[alixennial]

Boys <3

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

Bert doing professor things. I always enjoy the idea that his students have no idea that Professor Lanverlais is that Warrior of Light guy they keep hearing about.

[existencebringsonlypain]

i need data for a statistics project for school, so be my sample data, worms. i need thirty people minimum so if there aren't enough voters yet i'd love if you could help. thank you very much. worms.

take this test (https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/), then come back here:

what's your JND?

.00030-.00099

.0010-.0017

.0017-.0024

.0024-.0031

.0031-.0038

.0038-.0045

.0045-.0052

.0052-.0059

.0059-.0066

.0066-.0073

.0073-.0080

.0080 or greater

Voting ended onMay 13

it doesnt have to be a good score, you dont have to take it multiple times, you dont have to get on a good screen, etcetera. just gimme your score please this is my final project grade :)

i'd love if you could reblog for reach

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ramshacklefey]

No IDs, but these tags got me in a huff:

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

Yoga pants. Hmf.

[elodieunderglass]

people in cold climates would have a tide line of white marks around their knees (if they were normal height) in the winter.

From wicking up road salt.

[taibhsearachd]

The visceral memory of that time is something that never leaves you. Everyone's jeans were many inches higher in the back than the front because you kept stepping on the hem and ripping it off. Your lower legs were so very cold. Every new pair of jeans literally enveloped your entire foot, they were so so long re: leg-to-waist ratio. Walking on a rainy day was a legitimate workout. You have no idea.

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

Vanilla Gpose Prompt One: Portrait

I played with ALL the new vanilla gpose tools making this one!

[alixennial]

FFXIV Vanilla Gpose Challenge

Day 1: Portrait

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[thevikingwoman]

FFXIV Vanilla Gpose Challenge is back!

7 prompts to showcase your creativity with the built-in gpose tools!

now? yes, now!

I had so much fun with this last time, and now we not only have updated graphics, the gpose tools keep improving, so join in!

I will be tracking the tags #ffxivvanilla26 and #vanillagpose26 from May 5 to Jun 2 🩵

please no mods, shaders, pose editors, etc

Event runs May 5 - Jun 2. Post using tags #ffxivvanilla26 or #vanillagpose26

PROMPTS

Portrait

Action

Pastel

Dark

Bright

Rest

Landscape

FAQ

Is this only for people who never use mods? No, not at all! This is open to everyone to use only vanilla, even if you normally enjoy using other tools

Do I have to do all the prompts? No, you can do those you want to!

Why a whole month? I suck at doing challenges that are one day/prompt, so this is for me and any fellow slowpokes

Can I use any post processing tools, such as photoshop? I think this goes against the spirit of the challenge, which is to highlight the built in tools

Can I enhance my gposes with AI? NOPE

Can I post this challenge on bluesky, twitter, pillowfort, etc Sure! I will not be tracking anything there but feel free to post it there if you want

[ghirahimbo]

"Idiots," I say, referring to the characters I have spent hundreds of my real life hours contemplating.

[alixennial]

☆ put this star in the inbox of your favorite blogs. it’s time to spread positivity!

(No reply required , just know you are very much a favourite of mine and highly star-worthy besides ✨)

Thank you <3 made my day!

More moody Axel pics for you =)

[alixennial]

☆ put this star in the inbox of your favorite blogs. it’s time to spread positivity! (Please feel incredibly free to ignore this, but I love seeing your characters and following their stories, so wanted to send some stars your way! Have a lovely day!) ⋆˚☆˖°₊⊹⋆.˚☆⋆

Thank you, that’s very sweet of you <3

Have a moody Axel pic ✨

[impishcupid]

“Masculinity is always rewarded in girls/vagina holders”

I wanna tell you all about my mom. I know this is a sentence used against transmascs, and im a trans man, so I wanna use my voice to tell you about my mom.

My mom is a cis woman, a gender nonconforming woman. (I had to teach her gnc recently actually, because she couldn’t find a term that she felt accurate.)

My mom has always hung out with mostly guys, she can fix cars, we half-joke (because its true) that every time she breaks up with a man they steal her toolbox (they do). We’re going to negate her current relationship because my stepdad is a feminist who adores her, but not all of her exes where like that.

My mom has faced SO MUCH misogyny over her clothing, her makeup, her hobbies. When she was building her tiny model car, her ex would drunkly rant how thats a “boys hobby” and “she shouldn’t be doing that”. Her and my dad used to renovate houses when they were married, Dad would plaster, and mom would plaster alongside him. While also fixing doors and windows, and floors, and ceilings, and painting the damn thing. When she goes to autoparts stores, or car lots, they always talk to her like shes stupid. Recently shes been bringing her husband, so the associate will ramble his ear off, and when theyre finally done, her husband turns to her and goes “babe I don’t know a thing hes talking about, what do you suggest?” because theyre both just so pissed off about it.

