Casithgar Iskrassh @cas-iskrassh - Tumblr Blog

it has got to be so surreal being an average alexandrian citizen. imagine if king arthur's court showed up in present day america. guys who still call books "tomes." they have wizards with them. the president personally escorts them around washington DC. a fleet of journalists are taking pictures of them eating a costco hotdog for the first time. someone posts a candid 30 second clip of them on tiktok trying to figure out how a vending machine works. and then within a month they've killed the president, installed a new president who looks just like the old president, distributed the cure for cancer, blown up the national oil reserves, dropped in on WWE SmackDown, and then left. guys from a continent that still uses lantern light orchestrate a near total societal restructuring without ever learning what the internet is. the first time most of them had ever been on a train was when they strapped bombs to one and exploded a military checkpoint to enter the country. and everyone's just sort of fine with it

corvigae

"I hated Alphinaud in ARR bc he was insufferable!" Okay but that was the point. You get that that was the point, right? He's a rich privileged kid with a whole lot of idealism and big ideas. He's literally 16. We've all met that teenager who's recently gotten really into social justice and due to the fact that they are an inexperienced teenager believe that they have all the answers and that they alone will fix the world. Alphinaud is what would happen if you gave a Tumblr kid the money and power to try their shit out for real and then immediately get rocked by the real world and humbled to shit. And I personally love that about him.

siderealcity

I kind of love the ARR Alphinaud hate because in many, many ways, Alphinaud is just the voice of the player.

In a purely narrative mechanical sense, Alphy is the one who says out loud things that the voiceless protagonist doesn't get to say by virtue of not being voiced. And in ARR? He is absolutely the voice of, "Well, I would have simply ___".

Why are the Scions doing everything themselves? Why don't they simply get the city-states to build an army for them? He does that. Why don't they just tell the leaders of Eorzea to--he does that.

And yeah, none of it works out in the end. It turns out you can't Protagonist your way through everything, even when you are, in fact, the protagonist.

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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.

octoswan

I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

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