The Healer's Tail

Meya Ganajai and others! FFXIV Coeurl - Follows, Likes, and Asks will be from grizguy.

[numaras]

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (14/∞)

[aethernoise]

The Sanctified Sword & Shield go so perfectly with my current tank glamour I'm really tempted to spend the aetherpool and get them for real

[starforger]

"Please."

Play by the rules? For people like us, there are no rules.

[healerstail]

>Magazine Cover Generator<

[erickgage]

🖊 + Dealbreaker

Erick lay back, enjoying the warmth and weight of his beautiful girlfriend laying across his torso, snuggled on the soft furs of his bed.

"Erick, you've had lots of girls before me..." she muttered, clearly intending to lead into a question.

"None so beautiful, and none who made my heart sing so." he replied, mentally congratulating himself on a smooth reply.

She looked up at him, rolling her gorgeous yellow eyes at him, but smiling nonetheless. "What was the strangest reason you broke up with one?"

Erick's eyes drifted to the ceiling. That was quite the question, but it was one that brought a specific story to mind.

"Well, back when I fought in the bloodsands, there was this cute au ra girl, worked as one of the behind the scenes crew, moving stuff into place, operating the equipment, that sorta thing. We started seeing each other after some lovely talks backstage before my matches, and it was nice for a time. Our first night together was delightful, even with me being comparatively less experienced."

Meya tickled his ribs. "Inexperienced you must have been fun to see."

Erick giggled, swatting at her fingers before intertwining them into his to restrict their mischief. "Hard to imagine, I know. But the dealbreaker came on our second night together. She had a particular kink, you see, and it was one that I couldn't handle."

Meya blinked. "Really?"

Erick nodded. "She wanted me to call her Granny when I was inside her."

Meya blinked, twice. ".... what"

Erick sighed. "I wish I was making this up. She looked me in the eye and asked me to call her granny while I was fucking her. Said that it would help her finish. I don't think I'd ever put my pants on that fast without a pack of angry hounds after me."

Meya looked him deep in the eyes, as if looking for a sign he was telling a joke. Finding none, she let out a breath, then resettled herself in and snuggled close. "Well, I'll do my best not to do the same."

"I appreciate it, my darling," he said, returning to stroking her hair, banishing the thought of the cute eastern girl with the odd kink from his mind.

[carusources]

Send 🖊 + a word, phrase or topic and I'll try to write a short drabble about it involving my muse

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[healerstail]

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

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Tag Game: Getting to know your moots better

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Last Song: HYPA HYPA by Electric Callboy

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[healerstail]

Luminous

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Master Matoya vs. The Forum

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Ma'am that bikini o-o

[ali-dot-txt]

yannow not to be a gridania defender or anything but it rubs me the wrong way when people are like "gridania is the only one of the arr city-states which never solved its very obvious social and organizational problems and thus it's the Evil Racist One that it's fine to hate" because like. you understand that that is fully a result of the plot giving literally nothing to gridania ever, right? you understand that gridania's internal politics are never ever given the attention that ul'dah and limsa get? you understand that huge portions of post-arr and post-heavensward and post-stormblood and post-shadowbringers are dedicated to limsa and ul'dah's social issues and npcs and their relationships to each other? you understand how kan-e-senna's second-in-command, who is literally gridania's equivalent of raubahn, does not have a fucking name?

you understand how the two scions you're introduced to in the gridania start are important for at most two expansions, one of which they barely appear in, before disappearing from the story forever aside from cameos? as opposed to the scions you meet in limsa and ul'dah, who remain important for the rest of the game up til today???

yeah, i would fucking love for the main story to start questioning gridania about its institutional racism and trying to fix it, because that would mean that the main story gave a single fuck about gridania. give us some duskwight and seeker main characters please. give us duskwight and seeker lore please. give us SOMETHING. you can't even learn how gridania's government works without reading side stories, which has led to this weird misconception that kan-e-senna is like, a fascist despot who used the calamity to consolidate power!!! Give Gridania ANYTHING!!!!!

[shizucheese]

The most infuriating part is that Gridania absolutely should have had more of a spotlight in Stormblood. It shares a border with Ala Mhigo. It shares history with Ala Mhigo. That history resulted in some people in Gridania not wanting to help liberate Ala Mhigo because they're still upset over them invading the Twelveswood and the Autumn War, but you wouldn't know that if you didn't do the SB BRD job quests. Also, the Elementals got severely weakened during the 7th Calamity, which is why we haven't really had to deal with much related to them in ARR, but I feel like people don't really take seriously exactly what the Gridnians are dealing with if they want to continue living in the Twelveswood and why they live the way they do.

I'd also love to have the story take us to a Duskwight settlement/ whatever remains of Gelmorra because like...the reality is that the origins of a lot of the issues they deal with in Gridania are sorta self inflicted. They don't live in caves and resort to banditry (hence the distrust in Duskwightes that Gridanians have) because they were ostracized and had no choice; when everyone else left Gelmorra to found Gridania, the ancestors of the Duskwights refused to leave and insisted on *continuing* to live in caves and refused to integrate into society, to the point where they'd rather resort to banditry rather than live in Gridania.

This is the context in which Valdeaulin (Gaius's duskwight companion) referred to the people of Gridania as "city dwellers" as a derogatory term in the Werlyt quests, which is the only glimps of that side of the dynamic that we really get.

But again, because Gridania gets so horribly shafted in MSQ, most people won't know any of this and because they only see the Gridanian side of things (which yes, is problematic; completely innocent people are being punished for the actions of their ancestors/ other people within their cultures which is completely wrong), and we never see the prejudice from duskwights that lead to that whole dynamic, and MSQ doesn't touch on the fact that in the past Ala Mhigo instigated a war with Gridania, and we never see what could happen if the Elementals really got pissed off at people, people just kinda see how the Gridanians treat Duskwights, Ala Mhigans, etc and brush them off as Evil Racists when the reality is way more nuanced than that.

Honestly I'm convinced someone on the writing team just really likes Ul'dah over the other two starting city states because like...even Limsa doesn't really get the spotlight shown on it in any meaningful way until post-Shadowbringers.

[restlessinfinity]

“hiraeth”

— (hɨraɪ̯θ), noun | A Welsh, untranslatable feeling, hiraeth is loosely described as a homesickness for a home you cannot return to anymore or a place, which never even existed. Connotations of sadness, yearning, profound nostalgia, and wistfulness are imbued into the state of hiraeth. Overall this beautiful, but painful longing is an expression of an empty desire and grief over a past life or place. It is the ultimate signifier of a bond, which has ceased to exist.   (via wordsnquotes)

[healerstail]

Forgot the extra leggy angle

[ali-dot-txt]

heatwave festival 3: "competition"/"there are no rules."

They have a strange friendship.

[healerstail]

Keja and her favorite annoyance, Rhana.