The Fairest of Them All

FFXIV | Crystal - Balmung | Faye Covington | Level 100 WHM/RDM Multi-purpose FFXIV, RP, and character inspiration & aesthetic blog. A dangerously ambitious and charming Midlander noblewoman hailing from Gridania with a love for tea and dresses. FC leader of Teatime ((Tea)). Sometimes posts NSFW (usually tagged). Icon and sidebar image by @tiergan-vashir. Header by @lovelovedeary.

[fair-fae]

Faye Covington

Biography for FFXIV NA RP character Faye Covington on Balmung, Crystal Data Center

Completely redid Faye's carrd. Going feral now.

[searyyn]

Mlem

[2co8n]

[luxus-aeterna]

La femme en rouge…

[pyrateko]

The Lovers Complete redraw of a 2021 piece

[loveridden1999]

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

[featuringmarkhoppus]

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[tweetsongs]

i agree so much about making your blorbos pathetic but i do fear that many take this to mean 'make them more traditionally feminine/submissive' which genuinely hurts my soul. make your blorbos pathetic in interesting character-oriented ways. understand their neuroses and turn the dials up to eleven. juxtapose the parts of life they handle extremely well with the parts of their lives that make them eat shit. make them angry. make them cold. make them pave their own way to hell while building walls preventing them from seeing any other way. please i'm begging you no more pathetic as an euphemism for bottoming im gonna mclose it.

[pinkadillydoo]

baby royal cat siblings....

[marography]

“The afternoon flew by — quiet, unnoticed. The book slipped out of my hands, and I looked around the room — how many hours had passed? two, or three? — the room basked in the warmth of the summer sun. It, most certainly, was past four...”

[toadteapot]

just finished dawntrail and i thought wuk lamat was really niceys actually

[meanbuddhist]

just identified a behavioral pattern within myself

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[edupunkbitch]

This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.

It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.

[tearlessrain]

making friends via fandom is inherently hilarious because in many ways it's like a regular friendship and sometimes you'll share stuff that's going on in your lives and offer support and talk about food or pets or random cultural stuff because you live on opposite sides of the damn planet, but also some of your interactions are like "hello beloved friend whom I cherish deeply, I have brought you a deceptively platonic gift of lovingly crafted star wars porn"

[tobyfoxmademeascaly]

Given Urianger’s status as canonically Fucking Shredded I like to imagine some garlean trying to assassinate him in his potato sack era and they get him cornered without his grimoire and theyre like AHA I HAVE DEPRIVED THE SORCERER OF HIS TOOLS and then urianger rolls up his sleeve and clocks the guy’s lights clean out

[nylilcosmos]

themis

[nylilcosmos]

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