drawings need a purpose#and thats stupid because im nobody. I have no purpose. My purpose is just to enjoy life. And being like THIS isnt enjoying life#its not even drawing its just anything. Socializing being with friends or family. Watching movies or playing games#i cant enjoy myself. Because i dont know how its going to GO. Thats not living. Life isnt fucking planned. Its spontaneous#but i cant DO that. And I dont know how to fix it.#but thats enough about me. What advice to you go by? Just going with it or redoing it?
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majouartings · 2 years
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Now you just need four more!
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frostbite-the-bat · 6 days
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i hgoupe I'm The roller guy to yall
#I'm srs I need recognition for things I like#I NEED TO BE Known That I like This thing#Not famous but#I'M!! THE ENJOYUER...#I can get like that with clash around friends in general but I keep it lows#But in Tghe fandom. I'm srs I may avoid ppl if I'm like#Man pplproly see them as the Roller guy hahaha they're popular and draw Tghe guy a lot and nobody likes me and#Help me#It's so dark here#What mental illness is causing this#ITS SO COLD....#WHERE AM I... IM SHOEING NEGATIVE MENTAL ILLNESS....#I will go crazy reaches to get recognized for a Thing usually by Overworking On Fanart#But also I'm just a perfectionist also so that doesn't help either#And then oops haha adhd make me NOT feel rewarded for ANYTHING and it's ALL MISERY#At least friends are nice and love me and I feel great Showing Stuff and Them Telling me stuff#But I generally feel disliked by people#I may just be over thinking but I can't shake off the feeling that people murmur about me negatively. Oh it's the annoying lame guy bitch#I think people also don't like me because I talk too much I get personal in art posts and I talk a lot#People tend to ignore that#And idk#I have friends who love me and I love them and that means more than anyrhing#But seeing anyone get recognized for Liking Thing makes me#Seriously want to do physical harm to myself sometimes and that's not a joke#I suffer Self Bite when Stressed. I don't know how to Regulate Sometimes.#Why do you think I block so many ppl and whine abt it#I get jealous upset at nothing feeling threatened. sometimes yea ppl post genuinely triggering stuff but half the time I'm just like#HIISS. HISSSS#HiiIIISSS#I need to have my brain cleaned and changed for a better one this isn't kt
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soyoursoulisgreen · 6 months
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5, 11, and 30 for the artist ask meme!
5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself
It's increased over time! Well, actually, it's been a bell curve, kind of. Maybe more like a roller coaster lol. Obviously before I was online I wasn't sharing any of the stuff I drew; I drew for about seven years before posting anything - casually, for my own entertainment - and then for a while I was posting almost everything in some form or another; if I didn't post the original doodle, it was because I cleaned it digitally! But I got pretty burnt out on that haha - it does still come and go in cycles lol. Nowadays I probably keep back about 30% of what I draw? Although it can be hard to quantify - if you upload to an audience of zero, is it actually online? Haha ♪ Or an audience of one! Just because it's shared using the internet as a middle man, does that count as "posting"? :0 I don't know! I think it's an interesting question tho!
11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what
Yes! It really depends on what I'm drawing; my go-tos are always Reddit story readings since I don't have to think too hard about picking one, they last a while, and they keep my auditory brain occupied while my hands and eyes are busy. For a couple days of Requestober, especially the Portal/Stanley Parable days but also the song prompt, I was listening to themed stuff - GLaDOS lines, Narrator lines, the aforementioned song haha. I hate having to stop to pick the next thing! It makes editing my footage harder and throws off my flow :P
30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated
A lot of my Law Abiding Citizen stuff probably - LAC is such a good series!! I wish more people would see it/were still into it. We're few, and I was late to party, but my love still burns! If I had to pick just one thing tho, I think it'd have to go to one of my Just Desserts comics - I cried while drawing it initially, and I still think Charm's transition from her smiling-crying face to her angry-crying face is so well done ♥
#Woah an original post#Ask#Ask me#Thank you! :D I had to think about these! Especially the first and last one!#I've been trying to find a good balance of drawing for myself/allowing myself space to mess up while also being proud of things#It can actually be hard to thread that needle lol - sometimes I'm like ''Well it's alright :/ But this bit is good! But out of context....'#It can be hard to be judicious! I really do want to show off a lot of it but I also want to leave room for myself!#I've been working on an all behind-the-scenes project over the course of October :3c#I'm almost ready to start compiling it! I'm buying myself a bit more time haha ♪#And of the audience of none thing - that behind the scenes project? Technically it's online right now - but on my Patreon lol#Tree falls in a forest and all that haha - it's a secret for as long as anyone else dictates! It's interesting :3#Plus there's also the thing of showing your online friends but not the wider public - where's the line?#How many people have to have seen something for it to count as being ''posted online''?#Even still - I always draw for myself haha ♪ I just also happen to share a lot lol but that's kind of a side effect of being pleased pfft#I have gotten so dry on things to listen to haaaghhh - I know I have a bajillion podcasts at my disposal but my brain is so pickyyyy#It has to be low-stress and not a bummer but interesting but not Too interesting that it becomes Inspiring- pfbtl >:P#I'm actually listening to something right now as well lol - I listen to music when I write and stories when I draw :D#I can't get 'em mixed - brain is picky lol (But really it's because it engages different parts of my brain that need attention)#It was also hard to answer the last one since I still kinda consider myself a fairly small artist haha - I like a lot of my art!#Even my old stuff :D Sometimes even especially my old stuff!#What counts as underrated when a lot of my stuff trends towards being on the quiet side? :0#That said I've been absolutely delighted by the Property of Hate and Portal turnout ahh <3 <3 Makes me happy to see them being enjoyed!!#Anyway sorry for going so long apparently I had Thoughts™ lol
