A Guide to the Drift
I’m the eponymous Drifter, and this is my fanblog, which will be FFXIV-Centric for the time being. My main blog is biot08, and asks/follows/replies will come from there. For now my ask box is open, anon’s on. Feel free to send asks/comments even if we’re not mutuals. I’m on the Crystal Data Center, Coeurl server. My Free Company (which both of my characters are in) is Gage Acquisitions, a group of mutual friends who have been met and made over the years.
About the blog:
The majority of the activity on this blog is reblogs, usually of art or my friend’s writing. I also write some fanfic myself, and occasionally post screenshots.
By far my most popular post of all time is a shitpost of Rhalgr in a Subway apron. Subway Rhalgr is as of this writing now my second most popular post of all time. My first most popular post of all time is a shitpost about how long Thancred has been missing from the MSQ, which my dear friend (who to be fair is the one I meant to be teasing) has made sure all and sundry have been made aware of, and boy is there some -thirst- in those tags. Make of that what you will.
Characters:
Zoissette Vauban, Warrior of Light: My main character, a female Elezen Ishgardian knight and accomplished Scholar. My writing defaults to this variant of the character.
Zoissette Vauban, Gage Acquisitions Lawyer: Same character, but this is the ‘face’ used to interact with the Free Company at large and for what little light RP I do engage in. My writing will tend to make it obvious if this is the one I’m using for a particular story. Nyx Blackmoon: Compatriot and frequent companion of Zoissette Vauban, they appear to be a female Miqo’te Keeper of the Moon. They belong to no tribe, however, and make few claims to their history.
Organization:
I attempt to be -meticulous- with my tagging and will go through and clean up tags periodically. My tags are all lower-case, and I try to avoid using punctuation in them whenever possible, with the exception of that which might appear in a character’s name (ex: y’shtola rhul). I try to tag all characters seen in artwork, and primary acting characters that show up in writing. For shipping, my tags tend towards name x name, in alphabetical order; the exception is for ships that involve an OC or a person’s warrior of light. Those tags will tend towards firstName x oc wol (example: estinien x oc wol).
My writing will appear under the tag biot writes
Friend’s writing will use the tag friends writing
If a post was made after 10SEP2022, I will be making a best-effort attempt to tag things with the expansion they appear in or the expansion that a character’s earliest appearance is in. The expansion name used in the tag will be the full name, all lower case.
NSFW will tend to be tagged nsfw
I also will use the tag: general content warning if I think something warrants it. This is very subjective. Other content warnings will be in the format cw: specific warning.
About me:
I am north of 40 and queer. If you’re reading my blog, I expect you to curate your own experience, and do what is safe for you. I try to keep my tags very organized, with both NSFW warnings and content warnings as I think of them. If it’s not related to FFXIV, I tend to post it to my main blog instead. The rest of this I’m copying from my friend LynMars: [...] just so we’re clear: transmen are men, transwomen are women, nonbinary are nonbinary. Biphobes suck. Polyamory is valid. Ace/Aro belong in queer spaces. Black lives always matter. Racism/colorism are problems we all have to work on. Pro-choice. Pro-sex workers. Healthcare, food, clean water, and shelter are necessary rights. Nazis/fascists suck. Anti-Censor but also Anti-Jerk; tag/warn and hide content responsibly, and don’t go after people who do that–you are responsible for your own media experience while being considerate of others. If any of this is an issue, unfollow my blogs. I’ll probably screw up somewhere but I keep trying.
