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@alatolagahrd
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this is @claitea's ffxiv sideblog! follows from there :)
#a'lato lagahrd - my wol <3
#clai's art - stuff i've drawn
#clai's gposes - pretty pictures of lato
#clai speaks - anything else i have to say
i've been playing since june last year, as of writing this i've only just started dawntrail, please be mindful of spoilers.
i do art comms! details here :)
mandatory rent lowering gunshots in which i mention that i do like stormblood for having the balls to give us an expansion that revolves around women and people of color, even if the writing is weak at its best and completely mishandled at its worst. and that people calling lyse a racist white saviour seem a little confused in giving her, a fictional character, the responsibility of representation rather than give that to the actual team of living human beings that designed and wrote her
lyse being a "white saviour" doesn't fucking work because she's ala mhigan. she's literally ala mhigan, she cannot be a white saviour because she is actively part of the oppressed minority in the resistance. the entire point of her character is that she cannot connect nor relate to her homeland because she left so long ago and feels like she doesn't belong. and how she grows into learning her roots again. this is the diaspora / immigrant experience. this is the story, regardless of how poorly it was executed
what i think people are trying to convey thru the statement of "lyse is a white saviour" is something else that you can and should talk about! the fact that this expansion revolves around very, very real themes in terms of colonization and loss of culture for us people of color! and that it doesn't sit well to have the face of the expansion be a white skinned, blonde, blue eyed woman!
but this does not make lyse a white saviour! on account of her being ala mhigan within the fucking universe of the game! you should be criticising the overall thought put into the designs and writing of this game instead! by the actual people who made the game! the subtle and not-so-subtle colorism that permeates this game!
the reason that out of all fucking Scions, only Y'shtola was a visibly woman of color that was slowly lightened over the expansions! how most of these characters are blond or have light hair! the reason a lot of characters from early expansions that had darker skin were portrayed as more violent or antagonistic than the rest, regardless of them being good or bad guys or how their stories later developed them! the reason yotsuyu, who is more feminine than both lyse and fordola, gets a more shittily written story and a more bitter end than her other two counterparts who do not embody femininity like yotsuyu does! how the three of them are the heart of stormblood and yet their entire stories are sidelined in favour of men that need to be build up for the future expansions!
m'naago has to share her sidestory in the novel with lyse. yotsuyu's sidestory in the novel literally ignores her in favour of hyping up zenos when he shows up. fordola has an entire sidestory that reveals she considered the original yda as a big sister and that the original yda DIED protecting fordola, but as far as i know this is not something that the game tackles or brings up anytime. there is a pattern that starts with m and ends with isogyny, but we're too fucking busy hating on a fictional female character than to acknowledge it coming from The Actual People That Created Them
“i would sooner see [the crystarium] razed than conquered” remains one of my favorite and deeply under-appreciated g’raha lines
refugee displaced by an empire and carrying the burden of his ancestors’ oppression under the empire before that expressing a liberty or death sentiment directly in the face of a conquering force i cheered and clapped i fear
i am not going around that table man
gullible baby vs guy who looooves to yap and embellish everything (terrible combo for everyone around em)
Early shadowbringers moment..
it was my first time ever drawing on a tablet with a screen so i decided to not draw anything difficult. that being said, here's my daughter Meteion
so... what if time continued to flow faster in the first
meeting runar
i wanted to decorate my artfight profile with some stuff so i made these blinkies of my main jobs with this maker :) here if anyone else needs em for their red mage/white mage/dancer liking needs
Chief Technologist Amon Says - Allagan Lab Safety
Looking through the reblog tags for my newest Junelezen post and saw this by @okami-zero
This made me laugh, and I decided to do this:
Then, I started pondering what would annoy Amon... and came up with these Allagan lab "safety" statements.
Amon: Do as I say, not as I do...
trying to get back into the ffxiv mood...... so i drew some wolships for me and my friends :3c!!
he……………………gwaha
That one time I taught myself embroidery to stitch together a Starbird for my FanFest cosplay!
...no fucking way
Given Urianger’s status as canonically Fucking Shredded I like to imagine some garlean trying to assassinate him in his potato sack era and they get him cornered without his grimoire and theyre like AHA I HAVE DEPRIVED THE SORCERER OF HIS TOOLS and then urianger rolls up his sleeve and clocks the guy’s lights clean out
why did you fall asleep on the floor again
