Just a cat girl

who likes to play music. 🩰🎶🩰 (main blog: bhaalbabebardlock, bluesky: aiofethebard)

[bardwanderer]

~My OCs~

Aiofe Hix- Mi'qote, main classes: bard/dark knight, Dynamis Rafflesia (tagged as 'Aiofe', Aiofe about post is here)

Feel free to come join our final fantasy XIV discord here! We're all quite friendly, I swear.

[bardwanderer]

I am still alive, and so is Aiofe. We finished Dawntrail a couple months ago. I'm never on this platform anymore, but if you want to find me and keep up with Aiofe I'm always on bluesky @ aiofethebard ♥️

[bardwanderer]

Bonus post of some of the things I've been up to the last couple of months. I finally made it to Dawntrail about four weeks ago, and officially lost my sprout. I'm almost done with Dawntrail now 🩷

I've been going out to lots of venues and doing lots of socializing, and making lots of really lovely new friends. I'm, with the help of some of those friends, opening our own venue on August! It'll be exciting.

I hope all of you have been well in these rather turbulent times 🩷

[bardwanderer]

Hello hello I am alive!! Sorry I'm never really on here anymore!

I AM however super active on bluesky. So if you're still hanging around here and you happen to hang around there too, come poke me!

I'm hopelessbard over there. I hope to see some of you! 🫶

[gravenmyth]

Yaoi Pictomancer

[galacticsabc]

Do not seek forgiveness, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should.

[toweringclam]

I get a kick out of how nobody ever recognizes the Warrior of Light. I mean, there are widely circulated newspapers, but mass distribution of information is still in its infancy. People will be like, "You there! I need someone to shovel shit for me!" and the WoL is just like "sure, fine with me." Then they realize they have someone who literally saved the world shoveling manure and fall all over themselves apologizing. Or they'll be like, "Watch out! There are bandits on the road!" And the WoL will just smile cryptically like "They don't know I kill gods."

[tira-misu-0]

[diadoescomics]

Solo Duty: Dragoon Reunion

I think it's great you can meet him before he shows up in MSQ tbh.

This took forever to make cos I couldn't bring myself to draw his fuckass hw armor. I am never drawing HW Estinien for free again smh.

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[absolem0]

when you get cleared of regicide charges in the middle of HW

[siderealcity]

The symbology of the Convocation of Fourteen is just... one of my favorite details in ffxiv. And yeah, I know they have zodiac signs because Final Fantasy Tactics had zodiac signs and FF12 had zodiac signs, but 14's spin on them is inspired, and I don't think that gets enough appreciation.

Each of the Ascians is characterized to at least superficially match their sign. Emet-Selch seems like a Gemini, seemingly on both sides of every issue. Fandaniel seems like a Leo who wants to be the center of attention. Lahabrea, The Creator, seems like an artsy Pisces... just...y'know, a horrible one.

And it's not as if "terrible, messed-up version of Zodiac symbol" is new here. Tactics definitely had that already. The thing ffxiv adds to the trope is the presence of the Sun.

Azem's symbol being the sun and not a constellation tells us exactly what their role in the Convocation was supposed to be. The sun's path through the constellations is what gives all those signs their meanings. You can't be a Gemini unless the sun is in Gemini. The sun's passage through the zodiac is supposed to illuminate the best way forward. This is why Emet-Selch calls them both "Shepherd to the stars in the dark," and "Counsellor to the star's people." They're meant to inspire people to become their best selves. This is inadvertently what WoL does in numerous places and times across the game, (and one of the ancients in Elpis even comments on it) because apparently repeatedly dying at the hands of their coworkers and friends for eons did not get them out of having to do their job.

When the sun protested their unspeakbly terrible plan, they went all in on their hubris by casting it down forever. They never replaced Azem. They don't even want to remember they ever had a sun. They don't have the light that illuminates their best selves, their better future. So they can't find it anymore. They don't know how to be themselves anymore, in Azem's absence. In Elidibus' case, literally. He is so desperate for the guiding star he can't even remember having, that he constantly, instinctively, seeks out Azem in different forms. Wearing Ardbert's corpse, and wandering up to WoL for awkward chats, and looking back to the heroes of the past who were definitely Azem shards.

The sun, torn from the heavens, leads to the maker's ruin.

[mightier]

dreamboat Definitively the dreamiest.

[shmz042]

a long wait

prints now available

[peachdelta]

ive never played ffxiv, whats up with the salt rocks?

[abyssalmermaiden]

(based on this post)

[chryza]

FFXIV resources I take for granted but apparently a lot of people don’t know exist

The Balance: Community of math wizards who calculate your optimal openers and gear melds, then publish the information for everyone.

Lulus Tools for Ocean Voyage: Detailed information about upcoming ocean fishing voyages including baits, int procs, weather conditions, and more

Garland Tools | Database: Allows you to look up anything in the game, where you get it, and how to use it. Additionally allows you to make interactive crafting checklists that show materials needed. Best for simple solo crafting.

Garland Tools | Bell: Lists all special gathering nodes, where to find them, what time they’re up, what level you need to be at, with customizable notifications

Teamcraft: hub for various crafting tools including rotation planner, crafting checklists, crafting commissions, and more. Best for social crafting.

Eorzea Collection: Glamour hub, lists armor sets and has a gallery of user submitted glams

FFXIV Gardening: Database of seeds, cross breeding pairs, and a planner for your garden.

FFXIV Collect: create an account and manage your collections of mounts, orchestrion rolls, minions, and more.

MogTalk: Official host for world first races for Savage and Ultimates.

Gillionaire Girls: Crafting Levelling guides and Macro resources for DoH

Lulus Chocobo Color Calculator: creates a list of feeds to dye your chocobo new colors.

Sightseeing Log Helper: simple tracker to complete the early sightseeing logs, which are kind of bullshit.

[vanillafry]

A tea party on the moon 🌙

One of my pieces for @scionszine! 🥰