The People v. Emerald Sunrise, a Journal

Follows from bellanes-in-archeld. This is my ffxiv blog.

[queermachmir]

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[spaceraptor]

“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’” –Barbara Alice Mann

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[birdblues]

Greater Blue-eared Starling

[flightlessartist]

star-searchin✨

[bellanes-in-archeld]

#FFXIVWRITE2020

Prompt #4: Clinch

[About 2 Years Past]

It hadn’t been anything in particular she’d done to attract her brother’s attention, or so Sunny had thought.

Later, he would tell her that the frequency with which she’d been trekking to Coerthas has tipped him off.

Keep reading

[emerald-sunrise]

Annnnd posted to the wrong blog first, of course.

[emerald-sunrise]

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Prompt #5: Matter of Fact

Sunny wasn’t known for her kind nature or sympathetic cooing when it came to healing. Rather, it was her complete lack of bedside manner that was striking about her methods. More likely to rebuke you for the series of events that led to your injury rather than show any sort of empathy, Sunny got what needed to get done, done.

Forged in the fires of fight clubs and underhanded, under-the-table deals gone south, her healing skills were--probably second to some, but certainly good enough to get you home to loved ones with a newfound sense of what an idiot you were imparted to you.

When her brother asked her why she kept healing despite not having the attitude (only the aptitude) for it, she only responded as straight and matter of fact as one could be, “Because if I’m healing them, they aren’t being healed by worse people. And the Twelve know there are worse options than me. At least I want you to live.”

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

Prompt #5: Matter of Fact

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[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

Prompt #3: Muster

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[emerald-sunrise]

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Prompt #2: Sway Emerald Sunrise was not known to be an emotional person. Frigid, some might say. Definitely a little cold most would say. So it wasn’t entirely ordinary to see her doing what she was doing now: tapping her foot--but to the rhythm of the street busker, rather than to the beat of her own irritation.

She sat in a long line for a street food vendor, awaiting an order that seemed it would never come. Still, in this faraway place where she was a lone stranger, Sunny tapped her foot to the music. And then the other started up and she played a percussive beat on her thigh with one hand. Leaning into the music, she appreciated it for one swaying moment, rolling her shoulders and tossing her hair.

And then she reached the front of the line, and the moment was gone. Later, she might remember it, but only on her lonesome.

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

Prompt #2: Sway

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#FFxivWrite2020 is underway – a daily writing challenge presented to the Final Fantasy xiv writing community for the month of September. You can join any time throughout the challenge with any prompt number!

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Reminder: The 24-hour deadline does not go into effect until September 8th.

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[emerald-sunrise]

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Prompt#1: Crux

It wasn’t so much an irregular day, so much as it was an extremely regular day. Sunny had spent the morning out on errands, preparing for the jobs to come--and Hesher had spent the morning looking after their child, as usual. His temperament, she’d thought, was not suited for child rearing, but he’d proven in the last few months that he was at least better than her.

Hesher kept his temper in check, not matter how many tantrums Jenny Wren threw, no matter how much screaming she could muster in her tiny lungs. No matter what, he doted on her. Even when Sunny could hardly stand to be in hearing distance of Jenny’s shrill screams, even when Sunny was three seconds from yelling--Hesher never was. And he made it look easy.

So, when he mentioned he had something to do with his crew early in the morning the next day that Jenny Wren couldn’t attend, Sunny did not hesitate to pick up the slack. Afterall, he did so much and she did so little, comparatively.

Needless to say, the moment Hesher stepped out the door, it all went wrong.

He was the cornerstone, the foundation, the crux of the operation that was the three of them. Sunny was in tears by the time Hesher returned, his rough hands gently wiping the tears from her face and taking the squirming Jenny away from his wife. And it went unspoken from then on that Sunny, the brave explorer of the unknown, the fiercely independent woman of the house, was the weaker link when it came to their daughter.

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

Prompt #1: Crux

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#FFxivWrite2020 is underway – a daily writing challenge presented to the Final Fantasy xiv writing community for the month of September. You can join any time throughout the challenge with any prompt number!

Entries can be written on any online writing platform (tumblr, Archive of our Own, Google Docs, etc.). Submit the link and be sure that I have reading access.

Reminder: The 24-hour deadline does not go into effect until September 8th.

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[locke-rinannis]

I saw you made a handwritten style Eorzea font, but the download link got deleted. Is it still available somewhere? It's really cool!

(Context for people reading this!)

Thank you, I’m glad you like it! Unfortunately, I don’t have the file anymore. :( I made that font in 2014, and my PC has since been replaced/wiped. The link expired due to lack of use, too.

I was going to link some alternatives, but it seems as though it’s fairly difficult to find custom Eorzean fonts now? I recall seeing a bunch a while back, but I can’t find them. Do I gotta make some fonts?!

[locke-rinannis]

!!!

The font has been found! A big big thank you to @haila-wetyios​!!

I’ve updated the download to MediaFire, since I believe it’s less likely to expire in the future.

Download Eorzea Hand here!

[shitpostsampler]

Finally finished! It needs another iron before I frame it but I’m super happy with how it turned out. I had to change some of the colours since I didn’t have all of them but I think the dark blue worked out nicely. Hopefully this’ll be the first of many!

Submitted by dibsontucker

Pattern

[heartsnmagic]

[witchstone]

Celestial Mapping and Celestial Proportions by Tallmadge Doyle

[rp-suggestionbox]

Interview my OC about questions that has no easy answer.

