Emet-Selch's brows nesting ground

Main ffxiv-blog of @natstolemysocks.

[emetsbrows]

Blog’s going out of ‘closed’ more, and into kind of ‘hiatus’. I guess? Not going to be blogging every day, but I find myself posting more than during the drought, so, feels apt at least.

Main main is still @thebroodinginsomniac Character blog is @natstolemysocks

(Also, Nat... why have you been stealing hoes? Apparently you’ve been stealing hoes? Who’s hoes?)

[gaccari]

Inspired by con antics and this video

[straytheskies]

its 3 am and im tire d and someone posted this strategy board in ffxiv and im crying

[origamihoshi]

Looking at different aetheryte designs part 4

Bonus:

[crimson-sun]

The FFXIV playing cards demo deck! Look at my beautiful baby! 🔥

Info about ordering, on Patreon (you can access the post without being a member)

[crimson-sun]

THE INTEREST CHECK IS OPEN!

[spotofmummery]

Are You a Shy or Introverted Gamer?

Do you sometimes struggle in big or small ways in social online gaming worlds (such as FFXIV)?

I know you might be shy to respond to this (I'm shy, too!), but please tell me about your feelings or experiences! Even if it's just something short (ie. I'm anxious to run roulettes, I nope out of art parties, I wish I knew how to make gaming friends, I'd like to RP but... etc.).

Let me know where you feel social anxiety or introversion causes you to not do all the things you wish you could do in your online game of choice.

And please share this!

I have a project in mind that I'd like to develop for shy and introverted gamers - I will share this as soon as I get things in place, but I'd like to understand folks better in the meantime!

Thanks for your time! I'm thinking about you, friend! ♫♩♪♫

[emetsbrows]

I was going to write a whole essay, then changed my mind.

The gist of it is that early MMO interactions have made me sort of terrified of doing group content. I picked healer usually and that meant that a lot of the time others just saw me as a tool to their advantage. As a kid I quit MMOs the moment a dungeon came in sight knowing I'd have to group up with strangers with expectations I couldn't foresee. Furthermore, the experience I had later on with dungeons in GW2 was not the best, to say the least. So there was baggage. Then all that baggage was brought along to FFXIV.

To keep it brief: if I can skip group content, I will. Though it pains me to miss some of the better stories in the game. For some people group content is the height of everything and the reason for FFXIV existing, but for me it gives me stress over being good enough to exist in the same space as the others, stress that if I die too often I will be hated by at least one healer, stress that I'll be too focussed on the boss and miss someone dying that the healer cannot reach and thus I as the SMN should pick up instantly according to some really vocal voices in the past, and stress that as a parent I may be called away at any given moment and thus fail the party. Attempts at getting into raids or extremes or even Eureka in the past have ended in some terrible headspaces, leaving me not too eager to try again.

Truth is that any voice with an opinion is something my head wants to listen to, because I don't really value my own outlook enough not to. So I keep seeing myself as I don't know... lower class or something? Filthy casual, you know. Because I'm scared of doing the things they do, though feel that those things must be important because they said they are? It's a lot and my head is unable to worry about everything all at once without frying. So I rather block it all out.

[voidsentprinces]

[vetinarivisuals]

We really need spring and autumn... to be fair, as an autumn enjoyer myself...

[voidsentprinces]

[missazurerose]

FFXIV players: How many aetheryte tickets do you have right now?

Wait, you guys have aetheryte tickets?

1-500

501-1000

1001-2500

2501-5000

5001-7500

7501-10000

10000+

Not an FFXIV player

Voting ended onMay 13

How many is too many? Not counting Grand Company tickets.

I don't even know if this is a good separtation

[missazurerose]

I didn't know I was aetheryte ticket georg! I'm sorry! T_T

A handy little tip, you can set your gil allowance in the teleport menu, just so you don't have to fuss around with it. I won't give any more gil to Lolorito but you can set your allowance to like 999 just so you don't have to pay the most expensive ports.

Just going from my house to Ultima Thule or Heritage Found is 1400. I don't wanna know what the Evercold ports are gonna be.

Save that gil!

[emetsbrows]

Uncanny how Sage nouliths just... don't move when you're idle. They hang on your back as if time's frozen.

[emetsbrows]

Nevermind, /hildy solved it! Nouliths acts like they're alive again.

[voidsentprinces]

I dunno how describe it, but not pulling Phleg, Xande and Cloud of Darkness before the sprouts are done with their cutscene and in position with the rest of the group feels like an FFXIV version of the shopping cart litmus test.

[scrollsfromarebornrealm]

It's not just CT. It's every fucking raid now. I was in first wing of Ivalice the other day, had a first time CS and the tank pulled. Then from the chat, paraphrased:

'some people just want to get the tomes and get the fuck out'

...okay so if you're in a rush, why the fuck did you sign up for a roulette? Alliance raid roulette? Why are you even trying to possibly speedrush something that with x amount of other random people has the possibility of taking a significant amount of time depending on everyone's else's level of skill or multiple wipes? There are other ways to get the mogtomes, go do those instead of inflicting your poor ass time decisions on the rest of us.

This kind of shit is the reason why we got unskippable cutscenes for the ending of ARR MSQ. Because people kept fucking rushing newbies. I was one of them. I didn't get to see any of those cutscenes until they became unskippable.

Have some fucking manners. Wait for newbies. Otherwise if we possibly get hit with unskippable cutscenes for every single raid don't fucking complain.

[emetsbrows]

Uncanny how Sage nouliths just... don't move when you're idle. They hang on your back as if time's frozen.

[trollkarubyffxiv]

Faerie tale hero

[maegraeth]

The Lord Commander II

The Lord Commander I

[lambylingames]

bsky posts that make you laugh so hard you hurt yourself coughing

[888beru]

inn scene completely rewired my brain and i became x100 more insane abt him i think

[ofdarklands]

only person allowed to wear the mentor crown to be quite honest

[confusedtia]