you must fix your heart

beethan, 30s, it/its, queer. ffxiv sideblog

[crockpotfullofworms]

Follows and likes come from my main blog @hermitminded

Just finished the main game for endwalker and am now onto the patches!!!! Gathering and crafting will always have my heart <3

[lordklemmbaustein]

I've started posting some of my old renders to bluesky so I might as well start doing that here as well. First we have this one from 2022. Kinda fitting that I repost this now with Artemis II sending us cool pictures from space in the last days ^^

[ageha-sds]

Sure, how about a femme G'raha, why not? And why stop there?

[captainbasch]

You get a finished Y'shtola and then I might keep these all a secret until I am done with them >___> Or not LOL We'll see if I can keep myself from sharing all the wips T v T/

[multibugorganism]

*nods at you like an NPC in a unimportant FFXIV cutscene*

[multibugorganism]

[shalpilot]

giving my girl the gridanian gulp so good the elementals turn me into a tree and or shrub

[threedollarsdotcom]

right clicks & inspects you & takes of my glasses & sighs really loudly

[bleakbriar]

Hold this for a sec, Warrior of Light.

[thefreelanceangel]

Orientalism - Wikipedia

Slutty black-haired chicks wearing skimpy silks lounging on pillows and holding up gold coins is...?

Bad. It's bad. Look, it's just bad. There's no other way to paint it. It's bad.

FFXIV Peeps, your Ul'dah character or your Thavnarian character wearing slutty silk and jingling gold chains and giving sultry looks over veils is racist. I know the game has gear pieces that are designed around that. It's racist. It's just bad.

The desert is going to tear up all that exposed skin, you do not maintain a "perfect light brown tan" and your silky black hair is going to be frizzy and dried out as fuck from strutting around in the sleazy 'I'm so hot and exotic and desirable' outfits. It's not cute, it's not hot, it's not a good look. It's just racist.

Okay?

The capacity to do better is within you! Just dig in a little harder and put in some effort to make art that isn't dripping with "hurr durr hot slutty exotic chick is so sultry and cool" okay?

[thefreelanceangel]

One person mentioned this directly to me, and the tags here (someone else's) make the same very good point.

There is, in fact, nothing wrong with sexually appealing characters, sexually promiscuous characters, or characters dressed in a way that appeals to someone's desires or tastes.

My word choice wasn't ideal, nor was this taken to the editor after the fact. I do stand by the statement that Orientalism is just a bad look, y'all. (And trying to paint everyone who interacts with anything that has Orientalist criticisms rightly leveled at it as 'doing the same thing' just... -_- *sigh*)

Having any character showing off their sensuality or sexuality or simply posing for the pleasure of feeling sun on their face is not bad. My wording wasn't great.

I am glad to see that my 'vaguely thought out oh fuck I can just HEAR what my racist grandmother would've sniffed and muttered disdainfully at the sight of this image post' DID seem to get the point across.

But yeah, I could've worded all this a LOT better.

[uhhgoodd]

Young Woman With Sword by Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828-1891)

[farfromdaylight]

[sirenunderthemountain]

oh im sure

[riceballgremlin]

[johnnylandslide]

Johnny said, "Devil just come on back if you ever wanna try again!"

"I told you once you son of a bitch, I'm the best there's ever been!"

[obsess-over-living]

So according to my research there are five main sexymen of ffxiv: Emet-Selch, Estinien, G'raha Tia, Aymeric and Haurchefant... Every time I look up one of them the others are there. It's like a little boyband.

[asaltyarchon]

Whoever made this, may your pillows always be fluffed and cool and may you never hit a red light as long as you live.

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long mf time.

[credit to liffeh on twitter!]

[not-eorzeas-finest]

featuring old kea from @nhaneh

[nhaneh]