1. Which should be saved – a bus full of innocent lives or a loved one?

2. You meet a man who has killed someone and done time for it before. Does this factor into how you treat him? Will he ever truly escape that sin?

3. If you could jump back through time to save a loved one’s life, would you? Despite what it might to do the timeline? To everyone else? Do you believe it is their fate to die regardless?

4. You have a secret you swore not to reveal. But this secret is the only thing that would prove your innocence in a separate matter. Is it worth risking your own well-being for the secret? Or would you betray the trust given to you?

5. Is it better to hurt others before they hurt you or let yourself be walked all over and hurt by others?

6. If you tell the truth, an evil person gets to walk away free. If you lie, you may be able to send them away like they deserve. Is honesty worth more than justice?

7. You have the key to immortality in your hands. But not for free. If you want it, as a price, your worst enemy also gains immortality. Is it worth it?

8. If you could gain as much money as you want for losing a sense, would you do it?

9. Can people be held accountable for things people close or related to them did or are they innocent?

10. If a lot of people, possibly innocent people, have to die in order to make a real change, is it worth it? Can you live with their deaths even if it helps people in the present?

11. Imagine there is a beast that craves attention. If you ignore it, despite being deadly, it will leave you alone. Could you live like that? Even if it possibly attacked others? Would you try and challenge something that unknown?

12. If someone else stole something and you stole it back is that a good deed, a bad deed or one of equal worth? Are you better than the original thief?

13. Could you sacrifice yourself for the good of everyone else?

14. What of love? Say you discover your lifelong crush on another has finally been reciprocated… but they are currently dating a family member or a dear friend the crush feels responsible to honour. Do you force the break up? Date on the side? Bottle it up forever?

15. Is lying to others to gain their approval more important than being genuine and hated?

16. Have you ever contemplated killing someone? Who and why? Would you ever act on it? Are you frightened you might?

17. Have you ever gotten sheer joy out of hurting someone else, either physically or mentally? To whom and why? Did it scare you?

18. Have you ever done something morally wrong? If it’s morally wrong do you regret it?

19. What is more likely a thought to you – that this world is wrong or that you are wrong?

20. Are there people in this world who, no matter how much time and penitence is given, should never be forgiven?

21. Are there people in this world you simply think the world would be better without? If you could erase them out of existence without physically murdering them, would you?

22. How do you feel about having an intimate relationship with someone you don’t love? What if they love you in return? Does that make you feel guilty?

23. Could you ever become your own hero? Is that a role you can fulfil or is it something you look to others for?

24. How do you feel about tears? Are they cowardly and weak? Do you cry? Would you consider that shameful?

25. What is more important to you? An idea of yours being used and appreciated or the credit for that idea beings yours and yours alone?

26. Is your personal happiness more important than anything else in the world? Than fame? Than the happiness of others?

27. How far would you go to achieve a dream or ideal? Does it matter who suffers? Does it matter if you suffer?

28. How long would you wait for the one you love? A year? Fifteen years? Forever? Could you honestly be loyal to an unfulfilled love?

29. Is genius equal to hard work? Does a genius deserve praise for doing well without effort? Are they above us?

30. Do we live in a world of parallels? Can there be no hope without grief? No happiness without suffering? Or is a utopia possible?

31. What is more important to you? Being respected and praised by your elders or being looked up to and championed by those younger or of the same age?

32. If you could choose to remove certain feelings such as anger, confusion, sadness, would you remove them?

33. If you could wipe certain memories from your head, would you? Why would you? What memories?

34. What path appeals to you more? An exciting dream that leaves you possibly penniless and alone or a drab existence where you have steady success.

35. Is every person in this world wholly unique or can they be categorized? Can they be grouped and mentally dissected? Are you just another sheep in another flock or are you the sole unique soul?

[leememes]

HANDWRITING   ASK   MEME   !    there   are   a   few   of   these   floating   around ,   but   i   wanted   to   make   one   specifically   for   roleplayers  .

1.   write   a   random   fact   about   your   character  . 2.   write   something   you   love   about   your   character  . 3.   write   how   you   feel   about   your   character’s   canon  . 4.   write   the   url   of  a   roleplayer ,   or   roleplayers ,   you   admire  . 5.   write   what   ships   you   have   for   your   character ,   and   possibly   why   you   ship   them  . 6.   write   your   url  . 7.   write   the   asker’s   url  . 8.   write   the   url   of   a   fellow   roleplayer   and   compliment   them  . 9.   if   you   write   original   characters ,   write   if   you   want   to   have   them   published   into   a   form   of   media   such   as   a   book   or   film  . 10.   shittily   doodle   your   muse   with   pen   and   paper  . 11.   write   whether   you   think   your   handwriting   is   good   or   bad  . 12.   do   you   have   a   favorite   au   for   your   muse  ? 13.   multimuses ,   which   muse   is   your   favorite   and   why  ? 14.   write   a   random   fact   about   yourself  . 15.   write   if   you   think   you’d   get   along   with   your   muse   if   they   were   real  . 16.   write   if   you   think   your   muse   is   a   good   person  . 17.   write   something   you   hate   about   your   character  . 18.   write   about   your   character’s   lore  . 19.   write   what   your   muse   is   thinking   about   right   now  . 20.   write   what   you’re   thinking   about   right   now  . 21.   write   what   you   like   about   your   muse’s   relationship   with   the   asker’s   muse  . 22.   asker’s   choice  !   specify   when   sending  .