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Petition for Spanish Translation of Final Fantasy XIV
a quick search didn't reveal any tumblr posts about it, so i'll just gonna throw this link out for anybody who would benefit from it! the tweet i found this from has almost 2k likes, but the forum post itself only has about 250, and that's what matters, so uhhhhh let's make up the difference.
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[climbs up onto the stage with a microphone] ahem. butch femroes w/ pecs. that's it, that's the post. brought to you by fornax :)
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thou art of the godless blessed's number.
From the journal of Estelle de Laussienne:
Oh, but the world looked so civilized from atop the Pillars, did it not? Our tables did not empty, even as our croplands froze over. Our priests tended kindly to their flocks. There was no need for fire and brimstone at our pulpits on high; we had more than enough fuel for the hearth as it was. When you are a thousand malms from conflict, even a goddess of war might seem to soften at her sharp edges, fat from plenty.
The world is not like this. I have walked among the leanness of the Brume, but it would take the "beastmen" to teach me the margins of survival. There are no kind gods among the hungry. To look upon a primal is to know that even our prayers can be made cannibals if threatened to starve.
With a cache of crystals and all the animal rage in my body, in that moment, I might have summoned my goddess, too.
And she would have been ravenous.
[ countdown to dawntrail | prompt: primal ]
#ffxiv#gpose#femroe#roegadyn#oh look a reason for me to actually do the thing i was going to do like 2 months ago!!!#ifrit is one of my favorite bits of ARR tbh#you're cruising along beating up squirrels and school bullies and jaywalkers#and then the game puts your blorbo in the blorbo trauma paint can shaker just to see what happens#countdown to dawntrail
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Having your own OC as your Blorbo is great because you will never have to see a bad Fannon brainrot take or awful but inexplicably popular ship involving them, but also I Have To Do Everything Myself Around Here Augh
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☆ (happy Headcanon) for Ajisai OwO
YAY happy headcanon!
After two-ish decades of believing her entire family is dead, Ajisai finds out in Stormblood they're both still alive and kicking Imperial ass. The whole family is reunited at Ghimlyt Dark. Her old man was in Gyr Abania and Mama Kawanami was part of the Doman resistance :D
It's the last good thing that happens to Ajisai before Shadowbringers!
Here's her parents' reunion:
Turns out, the sun and moon can share the same sky.
@candycryptids thank you for the ask!! :D
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Get in, loser. We're going boating. [Minion mod edition]
It's a big boat.
Like really, really big.
Like if someone took a house, made it a boat, and put it on the Plush Cushion minion.
If you use it on the water, it's gpose-only, but you can slap it down on the shore and use the Simple Heels plugin to RP in it.
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"I never thought of you as the type to encourage being a little shite-stirrer, to be honest."
"What can I say? I am not above making a statement to spite those who think themselves my betters."
i think i'm canonically moving ellie's fake archon tattoo to her neck. it probably would've been there all along, i just never found a crime that could actually do that. >.>
also her archon mark is fake. i'm not sure if i've mentioned that. :V upon finding out she was rejected from the Studium, and that she would have studied the rise and fall of utopian societies, Alphinaud of all people encouraged her to get a facsimile to spit in their eye, especially after they help bring about massive societal change in Ishgard. this definitely will not be a problem when they go to Sharlayan in EW.
also it's kind of amazing to see Alphinaud with a mischievous grin. i believe he has it in him, with a sister like Alisaie.
#ffxiv#other peoples ocs#sharlayan should just give her an archon mark if they knew whats good for em
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i wanted to do something for lesbian visibility week but i couldn't think of anything other than "put on the gayest glams i have" so. perceive my lesbian femroe, i guess :3
bonus:
lesbian can be stored in the brain
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i know a lot of people (very understandably) dislike the paladin job quests in ffxiv, particularly HW, but i do think it's fun that, now that the pre-ShB MSQ revamp is complete, paladins now have a very cool and thematic in-game storyline that happens without a word being spoken: the development of passage of arms.
none of the below is directly stated in the script, but imo it's a fairly obvious gloss on what the game presents, if you assume a paladin warrior of light. spoilers for all expansions through the end of 6.X.
in the new version of steps of faith, as vishap breaks through each ward protecting ishgard from attack, lucia mounts a final desperate effort to hold him back, with a very familiar looking animation:
but even lucia can't hold back vishap's flame alone, so the temple knights surge forward to assist her. their efforts make the shield visually more powerful and larger. the temple knights here band together in defense of ishgard, and their knightly resolve to protect their home is the difference between victory and defeat.
lucia and the knights do ultimately succeed in defending the last ward, as you have to defeat vishap before their shield falls or you lose.
later in heavensward, obviously, we will get ffxiv's most famous (failed) attempt at blocking something with a shield.
this moment can be read as fairly impactful on the warrior of light's development; as i've noted elsewhere, after the trauma of watching haurchefant bleed out in their arms at level 57, at level 58 paladins learn to channel their magic into healing (and it's called "clemency," or mercy. mercy for whom? who was guilty?), and as someone pointed out on that post, at level 58 dark knights used to get "sole survivor", letting them heal in response to a marked target's death.
