unrestricted yearning

azia. 30s. she/they. pfp by @lilas.

[coldshrugs]

i'm azia. she/they. 30s. bi and black.

i like a lot of things, and i'm enthusiastic about what i like. expect to see a bit of everything here: videogames, oc content and fanfiction, art, fantasy and science fiction, poetry, social justice, and shitposts. this blog is anti-racist and trans inclusive.

i post a lot about ffxiv and my wol, io laithe.

tags: writing | gpose | io | estinio

[tired-biscuit]

you know that trope where it’s princess + knight, but they’ve both been captured by the bad guys and the princess is now gripped by the jaw by the villain, receiving a thin cut to her cheek while remaining completely still with a defiant look in her eyes even as a droplet of blood begins to trickle out of the wound, all while 3 people AT THE VERY LEAST need to have their hands locked on the knight because he’s thrashing around like a wild animal, trying so so so desperately, violently, to get to her?

yeah, that’s porn to me.

[giveherswords]

Jenny Holzer, Black Book Posters, 1979

[shivapvoid]

since a certain someone seems convinced that there are absolutely no queer creators in this fandom, prove him wrong by promoting yourself in reblogs <3 ill go first - i'm a trans nb aroace artist that draws mostly my wol and fanart, and i have an ongoing webcomic for my wolcanon as well, but it's updating very slowly i fear...! here's my ko-fi and vgen!

here's some recent art i've done:

[ofdarklands]

hello. i come from the gender-is-not-my-thing department. i draw dis cat:

i do commissions, and also have some prints that might interest ff14 fans

[lilas]

hi hello :)

I fell out of drawing but sloooowwly getting back on the wagon

I am not taking comms and I don’t sell prints. Just chilling and exorcising the demons visions from my head

[spaceboytoy]

Hello bisexual community

[spaceboytoy]

Begin killing

[tartrazeen]

[duncebento]

the bisexual woman is so crucial to the atmosphere

[revengar]

[falchieyan]

Kitten's first walker.

Sylvanian Family / Calico Critter kitten in a Hermes Sentinel from Warhammer 40k.

[voidsentprinces]

Can’t believe I have to post this again, calm down just calm down, calm down just calm down.

[lilas]

This is the last thing I’ll say about it, but this applies to soooo many other things I see on here:

PSA, if you are called in/out, if you unintentionally hurt someone, if someone expresses they were hurt and that wasn’t your intention, if your words are interpreted in a way you did not intend…. you can literally just apologize.

A grand majority of the time, a simple apology and acknowledgement is enough! You can say you didn’t mean it and try to explain again, but you need to recognize and own that your words hurt someone.

Doubling down may feel instinctual. It hurts you to be told you did something wrong—and that’s okay, that is a hurt all humans know. To grow as a person you have to resist the urge to retreat from that pain. Own up to it, learn from it, and we all carry on feeling better.

[anneapocalypse]

I love bisexual fans and bisexual characters and bisexual OCs and bisexual headcanons and bisexual ships and bisexual stories and bisexual friends and bisexual art and being bisexual. 💙💜💗

[coldshrugs]

proud to be blocked by biphobes this pride month 💗💜💙

[nights-at-crystarium]

hey i just want to say i find it so wonderful and relieving when other xiv fans also see emet selch as a gay man. from the very first moment he walked on screen, the energy of “bitter old Hollywood theater queen” was so strong and such blatant coding i never even had to consciously think about it, it was just a given. but lo and behold, i got into the fandom after catching up on the story, and found much to my shock that TONS of people are shipping him with their female wols??? i allow that fans in japan (and maybe other places, idk) might see him differently because the cultural tells for queerness are totally different there, but i have to raise my eyebrows at the americans playing the english version and still missing it. he’s literally an aging theater enthusiast in a fur-lined robe who quotes Lauren Bacall and wears noticeable makeup, whose signature body language is either a snap or a limp-wristed wave over the shoulder, and they’re somehow seeing someone who might like women? i just have to laugh. and yes, insert mandatory caveat that it isn’t that serious and there’s nothing wrong with how they’re playing barbies, but at the same time i genuinely don’t get how they aren’t seeing it. which is an extremely long winded way to say, thank you for seeing the obvious with me. i don’t necessarily expect you to publish this because it IS kind of swinging a bat at a hornet’s nest and i doubt you want that kind of attention, but i just want you to know some of us also get it. happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

Signing under every word. I hate to admit that I have to tone myself down and hold back on talking about something I have extremely strong, bottled up feelings about, just hope one day I grow "big" enough to stop giving a shit, and finally speak my heart out. For now keeping on my gay grind and trying to gather more people that agree with the above.

And sure, I'll post it. It's tumblr, so I expect people to behave, but my block button's ready anyway.

Fandom (in general, fandom spaces) used to be the pink people in this comic. It used to be predominantly queer before 2020s. I used to feel safe and at home. Then this happened. I still could not make my peace with it.

[birues]

Hey so. I am speaking as a bi brown person from west asia (since anon is so sure everyone is american here), this is incredibly saddening disappointing to see an artist i have admired and followed for so long to engage with such blantant biphobia.

This is not me saying headcanoning him as gay is invalid. Quite the opposite. His sexuality is a blank page that we can fill out like most of other ffxiv npcs. I do follow many artists who headcanon him as gay and i cheer for them. I have just reblogged your art of them as I do quite often. I follow fragments. His portrayal as a queer person is important to me whether as a gay, bi and/or trans person, I celebrate it all. But your claims here are quite problematic on two fronts:

implying emet can only be queer by the virtue of being gay and therefore bisexuality is not a valid headcanon for him

implying that both gay and bi men has to act "visibly queer enough" to be accepted as queer (as if flamboyant theatratical make-up wearing villain can't be bi as well)

implying there aren't people who ship him with hyth AND fem wol/azem at once

implying bi4bi m/f couples are basically same as het couples and our bisexuality is only valid when we date the same gender

Everyday i have to face with a very homophobic society irl and it is very tiring and dangerous for us here. Our rights and freedom is being taken away if our existence is not a crime already. Then i log into tumblr, thinking that i am accepted and safe in ffxiv community, and then I see this absolute bullshit from fellow queer folks who should be walking by my side. Homophobes are spewing poison at us for headcanoning him as bi, y'all are saying "if you hc him as bi, you're basically homophobic." at us. And let me tell you, my fellow queer people's hatred hurts a lot worse. Because it is a betrayal.

We are both pink ones but you are pushing us out, you have the audacity to categorize us as the same as straight homophobes in the fandom, you're denying our bisexuality, acting like we, bi folks are grey ones. And then you're doing this in Pride Month.

If you can't extend basic decency to your fellow queers and if you make them feel unsafe and unwelcomed, well. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[detective-jane-rizzoli]

[rnismatch]

[countrygypsywt]

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.