a journey unending

a humble chronicle of adventures on etheirys and beyond. not spoiler free!

[eleventhcircle]

hoi, i'm luna! you've found my little scrapbook of xiv adventures!

follows + likes come from my main blog bunflora. dt-related posts are tagged with #dawntrail spoilers, but anything related to msq before 7.0 is untagged - if you're a sprout, please be aware!

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[lyseenjoyer]

[moment-live]

You just know everyone passed out in Wol’s inn room after ultima thule

[grandmattv]

Hey sorry I haven't posted in a while but Elpis arc in Endwalker completely obliterated my entire self and then Ultima Thule destroyed me again for months, but I finally pulled myself together and finished base Endwalker and ready for my WoL to heal

[johnnylandslide]

See you, Allagan Tomestones...

While watching the keynote at Fanfest, I had my own ideas about the explanation for the upcoming removal of Tomestones in 8.0...

[hoppips]

shadow walk with me

[unionizedwizard]

ok yes so i really like that pretty much all of the ancients we met were so strongly tied into some conception of justice - either idiosyncratic (venat) or societal (elidibus) but arguably everyone had views that fell somewhere in the middle. of course you have the shades of amaurot having a typical agora debate on the matter of trying to help their overseas neighbors during their time of need and what would be the greater justice & overall better deed, to set the tone, but more generally:

venat and the sundering come as the most obvious example: she's literally making her own principles, after which she will render her own justice, even though the cost is great - alienation from her peers and the people she loved so well, the burden of guilt, unending vigil; the notion there may not be any greater justice beyond what we each do and believe in, too, maybe

elidibus is a close second, considering ever since his first appearance in ARR, he introduced himself as the neutral, equitable, incorruptible emissary, arbiter of good and evil, in charge of maintaining equilibrium, and is the more straightforward justice-themed character (his boss fight using attacks like "Dikè", his name literally being themis)

emet-selch, of course, frames the recreation of amaurot as a (literal) trial by fire, and his presence all throughout the narrative places him as the adjudicator of mankind's worth and future (partly why he's the exarch's foil). sophistry is a more developed facet of his presentation, compared to all the other ancients; he even employs the term of "moral relativism" (which he clearly presents as mere lawyer chicanery: "yes, yes, moral relativism, and all that - case on point: i do not consider you to be truly living, ergo i won't be guilty of murder if i kill you"). there is something of the dramatic lawyer about him, and his boss fight does remind me of an appeal to the jury (or witnesses maybe?) when he calls to the shades of the ancients

lahabrea too, and surprisingly enough to me at the time, is associated with justice, through pandaemonium (THE prison!), not to mention the fact the narrative of these raids takes the form of an investigation which then turns into a kind of cold case/murder investigation (grasping at straws here but the idea of the cursed bloodline, foundational crime of hubris, parental crimes, and reveal that one was the perpetrator of the crime one was investigating - if only symbolically - reminds me of various greek tragedies, including oedipus rex, which explore themes centered around justice, guilt, punishment, and mortal & divine retribution)

hermes/fandaniel (as justly noted by the one and only @fandaniel) set up the meteia as a supposedly neutral scientific project, before using their answers as material to put mankind on trial, going so far in his quest for impartiality as to let kairos erase his own memories too, before fighting on mankind's side (as a prosecutor turned defense attorney?); an action which was subtly foreshadowed since the beginning of the elpis arc, since his question has always been: "what is justice and what right have we to dictate which beings deserve to live or die?"; essentially the question lying at the core of most plato dialogues

hythlodaeus may not fit as neatly as the others here (arguably he never *did* truly fit in anywhere), but i think you could argue his role as chief overseer of the bureau of the architect puts him in a judge position nonetheless, as he is in charge of ruling over the future of each new concept submitted to the bureau for approval; most notably, alongside venat, he's the one who encourages the warrior of light to make their own choices, seek out their own answers, make up their own mind, and to live

honorable mention to the woman who would become azeyma, and of course, azem themself (more on that later IT WOULD SEEM???)

[sirensongsea]

ishgard_jobs.mp4

[thevikingwoman]

FFXIV Vanilla Gpose Challenge is back!

7 prompts to showcase your creativity with the built-in gpose tools!

now? yes, now!

I had so much fun with this last time, and now we not only have updated graphics, the gpose tools keep improving, so join in!

I will be tracking the tags #ffxivvanilla26 and #vanillagpose26 from May 5 to Jun 2 🩵

please no mods, shaders, pose editors, etc

Event runs May 5 - Jun 2. Post using tags #ffxivvanilla26 or #vanillagpose26

PROMPTS

Portrait

Action

Pastel

Dark

Bright

Rest

Landscape

FAQ

Is this only for people who never use mods? No, not at all! This is open to everyone to use only vanilla, even if you normally enjoy using other tools

Do I have to do all the prompts? No, you can do those you want to!

Why a whole month? I suck at doing challenges that are one day/prompt, so this is for me and any fellow slowpokes

Can I use any post processing tools, such as photoshop? I think this goes against the spirit of the challenge, which is to highlight the built in tools

Can I enhance my gposes with AI? NOPE

Can I post this challenge on bluesky, twitter, pillowfort, etc Sure! I will not be tracking anything there but feel free to post it there if you want

[eleventhcircle]

you can't fool me boy i know how this works. there's a secret elevator somewhere in here

[lizzienoodles]

guy who's having gauzy idealized wife flashbacks for the whole adventure but it turns out she isn't dead or anything he just really misses her and wants to get home

[mephistopheles]

via @currentlycryingaboutlancelot

[gece-misin-nesin]

the two sexiest flaws characters can have are:

being stuck in the past, never being able to let go and never accepting the present because you will always be there, even if 'there' is gone and will never come back. change upending their life in such a way that they refuse to acknowledge anything changed at all. trying to go back to a place and time and to people that aren't there anymore because nothing else matters. you're in a perpetual groundhog day while the universe tries to drag you forward kicking and screaming. if you prevent change you can prevent loss surely. if all the people you love are in the past how can you not live there as well etc. etc.

forever running away from the past. if you constantly seek change and your life becomes mired in impermanence then you can leave it all behind right. at what point does changing become some kind of murder. if you make loss a constant part of your life then loss will eventually stop hurting. it has to. of course you got over it. it happened so long ago it's not even important. change your name change your mind and leave it all behind. your true flaw is how easily you let go of things. you think if you run fast enough you can outrun the past. you can't. all of their stories are about being left and all of yours are about leaving, so you should have known etc.

[pyrite]

there's something to be said about characters whose deep wells of love and devotion are connected to equally deep wells of violence, particularly when the dam between those wells bursts

[stuckinapril]

I love being alone <- girl who has known nothing but loneliness her entire life and so has no choice but to take comfort in it

[gayleafpool]

sometimes i think love triangles should be resolved by polyamory but badly like everyone’s still mad

[honeyscomet]

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

[honeyscomet]

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

[fistraid]

doordash, ubereats, and grubhub from ff14