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nights-at-crystarium

hey i just want to say i find it so wonderful and relieving when other xiv fans also see emet selch as a gay man. from the very first moment he walked on screen, the energy of “bitter old Hollywood theater queen” was so strong and such blatant coding i never even had to consciously think about it, it was just a given. but lo and behold, i got into the fandom after catching up on the story, and found much to my shock that TONS of people are shipping him with their female wols??? i allow that fans in japan (and maybe other places, idk) might see him differently because the cultural tells for queerness are totally different there, but i have to raise my eyebrows at the americans playing the english version and still missing it. he’s literally an aging theater enthusiast in a fur-lined robe who quotes Lauren Bacall and wears noticeable makeup, whose signature body language is either a snap or a limp-wristed wave over the shoulder, and they’re somehow seeing someone who might like women? i just have to laugh. and yes, insert mandatory caveat that it isn’t that serious and there’s nothing wrong with how they’re playing barbies, but at the same time i genuinely don’t get how they aren’t seeing it. which is an extremely long winded way to say, thank you for seeing the obvious with me. i don’t necessarily expect you to publish this because it IS kind of swinging a bat at a hornet’s nest and i doubt you want that kind of attention, but i just want you to know some of us also get it. happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

Signing under every word. I hate to admit that I have to tone myself down and hold back on talking about something I have extremely strong, bottled up feelings about, just hope one day I grow "big" enough to stop giving a shit, and finally speak my heart out. For now keeping on my gay grind and trying to gather more people that agree with the above.

And sure, I'll post it. It's tumblr, so I expect people to behave, but my block button's ready anyway.

Fandom (in general, fandom spaces) used to be the pink people in this comic. It used to be predominantly queer before 2020s. I used to feel safe and at home. Then this happened. I still could not make my peace with it.

birues

Hey so. I am speaking as a bi brown person from west asia (since anon is so sure everyone is american here), this is incredibly saddening disappointing to see an artist i have admired and followed for so long to engage with such blantant biphobia.

This is not me saying headcanoning him as gay is invalid. Quite the opposite. His sexuality is a blank page that we can fill out like most of other ffxiv npcs. I do follow many artists who headcanon him as gay and i cheer for them. I have just reblogged your art of them as I do quite often. I follow fragments. His portrayal as a queer person is important to me whether as a gay, bi and/or trans person, I celebrate it all. But your claims here are quite problematic on two fronts:

implying emet can only be queer by the virtue of being gay and therefore bisexuality is not a valid headcanon for him

implying that both gay and bi men has to act "visibly queer enough" to be accepted as queer (as if flamboyant theatratical make-up wearing villain can't be bi as well)

implying there aren't people who ship him with hyth AND fem wol/azem at once

implying bi4bi m/f couples are basically same as het couples and our bisexuality is only valid when we date the same gender

Everyday i have to face with a very homophobic society irl and it is very tiring and dangerous for us here. Our rights and freedom is being taken away if our existence is not a crime already. Then i log into tumblr, thinking that i am accepted and safe in ffxiv community, and then I see this absolute bullshit from fellow queer folks who should be walking by my side. Homophobes are spewing poison at us for headcanoning him as bi, y'all are saying "if you hc him as bi, you're basically homophobic." at us. And let me tell you, my fellow queer people's hatred hurts a lot worse. Because it is a betrayal.

We are both pink ones but you are pushing us out, you have the audacity to categorize us as the same as straight homophobes in the fandom, you're denying our bisexuality, acting like we, bi folks are grey ones. And then you're doing this in Pride Month.

If you can't extend basic decency to your fellow queers and if you make them feel unsafe and unwelcomed, well. You should be ashamed of yourself.

tainbocuailnge

i like when they wheel estinien out to talk to dragons because the game will be like, estinien really has a way of talking with dragons! and the way he talks with dragons is like "are you a pussy or something" and then the dragon will be like "god you're such a bitch just like nidhogg" and, crucially, this works every time

tainbocuailnge

estinien peptalking dragons

tainbocuailnge

estinien's character arc is letting go of his anger so he can stop being an empty suit of armor propelled by vengeance and go back to being a real person and he's by far the most chill of the recurring characters now that he's done that but one of his core tenets remains "there are things worth getting mad about and you should be getting mad about them" and it's funny every time when he comes across a dragon wallowing in defeatist self pity and has to go "god shut the fuck up and just get mad about it like a normal person"

siderealcity

I love this recurring theme of finding wholeness, of accepting the parts of you that seem corrupt and poisoned and wrong. Estinien doesn't get rid of his anger, he learns to live with it. Nidhogg was rage personified, and it destroyed him. It almost destroyed Estinien. But his epiphany coming out of the Dragonsong war was that righteous anger is important, but it shouldn't rule you.

Twice in the Dark Knight storyline, WoL is confonted with their own emotions. Literally confronted. Your self-worth, utterly furious with you over how little you love yourself, tries to kick your ass. Your sense of grief and guilt tries to murder you for everything you've done. And you defeat them by accepting them back as part of you. There's nothing wrong with any of them, they just shouldn't rule you.

I mean, Ardbert is You-but-committed-atrocities, and you have to accept him or lose everything.

It kind of... makes sense that it's WoL and Estinien who talk Tiamat into leaving Azys Lla. Nobody else could have understood her. The guilt over what she'd done, the anger, the grief--you both have all that. And then they again talk Vrtra into taking a risk on a better future because nobody has gambled more with fate than the two of them.

edgemis

Choose your Estinien (colored inktober drawings)

blueroseaa

really into ffxiv again as of late

finishing-touch

No, I don’t take criticism (well)

With a special thanks to @silvernsteel and @battlehigh

peculiarmarsu

Yuweyawata Field Station

lunarea0

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵

ffxiv · Estinien · エスティニアン・ヴァーリノ

Tarot card series #ffxivart

nights-at-crystarium

jenospoon

Ma there’s a weird lookin cat at the front door

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galpalaven

απουσία φιλαυτία

Rating: T+ Pairing: Hythlodaeus x Azem, Hythlodaeus x Azem x Emet-Selch (implied) Word Count: 8,056 Tags: Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Love Confessions Warnings: World Unsundered Lore Building

SUMMARY:

απουσία φιλαυτία (apousía philautia) - absence of self-love Newly interned at the Bureau of the Architect, Hythlodaeus learns something about himself that explains... far too much. Or: part 1 of many into an exploration of why Hythlodaeus thinks he's useless in Endwalker.

#queue