Don’t get me wrong, my moms for the girls too! She’ll give her enemy a tampon type of person. But the girls turn their backs on her, quite frequently. Mom used to have a friend, a male friend, who would go to the bar with her. I knew him well. They’re not friends anymore because he used her hobbies and interests to try to sleep with her. He would always try to change her too. Mom likes cooking, so he would try to push her away from things like watching fantasy TV (he thought that was a more ‘male’ genre) or fixing up the house for things like cooking and cleaning.

And so when I came out as trans, it was a really hard time for my mom. She understands now, and shes a HUGE HUGE ally and advocate for me, and I couldn’t fathom having a more supportive mother, but she was really confused. Mom was worried I wanted to transition because the misogyny gnc/masculine women face. I didn’t shave, I liked playing with knives and multitools, when I did makeup it was always more Kiss/Marilyn Manson style, when my sisters did a Marilyn Monroe.

I remember her driving us home from the clothing shop I came out to her in, and the talk we had. She asked me if I was confused, and I said I was sure. She said that I could just be a tomboy, like her. That it didn’t matter what everyone else said about being a masculine woman. Having talked later as adults, she thought I thought the only option for the type of masculinity I have was to be a man. She was so scared for me and my safety because of how punished masculinity is in women.

So now, as I’m 23, and its 2025, Mom is still the gender nonconforming woman she always has been. Mom taught me how to fish, how to use a hatchet, knife safety, and how to cook and sew. I’m a man who picks up heavy things for her now that shes too disabled too, who wears makeup and nail polish with my denim cutoffs and binder, who still has to call my mommy when I can’t get this screw to screw in right mom, I dont know your tips and tricks.

And masculine women can exist alongside trans men. My mom goes to my hormone appointments with me to make sure these doctors are listening to me, she yells at me when I take my shots late, she picks up my hormones if I’m at work. Mom takes me to Pride every year, and god rest the soul of any transphobes that cross my mothers path. My moms for the girls and the gays, the he’s and the they’s, the its and the lesbians and everyone between. Mom will fix you dinner and your car, and we give her gifts on fathers day too because she was Mom and Dad growing up.

So no. Masculinity isn’t always rewarded in female-presenting people or people with vaginas. My very cis mother could tell you that much.

[alixennial]

I said I was going to post things so here they are..

It's very funny to me how many pics come from Bert finding Axel afk in the house <3 I will never catch Bert afk but that won't stop me posing them anyway and apparently they're going to be the most content looking saps everrrr as that seems to be my brand.

(Also, considering he's supposed to be a super-stealthy guy, Axel struggles to sneak up on Bert even if he spots him very temporarily afk in the house - the dote emote gives him away and he can't NOT do it!?)

[alixennial]

And now with DuskBert!

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

Realized that while I said I post Bert/Axel a lot, that was not actually true, because my brain was counting all the shit I slap against my Discord window and yell at people to look at. Which, oddly enough, does not show up on Tumblr!

When we were chatting about how Shadowbringers would work with the polycule (Bert has been elected sole WoL, the others are Scions), it was decided Axel spent his time on the First before Bert showed up with the Night's Blessed. So for this set I apparently decided Axel helped Bert dress to blend in better. For reasons?

[alixennial]

[alixennial]

Have a Sad Elfe picture

[alixennial]

He’s sad because in this timeline, he’s one of the Scions that gets transported to the First as the Exarch tried and failed to call on the Warrior of Light (an amusing amount of times, since we decided the regular Scions are brought over along with Scions that are in a poly relationship with the WoL.. it’s an extra 3 people, it’s fine)

So Axel is the first of his partners to find themselves in a strange new world and this is his first night at the Crystarium. He’s not used to sleeping alone, most nights it’s all four of them snuggled up. And he doesn’t know if/when he’ll see them again.

The timing is extra cruel because Axel had only just told Bert (the WoL) that he was in love with him - their relationship developed a lot more slowly than the others - and Bert had told him he loved him too and everything was great, they were all so happy, and then this happens because they can’t have nice things.

It’s times like this I’m like - why have I not made a cute pic of the four of them??? (Because gposing is hard and I’ve intimidated myself out of it so far)

[alixennial]

Have a Sad Elfe picture