Hi, I’m Artemis. I’m figuring out this tumblr thing. I’ve lurked for a long time, but I wanted to be able to write my many thoughts about FFXIV without word-vomiting at my FC discord all the time, so here I am. I play on Mateus, Crystal Datacenter. I might go into my characters later, we’ll see. I’m also working on carrds for them.
Spoiler tags for FFXIV:
#stormblood for anything Stormblood specific
#shadowbrings for anything Shadowbringers specific
#endwalker for anything Endwalker specific
#6.1 spoilers for (obviously) 6.1 spoilers only.
Anything before Stormblood I probably won't tag. Sorry.
If you only want ffxiv stuff, you can block #not ffxiv sorry to get rid of anything else.
I am: 40-mumble years old, white, AFAB, agender (any pronouns are fine really, but mostly I use she/they), asexual, panromantic, married to a transwoman, recently diagnosed with ADHD, not-so-recently diagnosed with persistent depression and social anxiety disorders.
I am not: tolerant of TERFs, fandom antis, racism, male-bashing, aphobia, transphobia, panphobia, etc.
I'll probably mostly talk about FFXIV here, but I wanted to be clear where I stand on those things because they are an important part of who I am as a person.
About me:
I love parenthetical asides (sometimes nested).
I've been on the internet since 1995. It was via a BBS and really only had access to Archie, but I'm counting it.
I'm a gamer. My first game was Rogue on a terminal workstation in the server room where my dad worked for Southern Bell when I was 5 or 6. I'm not quite PCMasterRace; I have a PS4 and a Switch, but I'd rather play on my PC given the option. Right now, I am absolutely obsessed with FFXIV, but not in any productive way (like, I'm not gearing up to raid or anything, I'm just replaying the story over and over). I also can't wait for Elden Ring in February, even though it's going to kick my ass.
I'm a gamer (the second): tabletop style. Right now, D&D 5e is my system of choice, though I really cut my teeth on Earthdawn back in college and I have a huge amount of nostalgia for it. My partner GMs for us and is amazing at it.
I'm sometimes a programmer. I primarily use PHP, and no, I don't need to hear, for the millionth time, about how it's a useless terrible language and only idiots use it, thank you. It gets the job done, and I have a terrible allergy to significant whitespace so Python is very difficult for me.
I'm sometimes a writer, though I am very sensitive about posting anything that I write because anxiety. I'm hoping to combat that a little here, because Endwalker has inspired my writing more than anything has in years. We'll see.
I talk too much. It's documented. I try to curb the word vomit when I can, but sometimes it just has to get out.
I love G'raha Tia. I love a lot of FFXIV characters, but Raha is my boy. It made me very happy that he finally realized he wasn't a grad student anymore and could have more than ramen for dinner.
I love cats. I am owned by two: Mozzie (like the character from White Collar) and Anya (the vengeance demon). There will probably be photos at some point.
Okay that's enough rambling. It me; this my blog; hello world!