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peapod20001 · 7 months
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When I love a song, I’ll love it forever
#random post#smth i thought about earlier. yknow. I have a hard time picking favorites with literally everything#I also have what I SAY is a favorite of mine. but I have a hard time really pinpointing whats number 1 in my brain#like. I love lots of things. I like different aesthetics and clothing and art mediums and movies and shows and books and music and people#but it’s difficult trying to find the favorite. some things are easier cus there’s more that I DONT like so it kinda singles out an option#like with music. I love LOTS of music. but what does it mean when smth is a favorite? I don’t have a favorite genre cus I have songs I love#from all over. even ones I haven’t heard yet. music overall is one of my favorite things. I’m not joking when I say it’s a love language#I love the melodies and beats and rhythms and lyrics and voices. always and forever will have a place in my heart and mind#I hate questions that want to know favorites. isn’t it enough to just show you instead? to share everything with you? why do you need one#single thing to know exactly who I am? wouldn’t you get me better if you spent a day with me instead?#I can’t remember everything of importance to me. not all in one single moment. if I went through my playlists and told you what songs I love#and why. what books I love and why. what anything I love and why. you’d find that I’m a bit undefined. I’m an artist and a creator. strong#yet weak imagination. sometimes think better in the abstract and other times do better with what’s set in stone#I love sharing things with people. I wish people would engage more with what I share sometimes. but I never hold it against em or hate them#if they don’t haha. often I feel down when ppl don’t engage with what I share. I know people aren’t obligated to do things but. yknow. it’s#my heart in a platter. splayed our for everyone. bits of me I want to share. what I want people to see. I’ve sat down with people to share#music I like. one friend said a song I like was scary. some people make faces at what I play. some have paid it no mind at all. they don’t#even know how important to me sharing something like that is. hell. how important me sharing ANYTHING is. it’s so easy to hide away#everything about myself. yet here I am trying my hardest to open myself up. yea. wish I was able to connect with someone like that#in person I mean. I guess. I just want to lay down with someone and play music we love. explain why we love it. or try to understand why#idk I’m getting rambly. I just want to do new things forever. and relive the first time everytime#this isn’t a vent or anything. just thinking and writing as I do. typing helps me to keep my mind on track. a bit at least. as much as one#with a brain like mine can havagahhaga. I wonder if anyone actually reads through my tag rambles in their entirety. I know it looks daunting#so I don’t blame you if you can’t or don’t feel like it. it won’t kill me if my words are lost in the void#haha anyways yea :> thinking lots
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noxtivagus · 1 year
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i'm so excited for ffxvi
#tag later#i think i'll cry vv much#esp considering i cried already each time they released a trailer haha#growing up.. growing up huh#i'm rlly excited to see all the themes!!!! the story is v intriguing to me#n then i really just love final fantasy i cannot express just how much the series means to me#it's saved me so many times n was. a friend to me in times i had none#but.. i don't have a ps5 :<<#i rlly want to be there when the game releases but i guess not#i don't want to see any spoilers or art or anything abt the story at all online#i want to see it from myself so#idk the thought of it hurts but#someday. someday#valisthea looks like a place from one of my dreams. i imagined something like that before#jill is.. likely to be my fav ff heroine from the single-player ff games. i love rinoa but there's alrdy something from jill i feel#n then. clive.#he looked so happy n young before n uh now he's Hot too yes but#i'm really curious to see what happens in the story i rlly rlly am#i think it'll be very personal to me. i do think the story has stuff on growing up n facing the world n truth n reality#so.. in this time of my adolescence. soon i'll graduate hs. college is nearer than i think. not yet next year but it's v soon#n then. if jill is clive's love interest. that'll be one of my favorite tropes#ffxvi is. like a dream to me. i'm very excited for it n i rlly love it already yes but it still feels like something so far out of my reach#i know which of my dreams are attainable n which are not. more often than not i do admit i end up not reaching out#it breaks me. i think i've cried a lot this year due to that. but i'll keep my silence but i'll keep my secrets n i'll hide n#be a ghost cheering you on from the sidelines ig#sorry that song i think hurt me more than it shld#i'm rambling. hmm. i have stuff to do grrr#but yh. honestly wtf thinking abt it n 2022 feels like a dream sm happened but. huh. how weird
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