for a time, you literally carry haurchefant's shield with you, and 3.3 very much literalizes in genre fashion the idea that even when you are standing alone, your fallen friends stand with you. you don't need to call any allies to stand at your side and raise their shields with you because they are already there, in spirit.
stormblood marks a pretty important turning point in the warrior of light as a combatant, in my opinion, and the text makes this clear in several ways. first, in pretty much all your jobs, you've now far exceeded your trainers and are pioneering new techniques. this is no less true of paladin, which for 60-70 abandons any trainers at all for you to show off your peerless skills in a tournament.
second, stormblood is straight up a story about you getting stronger. at level 61, zenos kicks your ass. at level 70, you kick his ass. why? because you fought and got stronger and developed incredible new techniques and became a one-man army.
for a lot of classes, this story lines up nicely with the big rotation changes or flashy new finishers on the way from 60 to 70. SMN is now busting out bahamut and casting akh morn; RDM gets verflare and verholy; DRG starts harnessing nidhogg's power directly through dragon sight and nastrond.
the tanks are divided in two: warriors and gunbreakers get huge damaging upgrades at 70 in the form of inner release and continuation, each of which lets them hit the same button many times for lots of damage and satisfying animations. paladin and dark knight get more protective abilities; dark knight gets the blackest night, and there's been plenty said about that already by pretty much everyone.
paladins get passage of arms. instead of a relentless new attack (and you get requiescat at 68, which is a way bigger deal for your dps rotation), your big reveal at 70 for zenos in your fight in ala mhigo is a superior way to protect your party, a shield that lets you stand for your allies so they never have to fall for you again. it's lucia's same shield, except you need no allies' shields to reinforce you, proof of your martial prowess and your ability to transcend limits, and perhaps in truth a reminder that you never really stand alone.
in many respects passage of arms should really feel like a paladin signature move to you now if you are playing it at this point, because you should be popping it in pretty much every fight (you are using your mits, right...?). basically every FFXIV fight has at least one big AOE with downtime that warrants passage of arms usage, usually after the mid-fight add phase with slowly filling bar. since that AOE usually drops during downtime, there's no reason not to pop passage of arms (which otherwise restricts your movement and actions), and even on normal, sometimes every little bit counts on a damage check even if it means dropping DPS (thinking here of harrowing hell P10N on release, which was...less consistent for a lot of roulette parties than you might hope).
so from 70 onward, passage of arms is in a sense a paladin warrior of light's signature move, and certainly the one a player gets to most actually enjoy (since if you're using it, you're by necessity not doing anything besides moving your camera and admiring your sick animation). it doesn't have any competition in terms of spectacle until confiteor, and those you're usually throwing out in the middle of movement.
it's such a signature, in fact, that the only other person shown using your one-person version of passage of arms is your greatest admirer, who studied your legend for over a century.
and it's when he fails (should've popped arm's length, bud) that the warrior of light decides they can't let their friends fall for them, and sends them away with the transporter beacon. this is all wrong: you were meant to die for them, not the other way around. yours is the shield that stands between your allies and defeat. it is you who will win this passage of arms and break your opponents lance. and you do.
and then later, when they need to quickly establish zero's domain as a place of fallen grandeur, the home of someone who once believed in heroes but is now a cool and cynical vampire hunter d, what do they use? a decayed statue of someone in the paladin endwalker gear doing the passage of arms animation, of course.
from a visible instantiation of knighthood as a joint effort to defend what is sacred, to a tribute to the fallen friends whose memories stand by you and animate you, to a symbol of the wol's power as emulated by their allies or darkly mirrored in other shards.
not bad for a mit button you hit once per fight and otherwise never think about!
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Lalapril Recap
thank you all for joining me this month! heres to many more adventures in dawntrail!!
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Welcome everyone to Wolmeric Week 2024!
WoL/OC & polyam ships with Aymeric are welcomed as well as platonic relationships.
Any creative media ok: gpose, art, fic, video, etc. NS/FW ok, please add content warning in description & spoiler cover.
#wolmericweek #wolmericweek2024
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for lesbian visibility week i bring you modern rynegaia
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Lalapril Day 12 (1/2)
Zephyr
Named for the Greek god Zephyrus, a zephyr is a gentle breeze or a west wind. The westerly wind is considered the most mild and favorable of the directional winds.
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Old French names for your Elezens
Because I figured that if you don't speak French, it might be harder to find old names.
Here's a link with over 6000 old French first names:
(The site doesn't seem to be translated in English so click as shown in the screenshot above to access the lists.)
And the Wikipedia list of many old and more recent French first names:
NB: French names aren't nearly as unisex as in the Anglo-sphere. If you care about that (and you don't have to), I'd suggest refraining from using a typically feminine name for a man or vice-versa.
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wondrous tails // twelve
kisses
"Has anyone seen the Warrior of Light? Actually, now that I think about it, has anyone seen Lord Haurchefant?" ~ Alphinaud, probably
[My Other Wondrous Tails]
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Part 2 of the photoshoot.
I just happen to think he's neat.
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