I wonder if I should make one of these pinned introductory posts I see a lot, because everything opens in dashboard these days and no one goes to people’s main sites anymore.

You know: links to my other sites, DNIs*, attempts on deceiving you into belief I’m actually a) not an apathetic jerk who whines a lot; b) running a FFXIV blog; c) definitely not older than most of you**. All the stuff cool kids include.

But before I do that, let me welcome you with open arms and a cup of tea of your choice. If you live in a different time zone and miss this post, you will still get the tea, but I’ll be the one who chooses the ingredients and you’ll never even know you’ve got it <3

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I have an AO3 account and an art tag; I used to hang out on deviantART a lot as well, back when all my friends were still there; and on my better days I post my stuff here. I enjoy getting lost in interesting stories and cheering you on when you create them.

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Tales from other worlds:

FFXIV | PoE | FNV | SWTOR | 7KPP | DA

Tales from my (or shared) worlds:

Broken Mirrors | Rose & Flame

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*Just kidding, I know how pointless those are.
**No one believes in my real age anyway.

✮⋆˙Announcement✮⋆˙

I am currently, sadly, too preoccupied to accept commissions, but if you're patient I will be reopening them in February ✮⋆˙

Also if you still wish to make someone a special hollyday present I have a voucher offer

Voucher commissions would be still done in February.

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Happy ISAT anniversary! Wanted to play with magazine covers and how everyone's might look like with different outfits! Post game musings/headliners. B&W versions under the cut :3

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Neil Arthur (Blancmange)

Hits include:

• Living on the Ceiling
• Blind Vision
• Don't Tell Me

Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)

Hits include:

• Sweet Dreams
• Here Comes the Rain Again
• Would I Lie To You?
• Walking on Broken Glass

“How long have I planned what I would tell Her if we ever met face to face? Was I going to yell at Her? Thank Her? No idea. All the words have scattered and drowned in the aetherial sea, and all I can ask is: is this why I became a Primal slayer?”

Day 20 - Confront

so many people are still hyper-focused on the question of endless being people or not that they forget what they represent in the larger narrative about colonialism and fascism. it feels like the emet-selch question all over again: people so focused on whether he was right for grieving that they don't think about how his lionization of the past directly informs his fascist ideals in the present.

the point is: the complete preservation of the past As It Was and the effort to maintain it at the cost of actual living people is wrong. the narrative is quite clear about this. twice. the endless are not supposed to be people, they are ghosts living in a painless, idealized caricature of reality fueled by the literal souls of the citizenry it was supposedly built for and it absolutely shocks me that so many people don't see it for what it is: a grotesque simulacrum of life to justify the hoarding of resources and the deaths of millions of people

the food there having no flavor is an important detail that gets skipped over a lot. it's supposed to serve as a reminder that this is all Fake: the food, the bombastic theme park attractions, the people. it's a stark reminder of the real material cost to maintain this plane of artificial stagnation and the horror of what that means. the disneyland aesthetic is not a cute accident, and neither is the fact that after shutting down the terminals what you're left with is the ugly bones of it, that is deliberate storytelling

the fact that people either skipped these details or choose to ignore them makes me crazy bc they are obvious to the point of being crass in my mind, but seeing post after post about how people hated living memory because it felt like a "genocide" to shut off the terminals feels so tonally dissonant to what the narrative is screaming at you that i feel like if i didn't say something i was going to pop. an immortal ai queen is planning to subsume the souls of billions of living people starting with tural/the source to fuel her soul powered immortal ghost engine city and everyone is handwringing about turning off the soulsucking ghost city??? guys that's not the question being asked. that's not the genocide being enacted

on survival

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A thing to try: don't make gods for your fantasy TTRPG setting.

Instead, get each player to tell you the god their character follows, then roll a d6 behind the screen.

• 6: Their god is real, and as powerful as they believe it to be; maybe they even listen to prayers; maybe they even care. Maybe they care more about if your shellfish wear mixed fabrics.
• 5: It's a real entity, but whose power is exaggerated - like as a river spirit, but they're worshipped thousands of miles away from it for prayers their expertise with rivers leaves them woefully unprepared to answer
• 4: It's a powerful demon or dragon or monster of some kind which has tricked people into worshipping it - sure it's powerful, but that power is entirely self-serving, it couldn't answer your prayers if it wanted to
• 3: It's a person who, through real power, political influence or just straight up charisma, has tricked people into worshipping them, or through a series of misunderstandings has been mistaken for a god against their will
• 2: It was a long-dead person whose legacy has passed into legend - they may once have been a 3, or they may just have been famous in their life and not seen as godly until long after their death
• 1: Just a wholesale myth with no basis in reality. Maybe your god started off as a cautionary tale a mother made up to stop her children sucking their thumbs and over the retellings the whole "god of war" thing just sort of happened because of the massive scissors, and now the scissors are gone and all that's left is battlefield chants.

And of course, let the players know about this before you roll. Tell them about their odds, but never tell them about their gods.

will you love him?? 🥺 will you buy. hats.