A Dumpster Fire

Old enough to remember when you didn't have to put your age in your bio (18+)

[tattedmariposa]

do not squander it. the legacy i leave you.

[corgibardballads]

I never ever considered making an alt until my main somehow got glitched between world travel and I had to wait for her to unstick. But I got this fella to 50 and now I just adore him so much. He's just the biggest, sweetest, beefy boy. Other than purring very loudly I like to headcannon that he otherwise completely mute and only communicates through sign or body language. Ugh just look at that face.

I regret to admit that now I am considering a second alt as well. The floodgates have opened :(

[windupiceheart]

A Knight to Remember

[corgibardballads]

So The Maiden's Rhapsody quest was a FF11 thing right? I've always been curious about FF11, but it was mostly back years ago when I was in my hardcore WoW raider phase and heard their raids were absurd. (I think one lasted so long people were passing out or something) But I feel like this quest was a bit of a hot mess. I had almost no idea what was going on since I had no context. If you are a Starbomb fan, it reminded me of "The Simple Plot of Kingdom Hearts". "It's a moon - but not like the first moon!" to "It's a crystal - but not like your crystal!"

[knightfisherr]

so important to me that Y’shtola is a rude little beast who grew up in a cave. she just happens to look like a beautiful socialite but she did grow up with one old woman in a cave learning mildly illegal magic

[mamaclownhunter]

This key fact about her is so important to me- esp that this old woman is still alive and ruder than her. Like Y’stola comes into the cave bratty and feral (good for her) and this old woman takes it in full stride, doesn’t look up bitches back harder.

Matoya mentions multiple times Y’stola was a spitfire that hissed and spat at everything. Which is so important to me bc she holds herself up like she is a queen (again good for her but it is just funny to know Y’stola is and always will be a brat)

She is beauty, she is grace, she grew up in a bog cave surrounded by frogs and is the avatar of destruction.

[beholding-moth]

THIS THIS

and also the first time seeing Y'shtola in her natural habitat, Matoyas cave, was SUCH a fun experience to me. Especially since most of the game Y'shtola is such a mystery and you wonder what sort of upbringing she had, you would think she basically grew up in an academia setting...in a library (which is somewhat true but who would guess its the old hags forbidden library in a cave???)

And then you see her meet Matoya and you see her being rude and Matoya teasing her and telling you childhood secrets about her. And then you realise "oh this is where she grew up, this is the person she looks up to and disrespects both". And I love it so very much...

Also one other glimpse of her childhood is when she had to summon that lil water sprite thing in endwalker and did a little magical girl sequence for it. Makes me wonder if little Y'shtola was yearning for a princess-y like life maybe. Or if Matoya told her doing this is necessary so she can prank her a little bit but also make Y'shtola enjoy a little bit of her childhood properly. Idk but imagining little baby Y'shtola learning to summon a familiar with this cute lil dance while Matoya is giggling about it in the background just puts a smile on my face.

I just shddghd i just rly love these two so much can you tell...

[chiclet-go-boom]

[bunboygenius]

Anyways here's Estinien doing a dramatic reading of Barbie Girl

[jurimaart]

sketch from a bit ago I forgot to share here

[fwoglett]

[ainyan]

I got an Ultrawide monitor, but FFXIV Ultrawide backgrounds are in short supply. So until I get some inspiration and do some new Kalicred gposes for my monitor, I decided I needed to do some location shots.

Enjoy. :)

[estinininininen]

the only time Estinien ever belly laughs in front of the Scions is when in discussion about visiting Ishgard Thancred mentions off-hand he's not sure he'd be welcome at Fortemps Manor and this is so? uncharacteristic? of House 🌞 Fortemps that he actually pipes up and asks "um, why would you not be?"

and he's expecting some inane misunderstanding from an outsider towards Ishgardian politics so when Thancred just says "Didn't you know? Because of that one time I knocked Emmanellain flat on his ass" Estinien just loses it

"No one - *wheezes* - no one told me that," he says

Alphinaud, not even looking up from his book: "YOU LEFT BEFORE WE GOT TO ALL THE GOOD STUFF"

[corgibardballads]

Originally the moon was an exclusive club, but now everyone and their elephant are here. And Estinien is practicing his post-blasphemy social distancing.

[corgibardballads]

I love that everyone immediately assigned him a male-viera-came-home-to-bone breeding schedule. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's some prince or abdicated runaway.

[corgibardballads]

Considering what we know of Dawntrail it would have been much funnier if this turned out to be Krile's acceptance letter to Picto-Art School. (Alphinaud still seethes at his rejection letter)

[corgibardballads]

Twins, please come get your dad ffs.

[corgibardballads]

This is the same shit he told me back in ARR when he left my poor lil WoL to fight Ifrit and she got skewered and tossed around the room for 10 minutes. But thanks for showin up, dear <3

[corgibardballads]

The Aetherfont may have taken my top spot for most aesthetically pleasing dungeon to me. I love everything about it. The beautiful vistas, waterfalls, grassland, tundras, and naturally lit caverns. And the animals! So much life in abundance in the zone just naturally. I can only run it in a trust because I spend so much time looking around and smiling.