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FFXIVWrite2024 Masterpost
FFXIVWrite2024 Stats:
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On Cloud Nine
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Memory
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Two Heads are Better Than One
Decora Coramora
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「artist」 mei ren 「characters」 dark knight, rielle de caulignont and sidurgu orl 「from」 final fantasy
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toward the city of gold!!!
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I heart prey animal rage I love when characters are fucking insane with terror
When they're not dangerous like a hunter but dangerous like a spooked horse kicking your skull in
Let's hear it for prey animal rage let's hear it for killing everyone else in the world before you'll let them catch you
I quite like this bikini.
Another 2021 repaint
Tsuyu deserved better
Mammal in a Sunday Dress, by Georgina M. Cox, 2026
Mammal in a Sunday Dress explores the uneasy relationship between femininity, civilisation, and the animal body. At first glance, the figure appears modest and withdrawn. Her posture is composed, her gaze seemingly lowered towards her bare feet, recalling the conventions of nineteenth-century portraiture where women were often depicted as passive objects of observation. Yet as the viewer moves closer, the illusion collapses. Her eyes are not lowered at all. She is looking directly back. The delayed eye contact transforms the encounter. The viewer approaches believing they are safely observing a woman; instead, they realise they have been observed themselves. The work refuses the traditional power dynamic of portraiture, denying the comfort of anonymous spectatorship. Looking becomes a reciprocal act. For Cox, the painting considers humanity's persistent desire to separate itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. The title quietly undermines this distinction. A "mammal" is not another creature—it is us. The Sunday dress, rich with cultural associations of femininity, morality, and respectability, becomes an attempt to distinguish ourselves from nature. Yet clothing cannot alter biology. Beneath lace and ritual remains the same vulnerable animal body. The work also reflects on the historical relationship between women and nature. Across art, religion, and philosophy, women have repeatedly been positioned as closer to instinct, emotion, reproduction, and the body itself, while men have been aligned with reason, culture, and civilisation. Mammal in a Sunday Dress does not reject this comparison. Instead, it questions why proximity to nature has so often been treated as something lesser. Chiaroscuro isolates the figure within darkness, allowing the luminous dress to symbolise the performance of civilisation while the bare feet quietly return the body to the earth. Neither is presented as more truthful than the other. The painting exists in the tension between performance and instinct, refinement and biology. Mammal in a Sunday Dress ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: if every layer of culture were stripped away, what would remain? Not a king. Not a saint. Not a gentleman or a lady. Only another mammal, looking back.
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Look…I’m just saying.
turns out "everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of this fear" is a great trans mantra but also a good mantra if you have OCD
Also a cool thing to say out loud before picking up a sword!!!!!
ffxiv is awesome because within the game's community it's widely known that there's an entire datacenter occupied by people with max level characters who don't know how to play the game and also taylor. and there's another entire datacenter occupied by people with max level characters who don't know what the game is about and also kessel
ive been doing roulettes on crystal since my criterion static is there. cross datacenter matchmaking is going to destroy these people. im playing paladin, a class i havent bothered to learn the exact rotation of because im not max lvl yet, and getting second on the damage chart in trials as tank. first in dungeons. im seeing mechanics i never knew about. im watching the same people get blasted out the ring four times in a row. mixing crystal and aether players is dumping baby seals into an orca tank. this is an arcane ritual. this is human sacrifice. rivers of roleplayer blood will stream from the altar to get dynamis queue times under 20 years
BUT DYNAMIS QUEUE TIMES WILL GO DOWN
just remember this is what you wanted.
FFXIV has been hammering on the point that the player is inextricable from the character yet is ultimately an amoral actor within this system, driven primarily by novelty and bound only by the options presented, for at least as long as Toby Fox has, but if you try to explain this to the fans, you'll just get a blank stare (if not outright denial).
Oh we're in trouble, aren't we.
i love criterion content because the community simply Does Not Do It so the pastebins are always just full of the strats that the 7 freaks who cleared it day one AND ALSO care to write their strats down have scribbled on the back of a denny's kids menu
and they are always the worst most dogshit strats you have ever seen in your life communicated by a creature who is only tangentially familiar with human language. they are building a bespoke rubiks cube in the margins. they are turning mechanics with maybe 2 sight checks into 12 point solves. there are 18 slides and 17 of them are moonspeak and 1 of them is just the author yelling at their party members because this is apparently ALSO the slide that THEIR OWN GROUP learned on
and then you get into the fight and you reach the mech and it's literally solvable by just using your eyes
As someone who plays a WoL with a dark edgy backstory, I have an intense fondness for anyone who plays a WoL that is just happy and vibing and turning the whole game into a big vacation with friends.
Keep on shining you joyful little freakazoids.
