YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO . . .
🐩🐩 the wet poodle birthday bash !!! 🐩🐩
i wanted to put on a lil get together for my bday and to see everyone post-dawntrail!! please come say hi!! mwa mwa..
⎯ WHEN: August 2nd, 6PM EST
⎯ WHERE: Empyreum Ward 5, Plot 37, Marilith, Dynamis
something I value a lot about FFXIV is how we're like 60 days out from the expansion and still know next to nothing about it.
after playing WoW for like 17 years, having every expansion pulled apart and solved half a year before it even released was exhausting and boring.
machinist's "Flamethrower" may be legitimately the worst feeling ability in all of Final Fantasy XIV and its kind of incredible that its been this bad since its introduction 9 years ago
"god this person's glam is so fucking good" I whisper to myself, inspecting a red mage who is just using a full red mage job set with no alterations whatsoever
people who act like spoiler etiquette is being deeply violated when they see the heavily advertised Clive outfit need to relax a little bit. it's the Clive outfit. it looks like the outfit Clive wears.
some ppl are upset that red mage is on the bottom of the DPS lists.
i, on the other hand, understand & accept my grim task.
someone's gotta be the bottom.
i'm glad the FFXIV community is having some kind of reckoning with how far it's modding culture has gone. i have genuinely never been apart of a game's community whose modding culture is so aggressively monetized. it's so strange.
i think a greatly under represented niche in the XIV community is fucked up heretic wyrm-girls. like elezen women could be turning into hulking drakanoid monstrosities for me but they aren't? what's with that.
making Au Ra women look good is a goddamn artform. they can so easily just look so plain and samey but some people do some shockingly cool shit with them.
nothing is more embarrassing than accidentally clicking "No" on the prompt asking if you were okay paying Jandelaine 2000 gil for a haircut. and then you just have to watch his fruity ass slink away sadly. and then you have to CALL HIM BACK and have him redo his work. humiliating
my immutable, unchangeable XIV opinion is that as long as boss dies i'm not really worried about how long it took or how efficiently people were performing. even the messiest slog of a fight is fine as long as the boss dies.
if it were any other day Zepla's nonsense would have made me just sigh & quietly unsubscribe, but to pull this shit now while we're facing a pretty fucking awful string of trans kids being killed & pushed to suicide just pushes this beyond the pale. absolutely reprehensible.
i still think square enix completely and totally lying about what shadowbringers was in the fanfest where they initially announced it is the funniest thing they've ever done
things i want from fanfest:
- viera/hrothgar hats
- hrothwomen without wild dimorphism
- puppeteer / corsair
- all positionals are removed
- all DoTs are removed
- red mage is now the only job
remembering a time when i met a girl on okcupid who seemed cool and quickly convinced me to join her tabletop campaign. upon joining, like maybe a few hours in to meeting the other players, one of them DMed me and quietly let me know every player was someone she met on okcupid
fondly remembering that time I found a bug in glamourer that allowed even people who don't have a single mod installed to see the changes I made with glamourer, including race changes
and how the dev simply didn't believe that what I found was real
i respect the FFXIV Time Bubble in the sense that i get why SE are sticking with it, but i simply do not observe. time moves completely normally for my writing & Estelle gets older every year.
i'm entirely happy playing FFXIV at the low level that I do. i'm a pig in mud in my own mediocrity. if someone tries to come at me with this smoke i'm going to tell them about how i write women kissing as my main game activity
i really wish that XIV would remove somebody from your friends list when they remove you. it's weird it's not a mutual breaking of the Friendship (tm). it's just so awkward & ripe for abuse.
FFXIV maintenance starts and suddenly there's a dozen things I want to do ingame but can't even though when the servers were up I was just afking for hours
i don't know who needs to hear this, but you should just write. open up a google doc or wordpad and.. just write.
doesn't have to be coherent or even of any particular quality. create something that makes you happy. don't worry about how good it is. scratch that creative itch.
Estelle is a trans woman with a trans body. I'm a trans woman writing her. If you view anything sexual involving a trans character purely as 'fetishization' to be looked down upon, you're the one being weird about it.
they somehow made an ability that both feels like it does literally zero damage, and also if you so much as breathe in the direction of your mouse it cancels it outright
jaw drops to floor, eyes pop out of sockets accompanied by trumpets, heart beats out of chest, awooga awooga sound effect, pulls chain on train whistle that has appeared next to head as steam blows out, slams fists on table, rattling any plates, bowls or silverware, whistles
there are some cutscenes in Dawntrail that seem like they REALLY REALLY REALLY should have voice acting. like this scene feels like the most consequential one yet in the entire expansion and yet.. nothing. not a peep.
"it will be an expansion set in garlemald. we're going to war with the garlean empire! Here's some concept art of Some Zones Somewhere. Please do not ask any other questions."
i don't think it's necessarily bad for some modders to be profit-driven, i respect high-quality and completely original works. it just gets weird when you start slicing up existing game assets and selling them back at prices that rival the official game microtransactions.
some youtuber did a video about roleplay in FFXIV and in the segment where she just shits on the Quicksand slash ERP, who is there front and centre but Estelle Labelle
my reputation. in shambles.